United thread 2018/19

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I bet Pellegrini would love to put the final nail in the coffin after the way Mourinho has talked about him in the past.
 
Imagine we lived in an alternative timeline where Sir Alex still ruled United. What would his squad look like today? Would emailing and Jones be better players under him? Would he have signed lukaku or Sanchez?
 
GornikDaze said:
Why would they wait until Monday? ;) Zidane better be good at picking up English quickly!
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Fair question. I can't see PEG lasting much longer at this rate TBH. No guarantee that Zidane will be any better. The problem they have is that no manager will be anywhere near as successful for them as fergie, and them throwing money at it by buying big money players clearly isn't working. Long may the rags suffering and demise continue...
 
BlueMoon Risin' said:
Fair question. I can't see PEG lasting much longer at this rate TBH. No guarantee that Zidane will be any better. The problem they have is that no manager will be anywhere near as successful for them as fergie, and them throwing money at it by buying big money players clearly isn't working. Long may the rags suffering and demise continue...
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They may be having a demise compared to some of the last 25 years, but it's hardly a real demise when you are qualifying for Europe (including the Thursday League) every season and picking up the League and FA Cups occasionally.
I want them to have a real demise. I don't think we'll every see a repeat of their relegation (I was there when Law scored), but some real suffering wouldn't go amiss.
 
East Level 2 said:
They may be having a demise compared to some of the last 25 years, but it's hardly a real demise when you are qualifying for Europe (including the Thursday League) every season and picking up the League and FA Cups occasionally.
I want them to have a real demise. I don't think we'll every see a repeat of their relegation (I was there when Law scored), but some real suffering wouldn't go amiss.
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All the years they took the piss of us being "massive". I just laugh and pity them nowadays, can't even be bothered to rise to them anymore. They are just like shit on the tread of my shoe, filthy and disgusting.
 
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They have a squad that is just a pick and mix of their last 3 managers. They will have to overhaul the whole squad with a manager they trust. Zidane got out of Madrid before their rebuild so I'm not sure why he would go there when he is unproven in being able to build a squad.
 
Scottyboi said:
They have a squad that is just a pick and mix of their last 3 managers. They will have to overhaul the whole squad with a manager they trust. Zidane got out of Madrid before their rebuild so I'm not sure why he would go there when he is unproven in being able to build a squad.
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He might want to try and prove it, to himself. Can't see it though. I think they are so far up shit creek, with their current owners,
that it's going to need a change at that level.
 
prestonibbo_mcfc said:
He might want to try and prove it, to himself. Can't see it though. I think they are so far up shit creek, with their current owners,
that it's going to need a change at that level.
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If I was the owner I wouldn't want to give him the money required. Glaziers are happy with top 4 still making more money than ever.
 
I've tried to be indifferent about their struggles: I've tried to metaphorically shrug my shoulders and just say "Fuck 'em', as if they were a total irrelevance to me. But they're not an irrelevance, they are my enemy. They've been my enemy since I was a mere schoolboy back in the heady days of the swinging 60's. When kids in my class were walking around with transistor radios glued to their ears, tuning into Radio London and listening to Spencer Davis, Procul Harum, Donovan etc, and being hip and cool, trendy and 'with-it', I was the weird, psycho-looking kid, sitting alone in the playground, brooding and wishing like fuck that Mike Doyle would suddenly flip out and kick the living shit out of the liver thief or the comb-over king. I wanted to see my sky-blue heroes destroy every last one of the bastards and grind them into the dirt.

Over the years my hatred for the rags has never abated: I'm a great deal older now, I'm fatter, balder, and not in the best of health. But inside I'm still that strange little boy at primary school with the bizarre haircut (Thanks mum. Yeah, you saved a few quid by doing my hair yourself, but you made me look like a pre-adolescent Friar Tuck in the process).
who was gladly accepting detention because he gleefully thumped classmate Andy Knewell for having a full sized glossy photo of Nobby Styles in his desk.
 
prestonibbo_mcfc said:
He might want to try and prove it, to himself. Can't see it though. I think they are so far up shit creek, with their current owners,
that it's going to need a change at that level.
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A bucketload of cash might tempt some...

I just have a feeling that they are on the edge of the canyon - and that the current situation marks the tipping point where they rock over the lip and into a descent similar to the inverse of the Adebayor period for us, as huge lumps of cash are used to try and affect momentum.

Problem they have is that their momentum is already moving in the wrong direction (a very precarious position) while also amplified by gravity (base greed of the sharks who can sense an easy feed).

They may be about to enter a period where the manager’s job is seen as a poison chalice and they will have to take bigger and bigger risks to dig themselves out - while the root problems go unattended setting every one of them up for failure.

Wildly tempting sums or risky lesser lights?
It’s a sucker’s choice.
 
Down to 8th and a very good chance they'll be 10th by the end of the day.
 
Imagine being at war with your manager, him claiming you’re not good enough and don’t put enough effort in, and then you have a chance to prove him wrong and you turn in a performance like that.

The board must have no idea who to support.
 
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