VancouverCanuck
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Country: Canada
Really should have sold him to City for 60m back in the summer.
It's hard to fathom how on one hand, there is no money to spend. Yet, we left 60m on the table.
Amatuerish money management.
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Let's all laugh at Man Utd: Amrabad
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Country: Canada
It's hard to fathom how on one hand, there is no money to spend. Yet, we left 60m on the table.
Amatuerish money management.
Give it Oleh till the end of my lifetime
Rosso
AM's Resident United Fan
The worst season in my lifetime. And sadly with Ed Woodward running things we’re just going to continue messing up.
SuperGoon
Debbie Downer
Country: Ireland
Player:Saka
We feel the pain, my dude.
<<reed>>
Lidl Tir Na Nog
Glad Arsenal and Man United fans have each other, we'll go through the dark times together!
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They hate eachothers few years ago now they best friends. Lovely stuff
Country: Canada
Until we play each other. Then we're always reminded how we really feel.
Is Alexis coming home?
Slartibartfast
CIES Loyalist
Misery loves company, I suppose.
Andy Mitten, editor of the United We Stand magazine, has written a piece claiming that Manchester United is cutting wages by 25% and the players are turning on each other. I found this bit especially interesting:
Specialists in hindsight
Few complained when (Solskjaer) was given the job permanently after a stunning run. It was the same when Alexis Sanchez, Bastian Schweinsteiger or Fred were signed, but United fans have become specialists in hindsight. Bad results cloud everything. There’s not a strong connection between fans and the players who are given chance after chance but fail to perform, and Thursday’s player of the year award will be a non-event to rival their lap of dishonour on Sunday. Soon, they'll hop on the first flights out of Manchester for a summer away from a city some have little connection with.
Two wins from their last 12 games is a wretched record. Fans see no light at the end of a very dark tunnel; United’s mangled recruitment policy means signing new players has been an epic failure for most of this decade.
The under-18s have a dreadful record in the Youth Cup since last winning the competition in 2011. Although United are always prepared to promote inside talent and things are improving below the first team, it’ll take time.
Solskjaer has a monumental job. He puts on an optimistic front, but the mood in the dressing room is poor. The players, who were recruited by three different managers and who have been asked to play four different types of football, are blaming each other for their imminent wage decrease. And none causes so much frustration, disappointment and anger as Alexis Sanchez, the best-paid footballer in the world’s richest league. He is a disastrous flop who looks finished.
After the latest farce on the pitch when Manchester United didn’t look like Manchester United – this time, Sunday’s 1-1 draw at a Huddersfield team who’d failed to take a point off any top-six team this season – Solskjaer said that we wouldn’t be seeing some of his players again. He’s right, but there will be no major cull. It’s too expensive and too difficult to shift too many out. This isn’t Barcelona looking to cash in on Ivan Rakitic, a proven winner, but United looking to offload players who earn so much that they don’t have to move anywhere.
Besides, it didn’t work when Louis van Gaal did it. Instead, Solskjaer will be charged with getting the type of form from his players which he managed when he arrived. One or two will be promoted, most likely centre-back Axel Tuanzebe. The likes of Angel Gomes and Tahith Chong will be sent on loan. Despite desperate, misguided pleas from fans to play the kids, the kids are not ready.
And what of the kids who already came through? Marcus Rashford has stopped scoring and stopped running behind defenders, the very attribute which led coaches to rave about him in the first place. He’s never been a prolific goalscorer. Scott McTominay can be proud of his efforts, but let’s not pretend this is a young Roy Keane. Jesse Lingard’s body of work so far suggests he’s good enough to be a squad player for United and little more – though that’s not to talk down the importance of squad players at a club obsessed by celebrity and name signings.
It’s easy to find fault with almost all of the first team, from those greedy enough to demand the earth for contracts that don’t justify their output, to the woeful all-pervasive levels of inconsistency from everyone else.
