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Rick Webb 🇺🇦 retweeted
Michael Carrick has decency lacking from those above him. They have, surprise, surprise, handled this week abysmally. That was a really enjoyable Spring after he came in. Not fully backed this summer, yet we looked completely unprepared at Hull, onwards. Poch is joining a circus.
Rick Webb 🇺🇦 retweeted
Michael Carrick sacked by MUFC.
Top lad, got the team in the Champions League against expectations. Gave it his all, night and day. Protected others, never threw anyone under a bus. Worked in difficult circumstances. Leaves with head held high. I wish him and his staff the very best.
Rick Webb 🇺🇦 retweeted
Manager performs miracles with dross (except Ragnick & Amorim), get UCL spot...
Board under invests the next season so they can pocket the margins.
Sack the manager after not being backed properly.
Rinse, Repeat.
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Rick Webb 🇺🇦 retweeted
At around the time The Athletic broke the news that Manchester United were finalising their approach for Mauricio Pochettino to be their next manager, their current manager was arriving to take training.
On Wednesday Michael Carrick will, as he did on Tuesday, go through the motions of overseeing a session that involves the few United players not on international duty, existing in the liminal space between employment and dismissal, floating through life but knowing the phone is going to ring soon. He may well have to do it again on Thursday.
It’s not a dignified existence. He knows the end is near. We know the end is near. But more importantly Jim Ratcliffe, Jason Wilcox, Omar Berrada and whoever else chips in with these things at United or INEOS, all know the end is near.
But this is Manchester United, the club that somehow always manages to get things wrong. The club that want to appoint Pochettino, a man currently in an international job, so have chosen an international break to make their move for him, one of the only fortnights of the year when they know he is definitely busy.
One thing is for sure, Manchester United have treated Michael Carrick dreadfully, the latest in a long line of terrible decisions from a shambolic football club.
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Rick Webb 🇺🇦 retweeted
The most Manchester United thing about Manchester United’s decision-making on Carrick’s future is the meeting to determine it is being held in Monaco, 800 miles from Manchester. Make the tea lady redundant, but fly dumb and dumber over on a private jet. I doubt they went cattle!
Rick Webb 🇺🇦 retweeted
Yes. Yes it is typical.
This club… 🫨
Pochettino may be the right guy, but paying the best part of £10 million in compensation for him when you could’ve got him for FREE in summer - and not had to pay off Carrick - is just typical of this regime.
#MUFC
Rick Webb 🇺🇦 retweeted
imagine your lady is away on a trip and all her friends tell you that she no longer wants to be with you and confirmed that she will leave you... but instead of ending it right then and there, she tells you to wait until Thursday so she could tell you face to face. Would be stupid right?
anyways, Man United is hilarious
Rick Webb 🇺🇦 retweeted
Ceding Ukrainian land for peace is just abstract words. It’s not only about reality, even more about philosophy. Putin was talking about Donbas, but then he decided to occupy Kyiv, our capital. His words were about Donbas, but the reality was about Kyiv. He kept saying he was defending Russian-speaking people and then tortured hundreds and thousands to death in Bucha and other places. So that wasn’t about Russian-speaking people.
This is why when Americans asked, “Can you exchange Donbas for security?” I said right there, “Can you tell me what it means? What security? NATO?”
“Not NATO, but similar to NATO.”
“Similar? But you don't want the answer about Donbas to be ‘similar.’ You want a clear answer about Donbas. This is your goal. And this is Putin’s goal, for today. What will you do if we have security guarantees but not NATO?”
They took our nuclear weapons. I'm not a fan of nuclear weapons. I think the world would be a better place without them. But the Russians took our nuclear weapons, didn’t they? They did. Then they stopped our integration into Europe, then prevented us from being in NATO. And in the end they occupied us. This is why it’s an abstract question. Nobody trusts Putin to stop if we leave Donbas. He will pause. Then he will come back in one year, two years, or five years. And who will be guilty?
From an interview with DR Nyheder. (2/3)
Rick Webb 🇺🇦 retweeted
When Michael Carrick goes, should the director of football Jason Wilcox go as well? Was he over-promoted when Dan Ashworth left? Ashworth was “best in class”, very experienced. Wilcox wasn’t/isn't "best in class". Recruitment has been a mess, namely the transfer strategy of targeting one area, midfield, this summer. So naive. Some strengthening required with Casemiro gone and Ugarte injured/not good enough but the team were crying out for investment at left-back and striker. £50m for Andrey Santos? United are not buying best in class.
DoF should be working to a club’s DNA. United’s historic identity is well-known: attacking with pace, width, intensity, expression, defiance and the dash of youth. Playing football the Matt Busby way, the Alex Ferguson way. Those days are long gone, United don't have anywhere near the quality of player or manager, but attempting to follow principles laid down by Busby and Ferguson, which fans crave, should be Wilcox's stated ambition.
But Wilcox hasn’t recruited to restore that DNA. Properly-run football operations like Brighton sell players/change coaches but have an established DNA and way of playing (attacking, pressing). Brighton have best in class recruitment, data with due diligence into character. United don't.
Carrick can go but the problem remains. Reports suggest that United pursue Mauricio Pochettino as Carrick’s successor. Good choice. He’s a very good manager, man-manager, great with the media (coffees and chats in London with journos he knows), diplomatic with those upstairs and popular amongst staff. Poch would have a short-term bounce but will he have the players? United's problem is short-term and long-term, and Wilcox has to take responsibility for that.
United will remain stuck in a doom cycle until best in class is appointed to run recruitment and better players - with the right character - are bought. United will continue to drift until the debilitating, debt-stained ownership model changes, and they get back to being a great football club first and foremost with the whole commercial operation supporting that, not interest repayments. #MUFC
Rick Webb 🇺🇦 retweeted
Everyone's talking about the John Lewis advert. But it’s nothing compared to this masterpiece from Thorne Travel.
Power-walking travel agents. A flash mob. Pumping house music. And unofficial Disney characters.
Every time you think they’ve run out of ideas, another one arrives.
Rick Webb 🇺🇦 retweeted
Elon Musk is hiding this video of Bill Burr ripping him apart.
So don't RT it.
Or do if you don't like Elon Musk.
Rick Webb 🇺🇦 retweeted
Carrick didn't miss all those first half chances
Carrick didn't wave Rogers through without even attempting a tackle
Carrick didn't lose his head and give away a penalty and get sent off
Those dickheads on the pitch did
They're a disgrace to the fucking shirt
Rick Webb 🇺🇦 retweeted
FC Augsburg believes it's quite terrible to have 17 other Bundesliga clubs sitting on a bunch of the league's limited supply of points.
Rick Webb 🇺🇦 retweeted
This is horrible for the lad and it’s right we give him enough time to recover properly, especially so early on in his career.
But to not have a backup striker going in to the season when he was still in recovery from last season is just abysmal by the club. Welbeck was there!
🗣️ Michael Carrick on Benjamin Sesko: "He's going to be out for a period of time. We're not exactly sure yet how long, but it's going to be a significant amount of time, unfortunately.
"So I feel for Ben, he had the issue at the end of last season that we looked after and tried to give him as much time to recover and then unfortunately he's had the issue coming into this season.
"So, we've got to do what's best for Ben and he's going to have to have some time on the sidelines, unfortunately.
"It's not great for us, it's certainly not great for Ben, but it is part of the game and we've just got to try and make the best of it and get him back as quick as we can."
[MUTV] #MUFC
