Ten years on from The Fellaini Window, United’s age of waste goes on | Barney Ronay

Lingering inability to fill giant hole at team’s heart sums up the club under the Glazers, as inertia, muddle and lethargy persist

Manchester United’s official Twitter account kicked off its feed on Monday morning with a quietly coy assessment of the week to come, described through a haze of robotic corporate optimism as “an intriguing seven days”. May you live in intriguing times. Although perhaps not, for the sake of everyone engaged in following this great creaking, wheezing ghost ship through the entropy of the late Glazer age, as intriguing as this.

For United the week has already taken in the two promised cup draws and the shared digital panic attack of another transfer deadline day. It will now conclude with what the club admin described accurately as “a huge early season #PL clash” at the Emirates Stadium on Sunday afternoon, a meeting with Arsenal that already feels disproportionately urgent given the familiar howls through the wall, the creak of the coffin lid, the sense of zombified institutional unhappiness beginning to stir.

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