United Thread - 2021/22

[Vienna_70]

I thought their turning point was supposed to be the purchase of a £80 million worth player for just £40 mill.
His name escapes me at present

The one, who is on loan at Everton, and can’t get in their side?

 

[meeesh]

Will Ralph be doing the traditional end of season speech at the end? All that get behind the manager nonsense they regurgitate season after season when they’ve failed on their objectives.

I think they will be hoping the less Ralph says the better really,as the players ain't listened,or maybe they did,and it was all part of the plan,and he will be pictured in Abu Dhabi next month,with a very large briefcase to thank him for his efforts.

 

[give it to gordon]

I have always believed Ferguson never connected with the City of Manchester like Pep who lives in the city-centre. If he understood our humour he would have laughed off the Tevez poster like my Rag pals. He was embedded in the Cheshire horse racing set.

Why would Ferguson connect with the City of Manchester ? I dont think Pep contacts with Trafford ?

As BN said
Lived in Cheshire
Worked in Trafford

 

[Onholiday(somemightsay)]

And he played more top flight games aged 18 to 20 than the ginger pig

 

[Kippax77]

The one, who is on loan at Everton, and can’t get in their side?

I reckon the geezer off Sly's transfer centre as even forgotten his name

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

I have always believed Ferguson never connected with the City of Manchester like Pep who lives in the city-centre. If he understood our humour he would have laughed off the Tevez poster like my Rag pals. He was embedded in the Cheshire horse racing set.

And being totally fucking arrogant was only interested in hearing his own praise.

Any hint of perceived criticism was treated as a serious attack on his ego and therefore his bullying and contemptuous side came immediately to the fore.

Of course having billions of braindead lemmings licking his arse at every opportunity was the norm.

 

[Onholiday(somemightsay)]

Will they be walking out of their living room in protest as a show of solidarity with the poor mites that made the journey from Euston to Piccadilly?

Brothers in arms.......

 

[feedmpenzaandhewillscore]

Brothers in arms.......

They are deffo in Dire Straits

 

[mat]

They are deffo in Dire Straights.

All part of the walk of life

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

They are in a major crisis where their rivals bank at least £150m each more next season and they lose up to £100m just on TV money. That doesn’t include other affected sponsor deals or the huge debt interest. This day has been a long time coming.

They probably lose about £50m compared to us next season if they're in the Europa League. That'll increase to about £100m if they're in the Conference League and £150m (due to lost matchday revenue) if they finish 8th. If they don't finish top 4 next season (or win the EL) then they'll start to lose sponsorship money as well. They've never spent two or more consecutive seasons out of the CL but if they were, that could quite easily see their decline accelerate.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

They are being battered commercially across the globe by LFC and in their back yard by City. A perfect storm.

LFC are poor commercially compared to them and us. They aren't as big a draw as their fans think they are.

 

[mexico1970]

LFC are poor commercially compared to them and us. They aren't as big a draw as their fans think they are.

They are missing a few commercial tricks.

Salah hubcaps would go down a storm for example.

 

[mad4city]

So...

They have Ralphie on a retainer as a "special consultant". Even though he has failed miserably in his stint as interim manager, is clearly disillusioned and his replacement, according to Sky News this morning, has yet to make contact with him regarding his dossier of recommendations.

Richard Arnold got the gig as CEO on the recommendation of the previous incumbent who was, to be fair, a bit of a whizz with the commercial side of things but, with regard to certain marquee signings, often so to the detriment of the running of the day-to-day core business. With no Champions League football, he will have his work cut out. If he's not successful, it will impact on the club's ability to recruit the best players. If he is successful, they could easily be back to the tail wagging the dog, as has been the case of late.

And, if course, there's Darren Fletcher. His role is officially described as "technical director". Presumably this is something akin to Director of Football because, to the best of my knowledge, he has no obvious expertise in another area. So committed is he to the future of football at the club that his sons are on the books of their nearest rivals. If that's not a vote of no-confidence, I don't know what is. MaybeI am wrong but there is nothing to suggest that he has the ability and experience for such a demanding role. United don't need a guy who is learning on the job in that position. What's his track record? Why should the new manager trust him?

Then we have the new guy, Eric Ten Haag. Zero experience of English football but an apparently good manager, all the same. He will need support as he finds his feet and will have to answer to at least two of those three mentioned above for the next few years, before he can even start to overhaul the squad and, not so much turn the oil tanker around, as dredge it up, keep it afloat and convert into a super yacht. (I say 'two of thise three'. I presume Ralphie will be quietly eased out, citing health problems or family commitments or musical differences or some fricking thing).
I'll be surprised if they don't try to saddle ETH with yet another flavour of the month 'United Way' fuckwit under the guise of assistant or first team coach or co-manager (whatever the job title, read it as Ferguson's pawn). It's a no-win situation for the Dutch man. If ETH accepts the interloper, he's got less backbone than he will need going forward in that cesspit. If he holds out and refuses to accept such an underling, he's automatically making two powerful enemies on the board, in Ferguson and Fletcher. He'll need all the support he can get in that boardroom whilst they *clears throat* turn the corner.

And that's just the core management. They desperately need all four of these people (or possibly three, as I say) to click, work hard, work together and (possibly most importantly) be lucky for the whole Manyoo shitshow to be saved any time in the next three to five years.

And that's working on the asumption that the Glazers don't get bored/ scared by the inevitable forthcoming drop in revenue and sell up to gawd-knows-who (or vindictive and sell it to even bigger carpetbaggers like JP McManus did). That woul throw the whole thing into an even more frenzied state of flux.

On top of that, there is the small matter of needing the entire playing staff to take their lumps like men and either buck up or move on without fuss. Even then, every replacement signing won't be a sure fire success. It doesn't work that way.

TLDR: they're fucked. It's beautiful.

 

[JASR]

They are missing a few commercial tricks.

Salah hubcaps would go down a storm for example.

Surely there’s a market for Salah Speedo’s? If they are good enough for Tom Daley…

 

[mat]

Klopp teeth whitening kit. Sold per litre.


Back on Topic:

I believe his holiness spoke about them in his address yesterday and told the rags to go away. Can anyone confirm?

 

[mexico1970]

Surely there’s a market for Salah Speedo’s? If they are good enough for Tom Daley…

Klopps Choppers could help the bin dippers eat into the chasm of commercial success.

 

[mat]

Klopps Choppers could help the bin dippers eat into the chasm of commercial success.

That's uncanny.

 

[bakerdave76]

 

[Onholiday(somemightsay)]

90 - 17 (years of Glarezs ownership) = 73.

To be fair to our shitey neighbors it's a bit more Davinci Code than that Vienna.

It's a paid homage to one of their greatest sons Cristiano - Just turned 37, swap the digits around and you get his actual age in distance covered this season.........

 

[give it to gordon]

But but but they are all leaving on the 73rd minute why not do it before ko ?