United Thread - 2021/22

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

The cracks have been there for a long time now. The signing of PR37 has driven a wedge into the cracks and split them wide open.

Because of the various contracts their players are on there is no way Wreck it Ralph is going to be able to make that much of a difference in 6 months. We are talking years to get them back on an even keel.

Lovely jubbly.

 

[Grassland Blue]

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And 4 sendings off in those matches.

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And 4 sendings off in those matches.

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Looks like he could get the rags 4th then...

 

[blueyorkie]

For context, he wouldn't be on the list for Everton or West Ham as things stand right now.

The whole structure of the club is crumbling, this week they erected another tent next to the carpark so their women's team can get changed.

How fucking insulting is that.

They have signs inside Carrington stating relevant and non-relevant personnel only, leaving loads of workers pissed off and lost 40 per cent of staff in some departments over the last 12 months.

The stadium is representative of the club as a whole.

Antiquated, tatty, trying to paint a false veneer to something which is long past its sell-by date.

They are done, they will never be back.

I expect not to see them win another league title in the next 30 years.

Good fucking riddance. I once said they are like a vampire, you need to open the curtains and get all the crucifixes out.

Even then, you need to make sure they are dead.

Man United will never die?

Do me a fucking favour, we have driven a stake through their rotten heart and not even a cosmetic transplant will bring them back to life.

Rest in Hell, it's supposedly a good resting place for a Red Devil.

I’ve dreamed about this since the early 60’s, the fact that we are at the top of the game and this happening makes it so sweet!

 

[Grassland Blue]

Exactly.

His only job will be to try and stop them sliding any further before they get Poochie in in the summer, but it has potential to go South very quickly if they're not careful.

They'd have been better off keeping Noddy but it was clear the players wanted him gone. Maybe them resigning PR37 was the worst thing they could have done because he has most certainly caused a stink around the place since he turned up.

What a shit show... and long may it continue.

Well, no one can say we didn't try our best to keep Ollie in post...

 

[Grassland Blue]

They'll need a bigger medicine cabinet at the swamp if they are going to try and get Rashford, Martial, Poobag, Mata, Cavani, BrunoPen1, and PR37 to play 'heavy metal' football.

Cavani will leave and PR37 probably will too.

 

[SilverFox2]

No no, Pellers was a much too nice and polite fella who seemed a bit bloodless. A likeable gentleman but a bit boring in his statements. IMO.

Rangnick is much less sympathetic as he just talks too much and realizes too late that nobody is listening anymore. I also don't know if his English is good enough for his number of endless lectures ;)

Left the German football market for a reason, isn't present at all nowadays here and we'll see if he is ready to be successful for - sorry - such a huge task and immense media pressure. Rangnick stepped down as Schalke coach in 2011 with a mental burn-out mind.
Maybe with different personal circumstances though back then.

A 6 month contract seems to be allowing him to identify areas for improvement rather than actually carrying it out.

A strategic role as a management consultant with change implementation bullet points roughly detailed for director approval would perhaps follow. If OK he becomes director of football, they employ say the PSG manager and he rolls out a modified action plan via the new manager.

Or more likely he is seen like other change masters as not to be trusted and he just gets lip service from all the old brigade.

 

[flb]

Has anyone seen his CV.

If he was coming to coach our EDS I`d be considerably less than blown away.

1983–1985	FC Viktoria Backnang
1985–1987	VfB Stuttgart II
1987–1988	TSV Lippoldsweiler
1988–1990	SC Korb
1990–1994	VfB Stuttgart U19
1995–1997	Reutlingen 05
1997–1999	Ulm 1846
1999–2001	VfB Stuttgart
2001–2004	Hannover 96
2004–2005	Schalke 04
2006–2011	1899 Hoffenheim
2011	Schalke 04
2015–2016	RB Leipzig
2018–2019	RB Leipzig

Ulm 1846

• Regionalliga Süd: 1997–98

VfB Stuttgart

• Under 19 Bundesliga: 1990–91
• UEFA Intertoto Cup: 2000

Hannover 96

• 2.Bundesliga: 2001–02

Schalke 04

• DFB-Pokal: 2010–11; runner-up: 2004–05
• DFL-Supercup: 2011
• DFL-Ligapokal: 2005

RB Leipzig

• DFB-Pokal runner-up: 2019

By the look of things he's been an interim manager all his life, take Hoffenheim out of it and he's the footballing equivalent of a Gypsy

 

[cheekybids]

Sounds like your experience?

6/10 for 5th choice, maybe after 9 pints it’s a 6 but the next morning 2 or 3.

that’s how the rags will see it.

in 2.5 years they’ll still be paying for this prick & a 40 year old Ronaldo.

 

[chaddblue]

The BBC's and Sky's coverage of this potential appointment is hilariously predictable

If any other club (apart from the obvious other one that wears red) were about to make this move, they'd be getting ridiculed by these two totally impartial broadcasters

 

[Postman Pep]

The BBC's and Sky's coverage of this potential appointment is hilariously predictable

If any other club (apart from the obvious other one that wears red) were about to make this move, they'd be getting ridiculed by these two totally impartial broadcasters

Exhibit A