I don’t understand how a club that is over a billion pounds in debt and making such sweeping redundancies can spend £60m on a footballer without anyone batting an eyelid.
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“Why should I care? It’s not my money…”
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Because most fans think football operates like a Playstation FIFA game? I’ve been critical of our fans complaining about ticket prices going up slightly without any regard to whether the stadium staff are actually being paid a decent living wage.
Ultimately, with United, I have far more sympathy for working-class Mancunians than millionaire footballers or billionaire owners.
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You obviously haven’t passed Modern Football Fandom 101: All opposition supporters are scum.
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Only the social media ones.
They’re not scum.
They’re just losers. Losers who suck.
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Becks has generated a lot of press for negative comments he made about things going on at the club off the pitch. At first it seemed like criticiism of the owners, but while he was fairly vague in stating what he was talking about, he appears to have been criticizing the players for the dismissive way they engaged with fans on the Asia tour.
He may have a point, I dont know what reporting there is about this, but he should also probably recognize that difference in the experience the current players have on this tour compared to anything he experienced as a player at Utd. It seems like a thoroughly miserable experience for these players to have been put through this at the end of a season like that.
Yes, the article I read linked it with incidents involving Garnacho reportedly pushing a fan who was filming him and Amad swearing at another (Amad has claimed the fan was making offensive comments about his family).
Didn’t amad give a middle finger to a fan ?
I think they are losing fans in the Far East at quite a rate. If you are successful for years on end, you build it up and it has resilience. They have ridden that wave for the last decade. But there comes a point when if you are not successful, and have not been for a decade or more, fair weather fans, or new fans coming to the game, won’t be interested. And that’s about where they are now in the Far East.
It took a long time for them to get here, and it has been frustrating to see a modest team continue to enjoy the fruits of their forbearers. That looks to be changing, and I think a contraction is underway, and it is going to hit them monetarily. Hopefully hard. And hopefully for years to come.
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I have made the point here plenty of times before, but the flights between Orlando and the UK are a pretty good anthropological exercise and give you pretty good insight into the loss of support they have experienced even domestically.
Twenty years ago a kid wearing a Utd shirt in the airport getting ready to fly home had no predictive value on where his family was from, at least based on the accents. Over time not only do you now only see kids wearing them who are clearly from manchester, they are now increasingly rare sights and dwarfed by the number of City shirts you see.
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Great player and seems a good character also. No idea why he’d want to join that shitshow
Back in the day we used to have a Spurs rule where they needed to recruit better players to be able to challenge, but the sort of player who agreed to sign for Spurs had demonstrated enough a defect to agree to sign for them that they by definition were not one of those players.
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The start of the neoliberal decline…
David Ornstein reporting that Chelsea are going to pay £5m to not have to sign Jadon Sancho who goes back to United - how badly do you have to screw up someone’s career that they are now the one player Chelsea don’t want to sign 
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Chelsea are like DeCaprio. Sancho is now too old for them so he’s been dumped for Gittens
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Hasn’t got 8 years left 