United Thread | 2025/26

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richards30 said:
Shock horror, Slimey Stone says the rags have another £250m to spend this summer
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From the Rag propaganda department aka BBC Sport
He means their Squad Control Cost allowance
Being loss making means any money they spend, over and above what they bring in from outgoing transfers, is debt
 
Noticed a few more rag shirts appearing.
I been told they are winning the league next year. Are they now back?
Or does playing once a week give the appearance of being world beaters again?
Maybe this years low points needed to do it has given them some hope.

A new manager doesn't change the fundamental problems of a club.
They do it to themselves every year. A few weeks of good form and they are back.
Their target should be winning five in a row first. There is some poor bloke whose hair is blocking 5G signals!
 
citymad said:
Blue tinted glasses on there fella. Fernandes is a VERY good player.Deserves to be up there with top assists. Rags wouldnt be where they are without him. Question? would you have him for CIty if he had no ties to the rags?
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One stat I heard on the radio was that from the 21 assists he made this season, he also made 140 attempts to play someone in. With better finishers, like Haaland, you would certainly see a much better return in goals.

I think he will have a decent world cup, because he is probably at his peak right now. Took him a long time to shed some of his bad habits.
 
Citi-leaks said:
One stat I heard on the radio was that from the 21 assists he made this season, he also made 140 attempts to play someone in. With better finishers, like Haaland, you would certainly see a much better return in goals.

I think he will have a decent world cup, because he is probably at his peak right now. Took him a long time to shed some of his bad habits.
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Perhaps his 140 attempts to play someone in simply shows how shit he is.
Shit and greedy.
And ugly.
 
Citi-leaks said:
Why they think it's a good idea to tell everyone what their kitty is, this is baffling. Every agent and selling club world wide have just added another 50m onto their asking price.

Amateurs.
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They do this every year. Nothing to do with buying players, and everything to do with hyping the next season up so as to sell season tickets. BBC sport always gets on board by linking them with every player in Europe in their daily gossip column over the summer. It's all bollocks.
 
Davie82 said:
Keep hearing about the 'amazing job' Carrick is doing. Let's look at the facts:

They have played the least amount of games any of the 92 English league clubs can. Their least for over 100 years. Their coping that 'it's hard to build rhythm with one game a week' - is exactly that. Sports scientists have proved the benefits of more time to rest vastly outweigh any perceived 'match rhythm' issues. Next season they'll have a way bigger workload.

I am not a big one for stats, but their expected goals for and against don't look much better than Amorim's, might even be marginally worse. They're still conceding lots of goals too.

Their performances have been very inferior to results. They've won a lot of games under Carrick they really didn't deserve to, or that were in the balance. They played City when City had no defence really, Chelsea and Liverpool were poor when they met them (and even then Liverpool did all the attacking, United just sat back and hit them on the break effectively, and Chelsea hit the woodwork serveral times) and Arsenal was a tight game won in the last minute with a great Cunha strike.

They seem to play against teams missing their best player a lot. In fact, so often teams have been missing key players against them that it feels like the officials are purposely booking or sending players off so they won't be able to play against United in following games.

Carrick himself - not to do the lazy 'he's just Ole mark II!' thing again - but it's actually true. Like Ole, he is a wet lettuce - he comes across as supremely simple and lacking tactical IQ, knowledge of the game, charisma etc. There's no reason to believe he will buck the trend of all of Ferguson's acolytes being awful managers (and that's one of many reasons you can argue Ferguson is an overrated manager himself, but that's another debate entirely) and somehow start leading them to glory.

Their squad is very very average. Not many good players there at all.

They are still hampered by their debt and even if they do buy some good players, it's just kicking the can down the road. Also, INEOS have proved themselves totally clueless with some of their buys and their dawdling over Ten Hag and Amorim when anyone with half a brain knew they were failing.

Overall, they're in a false position. I tend to think United get more points most seasons than they truly deserve and the same was true this season. Even last season, finishing 15th, their performances warranted relegation.

I won't mention too much the favouritism from the officials and VAR - they routinely get decisions not a single other club would, the latest being the Forest debacle. This won't change and is the biggest positive they can hold onto for next season.

However, the evidence for it falling apart next season is fucking overwhelming. So don't fret. Let the more clueless of the cunts on Redcafe act like this is them back - the deluded 'everything is brilliant' Top Reds have been proved absolute fucking morons and constantly wrong for many years now. They have to believe this is the right one because as mostly glory hunters their self-esteem is wrapped up in United doing well, and Carrick failing would be one false dawn too many and surely utterly break them.
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Car-Wreck's recent record as a manager in the Championship was less than impressive.

In the three seasons that he was at the Riverside, the team finished lower in the table each year.
 
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I don't know if this has been mentioned, I was speaking to a rag FOC yesterday and he was not a happy camper, United have changed the price reduction for seniors from 50% to 25% on their season tickets
 
Citi-leaks said:
One stat I heard on the radio was that from the 21 assists he made this season, he also made 140 attempts to play someone in. With better finishers, like Haaland, you would certainly see a much better return in goals.

I think he will have a decent world cup, because he is probably at his peak right now. Took him a long time to shed some of his bad habits.
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Exactly which bad habits has he shed ?
 
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