I see that, thank you. Still think it's wishful-thinking to think that the senior exec that joined United, just happens to be one of the few not involved in City's feckery. Will wait and see, just hope we didn't make an unpalatable appointment
Omar Berrada | Man Utd CEO
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At 71 maybe he wants a legacy at United. Why not? If he gets us back to the top give the man a statue already.
He must like a challenge.
So he'll know which bus or tram to get to work ? Is that what you're saying ?
"There's nothing like this"
It's great. They've appointed someone with a football background and a track record of success. The typical Glazer way is a year-long search and then they appoint the first guy to walk into the canteen that morning.
Operating with Manchester Uniteds wage and transfer budget is already a cheat code. He isnt taking over Salford City, he is taking over Manchester United.
Our problem was never not having the money, it was how we used it. And now we have someone capable of allocating billions of dollars.
That's just a former COO asserting his dominance.
Oh do you mean Tiago Pinto,so which other big club has he been a Sporting Director
This more exciting than a Harry Kane like signing
Loving the old school 90s music reference
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Nailed it
To be fair he isn’t an industry leading CEO as that wasn’t his previous role. At the game time your underlying point is spot on. I get that this won’t fix everything - we are miles behind the top teams and there’s nothing we can do to quickly make up that gap. It will be many incremental changes that will get us there and improving our executive / back room personnel is absolutely one of those needed since it’s where I believe we are most lacking
I like United and redcafe and I dont like Liverpool and rank or City and bluemooon.
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I might be wrong but INEOS strike me as someone who will have a backup plan IF we end up in a Spurs Paritici situation
Ok Peter Drury, calm down.
Actually Glazers reads redcafe and appoint the guy with the highest vote. That's how ETH was appointed as manager.
There must Stone Roses Berrada some Besort of message in therMIKE KEEGAN
Is this seriously how a club of such a size operates? These videos about him with Txiki looks extremely set up for SoMe, like they didnt know all this stuff they're explaining. I'd wonder if they even mention these things to each other in the daily as these things are just common knowledge for them.
To me it's like if you shot a documentary about Ferguson saying "Okay, so there's 11 players on our side of the pitch right. On the other half there's 11 too. The way we go about winning this match would be to score 1 more goal than the other team".
This is obvious nonsense as they were paying people through the back door. It's trying to make a candid scene, but there's no way they'd be that dull about it.
As was Rangnick. Everyone wanted him to be caretaker and then move upstairs at the end of his spell. That part didn’t plan out though.
For those of us who are a certain age, this is how things always used to happen, the media were the last to know.
There was a time whereby if you worked at OT, you risked the sack for disclosing anything.
Then Fergie retired.
Haha this is done for a documentary (I think?). Pretty sure that court case might come faster if they recorded the real conversations.
We are not on cheat mode, and haven't been for some time, we always pay over odds in wages and salary to get mediocre players. If we had the money would we have taken Reguilon and Amrabat on loan, or taken a 35yr old Jonny Evans back ?
Our transfer budget is not as big as people think, it's stifled by FFP, poor contract application and over the top wages.
Yeah I find it funny such a basic conversion around squad salaries is being promoted as a ground breaking thing that we should get excited about for someone who will be paid millions. Surely a set up for the documentary.
FFP is the only real limitation we have. Other than when it has restricted us, we have spent through the roof on players. We are easily on par with clubs like Real Madrid, City, Barcelona and Bayern in what we are able to afford, i.e. there are no clubs in Europe who are going to really outspend us on their way to success.
People who hang everything on a managers position are so misguided. It’s always “yeh glazers but” or “Woodward doesn’t train the players”, which makes me twitch everytime.
A better manager at United anytime over the last 11 years would maybe do better relative to the crap we have seen. That’s simply not good enough for me. Uniteds spending and financial strength has been more then enough to win leagues and champions leagues. The strength of the EPL or “poor managers” does not explain uniteds fall so far.
I think of it like I’m coaching my son. Think of it in the same way in a club infrastructure way. I say to him:
Imagine you have a twin brother, both of you are as talented as each other and both have the same potential. One of you does the following:
Targeted diet
Priority rest, sleep and general
Does personal extra training, is never happy at their level
Does not waste energy online social media (toxic for footballers)
Always wants to learn
Targets recovering from setbacks
Focus on improving mental health
Does hobbies that relax
Looks for tips and advice off successful people and peers
The other doesn’t. Which player will be better?
It’s the same with United. United make and spend money and do nothing else that any other elite club would be looking to emulate. United have had the talent but zero drive to make that talent work. They over relied on their money and allowed everything else to fall below elite levels.
Regardless of manager or players , that makes our chances of success much less. And part of the problem is that spending and expectations make the pressure immense and we haven’t give managers or players the proper tools to achieve these goals. What happens is that squads give up or are demoralised.
Think of all the quality signings we’ve made. It’s like they joined thinking “I’m joining a Barca or Real Madrid” and as soon as they get settled they realise the entire infrastructure is second rate. Second rate from elite teams. If you want to be the best then you should be better then the next best.
Elite level sports is elite at all levels. United is the shell of an elite club. A club that looks the part but simply has not been.
Yup it’s a bit like F1, can get the best driver but if the car is shit then you can’t do much.
Man likes challenges. He completed the game on easy mode with City. Now he wants to complete the game on harder difficulty.
Well, they said they wanted "Best in class"; well, I was worried that they meant "Best in Class...of '92".
Glad to see change is truly coming!
Glad to see change is truly coming!
Was this guy not implicit in City`s cheating? he has been there since 2011
If they are found guilty and he is.....then what happens to him?
If they are found guilty and he is.....then what happens to him?
In this anology the driver would be the players and the car would be the responsibility of the engineers and team principle, which would be Ten Hag and his coaching staff. So if the car were shit it'd be their fault, just as it's their fault our team plays terrible football
You know if we didn't overpay we'd have more money for other areas of the squad I mean that's obvious right....right?
Not quite as the car relies on the engineers, research, investment, processes etc.
The font you used for this post is from '92.
Everythings bigger in Texas
Saying things explicitly in a meeting leaves little room for second guessing the intentions of the other party.
Haha Yes! RIP M K Williams - legend.
Ratcliffe said once that United have spent "dumb money", which I think we'd all agree to. This sounds like we're about to exit that era.