Organically?
About ten years after they’d stacked the deck in their favour? Using the money that move had bestowed upon them to break transfer record after transfer record? To use the domestic income and glory that provided to guarantee qualification for a recalibrated European Cup, the revised finances for which helped further cement the gap between them and those their machinations had left behind?
There was fuck all ‘organic’ about united’s treble win in 1999. It was the culmination of a series of conscious commercial moves to concentrate more and more wealth in the hands of a few clubs, of which united would be at the apex. It was as a result of united et al creating a landscape where they would take revenue away from other clubs in order to widen the gap between them. A decision to break a convention of wealth distribution in football that had lasted a century.
The fact that the team that won the treble had quite a few youth players is merely a sideshow to the main event.
And the irony is, which Herbert’s tiny mind will manifestly struggle to comprehend, is the City model that he so despairs of, arose from what United did in the late 80s and early 90s. The treble win in ’99 was a staging post in the journey to the club City are today.
People say that Pep wouldn’t have come to City if it wasn’t for all the money, and whilst there’s an undeniable truth in that, it’s equally correct to say Mansour wouldn’t have bought the club if united and their cohort hadn’t been such greedy cunts 30 years ago, making the opportunities for commercial revenue from English football so enticing.
The Cambridge Online Dictionary defines ‘organic‘ (inter alia) as follows:
“happening or developing naturally over time, without being forced or planned by anyone”
The cunts certainly didn’t plan for what happened to City; that seems pretty organic to me.
