United Thread - 2023/24

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Alan Harper's Tash said:
How far are we off buying them for a quid and building a car park in Gorse Hill?
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GPC parking has a ring to it don’t you think?
Areas named after their finest, Giggs, Rooney, Mount, Anthony et al. Especially the lowlife Wio - made a bloody fortune by monetising his poor wife and being this arrogant single father lark, all whilst cheating on her before she passed away - what an absolute prince!
 
SebastianBlue said:
There is very clearly an orchestrated effort from United to further isolate and demonise Sancho. Likely also an attempt to use the relatively tame affair to distract from the much more problematic scandals being reported.
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I agree that they're trying to put it up as a distraction, but the problem is one that the current government can probably relate to - after a while, your distractions just become part of a broader pattern of scandals.

Inviting a convicted sexual abuser of young girls to be the guest of honour at a club even for young girls should be a story that absolutely dominates the news for a week, but it's currently competing with another sexual violence against women scandal, the club potentially knowing about it, and then the Sancho row and the Glazers taking the club off the market.

Imagine how things would be going if Wolves hadn't been robbed and United were 15th in the table!
 
domalino said:
I agree that they're trying to put it up as a distraction, but the problem is one that the current government can probably relate to - after a while, your distractions just become part of a broader pattern of scandals.

Inviting a convicted sexual abuser of young girls to be the guest of honour at a club even for young girls should be a story that absolutely dominates the news for a week, but it's currently competing with another sexual violence against women scandal, the club potentially knowing about it, and then the Sancho row and the Glazers taking the club off the market.

Imagine how things would be going if Wolves hadn't been robbed and United were 15th in the table!
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Oh, I agree. Hence why I said “attempt”—it is not going to be successful.

And I personally think there is not an insignificant chance that our chairman and others close to City are behind some (though, not all) of the newfound focus on United’s myriad problematic financial, ethical, and sporting behaviour.
 
waspish said:
it's uefa ffp that! I bang on about this because I still don't know what premier ffp is or if it's the same or Gill is hard at work changing it for the 4th time in 9/10 years!!
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You’d assume that PL FFP will align to UEFA FFP again, but stranger things have happened.

The 105% wage cap disappeared when the rags got into difficulties with it.
 
havefaith said:
Not no more -
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SebastianBlue said:
Oh, I agree. Hence why I said “attempt”—it is not going to be successful.

And I personally think there is not an insignificant chance that our chairman and others close to City are behind some (though, not all) of the newfound focus on United’s myriad problematic financial, ethical, and sporting behaviour.
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Disagree, think sources are anti glazers and united based (formal and informal) trying to create unrest amongst fan base to force glazers out
 
Mr Fraser said:
Disagree, think sources are anti glazers and united based (formal and informal) trying to create unrest amongst fan base to force glazers out
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I think that is definitely a lot of it. And I would include the prospective buyers attempting to reduce the club valuation.

But I do think there is a real probability that we are behind some of the leaked information seeding some of the reports.

Khaldoon specifically hinted at consequences for coming for City and there is no reason to believe that was merely sabre rattling. That is not his modus operandi: when he says he intends to do something, he does it, even if not immediately. He is quite adept at picking the most opportune time to strike and this relative moment of all-around weakness would be a fairly good point of action.
 
BeerIsTheBest said:
all good stuff but Neville Rat did leave the gate open and let the Goat in. He should get a small positive for that coz the event and his reaction is up there in my top ten moments in my supporting years which started in earnest in 1967. Maybe that’s why you added him twice?
He is still a full on cockwomble though.
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You see I have a problem with that insult - it's tame, a bit like calling someone a berk, gorp or gormless back in the day.
I prefer complete and utter cnut as in GNIACAUC.
 
domalino said:
Also, it's increidbly hard to imagine Eric ten Hag didn't know about this, which means he knowingly recruited him despite the serious allegations, which IMO if confirmed would make his position at the club untenable, let alone combining that with his support for Greenwood's reintegration, his outing of Sancho's mental health issues and his support for Overmars and Promes before taking the job.
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Manchesh Nited's very own "Rubiales" managing their team.
 
I'm no cynic but... said:
They're in meltdown.

The roof still leaks. The Glazers are taking the piss and the money. The share price has plunged. The hierarchy in the boardroom are a bunch of incompetents. The Manager isn't respected or obeyed by the players, some of them being accused of serious assault. And the fans are revolting (about the only consistency of it all). Their season is in ruins already and they are a laughing stock everywhere.

Never mind eh?
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The fans are revolting line made me laugh. Lol
 
domalino said:
The bombshell today is that one of the 2 "new" victims reported it to the police in May 2022.

Which means that United sunk about €150m into a guy they knew was accused of rape and sexual assault, or they're so dumb they didn't do a basic background check.

Also, it's increidbly hard to imagine Eric ten Hag didn't know about this, which means he knowingly recruited him despite the serious allegations, which IMO if confirmed would make his position at the club untenable, let alone combining that with his support for Greenwood's reintegration, his outing of Sancho's mental health issues and his support for Overmars and Promes before taking the job.
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'social media influencers'

*taps nose*

I doubt that this will even reach a court, because there is no evidence to back up their accounts, but they will probably get their money, because that's how these things work.
 
The Shallyman said:
'social media influencers'

*taps nose*

I doubt that this will even reach a court, because there is no evidence to back up their accounts, but they will probably get their money, because that's how these things work.
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Trial by social media seems far more detrimental to a playing career than actually being tried and acquitted of a crime.
 
BrianW said:
Who dreamed, thirty years ago, that we would live to see this day?
It can only be bettered by the Rags getting relegated.
What was once invulnerable is now utterly fucked.
All empires crumble, given time and chance,
In this case, down to a quibble over horse spunk.
You could not write it.
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I’m starting to believe relegation is a distinct possibility for them in the next few years.
 
The Shallyman said:
'social media influencers'

*taps nose*

I doubt that this will even reach a court, because there is no evidence to back up their accounts, but they will probably get their money, because that's how these things work.
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At least one had allegedly had to get treatment from a doctor, one other from her plastic surgeon. This may run and run.
 
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