Over the top here. Even though Ed Woodward has been terrible, he shouldn't lose his life.OUT !
Imagine if MBS buys Man United. Glazer leeches are out of the board and bainshed in US. Woodward gets called to the Saudi Arabia embassy and no one sees him ever again. Judge sacked. Then proper football men are appointed at the top. Sancho bought at the minute along with new LB and CB. Deadwoods such as Jones,Smalling,Mata,Pereira etc. axed.
Sweet dreams.
The day the Saudis buy United is the day I stop supporting the club.OUT !
Imagine if MBS buys Man United. Glazer leeches are out of the board and bainshed in US. Woodward gets called to the Saudi Arabia embassy and no one sees him ever again. Judge sacked. Then proper football men are appointed at the top. Sancho bought at the minute along with new LB and CB. Deadwoods such as Jones,Smalling,Mata,Pereira etc. axed.
Sweet dreams.
Funny thing is there will probably be 2 million more additional fans taking your place.The day the Saudis buy United is the day I stop supporting the club.
I would follow us down to the bottom of the footballing league but not to 10 Champions League finals owned by them.
Funny thing is there will probably be 2 million more additional fans taking your place.
I don't care who owns the club so long as their primary aim is for United to win major trophies . Something which we will never get under the Glazers, who in my opinion are the definition of ugly capitalism.
You are wrong. Football in that case would be secondary for many.Most people that say that are talking rubbish anyway. Guaranteed if we were going mad in transfers windows, signing world class players, winning trophies, playing exciting football they'd go nowhere.
Great then, hope all our fans would do thatI haven’t paid any money into football that could get back to Glazers for 4 years. I even restrict my viewing to inconsistent streams for that reason.
I think fans should unite under a common purpose to get them out. But it would require someone like Gary Neville or of that stature with the club to make that happen.
No imo we won't.It will also mean that we are done as a club on a top level though. We are the new AC Milan
my sentiments exactly.The day the Saudis buy United is the day I stop supporting the club.
I would follow us down to the bottom of the footballing league but not to 10 Champions League finals owned by them.
See how he treated Pat Evra, as well as many others. No class.Christ I love Rio, how the feck can you treat a legend like him that way? Woodward you absolute prick.
Honestly. I don't know how anyone can stick up for him. This alone deserves to get him the sack. You can't have someone at his level having zero empathy and not understanding basic human needs and the emotions of the fans. It's actually terrifying when you think of all of the decisions that must go through him. People blame the Glazier's and they have a right to do so but I truly believe that the most toxic man at our club is Woodward. I remember reading Bryan Robson saying he was shocked at how Woodward insisted on being integral to all transfer negotiations because that's the part he enjoyed the most. We've got a guy conducting transfers business not because he's good at it or knows the trade, but because it's "fun" for him. Couple that with the news about how agents think we're a laughing stock and the more you learn about the man the more you realise that replacing him with a person, or persons who are actually competent and not self serving egomaniacs would go such a long way to fixing many of the problems the club face.Tweet
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Disgraceful.
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Disgraceful.
Inevitable the yobs will attack his house again if things carry onWe can say it all we want but it won't reach their ears. That's the problem.
“I’ve not even said goodbye to the fans. There wasn’t a parting of the ways.What does it say? I can't view tweets at work.
wanker“I’ve not even said goodbye to the fans. There wasn’t a parting of the ways.
“You normally get an idea of whether you’ll get moved on or not a couple of days before the end of the season.
“Someone normally comes up to you, the CEO Ed Woodward, to say ‘we’re not giving you a new deal’ or ‘we know you’re not going to sign, so look for pastures new’. I didn’t get either of them.
“On the last day of the season, we played Southampton. The game finished and I went into the changing room.
“The directors always come into the dressing room to shake the players’ hands, Bobby Charlton and Ed Woodward.
“He sat next to me after the game, with my boots still on, and said ‘we’re not going to renew your contract. Thanks for your services at the club. You’re free to go on’.”
“I thought ‘surely you could have given me a heads up before and given me a goodbye’ but I was just numb.
