I’ve seen Antony in a few games for Betis and he looks far better there as well.
Even though I dislike him.
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Apparently Jimmy’s been counting the length on sellotape.
They’ve followed this up with a report that the Chief Executive Omar Berrada has warned staff that they face the sack for leaking information. I assume the warning of the sack is also leaked information.
Also considering how they keep sacking people anyhow who is to say it isn’t a disgruntled staff member. This lot couldn’t give more entertainment off the field if they tried.
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Just an absolute fucking disgrace of a club. Fold them now.
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If those were the criteria we’d be down several Manchester and London clubs, just for starters
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I am astonished by the amount of excuses being made for him. Yes there are limitations of how they go about putting a team together, but that is what is making it difficult for them to compete for the top 4. But they are all CL players and for as much as we laugh at them they have no business being at that end of the table. The only thing keeping them out of a relegation fight is historic ineptitude of the bottom 3. This is an Astonishing level of under performance.
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I was startled to see yesterday (when Everton had the lead) that ManU was at the W + D = L point. Amorim’s record is 4-3-8, so 1 point per game. Enough to avoid relegation most years, however startling underperformance even versus Ten Hag. I said it tongue in cheek yesterday, but someone like Moyes really would be doing far better.
Beyond the underperformance though is the simple targeting of Rashford as a scapegoat, like a pound-shop Mourinho - when he has achieved nothing outside the Portuguese game. It is very difficult for me to believe that a personality like Rashford was impossible for him to work with.
Dan Ashworth must be smirking.
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So not relegation form then?
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As I said there is too much poor quality opponents in the league for anyone else to fall into trouble. We now seem to have a more even league strangely with evidently 3 really poor teams and one slightly less poor, a couple of poor and then the rest ok to excellent.
Until someone can step up and bridge that gap, I’m going suggest Leeds possibly could. But nothing much else is leaping out at me.
Yeah, the bottom 3 have really been atrocious this season, but United should be fucking embarrassed and ashamed by that.
If they do finish 15th or 16th and don’t win either of the cups, they’re going to be looking at seriously reducing the size of their squad. There’ll be some natural attrition with Ericksen, Evans, and Lindelof leaving at the end of their contracts, then you have the likes of Rashford, Sancho, and Antony who will all be sold. They’ll also try to move Casemiro on I’d imagine, and one or both of Mainoo and Garnacho will be sold to raise funds. With all of that done, they will need to buy at least one proper wingback, at least two central mids, and at least two forwards just to have enough to cover for injuries, etc.
Even if they manage to do that on the very limited budget they’re projected to have, there’s still a good chance we’ll be looking at more of the same from this season, and if just a couple of the newly promoted teams have a half-decent season, then United could very well be dragged into a relegation fight early doors.
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Think they’ll have a reasonable budget once the likes of Casemiro , Rashford go. Not for the transfer fee but their wages.
Casemiro 350k a week
Rashford 300k a week
Antony 200k a week
Eriksen 200k a week
Not sure how much the likes of Evans are on. But between the 4 of them , that’s 52m saved right there.
Add that to 25m which is an obligatory buy out clause for Sancho and any transfer fees they get for Rashford and Antony. 50m perhaps(for the pair of them). That’s a 125m amount there which they can use to refresh their squad. Not that it will help if clubs keep gouging them with the United tax (over and above the premier league tax) but selling (4 players + Sancho) in theory should allow them to make 3 decent purchases while lessening their wage outlay too(or 2 decent ones and 1 20m)
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There are other issues at play. Their revenue is down, and they’ll be losing a ton of revenue for such a low league finish and no European football. Add that to the fact that they have to make almost £150M in amortization payments for previous player purchases, I’d be surprised if they can afford to spend more than maybe 75-100M. That will get them maybe 2-3 players of the calibre they need to pull themselves out of the muck, and that’s if all of them hit the ground running and improve the side. It’ll be a razor thin squad and if they don’t invest in a reliable goal scorer they’ll struggle massively again.
If they want the likes of Osimhen or Isak or Cunha or even Mbeumo, as you say they’ll have to pay the United tax and that could eat up most of their transfer budget.
This literally is all of the terrible decisions of the last decade and a half coming home to roost and leaving them with the narrowest of pathways out of the mess. Could be a long long road ahead for them from here.
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Agree but I’d suggest that they’d be better off spending how ever much of that it takes on binning off the manager.
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That’s true. But they’ve got a 50% sell on clause with Greenwood and he looks likely to move after this season or after the next one.There are going to be clubs outside England who don’t necessarily have the problems clubs in England have when taking him.
If Greenwood goes for 80m , that’s 40m for United. Don’t agree with the club continuing to make money out of a deplorable like him but it is what it is. He’s a commodity in this era.
They’ll still probably have to sell of one of Garnacho/Mainoo/Amad to pay those amortization costs. I think Mainoo perhaps is the most dispensable. He’s probably regressed over this season , doesn’t have the pace too that’s required for modern football and isn’t likely to become much quicker.
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Wasn’t he hyped to be a near-future Ballon d’Or winner not long ago?
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So sad isn’t it
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I don’t think he’s making 80m.
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I’m seriously considering a pot-noodle on the 8.04 to Charing Cross (not stopping at Lewisham, thank fuck).
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