United Thread - 2021/22

[yeseye]

I think they’ve turned a corner..

 

[Coatigan]

Lots of reports the interim manager will be Ernesto Valverde.

If he is, he will be Ernesto ValVARde.

 

[tommybooth]

They won the CL last night. Oh wait..............

 

[Stoned Rose]

I think these will win the quadruple and World Cup now.

 

[GaudinoMotors]

Congratulations united. Is that 3 or 4 European Cups now?

 

[mcfc_ms]

They were absolute Shite again, saved by Degea and Villarreal being shite

They will get hammered off Chelsea at weekend. Hopefully Carrick is given a 5 year deal by the end of this week

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

They’ve been floundering (relatively speaking) for nearly a decade now and the PL has just signed another record breaking TV deal. United’s brand’s value to the league clearly isn’t as important as you think it is.

I'm just going off what Scudamore said in 2015. I know that was 7 years ago now, but the PL/FA are still dancing to his tune on that one.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

They have been living with debts for the past +10 years but it didn't affect their spending at all.

They still able to break transfer records and wage bills.

Unfortunately, they still get whoever they want ( maybe Zidane is the exception )

It's almost like FFP doesn't affect them.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

It's almost like FFP doesn't affect them.

I can never understand how they can even file annual financial reports with the Cayman Islands being 'off grid' yet ours get examined with a fine tooth comb.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

I'm just going off what Scudamore said in 2015. I know that was 7 years ago now, but the PL/FA are still dancing to his tune on that one.

I hate to rush to the defence of Scudamore but plenty of people seem to focus on the bits they want in that quote and conspicuously ignore the bits that don’t suit. My reading of it was that united are good for the PL commercially (which they indisputably were, and to a lesser extent, are) but they are running a competition and that the former shouldn’t therefore supersede the latter. Are you suggesting that in stating that united were commercially good for the PL Scudamore was saying something that was untrue? It seems he was stating something that was correct to me, and something, given his role, he was entitled to have a view on.

In any event, it’s now an anachronistic quote that no longer has any meaningful probative value.

Are you still going to be deploying it in another seven years when united still haven’t won the league as evidence of bias in favour of united?

Not saying they don’t get favourable decisions or there isn’t bias in their favour, but that quote, or rather your interpretation of it, has manifestly not produced a corollary of success for united. They have palpably declined as a force since it was uttered.

imo, and fwiw, its a ineffective tool to advance your argument and there are better means for you to do so.