Recent content by jontheblue

It's well documented that United have a problem that almost nobody improves after joining but many decline, even well established players. One of the biggest factors appears to be general attitude and discipline. Fans can sit around moaning about FFP, 115 charges, money money money but none of...

Football has been heading this way since the PL began. It will carry on going down this road. It's what happens in most sports at the very top once they become very successful.

It was one of the reasons Ferguson was so successful. Same with Pep's City - in both cases, for all the money, individual flair, coaching, systems, etc both teams were/are more often than not the harder working team on the pitch and the hardest training off the pitch That doesn't require money...

I'm really not sure why I bother, but here we go anyway The topic was the deal for the stadium agreed between Mcr City and the City of Mcr (Council) for the commonwealth games. That deal was struck before the UAE had even heard of mcr city. The first allegation on here was along the lines of...

Have you even red your own previous post, or do multiple people have access to your account ? You alleged sportswashing. I pointed out it was pre Abu Dhabi and for that matter, pre Thaksin. You should have backed down gracefully rather than continue to make an idiot of yourself. Sportswashing...

Sports washing by who ?!? Me ? My fellow owners ? We were a PLC traded on the UK Stockmarket. In fact like many fans, I owned a handful of shares (worth a nominal sum). The stadium deal was announce in 2000. The stadium was built for the Commonwealth Games were in 2002. We (City) moved in one...

When cities bid for Olympics or Commonwealth Games, a big part of the process is demonstrating the post-games legacy with particular focus on the main stadium The most common end results are either White Elephants that stand unused or broken promises (e.g. West Ham stadium) Manchester bid...

I'd argue that pretty much everyone has a price, for pretty much anything. Most people's morals are for sale at the right price. For many people, if they are already rich, all other things being equal, that price goes up. I accept a small number of people cannot be bought at any price. But most...

Agreed. But if anyone dared suggest on here at the time that United were somehow in an even remotely similar position to us when it came to recruiting and rebuilding, they wouldn't just have been laughed at they would have been the subject of wild hysteria. If United needed to rebuild from...

Partly because of the relative strength in squads at the time, partly because we had to throw money at players to persuade them to join us instead of the likes of United United are not struggling because of failure to invest enough money in players. They are struggling because the money has...

If not more That's why we have had to sell so many defenders and still we have so many defenders we can't get off the books so in turn a squad stacked with defenders

One assumes they haven't ruled out the idea of including some of the existing biggest clubs outside Europe, for instance Boca, River, or one of the Brazilian clubs. Whether they would want to enhance the fortunes of a club outside Europe and thus make it harder to use the current disparity in...

There is something incredibly amusing about United fans (rightfully) condemning the SL considering at it's heart, it's got the identical goals of FFP: maximise revenue for a handful of clubs at the top, keep those top clubs at the top and stop anyone else from joining the party. There is no...

I get why United fans might feel like this But I don't get why they don't understand that to most neutrals, even more so if they support lower league clubs, they simply don't differentiate between rich powerful clubs on the basis of how they 'earn' their money If anyone thinks many neutrals...

It's incredibly easy for people in the West to lose sight of just how arrogant & self righteous we must appear to other countries. Lecturing about working conditions from countries who send their troops in to conflicts that have nothing to do with them, killing their own innocent citizens and...