United thread 2019/20

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Ha ha ha glorious.....only listened to the 1st 2 mins....so funny

 

[blue b4 the moon]

I don’t think they’ve ever spent 2 consecutive seasons out of the CL so if they get knocked out this season and don’t finish top 4, that’ll likely hit them in the pocket in a number of ways. They’ve got a big wage bill so they’d either have to carry on paying that with less income or cut it down a fair bit, which means getting rid of higher paid players. As these are generally the better ones, that could see them slip down the table. If they were to miss out on Europe altogether they could really struggle. Any decent players leave, they lose ticket money, tv and presumably commercial income. They might even hit a point where they’re struggling to pay the interest on their debt and the money they pay the Glazers. We had to sell SWP when we were in that position & that could happen to them. So they slip further down the league and the Glazers try to sell but no one wants the train wreck they’ve created. Eventually they end up like Bolton.

We can dream.

What could really hurt them is the state of the ground.

I suspect though if they refurbished which will have to happen at some time they'll sell the naming rights to off-set some of it.

As I posted a few years ago once the swamp becomes 'Insert company name that I'll never buy from again' old trafford we'll know they're in proper shit as the family silver safety net will be gone.

 

[swpswp]

Ha ha ha glorious.....only listened to the 1st 2 mins....so funny

35 seconds is all I could stand. What a mard arsed moron.

 

[Onholiday(somemightsay)]

More likely Bacon face.

I await the pictures of him still wearing that Welsh bobble hat of his.......

 

[Onholiday(somemightsay)]

But I thought they only used youth team players who understand the united way :-)

It's probably covered in the latest 'Class of '92' installment brought to us by Sky.......;-)

 

[Onholiday(somemightsay)]

8th.

Still can't tempt you into 9th yet? :-)

 

[Onholiday(somemightsay)]

Just seen Ayew boot the ball in Lingard's face when he was on the deck.

You'd have to wouldn't you ?

#couldhavekilledhim

Someone must have a clip of that?

 

[Tracking back]

In order to shed these top earners, those players would probably have to take a pay cut as other teams aren’t stupid enough to pay the salaries that the rags do. Which players, in their right mind, would voluntarily reduce their wages?

Either that or the rags will have to subsidise the pay of these players to offload them, as has been rumoured is the situation with the mercenary.

Also, the players they want to retain are holding them to ransom with their wage demands in their contract negotiations, as seems to be the case with the alpaca and consequently rags are receiving salaries far beyond what their ability justifies. £195k/week for Rashford is absurd.

Paying the pianist as much as they do, in order to, as they thought at the time, get one over on Manchester City, is going to prove a very expensive mistake in the course of the next few years.

You've hit the nail right on the head.

I find it infuriating that the broadcasting media and football pundits won't call them out for this.
Gary Neville was genuinely baffled as to why Manchester City were not going back to Arsenal to offer a better deal for Sanchez.

Well Gary it might have something to do with a little thing called 'team harmony' or from a more pragmatic approach not being shafted.

The rags have become desperate and have the same scatter gun approach to recruitment as we did at the very start of the project. The difference between the clubs (is actually light years) however, at the start of our project we had a clear vision of what we wanted to achieve. When Sheikh Mansour took over in 2008 his vision was to own the best football team on the planet and therefore by default would naturally become the best team in England and Europe. We're not too far away from that.

The rags however, have a slightly different vision they'd like to see themselves as the most lucrative football club on the planet and by default they're stuck with a bunch of mercenaries who are bleeding the club dry and a wage bill that should invoke it's own investigative department within financial fair play.

 

[hcblue95]

I'm getting a bit worried that de gea won't be signing this 400k pw contract.

 

[Onholiday(somemightsay)]

But sacking managers IS the new them,they must be in denial lol

What he meant to say was that's not how they operated between 1986 and 2013 which is obviously what defines that club even though they have existed for over a hundred years.

Do keep up kaz ;-)

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Still can't tempt you into 9th yet? :-)

Not yet, but it's a long winter ;-)

 

[JASR]

I'm getting a bit worried that de gea won't be signing this 400k pw contract.

As he always stays on his line, staying on the signature dotted line should be a doodle doddle.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

What he meant to say was that's not how they operated between 1986 and 2013 which is obviously what defines that club even though they have existed for over a hundred years.

Do keep up kaz ;-)

Since Busby went, Ferguson apart, I can't imagine their average length of managerial appointment is much more than two years.

 

[worsleyweb]

Great result yesterday. I thought they would do much better. Ole clearly well out of his depth.

 

[remember arthur mann]

They will be looking back on Louis' days as a golden period if this keeps up.

They certainly can pick them !

 

[Neville Kneville]

They certainly can pick them !

Louis was truly great.

 

[mosssideblue]

Someones on the caf taking the piss - own up :)

Serious question......

Is there anything to said for a team to be rewarded a "half a goal for hitting the post"

Would make games more interesting and rewards players like Rashford for hitting a worldie off the post.

In most cases hitting a post is harder to do then scoring a goal. Anyone who has attempted the crossbar challenge will agree with this.

 

[Fred_Quimby]

Apart from Busby and the GPC why do all their managers turn to sh1te?

Edit:- apart from the paper boy who was sh1te anyway.

 

[JASR]

Since Busby went, Ferguson apart, I can't imagine their average length of managerial appointment is much more than two years.

Yeah that seems pretty accurate guess.

If you sort the table by number of games here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Manchester_United_F.C._managers#Statistics
And discount Ferguson, Busby, Mangnall, the temps and the across World War manager's, the average, from a quick visual check, looks about 2-3 years worth of games.
The overall data is massively skewed by 2-3 managers across about 1/3 of the lifetime of the club.

Looks like they have a pattern, they get a decent manager with a gap of about 20-30 years between tenures. So 2033 is when they are potentially 'back' to the 'United way'.

For balance:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Manchester_City_F.C._managers#Managers
Taking out the temps etc, then it's an average of about an average of 2-3 years tenure worth of games as well.

/me awaits some disproval of visual averaging by someone with even more OCD.

 

[Fred_Quimby]

Someones on the caf taking the piss - own up :)

Serious question......

Is there anything to said for a team to be rewarded a "half a goal for hitting the post"

Would make games more interesting and rewards players like Rashford for hitting a worldie off the post.

In most cases hitting a post is harder to do then scoring a goal. Anyone who has attempted the crossbar challenge will agree with this.

Funny as f..k, that will keep me amused for the rest of the week, should be on the joke thread.