United Thread - 2023/24

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Akira said:
This man said, "Not in my lifetime." eh?

15 years later, we've toppled his 3-peat and he is well alive to drink it in.
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I am absolutely delighted he's lived to see what we've become and to eat his words. Long may this continue. Next season I hope we do the quadruple. League, champions league, fa cup and league cup. Oh I'll add the charity shield to that as well. Then we're not only cleared of all these ridiculous charges but given a full apology and United, Spurs, Liverpool and Arsenal are exposed for trumping up the charges and driving the constant mud slinging at our club. That would be beautiful.
 
paulchapo said:
I am absolutely delighted he's lived to see what we've become and to eat his words. Long may this continue. Next season I hope we do the quadruple. League, champions league, fa cup and league cup. Oh I'll add the charity shield to that as well. Then we're not only cleared of all these ridiculous charges but given a full apology and United, Spurs, Liverpool and Arsenal are exposed for trumping up the charges and driving the constant mud slinging at our club. That would be beautiful.
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Taggert and the rags dined out on that treble, City managed a statistically better treble wedged in at the same time as winning four in a row. 100 points domestic quadruple, holding the super cup, world club championship and the treble all at the same time. United have done non of this, the only thing Taggert can lay claim to is number of trophies won. If Pep stayed the same length of time he did, he would easily eclipse 13 premier leagues and 2 champions leagues. Their stats and success is being eroded away by the only football in Manchester, they could be an afterthought like Preston North End in another 25 years time.
 
Akira said:
This man said, "Not in my lifetime." eh?

15 years later, we've toppled his 3-peat and he is well alive to drink it in.
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Because he was never any kind of visionary and his style of football was becoming old hat.

He was a good boss of a team that outspent everyone when the league was basically poor. Most teams and managers in the league had no real tactical awareness back then, most teams had technically poor players etc etc. It was just a case of teams turning up every weekend in their rigid formation and seeing what they can do. The technical ability of players right throughout the league today is way beyond what its ever has been.

I think today's teams are way better prepared and coached than in the past, especially bottom half teams.

Slur Alex wouldn't cut it in today's Premier league. We saw him go up against Pep in champions league finals and his only idea was to man mark Messi lol did he think nobody had attempted that before or that Messi would give a damn about a player following him around the pitch? He tore them a new arsehole either way.
 
Crooked_rain said:
Because he was never any kind of visionary and his style of football was becoming old hat.

He was a good boss of a team that outspent everyone when the league was basically poor. Most teams and managers in the league had no real tactical awareness back then, most teams had technically poor players etc etc. It was just a case of teams turning up every weekend in their rigid formation and seeing what they can do. The technical ability of players right throughout the league today is way beyond what its ever has been.

I think today's teams are way better prepared and coached than in the past, especially bottom half teams.

Slur Alex wouldn't cut it in today's Premier league. We saw him go up against Pep in champions league finals and his only idea was to man mark Messi lol did he think nobody had attempted that before or that Messi would give a damn about a player following him around the pitch? He tore them a new arsehole either way.
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He was a man for his times and he played that card well. There is a silly narrative around him building the team on youth, but anyone with an ounce of sense would blow that right out of the water.
 
Crooked_rain said:
Because he was never any kind of visionary and his style of football was becoming old hat.

He was a good boss of a team that outspent everyone when the league was basically poor. Most teams and managers in the league had no real tactical awareness back then, most teams had technically poor players etc etc. It was just a case of teams turning up every weekend in their rigid formation and seeing what they can do. The technical ability of players right throughout the league today is way beyond what its ever has been.

I think today's teams are way better prepared and coached than in the past, especially bottom half teams.

Slur Alex wouldn't cut it in today's Premier league. We saw him go up against Pep in champions league finals and his only idea was to man mark Messi lol did he think nobody had attempted that before or that Messi would give a damn about a player following him around the pitch? He tore them a new arsehole either way.
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Spot on. These days due to the TV money the bottom clubs in the league can outspend most of the best clubs in Europe. The competition is much tougher.
 
kippaxwarrior said:
Last five seasons they have on average been 25 points behind us.

Rags 331 points
Us 450 points

Mind the fucking gap
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Scruffy Jim says he's going to knock us from our perch.
I think that he is going for the roots of the tree rather than climbing up it to achieve his ambition.

:- ))
 
Of the 27 so-called experts asked by the BBC at the start of the season to predict their top four, only three - StephenWarnock, Pat Nevin and Shay Given - didn’t have the rags somewhere in there.

Amazingly, only Warnock got it spot on:

www.bbc.co.uk

Which BBC pundit got his predictions spot on - and how did the others fare?

Twenty-seven BBC pundits predicted who would win the 2022-23 Premier League title and finish in the top four. Who was spot on, and how did everyone else fare?
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
 
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