United thread 2019/20

[citizen_maine]

Their current demise is being treated by the media as a national disaster instead of looking at the reality of what it really. A previously successful but massively over-hyped club which is floundering due to arrogance, shit planning, management and recruitment right through the organisation .

Expecting an official day of mourning being announced if the twats lose this weekend .

Do we get the day off work?

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

Do we get the day off work?

Should probably be a week with all the outpouring of grief !

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

Just watching Sky with Jamie O'Hara ???( obviously from London ) pouring h is heart out about the rags and their current plight.

Christ it's fucking unbelievable with all these pathetic twats crying about the state that these fuckers are in - it's being going on for years you utter fuckwits !

 

[JASR]

Just seeing if anyone remembers what classed as a fan when they ran this poll ?

remember someone posting it on here once, stuff like “ do you watch them if they’re on TV “

thanks

‘Are you united with anyone in knowing of a city called Manchester where football is played?’ Is The approximate question asked.

 

[citizen_maine]

Just seeing if anyone remembers what classed as a fan when they ran this poll ?

remember someone posting it on here once, stuff like “ do you watch them if they’re on TV “

thanks

Poll: Which football team do you follow?
Answer: Manchester City
Poll: Do you watch them when they play Manchester U****d?
Answer: Yes
Poll: Tick

 

[Impeccable One]

What a pity

I spend hours looking for classic comedy on YouTube and this has the Morecambe & Wise 1976 Christmas special well and truly beaten. Although he's no Angela Rippon.

 

[skivitheblue9320]

It's because of their apparent unwillingness to sever ties with the past that has been their undoing. Everything about the club is old and decrepit, it has become a relic from the olden days - a monument of decay and wilful negligence, from the boardroom to the stadium itself it is a reminder of a time long since gone, and they appear to have no coherent business plan in place to even attempt catching up with the rest of the 21st Century.
The fetid stench of the Pisscan and Captain Comb-Over permeates every last millimetre of the swamp, and no new manager is ever going to rid the place of their ghastly presence. The two of them will ALWAYS be there: overlooking, overseeing, as if the club were their own personal plaything, and they are sworn to protect the Pisscan's questionable legacy - hovering about like a mother hen fussing over her chicks.

It's the Pisscan's ego that will ensure the club will be treading water for years to come. When he dies they will have no choice other than to extract their collective heads from the sand and accept that time waits for no fucker.

Only when the rest of us are tucking into our mountains of jelly and ice cream will that club ever be able to shake off its past and truly think about its long-term future.

Absolutely poetic.

 

[domalino]

All banter aside, and I do enjoy ripping the piss out of them, that’s actually not a bad shout.

And I’m not being sarcastic either. At this point I don’t think they have any to lose by keeping him. They’ve had big names, they’ve had managers with a reasonable track record and so far they have all failed.

May as well keep him.

Nah. I cant disagree more.

He is an awful manager. No one has ever succeeded by building on the base of a bad manager. It effects everything, because you get bad performances from good players. Look at Lukaku ripping it up in Italy or Chris Smalling who has been better than any current United centre back - these are players who would have helped united a lot this season, but Solskjaer will keep turning these good players into poor performers, selling them cheap and replacing them for a massive cost.

And then because of the negative atmosphere st the club the good players they buy for huge fees end up turning bad.

If Pochettino/Klopp/ Pep another top manager took over tomorrow they would finish 4th with no transfers.

You say they had top managers and they didnt do well... that's not really true. Even long past their best, Mourinho finished 2nd, won the Europa and league Cup and LVG won the FA Cup and got them CL football.

Ole will take them to 8th-12th this season, hell get fired and whoever replaces him will be better.

 

[NZBlue]

Nah. I cant disagree more.

Ole will take them to 8th-12th this season, hell get fired and whoever replaces him will be better.

They may be better but will they actually do better in the toxic wasteland?

 

[domalino]

They may be better but will they actually do better in the toxic wasteland?

It's all relative isn't it? They are 3 or 4 years away from getting near us or Liverpool at the top of the European game under good management, but I think they'll finish 10th this season and whoever comes in will do better than that. They will probably play better football (ie. they will have a style of play) and individual players will probably start to show signs of improving.

I think Ole will be a great palate cleanser for the fans and they'll start feeling more positive about a 4th or 5th placed finish then they were when LVG got them, so in that way it'll be successful.

For me, one of the most amazing things about United's last 4 or 5 years is that they've never been far away from fixing it all. They have the money, FFP is written so they can spend considerably more than anyone else could in a window, and there are world class managers coming on the market all the time who'd love to manage them.

That's why it's so satisfying seeing them not reach for the solution, but instead come up with new ways of stepping towards the precipice, the point where they can't come back in 1 or 2 good years, but need 5 or more.