WHAT YOU GONNA DO?

‘The reality is that United are a team in meltdown with Chelsea visiting Old Trafford next Sunday ready to land the final humiliation to a Premiership challenge that is already over.

The Red Devils are at their lowest ebb for years and the evidence for their decline cannot be ignored or denied by Ferguson or new owner Malcolm Glazer.

The American didn't pay £790million to run a club that can't challenge for the Premiership title, or for his sons to watch a team from their directors' box seats that is not a patch on the great Old Trafford sides of earlier in the Fergie era.

So the Glazers and Ferguson must realise that United are a club at a cross-roads, with some crucial decisions to be made, on and off the pitch, in the coming months.

How much money can Glazer afford to rebuild a team in need of major strengthening?

Will it ever be enough to compete with Chelsea's millions?

And most crucially of all, is Ferguson at 63, the man to rebuild yet again, or should the challenge be handed to a fresh face who can be part of a five or 10-year plan?

Ferguson has had bad results in previous seasons, and they've been followed up with long unbeaten trophy- winning runs.’