Manchester United are just as bad as they were under David Moyes last season

Now before I receive a tonne of abuse from United fans, just hear me out. Yes your team may be four places ahead of where they were this time last season, but have they actually improved since Van Gaal took over in the summer?

Louis Van Gaal and David Moyes
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They are only six points better off where they were at this stage last year which I think is pretty poor considering the huge amount of money Van Gaal has spent on players to improve his side.

I believe that David Moyes was out of his depth managing Manchester United last season. He made some really poor decisions and he never really stamped his authority on the club. But look at the strength of the teams he had to compete with though: Manchester City who were ripping teams apart 5 or 6 nil on a regular basis, Liverpool who were playing some of the best football this league has ever seen, Chelsea who were solid as a rock and Arsenal who led the league for 128 days. But this season, none of the big boys bar Chelsea have been anywhere near as good as they were last term and yet United, with a £150m spending spree in the summer, are still way off challenging for the title.

In his column in The Independent this week, former United midfielder Paul Scholes described his former club's football as 'miserable'. And you'd struggle to find a United fan who would disagree with him. Their sides' football has been slow, predictable and unimaginative and they are arguably as boring on the eye as they were last season.

Louis Van Gaal and Angel Di Maria
Photo: The Japan Times

And a lot of the blame has to be put on the manager's shoulders. The best player this country has produced in the last decade, Wayne Rooney, is being wasted in midfield. Angel Di Maria, one of the best wingers in world football, is being played as a centre forward and Phil Jones, a centre back, is taking the corners. It's an absolute shambles.

With the departures of Rio Ferdinand and Patrice Evra in the summer, Manchester United have no, what you would call, 'world class' defenders anymore. And yet, despite the heavy spend in the transfer window, they still haven't addressed their defensive frailties. Instead Van Gaal decided to spend £6 million on Radamel Falcao, a striker no less, for just one season!

United fans who see improvement under the new regime are kidding themselves.