United Thread 2015/16

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Just seen his after match interview(Van Gaal),geezer says "louis,you could get drawn against Bayern or Barcelona,2 of your old teams"....the Dutch drunk replies "I don't think either would like to be drawn against us".......
 
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Fucking clowns.
 
Bayern in particular as they can't get Leverkusen, would be delighted to get United in the groups. they're comfortably the weakest of the pot 2 sides.

Over on the KDB thread on redcafe i've just seen one of them genuinely come out with the old line "If the sheik packed up and left tomorrow we'd be fucked". How can people still be so clueless after all these years? No debt, the fastest rising turnover in world football and already the 6th highest in the world. Yeah, we'd be screwed. We'd probably cease to exist within a week if the sheikh decided to just dump his multi-billion pound investment. it's amazing to see how bitter they are whilst the "bitter blues" watch on and laugh at how they've become a car crash of a club since bacon face left.
 
For all the rags who invade this site and talk about earning their own money. If wasn't for James W Gibson and Manchester City football club you wouldn't be here today.

So please do one and stop harping on about how you earn you own money, when basically you had to live on hand outs to survive in the 1930's.
 
Mr Ed (The Stables) said:
For all the rags who invade this site and talk about earning their own money. If wasn't for James W Gibson and Manchester City football club you wouldn't be here today.

So please do one and stop harping on about how you earn you own money, when basically you had to live on hand outs to survive in the 1930's.
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Are you seriously trying to tell us there was football before 1992?
 
Mr Ed (The Stables) said:
For all the rags who invade this site and talk about earning their own money. If wasn't for James W Gibson and Manchester City football club you wouldn't be here today.

So please do one and stop harping on about how you earn you own money, when basically you had to live on hand outs to survive in the 1930's.
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You're completely wasting your time mate. None of them know who you're talking about. It's a part of their fabled history they've collectively airbrushed.
 
Best scenario. Rags move on in CL, a competition they won't win. Rooney scores a hat trick against a piss poor side, meaning the pressure is off Woodward to buy a big player. Rooney's back! Lol
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
I have to disagree with your first sentence, mate, at least as much as I am able.

Their period of total dominance will never return. Not for them, and nor will any other club dominate the way they did.

Their rise to domination contained a number of factors which conspired and conflated to give them a considerable competive edge. There was a freakishly good group of young players; a manager with a vice like grip on the club, and, it should be said, a sizable supporter base in all the post-war years to build upon, but most of all they were the dominant team at the point that English football exploded both commercially and in terms of global exposure. This gave them a competitive edge over the rest of the domestic competition that was so great, so manifest that the others simply could not land a punch. Only Arsenal, when Wenger's purchasing credentials were at an absolute premium, could even get close, albeit fitfully.

It was only when Abramovich, and more latterly Mansour entered the fray, ironically in no small part due to united's success commercially and otherwise, did the playing field level itself out.

It would take something unprecedented and unforseeable, significantly more so than the circumstances that precipitated united's rise, for them to dominate the English game again in the manner they did, for as long as they did.

There may be greater inequality in the domestic game that a decade ago, but at least it's now genuinely competitive at the top. Teams will have a halcyon spell for a few years with a particular group of players, but the days of one club dismantling and rebuilding whilst maintaining utter supremacy won't recurr. It will ebb and flow a lot more imo, which is a good thing for English football. There simply isn't enough of a differential between the respective buying power of the top four to five clubs.
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Impossible for me to disagree with the vast majority of that GDM - eloquently put as always too - but I just feel that "never" is a very long time in football. However, I agree that as things stand today and for the foreseeable future they (and every other club at or near the top) won't be enjoying a period of dominance that United enjoyed in the 90's and 00's. History actually shows that a period of dominance covering so many years is an exception rather than the rule and only Liverpool during the 70's and 80's have emulated it.
 
I saw a comment by a rag that mata and herrera are the next xavi and iniesta and will surpass them by a long way. Excuse me while I just throw up.
 
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