I found Pep talking about greed while taking UAE backhanders hilarious personally.What is this pretence that Klopp and Guardiola are some sort of protectors of football? Both were incredibly cagey in their responses, they were hardly outspoken. Klopp ranted about Neville as a way to sidestep the issue and Guardiola talking vague references about how football needs competition, well, there’s a bit of irony coming from a manager with his spend record
He was put on the stand before the news was even announced. Seems a bit unfair.
Anyone who has an issue with the way Ole handled this has a clear agenda and really needs to reflect on what they think is a fact and what is actually an assumption
Yeah, Pep’s the biggest hypocrite of them all and yet some want to hold him up as a figure of football purity.
I have quit jobs for moral reasons.
Yeah he is a huge hypocrite and we know that. The City owners are disgusting, but I mainly focus on the Glaziers since this is my club.
Would you say anything if you got put on the spot immidiately with something that you just heard about, and had none of the details on though?
You do understand that sometimes its better to take a minute to think about what's going on before you start shouting?
Basically you want Ole to speak out and lose his job because you want Ole out. But then another manager will come in and tow the line. Or they speak out and lose their job. Sounds like a great plan.
You mainly focus on Ole. For a manager you have always quite clearly held very little regard for, you seem to place a hell of a lot of importance on him as the sole defiant voice against the evil Glazers. Why don’t you go off to the Pogba thread, the Bruno thread, all the other individual player threads and call them a bunch of spineless cowards for not criticising the board at every opportunity? Maybe every incoming transfer we make should be attacked as eating out of the Glazer’s palms as well. They all quite happily take the Glazer’s money as well, quite a lot more of it in fact.
Depend of course on how much I would know. A superleague have been talked about before.
Did you watch the entire 8 min presser? Or just relying on those 2 statements?
You seriously need to stop whatever you smoking.
What was Ole supposed to do? There was feck all information floating around, the journalist knew more about the situation than Ole. Klopp and Pep had time to prepare for the subject, Ole didn't.
feck employers. I dare PS18 to go on a swearing rant against Niall or any poster here for that matter. And let's then see what happens
On live TV? Thats a terrible idea.
Lets see how much the Glazer's botch-up will cost the club. Our transfer budget may shrink with any fines or the other clubs may boycott buying players from United?
Yes. He is suggesting precisely that. Clearly, he has never done a presser before or being interviewed by the press.
Can't believe he just sat idly by, as the nazis marched into Norway. We should aim higher with our managers.
No I would not take it, but it is a decent league season for sure. Still I would like to win it so not take being second never.
I’m just looking at the here and now buddy. I think I’m entitled to a little positive summation of the season, seeing as I’ve had to drudge through shit covered page after shit covered page of knee-jerk reactions, premature analysis and blatant name calling and childish digs at our manager. Feck all of it. I can’t wait to see where the goalpost lands next!
Your dreams are your prerogative, but any sane person with a modicum of football knowledge wouldn’t demand the title this season, with this squad and the competition at hand. I’d have liked a closer fight, but did I expect it? No chance.
We're a lot closer at this point than I thought we'd any right to be back in September.
We have one of the 4 best squads in the league and much better than the likes of Burnley and Newcastle. Should surely be able to fight for the title if we can beat the weaker sides and get decent enough results against City and Liverpool? It was a hard season post Covid, but it is the same for every club.
Exactly. Are people really giving Ole enough credit for having this group of players playing better than expected and actually over performing rather than trying to shoot him down for getting close but ultimately lacking a little bit of quality to get us over the line? That’s an owner issue. Ole is over performing with what he’s been given
Thats right. I bet Klopp would have done it differently.... oh wait...
Which is exactly what he should be doing. His job. He wasn't spoken to or asked his opinions before the ESL was formed, nor were the players. His job is to get the player performing and winning games, which he is doing well at.
I find it very hard to believe there will be any fines. Threatening to leave, and actually leaving are too completely different things.
As far as I'm concerned, it's a disgrace. Like a friend of mine said "Some people truly think it's like a movie"
Well, yeah, that’s reading between the lines. Three different results for us and we’re in a dogfight for the title, four and we may well be leading. I’m not celebrating second here, I’m advocating something I asked for at the start of the season, reserve judgement until the evidence is presented. Looks pretty darn good to me, not perfect, that’d be the title.
For sure. After the transfer window I thought it’d be a race for 3./4. We’ve had ups and downs like the rest of football, but to me we don’t seem soft anymore, and we don’t seem to fall apart like a house of cards after a bad result. We’ve even managed a few good runs. It’s looking up for us these days I’d say.
Yeah we can still win it so we are fighting for the title. Just annoying we had games like Sheffield and West Brom which should have been 6 points and would have had us challenge for sure.
Not true, us and City especially had it worse than anyone else, hence why are start was so poor.
