Liverpool have gone through periods of being run as a professional sporting outfit and others where it is like a gentlemanâs club with little respect to commercial or professional aspects.
With United, they have always had the commercial side sorted, but they have relied on enigmatic managers. For all their success, they have only ever had three league wining managers: Ernest Mangnall, Matt Busby, and Alex Ferguson. I suspect that they are still stuck in that mindset of needing a big central personality, rather than an integrated sporting setup.
Something like this?
ha ha ha
No⌠need to drop several divisions, they havenât yet dropped one like the last time.
Iâm sad he thinks theyâre finished.
Itâs like the best sitcom ever and I donât want it to end. Itâs like 12 year old me watching the closing credits of Return of the Jedi and realising its done. There isnât anymore.
Jim make it not so. Please carry on doing the same thing(s) and expect different results. I emplore you.
Couldnât have done it without Barry White.
Its worth stating - guffaw - that never in our 30yr period of struggle did we ever drop this consistently low, perhaps we got this bad during Souness time and maybe Hodg, but not 12yrs of consistent turbulence off the bottom and back down. Goldridge is right to call it out, itâs been consistently abject for over 12 yrs. The club is toxic and has no clue. Its needs a substantial rethink, requires no less than a complete rebuild, for the 6th again!
What the adventures at United and us pre FSG tell us is that it all stems from the top. I donât think itâs possible for a club to have success without competent ownership. Utd could get Klopp in and it wouldnât matter.
We were never this bad even with H&G. Sure they almost managed to run us to the ground , but we werenât rotten. Thereâs something rotten about United.
We were definitely this bad. Quite a bit worse in terms of the sides actually being fielded when you think about the teams Hodgson put out. The fundamental difference is that that was in the midst of crisis, moves like Joe Cole were acts of desperation taken by unqualified people in the absence of resources to look for better options. It was not sustainable or stable by definition, just part and parcel of the broader crisis.
What ManU have managed to do is make chronic mediocrity both sustainable and stable.
Does this mean that in 16 years, United will be managed by Jar Jar Binks?
Oh, itâs real. The comments, the commentsâŚ
YepâŚthese two should join upâŚat the MancsâŚ
I think Rooney is setting his sights too low.
Thereâs a vacancy at the Bernabau nowâŚ
Sadly they wouldnât put him in long enough to relegate them.
Allardyce may come out of retirement too.