United Thread - 2021/22

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BlueSkinz said:
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I notice he's described as a new member. Soon to changed - if not already done - to "ex-member".
 
United started all this by demonstrating just how much money could be made out of football. So other people (including some really serious businessmen with megabucks) got the same idea, and that's how we're where we are today, for good or ill. In fairness, if United hadn't cottoned on to the massive money-making potential of the game, someone else would have done.

I wish supporters of all teams would just accept we cannot go back to some imagined golden age. 1950s? 1960s? 1970s? 1900s? It's simply impossible. Top-level football is now always going to be run on a high-powered business basis, and if you don't like it the answer is to walk away and support the likes of Prestwich Heys or Abbey Hey. The thing is, millions will go on attending, paying stupid ticket prices, buying replica kits for ludicrous prices, buying Sky subscriptions and so on. So the individual who protests will not be missed. They'll just have more money to spend on other hobbies. Airfix kits are quite cheap for example.

I suspect a lot of Rags fans would be delighted if it was 1999 again. For their idea of 'fairness' is for them to be by far the richest club, dominating English football forever. They 'lose their love for the game' because the world isn't like that any more and quite possibly never will be again.
 
I can still see United winning a title one or two in the future but it will spread decade when any other competitor underperforming and no era of domination because there's so many club that rival them including us that will prevent that to ever happening again.

Heck they can bring their best manager ever and putting it against Pep, Klopp and Tuchel team it will be very difficult to compete with. The chance for them to be trophyless season just like Ole was is high.
 
BrianW said:
United started all this by demonstrating just how much money could be made out of football. So other people (including some really serious businessmen with megabucks) got the same idea, and that's how we're where we are today, for good or ill. In fairness, if United hadn't cottoned on to the massive money-making potential of the game, someone else would have done.

I wish supporters of all teams would just accept we cannot go back to some imagined golden age. 1950s? 1960s? 1970s? 1900s? It's simply impossible. Top-level football is now always going to be run on a high-powered business basis, and if you don't like it the answer is to walk away and support the likes of Prestwich Heys or Abbey Hey. The thing is, millions will go on attending, paying stupid ticket prices, buying replica kits for ludicrous prices, buying Sky subscriptions and so on. So the individual who protests will not be missed. They'll just have more money to spend on other hobbies. Airfix kits are quite cheap for example.

I suspect a lot of Rags fans would be delighted if it was 1999 again. For their idea of 'fairness' is for them to be by far the richest club, dominating English football forever. They 'lose their love for the game' because the world isn't like that any more and quite possibly never will be again.
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They genuinely just want it to go back to 1992 and before 2008 where they were the biggest Fish in the pond doing a Bayern Munich and hoovering up all the available talent without much competition.

We can analyse this backlash until the cows come home, but when you get down to straight hard facts they are jealous, and it breaks my bloody heart ;)
 
Blue Mist said:
Well we do have accommodation and training facilities all in one place....

Come on City do it, you know it would piss everyone off, think if the journalists desperately trying to put a negative slant on it.
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UAE was used as a major staging area for the refugees out of the country. Of course, some arm-twisting from US probably did take place for them to accept these folks who hadn't been cleared for communicative diseases, security checks, etc. Their possible journey from Pakistan, UAE and to UK wouldn't be out of place. As it has been said, flying them in on a sky blue plane would be nice.
 
Nihilist said:
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Poor rags how can they compete with the "oil clubs" ?
The hypocrisy of united fans is incredible , they have a squad worth almost 1b , just this summer they spent 126 mil on transfers , more than us or chelsea but apparently they can't compete. Like it's our fault that they buy shite players and have one of the most inept managers in the league.
It really does take a low IQ to support that shite club , doesn't it.
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A squad worth a billion or they paid a billion for?
 
Vienna_70 said:
So does Dr Rashford outrank St Marcus?
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This reminds me of a couple of lines from Fitzgerald's 1859 translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam:

"Myself when young did eagerly frequent
Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument..."

Who would have thought that a 12th Century Persian poet could have predicted the arrival of both of these eminent figures embodied in the same human form nine centuries later?

(Never let it be said that this forum lacks culture - you wouldn't find this on RAWK or Rag Cafe.....)
 
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