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23 May 2025 09:03:03
Manchester United Football Club is dying a slow painful death.
Even the fattest cow cannot be milked continuously by so many and remain healthy.
And it's not even being allowed to go with any dignity.
23 Feb 2025 20:07:19
We've still got the Europa League to compete for, and have as good a chance as anyone.
I'd say RA needs it, or at least a final!
Not advocating getting rid, but something needs to happen, yes our players are below the level expected for the reputation, transfers and salaries. But instructions come from him, it needs to click at some point with all of them!
Summer isn't going to be good, I can see as many high earners moved on as possible - Rashford, Sancho, Casemiro, Antony.
Then we will be inviting offers for Ganacho, Mainoo and probably anyone else who gets any interest.
I'd expect replacements sourced from the younger players and maybe a few cut price replacements on lower wages.
Not necessarily a bad thing but in reality a true representation of just where this club is now. And unfortunately will remain for many years unless something drastic happens.
Neither the Glazers or Ratcliffe have actually put anything into the club at all. And now are systematically taking it apart.
There maybe was plenty of deadwood but when people on less a year than it costs to rent a box at old Trafford are losing their jobs- in the interest of balancing the books. There's something more than rotten about it all!
1.) 23 Feb 2025 20:56:46
Ratcliffe has put something into the club, more than Glazers have put in the whole time they have been here, it baffles me that people are trying to make our Sir Jim is as bad as the Glazers just because results aren’t good. He’s trying to sort out the mess we’ve been left in and time will tell if he does it but the abuse he’s getting is madness.
We got 1 player for Amorim so far and he already looks the most comfortable in the system, so a few more sensible signings and let’s see what he can get out of them. He’s trying to play chess with only pawns at the moment, let’s see what happens if he gets some more pieces.
2.) 23 Feb 2025 21:33:05
GDS2,
Good response. SJR is no angel, but steadying the ship will come at a price.
He has implemented a new structure, which needs time to bare fruit. It's mad how some fans expect instant success all the time.
All we can do it buckle up, sit back and ride it out.
3.) 23 Feb 2025 22:05:18
Quite right GDS2, Sir Jim has invested an additional 300 million us dollars, the final tranche recently went in, increasing his share holding to around 29%. This gives him 2 seats on the clubs board.
The 1.3 billion dollars originally invested, of course, went to the Glazers for their shares. This additional 300 mil has gone into the CLUB for further investment. I think some was used for the work carried out at Carrington last summer and some has cleared some debt.
It would seem there are sufficient reasons for concern without dealing in inaccuracies.
4.) 23 Feb 2025 22:06:52
I’d say you’re right, we need a Europa win to salvage anything but writing off the league is mad. £4M per place, 6th is worth £40M more than 16th. People are losing their jobs due to our finances.
5.) 24 Feb 2025 01:24:11
Quite wrong actually, clearly you know zero about how a business works!
Some seem to think SJR actually dived into his personal bank account….
Was never going to be a good fit, you can give it 1 year or 10 it just simply will not work, if you think it’s going to be anywhere near the level of SAF times!
6.) 24 Feb 2025 04:43:42
German,
As always telling people they are wrong with no back up, I’m fully aware of how a business works thank you. Sir Jim owns INEOS, obviously it’s not his personal bank account but if INEOS put that money in then it’s his money, not that complicated to understand.
Not sure anybody thinks it will be back at the level of SAF times, there is too much competition for that to be the case. You have absolutely no idea how we will be in 6 months never mind 10 years so weird to just be negative for the sake of it unless you’re trolling.
{Ed001's Note - it's not his money. It will be financed and be a loan. It will not be his money. You clearly do not understand how a business of that size works.}
7.) 24 Feb 2025 05:55:38
SJR is great because he is better than the glazers.
What a bar.
8.) 24 Feb 2025 08:36:44
Full depends on how that money is issued though Ed I think? Any investment via new share issues as far as I’m aware can’t be a loan (I could be wrong on that though) .
Even a debt for equity swap would come via new share issues as well, so unless they became majority shareholders then issues the club with a shareholder loan like Arsenal’s have I’m not sure Ineos can loan us money.
Like I say above, I could be wrong so do feel free to correct me if so.
