United Thread 2015/16

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coleridge said:
It seems to me that the business model is typical of Emirati thinking. In the timescale of top level football. for the first ten years are about investment and then increasing success and revenue. The next decade is about consolidation and further commercial expansion. I have always expected ADUG to receive a return on their financial input one day. I can see significant profits arising within the next couple of years or so, not all of which necessarily needs to be directly re-invested. That is then a sustainable model. Compare this to the Rags, who are beginning to remind me of a former heavyweight who still has a large fan base although his best days are behind him and is now addicted to celebrity status rather than the fights to come.
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That's a good analogy at the end - and as you allude to, the business MO of our owners should militate against any chronic complacency, so I'm hopeful we won't repeat the same mistakes as united. Let's not forget that before WW2 City were a 'bigger' footballing institution than united. That dynamic changed at united's behest because of astute management (Busby), happenstance (Munich), effective financial management (M. Edwards) and being in pole position when English football was rejuvenated after the 1990 World Cup and went global at the time when telecommunications technology allowed it to. A benevolent (for united) cocktail of good luck and judgement.

What supreme arrogance to assume that the forces of change that brought that about could not operate against united if they did not prepare adequately for such an outcome. Perhaps this, more than anything else, encapsulates 'the united way'. Too slow, too smug to see what was coming and respond to it.

"Not in my lifetime".

Yeah, right.
 
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Prestwich_Blue said:
I just think it was really nice that Ed Woodward went all the way over to Barcelona, in person, to tell Pedro the rags didn't want him. That shows real class. Even the deluded hordes on the caff aren't buying the Neymar story. I think the Sun must have misheard Turtlehead when he said about buying no-marks.
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I imagine he'll stay in Spain to finalise Benzema's move to Arsenal
 
It's all a misunderstanding. The turtle is trying to learn our various dialects and colloquialisms. This week, he's been learning Yorkshire speak and Scouse speak. When his mum rang him to ask if he's looking to buy anyone, he said "nay ma "



And no, I won't get my coat.
 
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