The Manchester United Thread: That's It. That's the Joke (Part 1)

Ole was ahead at one point, I’m pretty sure it wasn’t that far away from when we thrashed them.

Just when you thought you could love Hendo any further.

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Everyone except tbe deluded manures could see tbat this was going to be a car crasb

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This was what was being shared at MNF and Gary was saying that Ole needed more time.

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United cunts who used to laugh at our ‘net spend’ arguments may finally see that it is a good lead indicator - really the statistical point of difference in these stats (obviously much more going on too) and a key pointer that ole really wasnt going to turn the wheel.

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I think the key points in that was the full season and the net spend.

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Do you know. I woke up this morning and thought, shouldn’t I give United a try? I mean all this player development and building a team within a budget is all well and good but wouldn’t it be more interesting to follow a team that gets a new manager every other year, spends an absolute fortune on complete donkeys and has a stadium that could implode at any moment.

So, I am going to support Manchester United. At least until midday. If that doesn’t work out I’ll wait another year and give Everton a shot.

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That’s worse than most on Twitter :wink:

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I love their analysis of Ten Hag only conceeding 0.48 goals per game - but they fail to factor in the fact that he doesn’t have to contend with Maguire at the heart of his defence, so that stat is surely massively scewed in it’s biase

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Dutch football used to be a festival of goals but it seems since Covid it’s dropped off a cliff

He had a deal till 2025 and they increased it to 2026…that’s really odd. It’s like…they haven’t got a clue.

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I think the problem was that he was earning around 90k a week. This is more about him getting a better salary. Esp seeing as what slabhead rashford etc earn

If United continue to not qualify for europe, hes off

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And needless to say Klopp didnt have any of the recognized stars then. Virgil came in at 2018. Yeah , you can say we did have quality in Matip , Hendo , Milner , Lallana…

But what was man utds squad during Ole time again ?

But it’s also a case of committing long term and salary that now makes it difficult to get rid of him to a player who directly creates many of their imbalances and provides a challenge to the manager to set up an effective team around him…before they’ve signed their new manager and got his input on the situation.

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I havent followed the dutch league at all and what i saw of Ajax was them cruising through an easy CL group (which had Dortmund but the same Dortmund got their arses handed to them by Rangers) to keep it in perspective.

Not taking anything away from Ten Haag , he has done very well with unfancied names. But at this point , the United job may well be beyond him. Have a year or two at a decent footballing club like Southampton , Leverkuesen … Heck even Dortmund before this.

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Overpaid prima donnas on fat ass contracts that United struggle to get rid of… Where have we heard that before.

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I agree, the job he has done at Ajax has been really good, but I find it funny when one of he’s biggest plus points is his defence, and they expect that to continue despite suddenly having Slabhead in the middle of his defence

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As of now Bruno Sancho and Varane are the only guys who have some sembleance of a resale value or who will be of interest to clubs. Two of them are new signees and hence not an immediate issue

De Gea might but hes getting paid an insane amount of money that no team would touch.

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It’s a 1+1 deal and they’ve apparently doubled up his wages.

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The others

Elanga 7m at best , hes a limited player
Martial - he wont be sold and will leave on a free after a season on loan elsewhere
Rashford - tough luck getting beyond 25 for him on his wages
Greenwood - never mind