{Ed001's Note - but the company loaning the money would have taken finance out to raise the funds. That is the point, Ratcliffe does not put any of his own billions at risk.}
9.) 24 Feb 2025 09:19:10
Are you offering better alternatives angel?
Sure tj are better owners to have. But none of them want to own us.
The glazers have a price nobody offered them what they want so far.
I think sjr and team are doing what they need to do. It's painful and hurtful but until the business is more efficient and running as a business should we can't compete.
Really tough calls have to be made.
Mistakes have been made and more will be made yet. But that's the same in any business going through what we have to.
10.) 24 Feb 2025 09:42:48
Ken, what are you on about?
So I can't say that now or what? That the bar is so low that we can look at SJR and say at least he's not as bad as them. I mean, the bar is on the floor, sorry, way below the floor.
How could I possibly offer an alternative, I'm a football fan, that's it, just like you and everyone else on here.
Just because you're happy to follow SJR and RA into war, doesn't mean we should also.
11.) 24 Feb 2025 10:15:24
Tumble even though it’s a business, no football club in the world in run like a conventional business, no other business as 100s of thousands supporters watching its every move, SJR trying to run it like a conventional business if that’s what he thinks he is doing, is going to be tough, SJR always been about penny pinching in every business, even his own personal wealth he would prefer to not have it in U. K. to save £££s which is totally his choice of course, but to compare a football club with running a normal business is a stretch too far.
It’s same with most sports, just being a good business man does not mean your any good at running a sports business, it two entirely opposites, the fundamentals may be the same, but you have to go about it in totally a different manner, for me, love them or hate them, the Glazers are far better business men than SJR is… do I want either of them owning United…Nope but it is what it is, but to say SJR got us heading in right direction is stretching reality too far!
12.) 24 Feb 2025 11:16:21
Angel you can say what you like. I've not suggested otherwise. So your not offering any alternative I understand that. You just want it to be different. ?.
13.) 24 Feb 2025 11:30:14
Is that in your experience of running a sports business German,
You realise it's a set of accounts he inherited from the 'better business men'
You realise if costs are not cut and losses seemed we will be deducted points.
The business needs to be on a sound footing 1st.
Costs cut everywhere and losses seemed. A cultural reset right throughout the business. No more hand outs cut the jobs for the boys mentality.
Lots of pain yet before we can start to move forward as you wish them to. That will happen (maybe not quite as you wish but much better) when the medicine has been taken.
1st things 1st and that's to absolve ourselves from the immediate short term financial danger.
Nothing happening that shouldn't be happening at this stage apart from it happening heavily publicised on the back pages and on tv.
I'm not sure what you do but if a company you ran or own is losing millions every year would you do all you can to get firstly industry compliant? Once you have that you can implement a growth strategy.
It's not nice right now but what's happening is very necessary and it's simply because it'sbeen like a can kicked down the road for years by the previous management and due to neglectful owners that have not been watching the back door and have a complete lack of understanding of how close the business ran and is still too close to not being industry compliant.
14.) 24 Feb 2025 12:18:35
I can't offer an alternative, haven't got the pockets unfortunately.
But for me, The 50+1 model is how it should be run.
SJR is a scumbag ken, but you'll head into battle with him, good man haha.
{Ed025's Note - Angel SJR is not interested in MUFC mate he is interested in making money, the land that comes with the ground and the site of any new stadium will be paramount to his agenda, he is a businessman not a football fan so for me you should all be very worried about his motives mate..
15.) 24 Feb 2025 13:16:06
SJR is slashimg jobs, cutting bonuses for lowly paid staff, whilst spending millions on recruiting and then sacking Ashworth, what a guy.
I'm not a fan of SJR but hopefully he won't be taking huge dividends each year. My main beef he seems as incompetent as the last lot.
16.) 24 Feb 2025 16:47:43
Ed, seen a fantastic analogy online just now regarding the staff being bloated.
"Staff may have been bloated but sacking staff to fix a budget shortfall is like a cocaine addict cutting back on milk and bread to save money. The obvious problem is staring you right in the face"
SJR is streamlining for his own pocket, not for the benefit of the club. He is an utter scumbag. I can't believe that people on here are saying that it's okay.
