And a 10 year contract extension for slabhead
United Thread - 2023/24
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Brightwell Bros.
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The minority owner is openly berating the training facilities, the squad is full of dead weight who you can't shift on, you need at least three seasons and possibly another £300m to even challenge for a league title, and the club has virtually killed the possibility of elite management from every one who has gone there in the last decade. Why wouldn't Alonso be snapping your hand off?
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Southgate can't be that lacking in self-awareness of just how unpopular this move would be in London and the home counties...........
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I think there may be another reason for the “injuries“ - reasons driven by the club hierarchy.
The league position is irrelevant to the rags now. They don’t want to finish in 7th place & get into the conference league.
They NEED to win the FA Cup in order to get into the Europa league - this is so necessary for them. Forget beating Arsenal- they don’t want to help us anyway - and ETH is a dead man walking so winning that game won’t save him.
They‘re saving everyone for the cup final.
-:). Rags are anyway
Dunno about this, but they can't use them as an excuse. Teams get injuries, but when a club gets an unusual amount it's because of something they're doing.
Either the training, preparation, facilities, warmups, warmdowns.... Something is wrong and causing the problems, and it's entirely their own doing.
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They shouldn’t be. It’s like the Watford job. Sign a 3 year deal, do 6 weeks and get the rest of your salary paid whilst sitting at home.
Easiest £30m you could make.
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The rags have always been piss-poor, even back in the 60's. They were never ever spoken about with hyped-up reverence and gratuitous fawning when I was at school, quite the reverse.
That disgusting excuse for a human being from Govan took over and the club spent more than anybody in order to stay relevant. There were banners everywhere demanding they get rid of the dictator: rag fans hated him and his style of football, there was immense disquiet within the board with the way bully-boy was running 'his' club, and only that fortuitous Mark Robins goal saved him from being ignominiously kicked out of the club.
That is when things changed. After that pretty much every game they played there were contentious decisions that favoured the rags: dodgy penalties, fouls they were allowed to get away, swearing abuse at the officials, and so on. The sudden wealth from the new Premier league, their refusal to share gate receipts, ludicrous sponsorship deals, and a servile, deferential broadcasting company spreading rag propaganda 24 hours a day made sure the rags stayed at the top of the tree.
Under the Ayatollah they did not play good football, it was Twitcher's favourite tactic of 'run down the wing and get some crosses in' all the time. And when you can spend what the fuck you want and not be reigned in, and you have officials happy to turn a blind eye to what is going on with your cheating, diving, time-wasting and general disregard for the rule book that everybody else has to adhere to, you cannot help but be successful.
All they are now is the mid-table mediocre club they have always been.
That disgusting excuse for a human being from Govan took over and the club spent more than anybody in order to stay relevant. There were banners everywhere demanding they get rid of the dictator: rag fans hated him and his style of football, there was immense disquiet within the board with the way bully-boy was running 'his' club, and only that fortuitous Mark Robins goal saved him from being ignominiously kicked out of the club.
That is when things changed. After that pretty much every game they played there were contentious decisions that favoured the rags: dodgy penalties, fouls they were allowed to get away, swearing abuse at the officials, and so on. The sudden wealth from the new Premier league, their refusal to share gate receipts, ludicrous sponsorship deals, and a servile, deferential broadcasting company spreading rag propaganda 24 hours a day made sure the rags stayed at the top of the tree.
Under the Ayatollah they did not play good football, it was Twitcher's favourite tactic of 'run down the wing and get some crosses in' all the time. And when you can spend what the fuck you want and not be reigned in, and you have officials happy to turn a blind eye to what is going on with your cheating, diving, time-wasting and general disregard for the rule book that everybody else has to adhere to, you cannot help but be successful.
All they are now is the mid-table mediocre club they have always been.
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yesterday Howson was fondly reflecting on Solksjaer's reign and it made me wonder if he's heard something, hmmm
First hand I hope they get their backroom people sorted and magically Erik Ten Hag is maybe the least of problems. Build a squad of hungry young players and it's achievable to be on top of the game very easily if you do things right. Biggest mistake United has made post SAF as been the way they handed out 200k, 300k and 350k per week contracts for players who hadn't reached the level to earn that yet. And giving contracts to players "for protecting their value" WTF that even means.
Honesty Erik did good job last season and this season has been horrible. But we all know that it's been down to much much more than the manager's capability.
Honesty Erik did good job last season and this season has been horrible. But we all know that it's been down to much much more than the manager's capability.
Even if that is true that they are saving players for the cup final, it won’t make much difference
The likes of Varane, Shaw and Martinez haven’t played for months and would be so far off being match fit
I can see Maguire being fit but will Evans be, as he didn’t look it against Palace
It didn’t help Spurs when they sacked Mourinho days before the cup final and replaced him with a former player
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His tactics in that final were abysmal, and he deserved everything he got from that game.
In fact Ryan Mason out-PEGed PEG.
His tactics in that final were abysmal, and he deserved everything he got from that game.
That would make them look really stupid & desperate. They need a top class manager whatever the cost. More important than players at the moment
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Briefing that the squad were up for sale was crazy and I bet wasn’t done with Ten Bob’s knowledge
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I think that sums up scruffy Jim and his approach.
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