United Thread | 2025/26

  • Thread starter Thread starter Ric
  • Start date Start date
Gareth Barry Conlon said:
The table has been fairly safe for big clubs in recent years. Generally 3 or 4 recently promoted sides getting low 30s points. You were safe at 36 points. In 2023/4 you only needed 26 to be safe.

There is no reason this can't swing back with a much more competitive bottom 6 clubs all winning games. Wolves look lost right now, maybe Burnley as well won't go on a run, but I can see every other team doing OK. Its very plausible that to be safe you need close to 40 and if that happens big clubs will get dragged in.
Click to expand...
possibly the rags also
 
Gordyola said:
I would disagree he lives football and his performances this season has shown his desire he’s only 25 no where near his peak definitely he has the confidence the only thing that stops him is injury
Obviously it depends on definition of WC for me it means would a player get into the top five teams in the world? If Phil was put on the transfer list how many clubs would be in for him?
Click to expand...
I hope he is the best he possibly can be. Especially if that comes this season.

World class is a very subjective thing. I think it's easier to see in hindsight. For example I am pretty sure that Kompany, Yaya, Silva, Fernandinho, KDB, Aguero were all world class but at certain points they may not have been. Hopefully in years to come we'll regard some more of the current squad in that bracket (Rodri, Haaland, etc).
 
SCUM.

I went to school in Salford in the late 60’s /early 70’s and had school dinners.

I fought my corner in the school playground and subsequent workplace’s.

I have argued/scrapped in pubs for a while in my adult life with your needy, inadequate, moronic so called gobshite followers.

Hitting my 61st 01/10 and can honestly say being a City fan is just the best feeling ever.

It’s always been an honour and a privilege being a Blue.

WTFAMu.

CTID.

As you were my beautiful Blue family.
 
horlock_was_super said:
SCUM.

I went to school in Salford in the late 60’s /early 70’s and had school dinners.

I fought my corner in the school playground and subsequent workplace’s.

I have argued/scrapped in pubs for a while in my adult life with your needy, inadequate, moronic so called gobshite followers.

Hitting my 61st 01/10 and can honestly say being a City fan is just the best feeling ever.

It’s always been an honour and a privilege being a Blue.

WTFAMu.

CTID.

As you were my beautiful Blue family.
Click to expand...
Happy birthday, mate.

Just over two years younger than me.
 
ChicagoBlue said:
Ancellotti? Guardiola? Slim pickings for sure!

Feel like they’ve bought very poorly and still don’t have the personnel. Maguire? Shaw? Casemiro? Mount? Bayindir? Dorgu? Yoro?

Too old, too young, too expensive…
Click to expand...
Neither Ancellotti or Pep could manage at utd. They're both used to working with technically good players with football nous. They would both assume with all the money they've spent since Ferguson went, the squad would contain that sort of quality.
 
heslops barnet said:
Problem with the rag scum is that they aren’t prepared to accept a few seasons of mediocrity whilst they rebuild……
Make the same mistakes and repeat ..
Click to expand...
Exactly. And they'll be stuck in this predicament until the Ferguson years become a distant memory.

They've spent the last 12 years forlornly trying to leapfrog their way to the top of the league without even attempting to put in the foundations first. Everything they do — from the managers they appoint to the players they "think" they're signing to the narratives they spin in the media — is geared towards achieving this. And they're still trying to do it from 14th/15th in the league.

Slow, steady progress over 5+ years is what they need, and that's just to become a regular top 4 team again. But their delusions of grandeur won't allow them to tolerate that approach or the kind of players/managers/tactics needed to make it happen.

They'll be stuck in this loop till they start accepting where they actually are and stop pining for where they and the media think they should be. Hopefully for at least another 15 years!
 
Mad Eyed Screamer said:
Lost to Lincoln last night lol
View attachment 171055
Click to expand...
As funny as that sounds, our U21s lost to Lincoln City last season 5-0 and recently lost 3-0 to Bolton Wanderers. One of the Bolton goals was scored by John McAtee, big brother of James.

It's a useful competition for the U21 squads but doesn't mean much overall. It's not like Lincoln City are on the same level as, say, Grimsby Town.
 
Bobby the blue said:
I know it goes against the grain but I quite like Amorim. Comes across as a decent guy who is on a hiding to nothing. He’s a good coach just at a circus of a club with mediocre players who won’t adapt to the way he wants to play.

He doesn’t slag us off or get sly digs in and fronts up a lot to the media. I also like the way he sticks to his principles and way of playing. Will probably cost him his job but he will do well somewhere else.
Click to expand...
Amorim looks broken to me. Hiding his eyes when his players take penalties is not a great symbol of leadership.
 
foggy1974 said:
But their fanbase want instant success
Click to expand...
Football has always been cyclic. The Ferguson era is long gone, just like the Revie era at Leeds, Clough at Forest, Mercer and Allison, Shankly and Paisley. Their fans rant on and on about their history but have no awareness of their own history apart from the days of Busby and Ferguson. They can’t move forward till they accept this reality.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Unread Posts

Don't have an account? Register now and see fewer ads!

SIGN UP
Back
Top