Joke of a club. They have wasted 10 days of the January window doing nothing, instead if focusing on bringing someone in to strengthen the team they are instead gonna interview interims the whole month.
Club ownership | Senior management team talk
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In the latest edition of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood), Imran (@Annihilate Now!) & Jamie (@Vault Dweller) celebrate a fantastic victory as Manchester United won 2-0 in the Derby. They celebrate the changes Carrick has made, discuss our new coaching team and find time to play a Stupid Game. Enjoy!
Jason Wilcox already made it clear they'll be no new signings in this window, that's part of what led to Amorim lising the plot during the meeting before the Leeds game.
There's no money in January so forget it. Interim has to come in and make do (to be fair a re-jig of the MF should get us through)
New York Times article -- https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6954812/2026/01/09/manager-sacked-philosophy-amorim-nancy-maresca/
The gist is, I think, that many people who manage soccer businesses aren't particularly good at their jobs -- not good at the soccer part, and not good at the business part.
The gist is, I think, that many people who manage soccer businesses aren't particularly good at their jobs -- not good at the soccer part, and not good at the business part.
You are not good at being poster at a football board.
I’ve been thinking about blame. And part of who’s to blame is the fans. As a collective we are naive and easily manipulated. Going back even before the INEOS and Ratcliffe deception, look how often anti glazer sentiment would quickly die down with a signing.
Anyone that thinks protests don’t work look at Liverpool and Ac Milan their fans both protested and/or boycotted matches and it led to them getting rid of incompetent owners.
So yeah glazers saw an opportunity to buy a club for nothing and they took it. Ratcliffe offered them a way to sell 25% and make over 100% return on the price of club in 2005 and the glazers took it.
The signs about Ratcliffe and INEOS being incompetent were there from the beginning they do own two other clubs. The signs about Ratcliffe being self serving were also there. Look how he kept bending to the will of the glazers. But fans wanted to fantasise about Ratcliffe being a saviour, made up fantasise about him buying the club outright with 2-3 years with “put & call options” spun every negative story into a positive. So after a while the reality is United is where it is because the fans are not as ‘militant’ as Ac Milan, Liverpool and to be honest I don’t think what has happened to United would be tolerated by fans at many other historically great European clubs be it Bayern, Barca, Real, etc
What's with the random ad hominem attack
Awwwww. I’m so sad
Doesn't know the name of the game.
Something I posted a while back before we hired Dan Ashworth and Wilcox. I think it was always obvious egos would clash. Just never realised the people being hired would be so incompetent
Ouch yeah I missed that, criminal offence
United fans have repeatedly protested and nothing has happened because the Glazer's haven't needed to sell, the idiots at Liverpool left because they were in such a state financially that they couldn't stay, it had nothing to do with protests, while AC Milan fans protested against their owners last years and yet their ownership hasn't changed so everything you have written there is nonsense. Blaming match going fans (I get to about 10 games a year but am not there most weeks so I don't consider myself as much of a fan as them) in any way for the ownership situation is absolutely ludicrous. I'm guessing you've never been anywhere near Old Trafford and yet decide to blame those who do go, many of them being posters on this forum, for something over which they have no control.
I’m talking about Ac Milan protests 10 years ago, at least know what I’m talking about before you call it nonsense. Of course it’s idiotic to assume that protest will work in removing owners immediately. They take time and intensity. But the Glazers have been at United for over 20 years now, actual protests have been on and off and never reached any sustained level where you can say the owners have felt pressured for anything longer than a few months.
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Doesn’t matter what City have done on that front.
We had a head start. We absolutely blew it under this ownership.
Well it is still nonsense because they protested again and it did nothing. Your point was that AC Milan fans are more militant and therefore forced the owners out but then apparently it didn't work the more recent time they protested. To be honest I'm not even sure which ownership change at Milan you're referring to as being driven by fan pressure, the ownership there changed about 3 times in a few years due to financial issues.
