I believe Ralf didn’t have an assistant when he was named the interim manager. They’ve had to get some guy from the US who the United players referred to as Ted Lasso.
Unfortunately
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Yeah, we have heard those stories for months. The only consolation is that Ysbbum can bring us back the best of RedCafe’s opinions on the valuation of Rashford, a £325k/week player who cannot get off the bench for them…
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Agree but not sure on this. His record with cycling is the opposite almost. Really high wages (for the athletes) but little return as far as major results go.
But we dont know what its like behind the scenes. That said they couldn’t manage Tom Pidcock.
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Liverpool equal Man Utd season goal tally…in their past six matches - published at 14:10 Greenwich Mean Time
14:10 GMT
Liverpool v Man Utd (Sun, 16:30 GMT)
Manchester United have scored 21 goals in the Premier League this season - only Crystal Palace (20), Ipswich (18), Everton (15) and bottom side Southampton (12) have scored less.
Meanwhile, Sunday’s opponents Liverpool have hit 21 goals - the same as United’s season tally - in their past six matches.
They lead the way in the Premier League with 45 goals in total this season having played 18 matches, one less than most of their rivals.
Liverpool’s past six Premier League matches:
- West Ham 0-5 Liverpool
- Liverpool 3-1 Leicester
- Tottenham 3-6 Liverpool
- Liverpool 2-2 Fulham
- Newcastle 3-3 Liverpool
- Liverpool 2-0 Man City
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It’s interesting to compare United to our position in 2010. In terms of players, I think we were in a slightly better position. We only had a few decent players but the dross was mostly on modest wages.
Our stadium was in need of upgrading and significantly smaller than Old Trafford. I don’t think it leaked as badly.
Obviously, both clubs have a history and legacy.
However, looking at United now, they are knackered unless they can get a long term strategy. The stadium clearly needs fixing or replacing, I’d assume that the former is cheaper. They need to run down expensive contracts and try to pick up promising players who might see them as a stepping stone.
Will they do that? Nope. They’ll sack the tea lady.
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Fixed
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At some point, it’s easier and cheaper to knock it down fully and then build anew.
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The former requires their own money, whereas the new stadium move is being pursued as part of a plan for local government, or even Westminster, to cover a lot of the cost. He is pushing it as a Northern alternative national stadium that is of national interest. It would be a disgrace on multiple levels if that were to happen, but I think we can safely say a move to a new stadium is not happening if the club are required to pay for it all.
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Some areas of our stadium were just very dated such as the wooden seats in the main stand that didn’t fully recline and were designed for post war austerity arses.
The stadium was still in a decent nick but what FSG have done is made it a modern stadium fit for the 21st century.
Old Trafford for a stadium that has up until the 00s had additions and changes has sprung some really bad issues. Sounds like some of it was done on the cheap.
Squad wise they are better especially if you take Torres or what we expected of Torres out of the equation.
They badly needed a Klopp but then looking at how Slot has come in maybe that wouldn’t have helped.
As for Ratcliffe it seems he made the error of not siding himself more closely to Labour like some others did. As depressing as that is he got enough out of the last lot.
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Has anyone posted this yet?
If they get dragged in then easily but I expect they will fluke enough results with the other teams not being good enough.
Soton and Leicester just don’t look great and Ipswich are like Luton they are fighting against the tide. I do hope they stay up but.
You can be plucky and push Liverpool close like Soton did but you need to win the other games and they don’t seem capable of that. I didn’t see much from Leicester though I saw more than I did from West Ham.
Wolves and Ipswich seem more the sides who can put in those good performances.
Not Southampton.
Sky won’t allow Utd to get relegated… The attraction of the PL is shrinking on a weekly basis - You only have to look at the weeks Match of the Day struggle to make for interesting viewing, from the dire fixture list of the games on offer.
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Wolves aren’t part of the 3 so like Luton last season you are sort of relying on Ipswich unless RVN can get Leicester going.
I’d rather Southampton go down and we get Dibling in. Think there’s some quality there.
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City and West Ham both inherited cheap stadiums on the back of the Commonwealth and Olympic games. There is no way they will get away with doing that again. Even in 2014, they simply adapted existing Glasgow stadia to host the Commonwealth games.
Are Everton getting any assistance for their new ground for the Euros?
Don’t think so.
But then localites would know better.
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Being a “commercial” club hasnt been their problem though (whatever that means as it is such a broad term), it’s simply been run very poorly by owners happily leeching money from it.
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