Manchester United

Yes. Should never have been allowed to enter the competition ever again

 

It's bonkers. And yet when Tamworth held Spurs to a draw over 90 minutes in the FA Cup, they were denied a lucrative replay worth approx £800k at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, all so that teams like Spurs can make a few bob from playing over in Australia instead. Pure greed. It's absolutely sickening.

 

Yeah but it was ace when we kicked them out of the Fa cup lol.
I've said on here this season how bad I think their keeper Onana is, what were they thinking there.
And who signed him, was it a bloke called Paul Conway ?.

 

Yep they were bang average before fergie turned up ,the ghost of what he achieved still haunts them.

 

When you think of the players they have had during the Premier league era to what they have and are now.

Schmeichel
Van der Saar
De Gea
Barthez

G Neville
Pallister
Bruce
Blanc
Ferdinand
Stam
Vidic
Irwin
Evra

Robson
Giggs
Beckham
Keane
Scholes
Butt
Veron
Kanchelskis
Di Maria
Sanchez
Pogba
Carrick
Ince
Mata

Hughes
McClair
Cantona
Cole
Yorke
Solskjaer
Sheringham
Van Persie
Van Nistelrooy
Ronaldo
Rooney

 

Btw, shouldn't this thread title be called ManUre ?.

 

I'm not so sure about this, though I absolutely take your point about the top flight being more of a closed shop than ever.

Nottingham Forest, Fulham, Brighton, Bournemouth, Brentford are all in shooting distance of European Places, at the expense of 'bigger' clubs (Spurs, Man Utd, Everton, West Ham). Whilst the shop is closed to outsiders, it seems once you're in it for a year or two the financial rewards are there to allow progression within it.

For every one of those clubs though, there's another that got promoted, spent to try and compete, fell short and then landed back in the Championship with an unsustainable wage bill and a route to ruin.

 

Di Maria, Mata & Sanchez all very good players but they were all relatively poor, if not worse, for United. They became shadows of themselves when at that club. Proper player destroyer is united these days

 

Whilst I agree with you about the top and bottom, especially the bottom, I think it's been quite good. Race to champions league is well and truly on, as it is for rest of the european places. Brighton, Bournemouth (who have unfortunately dropped off a bit), fulham, Palace, fulham, brentford, all trying to get into europe, whilst newcastle, chelsea, forest, City & villa are all going for CL spaces. Think Arsenal will finish second. I cant see it being a runaway league champion next season, liverpool have been pretty poor in cup competitions and I think they need some serious reinvestment next season, especially if Salah & vandijk leave as well as Alexander-arnold. But overall, some of the football the 'smaller' teams play is a delight, Brentford, Brighton, Forest, Bournemouth (probably my favourite to watch), Newcastle, Fulham, all have different styles but all fun to watch mate

 

Salah just signed to stay, 2 year contract. Van Dijk expected to stay. Apparently Alexander-Arnold to Real Madrid is a done deal.

 

How on earth did I miss that about Salah! I saw it a couple of days ago but only read he was close mate, cheers. I think Van Dijk will stay. A-A to Madrid is a good signing for Madrid in isolation, especially since Carvajal is knocking on, but their defense has been abysmal lately. not sure if A-A helps with that too much...

 

I think you have to look at the Dan Ashworth situation. He was apparently really popular at both Brighton & Newcastle & has an outstanding record when it comes to recruitment of both players & managers but for whatever reason Jim Ratcliffe & the powers that be couldn’t work with him at Man Utd.

The rumour was that Ashworth didn’t think Amorim or his system that allows Man Utd to be outnumbered in the middle of the park every week would work.

It’s all well & good talking about a project & getting to rebuild a club but if you have 6 months in charge & fail to show any improvements & don’t win a trophy then I can’t imagine many Man Utd fans will be enthusiastic about an Amorim rebuild.

They’re going to end up losing their best players & best youngsters to support a manager in rebuilding a squad to play a system that up to now has looked a disaster.

 

I honestly don't think Amorim is the problem, they've had so many good managers there since Ferguson and it's been *****, for the most part. Amorim is a really good manager, he's proven himself that in portugal and in European competitions. I just think it will take a lot of time for him to rebuild. You could be right with Ashworth, maybe he thought it would take too long? Eriksen & Casemiro when they play together in that midfield, it's a disaster...

 

Just wat i thought

 

You missed Kleberson and Djemba Djemba. How could you?

 

Billionaires eh? Who knew.

 

So good they named him twice.

 

They're in such a bad position with players tied to contracts that it will take some patience and skill to actually sort it out now.

 

I think he’s certainly added to their problems. Maybe it’s a system that suits a dominant side at the top of a league, a bit like Ange with Celtic.

Even if they get two workhorses in central midfield they’re still going to come up against top class 3 man midfields at teams like Liverpool, Arsenal, Newcastle, City etc & it’s hard to see them coping.

 

Glineos are doing a great job