{Ed025's Note - im with you Angel, hes looking to line his own pockets mate 100%, the land that comes with the stadia will be worth Billions mate and thats his primary objective, he has no interest in the football side of things..
17.) 25 Feb 2025 05:54:26
How do you see the 50+1 model being applied angel. Please educate me on how that can be put into place at united?
Don't worry about your pocket angel you can buy the club without using any of your own hard earned cash you won't even have to dip into you communion money. ?.
29 Dec 2024 18:11:20
I'm not judging the manager yet. I genuinely hope he succeeds, as I hoped ETH would succeed.
Simply an observation, no doubt plenty will disagree with! But we've, once again got a manager from outside the top 5 leagues in Europe. Indeed outside the 6 if you include the championship, which Is an incredibly difficult league to compete in, let alone win!
It's almost like the leadership of the club change philosophy with every new incumbent, almost buying a window of easy time for everyone, including the very limited players we seem to have!
I'm not comparing our squad to Nottingham Forest in any way, but I've just watched their manager in an interview after todays match, in which they lost a major player in the warmup, saying they changed the system and the players fully understood what they needed to do!
If our so called top professional players cannot change how they run, where they run, which direction to pass, to actually pass . Then we really have some terrible players.
I imagine everyone here has worked in Jobs where the system has changed, experienced new managers, new systems, new methods, new vehicles whatever and just got on with it!
Just get on with it, the club is toxic from top to bottom.
I've had enough, cannot speak for everyone else, but not one more of my hard earned pennies will pass into their hands until the club has realised the fans are the heart and soul, not a means to an end!
Many will say "support in good and bad " I've supported many more years than most. Even in the 70s and 80s the hope was there.
Players need to play, management need to manage, the club needs to remember the spirit, the soul, the magic, the hope that built it into more than any other club in the world! And give us at least a hope of returning to that!
Instead of milking the history for profit, laughing at the fans, and killing the future in the process!
I'll forever support Manchester United, it's not a choice, it's a lifetime commitment. Unfortunately not for the owners!
1.) 29 Dec 2024 20:52:14
The owners are on trial now, not the manager. They need to back him. The went for an exciting up and coming manager who plays a distinctive style, they need to give him the players to play that style. Many players need to leave and a refresh of a failed squad finally put behind us.
We are paying top level wages for a bottom of the table performance from this squad. We must start in Jan by getting wide players who can fit this system. We cannot accept the FFP nonsense. The club need to figure a way to give amorin what he needs and to stay within those limits. Sell players if needed. Lengthen contracts. Get to work and let's start improving. Hopefully we have hit the bottom, but only if the management team start to make some good decisive decisions.
2.) 30 Dec 2024 01:16:18
FFP dictates how much the manager can spend. Trying to offload our overpaid underperforming players will be vv difficult.
3.) 30 Dec 2024 03:26:26
I don't care salford. They pushed for amorim mid season. They pushed to buy the club. They need to start sorting this out. Not enough sales I the summer, and many of those players have barely played.
I am not giving them a pass. A firm no to that. We need new players, they can be up and coming and not super stars, but we need to fill gaps in the first team, let alone on the bench.
We need change and they need to start delivering. I can deal with a mid table finish if we start to see major change taking shape. If they pick amorim they have to give him players for his system. Otherwise, may aswell have kept ruud or even EtH, we would have been better off.
4.) 30 Dec 2024 07:38:59
Oh you must Dodgy. The club is in serious debt and has one of the highest wage bill across Europe. There isn’t a lot of money. The coach needs to get better than what he is getting today (5 losses) .
5.) 30 Dec 2024 11:45:33
If only it was that easy to just get rid of players.
13 May 2024 17:28:49
Well, the stadium is collapsing, the teams collapsed, the manager is floundering, might as well just get rid of everything and everyone.
And start over in the northern league. Use the youth players and get a bit of pride back!
Can't really see a major change over the summer, seems everything about the club is rotten, except the supporters, still turning up in their thousands and basically being mugged off!
Obviously this is a bit of an overreaction but we are genuinely falling unchecked into oblivion, and it's truly a sad sight.
I like many others will always support the badge .
But it seems the apathy and complacency is way and beyond a few players but endemic on every level of our once great institution.
