United Thread | 2025/26

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mexico1970 said:
I don't believe it is nonsense I believe it happens and it happens week in and week out, the rags and the dippers with the arse to a lesser extent get sychophantic coverage from the press in this country.

The press at the very least pander to the peanut gallery and it amounts to the same thing as promoting them because in the main every single story they spit out tends to put them in a good light.

Watching the rags draw last night you'd have thought that wet spam wasn't playing, Neville and his counterpart were just talking about a rag shopping list and how they would be improved it's constant and it's real.
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They do, a positive story on those clubs generate more clicks and therefore more profit.
 
Scaring Europe to Death said:
Yeah they played 10 home cup matches last season which probably equates to circa 700,000 spectators plus all the TV/Prize money

This year, depending on the FA Cup draw they might have none, so the only way they can claim record profits at the end of the season (which they will) is to fleece their match going supporters
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I can pretty much guarantee United will get a home draw in the FA cup 3rd round against div1 or lower opposition.
It’ll be live on TV, because of ‘the magic of the cup’.

And if they win, they’ll get another home draw… and that’ll continue till the semi.

Got to keep the matchday income as high as possible, given the lack of games they have.

They could probably play a friendly mid season this winter with the lack of games - just to boost income at home.
 
I posted earlier in the thread that he got 1 point per game last season but their average was now around 1.5 points per game. If you look at this season, they got 7 points in the first 6 games but, despite some bad results, they have 15 from the last 8. That's nearly 2 points per game. Worrying. Let's hope they sack him soon.
 
JASR said:
I can pretty much guarantee United will get a home draw in the FA cup 3rd round against div1 or lower opposition.
It’ll be live on TV, because of ‘the magic of the cup’.

And if they win, they’ll get another home draw… and that’ll continue till the semi.

Got to keep the matchday income as high as possible, given the lack of games they have.

They could probably play a friendly mid season this winter with the lack of games - just to boost income at home.
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If you believe even cup draws are corrupt I don't why you still watch, if I thought that level of corruption existed I wouldn't support it by investing time and money into it.
 
Scaring Europe to Death said:
Yeah they played 10 home cup matches last season which probably equates to circa 700,000 spectators plus all the TV/Prize money

This year, depending on the FA Cup draw they might have none, so the only way they can claim record profits at the end of the season (which they will) is to fleece their match going supporters
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Profit is calculated by extracting costs from revenue. I am sure you're right about their revenues being flat at best but their costs will fall. There are only so many people you can sack though.
 
Marvin. said:
Profit is calculated by extracting costs from revenue. I am sure you're right about their revenues being flat at best but their costs will fall. There are only so many people you can sack though.
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Yeah I was being a tad sarcastic as they always seem to dig out a spectacularly dubious new sponsorship deal.
 
Man Utd are so boring. Their players look completely aimless. They have just played Everton at home with 10 men for 80 minutes, and West Ham who are in the relegation zone and looking like relegation candidates, and they have produced two really insipid and pathetic performances.

They spent massively again in the Summer. Cunha has 1 goal in 11 league games. Sesko looks worse than Hojlund ad Mbeumo is now regressing. They are 3 points better off in the league than they were this time last season when they had the Europa League to contend with.

They have won top class player in Fernandes. Some blues are going to say that he's rubbish, but he is the only player in the Premier League who has created more chances than Doku, albeit from many more games / minutes. He's 31. Ineos with their eyes on costs may well decide to let him go, and when he leaves, either by transfer or age, that will be a footballing loss to them.
 
Marvin. said:
Man Utd are so boring. Their players look completely aimless. They have just played Everton at home with 10 men for 80 minutes, and West Ham who are in the relegation zone and looking like relegation candidates, and they have produced two really insipid and pathetic performances.

They spent massively again in the Summer. Cunha has 1 goal in 11 league games. Sesko looks worse than Hojlund ad Mbeumo is now regressing. They are 3 points better off in the league than they were this time last season when they had the Europa League to contend with.

