United Thread | 2025/26

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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…
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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 ..
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
 
Vienna_70 said:
He’s paid to score goals, and he’s definitely the best in the business at that, so therefore world-class..

And if his defending in the derby is anything to go by, he could soon be a world-class defender. A latter-day John Charles.

There has definitely been a great improvement in his all-round game this season.
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You can’t compare people in different positions. Messi was an attacking midfielder, Henri a winger turned inside forward. Haaland is the best centre forward in the world. Challenging legends like Shearer and Gerd Muller. Is he a better player than Cruyff…..no chance. But Cruyff wasn’t any good as a centre forward.
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
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.
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They sadly never will ............they need to give someone a decent time frame to get it right but there fanbase wont allow it ...........and one club who should know all about this is them considering how bad United where for Fergies few seasons ............had there fanbase got there wish then they would have gone on to dominate English football.

Still why do i care let the chaos continue another messiah in over the next weeks and the cycle remains :)
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
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.
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Apart from Busby and Ferguson, only one other rag manager has lifted the title and that was in 1907.
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
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.
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And they can't accept it , as their old players are all pundits reliving the past and swamping the media ....stuck in a vortex .
 
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