Manchester United Trying To Poach 4 of Our Scouts

[stony]

While I agree that this speaks volumes about the Rag's youth work, it does worry me a bit. After all I guess we want to be the best in all departments of the Academy. Does anybody have any insider information about whether the Rags will succeed or not? What are we doing to handle the problem?

It doesn't worry me in the slightest. Whilst they were resting on their laurels and arrogantly dismissing us as "that lot" we were putting into place something which will set us up for generations.
Their reaction to our rise has been interesting to say the least. They started by laughing and sneering at us, at least in public. In private they were doing the best they could to hamstring us via FFP. When that didn't work they did what they always do, they threw money at it. Which is ironic, because if they'd done it a couple of years sooner, maybe the gpc wouldn't have shit his pants and run for the hills. There were plenty of murmerings at the time that he'd thrown a strop and retired because they wouldn't give him the amount he wanted to spend on new players.
Even when they started spending it seemed like they were making a statement rather than signing the best players for the squad, and that's continued with this year with the acquisition of 4 haircuts and a shot on target. It's all about image, it's all superficial.
We spend money and it's with a clear goal in mind. £200M on a new academy and it's set up for the next 3 decades. When they spend it's in direct response to something we've done. So them poaching 4 of our scouts will no doubt bring them another PR victory but it does nothing to address the actual problems they have or will it harm us in the long term.
What they're doing now is so similar to what Peter Swales did at City it's uncanny, and more than a little poetic. For the younger members of bm who might not remember him, Swales was obsessed with everything they did and brought City to it's knees by trying to compete with them instead of actually getting on with the business of running the club.
Worried? Not a fucking bit. I'm loving every fucking minute of it.

 

[FantasyIreland]

Great post Stony and,i'll add,you'd have to be very naive if you believe we won't be replacing any departures with equal quality at least.

 

[Jazzman]

It doesn't worry me in the slightest. Whilst they were resting on their laurels and arrogantly dismissing us as "that lot" we were putting into place something which will set us up for generations.
Their reaction to our rise has been interesting to say the least. They started by laughing and sneering at us, at least in public. In private they were doing the best they could to hamstring us via FFP. When that didn't work they did what they always do, they threw money at it. Which is ironic, because if they'd done it a couple of years sooner, maybe the gpc wouldn't have shit his pants and run for the hills. There were plenty of murmerings at the time that he'd thrown a strop and retired because they wouldn't give him the amount he wanted to spend on new players.
Even when they started spending it seemed like they were making a statement rather than signing the best players for the squad, and that's continued with this year with the acquisition of 4 haircuts and a shot on target. It's all about image, it's all superficial.
We spend money and it's with a clear goal in mind. £200M on a new academy and it's set up for the next 3 decades. When they spend it's in direct response to something we've done. So them poaching 4 of our scouts will no doubt bring them another PR victory but it does nothing to address the actual problems they have or will it harm us in the long term.
What they're doing now is so similar to what Peter Swales did at City it's uncanny, and more than a little poetic. For the younger members of bm who might not remember him, Swales was obsessed with everything they did and brought City to it's knees by trying to compete with them instead of actually getting on with the business of running the club.
Worried? Not a fucking bit. I'm loving every fucking minute of it.

Right I will stop worrying then. Great post mate.

 

[stony]

Great post Stony and,i'll add,you'd have to be very naive if you believe we won't be replacing any departures with equal quality at least.

I honestly can't believe how badly they have handled our rise. I think we underestimate just what damage that Aguero goal did to them.

