DoomSlayer
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Mate, they peddle the same stuff every time someone tries to reason with them, not to mention constantly implying and straight out calling people to be idiots.All your pro-Glazer b.s. is clearly falling on deaf ears so why not like others suggested, create your own 'Glazers in' thread?
You seem to think you have some above average insight into the finances of the club. You don't. A lot of us here just cant be bothered to engage you in debate because its clearly just a waste of time and energy. Make it sound like it's just an everyday thing to saddle a club with hundreds of millions in debt, then tell us all we just dont understand finance. Feck off It's really odd whatever it is you get out of it, but surely it must have dawned on you it's not going down too well.
As if they are the only ones that understand how businesses work, how loans are payed out, what effect interest payments and bank costs have on our financial and investment potential, etc. I've done my fair share of studying business practices and economics, it just seems these sort of posters are ultra-capitalists and find no problem with what the owners do because it aligns with their personal ideology.
Personally, I could never understand how a fan of any football club can be on the side of such corporate-styled owners, whatever view you have on how a social system should work. I didn't become a supporter because of the Glazers and couldn't give a single feck if they make money from us. All I want is for them to create an environment that should have used the legacy created by legends like Sir Alex and further build on that. Why should we suddenly become less ambitious, why did we never bother to create the right infrastructure and footballing organisation within the club to compete at the highest level domestically and in the European competitions?
One thing I've always though about why a lot of world class players didn't come to play for us, even in our best times during Sir Alex, is that we lacked proper success in the CL. Look at Liverpool - even with their very long period of no trophies, they still somehow were able to get international players with ease, without overpaying much in fees or wages. They always used to get talked about in a nice way all around the world. Why? Because they are successful in Europe and that gave them some ground to step one. I bet if we had 6 CLs by now, every top player would want to come here and continue building on that hypothetical incredible legacy. But we never showed the ambition to get better players, even in SAF's years when we dominated the league. For the Glazers it was more than enough that we were winning in England as it was fast becoming the most famous football division in the world. They put all their bets on the fact that United will get incredible amounts of money from the exposure the league was getting and it worked.
Whilst the other top teams were building strong foundations and structures behind the scenes, that would ensure the future of their clubs, no matter who the manager is or what players are in the squad. Sir Alex left, Gill left and we crumbled. We should have appointed any top or modern-thinking manager then, given them £200-£300 million in the first 2 years to add exciting new players, use the old guard to make sure the culture of the club is passed down and keep City, Liverpool, Chelsea and the rest of our rivals in check. Currently we have to play catch-up, everyone knows how incompetent and visionless our board is and take us to the cleaners for any sort of deal. Most players don't want to come here, unless we offer insane wages, signing bonuses and agent fees. This is the reality and has nothing to do with cycles. We were the top dogs and we fecked it up. Now it's a long and hard way to get up there, regardless of the amount of money we make, have or whatever other bullshit someone will use as an excuse.
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