United thread 2012/13 (inc merged IPO thread)

[Blue_Rossy]

where is that? is it bottom of briscoe lane?

 

[Bibinho]

I dont know if anyone has seeb this already but remember that guy in the stands at sunderland the one on the phone with the pedo tash, well hes back in ksis new video and hes such a deluded prat!!! Thinks they would have won the league even if they didnt have RVP and thinks Carrick is their best player

LAAAAWLLLLLLL

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[bleed.blue]

So the rags posted their 3rd quarter results today.

Besides increase in revenues, here is the interesting bit:
"Staff costs for the third quarter increased 25.1% year on year to £44.9 million"

Self confessed rag @andersred expects wages to increase by 36 million pounds this year.
That will take them from 162 million last year to 198 million pounds. Add some bonus to that figure which they will have to pay for winning the league and you are looking at annual wages in excess of 200 million.

Our wages last year were around 201 million as well.
But as we all know, their players play for free for the love of their club.

 

[mancityvstoke]

where is that? is it bottom of briscoe lane?

Grimshaw lane<br /><br />-- Thu May 02, 2013 9:33 pm --<br /><br />

Thick red *****

Not a nice thing to say, you take that bak :-p

bak off dude

 

[dom]

Sir's latest gem.

We Can’t Compete With Chelsea & City, Admits Fergie

Sir Alex Ferguson has admitted that Manchester United cannot compete with the spending power of Chelsea & Manchester City as he begins his search to strengthen his squad for next season.

"Hopefully the players we bring into the club in the next year or so will be of the quality we need," he told Inside United.

"We're competitive in the market - we're not Chelsea or Manchester City in terms of money but we're competitive.

"We've been doing a bit of work on that over the last three or four months, targeting who the players are that we feel could enhance us, make us better or help us maintain the level we're at."

TBF, ever since he's taken the title back, he hasn't shut the f*** up. Me this, United that, Phil Jones, blah, f***ing, blah!

He's a canny litle shit..

clearly playing the thick meeja with the , 'chelsea / city = vulgar millionaires v honest old utd (let's not mention the meat poisoner and the squilllions thrown at new players since the inceprtion of the prem)

No... old taaaamer , good ole boy whiskey breath is trying to convince the public that the Utd Global Machine......

... , is just a great liddel ole soccer club , jus traaaain' to do wot's raat' despite these pesky neighbours


FFS , you stupid, lying, disingenuous pisscan

do not treat the public like idiots....

every silly plastic in Singapore who can't even name a team before you got big again (viz 1970's / 80's for any other plastics reading this ! LOL!!)

Every silly little twerp I've met that changes team like changing knickers

Every single arrogant cockerney plastic givin it large

and (sadly) the majority of of Manc rags, who can't handle defeat graciously

....give a lie to your narrative , Baco...


so just try, if you can , to have the guts , in your dotage , to have a bit of perspective and intelligence

Knight of the realm ??? (Don't make me laugh)

pettyminded drunk school bully , more like

 

[bigbillyblueballs]

Chill out lad. He's not worth getting so worked up over. Here's to the fa cup ey

 

[LoveCity]

Just retire, ffs.

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[waspish]

Just retire, ffs.

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Hmmmm..

This is how he is going to retire? He is going slip away gradually but he will be still classed as the manager as assistant manager takes over and Giggs probably be upgraded to player/assistant to the assistant!

 

[Falastur]

That's knife! Manchester United boss Alex Ferguson could miss start of next season after summer hip surgery

Senior Old Trafford sources would be 'amazed' if he could make it back in the dug-out for the start of August

Sir Alex Ferguson is to have hip surgery this summer - and could miss the start of the new season.

The Manchester United boss, 71, has been troubled by a hip problem for some time and will go under the knife before the Premier League campaign kicks off. But with only 18 days between United returning from their pre-season tour and the opening day of the league season, Fergie has left himself battling to be fit in time.

And senior United sources say they would be “amazed” if Ferguson - who could need a walking stick to aid his recovery - is in the dug-out for the start of next term in August.

Ferguson has planned the operation so he does not miss United’s three-week pre-season tour of Thailand, Australia, Japan and Hong Kong this summer.

United last night confirmed Ferguson is to have an operation, but stressed it will have no impact on his future at the club.

United do not return from their pre-season tour until July 30 and play Manchester City or Wigan in the Community Shield at Wembley on August 11.

With Ferguson set for surgery in early August, that leaves little time for him to make a full recovery and be back in the dugout for that game.

The new Premier League season starts on August 17 and it is not clear if Ferguson will have recovered in time to oversee the first game of United’s title defence.

Ferguson, who has been in charge of United since 1986, has always said he will carry on in the role as long as his health allows him to do so.

The United boss had a pacemaker fitted in 2004, when he was 62, after being diagnosed with a heart condition, and was back at work within days.

He was at the centre of a heath scare a year ago while attending a dinner in Glasgow, when he suffered a nosebleed that would not stop and was taken to hospital.

The United boss put the episode down to taking seven flights in the space of a week and said it was his body’s way of telling him to slow down.

Earlier this season Ferguson addressed the issue of his retirement and said: “This question comes up more and more simply because, as each year goes on, I get older.

“It’s a fact of life. I can’t avoid that. The issue is how I feel within myself.

“As you get older, you are not guaranteed your health. No-one is when you get into your 70s. Touch wood, my health remains for a long time yet.

“At the moment, everything is hunky dory, but you never know.”

Ferguson has only missed three games during his 1,497-match United reign and will be determined his hip surgery does not see him add to that list.

He missed a Manchester derby at Maine Road - which United won 1-0 in his absence - in November 2000 to attend son Mark’s wedding in South Africa.

The United boss also missed a 3-2 defeat to Middlesbrough, at Old Trafford in 1998, to attend a funeral. The other game from which he was absent was a League Cup tie at Scunthorpe in 2010, when he was in Spain scouting United keeper David De Gea.

Mirror Sport revealed yesterday that Borussia Dortmund manager Jurgen Klopp is the man the United hierarchy currently favour a successor when Ferguson decides to retire.

 

[Vinjay]

Heard he's got a lobotomy op planned as well but that is for later down the line.