“It got to so late in the season, I though there would be a role for me because they surely would have told me before this day.
“But it never happened and I thought I deserved to say goodbye to the fans, the staff.
“I was bitter for a little while. That was what got me thinking that this is not being run properly. This is not how the best team in the world should be doing things.”
thats bad, what he did to Evra was even worse“I’ve not even said goodbye to the fans. There wasn’t a parting of the ways.
“You normally get an idea of whether you’ll get moved on or not a couple of days before the end of the season.
“Someone normally comes up to you, the CEO Ed Woodward, to say ‘we’re not giving you a new deal’ or ‘we know you’re not going to sign, so look for pastures new’. I didn’t get either of them.
“On the last day of the season, we played Southampton. The game finished and I went into the changing room.
“The directors always come into the dressing room to shake the players’ hands, Bobby Charlton and Ed Woodward.
“He sat next to me after the game, with my boots still on, and said ‘we’re not going to renew your contract. Thanks for your services at the club. You’re free to go on’.”
“I thought ‘surely you could have given me a heads up before and given me a goodbye’ but I was just numb.
“It got to so late in the season, I though there would be a role for me because they surely would have told me before this day.
“But it never happened and I thought I deserved to say goodbye to the fans, the staff.
“I was bitter for a little while. That was what got me thinking that this is not being run properly. This is not how the best team in the world should be doing things.”
The Glazers are hardly hands-off owners, they sign-off on everything from expensive transfers to expensing a cup of coffee.I don't think they have been bad financially. I know people question our spending, but we do spend a lot of money. According to transfermarket (some of the transfer fees seem a bit off, but close enough), we have spent £1bn on transfer fees since Ferguson retired. 2013 to 2020 has an average yearly spend of about £143m on transfers.
I think £1bn is plenty to spend to make the team good enough, so getting new owners isn't really going to change that.
The Glazers are hands-off owners; they don't actually participate much in the running of the club. They do take dividends, but they are hardly starving the club of funds for transfers. People mention that they loaded the club with debt, but it is far from crippling as some people say.
Not all the management has been bad. We have been managed well financially. I know people want us to spend more and agree to any deal/deal structure, but that kind of management would be awful and will likely create financial issues for the club, which will reduce the amount spent on transfers. The club can't recklessly tie themselves into massive outgoings in cash.
Our issues don't lie on the financial side but with recruitment, management (football side of things), and the lack of planning in terms of managers has been poor.
The dark web, and a couple hundred thousand.I am here feeling sorry for myself. How do we get rid of these?
This. There will always be a small minority of self-righteous fans upset about something or another with the club. The fact of the matter is that if the Saudis bought the club and started winning trophies, the fan base would grow exponentially.Funny thing is there will probably be 2 million more additional fans taking your place.
I don't care who owns the club so long as their primary aim is for United to win major trophies . Something which we will never get under the Glazers, who in my opinion are the definition of ugly capitalism.
I wish the solution was as simple as buying a few great players. I don’t think it is.It feels like we are in that seemingly never ending cycle that Liverpool went through now. Unless we take the plunge and make considerable investment one summer on the absolute right players, we will never catch up.
I just don't see them ever taking that plunge because transfer fees have risen considerably and the cost to catch up now is a lot more than it used to be. Chelsea have spent big this summer and I think have a better squad than us now, but still are probably 3 or 4 very good players away from competing. So, roughly speaking, I'd say we need the following now to be at the level of Liverpool and City.
LB (starter or backup depending on what Shaw does)
Potentially RB (unless we trust Laird and he steps up well)
CB
CM (x2 if Pogba doesn't find his feet in the current role and McTominay can't replace Matic)
RW
LW (if Rashford doesn't become the player many think he can)
ST (unless Greenwood moves centrally when we sign a RW)
The more we delay or follow our current strategy, the bigger the gap will become.
And I have a very strong feeling that we will need a better manager too, if we're being realistic.
He makes such a relevant point.Anyone seen Evra's video on Instagram? Long video about issues at the club