LOLScudamore's comments from 2015:
“It’s a double-edged sword,” Scudamore told Bloomberg. “When your most popular club isn’t doing as well, that costs you interest and audience in some places.”
He then went on to say:
“There’s lots of fans around the world who wish Manchester United were winning it again, but you have to balance that off against, generally, we’re in the business of putting on a competition and competition means people can compete.”
VERY telling.
That's my point though. The PL can ill afford to have the Rag's floundering as it hits them in the pocket.LOL
We have just witnessed one of the greatest series of own goals in the history of football.
The rags are an utter shambles and the world of football is laughing at them, there is no conspiracy, we are just witnessing in the flesh what utter and total arrogance and incomitance looks and smells like and it is utterly glorious.
Yep. I've said before that there must be something going on between the rags and the British media. No club, and I include the dippers in that, no club gets the amount of sympathetic news coverage as the rags do.The media is acting like their form and manager situation is a national tragedy.
A lot of pundits assume they have a great squad because it cost loads, gets paid loads, and, well, it's United....Let's wait and see what happens. I am not convinced their squad is very talented. I think they have a lot of limited players who are not suited to modern football but are hyped up by the media. For example their whole defence is not skilful or mobile enough and the keeper can't pass the ball. I think appointing Poch will continue their downward spiral.
That's your heart talking not your head. And yet they were runners up and beat us last season. Then they added Sancho, Varane and Ronaldo to that. The problem is its all ad-hoc and not thought through and they've gone from playing counter-attacking football which worked quite well for them last season (against the better sides) to some unknown style of play which basically seems to revolve around feeding Ronaldo.A lot of pundits assume they have a great squad because it cost loads, gets paid loads, and, well, it's United....
De Gea is a liability, Maguire is just plain terrible, Lindleoff average, Wan Bissaka poor, Shaw having a mare. Midfield doesn't exist, strikers are old, albeit i like Cavani, Rashford is a myth...
To trim down that will be a nightmare considering the bloated wages. And any players coming in will want bloated wages.
Fantastic.
Even better if he sawed him in half and then made him disappearThe next manager interim interim, interim or ‘the DNA nytid way’ full time manager needs to employ that yank magician David Copperfield as his number 2 after all he made the Statue of Liberty disappear didn’t he? So - abracadabra the gpc no longer stinking the shithole out now that’s what you call a glamorous assistant. Eat your heart out the lovely Debbie Magee.
If your minds constantly thinking about a prison sentence or a steakbake it can be hard to concentrate.That's your heart talking not your head. And yet they were runners up and beat us last season. Then they added Sancho, Varane and Ronaldo to that. The problem is its all ad-hoc and not thought through and they've gone from playing counter-attacking football which worked quite well for them last season (against the better sides) to some unknown style of play which basically seems to revolve around feeding Ronaldo.
Can a new coach get something more out of this squad? The mystery for me is the collapse in form of Shaw and Maguire. They are both decent players imo who have as you said had nightmares this season. Normally a players lack of form can be explained. Injury, unsettled, age etc. But Maguire and Shaw have gone from being strong performers to complete rubbish and its hard to understand why that would be.
Me neither, I read their projected wage bill is close to £400m with revenues of £500, is that correct @Prestwich_BlueI just don't know where the money comes from, especially with all these financial restrictions.