United Thread | 2024/25

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The BBC Sports website is like a United fanzine today - more so than usual. You gotta wonder why the National Broadcaster has failed to ask, how this state funding proposed (demanded) sits with FFP and the wider witch-hunt being orchestrated by Roan and Stone re state funding and equity investment. How Scruffy Jim reconciles his non domiciled status with asking the UK tax payer for enormous sums of money, how a club that’s openly lost £400m in 4 years has avoided any kind of investigation or sanction from the PL, how a club that’s been sliding running out of cash, that’s a billion in debt, suddenly wants to spend £2bn on a new stadium - is it credible? How does a shareholder who is not a Board Director get to make all the key decisions - does that not breach basic governance rules? United spin a cheap narrative - and as ever the media including the BBC buy into it without question… it’s beyond pathetic.
 
Blue2112 said:
With the exception of Michael Owens beyond stoppage time winner in the 4-3 defeat and the League Cup semi final 3-1 defeat in 2010 I haven't been to O/T since the 1996 FA Cup game we were robbed of. The place brings out the worst in me which I just don't like and so I refuse to give them another penny. But back then throughtout the 80s and 90s I always noticed how they would roll out some old antiquated legend to honour them and play to the crowd and help generate the atmosphere a little more. I also took it as a poke at City but then I will freely admit to being a little over sensitive where they're concerned.

So today's announcement of the new Gold Trafford comes as no surprise on the back of some utterly appalling decisions and financial announcements these last few months culminating yesterday with Scruffy Jims interview with skys independent expert pundit Mr. football himself ohhhhh ahhhhh Gary Neville. The rags have always been masters of the propaganda machine, always having the ear of the press ready to announce something shiny and new to keep ahead of the rest. Similar to how Taylor Swift hits the charts with a new single the week after any of her female contemporaries. Keep the Bastards down!

This week, to divert attention from their crippling finances, they announce some cheap Al image of a stadium that ticks all the boxes, the magical figure of 100,000, with a blanket cast over the stadium to provide the biggest covered open space in the world for fans whilst also soaking up enough clean air and energy to keep the shire counties watching Nited on Sky/TNT for the next decade. Clean transport to and from the stadium but not too close to make it a traffic free zone, which in turn will become a green environment full of nature, trees, birds and whatever other pondlife pervades traffords wildest hedgerows. A processional walkway no less, down to the ground for the 1 Billion fans (according to the penniless one today) and of course they will all want to visit the new mecca of football all year round. I hope they've factored in a park and ride in one of Manchester less salubrious districts so as not to pollute the project. It will become as well known as the Eifel tower says Jimmy boy, and those three tridents will look magnificent lit up in various colours to show the world Manchester stands with them.

They're the biggest club, with the mostest fans and deserve the best of everything. Why have they got this obsession with being the biggest, a weird self appreciating fetish to constantly keep their never ending ego's overflowing. Maybe it's just me but i've never felt connected to anything that self declares it has the biggest, bestest, most deserved. I'm guessing it must be like male parts and cars but then i've always been happy with a mini metro as long as it gets me from A to B and if the ride along the way has its ups and downs then all the more fun.

Good luck to them I just hope and pray to the great football gods in the sky we don't offer the hand of friendship and allow them to ply their trade at the Etihad whilst the taxpayer funds the building of the 'Eifel Tower of Northern Dreams'!
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Given your last three visits to the shithole I think it best you don’t go again haha.
 
this might be the funniest thing i've read in many a long while...


Old Trafford's current capacity is 74,310, so the new stadium will accommodate more than 25,000 new spectators.

How will United fill it? And who will they be?

"Those Manchester United fans on the waiting list for season tickets may be disappointed if they thought the additional capacity of the stadium would result in many more season tickets becoming available," said Maguire.
 
Admittedly I've not read all this thread but as it been discussed where they would play their fixtures during the re-build?? And the cost of lower attendances??
 
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