United Thread - 2021/22

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Whilst we were still pissing about with Platt Lane training complex and sending kids to any school that would have them, the rags built Carrington and got the lads into Aston upon Mersey, THE best state school in Manchester. They developed the swamp into a 76,000 stadium whilst we worried about asbestos in the Kippax.
That was the 1980's they have done nothing since. We have a new ground with attached state of the art training facilities and our academy players go to St Bedes. They throw good money after bad in a desperate attempt to beat us just for that current season. We buy young players who will develop and gain in value.
There are far more problems at the swamp than a Norwegian paper boy.
 
Has-been club signed a has-been player to stop their near neigbours signing a player they weren't interested in, until he showed an interest in signing for them Ironic that its totally destroyed the pattern of play which they had. Not the first time they have signed a player to stop City and, each time its turned to shit for them

In their glory years they were run by ferguson and gill, on and off the field, the biggest mistake they made is not putting in a proper structure of management to succeed them. They are now so far behind a modern football organisation and, from what I can see, they dont have the vision or the will to put it right. Woodward got the CEO job because he helped the galzers take over as their investment banker and he has installed his banker mates. The football side of the business is populated with former players inexperienced in the positon they have , would any other club allow this to happen? Woodward is leaving in a few months and I don't recall that they have announced his successor.
They live in the past, their former players in the media spouting off, their former players in positions of power, the former manager and ceo sat in the stand clearly still wielding influence. In the neighboring city is a club that is probably the best run in the business, with a vision as to where they are going and a plan to get there. City appoint the best in their field, the rags appoint those who use to run around on the field and long may it last

Has-been club run by has-beens
 
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Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
Same thing used to happen with Ibramavovic when he was playing for P.S.G.
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I think you'll find he did similar for United.
I remember a GIF of him throwing a player bodily and nothing happened to him.

Maguire also seems to do a lot of manhandling/holding inthe box which doesn't get picked up or VAR'd.
 
Didsbury Dave said:
No way did they batter us second half. They had three chances and scored all three because we switched off. OVerall we had 65% posession and 20 shots and they had 35% and 5 shots. It was a smash and grab, a lucky victory and we also played a weakened team. Totally agree we are due to smash them though.
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Spot-on. They hit us on the break in the second half with a few attacks. We were bloody stupid and they got lucky.
 
DrBlueBob said:
I can imagine his cv.

What managerial qualities do you have that would make you a good manager for Utd?

Well I scored a goal nearly a quarter of a century ago.

Smashing, you've got the job.
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Wonder if we’ll go for Dickov when Pep goes. He did score a slightly deflected goal in a final for us, after all.
 
Didsbury Dave said:
No way did they batter us second half. They had three chances and scored all three because we switched off. OVerall we had 65% posession and 20 shots and they had 35% and 5 shots. It was a smash and grab, a lucky victory and we also played a weakened team. Totally agree we are due to smash them though.
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There's a real need to factor Atkinson's performance into that second half as well, no penalty for us and as many soft free kicks as grains of sand on the beach for them to throw balls into the box.

One thing that did strike me at the time was 0-2 at HT, us seemingly about to win the league and the raggy fans didn't fuck off home, fast forward a couple of years and they were on a HT fire drill. Now that could be the away rags are all local so stayed but, I've always puzzled why they went nowhere.
 
JASR said:
Maguire also seems to do a lot of manhandling/holding inthe box which doesn't get picked up or VAR'd.
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In the Leicester game as the last defender he did the most blatant bear hug on Iheanacho you're ever likely to see to prevent him passing him and getting through on goal... no foul.
 
Didsbury Dave said:
No way did they batter us second half. They had three chances and scored all three because we switched off. OVerall we had 65% posession and 20 shots and they had 35% and 5 shots. It was a smash and grab, a lucky victory and we also played a weakened team. Totally agree we are due to smash them though.
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I agree with all of this, except it wasn't lucky. Sorry, but it wasn't. It was clinical, rather. It was what we should do in so many games we play, and so often don't.
And incidentally, most of their victories, if not all, since then, have been of that ilk. Seem to remember a match in more recent years when they beat us 2-0 at the Etihad, purely on two counter-attacks in which, if I remember correctly, Rashford outpaced our defence. We had dominated that match, too.

Hate to say it, but the only domestic team that has ‘battered’ us for many a long year is the dippers, if by that, we mean: dominating possession, creating far more chances, converting some of them, winning fifty-fifty tackles all over the pitch, winning the second ball, and generally running rings round us. I don't see anyone else who has done it.
 
DrBlueBob said:
I agree with your last sentence, albeit I await the not in Manchester pile on.

Having said that, I don't agree re the owners. They have taken money out of the club for sure but then it is a commercial enterprise not a charity, however they have funded the team to the tune of a billion quid or so and IIRC they oversaw great success with Ferguson at the helm, so I would not say that they are anywhere near the worst an owner could be. It's easy for their fans to point the finger of blame but in reality it is the people that the owners have appointed to run the club that are more the problem IMO. Of course I do understand that ultimately that's on the Glazers but as I see it there's a deeper malaise than the owners.
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Yeah the glazers have invested and bled the club dry. They’re money men so the latter is fair enough
 
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