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I can imagine they'll be eager to hold off on any decision until Dan Ashworth is in place. It's important that all the key figures in the new management team are on board with the decision. Ashworth is not the least of these.

I'm curious to know what you think. Has any club outside of the Middle East expressed an interest in buying Fernandes at any point in the last few seasons? Would any team in the premier league buy him? At what kind of fee? I believe he will stay (which is fine by me) and suspect it might not be...

Great point, Lentwood.

I guess it is more the consequence of 'what is wrong' than it is an attempt to answer the question but whatever it is the upshot is that for one of very few times in my life United seem irrelevant. There's a painful truth in this F365 headline: Chelsea v Man Utd was a title-deciding rivalry...

Grim, Grim and Grimmer.

Not Southgate! Please, no. Not that dreary, hypercautious, charmless dork. He makes even our Erik look charismatic in comparison. Surely, United deserve better!?

Yes, yes, yes! Very well said.

I guess it's the 'cheated' thing that gets me thinking. Do you really believe that all the other clubs are honest, upright gentlemen, true to a fault and squeaky clean? I don't for one second. If the premier league clubs accountants and lawyers are anything like those I've encountered in my...

I'm curious to know does anyone outside of the Caf give a monkey's about City's finances? Does anyone on the Caf think that any Premier League team's finances are squeaky clean? Most damning of all, does anyone on the Caf think United would have won a fraction of City's titles even with all of...

Pep Lijnders, Liverpool's assistant manager, quoted in the DT today, “There is not a good manager without good ownership,” said Lijnders. Food for thought?

I will never EVER understand why our fans hate and bash him constantly. Is it so hard to fathom? We identify with the team. To some extent we live our lives vicariously. We like heroes, warriors, champions, fighters, charisma - all the things many of us mere mortals aspire to and struggle to...

So much magical thinking here - in no organisation in any field benefits from making changes without first, carefully identifying the problems asking are they organisational, financial, recruitment, scouting, leadership, managerial, or down to conflicting goals? This is followed, ideally, by...

Here's Pep on a key factor in City's success: "I said many times we are in the same direction - chairman, CEO, sport director, manager and players," he said. "We make mistakes, of course, but when we lose or things are not going well we are not here to blame someone, we just see what we have...

I cannot believe we are even contemplating getting rid of Ten Hag. Very handy for the Glazers of course. When things go wrong sack the manager. Let him take all the blame for problems which beset the club from top to bottom. Nothing to do with the Glazers of course! Distract, divert attention...

Haha. You may well be right. My love affair with United dates from the Charlton, Law, Best era. In fact, the first time I saw them was away to Wolves in the early sixties in a cup tie. I'd never seen anything like it. So exciting, so beautiful, so flippin' ace!