United Thread - 2021/22

[Rochdale Blue]

On the face of it, it's such an underwhelming, uninspiring, unheard of appointment, that my only fear is that it might work by some fluke.

Ralf Ragprick sounds like an ideal choice for them.

 

[Onholiday(somemightsay)]

Happy Friday fellow Blues.

Never forget that bastard banner. Fucking scum.

It warms my cockles that even when the going is pretty good for us, we are still grounded enough to hold them to account on previous actions.

Top work Super Kev.....!!!!

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Step forward the tactical supremo and coaching innovators that are Wayne Rooney and Steve Bruce.

Oh, PLEASE let this happen...

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

My summary of his record is a bit disingenuous, and he's certainly an eminent figure in his field with a decent track record of success. But the circumstances around his appointment do show what a dysfunctional institution the rags have become. And there are certainly reasons to question whether the appointment will prove tpo be the masterstroke everyone's hailing it as:

1. He's achieved some outstanding things in his past, but these tend to involve having built teams to unexpected heights from a lower base. He's never had to handle a dressing room that's populated with the sorts of egos theirs currently is and, while he might manage to handle it, there isn't a guarantee - especially as he doesn't have the level of authority conferred by a long-term contract. The players will know he's gone in the summer.

2. His preferred playing style is a high-energy pressing game, exactly the sort of football United have very definitely moved away from this season to accommodate Ronaldo. How's he going to handle that? Drop the star man and risk the ructions that would undoubtedly follow from such a move? Or compromise in terms of the way he wants to play, which means he'd be working in a way completely different from that with which he's achieved the past success he's had.

3. He was available as a Sporting Director when they were supposed to be overhauling their football operations, and they passed him up. Now, as of the end of the season, he'll be a consultant with contractual guarantees that they'll take notice of him, but he'll be operating on top of the existing structure and with Ferguson still haunting the place like Banquo's ghost. Lots of potential for trouble there.

It's not impossible that he'll do well there, but it's not the given the British media would have you believe. And, as I said, the appointment clearly shows what a train-wreck that club currently is.

So a modern day Bobby Gould?

 

[Eric still Dutch]

Not sure what the plan is this time. If there was ever a plan over the last decade, other than trying to buy every player that had our attention.
If Rangnick comes in as an interim coach, and than takes up the same role within United that Txiki represents within City, it might ( ... might ! ...) actually work. At least it will be a plan.

It's funny as f*ck to see the media jumping up and down for the man. You'd sence there is still time for Rangnick to make them champions, even as an interim. Even Martin Samuel joins the ones that actually believe they have appointed the right man. Again.

 

[city2]

Nothing new is it, every fucking appointment from moyes to today latest rag is how brilliant these appointments will be only to fall apart. Looking forward to this guys first win then they are winning the league again.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

True and thankfully likely to remain so for a long long time.

I hope so. But the Glazers have been looking to sell for a few years now and the collapse of the ESL plan will make them more desperate. The United cash-cow is still paying out for now but the Glazer family business model is based on "buying low, selling high" and they don't give a shit about English football or the community of Manchester. They will also come under more pressure in the USA from the IRS to start paying some taxes now that their close pal Donald Trump is off the scene. Fraudsters like the Glazers have to keep moving to survive.

 

[Protein Junkie]

The Rags have a great record when it comes to recent German imports
Sancho
Schweinsteiger
Kagawa
Zieler
Neumayr.
Mkhitaryan

 

[chaddblue]

Has there been a bigger appointment since we landed Horton?

Who?

 

[goalmole]

Have they been made favourites to win the title yet?