United fans have protested a lot more than Liverpool fans ever did, they could have protested non-stop for 20 years and the Glazer's wouldn't have given a shit if their investment was still valuable and still had the potential to appreciate in vaiue.
The midfield is a free pass for opponents, the club have no idea what they are doing.
Why comment if you’re not even sure which protest I’m referring to? And therefore won’t be aware of the length and intensity of the protest and boycott. But instead keep referring to the silent protest that lasted 6 months in 2025. To compare that to what went on a decade ago shows ignorance of the issue.
Yeah look at the fact our protests caused a game to actually be postponed, leeches were probably just sat in their Florida mansions laughing at it all.
The only thing I will give credit to Ineos for is their management of transfers. Now that Amorim is gone, we're not left with his favourite players from Sporting who turned out to be hugely expensive mistakes like Ten Hag's ex-Ajax players. We could have pushed the boat out for Gyokeres to tempt him to pick United over Arsenal - thank God we didn't. Ineos' decision to go for a cheaper and younger prospect in Lammens instead of the older and expensive Emi Martinez is also looking like a wise decision. This is why the current situation noticeably feels like less of a significant rebuild than when Ten Hag was sacked.
We desperately need to appoint a PROPER Sporting Director which definitely isn't Wilcox. Now finding a CEO to replace Berrada looks to be a much tougher ask.
Didn't think it was possible to make things worse but here we are. This minority shareholding from these utterly incompetent idiots is doing nothing but harm to this football club
Jim can't fix this.
INEOS need to seriously consider their futures at this point as there is nobody left to blame other than themselves for where we find ourselves.
Anyone who thought we were spending money in January is delusional.
INEOS and GLazers in too much debt and financial restrictions to fix this
need the right people on the board but again need money to fix the quality in this team
need to sell up to someone rich...
need the right people on the board but again need money to fix the quality in this team
need to sell up to someone rich...
Not serious people, as Logan Roy would say.
They don’t know what they’re doing do they? Sacked the manager because he bruised Wilcox ego, and effectively wrote the season off.
Sack Wilcox and Berrada. Two absolute fecking pricks who make Ed Woodward look like a god
fecking joke ownership. Threw away only chance at silverware cause we couldn't get it sorted between two caretaker options that nobody else is even fighting us for
They don't have the money nor the ability. It's a perfect storm really.
They really need to sell the club before its value seriously diminishes.
Need people with real money. Not some British billionaire.
Qataris, you are up!
Qataris, you are up!
Seems pretty clear Amorim was liked by the players, and he has a lot more football knowledge than anyone who is still at the club
Should have sold the club to that Qatari sheikh. What's his name.
Ed Woodward is 10 folds more competent than all of them.
The only hope is that these idiots will drive the Clubs value down so much someone will come in an save us. And I dont give a rats if that's a Qatari
I said as much the last day (and the two caretaker options are putrid as well) and some people wanted to have a go at me because Darren Fletcher has complete his coaching courses and knows the club. Diabolical stuff.
It's a wild thing to say. But if UTD miss back to back European football with their lowest number of games played than no one can argue against that.
Where are the flyers?
They have ruined the club
They have left the reputation of the club in tatters with bad decision after bad decision
They’ve ripped apart peoples lives by making layoff after layoff on the pretence of saving money but then will spend 10s of millions sacking people because their feelings are hurt at being called out for mismanagement
Vultures, vampires, bluffers.
They’ve taken the spirit of this club and just put their shitty stamp all over it.
They have left the reputation of the club in tatters with bad decision after bad decision
They’ve ripped apart peoples lives by making layoff after layoff on the pretence of saving money but then will spend 10s of millions sacking people because their feelings are hurt at being called out for mismanagement
Vultures, vampires, bluffers.
They’ve taken the spirit of this club and just put their shitty stamp all over it.
This. They’ve clearly don’t care about the remaining of the season. If they did they would have signed a cm or two, even if on loan, and tried to get CL football next year. As long as fans still turn up and cheer they are not bothered. They have written off the season so should fans. Then we might just see some action from Glazers and their muscle INEOS.