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I’m afraid the Glazers are going backwards into the future as they were always wont to. They closed down the previous women’s team, stalled on reestablishing even when Moyes wanted it, were talked into doing it for brand reasons, but they just don’t see that it’s the next huge market for development ready to explode, and they are reactionary as hell.
It is fabulous, fantastic, amazing, all of the good words!!
Good to see so many knowledgeable fans and I have to guess new fans being excited by such good football.
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I don’t follow the women’s team massively closely, but it seems strange from both sides that this can’t be sorted out. Can’t they just use a tiny bit of Ronaldo’s weekly wage that we’ve saved
Agreed, I don’t think it’s a purely money situation with Ona & Russo. Though that will play a part obviously, they will want to be playing at the highest level and they’ll have offers to do just that. So if we get top 3 I think Russo stays and Ona depends on if she wants to go back to Spain with Barca or not.
I’d be in Ona’s ears about Barcelona signing Bronze last summer too, put doubts in her head whether she’d play there, whereas we have given her captaincy a few times.
Yeah, if we don’t get top 3 this season you wonder if it’ll ever come if it means losing key players because of it. If we’d have beat City in the derby I’d already be spending the champions league cash!
Saw this today as well and was going to create a thread but I can't. It's crazy that other teams are offering double and better terms in the sense of years on the deal. The idea she hasn't just signed with someone else already based on those details must mean she has some desire to stay if we qualify for Champions league and met her half way on the contract.
It feels like by the time the takeover happens it may be too late to convince her and Russo that the project will be ambitious (clearly it isn't at the moment) to stay. It's mad though that they're seemingly so far off other offers given how small the costs are relatively in the women's game and given that Batlle is 23 and already probably our best player.
Money talks and if the new owners come in by Easter as is targeted and have a plan to invest in the womens team on the scale of other top contenders that should speak volumes to the players. I'm choosing to cling to the fact neither of them have signed pre-contract deals elsewhere and leaks like this suggest they still see United as an option if the ambition is there.
Absolutely. Players are not stupid, and they will wait to see what happens if we get new owners, and what their plans are for the club, and particularly the women's team, training facilities etc.
Why is it strange? They are using their endless money to whitewash their sins! It means nothing when they have unlimited funds.
Harsh but true.
The problem for me is that if a state sponsored bid takes over I am going to be rooting for a the same evil I have condemned at every chance (Chelsea, City, Newcastle) With the minor difference that United actually was a top club before such takeover. Chelsea and City would never have been world class clubs without their free money. United were and is. So that is different! But I would still hate it more than anything, and to other fans they wont take this into consideration just lumping us in with the others.
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.the way i see it is, the whole idea of sportswashing is kinda silly, the people who will forgive them for there evils because of owning there football team where never people who were gonna do anything about it anyway, whereas owning utd puts them in a bigger spotlight so more pressure to improve there ways, which the world cup also DID DO at least somewhat
I don't want to rehash the whole Qatar issue here - we've got plenty of threads for that. I will say that from my perspective, I'd see money for the women's team as a PR initiative that's far cheaper and a lot easier for them than acting on the issues around equality and diversity in their own country
I get the point about financial doping and wins being tainted. However my mind goes to Lance Armstrong and his 'tainted' Tour de France wins where everyone else was likely doping as well, at least those at the top of the sport. If we treat Chelsea and City as being financially doped then 7 of the last 9 Premier League and 6 of the last 7 WSL titles have been tainted. I view it as a sort of re-levelling of the playing field, where being a well run organisation still matters greatly. It's also not a guarantee of success, as remind me how many Champions League titles PSG and City have between them.
yes understandable but also more interesting to talk about here as more measured responses can be expected whereas its a bit off a tough read elsewhere on here.
Hopefully we've also already entered talks with Zelem, Blundell & Ladd. I know that Earps is waiting for the CL spot at least. Although the money we're offering might still not be enough even if we make it to the CL.Could go either way
