They’re going all in on the Europa League. Alarmingly, they were the only team in either the CL or EL that made it through the league stage without recording a loss, mind you they had 3 draws and finished in 3rd place overall.
I don’t think they have a chance at winning the EL to be honest. It’s one thing to shithouse wins against the likes of Rangers in a one-off game at Old Trafford, but the two-legged format will be less kind to them, I reckon.
As soon as they meet anyone decent over two legs, they’re toast.
Report this morning asking if Dorgu could be Utd’s Gareth Bale. I refuse to read such nonsense so I assume the question is referencing that it took Bale 2 years to win his first game at home for Spurs
Maybe he is a keen Golfer.
And I can’t see them making the CL.
In fact they might not even have Europe. First time since the post Moyes season.
Probably should go too early on these things, but I don’t think they are going to get in the Champions League either.
The standard of the Europa w.r.t the teams in it has taken a beating with the increased teams and the fact that teams don’t drop down from the UCL anymore.
It’s not as if United will win the Europa. But they are among the teams who’ve spent big money. Most English clubs will have that advantage.
They have spent really badly but at what time does the amount that they’ve spent play a part in them going to the semis atleast.
I think they can make at least the semi final, and act as Amorin having a successful first season. The players they have should be a match for anyone in the competition, even if they haven’t a clue about the system they are alleged to be using.
Assume you’re being sarcastic. They’re closer to relegation zone than the top 4
Exactly. The semis and onwards. They have the jammy luck with them to win the whole thing.
Look at last year’s quarters , semis in the FA cup.
Yeah I was marking out the Europa league as their path.
They won’t get it in the league.
I’m not popping the Champagne of horrible year cork just yet until they are out of Europa.
Some reports today that Utd held their fire this winter in preparation for the summer when they get even more wages off their books and the players they really want will be available.
Like with Garnacho…. Because I can only see his value increase the more he plays for them….
The more I see and hear from him he sounds like Villas-Boas. All hype and chat.
Nah, the arc is completely different. AVB started reasonably strongly, lots of hype, had a wobble in November in his first season, and had them in the hunt for the Top 4 to the end. Great excitement at WHL for the next season, title talk in the air, and the hype was in overdrive. They were in 2nd for a few weeks in September-October! Only then did the wheels fall off.
Amorim is a little more basic. He has taken a mediocre team and delivered a downgrade in results. There is very little evidence that he is able to be an effective manager at the level of the PL.
Also Garnacho didn’t move to Napoli because his financial demands weren’t obliged.
He probably decent within a very defined system, which - given Utd have very little scope financially to create that system for him - makes the appointment absolutely bonkers.
There is a reason we (and others) swerved him, and I suspect a deeper dive than Utd could be arsed to do, would reveal that for any team not already built to his spec would require massive work to give him the best chance.
West Ham swerved Amorim and appointed that Spanish Fraud.
