Recent content by RonB

  1. How bad is it, really? (Financial thread)

    One Glazer brother is the left arse cheek, his sibling is the right arse cheeky. Ratcliffe is in the middle, alternatively being squeezed or spouting out what they don’t want to dirty themselves with.

  2. Graham Taylor - England Manager - A Retrospective

    Not an unreasonable shout, but I think you might be reading history backwards and missing some context. Shilton wasn’t outstanding at Italia 90, but he’d played every qualifier to get there without conceding once, and in 20 matches between the two tournaments he only let in seven goals. England...

  3. Graham Taylor - England Manager - A Retrospective

    No, England always played with a flat back four until it was abruptly scrapped early on in Italia 90 - so abruptly that years later Robson was still denying that he’d only introduced it because of a players’ coup. You couldn’t knock him for his orthodoxy though as the players weren’t exactly...

  4. Garnacho (Out) | Amorim tells him to find new club (Athletic)

    No. Not once have I said that none of it is Garnacho’s fault. What I’ve said is that Garnacho isn’t the problem. And if it helps to labour the point - IMO Garnacho is a mercenary who has twice ditched teams whose youth ranks he came through when better offers came along, and even ditched his...

  5. Garnacho (Out) | Amorim tells him to find new club (Athletic)

    This… is where United are at right now. The club have (purportedly) said that every player is up for sale. It should be no surprise when players take the stance of putting themselves aggressively in the shop window - and arguably it does the club a favour. Garnacho has been at the club for...

  6. Graham Taylor - England Manager - A Retrospective

    Downvote for not calling each manager ‘Reepresentatives’.

  7. Life after Amorim - Next United Manager? | Not going anywhere

    The club’s first two titles after a 19-year drought. But where did they finish in those ‘fallow’ years? Runners-up six times. Third place eight times. Only once outside of the top four. What he did was impressive, but again it wasn’t comparable to Mourinho winning the Champions League with Porto...

  8. Life after Amorim - Next United Manager? | Not going anywhere

    The difference between Klopp a couple of years ago (or Ferguson in 1989 or even 1990) compared to Amorim is that you knew they could do it. Look at Klopp’s career before that - he had Dortmund punching wildly above their weight, to the extent that he left as a club legend even when they flopped...

  9. Life after Amorim - Next United Manager? | Not going anywhere

    They’re different. Because… Responding to an absolute crisis is something that happens. Clubs do it all the time, because crises happen all the time. You can mitigate, but you can’t avoid them entirely. Whereas starting the season with your manager on a timer to sort things - in the first two...

  10. Life after Amorim - Next United Manager? | Not going anywhere

    I think we’re in agreement. Managers are inevitably judged by results. That is Amorim’s challenge, and I don’t rule out the possibility of him doing so badly that he (rightly) gets the bullet after 29 games. What I don’t agree with is the suggestion of giving him 10 matches and then seeing how...

  11. Life after Amorim - Next United Manager? | Not going anywhere

    Isn’t this… a terrible idea? You want to back him for at least another year, two years, to get the team into shape? I can get with that. If you’re cautious but think he needs at least until Christmas to buy his choice of players and bed them in? Understandable. But 10 games is bonkers. He’ll...

  12. Rasmus Hojlund - Linked to Inter on loan

    One less year on his contract, more keen than ever to leave… his market value may not go up by as much as you’re hoping, particularly if his wages get subsidised next season.

  13. Rasmus Hojlund - Linked to Inter on loan

    One goal every 3.4 games for Atlanta. He had one (brief) good run of form, but he isn’t and was never close to be being worth anything like what ETH paid for him. In fact, across his whole career he’s average one goal every 3.4 games. That’s his level. And maybe it’s good enough if Italian...

  14. Post match vs Tottenham Hotspur

    But as he won’t leave off his volition… Probably best to give him £100m to spend this summer. (Additional INEOS observation - the club is briefing that this sum is down to Ratcliffe‘a genius spending cuts, but there’s no way on God’s earth that he’s saved nine figures from his cuts. On the...

  15. Post match vs Tottenham Hotspur

    Depends who you mean by “the owners”. I see lots of people hammering specific players (not unreasonably), a slighter smaller number of posters going for the entire team, plenty of people going for Amorim, and a slightly smaller number again targeting INEOS. The Glazers, who have been around...
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