United Thread - 2022/23

[laserblue]

An interesting stat I chanced upon is that Sancho has played under more managers at the rags (OGS, Carrick, Rag Nick and Ten Bob) than he's scored PL goals for them (3).

 

[Deleted member 77198]

They should have gone for Potter who will be a candidate to replace Pep when that sad days comes
I expected that there would be more of an improvement than was showed yesterday, really surprised that ten Hagg was schooled by Potter it looked like he had never seen Brighton's tactics used by them yesterday whereas Potter would have been guessing how ten Hagg would set-up the rags

Ten Hag is a very good coach, I really do rate him. But the poison running through that club from top to bottom, including their deluded fanbase, all the ex-players and Fergie still being there, the constant magnifying glass analysis in post-match losses by Neville and co on Sky, and all the ridiculously poor buys they’ve made for a decade and more spending over £1bn in the process (and they moan about the Glazers!) is going to stop anyone from being a good coach at that club.

That Ralf Rangnick was absolutely spot on when he said this last season:


“It’s not the managers’ quality, it’s about changing all the other things that have brought the club into the position we are in right now”.

It’s not the owners who’re the problem or the coaches they’ve had, it’s the poisonous thread running through the club, the “we did this in the 90s” looking back in time attitude. They aren’t a progressive club looking towards the future, the club and their fanbase are desperately clinging on to the past.

Even the appointment of Steve McLaren seems a United decision, it smacks of a “McLaren was the assistant coach when we won the treble in 99, and you know him from your Twente links, so you should appoint him, it’ll give the fans some comfort from the memories of that season”, more than it is a Ten Hag appointment.

Nothing will change at United until Fergie’s footsteps are no longer heard in their corridors and their fans come to the realisation that nothing lasts forever, they were never really that special anyway (it was just the perfect storm of them winning trophies just as money exploded in the game), that there are many very brilliant clubs in England and at any time any from about 25 could become a top club with the right backing and right board members.

 

[jimharri]

Their fans are very quiet in work this morning. All I've got so far is a couple of "fuck offs".

 

[waspish]

They should have gone for Potter who will be a candidate to replace Pep when that sad days comes
I expected that there would be more of an improvement than was showed yesterday, really surprised that ten Hagg was schooled by Potter it looked like he had never seen Brighton's tactics used by them yesterday whereas Potter would have been guessing how ten Hagg would set-up the rags

Even Harry Potter wouldn’t change that team around to a winning team

 

[waspish]

Because most of them have known nothing but raggy success.

Born in the '80s, their earliest memories will be of the rags winning (almost) everything every season, and that was how they expected it to be ad infinitum.

Then the pisscan "retired", and football just hasn’t been the same since. Money has ruined it.

Yep and why when Pep leaves we need to win the league in the next 2/3 years again! Yep we won the league with Mancini and Pelegríne but when a manager of the calibre of Pep leaves the standard will drop and you fall back into the pack so when he goes we have to win the league again as quickly as possible…

 

[MCFC1993]

 

[waspish]

The media the fans believe the rags have a bottomless pit of money they don’t and when they don’t get top four next this season that’s amount blow to them!

 

[Looby blue]

Manyoo have always been shite. They had lucky 20 year blip with pisscan.

 

[yeah whatever !!]

I wonder if Frenkie watched that....

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

The Dt this morning pinpoints five things that Ted Rag has to sort out; the defence, Ronaldo (so not only the defence but the attack!), where to fit McTominay and Fred (so that's the midfield), the 'system', and the kids! Sounds like a job that Ferguson would turn up his nose at!