I used to proudly believe the ‘our fans are the best in the world’ line spouted by managers until I witnessed two blokes arguing about who was the real United fan and flashing supporters cards at each other because one of them cut the queue for the urinal. Sometimes this fan base beggars belief.
How is Madrid aging badly? They have refreshed their squad fantastically well and are still in the process - while still being successful. Every single club has to go through transition years occasionally. It's a fact of life. Some managers are capable of reducing the impact or durations of these transition years. When you combine one of the all time greats like Pep Guardiola as manager with City's level of money, then yes, it does distort reality a bit in terms of what is capable. But is that down to the spending, or just simply Pep Guardiola being a genius manager? Let's be real. You put Pep Guardiola in charge of United since 2016, and we dominate to the same extent that City has. It's called just making good decisions. You don't need to spend like Chelsea are doing which is unprecedented. City signed Julian Alvarez for 10m. United was more than capable of making the same purchase, but here we are. Real Madrid signed Rudiger on a free because it is good business to take advantage of the free market, and refresh Casemiro for Tchouameni for essentially the same price, even if there is a short term hit.
On that point do we actually a utd fan firm who call themselves the MIB from london, my mate told me that once thought it was a joke.I used to proudly believe the ‘our fans are the best in the world’ line spouted by managers until I witnessed two blokes arguing about who was the real United fan and flashing supporters cards at each other because one of them cut the queue for the urinal. Sometimes this fan base beggars belief.
Madrid and Bayern are not competing with doped to the grills team in their league. They dwarf their competition and have a guaranteed top 4 place always, on top of having first knack for every player in their respective leagues... especially Bayern.. It's not the same.
Then what do you say? Again, even if we refuse, does the league stop with the sportwashing? Do the oil teams simply disappear or at least stay at the number they are? Well... no. We refuse and where will that get us? Fighting for midtable scraps? I'm the fecking first man that will say "feck all of this, introduce a draft system and a price cap where every team is more or less equal on the transfer market and team building", but that's just a fantasy, isn't it? I'd love an NFL system, even if United spend years being shit and not winning anything, because at least I know that it's a fair system and United are not competing very well. In the PL you basically have cheating clubs that are winning and not cheating. All that really matters is whether you're going to be on the losing side or not.
Let's face it, almost every even remotely quality player goes for 60-100 million nowadays. Was Darwin a stupid purchase? Most likely. But even so they need a whole revamp of not only their strikers, not only their midfield, but defense already. They don't have the money. If they brought some great midfielder, so what? You can stick Casemiro in their team and it isn't going to fix their problems. There are cracks all over and it will need a long time and money to fix. Time which Liverpool don't have and money that they don't have either.
Probably not but you can expect whomever it is to leverage against the club and skim profits off the top to pay the interest or fund other ventures.
Yes and United absolutely blow them out of the water in terms of spending, every single summer? My point is that United is not a club that will be limited by others getting sugar daddy ownership. There are many, yes, and it does change the landscape, yes. But people freaking out about United falling down to being a mid table club because "we can't compete with their spending" is fecking nonsense, because even with the Glazers who bleed the club out, we are still the highest net transfer spenders over the past 5 years (and past 10 years), and among the top wage spenders. Which is my point. The only thing that has limited United post Sir Alex has been bad decisions, not money. We could have spent half the net spend that we did, reinvested it into the stadium during that time, had 0 facility issues and we could've performed far more successfully on the pitch. Better managers, better transfer and spending decisions is all that is required for United to get back to the top (as we are seeing with Ten Hag), and then stay at the top, even with others having the oil money.
The Chelsea buyout was a consortium, and they're spending money like it doesn't matter, with the stadium to pay for yet for them, so what's the thinking here, reach a point where they have paid for a young squad and better stadium, and then start to take money out in dividends? In which case it'd going to take a very long time to get their money back, or sell the club on again in 5-10 years?
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Why does he need to tell the time he’s registered his interest? Attention seeker. Do not want
This tweet doesn’t make sense to me. What is he trying to say?
Don’t rule them out.
Hopefully the attention seeking part is exactly what this is.
I tend to agree, if Ratcliffe buys us then ME interest just doesn't exist, and even then if Ineos are still the highest bidders, then it's likely to be for alot less than the £5 billion we keep hearing, so logically it seems unlikely to happen.
Ah, missing the word ‘out’ then. Thanks!
I’m making that assumption yea, it’s the only thing that makes sense.
Well it does to you if you think Etihad Airways is a failing airline that's never made a profit
Yeah my thoughts as well because they aren't looking for a return on investment
None of it is a coincidence. There is at least two separate stories one that is linked to Bazin using his relation with Sarkozy to sell PSG at a higher price by packaging it with assets that were "controlled" by Sarkozy through his cabinet, Realyze, assets that QIA were trying to purchase. The other is the one linked to the World Cup and a meeting between his minions and one of Qatar ministers for which Platini is a witness.
Yeah I can't help feeling like that even though I know Ratcliffe looks morally better
That's shocking. Not saying he will treat United like that but if he does we won't compete
Huh? Are we suggesting Spurs can fund a super stadium in London, but United require state ownership to do similar?
Think he means if you dare to rule the Saudis out you do so at your own risk.
There's no reason it would be cheaper in Manchester. And Man Utd are currently drowning in debt.
Klopp is not a better manager than Pep Guardiola, not in terms of dominating in the league. He is a great for sure, but he has also shown inflexibility at times which has led to their current position. Their squad isn't a squad that should be outside the top 4. Sir Alex is a great because how he managed to maintain us in the top 3 even while rebuilding. He kept the motivation and level high and could adapt better than anyone to keep us up there. Klopp had a similar drop off with Dortmund in his final season there. He is a great, but he isn't Sir Alex in the league. And besides, it's time for a rebuild for him like I said. Of course they will drop off a bit. The extent of the drop off is on him, but the fact that one is necessary is purely normal. Time will tell if he is capable of a rebuild. Only Sir Alex has shown the capabilities to do that over a long period of time so far.
Now that sounds like a threat!
INEOs are worth billions, they have money spare, hence them buying Nice, they pay for that with spare change!
Airbuses, they have 16 narrow body A320 family with 7 to come and 5 A350 widebodies,
Is he? What makes you think so?
Haven’t they had their manager poached a few times by bigger fish? That isn’t happening here.
People are weirdly under the impression that the only way to be successful is to be ME owned. Funny that not one of them has won the CL yet, but anyway...The narrative that INEOS and Ratcliffe are paupers and would ruin United is baffling
