Neville called them out for it earlier in the season. Nothing has changed it seems.
Meaningless Social Media PR Wall of Shame
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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?
You assume it would change because Neville called them out?
Manchester United players went on a rampage after their club's relegation from the Premier League. After their clubs relegation from the Premier League, Manchester United players went on a rampage. They were so mad that they refused to train and refused to apologize to their fans.
No chance. Our players are never going to change.
Wan-Bissaka has the right approach. Lay low. He got a lot of criticism when he was playing by fans but no point trying to sweet talk your way past it. Lay low, don't apologise but instead do whatever the coaches ask and your performances will get you in the good books again.
By the Maguire has finished turning round when being turned, they've already switched the lights off at OT.
The player's post-game social media posts are nowhere near as bad as the club's official account. The people running those accounts are absolutely tone deaf.
agreed with everything until you had a weird pop at DDG’s on field performance. That kind of nonsense does my head in every bit as much as the social media nonsense.
it’s still a nonsensical post, but this makes it a bit better.
Oopsie!
Oopsie!
Unbelievable
I also hope De Gea is fortunate with his next step brother
Amad still having Sunderland in his Instagram profile picture meaning United just posted a status about him but didn’t tag Amad…
Pathetic! Are footballers really this dumb? No class.
Oopsie!
I think it was his social media team who posted it, not him
Sir Ronan of Keating?
Presumably, his 'team' sent him a list of options with the title 'captions'.... Does he really need a social media team? I'm not a social media person so don't know how often he posts, but surely he could create a genuine, personal post for a long-serving team member?
Surely a blip like this shows how pointless a social media team is. Show responsibility for your own posts and take control!
To be fair, one of the options might have been 'Thanks for costing us in the Europa League final dickhead' so he at least deserves some credit for choosing one of the better options.
Why though? It feels more appropriate to let the professionals handle this stuff. The genuine, personal stuff he can privately share with David, if that's the kinda relationship they have.
At least Edurne knows it wasn't David who touched her drum set.
Still no mention of the worst of them all:
"This is for you, Sir Alex."
"This is for you, Sir Alex."
Footballers either getting advise on what to post or just having someone else post for them is both sensible and boring as feck.
I miss the days of "Do you need picking up in the morning Rio"?
I miss the days of "Do you need picking up in the morning Rio"?
Yeah. It's not as if De Gea is going to be offended by it - he has his own social media team as well.
All the players know how this game is played. This PR stuff is just for the fans and sponsors.
'Professionals' who screw something up as simple as this? Don't they know about proof reading?
I'd like to think Rashford would have sent a personal message to David behined the scenes, but if he's this lazy to have a social media team, I have my doubts that he would have done.
It still amazes me when I see comments like "He just posted this", "He liked this post", "He just followed x".
No matter how many times people try to explain to them that social media accounts are obviously not run by the the players' themselves (99% of them at least), they just don't listen.
Social media is nothing more than a PR platform.
No matter how many times people try to explain to them that social media accounts are obviously not run by the the players' themselves (99% of them at least), they just don't listen.
Social media is nothing more than a PR platform.
De Gea will sit on this and someday Rashford will post something about an engagement/marriage/childbirth then De Gea will post "Caption here."
Serve it cold. Ice cold.
Serve it cold. Ice cold.
What a shitshow, wouldn't expect anything less.
You really think Rashford runs his own social media?
Oh dear. The next time he scores one of his team should run onto the pitch so that Marcus can point to their brain instead.
Pretty odd reasoning.
Yep. I have a friend who is a professional athlete (not football). He has separate private and public social media accounts and does basically all his personal communications on the private one, by phone or in person. The public one is purely for public consumption, even if the posts are addressed to personal friends sometimes. Fans want to see that all the players are happy friends, so that's what they get.
Pretty sure de gea already said goodbye behind the scenes before posting this. This is just the PR version for the public.
I'd like to think they are more direct in their locker room talk. Remember when Cavani posted negrito on insta and the world flipped their shit? Of course they aren't going to be real in public.
What?
This is the man we're supposed to believe initiated and drove a social media campaign against government policy? Yet can't post something nice about his team mate of many years. I don't get it.
Maybe the whole thing was a 19 year old intern called Julie who fed the kids, Rashford just turned up for the photoshoots.
Don't get me wrong, if I were a footballer I'd outsource my social media presence too. Millionaire, who has time for that shit? But in this case because so much reputation, recognition and reward was given to a social media campaign he supposedly ran it isn't a good look to be exposed as someone who clearly has very little to do with his own social media activity
Maybe the whole thing was a 19 year old intern called Julie who fed the kids, Rashford just turned up for the photoshoots.
Don't get me wrong, if I were a footballer I'd outsource my social media presence too. Millionaire, who has time for that shit? But in this case because so much reputation, recognition and reward was given to a social media campaign he supposedly ran it isn't a good look to be exposed as someone who clearly has very little to do with his own social media activity