Sad times, hopefully it will be rectified no matter how slowly, even a slight glimmer will help.
Let's see if we can end with a trophy, only City to beat lol.
Some of this is a bit tongue in cheek, some borne of frustration, but mostly out of anger that it's been allowed to happen.
1.) 13 May 2024 18:32:26
Without our Glazer owners, our club would really stink
We wouldn't have a Martial
Or an official Chinese drink
We wouldn't have our Ten Hag
Or an enormous debt trap
It's not the Glazer’s fault that the stadium collapsed!
2.) 13 May 2024 19:47:06
Bit of guttering will sort that out no problem ?.
3.) 13 May 2024 20:47:14
If only Woodward were still here. He would be charging fans £30 to have their photo taken in front of the 'World famous waterfall'
4.) 13 May 2024 20:29:37
It needs renaming to the theatre of streams.
5.) 13 May 2024 21:38:33
Its not too late to support FC United of Manchester.
6.) 13 May 2024 22:56:48
I think anyone who left the stadium after the game yesterday will understood why the stadium was as wet as it was!
01 Sep 2023 21:40:58
Not a bad transfer window, not probably what in an ideal world we'd all have imagined, but moved on a lot of younger players who probably wouldn't have had a chance or were not going to make it. At least we've given them a chance at a career! As a club we probably would have liked to move on maguire or mctominay or both.
Starting team, can start to see a bit of an idea, I think with a second combative midfielder, next to Casemiro, it'll give mount, on his return a chance to show a bit more, anyone can see that so far this season Casemiro has struggled doing all the work, and I'm having a striker, we can play rashford back in his best position.
Goalkeeper is obvious, defence, well if all fit, rotate Dalot and awb, depending on opponent, although I feel awb has certainly improved last season, cb varane and Martinez, although varane will miss a lot of games as usual, lb Shaw when fit, very bad timing with him and malacia both being injured, hopefully the loan will suffice, not really impressed by reguilon tho.
Amrabat and Casemiro give a solid base in front of those, Bruno and mount with Rashford and hojlund seems a fluid front line. Don't think martial will stay fit for any length of time, gives gnarcho, sancho and Antony a chance to rotate or be impact subs.
Although I think there's a player in sancho, his desire and application doesn't always seem to be there. Mainoo, such an unfortunate injury, but there's a player there for next 10 years managed correctly.
Just my opinion, and opinions will vary massively among everyone.
But I'm looking forward to this season more than I have for a long time. And I've been supporting Manchester United for over 40 years.
1.) 01 Sep 2023 22:24:24
Not a bad transfer window? We spent around £150m and arguably have a worse starting eleven at the end of this window than we did at the end of last season.
Onana is certainly a better ball player than De Gea, but De Gea is the better shot stopper by a country mile. Sure, being able to play out from the back more fluently will likely lead to quicker transitions and hopefully more chances, but it will also lead to us conceding a few more, either through Onana being caught off his line or making one too many risky passes. Then there are the three or four games that he’ll miss each time there’s an AFCON, which will undoubtedly make us weaker than if we’d had Dave between the sticks. its certainly not a backward step, but I don’t think you could call it a firm foot forward either.
In defense, we’re still only a couple of injuries away from having to start Maguire, who is a disaster waiting to happen, and with Varane another year older, those injuries are going to be coming even more frequently than they already were. Shaw is out for god knows how long and has been replaced by a player who has failed to establish himself at three teams, two of which (Athletico and Spurs) we are aspiring to be better than. I’ll support him on the pitch, but on paper, and based on past performances, he’s just not good enough. As a result, I think that most would agree that our defense is worse this season than it was last.
Like Varane, Casemiro and Eriksen are another year older and showing noticeable signs of slowing down. We’ve lost Sabitzer and Fred, who although not spectacular, used to guarantee a fairly consistent 6 or 7 out of ten performance each week. Their replacement Amrabat can hit 8s and 9s from time to time, but he can also put in some god awful performances as well. We’ve spent all summer trying to flog SM and Donny, so it will be interesting to see how motivated they are for the coming season, and as for Mount, he occupies the same space as Bruno - a player who is better than him and never misses a game - so why we spent the lion’s share of our budget on him lord only knows. I hope he comes good, but it’s difficult to see how him and Bruno can play in the same midfield three. We haven’t really improved much here and remain one injury away from disaster.
