United Thread - 2023/24

[ancoats]

 

[remember arthur mann]

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[SWPISHOME]

Sancho knows he just has to stick around for a bit longer and he will be able to start afresh under a new manager.

That's exactly it. Although I wonder how long it will take Sancho to throw his rattler and dummy and the new boss.

 

[waspish]

The thing is, none of the other pundits are clever enough to challenge him.

Micah Richards, if you’re reading this, the next time Gary Neville starts talking bollocks about United, the Glazers and all that ‘we should be’, ‘this is Manchester Yoonited we’re talking about’… you have to start getting real and telling the truth.

Outside Magnall, Busby, and Ferguson, United have only won six trophies and for the most part outside those three managers they’ve just been any old run-of-the-mill English football club. Mostly in the First Division/Premier League not doing much, sometimes in the Second Division, at times getting average league attendances of 11,000 and individual league attendances of 3,000, and going bust. That’s why Gary Neville saying, the other year, that “Manchester United are the grandfathers of English football” was such a fucking stupid comment!

United’s average finishing position in the league table in English football history is 10th.

This attitude where they think they should be up the top of the league challenging is utter fucking delusion. Whenever United haven’t had a decent manager in place, whenever there have been better run clubs than them, they haven’t ever really been a club up there challenging.

This is actually true of all clubs in English football. English football doesn’t really have any clubs who are, far and away, out of reach of the rest of the pack when it comes to success. 20 league titles isn’t that many, in future decades there could be a few clubs up at that level, because it’s not overly dominant. There aren't any clubs in England who have always been up at the top, always challenging, always winning something every few years. And I don’t think there ever will be. This is what makes English football the best! There are far too many decent clubs with decent potential for any club in England to just always be dominant like a Rangers/Celtic or Nacional/Peñarol situation where they’ve all won over 100 trophies each and always been the dominant clubs in Scotland and Uruguay. England’s top clubs have always and will always be fluctuating and it would only take a decent few decades for any club to catch anyone else up. Because that’s all United (and Liverpool) ever really had to put them where they are in their own standing; a few good decades. Away from that, they’ve just been clubs like any other.

There have been other eras where clubs were dominant, only for their time at the top to come to an end and these clubs fall away from the top. Villa, Sunderland, Everton… Arsenal had a few goes, Liverpool had their turn, United had theirs… City and Chelsea are in their great eras now… in future decades Newcastle, Leeds, Spurs, and West Ham could be the clubs who takeover at the top if they get the right investment and use it well with the right boardrooms and right managers/players, because they certainly all have the potential to… that would be reasonable to think would happen because that’s how English football has always worked.

This notion that not winning or challenging for the title isn’t good enough for United is completely out of touch with the reality of English football.

Liverpool and rags call themselves legacy clubs or the biggest club in the world! Now how did they get to be those clubs? Ah yeah mainly winning league titles over a 20/25 year period and we are on they way to doing that!

 

[Stoned Rose]

In the last 10 years, post Mancini, we've had two managers (EL Holistica and the bald fraud). "The World's Greatest Club"™ have had six, not counting caretakers (Moyesiah, Tactical, Maureen, Gollum, Rangnick and Poundland).


#TheUnitedWay

My 6 a side team would beat that little lot.

 

[SWPISHOME]

My 6 a side team would beat that little lot.

Neville would still blame the Glazers for the defeat also.

 

[bridgeno1]

uNiTeD are BaCk

 

[standupifyouhatemanu]

The problem isn’t:

The glazers, who have spent money every season.

The managers who came with high stock.

The players who are not being trained properly.

The ghost of GPC.

Var deserting them after becoming too obvious.

No no no no no…The real problem is Manchester City. It’s no coincidence that our rise coincides with their fall. Also dosent help that the league has 5/6 teams who are actually better than the rags both on and off the pitch.

So yea, keep blaming the owners and keep saying “ you are the biggest club” blah blah blah.

Destroyed fc should be city’s new online handle.

So yea It’s our fault. You listening Gary!!!!! -:)

The ghost of GPC is THE biggest problem

 

[jimharri]

Ain't that the (three chords and the) truth?

 

[oldhamblue]

Just read that Brighton's starting 11 cost £17m, while the rags was £342m. Im sure MOTD will be mentioning this at every opportunity