The Man Utd thread (3)

Yeah well, judging by the last transfer window, neither are we.

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Poor lad’s had no consistency

Maybe he’s the problem :grimacing:

Poor lad had to have two years under Ten Haag still.

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I am surprised that so little of this coverage has thought fit to turn the attention back to the sacking of Ashworth. His exit was in large part because people who shouldnt have been making football decisions didnt agree with his perspective on the key footballing decision of who they should hire and so they fired him and then made their decision anyway. And its now, very predictably, blown up in their face with them, maybe for the first time, now facing a genuine financial bind preventing them financially supporting whomever the new guy is.

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I meant in terms of having a new manager every season of his career. He might be shit, might be great, but he’s still not had a consistent manager which is not going to be helpful in terms of being part of a team built over time.

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This is like a comedy carousel which keeps regenerating every 2 seasons. Reconsider, re-hire, re-spend, denial, crash. Repeat.

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Mentioned this to a Man U supporting mate, BTW one of the very few who you can have a reasonable footballing conversation with.

Did you ever feel like the Universe is speaking directly to you?

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My favourite part is all of it.

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You cant drool all over yourself and give yourself your own reward…

I can do anything I put my mind to.

In private only please. This is a family forum.

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I like that Solskaer is hotfooting up the East Lancs with a tyre lever :joy:

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That DNA eh

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There we go!

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What I truly adore about the ‘DNA’ theme is that it is implicitly a rejection of everything that has been done to try to improve the club post-Ferguson, Ratliffe-driven or otherwise. Anything that Rangnick or Ashworth pushed is as tainted as Moyes was when they walked him out the door. They are going right back to 2013.

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It also seems to suggest the idea that Ferguson’s teams were rigid and didn’t change from 1987 til 2013.

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2013? They are going back to 93. “United play with width” is such a universal trait that its like saying Utd DNA is “starting the game with 11 players, one of whom is a goalie”, but also you have to go back to the Giggs/Kanchelskis side since it was such a notable part of their game. Maybe RVN coming in gave Becks the incentive to concentrate on staying wide a bit more to get crosses into him, but there there was nothing identifiably United about that.

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