This is what's scary to me. This is what is most alarming and makes it painfully clear we're not run by football people at all. It was obvious to anyone who is even remotely invested in the sport that this should never have been even contemplated, let alone got to the stage where we were bidding.
Marko Arnautović | United have pulled out
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That’s the most worrying part, innit?
We’ve supposedly got a plan.
And that plan is backing the manager 100% by going through his rolodex for our recruitment strategy and buying Marko Arnautovic.
Unless the fans make a bit of fuss.
Absolutely nothing makes any sense at all. It all appears completely random; a scattergun approach without rhyme or reason.
Best news today. Now go buy a proper striker please
Insults that involve people's race are generally classed as racism, funnily enough and telling people to calm down is patronising.
Uefa is a dreadful arbiter of what classes as racism.
That's a shit excuse, and he's Austrian
Few. The idea that is was even considered is still scary. Just shows how bad the structure and recruitment process at the lib still is.
Doing a fairly simple background check should be pretty easy and one doesn't even need to be a football head to do that.
The people at the helm of the club are just morons disconnected from the reality of the modern world.
Imagine if Arnautovic had no racist incidents to his name, it means we'd have signed him which still would have been ridiculous.
Good to see we are doing our research on players before bidding 
Thank god we won't have that fecking racist in our squad. Let him rot in Italy, suits him a lot better in every sense.
I agree that Cavani had no intent because the term is used different there, and I fully accept that. Now apply that same standard to the Luis Suarez/Patrice Evra situation, because reasoning was the exact same, and I don't recall very many United fans being accepting of it.
Thank feck. Surely there are cheaper racist has-been goons out there we should be chasing.
Melissa reddy.. loving her tweet about lack of strategy. She’s been a mouthpiece all pre season and positive about us.. so it’s good to see she speaks the truth when needed.
No, it was not. Suarez was antagonizing/deliberately provoking Evra and he didn't use the same term either.
What are we going to email Arnold about now?
I take it you mean "I'm fecking your Albanian mother" (not "I'm your fecking Albanian mother" - which actually would've been a brilliant, if somewhat incomprehensible, insult).
Anyway - the translation doesn't capture what he said according to native speakers: he didn't use the neutral term "Albanian" but an uglier word, a derogatory term referring to someone with a particular background.
So we have backed out of signing a player we decided to buy in a panic due to some angry emails sent to the chief executive. We really are run by a bunch of daft cnuts.
If you didn't laugh, you'd cry. What have these cnuts done to this once proud football club?
We were daft to even consider him. This is the most sensible thing out of the whole situation, all involved in that decision should hang their head in shame.
What worries me is that if he wasn’t racist that we would likely have signed him based on deeming him to be a valuable addition to the team right now.
I’m not sure what’s more scary, that it took the fans raging out for the club to realize signing a known racist, sexist guy is a bad idea, or that they think he is what we need right now.
I’m not sure what’s more scary, that it took the fans raging out for the club to realize signing a known racist, sexist guy is a bad idea, or that they think he is what we need right now.
Kneejerking aside, I remember watching him at Stoke. Completely uninspiring and consistently struggled to score. That said his chances were limited as Stoke City at that point were very defensive.
Nice pulling out just like I pull out every ti..
Never mind.
Never mind.
Just when you think the club can’t sink any lower.
Next we’ll be deciding transfer targets via Twitter polls. We can use it to show club social media engagement when we’re shopping around for a new shirt sponsor.
Next we’ll be deciding transfer targets via Twitter polls. We can use it to show club social media engagement when we’re shopping around for a new shirt sponsor.
That’s how Ronaldo was signed isn’t it?
It would, but it would mean nothing. Unless it's something being shared publicly, such things don't tend to hold much weight with senior management of a company. At best, it might mean they ask for an improved email filter for the company. I know that most medium to large companies I've worked with have pretty complex email firewalls to stops this sort of thing having any impact.
Sue Cooke's pulled out
Can we go get ardua turan pretty sure his on a free and 35, if we want to go all in on the basket case team look
We're moving further down the list, don't expect things to get better
Reading the thread title made give a big sigh of relief.
Madness undone.
Madness undone.
Thank God we've pulled outWhat was their pull? Actual fecking direction. United have not got a clue on what they are doing.
Those two examples can be explained easily.
- Arsenal have a young team with a lot of good pieces and have shown obvious progression and direction
- Newcastle have done something United are awful at, proper scouting in bidding on guys like Guimarães and Botman while United are chasing FDJ and Haaland when those players laugh at the prospect of joining United in their current state.
The only reason FDJ might join is to play with some of his buddies and former manger. Like I said in the first post you will get the few exceptions who will go to United to get a nice pay day I.E Pogba, Alexis.
As I keep stating United have a much bigger problem then played and coaches and the worst part is they have no clue on how to fix it at the moment.
What i don't get is we are being told we pulled out because of the negative reaction of the fans yet every week Mcfred are sent out in front of the fans
Best part of him dribbled onto the sheets by the sounds of it.
He also played left wing. Was better at West Ham as a striker. Missing the magic of being a great goalscorer, but very good and well rounded otherwise. Had we been signing the player that left them, I would be saying we were getting a good player. Doubt he's the same player though, and seems it's no longer on the cards anyway.
So they caved in due to fan and media reaction.
This is beyond crazy. This club is fecked.
This is beyond crazy. This club is fecked.
McTominay and Fred aren't racists. If the club pulled out of every signing who fans thought were crap we wouldn't sign anyone this window
The worst austrian in the history of time
Except that Albania is not really a race... different backgrounds live there, most are tanned muslims yes, but still difficult to label Albania as one race.
I mean... by now everyone knows if a name ends with "-ic" its worth doing a little background check to avoid these kind of suprises. If this upsets you, dont dig further into Sasa Kalajdzic as you will find both are from Serbian descent.
The same Newcastle who pretty much tried every single available player ? You call that as scouting ? Nice !!
Arsenal has been one of the biggest spenders in the last 2 years. The only reason why Jesus joined is because of the reason you mentioned - his buddies !!
Direction and scouting- my foot.
Well yeah, he’s clearly a shithouse, but not sure he tops Hitler :-)The worst austrian in the history of time