United Thread - 2022/23

[stan bowles]

Probably the best post on here. The reason they can't get it right is they have American owners who don't know anything about football and think that all they have to do is throw money at it. They're hiring people who don't know much more, and those people are hiring people who were around decades ago because they don't know the football business as it is today and don't know which way to turn to find the people they need.

The latest managerial appointment proves it. An inexperienced manager who comes from a club in a relatively minor league compared to the Prem, from a team who had no realistic competition (how many Dutch Eredivisie clubs can you name? Ajax have scored more goals than City from their first two matches so they're not exactly struggling without Ten Hag). You could see from his TV interview that he's completely out of his depth here, so he has to find his feet before United can find theirs. That's not the sort of manager you want to take charge of a big club with players with big egos who are not performing.

Who knows where they go next, because it's getting to the stage where nobody else wants to come. How long before that applies to managers who are only taking the job for one final big pay cheque, like van Gaal? While every other top club are signing top managers with a proven track record, Untied don't even seem to know how to do that. Unless nobody with any credibility wants to go there.

I was amazed in his first home game he decided to play Eriksen as a false 9 - Eriksen, brand new to the club, coming off a serious heart condition scare which nearly took his life who then got a second chance at Brentford where he commendably eased himself back into action but who has never been a false 9 in his life. If Eriksen has any value left as a PL player it's as a creative playmaker, pulling the strings with other willing runners around him. This decision by Ten Haag was little short of madness. If he sanctioned the signing of Martinez then the signs are not positive.

 

[heslops barnet]

Just saying, I’m laughing my bollocks off listening to all the red shite complaining about their team, long may it last…

 

[horlock_was_super]

I must confess I am one of them. I used to be a rag, and switched to be a blue.

In my defence, that was when I was 4, and for the past 57 years I have been pure blue.

The sperm that I beat to the egg was a rag!

 

[Chippy_boy]

Id also point out that its City who have ruffled the feathers of all things United more than anything else, they want to be us now, watching the best football this country has ever seen, they cant stand it to be honest, and neither can Charlton, Crerand, Macari and numerous others of that club past and present, but more than anything , Uniteds fanbase hate it more than anything, and i fucking love it.

And when they pretend that we are not their *real* rivals, they can look 30 miles west and take solace in how their real rivals have been struggling. Not. HAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHHA.

I didn't think I could find many positives in Liverpool playing well and winning things, but this is surely one of them.

 

[halfcenturyup]

Do any of our American friends know how the Glazers run the Buccaneers? Do they have accountants in there? Or actual football people who know what they are doing?

Edit - I put baseball, duh!

 

[Pingu the Penguin]

Do any of our American friends know how the Glazers run the Buccaneers? Do they have accountants in there? Or actual football people who know what they are doing?

Edit - I put baseball, duh!

Doubt baseball people could run an NFL side :-)

US sports ownership is very different financially. Salary caps, etc. and they usually employ a specialist GM to run the player finance and contracts issues

 

[halfcenturyup]

Doubt baseball people could run an NFL side :-)

US sports ownership is very different financially. Salary caps, etc. and they usually employ a specialist GM to run the player finance and contracts issues

Senior moment :)

By specialist GM to run the player finance and contracts issues, you mean an accountant? I am just trying to get my head around why they appoint accountants at United ......

Edit: Had a look, they have football people in all senior positions. Is that right?

 

[mattcity5]

And when they pretend that we are not their *real* rivals, they can look 30 miles west and take solace in how their real rivals have been struggling. Not. HAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHHA.

I didn't think I could find many positives in Liverpool playing well and winning things, but this is surely one of them.

If you really want to wind up united fans, tell them how our biggest rivals are now liverpool. I do it and they really have no clue what to say to it, especially when you can justify it. It properly puts them in their place.

 

[flb]

I was amazed in his first home game he decided to play Eriksen as a false 9 - Eriksen, brand new to the club, coming off a serious heart condition scare which nearly took his life who then got a second chance at Brentford where he commendably eased himself back into action but who has never been a false 9 in his life. If Eriksen has any value left as a PL player it's as a creative playmaker, pulling the strings with other willing runners around him. This decision by Ten Haag was little short of madness. If he sanctioned the signing of Martinez then the signs are not positive.

Fantastic post mate, its bordering on negligence making a player with health problems play a position in the team like he did at the weekend, he should be nothing more than a more than able squad player, Eriksen was throwing his arms up in the air on a frequent basis in that game, and that's after one game at United.
Its already evident that TH is out of his depth, he's been sold the dream (and it wasn't the Glaziers) about United thinking he can bring some 70's style Dutch total football to the PL on a shoestring "Ill buy Dutch" only players.

Martinez already looks like a carthorse, should have been a penalty v Brighton last weekend and he got out muscled and out jumped by Ben Mee at the weekend for the third goal, £50 million quid ladies and gentleman for an umpa lumpa in the centre of defence.

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

The little Rat was positively giddy when the show pony signed.

Yep, no moaning then about the Glazers or the stadium.

He was talking about them definitely challenging for trophies a year ago.