Barcelona are being run poorly at the moment, the fans aren't that happy because they can see regression. If they had had our last 6 years the ground would be empty demanding change.
Do you know anything about the NFL?
Not a huge amount.
Comparing the Red Sox with the Bucs is like comparing Barcelona with a midtable Rugby Team
I blame the Glazers for a lot of things, like overpaying for players, not being ruthless enough with shite players etc. If there's one thing I don't like them for is giving our managers too much freedom. We let LVG buy a teamful of dross, did the same with Jose till Woody grew some balls this summer. Looking as clueless on the pitch as we are under Jose isn't down to them, Derby play better than us. Glazers don't coach these players, the manager does.
And was out of the race by Christmas or so, for some reason I just don't see City being 17 points ahead of Pool, Chelsea or Arsenal this season at any point. Playing better football too. They were actually some of us who realised we were trash early last season when we where trashing the likes of Everton 4-0 but people called us paranoid because we were winning. I called it after that game that we were wank and would get beaten by any decent team and was getting pelters. Believe it or not where we finish or winning trophies isn't why most people have turned on Jose. There's a reason Pool are not thinking of sacking Klopp as at last season despite not winning shit, progress, good football, improvement etc. We are doing the exact opposite under Jose despite outspending them, regressing, crap football then combine that to the idiot shit talking our players and the club at every opportunity. What will he your excuse if Spurs, Pool, Arsenal, Chelsea finish above us this season? Please I'd like to hear it.Two manager's who are 2 months in
Mourinho had more points at this stage last season.
Exactly.
Erm, look at the opposition we faced in our EL campaign. It was the easiest EL in years, though credit to Jose as he could only beat what's in front of him. Even then we were a Guidetti goal away from elimination, and thankfully he slipped.
I take it that you haven't followed Jardim, Sarri and Favre's careers to suggest that. Well, explains why you idolize Jose and his outdated tactics.
Spot on. I am Anti-Glazer for reasons other than what the OP suggests. The main reasons why Glazers are wank owners are because they have not put in a proper structure at the club, blindly back manager's in the transfer market by allowing them to sign dross and sell good players just because they are unable to work with them-- like how LvG bought the Fantastic Four and sold AdM, and how Jose bought Sanchez and tried to sell Martial. Also, they take too long to sack underperforming managers. LvG outstayed his welcome by 6 months and Jose should have been sacked prior to the international break.
I wasn't agreeing with you.
They will play pretty good football and secure top 4 as I believe our team is currently playing far lower than what it can do ( which I believe what we can do is what we did last season ). The problem is sooner or later we'll want to win the league, and tbh, I don't see it happening under the current ownership and Ed.
I know you weren't agreeing with me.
If you don't know American sports don't talk about them. Comparing the MLB and the NFL, the cities and markets of Boston and Tampa Bay is ridiculous. The structure of the NFL means that you can't purchase the best players, they don't hit free agency and they are not traded, you need to pick high in a good draft year, unfortunately for the Bucs they have mainly been too good to draft high enough, often enough.
I don't think the first bit is that easy to achieve. He'd need a lot better players.
Well why do you talk about football or discuss United's history then?
Are you 10, what type of retort is that?
Manchester United.
How come? And when did you start?
He's a Mourinho acolyte, so, par for the course.Are you 10, what type of retort is that?
I liked watching them as a kid, I loved Giggs in particular and simply stuck with them.
Sorry but that argument falls flat. What you mean is we haven't gotten it right since Sir Alex retired.
If you admire them so much I think they’re still accepting applications for new fans over there.
Give it a rest and stop acting like a twat.
No, I support United.
Nah.
Ah, the precursor before the #t0pred argument
What was your response to the takeover in 2005?
I was worry.
The only person you ever praise around United is Mourinho. You’ve spoken more positively about FSG than you ever have about any of our players. It’s pretty clear you aren’t having a good time being a United fan. You very recently said you wish that hazard destroys Shaw when we play chelsea. That is beyond odd.
Well if we finish below (a) Spurs despite Jose outspending Poch every single season since he came here and them not getting a single player this summer(b) Arsenal despite going through post Wenger transition, new manager, a board fans were protesting a year ago, we buying their best player etc(c) Pool despite outspending them till this summer, Klopp inheriting a car crash of a keeper and defenders, selling their best player to Barca, having to make do with players like Wijnaldum, Henderson, Milner,etc (d) Chelsea despite Jose leaving them in 15th and having a disastrous second season under Conte, new manager who signed like only two players this summer, we finishing above them last season... If Jose finishes below all these clubs and his fecking excuse is that he didn't get a CB this summer then he'll be a massive failure and go down as one of the worst managerial appointments in our history.
Not even true this to be honest.
It's totally understandable why some backed them at the time, something that people like you forget to mention is that the former PLC was made of worse people with far less interest for sport, far less commercial acumen and far more willingness to tighten the purse. My worry only concerned the way they would structure the debt and if they had a solid plan to finance it, which they did.
Statistically Mourinho is actually one of the best.
