United Thread | 2025/26

[KentBlue]

Norther Premier league they meant.

They shouldn't be aiming that high.

 

[Grassland Blue]

Absolutely!

And anyone who comes on here when he finally shuffles off his mortal coil and starts playing the "oh know you cant say that, think of his family, we're better than them!" game can just f*ck off and f*ck off some more!

I'm there with my jelly and ice-cream and bouncy castle no matter what! the old f*cker can do one! and all their fans can too!

I think that our bouncy castle is the template for their new stadium proposal.

 

[foggy1974]

That will be Ethel who was 115 last year

Another soft signal

 

[eastmanc]

Took me a while!

Took me longer and I still haven't got a clue.

 

[Resurrection Joe...]

There's always been Ethel.

I know what I like, and I like what I know...

 

[ancoats]

It's in their DNA not to have new DNA.

It's in their DNA to Beg Cheat and Steal Their History that others have had to earn the hard way

 

[Andy TheCatalyst Morrison]

Took me longer and I still haven't got a clue.

Think Championship!

 

[foggy1974]

Knowing the background to why he walked out and what he really thinks of the Glazers, I wouldn't say his actions were deliberately designed to hurt the club but I suspect he takes some pleasure from the mess they're in.

But that ignores his part in that mess, having been there so long but having signally failed to build a structure to carry them forward. It all fell apart the moment he walked out in 2013 because he (along with David Gill) was the dominant force in their success.

It had fallen apart long before then with the GPC quote of no value in the transfer market, bringing back Giggs & Scholes who were nearer 40 than 30. You als factor in them winning tje league because we'd never had the pressure of defending a title & handicapped by uefas ffp rules which they were instrumental in setting up.

 

[foggy1974]

They base all their DNA mythology around the Class of 92 yet never ask why there wasn't a Class of 91 or 93

That's because it was just a serendipitous fluke but who am I to argue?

Let the bollocks continue as they search for something that was never there.

Didn't that class of '92 only have 5 in the starting 11

 

[Vienna_70]

Carrick didn't do bad at Middlesbro' at first, the longer he was there, the worse it got.

Just like Pearce at City

 

[foggy1974]

My only issue now is will Webb go balls deep into making sure they get top 4 with a penalty a game like they did In the COVID season?

Isn't that every season

 

[foggy1974]

View attachment 180169

Protest at Slade Prison, I hope Groutty is well informed

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

It had fallen apart long before then with the GPC quote of no value in the transfer market, bringing back Giggs & Scholes who were nearer 40 than 30. You als factor in them winning tje league because we'd never had the pressure of defending a title & handicapped by uefas ffp rules which they were instrumental in setting up.

That 'no value in the market' quote was because the Glazers kept a lid on salaries. Back in 2010 I had a brilliant insight into this from the then Chelsea CEO who told me that united's top whack back then was £90k a week, when Chelsea's was £160k and we were offering £180k. That was at the time of Rooney's alleged transfer request and Chelsea tried to buy him.

It turned out this wasn't a genuine request but a trick to force the Glazers to agree to up the salary levels. They originally refused caved in once Chelsea had put a contract on the table and Rooney got his £180k a week (as did all those with a 'Highest paid player' clause and there were 5 or 6 of those at the time).

Funnily enough you never heard 'no value in the market' after that.

 

[bluemoon32]

 

[jrb]

Carrick.

Man United (caretaker)	Nov. 2021 - Dec. 2021	2-1-0	66.7
Middlesbrough	Oct. 2022 - June 2025	63-49-24	46.3

 

[Vienna_70]

Its the DNA, they need to get shut of. The hangers on from the class of 92. OK they were good but times have changed. Every single one of them hanging around like a bad smell. Scholes, Butt, Rooney, Carrick, Fletcher, Giggs and even Sir Alex. Look at the calibre of managers that have been at that club. It needs the lot of em fuckin off so any new guy can implement his ways, without the echoes of these cunts bouncing around the training ground. I believe the united dna is the fuckin problem. They are all.pwerful in the media too. Oh i forgot to mention prime minister Neville in that list.

Sir Alex?

Have a fucking word with yourself!

 

[DenisHasDoneIt]

Heard this line on Radio 4 last night;

"Manchester United are the sporting equivalent of the Tory party. A spent force who rely on support from the south the prop them up."

From the BBC, takes one to spot one…

 

[remember arthur mann]

Under cover agents seen leaving the swamp.

 

[give it to gordon]

Never heard a mid table club moan as much as this mid table club

 

[Vienna_70]

I'm enjoying over-use of the word "interim" in connection with their managerial appointments.

Essentially, they are afraid of appointing permanent managers out of fear that, as is usually the case, they are crap and they have to sack them. If they use the word "interim", they can get rid and claim they "never wanted him full-time anyway" and are definitely not a sacking club. If he wins a few games they can appoint him full time and say he's "proved himself".

It all smacks of a club in abject indecision and fear of public perception. It's delicious.

I think their experience with AMoron - insisting that he started straight away, rather than waiting until the end of the season, as he wanted - has made them think.

Once bitten, twice shy, and all that.