United Thread | 2025/26

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Crying on the caff about how much lickle ol' Citeh are spending. They really ought to do a bit of research......

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Man City leapfrog Liverpool in net spend table with January splurge

Forget the league table, it's all about the Premier League net spend table. And neither Man City nor Liverpool are in top five.
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8th biggest net spenders, according to that list. Even if you factor in the 20m that Guehi is, apparently, costing us, that moves us up one place to 7th, just above West Ham.
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
Shame we didn't take the same view over our bald fraud having no PL experience. We might have won something in the last 10 years if we'd appointed someone like Big Sam.

To be serious, they appointed a very experienced PL manager in 2013 when Baconface walked out and look where that got them. And Mourinho as well.
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But, if they had stuck with the chosen football genius they would probably be a lot better off than they are now. Here, 13 years later half way through the season, they could be within, say 10 points of us.
 
domalino said:
It's not just those two. This is from an article today about how Ratcliffe wanted to emulate City -

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The influx of former City employees at Old Trafford has gone further than that. In need of a new performance director in September 2024, United turned to Sam Erith, who had spent 11 years in similar roles at City; in need of a new academy director following Nick Cox’s departure to Everton, they hired Steve Torpey, who, before having the same role at Brentford, had spent roughly a decade as an academy coach at City; in need of another coach for their under-21 team, they hired Wilcox’s former Blackburn team-mate Alan Wright, who had spent a decade coaching at City’s academy; their new chief communications officer had previously spent eight years in marketing, communications and corporate affairs at City Football Group (CFG), the multi-club group that owns City (Toby Craig)​

That's at least 6 fairly senior roles at United occupied by former City staff.

CEO, Technical Director, Performance Director, Academy Director, u21 Coach & Chief Communications Officer.
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Throwing money at these guys is like buying a rooster because you're convinced his crowing every morning is what makes the sun rise.
City graduate after City graduate employed and yet, they have repeatedly failed to reap any reward from this headhunting strategy... and remain half a light year at least behind the club they're desperately trying to emulate.

As a club, personality-driven success is the only kind they have ever known. So, they ibstinctively look to employ the individuals who have been party to City's successs, rather than employing/ emulating the system(s) that have created the environment for success. Even if the powers-that-be over there did realise how to do it right, you just know they'd look at their jealously-guarded bank account and give in to their sense of entitlement that would soon have them rationalising why its perfectly sane to try to do replicate City's succesful methods on the cheap. (Coz we is d'famous Manchshnited, after all).

They're fucked - and probably will be until.the whole financial side of it goes tits up on them. That entire shitshow if a club needs a short, sharp shock of some sort that might, just might, precipitate a culture change. Until.then, they'll continue to go through staff - and managers, in particular - like an in-the-hole gambler desperately snatching at scratchcards, hoping to strike it lucky before the baliffs pull up outside the door.

Fuck them. Couldn't happen to a nicer shower.
 
mad4city said:
Throwing money at these guys is like buying a rooster because you're convinced his crowing every morning is what makes the sun rise.
City graduate after City graduate employed and yet, they have repeatedly failed to reap any reward from this headhunting strategy... and remain half a light year at least behind the club they're desperately trying to emulate.

As a club, personality-driven success is the only kind they have ever known. So, they ibstinctively look to employ the individuals who have been party to City's successs, rather than employing/ emulating the system(s) that have created the environment for success. Even if the powers-that-be over there did realise how to do it right, you just know they'd look at their jealously-guarded bank account and give in to their sense of entitlement that would soon have them rationalising why its perfectly sane to try to do replicate City's succesful methods on the cheap. (Coz we is d'famous Manchshnited, after all).

They're fucked - and probably will be until.the whole financial side of it goes tits up on them. That entire shitshow if a club needs a short, sharp shock of some sort that might, just might, precipitate a culture change. Until.then, they'll continue to go through staff - and managers, in particular - like an in-the-hole gambler desperately snatching at scratchcards, hoping to strike it lucky before the baliffs pull up outside the door.

Fuck them. Couldn't happen to a nicer shower.
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Excellent
 
Mid season friendly. No rules being broken lets face it but this is not the act of a serious EPL club. You'd organise closed doors matches to get players back to fitness for sure but to openly raise revenue? This is a piss poor look even for them and the fact they have leaked it to the press to test public opinion tells you all you need to know about how messed up the finances really are.

Be interesting to see what the players reactions are and what's in the contracts. Can they be made to fly out for this proposed game during the season if they prefer to stay at home? Also what message does this say to the next anointed one who gets the job of managing this shit show, who on earth would go to an EPL club who would sacrifice player welfare over revenue? Signs of a sinking ship.
 
mad4city said:
Throwing money at these guys is like buying a rooster because you're convinced his crowing every morning is what makes the sun rise.
City graduate after City graduate employed and yet, they have repeatedly failed to reap any reward from this headhunting strategy... and remain half a light year at least behind the club they're desperately trying to emulate.

As a club, personality-driven success is the only kind they have ever known. So, they ibstinctively look to employ the individuals who have been party to City's successs, rather than employing/ emulating the system(s) that have created the environment for success. Even if the powers-that-be over there did realise how to do it right, you just know they'd look at their jealously-guarded bank account and give in to their sense of entitlement that would soon have them rationalising why its perfectly sane to try to do replicate City's succesful methods on the cheap. (Coz we is d'famous Manchshnited, after all).

They're fucked - and probably will be until.the whole financial side of it goes tits up on them. That entire shitshow if a club needs a short, sharp shock of some sort that might, just might, precipitate a culture change. Until.then, they'll continue to go through staff - and managers, in particular - like an in-the-hole gambler desperately snatching at scratchcards, hoping to strike it lucky before the baliffs pull up outside the door.

Fuck them. Couldn't happen to a nicer shower.
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It's like getting an F1 engineering team to work on a 30-year-old tractor.
 
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