As for our frontline, we needed a proven goalscorer but instead signed a player for the future. Granted, he’s a step up from Weghorst so you’d have to say that our attacking options have improved, but I still see us struggling for goals this season, even if Hoijlund can stay fit.
What’s most concerning is that the two teams who finished above us last year have both gotten stronger (particularly Arsenal), as too have the four or five that finished below us. By contrast, we’ve failed to address several key issues despite spending big money again and have struggled to move on several players who appear to have no future at the club; all while selling off our youth players for peanuts.
But not a bad window, yeah?
2.) 01 Sep 2023 22:38:20
We will know in two years time who got this window right and who got it wrong.
3.) 01 Sep 2023 22:43:34
Arguably being the main word there Redseven, I’d argue we are a lot stronger now, first team and squad, looking forward to the rest of the season, although I think we will lose on Sunday and the meltdown on here will be mega.
4.) 01 Sep 2023 22:43:52
To use a phrase I hate, it is what it is. Time for ETH to work with what he has and show he's the coach that a lot of us think he is.
5.) 01 Sep 2023 22:45:09
I said months ago that if we are serious about winning the league and Champions League, then we will sign Kane and Rice.
Both were available at the right price. Had we been sold prior to window opening, I bet we would have signed them too.
EtH wanted Mount, Kane and Rice.
Instead we ended with Mount, Hojlund and Amrabat.
Let's see how it pans out.
6.) 01 Sep 2023 23:08:40
Redseven, a few points De Gea was living off his shot stopping record from years ago, last season his shot stopping was below average. I love De Gea as a loyal servant of the club but his performances have been below standard for a while now, and not to mean Tim some of the howlers he made last season that cost us. I’ve already seen Onana make some terrific saves so far this season, and the main thing is I don’t have a heart attack everytime the balls passed to him, the confidence of the defence will grow and a goal keeper you can have confidence in spreads throughout the team. It’s early days still but I’m certain we will see a much improved performance at the back, especially in possession when we’re trying to break the opposition press which was always a massive concern for a long time now.
Yes a few players are getting older now, and we have addressed those positions. Arambat although a different type of player to Casemiro offers us high energy and strong work rate, and although I’ve only ever seen him at the World Cup, he looked terrific against some alleged world class players and stood out in those games. He may not be the long term solution to the midfield but for a season he certainly offers a far better option than Fred. As for Fred offering consistent 6/ 7s, this just isn’t true. He could either be excellent and have a huge impact or just invisible and the game just passed him by. Often times I remember him being on the pitch and barely even being noticeable that he was even there. Always loved his workrate but the quality wasn’t there. Arambat offers the same energy with much better passing and ball carrying. He is an enormous upgrade on Fred in my opinion.
Yes Varane is a year older and injury prone, but he’s been like that for his career. We knew his injury record when we bought him. It’s nothing new. I don’t think you can say our defence is weaker. Shaws injury is unfortunate but can happen to brand new signings. Look at Timber for Arsenal. 50m and did his ACL in the second game. Few players are ever the same after that injury. Nothing. We can do about Shaws injury except cope with it the best we can, which we have with the signing of Reguillon.
Eriksen is a year old and his legs were gone last season imo, nothing new there, which is why we bought Mount who won't be playing Bruno’s position imo. He will be sitting deeper alongside Casemiro. I’m sure as he adapts and learns the system and the role he’s being asked to do he will be a fine signing. I don’t think he played much himself last season for one reason and another so it might take him a while to find some form, but when he does I’m sure he will prove to be an excellent signing.
The front line will look completely different this year. A new striker who, from what I’ve seen, looks like he has pace, power, height, good movement, good goal poaching skills, and overall will be a huge handful for defences will completely change our forward line. Defenders will have a different proposition now when facing us. Last season all our threat came from the wings, with very little threat from the centre. This meant defenders could easily double up on our wide players but Hojlund will draw more players to himself now leaving more space for the rest of our forwards. Rashford last season scored 30 goals, if he can push on and continue that form, if Antony can add to his promising start this season (I think he’s looked very good this season, and starting to get to grips with the league), and Bruno can give us his customary 15+ goals as well, along with a few others contributing here and there then scoring goals should not be a problem at all.
