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Manchester United are slowly entering their Blackburn and Nottingham Forest era. That phase you get to where it doesn't matter the trophies you've won in the past.
Because of Current Status, You are officially termed a small club. It won't be long now. A lot of their fans will leave the club. And United will cease to become a big club permanently. Just like Nottingham and Blackburn
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Hi @andreajenkyns, why did you delete the video of yourself with Paolo Zampoli talking about how you had just had lunch together?
Is it because you realised the House Judiciary Committee investigation stated he was “an active participant” in Jeffery Epstein's alleged sex trafficking?
Or was it that the FBI said he arranged a model’s visa before she was recruited to give a massage at Epstein’s house, where Epstein allegedly raped her?
Or is it the civil lawsuit he’s facing over the alleged drugging and raping of Victoria Drake?
And you think he’s “amazing”.
That’s a lot of promises you’re making there, Mayor.
Another thick cunt. In a subsequent response, apparently 15-29 years you’d never have seen anyone wearing blue at Chelsea away. Fuck off you daft sausage.
Seem to have made yourself look an absolute cunt, your “funny” post backfired and most people just think you’re a twat. Bravo.
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The 2005 leveraged Man United takeover made the club an empty husk, bled dry by vulture capitalists. Becoming the weekly butt of everyone else's joke was accelerated by the equally hopeless INEOS-led front. Until that changes, anything else is rearranging the Titanic deck chairs.
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Tommy Robinson sent a letter to himself, he meant to log out and send it from a different account.
But he didn't.
Don't RT 🤣
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"The amount it has cost in interest is £852m, according to respected football finance blogger Swiss Ramble."
He takes that number out of the cashflow, and is now £892m with 2026. But need to add £141m in arrangement and early termination fees. Takes total over £1 billion
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Manchester United Football Club.
A football club only works when the sum of its parts is greater than any one human.
At Manchester United that worked ruthlessly well for 20 years.
You can then trace when the rot started.
1. Calling Moyes "Everton". Big time players started to call the shots. That Moyes wasn't up to it is irelevant, the sum of the parts mantra was broken.
2. Ronaldo return. Always about 1 player in pressers, never about the team.
3. The piano playing decadence of Alexis reveal. City announce Haaland in a bland statement. United went full Liberace to "prove" how big they were. Clubs on top don't need to prove anything. They just do.
4. Numerous managers, sporting directors, organisational changes. Villa gave Emery the key to Villa Park and Bodymoor Health and said "you're the expert, we'll bring in your guys". 90% worked, 10% didn't. The 10% exited without fuss. United? Every name is a part of the circus.
5. Leaks. If you're supposed to be the worlds biggest club, you don't leak to Partridge type YouTubers or local journos. Chose players and their character carefully.
6. Fergie. Liverpool ruthlessly moved Shankly well away from Anfield, to the dismay of many. Romantics rightly said " WTF, it's him who started this!". Liverpool board and Boot Room said, "Move him out, he's only ever going to be a distraction". Proved true. The cameras panning to Fergie every game did United no favours. Why? Nobody could compete with that man.
7. Owners. When you allow owners in who only want to use you as collateral ( Hi Mr Big Banker, we own Man United so we're good for the fucking huge loan we want for something else) in a transaction, you're fucked. A lesson that even the biggest clubs are prone to chasing the dollar from anyone and everyone. Time to protect all of our clubs from rogue ownership.
8. Four four fucking two. Attack attack attack. Sometimes, in order to find yourself you need to go back to your roots. United play attacking, swaggering football. Buy two great wide men. Two mobile and aggressive midfielders. One ball playing, one aggressive central defender. Two fullbacks who only defend and a keeper who commands his box. Basics. United do that and even now all the people, characters, noise can be boiled down to basics that at first grind out badic results as the mess above gets dealt with. Basics. Painfully simple ones.
Manchester United Football Club are one of the world's biggest acting like a lost army after a great General left the batallion.
Find your General , on the pitch, in the dugout, at the head of the company, then green shoots will follow.
Sometimes, simplicity is everything and complexity is ruinous. The club believed its own hype instead of following its own DNA.
Sam Joshi retweeted
“We’ve made quite a few mistakes in football…but I wouldn’t want to be where I am today if I hadn’t made those mistakes”
Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells me Ineos has not found it easy since investing in sports teams, but the learnings can benefit Man Utd now he’s co-owner ⬇️
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Thing is with #MUFC, the people who have the power to sack people are actually the people who need to be sacked.
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Gary Neville you’re an absolute wanker. Prime pep couldn’t get a tune out of this lot. Call your mate Jim out who got us into this mess further. The owners are parasites and don’t have a clue.
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Michael Carrick will doubtless pay the price with his job for this deserved defeat to an excellent Bournemouth side and another lifeless display by his Manchester United team. Some of his selections and tactics have been questionable, United were again so open in the centre. But Carrick was not responsible for recruiting Youri Tielemans, who lacks physicality and mobility (and Aston Villa haven’t missed him) and Andrey Santos, a Chelsea reserve.
Carrick was not responsible for the board’s damaging failure to strengthen at centre-back and left-back. Carrick was not responsible for his main striker Benjamin Sesko being injured and the board’s failure to provide him with cover. Carrick was not responsible for the club he loves being in the grip of co-owners like the Glazers whose priorities are focused more on business than the sport. The direction from the top has been negligible, arguably negligent. No real leadership. No expertise.
Carrick may be out of his depth but many United fans sang his name during the painful demise to Bournemouth because they know he cares and they know the problems lie elsewhere. The Stretford End again sang in protest at the wretched Glazers.
Noticeable that there were few songs in support of Bruno Fernandes. He is supposed to be captain, rallying the players, Footballer of the Year, Player of the Year, not arm-waver of the year, underachieving and complaining. Yet Bruno will be at United longer than Carrick.
Carrick was praised for United finishing third last season and getting in the Champions League. But he will doubtless go partly for his own failings and mainly the failings of others. And United will be trapped in this doom loop again. And again until the core problems are addressed in the boardroom - and the Glazers sell up - and flaws in the recruitment department. #MUFC #MUNBOU