Andy Mitten, editor of the United We Stand magazine, has written a piece claiming that Manchester United is cutting wages by 25% and the players are turning on each other. I found this bit especially interesting:
Specialists in hindsight
Few complained when (Solskjaer) was given the job permanently after a stunning run. It was the same when Alexis Sanchez, Bastian Schweinsteiger or Fred were signed, but United fans have become specialists in hindsight. Bad results cloud everything. There’s not a strong connection between fans and the players who are given chance after chance but fail to perform, and Thursday’s player of the year award will be a non-event to rival their lap of dishonour on Sunday. Soon, they'll hop on the first flights out of Manchester for a summer away from a city some have little connection with.
Two wins from their last 12 games is a wretched record. Fans see no light at the end of a very dark tunnel; United’s mangled recruitment policy means signing new players has been an epic failure for most of this decade.
The under-18s have a dreadful record in the Youth Cup since last winning the competition in 2011. Although United are always prepared to promote inside talent and things are improving below the first team, it’ll take time.
Solskjaer has a monumental job. He puts on an optimistic front, but the mood in the dressing room is poor. The players, who were recruited by three different managers and who have been asked to play four different types of football, are blaming each other for their imminent wage decrease. And none causes so much frustration, disappointment and anger as Alexis Sanchez, the best-paid footballer in the world’s richest league. He is a disastrous flop who looks finished.
After the latest farce on the pitch when Manchester United didn’t look like Manchester United – this time, Sunday’s 1-1 draw at a Huddersfield team who’d failed to take a point off any top-six team this season – Solskjaer said that we wouldn’t be seeing some of his players again. He’s right, but there will be no major cull. It’s too expensive and too difficult to shift too many out. This isn’t Barcelona looking to cash in on Ivan Rakitic, a proven winner, but United looking to offload players who earn so much that they don’t have to move anywhere.
Besides, it didn’t work when Louis van Gaal did it. Instead, Solskjaer will be charged with getting the type of form from his players which he managed when he arrived. One or two will be promoted, most likely centre-back Axel Tuanzebe. The likes of Angel Gomes and Tahith Chong will be sent on loan. Despite desperate, misguided pleas from fans to play the kids, the kids are not ready.
And what of the kids who already came through? Marcus Rashford has stopped scoring and stopped running behind defenders, the very attribute which led coaches to rave about him in the first place. He’s never been a prolific goalscorer. Scott McTominay can be proud of his efforts, but let’s not pretend this is a young Roy Keane. Jesse Lingard’s body of work so far suggests he’s good enough to be a squad player for United and little more – though that’s not to talk down the importance of squad players at a club obsessed by celebrity and name signings.
It’s easy to find fault with almost all of the first team, from those greedy enough to demand the earth for contracts that don’t justify their output, to the woeful all-pervasive levels of inconsistency from everyone else.
BobP
Memri Fan
Rumors that Fletcher will be appointed as Manures DOF.
drippin
Obsessed with "Mature Trusted Members"
Country: Finland
Interesting, thanks. So from what I found they gave injury prone (and not very consistent) Phil Jones a 120 000 £/week contract in February. Was he supposed to get 150 000 £/week as a defender, or have they changed plans just now? It's amazing how badly they are run.
Slartibartfast
CIES Loyalist
I have no idea what's going on there.
For all Arsenal's imperfections, at least they're not that big a mess!
carter777
Thinks Poch Is The GOAT
Country: England
Player:Saka
I said a few weeks back they were going to be top notch entertainment for 2 or 3 years to come. Wait for the Ferdinand/Fletcher double tag team as DoFs.
****ing weirdo interviewer
Can't criticise the club like that on state TV :rofl:
Jury
A-M's drunk uncle
Did they expect Boycs to churn out a load of pro Man Utd and Ole horse sh!t? Someone fvcked up.
The guy's just nodding all the time while Boycott is piling it up, and you just know he was hoping for some cringey **** like "Ole is gonna do it" or "this is Man utd" or "the boys are gonna turn it around" but the guy is having none of that and the interviwer just can't handle it. Just look how that numpty goes "ok ok **** just nod" after the first answer is that blunt "disappointment really".
All Arsenal fans should send an Ave Maria or whatever they deem fitting to whoever they believe in to thank them for cringey clubs like United and Sp**s.
Country: Kosova
Player:Saka
Hahahaaa, they should've got the "Absolute Bobbins, Scooby Doo" old man in front of the camera
