If I were to just type that United are playing badly some United lifelong supporter is going to barge in whose father was a United fan, whose grandfather was a United fan, whose great grandfather was a United fan and tell you that the stats show that Ten Hag has scored more points than SAF or Klopp or Mourinho or whoever. When I see such people and there are millions of them worldwide and especially in the UK I automatically wonder if you have to be low IQ to be a football fan. You don’t need stats to tell you that United are terrible. If you have eyes you can see that they are scrapping through and not heading in the right direction. On the other hand if you can understand football you could have figured out that Chelsea on the other hand for all their defeats are headed in the right direction. They might be down in the points table but there is a plan that is slowly working at Chelsea. If you just give it time they will be in the reckoning sooner or later. How is something as basic as this not evident to people.
Here’s a stat for you: Manchester United are currently the 6th best placed team in the entire country. You can argue that we’ve spent too much, and “should” be higher, or that you don’t think we have much scope to improve on 6th. I’d probably agree with you on all 3 counts.
But if you start describing that as “terrible”, people are going to come out and argue with you. Only 5 teams have been better this year!
And because you don’t seem to be capable of reviewing the surface level facts, people will try to present something more nuanced, with more interpretation included for you. And because you’re on a text-based medium, and making video breakdowns is hard, those arguments are quite likely to include some statistics.
It’s got very little to do with anyone’s understanding of football, or stats. It’s just people pointing out that you’re acting like an entitled moron over a team that 90% of fans would love to cheer for.