Manchester United are \u2018too big\u2019 to struggle, are they? Michael Owen reckons so\u2026<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve been saying this for over a decade now.<\/p>\n
David Moyes inherited a title-winning side back in 2013, when Sir Alex Ferguson retired, but he didn\u2019t last the season as Man Utd<\/a> finished seventh in the Premier League.<\/p>\n They had won the Premier League at a canter, accumulating 89 points, in 2012\/13, so Man Utd were \u201ctoo big\u201d for 2013\/14 to be anything but a one-off.<\/p>\n Well\u2026<\/p>\n It\u2019s now 2025 and Man Utd haven\u2019t won the Premier League title since Sir Alex\u2019s final season. They\u2019ve only qualified for the Champions League six times in that period, and have not made it past the quarter-finals, which is exactly how far Moyes got them.<\/p>\n MAILBOX:\u00a0The one decision that proves \u2018Man Utd are not a serious club\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n Despite their struggles on the pitch, Man Utd remain one of the biggest clubs in the world, but that\u2019s proving to be far from enough to guarantee a resurgence.<\/p>\n They have finished 15th and 8th<\/a> in the last two seasons, both of which were worst-ever Premier League campaigns.<\/p>\n They keep throwing money at the playing squad, but players consistently struggle to thrive at Old Trafford. World-class players have come and gone over the last 12 years<\/a>, and hardly any of them have actually performed at a world-class level for Man Utd. Bruno Fernandes and Zlatan Ibrahimovic come to mind, while Casemiro and Cristiano Ronaldo were world-class for a year.<\/p>\n Glenn Moore of The Independent stated in January 2014 that Man Utd were \u2018too big to drift into mediocrity\u2019. They\u2019re not \u2014 and they have.<\/p>\n Eight months later, Premier League chief Richard Scudamore argued that Man Utd were \u2018too big to continue struggling\u2019.<\/p>\n Between now and then, countless pundits and supporters have said the Red Devils are simply \u2018too big to continue to fail\u2019. At one point, they were \u2018too big to go down\u2019. We argued otherwise.<\/a><\/p>\n And yet, in the big 2025, we still have former Man Utd players claiming it\u2019s only a matter of time until they are successful again, with their main argument simply being that they\u2019re \u201ctoo big\u201d for that not to be the case.<\/p>\n