Recent content by Mike Oxard

…you’re forgetting the ‘Human Rights’ bleat then? Thought so.

Has to be Ineos if the fans are not to be exposed as hypocritical charlatans‍♂️

Eh? They even covered the plane landing back in the U.K. from Istanbul - it was covered like the Queens funeral.

How would you categorise money generated by floating a club on the stock market?

Hard to sign top players when Utd are out of the top 4, the existing players not up to it, no CL etc. This will be a long, hard slog that will probably see the rest of the decade out before there is any real challenge for the top trophies.

Actually, they’ve won 7 league titles.

I’ve been saying for a while that a fit Phil Jones is worth his place in the side. He’s a warrior. Apart from him, it was a bit disappointing all round.

On that basis, Ranieri is a decent bet.

The question is who? Pochetino failed at Spurs and hasn’t done anything at PSG yet. (if winning something is the measure). Brenden Rodgers? He's won the FA Cup, is that enough? The fact is that a ‘good manager’ is one that works out. For us, it appears that winning the league on a regular basis...

There are only a handful of managers that can do that on limited resources.

He seems to be doing ok on infinitely lesser resources than he’d have had with us, had he been here for more than half a season.

Maybe he would.

Yes, changing the manager every two years has really paid dividends hasn’t it?

It’s more about the upheaval and ‘back to square one’ issue of a change.

He’s had a bad start to this season, made to feel worse by the euphoria and the misplaced expectation when Ronaldo was signed, but that’s about it. It’s a long season, with plenty of games left. If he doesn’t get into the top 4, I’ll hold my hands up, but I think that he’ll achieve that.