United Thread | 2024/25

[I'm With Stupid]

I'd almost expect any club to act agressively to steal a march on their rivals but trying to oustsmart your opposition can backfire sometimes. What they think their rivals are going to do could turn out to be wrong. PR37 is a great example and Sanchez is another. I do think they'll recruit better (not difficult!!) with Amorim in the mix.

Except that we've just hired the person who did all of his recruitment for him.

 

[I'm With Stupid]

I actually think that what they have done is bound to fail. The fact that they have actually went out of their way to force/black-mail their new managerial appointment is a great sign of a club that is deeply troubled, driven by short-term + immediate concerns, and devoid of stability/vision. Which is what everyone anyways knows very well about United.

But if bringing Amorin has indeed been part of the Man City plan then they might succeed at very significantly disrupting their closest rival. Stealing their closest rival's ideas, along with disrupting their closest rival, might be their focus especially given the great, great Man City recent success. That could potentially be a concern. But, again, that is just a possibility and a conjecture based on the thus-far easily available information. I don't know if that is actually the case. And I don't really know almost anything about Man City - United relations to know how big of a possibility/likelihood something like that is or could be.

Their closest rival is Bournemouth at the moment.

 

[cleavers]

Ruud left the club haha!

I hope the (stable) door didn't hit him too hard on his way out.

 

[dadnlad]

did he leave dressed like a top manager and look the part

 

[Kippax77]

So manager number 6, since we've had Pep

 

[city2]

Players won’t like how Ruud has been treated by the new regime, interesting games coming up.

 

[Bald fraud]

A few of the scum mates I know have actually started to talk about a title challenge!!
I’m not joking

A couple I work with that had stopped watching football and have no interest in it anymore have suddenly started getting very giddy

 

[Bald fraud]

Looks like Ratcliffe actually put an ultimatum to this guy. Almost like he was blackmailed. Like they wanted to make sure to pry him away as soon as possible. Perhaps because of their form. But perhaps also as a way of trying to break and disturb some other plans or arrangements they have learned are in the making regarding this guy.

And, of course, City have also recently announced that their new and incoming director of football will be Portuguese. Just like this guy happens to be.

Ye I think so. They’re obsessed with us and trying to get one over on us it’s pathetic!

 

[blue b4 the moon]

A couple I work with that had stopped watching football and have no interest in it anymore have suddenly started getting very giddy

It's strange isn't it?

People I assumed had either lost my number or died (honest assumptions by me) suddenly have not only popped up but seem as giddy as they were in 1992.

 

[Vienna_70]

Back to the stable.

He’s been put out to grass.