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Will Manchester United flatter to deceive again after promising pre-season?
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Manchester United forward Rasmus Hojlund celebrates scoring his team's first goal during the Premier League Summer Series football match.
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That Manchester United are in a historic slump is not a difficult conclusion to draw. The club ended last season in as great a disarray as any since they were relegated in 1974.
United were once supposed to be too big to fail; such predictions proved epically errant. Even winning the dreadful advert for football that was May’s Europa League final would have been a fig leaf over a season of rank incompetence.
