United Thread - 2023/24

[RiversideBlue]

Nobody but nobody beats this loser.

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He did well to take that picture by the old souvenir shop, considering it's s building site at the moment. Nice of us to keep the old badge on the side too.

 

[paulchapo]

Are they still banging on about the "potential" of that up and coming youth talent, 31 year old Jesse Lingard?

We should sign him, bargain. Oh and give that other level headed humble young player Sancho another chance. Totally misunderstood lol.

 

[ysmsa]

"Fergie's right"

"Your socks are tight"

:-)

 

[Bollo]

The Dave Brailsford thing. I’m into the cycling so I’ve a bit of interest in how this is going to pan out. Even though I really really want this to be another chapter of clusterfuckery because it’s the rags, my more analytical self thinks this will be a complete clusterfuck.

The power dynamic between a cycling team DS (manager) and the riders is very different to the football. Outside a small number of star riders, most of the team are essentially disposable and will be thankful just to have a contract, even at the World Tour level. In other words, a very different situation to even an average Prem player.

SirDave has always been a master of image management with all the marginal gains guff, but the shine has definitely come off in recent years and it’s not just about the doping allegations. You’d struggle to find an ex-rider who’s had dealings with him with a decent word to say. The impression is that he’s a cold, arrogant egotist who’s used to getting his own way. He likes his favourites and anyone else is just frozen out or thrown under a bus.

He’ll go down like a Uranium dog egg in the Old Toilet dressing room. It‘s not like they‘re a functional team anyway, but having someone around with PEG-levels of toxicity and zero knowledge of football who’ll be lording it over the rest of the management team will tear them to bits. And unlike their parade of managers post-GPC, he’ll be there to stay.

Great, isn’t it?

 

[dublinblue12]

"Fergie's right"

"Your socks are tight"

:-)

Is this why Shaw has really been out

 

[Pingu the Penguin]

He will look root and branch at every aspect and potentially will identify all of the small easy step ways to change their culture.

Problems he has:
It will take a fair bit of time…
It will doubtless require swingeing overhaul of the playing staff…
It will probably take even longer due to the presence of mega money contracts…
It will probably require a poison pill strategy at some point that their commercial dept would loathe or potentially refuse to swallow…I suspect we’ve seen this one happen before…

I’m sure there are plenty more huge obstacles that I’ve missed, suffice to say that Ralf Ragnarok had probably already pointed much it this out - and they blazed in regardless.

Mummy knows best…

He knows where the drug cabinet is at least

 

[Bald fraud]

Says it like it’s a good thing…

Sounds like he’s playing the way he’s TOLD to play. Pisscan definitely still has influence at the swamp if you ask me. We’re manchesh uneeted and this is how we play football here sonny!

 

[zandvoort blue]

He’s just bitter that they never offered him a job.

Anyway it’ll be fine now because they’re getting Dave Brailsford in. A cycling coach.

So what`ll be the game plan? He`ll have 4 or 5 Rag players running in a line slipstreaming so Rashy can pounce from the back as they approach the penalty area, or perhaps he`ll run behind a moped?

 

[Stoned Rose]

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)

Last thing anyone would ever want would be having that ugly **** going hard on them.

Horrific image.

 

[ysmsa]

He knows where the drug cabinet is at least

In Wio's Garage!