 

[Paladin]

It doesn't worry me in the slightest. Whilst they were resting on their laurels and arrogantly dismissing us as "that lot" we were putting into place something which will set us up for generations.
Their reaction to our rise has been interesting to say the least. They started by laughing and sneering at us, at least in public. In private they were doing the best they could to hamstring us via FFP. When that didn't work they did what they always do, they threw money at it. Which is ironic, because if they'd done it a couple of years sooner, maybe the gpc wouldn't have shit his pants and run for the hills. There were plenty of murmerings at the time that he'd thrown a strop and retired because they wouldn't give him the amount he wanted to spend on new players.
Even when they started spending it seemed like they were making a statement rather than signing the best players for the squad, and that's continued with this year with the acquisition of 4 haircuts and a shot on target. It's all about image, it's all superficial.
We spend money and it's with a clear goal in mind. £200M on a new academy and it's set up for the next 3 decades. When they spend it's in direct response to something we've done. So them poaching 4 of our scouts will no doubt bring them another PR victory but it does nothing to address the actual problems they have or will it harm us in the long term.
What they're doing now is so similar to what Peter Swales did at City it's uncanny, and more than a little poetic. For the younger members of bm who might not remember him, Swales was obsessed with everything they did and brought City to it's knees by trying to compete with them instead of actually getting on with the business of running the club.
Worried? Not a fucking bit. I'm loving every fucking minute of it.

Spot on this. In addition, if they do get four of our scouts, it will do them no good anyway. We will go and get four more top scouts, who will speak to the same talent as our ex-scouts, and offer them opportunities that United's new scouts can no longer off them. The outcome will be the same.

It's not the scouts that attract the players, it is the whole package that goes with it.

 

[CrownPointBlue]

It doesn't worry me in the slightest. Whilst they were resting on their laurels and arrogantly dismissing us as "that lot" we were putting into place something which will set us up for generations.
Their reaction to our rise has been interesting to say the least. They started by laughing and sneering at us, at least in public. In private they were doing the best they could to hamstring us via FFP. When that didn't work they did what they always do, they threw money at it. Which is ironic, because if they'd done it a couple of years sooner, maybe the gpc wouldn't have shit his pants and run for the hills. There were plenty of murmerings at the time that he'd thrown a strop and retired because they wouldn't give him the amount he wanted to spend on new players.
Even when they started spending it seemed like they were making a statement rather than signing the best players for the squad, and that's continued with this year with the acquisition of 4 haircuts and a shot on target. It's all about image, it's all superficial.
We spend money and it's with a clear goal in mind. £200M on a new academy and it's set up for the next 3 decades. When they spend it's in direct response to something we've done. So them poaching 4 of our scouts will no doubt bring them another PR victory but it does nothing to address the actual problems they have or will it harm us in the long term.
What they're doing now is so similar to what Peter Swales did at City it's uncanny, and more than a little poetic. For the younger members of bm who might not remember him, Swales was obsessed with everything they did and brought City to it's knees by trying to compete with them instead of actually getting on with the business of running the club.
Worried? Not a fucking bit. I'm loving every fucking minute of it.

Spot on. We are their living,breathing nightmare. We are so far inside their heads they can't think or act straight .

Their arrogant,complacent dismissal of The Sheiks acquisition & plans for City sums up their delusional mindset.

Long may it continue.

Fcuk 'em all !!

 

[Ezra]

Genuine question this, why don't they have a ladies team?

They have. They drew to Stoke at the weekend

 

[BlueMoonraker]

They have. They drew to Stoke at the weekend

Boom boom!

 

[1961_vintage]

I honestly can't believe how badly they have handled our rise.

When, for decades, you have been cosseted by your governing body in the interests of commercial margin, fawned over by a sycophantic and obsequious media, and followed by a global moronic brain-dead bunch of fuckwits who are incapable of smelling the shit on their shoes, then you too will be deluded, you too will be impervious to the reality of the world as it changes around you and you too, as you wallow in your utter fucking arrogance, will become the anachronism that you were always destined to become. Wankers.

 

[Shirley]

When, for decades, you have been cosseted by your governing body in the interests of commercial margin, fawned over by a sycophantic and obsequious media, and followed by a global moronic brain-dead bunch of fuckwits who are incapable of smelling the shit on their shoes, then you too will be deluded, you too will be impervious to the reality of the world as it changes around you and you too, as you wallow in your utter fucking arrogance, will become the anachronism that you were always destined to become. Wankers.

No disrespect to this forum but this post deserves a much wider audience, around 659 million to be precise!!