They have won top class player in Fernandes. Some blues are going to say that he's rubbish, but he is the only player in the Premier League who has created more chances than Doku, albeit from many more games / minutes. He's 31. Ineos with their eyes on costs may well decide to let him go, and when he leaves, either by transfer or age, that will be a footballing loss to them.
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That's the way I see it too, they also are in a bit of a conundrum where they are constantly being rebuilt by different managers and spending a kings ransom whilst expecting to be talked about as an elite team when in reality they are a team in constant transition.

And it's fucking delicious ;-)
 
CC1 said:
Nah. The media are taken in by the rag constantly insisting that they’ve turned that corner AND scruffy Jim needs to use those brown envelopes to keep his club in the public (& global) spotlight so he can get funding for his new tent.
It’s working - the World Cup want to use the new stadium if it ever gets built.
You have to ask WHY the rags get so much attention when they are far from being the most exciting team to watch.
Surely on days when there is only one PL league match (& WHY is that?) Sky & TNT would prefer to show the clubs that are doing well & are great to watch??

Corrupt in every area now is football. ££££
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The PL was invented for clubs that play in red . It's in the DNA and will never change
 
blueste41 said:
The only thing broadcasters/media care about is profit, the notion that they exist simply to promote certain clubs is nonsense. The same with political parties, every Labour supporter is adamant the media are pro conservative and vice versa. Like it or not the Rags have big global support so are attractive to broadcasters to generate profit. The media just like everyone else knows how shit they are Scruffy Jim isn't fooling anyone but a positive Rags story generates more clicks than a negative one-profit. A newly built Swamp would seat a lot of fans-profit. Your right football is corrupt but it's corrupt for organisations to make profit.
There is another simple practical reason that the Rags game get rescheduled this season, they are not in Europe so don't play midweek therefore it's easier to reschedule their otherwise weekend fixture.
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If you believe that the rags have no influence in football that’s fine - for me there’s too much evidence that the corruption favours certain clubs rather than the media. The media is their tool.
 
JASR said:
I can pretty much guarantee United will get a home draw in the FA cup 3rd round against div1 or lower opposition.
It’ll be live on TV, because of ‘the magic of the cup’.

And if they win, they’ll get another home draw… and that’ll continue till the semi.

Got to keep the matchday income as high as possible, given the lack of games they have.

They could probably play a friendly mid season this winter with the lack of games - just to boost income at home.
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How many fucking Monday night games have they had being the only game on tv that day
 
blue b4 the moon said:
Think they're on more on days where there's no other games as they have no other commitments like other 'no mark' teams who they're being shown against.

If they lose in the FAC 3rd round they'll play 40 games this season in total, to put in perspective last season which wasn't particularly successful for us we played 61 times.
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I’d prefer to watch the teams in the relegation fight occasionally ( maybe soon that will include the rags legitimately) - they’ve no other commitments either
 
Marvin. said:
Man Utd are so boring. Their players look completely aimless. They have just played Everton at home with 10 men for 80 minutes, and West Ham who are in the relegation zone and looking like relegation candidates, and they have produced two really insipid and pathetic performances.

They spent massively again in the Summer. Cunha has 1 goal in 11 league games. Sesko looks worse than Hojlund ad Mbeumo is now regressing. They are 3 points better off in the league than they were this time last season when they had the Europa League to contend with.

They have won top class player in Fernandes. Some blues are going to say that he's rubbish, but he is the only player in the Premier League who has created more chances than Doku, albeit from many more games / minutes. He's 31. Ineos with their eyes on costs may well decide to let him go, and when he leaves, either by transfer or age, that will be a footballing loss to them.
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Think Amorim is now trying to get them to play by numbers in his 3-4-3 system as he’s failed in getting them to understand it otherwise.

At the moment, that means they are incapable of adapting to in-game scenarios, such as Everton playing with 10 men for 80 mins.

Amorim failed to take one of their 3 centre backs off, meaning they had no overloads up the pitch.

Couple that with Luke Shaw’s inability to be able to follow any instruction and they seemed bereft of ideas.

Cunha and Fernandes aren’t team players, they play for themselves. Therefore, players like Sesko, that rely on others to create chances for them seem dreadful. (See Hojlund and every other number 9 that has seemed dreadful there)

Long may it continue.
 
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