United Thread - 2022/23

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Perhaps the Glazers have been talking to their Hamericun mates at Burnley and have realised that the parachute payments could make them a decent wedge.
 
waspish said:
Agree better if staying at the rags and they’ll be that scared of losing him they’ll give him another 5 year deal
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This all day long, he wouldn't get half the money anywhere else.
Some rag on talkshite tonight saying he's never been coached properly, well he's worked with some top coaches, the truth is he can't be coached, he has a bit of pace after that he's not a team player, he's a lazy player, don't mean to insult him but I guess he's as thick as pig shit, that's how he comes across, didn't he say he'd never read a book.
 
It’ll be interesting to see what the fee is. You’d hope he wouldn’t go for more than Sterling but don’t be surprised if he does. He’s often been spoken as a £100m player
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
The problem at united is that what everyone knows they need to do conflicts with what they absolutely can't do.

From a football point of view, they need to clear out the dross and give Ten Bob a few seasons - 3 as a minimum - to build a side. During that time, they will almost certainly need to sacrifice European football, certainly CL. Let's call that Plan A.

But sacrificing CL for a few seasons could be seismic for them. It will eat into their revenue significantly and reduce their appeal to top quality players. They've been lucky so far as they haven't spent two consecutive seasons without CL football but if they don't secure CL for next season, sponsorships get reduced and banking covenants that might require them to repay debt on demand could potentially kick in. So their available cash will be reduced significantly.

So their "strategy" (if you can call it that) has to be a series of short term fixes, hence the buying of older, big name players who they feel can give them a short term boost. Let's call that Plan B. If that doesn't work then they may as well go to Plan A but the likelihood is that they'll get rid of Ten Bob and try Plan B with someone else.
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is this precisely what Fergusson did at the end of his reign to secure a title and what has been the root cause of their successive failures?
 
Veronique and their former manager together must appear in an All or Nothing documentary.
 
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