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Becauseā¦
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I donāt think things changed for us until there was a general acceptance from everyone at our club, from owners, manager, players, and fans, that we were no longer capable of competing at the top, we werenāt deserving of being considered a top club, and that we needed to make a series of needed steps before we could even consider being in CL contention, let alone delivering on the aspiration of a League title.
United donāt seem like a club that will ever allow such thoughts to take them there and to get them back onto the steps to rebuilding.
Instead they will continue to brute-force it, each consecutive attempt coming with ever dwindling funds as the club struggles.
I genuinely donāt know when this will change. This is absolutely not to say they wonāt fall into a title race if they canāt have a season where things click, the refs back then and they avoid injuries - Itās happened a couple of times in the recent past - but they look only capable of attracting dick head players so the rot will set in again once those dick heads down tools the next time.
That club is allergic to stability.
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Utd fans would not like hearing this, but I would do what FSG did when they took over us.
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Bring in a Henderson type, 22/23 year old solid but unspectacular player with strong drive and will to win that has shown leadership abilities to build the foundations of future squad around and supliment them with a Milner-esq old hand that you can pick up on a free but has all the right attitudes to set the standards on the pitch but also in and around the training centre.
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Stop contract extensions and let the dross leave as and when their contracts expire.
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Refocus the pay structure to offer lower base salaries with highly incentivised bonuses for qualifying for C/L to start off, then move to winning trophies.
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Focus recruitment onto younger players that are not yet in their prime so you can develope them and then sell them for profit in 5-6 years to help rebuild the clubs finances.
But to do all of this, you need to manage fans expectations before anything else and get them to realise that it isnāt going to be a quck and easy fix
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The fans will not be patient enough to grant the forward planning acceptance of mediocrity. They will just want the club sold to ownwers with more money than these ones at present.
Ratcliffe might already be admitting to himselfā¦ he does not have the personal skill-set, to oversee the running/management of a football club.
If Amorim stays putā¦ they will remain a bottom half of the table club
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I have seen more than one Utd fan state they need to use next year to get back in Europe, so I guess they are aiming for CL/EL.
Serious question for once, which PL teams (manager and squad) are they definitely better than??
teehee (couldnāt help myself)
He will probably sack them all due to his bruised ego.
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How do they compare now to us in 2010? At the moment they are in a worse position debt wise because of the huge debt and the number of mediocre players on huge wages. I get the impression that their fans think that new owners will solve all their problems. They are probably half right. It depends on whether they get new owners like we did with FSG in 2010 or Everton did with Moshiri in 2016.
Looking at their situation at the moment, I think Everton are better placed footballing wise as they have a decent manager and a new stadium in place.
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Ćverton are more settled but do they have the scope. Saying that they need to restructure themselves completely. And no this isnāt cutting several more catering staff.
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Ipswich, Leicester and Southampton. And even that could be debated had Amorim came in earlier.
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Ipswich , Leicester and Southampton. The table doesnāt lie.
I do think that Ipswich played better football than United but the budget differential between the promoted sides and the rest of the league is way too high.
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The difficulty there is that the whole house of cards is propped up by that massive commercial income. Offering five years of mid-table irrelevance is not a compelling value proposition to sponsors. When the tail has wagged the dog for a generation, it is hard to move away from that. There will be an initial period where their finances will get worse, not better, and for over a decade that simply hasnāt been an acceptable proposition.
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If he had mentioned Sancho, we would have known he is trolling.
The reality is that there is a truth in there. There are some decent players in that squad, when they are playing in a system that allows it and a side that makes sense. Amad and Garnacho arenāt going to win you much of anything, but as a pair of wingers somewhat north of 17th is a reasonable expectation. The defenders are overrated, but should be PL standard. Were they to focus on building out their defence first, one or two new players would likely be what that side needs to be in the hunt for top 7.
Instead, they have run off Rashford (and Sancho), piled too much pressure on Mainoo far too early, and bought the Cameroonian Mignolet as an upgrade on De Gea.
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āHojlund is capable of scoring double digits every seasonā?
āMainoo almost never loses the ball in midfield and thereās Bruno leading the teamā?
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You also need to factor in that under Amorim, Utd have picked up less points per game than ETH did in the first part of the season, so realistically, had they got rid of ETH last summer like they ariginally planned, Amorim could easily have relegated them this season.
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Iām doing my best not to revel in their misery, having been there with my club for a while, but itās, oh, so difficult to resist when you dissect it this way.
Carra got stuck in as well, noting how they would have to sell and replace all the players that donāt fit in order to buy more centre backs and wingbacks, only for the next manager to bin them off if Amorim fails because that one will probably want to play a back four.
Their shortest route to stabilisation would probably be sacking Amorim, getting a manager who plays 4-3-3 and making the most out of these young players they have before they turn toxic (Garnacho maybe already has, his family canāt keep their mouths shut).
That said, I assume that Sir Jim is already trawling through Middle East, looking for buyers for his players or for his share of stocks.
Weāve had this comparison before. Itās still an insult to Migs, in fact even more so now, given Onanaās continued gaffes.
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