Regular day at the office.
Ella Toone MBE
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In the latest edition of the United Hour Podcast, we interview Duncan Drasdo of MUST - covering ticket prices, new stadium, INEOS and what fans should be demanding from our club.
Also, due to technical issues we couldn't put a notice up for the previous episode which was about the game against Bournemouth and other stuff. If you'd like to listen to it, click here.
I was at the game and China were shockingly bad.
Happy Ella filled her boots but the difference between the teams was night and day.
Meanwhile, outside "the office," there's this:
We all believe that Tooney will never leave United. It would still be nice to know if the club is in talks over a new contract, the current one ends in June.
Not so sure. If we let her go, more fool us. But we’ve done is with so many players.
Even if we granted that there is some possibility of Tooney playing for another club at some point in time, right now surely is not that time given the way the way we are systematically building toward being a serious contender for the WSL and WCL titles.
This is of course a very happy thought for us fans, but it got me to thinking: Does (or will) this "fact" hurt her in contract negotiations? Might the club take advantage of the situation and offer her less than she's worth on the open market? Would she be able to argue convincingly that she's willing to leave if United low-ball her?
Let’s put it this way - she would earn a lot more if she left for another top club. So I’m sure her love for the club is being ”exploited”.
There’d be riots (well, on social media anyway) if we did the same with Toone.
It actually seems like a situation in which neither side has any leverage. The club knows that she doesn't want to leave, and she knows that the club can't afford to lose her.
Update from Skinner about Tooney's injury, albeit a not-particularly-helpful one:
https://www.manutd.com/en/news/deta...a-toone-after-tottenham-quarter-final-win?t=y
In other news, the store on her ET7 site is finally open. The only items available so far are bobble beanies (in various color schemes), but I suspect there will be much more soon. Evidently they don't (yet?) ship internationally, so I got a friend to order one for me which he'll then ship to me.
https://www.manutd.com/en/news/deta...a-toone-after-tottenham-quarter-final-win?t=y
In other news, the store on her ET7 site is finally open. The only items available so far are bobble beanies (in various color schemes), but I suspect there will be much more soon. Evidently they don't (yet?) ship internationally, so I got a friend to order one for me which he'll then ship to me.
Ella Toone MBE.
MBE! Hope she signs a new contract!
Congratulations Ella, very much deserved.
So this is pretty cool:
Maybe Tooney can persuade Ona to come back to United....
Maybe Tooney can persuade Ona to come back to United....
As an American who only partially understands the whole "MBE" thing, I have a question: If I ever meet her, am I expected to bow to her?
It probably doesn't matter because (1) it's unlikely I'll ever meet her face-to-face and (2) I would probably bow to her anyway, but I'm curious.
It probably doesn't matter because (1) it's unlikely I'll ever meet her face-to-face and (2) I would probably bow to her anyway, but I'm curious.
Yes. It's frowned upon if you don't.
Quite a few of the players have joked that Tooney is telling them they have to bow - or did when she first got the MBE.
That's what got me wondering (half-seriously) about it -- stories of her teammates joking about now having to curtsy to her. I wondered if bowing was the male equivalent.
I don't think you need to worry
Some of your fellow posters are wind-up merchants.
To be fair, so is Ella!