United Thread - 2023/24

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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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That well known rag - sorry, football - journalist, Slimy Stone, said that they will have to be careful what they spend this summer, so you can just ignore these banner headlines.
 
tweety said:
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.
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Sssssssshhhhh! Agent Ratcliffe to us on here, and don't blow his cover after he's got off to such a fine start.
 
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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And yet if they had any talent in the recruitment department, they could easily become title contenders again. They've got a huge budget and can afford the odd mistake. Arsenal managed it without being able to compete for the very best players.
 
Citizen of Legoland said:
You've done the same as me before I was corrected, associated the table with the dialogue, but they're actually unconnected data, the table is CIES and the dialogue is Transfermarkt. Poor page design.

The BBC haven't "worked with" anybody - as per their blurb - they've just copied and pasted from the 2 sources then displayed them differently. I would have merged the two sets of valuations into one table to make it clear.
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Since when did clarity and the BBC come together ? I always thought that the two things were mutually exclusive.
 
tweety said:
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.
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I think you may be correct.

My feeling is that the court of public opinion will weigh several times more heavily upon the playing staff than the usual internal fallout from doing this kind of blind cost stripping in a normal corporation.

Prem squads aren't simply a case of 'replace them with another willing sucker'.

They could be royally f*cked next year.
 
Big Swifty said:
A succubus was a female creature that straddled sleeping men and, basically, shagged them while they were asleep.
An incubus was a male demon who did mch the same with women.
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Ain't that the language of those pesky illegal immigrants from the continent?

Anyway.... Scum!
 
Getting a little concerned. Someone needs to remind scruffy Jim and the glazers the redeeming qualities of wastecoat as a replacement tent peg. It’s gone a little quiet lately. WFU!
 
Thought he was there to deal with purely the football side?

I'd not put making backroom staff put a fiver towards tickets and executives in suits having to eat 4* rather than 5* football related unless the couple of grand a week is ploughed into paying off Poundland.

Think the scruffy one is going to get hammered by the great unwashed scum fans next season when they're not toe to toe with us and Arsenal.
 
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