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Liverpool trend highlights Man United fatigue as it recalls past glories

The Portuguese forward scored two goals in 2021 as two of the most successful clubs in English football history met at Old Trafford. It wasn't Cristiano Ronaldo. Indeed, whenDiogo his Jota scored the first goal for Liverpoolin his 4-2 win in May, he still He was a Juventus player. The compatriots picked up his second victory in his 5-0 thrashing in October. Ronaldo joined United as a teenage talent and completed his five career goals. Five years later, he won his 42-goal season at the Ballon d'Or. Such progress was inevitable, as his contemporary Ricardo Chalesma career has shown. Ronaldo was in the right place to realize his great potential.

Jota, meanwhile, suffered an injury that would cost him a chance to score a hat-trick at Old Traffordbut his prolific streak was increased and extended. Jürgen KloppJurgen Klopp, who was awarded a contract, has admitted he was a better player than the former Wolves winger thought when he signed. But to put it another way, Jota has improved from when he was an inconsistent and sporadic fatality for a team that finished seventh. Klopp pointed out last week that when Sadio Mane faced Liverpool, he didn't always start for Southampton. The Senegalese touted himself for the Ballon d'Or and ended his Anfield career.

It reflects the trends of different generations. Footballers now start kicking at Anfield. They stagnate and retreat, advancing but retreating at Old Trafford. It is a failure of development and planning that saw Liverpool score another 34 points last season, despite the question of which team has more talent. The combination of coaching and culture, environment and shrewd recruiting means many players have reached new levels under Klopp. They were doing something similar under Sir Alex Ferguson. Dwight Yorke joined from Aston Villa, who had just finished seventh, when Ferguson's assistant Brian Kidd infamously thought he should sign John Hartson instead. He scored his 29th goal in his debut year when he was one of the outstanding players in Europe.

Mane and Mohammed Salah remained influential longer than York, but there are similarities. United rarely recruited someone who was already established as the continent's best player. Instead they put them up in that bracket. Patrice Evra of Monaco, Nemanja Vidić of Spartak Moscow, Ruud van Nistelrooy and Zison Park of PSV Eindhoven, Ronaldo of Sporting Lisbon, they have come from the second or third clubs of the continent brilliantly. Since Ferguson's retirement, they have directed more bids to the big names of Real Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Bayern Munich and Juventus. We have a first-class player acquired from a second-class club in Porto.

Victor Lindelof of Manchester United reacts after Diogo Jota scores for Liverpool

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And now Liverpool have achieved iconic success. Andy, who was relegated to Hull, has played in his three Champions League finals in four years and, like Evra ten years ago, is one of the best left-backs in world football. Ranked one. Virgil He Van Dijk signed a high-priced deal, but like Ferguson's success stories with Michael Carrick, Teddy Sheringham, Rio He Ferdinand, York, etc., in the Premier League he went from fifth to tenth {40 He's one of the #1 clubs. best center back. There are comparisons to Harry Maguire – Southampton to Leicester, £75m to £80m – but it’s profile, not performance.

Since Ferguson's retirement, United have only had one unqualified success in the transfer market,Bruno Fernandes, and even he waned last year. Short wins like Zlatan Ibrahimovic, qualified successes like Ander Herrera, and top spells like Anthony Martial are at least very good, but have maintained that high level for several seasons. But perhaps only Fernandez is in the coup category, while the majority of Ferguson's decisive squads and most of the many Klopp sides were, Van Dijk, Robertson, Allison, Fabinho, Salah, Mane, Jota and Roberto Firmino did.

One of his disturbing trends for United is the decline in player quality. In some cases, their best form came first before United got to them. Romelu Lukaku, Angel Di Maria, Dan James, Aaron Wan-Bissaka and Matteo Darmian got off to a seemingly good start. Current Lisandro Martinez and other players like former Donny van de Beek and Marouane Fellaini face the question of whether they can bounce back from a bad start.

Bruno Fernandes got off to a good start at Old Trafford but has since declined

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In part the difference between clubs in recent years comes from United signing some – overpaid, over the hill, slow or mismatched – would not have been seen in Klopp's squad, of players. The group has a trait the Germans like: Marcus Rashford is in the deepest slump of his career, but apart from his support for United and Mancunian's development Klopp winger attributes. Liverpool arguably dropped the transfer of Jadon Sancho, but Klopp said last October: He has everything it takes to become one of the best players in the world in the future. ''

I feel farther than ever before. In another paradigm, Sancho and Rashford would probably seem a more dangerous pair of wingers than Salah and Diaz, given the structure that works and his style of play to suit them. But a few years later, Louis van Gaal described another young attacking United signing, Memphis Depay, as "the greatest talent of his era". Depay has scored seven goals for United. Five Sanchos. Maybe Eric ten Hag will allow the Englishman to realize his potential. There will be times. Meanwhile, players elsewhere have progressed exponentially, with Old Trafford players instead seeking more acquisitions as a solution.One of United's biggest problems over the past nine years has been transfers. Another problem, if it's a market record, is that few players have improved at Old Trafford and many have deteriorated.