As for selling our youth players, what do you suggest? That we keep every player who’s not upto standard? How many of these so called future stars that our fans have raves about in the past have since been sold and then set the world alight after leaving? I can’t think of one.
So yes I think it’s been an extremely promising window and shows the club is moving in the right direction, and despite the fact we obviously had some budget constraints this season we have addressed all the major issues in the squad and even been able to competently deal with some curveballs thrown at us with the like of Shaws injury. Anyway the windows close now and only time will tell. Get behind the lads, and give them all our support.
7.) 01 Sep 2023 23:20:57
Scary thing is, Manchester United's best player is on loan at Getafe ?☹.
8.) 01 Sep 2023 23:36:03
RedSeven are you related to or actually the same person as Trafford? The negativity is quite draining.
9.) 02 Sep 2023 01:26:16
A travesty in itself Sydney, an absolute travesty. A sorry day for united when the snowflakes have their way.
10.) 02 Sep 2023 06:23:12
JE888. I guess the thing that bothers me most about the Onana signing is that he was available on a free 12 months ago. I think Dave’s strengths and weaknesses were pretty clear for all to see (it’s not like he used to be an excellent passer of the ball and then suddenly forgot how to pass overnight), and ETH was pretty familiar with Onana’s strengths, so if he knew that he wanted to implement a system where we played out from the back, why not bring him in last season instead of Dubravka and Butland (who reportedly cost us a few million in loan fees between them) and save us the £50m or so this season? You could say that hindsight is a beautiful thing or whatever, but I don’t think this one requires hindsight, especially not from an elite manager.
As for Shaw’s injury, do you not find it a little concerning that we have spent ourselves into a position where we can’t afford an extra million or two to replace a vital first team player? Injuries happen all the time in football and the fact that we weren’t in a position to adequately deal with the Shaw situation was a little worrying, not to mention embarrassing. It’s clear that Reguilon wasn’t our first choice replacement, yet we failed to bring in the guy we wanted because of our irresponsible spending over the past few seasons. We are supposed to be one of the biggest clubs in the world, yet are bringing second-rate players in on loan (a recurring theme from last season) .
We’ve already seen a few games where ETH tried a midfield three of Mount, Bruno, and Casemiro and our midfield got completely over run every time. These weren’t against top four teams either, so it’s not like you could argue that it will work well against weaker teams. Hopefully Mount can adapt, but from what he’s shown at Chelsea, I don’t think he has the football brain or the discipline to play a deeper role. Even if he does, his best position is clearly further up the pitch, where he is a great player. Why spend so much with a view to changing his best position rather than just signing somebody who can already fill the role we need? (which we ended up doing anyway at the end of the window) . Again, I hope Mount comes good, but he was an odd signing, imo, and not at all what was needed.
Hoijlund is the signing that I am most excited about, but in all likelihood it is going to take two or three seasons until he really starts to hit the kind of levels that his potential suggests he’s capable of, assuming he ever does, that is. What are we supposed to do until then? What happens if he never comes good like Martial? What happens if he gets injured or is constantly in and out of the team due to his back problems? We’ve taken a huge risk on an unproven talent rather than buying a proven goalscorer to address the immediate issue that the team was facing.
As for us selling youth players, I’d rather the first players out of the door be the ones who are causing the FFP issues and could bring in substantial funds with which to improve the squad. Most reports suggest that we could have gotten £65m from West Ham for SM and Maguire but blew it because we didn’t want to spend an extra few million paying off the latter and thought we’d get more for the former. Now we’re stuck with two players who clearly aren’t a part of the manager’s plans who will be worth around half that amount next summer and will cost us tens of millions in wages over the next 12 months. Getting shot of Maguire alone would probably have brought in more than all of the young players we sold combined and saved us more in wages. Selling the youth players I don’t mind (though the fees for some of them seem to be incredibly low), it’s that they’re gone and the likes of SM, HM, AM, and EB are still with us.
As you say, the window is over now and so we can focus on the football, but like last year, I really don’t subscribe to the idea that this was “not a bad window”. Maybe I’ll see things differently come the end of the season (I sure hope so), but I’d be very surprised to see us finishing in the top four with the squad we currently have.
