United Thread - 2023/24

[East Level 2]

I see tent peg has gone all hard on them again.
I’m sure it’ll work this time!!!!!

(Spoiler: it won’t, the United changing room has to be one of the most toxic in world football)

That's because they buy egos with a view to shirt sales. Footballing ability is secondary.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Have you researched what they have won under the Glazers? 5 PL titles a CL trophy plus 2 losing finals, a Thursday night cup, League cups and FA cup… All
In all 13 major trophies …!
Yes they are plundering the coffers but that’s their choice, they own the shitty club …
They have provided unprecedented amounts of funds to managers also …
This is not about the Glazers, it’s about the players and inept football management at the coal face… !
The players have been spoon fed self entitlement while piss can was there and followed that on ever since he hung up his referees …!

I don’t need to research anything.

Firstly, those league titles and the CL were all over a decade ago. They should be judged more closely on that period than the first decade of their ownership as that is more a product of their decision making and a more competitive footballing environment. If they’d won a couple of league titles in that period, or even one in the last five years then you’d have a point. But they haven’t, despite outspending everyone in that period.

The inept football management to which you refer were all appointments ultimately made by them.

The lack of any strategy around player recruitment is also on them, as owners. Individual errors in recruitment, or even those over a couple of years can be pinned on individual managers, but when the club keeps wasting money over the course of a decade how can that not be the ultimate responsibility of those at the top?

There is a cancer in that club, as there has been for the last decade, and they are the constant thread that runs through that period. That and the GPC stinking the place up. But again, they’ve done fuck all about that.

Are you suggesting they bear no responsibility for united’s decline over the last decade?

 

[freshie]

 

[freshie]

What a whopper

 

[dadnlad]

It's true though. We'd have put another six past them if we'd have been any good.

i watched with boys and at 2-0 i said weve declared if a goal comes then all well and good but 2-0 is enough

 

[BrianW]

There are very few elite managers - i.e. of similar stature to Pep.

If you were one of them, why the fuck would you want to manage the utter chaos that is the Rags? In this country alone, City, Arsenal, Liverpoo, Spurs, Newcastle and maybe Villa are all more attractive, with far fewer issues to sort out.

 

[Bill Walker]

 

[freshie]

This is crazy

 

[freshie]

This must be unprecedented

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

It's true though. We'd have put another six past them if we'd have been any good.

Very noticeable on the BBC. Had the result and performances for the ninety minutes been reversed, we would not have heard anything about how poor we were. It would have been all about how magnificent the Rags had been.