United Thread - 2023/24

[Blu1]

This club is a marketing disaster.
What a stupid thing to say about city & Liverpool although I agree about knocking old toilet down

Can’t wait for all the internal politics to start & this fool to waste millions

 

[kippaxwarrior]

Unfortunately United were never going to be shit forever, and whilst it will take a number of years to challenge City again, all this talk of a new stadium is a shame. Old Trafford my be the largest club ground in the country, but it's fucking shite. Ratcliffe may be the latest incumbent prick (albeit minority), but he's a serious operator and the fuckers are going to end up with a brand new state of the art 90,000 capacity stadium that the media will fawn over for years to come!!

(And the annoying travel to Wembley for semi-finals will be replaced by a trip to the rags lovely ground instead!)

So do you think all the businesses on Wharfside and The Freight Terminal will just roll over for Jim and pack up and fuck off? I'm pretty confident that's not going to happen.

And I very much doubt The FA will want to keep Wembley for all their major football events as it's an absolute cash cow for them and that's if(And it's a big if) the rags build a new stadium

 

[mackenzie]

Which perch are Liverpool on, exactly?

The one at the bottom, near all the shit.

 

[uwe rosler 28]

Why would the fa want a Wembley of the North?? They want 99% of games in London at Wembley to help pay the stadium off and so they don't have to travel far for there knees up.

 

[spiny]

Scruffy Jim should know the rags will need to knock a few more clubs off their perch before they reach City or Liverpool. He may run out of years as he is getting old now.

His strategy is to copy what Manchester City FC and CFG have done, even down to poaching staff. They have a business that has been overtaken on and off the field. For all the talk of a 90k Wembley of the North (a la Maine Road?) they would have to fill it, provide infrastructure plus spend a couple of billion on ground, facilities and players over at least 5 years with no guarantee of success and return on investment.

The ignomy and irony after all their criticism and malice aimed at City, who are not standing still. They should be so lucky.

 

[Platt Lane 59]

Yeh screams of HS2 estimating.............

Perhaps HS2 could terminate at the Old Trafford metro stop, so that bulk of their support can travel direct from The South ?
Also, a direct route from Ringway Airport to the Swamp, so the overseas support get there pronto ?

 

[cleavers]

Can’t wait for all the internal politics to start & this fool to waste millions

Funnily enough, I was thinking along the same lines, there'll be a fall out somewhere, he's already asking for the fans to be patient, with the glazers.

 

[waspish]

Did they ask him is going to start paying tax? What he said about the rapist was a disgrace and tells you all about his character! A fucking dirty tax dodging shark

 

[smevchenko]

So do you think all the businesses on Wharfside and The Freight Terminal will just roll over for Jim and pack up and fuck off? I'm pretty confident that's not going to happen.

And I very much doubt The FA will want to keep Wembley for all their major football events as it's an absolute cash cow for them and that's if(And it's a big if) the rags build a new stadium

Obviously hurdles to overcome and not a quick fix, but if people think United will remain in a stadium that is falling so far behind competitors in terms of facilities and hospitality then they are kidding themselves.

Maybe whilst the Glazers are majority shareholders it might not happen, but sooner or later they will get a new stadium. And when they do, it will clearly be something bigger than they have now.

 

[Aba452]

The worry is that as we've seen many times in the past, these vermin have been bailed out by the government, using our money.

Really the scruff's plan should be laughed out of hand, but notice how Trafford has always received preferential treatment for infrastructure?

The smelly git should provide his and his american overlords money to bring their shitheap up to minimum standard. Of course this could all be an extended Clarkie....... and the fookers just stringing the plastics along!

 

[LangleyBlue1970]

The more he read the more I think this **** is Michael Knighton MK2.

 

[WestGorton]

A very rich person confirmed you can be an threatening prick to get there. What's new

 

[Sale Moor Blue]

Will end on tears
Can't fucking wait.

 

[Tb1981]

He is full of sound bytes
Playing to the masses by saying what they want to hear
Is there any substance?
Will any top players want to go there or will they have to splash the cash and make the same mistakes again.
They are a long way behind. A few stuffy wins doesn’t make them any good

 

[Citizen of Legoland]

There will be riots on the streets if taxpayer money goes to a project like this after cutting funding for hospitals and HS2.

Scruffy owner for a scruffy club. Shameful for the “world’s greatest club” to be begging like this.

 

[horlock_was_super]

I am sure I read that the country is in recession.
NHS beyond fooked.
Schools falling down.
Homeless people everywhere.
On and on our broken country stumbles along to who knows where.
Up pops a billionaire tax exile trying to convince a lame duck government that this could be a vote winner.
What’s with this south Manchester bollox regeneration he’s asking for?
Oh he’s a knight on his trusty steed alright in a similar way that a certain P J Swales set himself up as all those years ago hopefully.

 

[JuriRs]

Sir Jim seems like a profound guy with a vision, I don't know if he has all the funds to finance those mega projects, but being in iNEOS so long I am sure he knows what he is doing. It's interesting times ahead.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Have they turned another corner?
Dodecahedron cunts

They think they have, but CCTV footage suggests otherwise.

 

[ganganvince]

There will be riots on the streets if taxpayer money goes to a project like this after cutting funding for hospitals and HS2.

Scruffy owner for a scruffy club. Shameful for the “world’s greatest club” to be begging like this.

Already got Mayoral support

 

[Citizen of Legoland]

Already got Mayoral support

It hasn’t. He’s said he would help in any way they can to facilitate their plans, not quite the same thing. He’d say the same about our plans.