LONDON — Manchester United, ranked by Forbes as the third most valuable club in the world after Real Madrid and Barcelona, slipped out of the Champions League without making the cut as one of the 16 teams qualifying for the knockout stage.
If there are not yet inquiries into its European failures by the club’s American owners, then certainly the fan base back in Manchester is already asking, again, where the team goes from here.
United’s 3-2 loss at Wolfsburg on Tuesday was embarrassing because not one player for Manchester showed skills that you could say were world class.