So long as we keep on quietly racking up the wins and staying clear at the top, I will be ok if Man Utd’s fight for a Europa spot occupies the headlines for a bit.
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Since they aren’t getting him the ball, isn’t his conversion rate based on a small sample?
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United went too big on the concept of inverted wingers.
United went too big on the concept of shit wingers
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This is the kind of crap I come out with if I haven’t finished some report.
“Look I wanted to include all November’s figures so you’ll have to wait til the 2nd of December for your report”
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Found Mubsy’s twitter handle.
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This is an interesting sliding doors moment - Lewi claiming he was close to signing for Utd in 2012, but Dortmund were very reluctant to let him go after having lost so many key players already from their two title wins.
https://x.com/AmorimEra_/status/1859560330671587694
In this alternate timeline that means Utd sign a 24 year old peak Lewondowski rather than a 30 year old rapidly rotting RVP setting them up much better for the subsequent seasons. He would have also been on far less money and contributed more for longer. But it also sets up a sequence of events where it allows them protection against the wage increase spiral they quickly fell into. Rooney’s threat to leave in 13 or 14 was an existential threat given their lack of other attacking quality with RVP by that time worthless, but it wouldnt have worked like that with a 25 goal a season Lewi there. Maybe they get out of the Rooney situation without such an explosion of their salary structure and without setting the stage for all the madness that came afterwards.
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Or alternately, Lewandowski joins the list of players who looked great at Dortmund, then made a poor move that derailed the trajectory their career was on, the Polish Dembele for example. I think Bayern timed his acquisition about right.
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Hopefully the second special ones stint at United is as short lived as the OG special ones time there.
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I am a dreamer.
You’d have to be fucking delusional to fancy this United side to win anything.
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I vividly, vividly remember my delusional Man United-supporting mate having a proper laugh at Klopp, his early comments and acts like the one after WBA draw at Anfield. He wasn’t laughing when Klopp built an all-conquering side.
I wouldn’t laugh at Amorim, especially as he doesn’t seem to be the type to hand out epic soundbites or hardman promises like his predecessors.
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He will be when he’s 18 months into his tenure and after having not found a way to play without having Maguire and Evans at CB, he is scrambling to keep his position and starts making increasingly absurd comments about Marcus’ second goal of the season (in late Spring) being the signal that they have turned a corner and with one big summer of top signings they will be challenging for the title
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I’m not laughing at him. I’m laughing with him.
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After what he says here, I think I would laugh - it’s very uninspiring stuff and I’m glad we didn’t get him.
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Well, saying that the title is not theirs for the taking next season is one of the more sensible things a ManU manager has had to say on the way IN the door for quite some time. The usual cycle is talk big early, then start saying they need time when it starts going pear-shaped. I think he is definitely right, 2.5 years is not going to get that squad to the top of the leage.
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Well, he is going to the “Theatre of Dreams”
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