United Thread - 2023/24

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The perfect fumble said:
Every time Neville utters the words "this is Manchester United" the cretin unwittingly nails the problem, this Manchester United is not first and foremost a football club, but a brand, divorced from what was its primary function, football. United exists now to make money from the brand, like PSG is trying to do. The brand has transcended football.

Because the brand is so powerful, the club continues to make loadsa money regardless of performance on the pitch, and as improved performance is a drain on revenue and doesn't seem to effect the brands commercial clout, then being there or there abouts, every now and then, is all that's required to keep the gravy train rolling.

In a model like this, shit stadium, shit training facilities, shit football only matter if they damage the brands commercial clout in the short to medium term, but they don't seem to be damaging the brand, revenues are up year on year, and this extraneous shit would be expensive to fix anyway, so fuck it, they're not getting fixed, why should they, when a cheap sticking plaster will do.

Neville unconsciously recognises this shit show when he calls for Manchester United World. Perversely that's something the Glazers might actually take on board, if it can be done on the cheap. If their marketing people tell them it will further leverage the brand and open up a lucrative income stream, they'll be all for it.
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I thought I saw GNIAC at Peppa pig world over the weekend with a clipboard and biro, obviously getting ideas for the new Manchester United world of fun and frolics
 
freshie said:
Rat boy has finally had his say on yesterday’s news. His non-negotiables? Who the fuck does he think he is?

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I can't be arsed looking up what businesses Rat boy owns, hotel or two not sure, either way would he be willing to open up if his customers had a few non negotiables - would he fu*k, how the Glazers run their business is up to them :-)

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The perfect fumble said:
Every time Neville utters the words "this is Manchester United" the cretin unwittingly nails the problem, this Manchester United is not first and foremost a football club, but a brand, divorced from what was its primary function, football. United exists now to make money from the brand, like PSG is trying to do. The brand has transcended football.

Because the brand is so powerful, the club continues to make loadsa money regardless of performance on the pitch, and as improved performance is a drain on revenue and doesn't seem to effect the brands commercial clout, then being there or there abouts, every now and then, is all that's required to keep the gravy train rolling.

In a model like this, shit stadium, shit training facilities, shit football only matter if they damage the brands commercial clout in the short to medium term, but they don't seem to be damaging the brand, revenues are up year on year, and this extraneous shit would be expensive to fix anyway, so fuck it, they're not getting fixed, why should they, when a cheap sticking plaster will do.

Neville unconsciously recognises this shit show when he calls for Manchester United World. Perversely that's something the Glazers might actually take on board, if it can be done on the cheap. If their marketing people tell them it will further leverage the brand and open up a lucrative income stream, they'll be all for it.
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And they don't have fans. They merely have tourists and day trippers. This makes it difficult for them to get effective protest campaigns off the ground. The owners know this and feel emboldened to walk all over them. Such a shame.
 
havefaith said:
I can't be arsed looking up what businesses Rat boy owns, hotel or two not sure, either way would he be willing to open up if his customers had a few non negotiables - would he fu*k, how the Glazers run their business is up to them :-)

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he's some rich boy's mouth piece Peter Lim
money laundering business ( allegedly )
 
jacko74 said:
Yes, I dont think people realise just what little regard America and Americans have for the UK in general.

As a country we're a complete irrelevance to them and they'll quite happily shaft us, take advantage of us and take what they can from us just as much as they would from some "third world" country in Africa, Asia or South America.
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They have done us before
 
"Through our 141-year heritage we have won 66 trophies, including a record 20 English league titles, enabling us to develop what we believe is one of the world's leading sports brands and a global community of 1.1 BILLION FANS AND FOLLOWERS."

If only they'd all put a fiver in.
 
freshie said:
Dickheads like this make me piss myself. They’ve been saying the same shit for over a decade and nothing has changed. Rinse and repeat you bellends

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They might even form their own version of Manchester United?

Oh wait....

The problems they face is that they've sold their arses to the world and most of the people they sold it to couldn't care if they were based in Kansas or Bogota.
 
Always worth remembering why and how the dreaded Glazers came to buy MUFC ?
That "good-old-boy", the GPC, got greedy with the Irish owners over the stud rights to his gifted horse, from the Irish owners, The Rock of Gibraltar.
I seem to remember the Irish owners (Magnier & JP somebody ?) were so incensed with the GPC, that they sold for the most amount of money - not necessarily the best prospective owners ?
Another example of how the GPC is responsible for a lot of failings at MUFC after his glory years...
 
marco said:
They dont have a pot to piss in,12 plus years of being taken to the cleaners for players then screwed by those same players for inflated wage demands, pay offs from one failed manager to the next, loss of income from European and domestic sources, the repayment structure of the loans required a minimum amount of success of which thay have fallen well short of and now the pots empty, all by the way in a frantic and futile attempt to keep up with City, it may well get a lot worse before it gets any better, we may well pick the paper up one day and discover they have gone into administration
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I can't see it sadly.

I'm basing this on the way the PL kept the dippers going past various deadlines when they were going under under Gillette.
 
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