How did you get a leaked copy of Sir Jim’s private manifesto?
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Million. You know what I mean!
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But they never will; it’s just too much of a fall and the cognitive dissonance means they feel like they just missed out on CL. Perhaps if they continue in the same vein next season and Amorim is fired in November then they may be prepared to rethink but I can’t see it (and thank fuck!)
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Because…
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I don’t think things changed for us until there was a general acceptance from everyone at our club, from owners, manager, players, and fans, that we were no longer capable of competing at the top, we weren’t deserving of being considered a top club, and that we needed to make a series of needed steps before we could even consider being in CL contention, let alone delivering on the aspiration of a League title.
United don’t seem like a club that will ever allow such thoughts to take them there and to get them back onto the steps to rebuilding.
Instead they will continue to brute-force it, each consecutive attempt coming with ever dwindling funds as the club struggles.
I genuinely don’t know when this will change. This is absolutely not to say they won’t fall into a title race if they can’t have a season where things click, the refs back then and they avoid injuries - It’s happened a couple of times in the recent past - but they look only capable of attracting dick head players so the rot will set in again once those dick heads down tools the next time.
That club is allergic to stability.
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Utd fans would not like hearing this, but I would do what FSG did when they took over us.
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Bring in a Henderson type, 22/23 year old solid but unspectacular player with strong drive and will to win that has shown leadership abilities to build the foundations of future squad around and supliment them with a Milner-esq old hand that you can pick up on a free but has all the right attitudes to set the standards on the pitch but also in and around the training centre.
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Stop contract extensions and let the dross leave as and when their contracts expire.
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Refocus the pay structure to offer lower base salaries with highly incentivised bonuses for qualifying for C/L to start off, then move to winning trophies.
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Focus recruitment onto younger players that are not yet in their prime so you can develope them and then sell them for profit in 5-6 years to help rebuild the clubs finances.
But to do all of this, you need to manage fans expectations before anything else and get them to realise that it isn’t going to be a quck and easy fix
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The fans will not be patient enough to grant the forward planning acceptance of mediocrity. They will just want the club sold to ownwers with more money than these ones at present.
Ratcliffe might already be admitting to himself… he does not have the personal skill-set, to oversee the running/management of a football club.
If Amorim stays put… they will remain a bottom half of the table club
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I have seen more than one Utd fan state they need to use next year to get back in Europe, so I guess they are aiming for CL/EL.
Serious question for once, which PL teams (manager and squad) are they definitely better than??
teehee (couldn’t help myself)
He will probably sack them all due to his bruised ego.
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How do they compare now to us in 2010? At the moment they are in a worse position debt wise because of the huge debt and the number of mediocre players on huge wages. I get the impression that their fans think that new owners will solve all their problems. They are probably half right. It depends on whether they get new owners like we did with FSG in 2010 or Everton did with Moshiri in 2016.
Looking at their situation at the moment, I think Everton are better placed footballing wise as they have a decent manager and a new stadium in place.
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Éverton are more settled but do they have the scope. Saying that they need to restructure themselves completely. And no this isn’t cutting several more catering staff.
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Ipswich, Leicester and Southampton. And even that could be debated had Amorim came in earlier.
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Ipswich , Leicester and Southampton. The table doesn’t lie.
I do think that Ipswich played better football than United but the budget differential between the promoted sides and the rest of the league is way too high.
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The difficulty there is that the whole house of cards is propped up by that massive commercial income. Offering five years of mid-table irrelevance is not a compelling value proposition to sponsors. When the tail has wagged the dog for a generation, it is hard to move away from that. There will be an initial period where their finances will get worse, not better, and for over a decade that simply hasn’t been an acceptable proposition.
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If he had mentioned Sancho, we would have known he is trolling.
The reality is that there is a truth in there. There are some decent players in that squad, when they are playing in a system that allows it and a side that makes sense. Amad and Garnacho aren’t going to win you much of anything, but as a pair of wingers somewhat north of 17th is a reasonable expectation. The defenders are overrated, but should be PL standard. Were they to focus on building out their defence first, one or two new players would likely be what that side needs to be in the hunt for top 7.
Instead, they have run off Rashford (and Sancho), piled too much pressure on Mainoo far too early, and bought the Cameroonian Mignolet as an upgrade on De Gea.
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‘Hojlund is capable of scoring double digits every season’?
‘Mainoo almost never loses the ball in midfield and there’s Bruno leading the team’?
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