United Thread | 2024/25

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KentBlue said:
What has happened at the rags: their downfall, their ruination, whatever we choose to label it, is something that they should have seen coming many years ago.
It began under the dictatorship of the Govan pisscan and has been gathering momentum like a rollercoaster ever since. Up, then down. Up again, then down again. Then finally one last heroic effort to climb to the peak, pause momentarily, and then suddenly gravitation takes over and you're hurtling towards the climactic finale that ends all funfair rides. Then it's over. The sheer exhilaration you felt when you were up so high above the rest of the world, that adrenalin-filled sense of wonder when you looked down at the scene below, the numerous sideshows with their gaudy neon lights: the crowds, the laughter, the latest pop and rock songs pounding out from the old and battle-scarred PA speakers adorning the structures of the numerous attractions.

Moments later your feet are on terra firma once more and you're off looking for the next round of thrills and spills.
Knowing come Monday morning things will be back to normal: the usual routine at work or school, the mundane existence of life in the 21st century. Those few hours on Saturday evening at the funfair with your friends seems like a lifetime away, but the memories will remain there forever. And the next time the fair rolls into town you'll do it all again.

But for the rags there will be no 'next time.' The club is a relic from the 70's and 80's, they are still listening to Culture Club and wearing 'Frankie Goes To Hollywood' tee shirts. Quoting Gordon Gecko and watching 'Knight Rider' with the Hoff.
The rags are now overweight, middle-aged suburbanites. Trying to recapture what they fleetingly enjoyed 40-plus years ago.Those young denim-clad teens, with their full heads of hair and encyclopaedic knowledge of street terminology, who once strolled about town with an air of confidence and swagger, are ghosts from a past long since gone. Having to make way for the new kids on the block with their wads of £50 pound notes, ghetto bling, but even more damaging to the rags - a future.

Both the pisscan and David Gill, through various means, made the players feel like they were invincible: made them feel the ordinary rules of the game did not apply to them. They instilled in their teams an ill-deserved confidence brought about by a collective fear from the match officials and an ever-compliant media. Pisscan and Gill knew, and they made the team know, that nothing could stop them. That the man in the centre of the pitch, dressed in black and with a whistle in his hand, was there to ensure the rags would win the game - or he would pay the consequences.
This made the rags - for want of a better word- 'successful.'


But it is a very very different world out there now. More clubs can compete on a monetary level, VAR and digital technology can now rule out whatever the Pisscan demanded the referee say when yet another contentious decision went in the rags' favour. He and that rotten-to-the-core club that he once represented are no longer in control, they no longer pull the strings. And that's a bitter pill to have to swallow for a club so used to calling the shots.





(I've just read my post - fuck me! Don't I go on a lot? Should I change my name from Kent Blue to Dot Cotton?)
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Don't change mate..your posts are always a great read.. lovely to hear from other blues who despise the rag cunts too
 
Even when we get destroyed 5-1 by arsenal I can always rely on Utd to make it all seem fine.

So they let their golden boy go to a club above them in the league lol surely they ship him off abroad not to another prem team

Would love to find out what’s gone on with rashford at Utd.
 
City Raider said:
“The bottom line was that, given United's current financial status and the requirement to stay on the right side of Profit and Sustainability Rules (PSR), they could not make a statement signing without a statement sale.”

This is delicious. Bitten by their own dog whilst we are still spending.
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I'll make a statement! Their players are worthless shite.
 
Franny 1234 said:
No matter how we dress it up Rags getting rid of the rotten apple Rashford can only help their team. Another seven to get rid of then they might get top ten.
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That leaves them with 4 players ,they struggle to win with 11 on the pitch.
Give the poor loves a chance.
 
Take the words manchester united out of the equation, take the media spin on that club out of the equation, and you're left with a club that is regularly mid table, selling their stars to bigger clubs, that can't attract the best players in the world, that have to buy cheap and develop the players.

Without the media coverage of that club it sounds very much like fulham or something.
 
deano ou812 said:
Can’t be a coincidence that players leave the shithole and suddenly they are putting in decent performances at other clubs,also if it’s true about PSR preventing them from signing players then these rules will be scrapped..
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Come on I'm disappointed with you
It's the weight of the shirt the past glory they have to live up to and expectations
 
Gorton_Tubster said:
Take the words manchester united out of the equation, take the media spin on that club out of the equation, and you're left with a club that is regularly mid table, selling their stars to bigger clubs, that can't attract the best players in the world, that have to buy cheap and develop the players.

Without the media coverage of that club it sounds very much like fulham or something.
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If you heard Peterborough manager yesterday after Reddy had finished her piece he said great PR and no need to improve anything after that or words too that effect
 
Blu1 said:
Even when we get destroyed 5-1 by arsenal I can always rely on Utd to make it all seem fine.

So they let their golden boy go to a club above them in the league lol surely they ship him off abroad not to another prem team

Would love to find out what’s gone on with rashford at Utd.
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I can tell you what's gone on with rashford at the swamp

He's shit
 
if we go back one full year you will read that if they fail again for CL then there fucked, so here we are and there not making CL so as a result they fail to spend, sponsors getting twitchy and structured repayments on the debt they owe is crippling them, a bottom half club now for the foreseable, all thats left for them is to go hand in hand to the govenment with a begging bowl and even if that comes off were looking at 10 years developement from when the spade goes in, the only thing missing is relegation but lets not ruin the fun its delightfull seeing them getting stuffed one week then turning the corner then next only for it the rinse and repeat
 
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Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese said:
I think they are pretty stuck due to psr - even more so if they think they'll need to pay interim off.
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Anyone who criricises the rags in the media is on shaky ground.
Amorim has raised some issues about the club which have been frowned on.
manchesh utd are the 'worlds greatest club' (tm) you know and will let Amorim go if he carries on slating them.
 
Gorton_Tubster said:
Take the words manchester united out of the equation, take the media spin on that club out of the equation, and you're left with a club that is regularly mid table, selling their stars to bigger clubs, that can't attract the best players in the world, that have to buy cheap and develop the players.

Without the media coverage of that club it sounds very much like fulham or something.
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It's why Liverpool fans hated them through the 70's 80's the media licked there arse always talked about as massive when in fact before fergie turned up they were a team that won less trophies than half dozen teams! They got to be that much media coverage because of one terrible tragedy that put them on the map worldwide it wasn't because of trophies or dominating the league! Back then they never milked that tragedy not they are all over it for 1/2 reasons £££££ keep them relevant
 
N1985 said:
Same fans that can't get their head around Villa being an upgrade to them
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I just watched the recent Talksport video on YT, with that United fan crying out about their activity this Jan window. He was wondering why they couldn't have loaned Asensio ahead of Aston Villa.

He didn't stop to realize maybe it's because Villa are actually still in the CL while they are 13th with no CL football and look nowhere near qualifying for next season's CL.

They need to wake up and smell the roses - at present, they are a midtable side.
 
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