A bit cringe but if it gets them talking in the board room then you never know what snowballs.
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
It's stupid and a case of cutting your nose off to spite your face. Why hurt your own club when we rely on boasting about our numbers to generate ad revenue?
I guarantee you if you ask 90% of those fans who gleefully #UnfollowUnited what their suggestion is to fix things, their answer would be this:
Buy: Sancho, Koulibaly, Alderweireld, Wan Bissaka, Fernandes and Felix
Where do they think the money going to come from to pay for that?
I guarantee you if you ask 90% of those fans who gleefully #UnfollowUnited what their suggestion is to fix things, their answer would be this:
Buy: Sancho, Koulibaly, Alderweireld, Wan Bissaka, Fernandes and Felix
Where do they think the money going to come from to pay for that?
So if we scare the sponsors away and destabilise the club on the financial side, what are we going to use for money when we need new players?
Furthermore, Ed will be running around trying to replace those sponsors and will abandon his currently (or what we know of it) tame search for football people.
Or he might panic and hire any shit candidate who comes for the job, for e.g.: Mike Phelan.
I'm just asking here..
Furthermore, Ed will be running around trying to replace those sponsors and will abandon his currently (or what we know of it) tame search for football people.
Or he might panic and hire any shit candidate who comes for the job, for e.g.: Mike Phelan.
I'm just asking here..
Not really. Most of suggestions will be to sack Woodward and hire a competent DoF. We're past asking for specific players.
Thank you.
Its not even a question that social media can put a lot of pressure on corporations these days. Because if this become a trend the traditional media will talk about it too. Its bad press, they do care about it.
Commercial revenues have been flat for three years. If next season goes as most expect, our Adidas deal will automatically reduce by 30%.
Sponsors are finally beginning to notice that we're shite.
Sponsors are finally beginning to notice that we're shite.
And who is going to hire the competent DOF? The Glazers?
There must be another way to get through to the club. How about we twitter United to hire an experienced DOF? Scaring sponsors away will just further destabilise the club if this is successful. Getting new sponsors would be a bitch because we currently serve up shite on the pitch.
I can understand where you are coming from but doing nothing means nothing will change. At least people are making an effort even though it might fail.
People do this as a way to try to force the owners to take action or make them more inclined to sell the club. MUFCs whole business strategy is to monetize the global reach of our club, either through merchandize or sponsorships.
You obviously think that if we buy those players (if we could attract all of them) then we will be a top 4 club again and we are all good. Well, if you drop a stone enough times from a certain height, it might learn to fly...
What has Manchester United come to. I actually agree with this idea yet I am not on social media.
How will this work? Opposition fans will start following us, now.
People won't like it for obvious reasons but as cringe as it is, it has to be done.
Yeah because they are going to read the tweets and apply it, right ? People tweet them to announce signings all the day during summer.
Only thing that directs them to fans being angry is numbers, numbers of followers, activity and all that.
Come on guys! Together we can make a fist! 
People need to realise that this isn't about not supporting the club, it's about making changes to it.
Would be interesting to read why any changes shouldn't be made to the current set up?
Would be interesting to read why any changes shouldn't be made to the current set up?
I think it's a valid way to send a message given how much Woodward values social media engagements.
unfollowed
I never followed in the first place. First never follows.
"follows Pogue around, fixing his images"Would be fantastic if it took off and we manage to have a detrimental impact on our ability to negotiate sponsorship deals, pay top transfer fees and wages.
I would not hold my breath
No I don't think buying players is the be all end all. Getting a manager who can make his team better than the sum of their parts like Sir Alex did or Klopp is doing now with Liverpool is how I see us challenging, not by spending hundred of millions every summer. You contradicted yourself in those paragraphs because the whole make the owners more inclined to sell is in reality hoping for Saudi's to buy us which will give us an unlimited budget. While we don't have unlimited funds, we do have a healthy amount to spend which will be less if our own fans tarnish our image with social media crusades like this.
We should stop being a spoiled fans.
We've swept everything under the britain sky for 25 years, some corrections are due. Just because we didnt win the league for 5 years doesnt mean the board is some evil mastermind who doesnt want to win. Efforts are being taken, academy are being revamped, we're trying new stuff, the board keep on pumping money to fix this mess. Give them some benefits of doubt.
We've swept everything under the britain sky for 25 years, some corrections are due. Just because we didnt win the league for 5 years doesnt mean the board is some evil mastermind who doesnt want to win. Efforts are being taken, academy are being revamped, we're trying new stuff, the board keep on pumping money to fix this mess. Give them some benefits of doubt.
Us being shit affects those things more than Twitter followers.
No one is arguing they are; people are saying they are incompetent. Giving contracts to Young and Jones and letting players like Herrera run their contracts down is disastrous from both a playing and financial point of view.
10k followers less in 2 days is not bad.
Plastic fans
No cringe IMV. And in hindsight, the Woodward banner is probably the most sensible thing the fans have displayed in 6 years.
First thing first. Who decides which player to keep and who to let go?
Ed or the manager?
We should stop blaming everything on the next availble thing, we blamed moyes, lvg, jose, ed, ole, and now the board. They're paying top dollars to keep martial, young, de gea, etc. Even if it's a move i disagree strongly the intention to keep us competing is there, they just havent find the fix.
It's easy for fans to say hire competent dof bla bla bla. But who is that competent dof? Do we trust him enough with 1billion for him to spend? What if he turns out to be another lvg?
And dont get me started of some fantasy transfer buy sancho wan bisaka etc. We're talking as if those players would want to join us. We're talking as if we could just poach them away with 40m or whatever the fantasy price tag is.
Real life football is not that simple.
The only constant during this period has been the board. That might give you a clue as to the root cause of our position.
They're also the constant when we won under fergie. Nobody's complaining then.
Better yet, start following it whilst playing a tuba.
I think you'll find Fergie was here long before these owners or this board. And I think you'll also find plenty were complaining about these owners from the minute they took over the club.
Woodward is the thing who is constant is that crap period then. He witnessed the full six years and all his decisions about the club has been an absolute disaster. He wasn't the CEO in Fergie years.
You clearly didn't pay much attention then.
Which Mourinho ******* started this campaign? Duncan Castles, Sam Luckhurst or G. Neville?
What’s Twitter and Instagram?
It will cause a board reacting if it makes national news and the drop off is millions of people.