Recent content by BackfromtheRed

If anyone has a spare ticket for the Barcelona game next Thursday, please let me know. I am a member.

I have to say I find the list of potential new owners utterly depressing. Yes there are some with bags of money, but is that really all we care about ? Unlovely as the Glazers are, I honestly think I prefer straightforward vulture capitalists than sportswashing ugly regimes. For all the...

Respect is a two way street. I don't think he's showed respect to the club. And as to whether he "single handedly" helped - well overall the team scored a lot less goals. One can debate why, but his addition to an otherwise very similar team certainly didn't lead to a better result. Keane, for...

I really think Ronaldo has tarnished his reputation in a big way this Transfer Window. His wanting to play in the Champions League is understandable at a certain level, but the sheer disdain showed for United - the club where he became a star - has not been a good look. Meanwhile, the club has...

We don't know whether it's for sale. The Glazers aren't likely to openly say so as it just decreases the price. It's hard to know what thier long term objectives are. They basically acquired the club for almost nothing. They get some income from it but not a fantastic amount in the scheme of...

That's pretty much it. FFP would make it pretty difficult anyway (clearly PSG do some questionable accounting) but the aim is to build up the club gradually, fill up the top notch stadium more often and get established at the top end of the table with some European football. But they don't have...

As someone who has the rare combination of being a Nice and Manchester United fan I would say Radcliffe's stint as owner of Nice has been solid if unspectacular. You can't just pour in money and he clearly doesn't intend to. Nice don't have huge annual revenues ...typical gate is a little under...

Personally the sheer money involved has been a turn off for a while for me. I dropped my Sky subscription a year or so back, not because I couldn't afford it but I just resented the cost and hyperbole that went with it. I have a French team I support also (Nice) because I lived down there a...

I also have similar thoughts. The Glazers may be objectionable in many ways (but hey, the don't actively support torture, suppression of women/gay people's rights or employ people in slave labour conditions, so there's that !) - but they are NOT stupid. Their purchase of the club - looked at...

It seems the club has learned absolutely NOTHING from the last 10 years. Again we are in a position of a new manager coming in, choosing seemingly the transfer targets entirely based on their own personal knowledge and preferences, and the rest of the management structure sitting passively by...

I'm getting fed up also. This (supposedly) basing it on last year is understandable in one way, but then it becomes a "Catch-22" - because if you can't get any tickets, you can't gain any credit in the system. Feels like if you pay a membership fee, you should get a guarantee of at least ONE...

I've heard Martinez has also played as a Defensive Midfielder - not sure if that was just an emergency injury crisis measure, but does anyone know anything about that ? Is that a serious option for United, given the lack of obvious options and certainly back up.

For me the issue is not so much "how many Eredivisie players" per se, but more whether the club as a whole has really moved on. The issue with Moyes/Van Gaal/Mourinho was that they all seemed to want to turn the club on its head and more and send it in a totally new direction. Clearly we want a...

For the Europa League games, does anyone know if the fixture dates are (more or less) sure. Clearly there are six match days half home half away - could the fixtures turn out to the the "other" week to the one on the website ? Or is it already determined by seeding etc ?

I am struggling to understand why the expectations are so low. Whilst last season was a complete disaster in many ways, the team still finished 6th. The seasons before, they finished 2nd and 3rd. They even were in the title race around Christmas the season before last. Since then, the only...