11.) 02 Sep 2023 07:13:40
I don't blame Ten Hag over the Onana transfer to Inter in 2022.
United were paying 500 k a week to De Gea and Henderson already. Neither of those deals were the going rate for thise players.
Rather i blame the complete lack of foresight of the people running the club. We have lurched from manager to manager with each having different styles and requiring different players.
We need someone in charge of the overall football vision, so the academy is producong well versed in a certain way of playing, as are the reserves and the first team. We bring managers and coaches who play that way and the players we buy are suited to that system.
I don't believe United will return to the top until we have new owners who bring in the right person who can sort this out. In the 80s this was Ferguson but football moved on, its got bigger, ans whilst in the past the manager was in charge of everything, he can't now do thia amd run the team on a day to day basis.
Now i don't thing Ten Hag is without fault but adding another keeper last year wasnt on him in my eyes, the blame is much higher.
12.) 02 Sep 2023 12:17:12
I’m not sure I blame ETH for the Onana situation, but am also not sure that the lack of foresight is his and his alone. We probably spent more on loan fees and wages for Dubravka and Butland than we’d have paid Onana for the season and would have ended the season with an asset rather than a negative balance had we gotten him in last year. The board paid an obscene amount for Anthony at Ten Haag’s behest, so I refuse to believe that ETH couldn’t have gotten Onana last summer if he had really wanted him.
25 Jun 2025 20:57:20
Osimhen is apparently on 10m euros a year and is willing to join us for no pay rise .
24 Jul 2021 21:09:14
I fail to see progress.
No youth players have progressed
No definitive style or tactics
Lots of expensive signings not improved
No trophies
Maybe I’m missing something.
19 Feb 2025 11:43:06
So far RA is 14 PL matches 4w 2d 8l if that continues in next 13 matches we will just about scrape 40 points!
Let that sink in!
I’m not forgetting ETH part or the players or anyone involved in any aspect of destroying our club.
And that’s it, Manchester United Football Club has been destroyed beyond belief by greed, incompetence, indifference, selfishness and any other adjective anyone cares to use.
Every decision just gets worse and worse, every player we sign seems to become less and less effective than they’ve ever been.
If we were a horse this lame it would be put out of its misery. But we will be milked for the last dregs of profit by every single leech involved in this process.
The Glazers. Ratcliffe. His cronies. The players. Agents. Sponsors. Until there’s not more to take.
They have continually abused the support, the best in the world, and taken everyone for a fairground ride to near obscurity.
Reputation means nothing to these people except a chance to increase their bank balances.
And unfortunately I cannot see any light at the end of the tunnel.
08 Oct 2024 13:18:37
Home to Leeds march 1979, I was 9, we won 4-1 Andy Ritchie scored a hat trick. Instant hero to my young self!
09 Aug 2024 17:52:59
It’s City! Not a pre season friendly! Doesn’t matter the situation. Hopefully the players understand that as much as all us supporters do!
02 Sep 2023 21:48:03
I’m all for choice, difference of opinion and belief.
I do sometimes struggle with complete and utter pessimism around something that people proclaim to support and want to succeed.
We are all aware that not everything is perfect, and indeed thete us room for improvement in many parts of the club.
But complete dismissal of our chances and total negativity around everything is difficult to understand!
If you’re not happy, and not enjoying being a United fan then we all have a free choice to move on.
I’m here for the long run, no I’m not happy with everything, who would be? But if everything is totally negative in your feelings towards the club then move on!
Not aimed at anyone, or any feelings in particular, just don’t understand complete negativity around something you are supposedly passionate towards!
07 Aug 2022 21:54:43
I agree nothing has changed whatsoever!
If you as a manager are trying to implement a different style and an actual plan, then really why persist with players who have basically failed to grasp any style or even the basics of football?
There’s a long held psychological opinion that younger brains learn more quickly and are more adaptable to new ideas!
If this is the case then literally start to train and play the younger players into a system the manager wants to implement! It genuinely cannot get any worse.
I would personally take, yet another, season of failure if there was an obvious improvement in the performances, no matter how small that is.
Yes we don’t know how good “potential “ is, but until you try you’ll never know!
Cannot be any worse than the “proven” talent on display today!