Manchester Utd Terrace Talk: deadwood excised, decent signings, purposeful mood

For the best part of two decades under Fergie, the questions we would ask ourselves every August were so simple in their self-confidence. Would we win the League ("probably"), or narrowly miss out; would we reach the endgame in the European Cup ("possibly"); and how many other Finals would we reach
("almost enough").Now, for the third season in a row, our sights have been somewhat recalibrated, after a post-Fergie era riddled by doubt and outright traumas. Not that we aren’t feeling generally upbeat, I hasten to add. A slew of seemingly decent signings, with a hefty wedge spent, and a pile of deadwood neatly excised, have all combined to put us in a purposeful mood.