United Thread - 2023/24

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metalblue said:
Great timing. That should have that lot running through walls in the cup final. They’re fucking mental.
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Not sure they have much option. I would imagine they have to make a fair amount before end June to meet PSR. They have to get a move on. Shame.
 
Every day I read ’United are leading the chase for….’ It looks like they could bring in £300m worth of players… is that realistic- they were close on PSR so do they have the headroom for such a spending spree?
 
nmc said:
Every day I read ’United are leading the chase for….’ It looks like they could bring in £300m worth of players… is that realistic- they were close on PSR so do they have the headroom for such a spending spree?
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Has been the same for over a decade, if you are a player why would you go there? A manager that is clinging on by his teeth and might be gone this time next year, a whole squad up for sale. No proper football structure in place as the new appointments on execs are all on garden leave. They’ve ruined many a players career, you may get paid handsomely but if you want to compete for the big trophies and play champions league football you won’t get it at the swamp.
 
feedmpenzaandhewillscore said:
Has been the same for over a decade, if you are a player why would you go there?
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Because you'll get paid well over market rate, can piss about in training, underperform on the pitch (on the rare occasions you actually play) and, when it looks like the gravy train might be coming to an end when your contract has just a year left on it, they'll offer you an extension.
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
Because you'll get paid well over market rate, can piss about in training, underperform on the pitch (on the rare occasions you actually play) and, when it looks like the gravy train might be coming to an end when your contract has just a year left on it, they'll offer you an extension.
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It looks like the gravy train is drying up since Scruffy Jim has gone in and pulled up the skeletons under the floor board. Will be interesting to see if they can sustain their batshit crazy transfer policy if the new PSR rules on anchoring to the bottom club goes through.
 
So Mr 25% walks in and like some cheesy, Steven Seagal 80's film, takes control and single-handedly steers the vessel away from the looming, thunderous iceberg up ahead and gently guides the passengers aboard the multi-billion pound ocean liner to the safety of a sun-drenched south sea island, where they all live happily ever after?

It's not going to happen. When we were taken over we were drifting aimlessly from mediocrity to obscurity, then back again: it was our own special blueprint for failure that we had been working on since the days of Joe Mercer and Big Mal. All we could do was go up.
Not so for the rags. They were already established, had a name and an international fan base to work with. They were one of the 'big clubs' alongside Real and Barca, so they were only ever going to go downwards - while we passed them on the way up.
The club has a deep culture of arrogance going back decades and decades. They have had a false sense of superiority ingrained in them since the pisscan walked in and (with the blessing of the British media) have been living in an alternate reality ever since. When you have money, power and influence you're on top of the world: you are untouchable. Refereeing officials, Sly sports presenters, tabloid editors and journalists do as you tell them - or they face the consequences.
But now the rags have neither the money, the power nor the influence that they once did, so their downward spiral from the summit is now gathering sufficient momentum as to be re-classified as a meteor hurtling uncontrollably towards terra firma.

25% is trying to give the impression that he is the man to take the rags forward, but in order to go forward you have to stop reversing first.
 
nmc said:
Every day I read ’United are leading the chase for….’ It looks like they could bring in £300m worth of players… is that realistic- they were close on PSR so do they have the headroom for such a spending spree?
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Yeah we can spend that this summer because these supposed new rules will come in in 18 months! Even if we spend 300m think we recoup half that amount in sales
 
feedmpenzaandhewillscore said:
It looks like the gravy train is drying up since Scruffy Jim has gone in and pulled up the skeletons under the floor board. Will be interesting to see if they can sustain their batshit crazy transfer policy if the new PSR rules on anchoring to the bottom club goes through.
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That will work if the bottom club is the rags
5x the rags income.
They'll never get back.
(Fiendish laugh....)
 
jrb said:
It must be true?!

He doesn’t want to talk about 115 anymore.

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Weird u-turn, when he usually takes any opportunity to spit on our club. Maybe the club did do something.

If the club did, I will wager it's because he's on Talkshite. If he was a regular streamer, doubt the club would pay him any mind.
 
Neville interview with Ten bob is embarrassing!

Talking about players Ten Bob wanted and couldn't get FDJ Kane haha talking about we are manU biggest club in the world we should have big players who have done it!

Until that scummy club get a bit of humility they'll keep on struggling they are one Arrogant club!
 
waspish said:
Neville interview with Ten bob is embarrassing!

Talking about players Ten Bob wanted and couldn't get FDJ Kane haha talking about we are manU biggest club in the world we should have big players who have done it!

Until that scummy club get a bit of humility they'll keep on struggling they are one Arrogant club!
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What's incredible is that they bought lower grade players and paid top whack for them, the same type of money they would have been spending on Kane and FDJ got spunked on the fake Haaland and the giant that is Antony, like paying more for them makes them better players over night :)
 
They are still digging a hole, first you tell virtually everyone that they're up for sale and then who they should have bought instead of you. A 6th to 8th place finish this season will almost certainly be better than next season's. Scruffy Jim is clueless.
 
waspish said:
Neville interview with Ten bob is embarrassing!

Talking about players Ten Bob wanted and couldn't get FDJ Kane haha talking about we are manU biggest club in the world we should have big players who have done it!

Until that scummy club get a bit of humility they'll keep on struggling they are one Arrogant club!
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They're stuck in the past. Sure they're a big enough name but most young players today were barely born or following football the last time the rags were a consistently successful team. Some 20 year old player from overseas (or even from the UK) doesn't give a fuck about the rags in the same way the media want them to. They didn't grow up with the rags being the team that the media are yearning for. My nephew was born in Spain, he's a teenager and in the Atletico Madrid academy. The rags are an irrelevance to him as a football fan, when he talks about English football, its always City, Liverpool and also Arsenal now. He just sees the rags in the same way we probably see Real Sociedad, because hes never known them to be a majorly successful team, nor has he had it drilled into him that they're still a big deal like we get in the media in the UK.


Most older top players like Kane have no interest in joining them while they still have ambitions as a player, they're often not even a champions league team. Did they think Kane was leaving Spurs where he's a legend to go to another domestic team and probably play in the UEFA cup again? And younger top players don't see the rags as a great team, as I talked about above. So what you're left with in terms of options is mercenaries on their last legs like Casemiro, or young players that are probably not the best of the best, because the best are being snapped up by real champions league contenders.
 
Crooked_rain said:
They're stuck in the past. Sure they're a big enough name but most young players today were barely born or following football the last time the rags were a consistently successful team. Some 20 year old player from overseas (or even from the UK) doesn't give a fuck about the rags in the same way the media want them to. They didn't grow up with the rags being the team that the media are yearning for. My nephew was born in Spain, he's a teenager and in the Atletico Madrid academy. The rags are an irrelevance to him as a football fan, when he talks about English football, its always City, Liverpool and also Arsenal now. He just sees the rags in the same way we probably see Real Sociedad, because hes never known them to be a majorly successful team, nor has he had it drilled into him that they're still a big deal like we get in the media in the UK.


Most older top players like Kane have no interest in joining them while they still have ambitions as a player, they're often not even a champions league team. Did they think Kane was leaving Spurs where he's a legend to go to another domestic team and probably play in the UEFA cup again? And younger top players don't see the rags as a great team, as I talked about above. So what you're left with in terms of options is mercenaries on their last legs like Casemiro, or young players that are probably not the best of the best, because the best are being snapped up by real champions league contenders.
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To put it in a nutshell…..they are shit!!!!
 
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