He might have done, but i don't think he stands out as being any better than those i mentioned. He certainly wouldn't have been starting, only the bench. So maybe two current players make it. I hope we can add more to the list in the coming years, a few have potential.
28.02.2025 15:54 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
It's bonkers, we pay out more than Barca, Munich, Juve, Real, City and we've been crap. Throw in the huge contracts to the likes of Ronnie/Zlatan and none of it makes sense.
I will be more than happy if Ratcliffe stops all that nonsense in the future. If it means we miss out on a few, so be it.
28.02.2025 14:56 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
We've been giving out stupid contracts since Woodward walked in the door, he even boasted about it.
28.02.2025 14:46 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
I agree, he might dig his heels in and refuse to go and nobody would blame him. I just don't think the club actively looked to get rid of him, couple of reports of the Saudi league but we wanted a fee apparently and that wasn't going to happen.
28.02.2025 14:43 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
The wastage on wages, fees over recent years is mindblowing.
Shaw, Casemiro, Sancho, Anthony, Mount (Rashford on the back of one good year) just to name a few. It's no bloody wonder all the money has gone.
28.02.2025 14:41 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Didn't we do it with Pogba? If i remember rightly, we just wanted shot of him.
He will go in the summer for sure and i agree, nobody would pay anything for him. The money this club has blown in recent years on the likes of him, Sancho, Anthony makes me feel ill to be honest with you.
28.02.2025 14:36 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
We can pay him off, we've done it before. Nobody will pay any money for him, so we either keep him on his wages or pay off his contract. Think it would cost less to pay it off early, he goes as a free and gets a signing on fee to make up for any difference.
28.02.2025 14:30 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0
It does seem foolish to keep the likes of Casemiro who is earning around Β£18M a year to not play for us and sack staff on minimum wage i agree.
But then he is a tax dodging, union hating, worker right abusing capitalist so should we be surprised?
28.02.2025 14:16 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0
Think it looks awful when after costing the club over Β£30M down to his poor decisions, they then stick up ticket prices and sack loads of staff/cutbacks when they are partly to blame.
It's been an awful start, there is no denying that. Lets hope they learn from the mistakes in the future.
28.02.2025 13:52 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
We can name more but right now, only Bruno stands out. The squad players of Fergie's time like Butt, Park, Brown, Evans, Fletcher would walk into this team no question and i think just shows how bad our recruitment has been recently.
28.02.2025 13:30 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I think Bruno makes the squad for sure, not sure about starting over the likes of Keane, Scholes, Carrick , Giggs etc, but squad for sure.
I don't think Maguire is any better than Johnson, Brown, O'Shea, Evans and i'm not even going to mention the likes of Vidic, Rio etc
Hopefully in a few years
28.02.2025 13:30 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0
Apart from the ones who have just arrived, the only one i'd not sell is Bruno. He alone turns up week after week and the one reason we aren't fighting relegation.
I'd also argue he is the only player who would make a Fergie squad, not the starting 11 just the squad.
28.02.2025 10:54 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
I won't be celebrating, i think he is a decent player.
27.02.2025 10:10 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Joins Napoli in the summer i guarantee it.
27.02.2025 10:04 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Exactly.
27.02.2025 09:59 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Like i just posted, i want him annoyed, i don't want him running off to social media knowing what a shitshow that is and stirring up the pot with his "look i'm sad" Insta post.
If he hadn't done that, i'd not have given it a 2nd thought.
27.02.2025 09:58 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
a lot more crap on his manager, more questions, more for him to deal with. It's Sancho all over again, i want him to be annoyed by getting subbed, but i don't expect him to put unnecessary pressure on the manager in doing so.
27.02.2025 09:56 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
It's the Insta post that did it. This is what makes it seem pre planned for me, he knew the crapfest that would follow by him doing it. Nobody would be talking about it (including me) if he hadn't, now it's a story where there was no need. Everybody knows how social media works and he just heaped
27.02.2025 09:56 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Time will tell i guess. I just think if you lucky enough to get to play for us and earn a fortune in doing so, the least you can do is give 100% and show respect to the fans who have paid a small fortune following you up and down the country. I think a few of them have forgotten that.
27.02.2025 09:49 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
I might agree if he hadn't gone on Insta to make it seem more. Seems all pre planned to me and we know where that stuff ends up.
27.02.2025 09:47 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Standards and Practices and all that, only now we don't have any and why Pogba's agent was allowed to crap all over the club for years, or Sancho can act like he did, Lingard & Pogba dancing after losses, the leaks.......it's never ending. He could end it now of course by apologising to his teamates
27.02.2025 09:37 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
I'm sure he will, but we have seen this play out before. Fact is, we have had stories about the squad for years now, never happened under Fergie or others, it's a new thing and came in with Woodward, player power basically.
Like i said, before if he did that the entire squad would be on him for it
27.02.2025 09:37 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Amorim and he knew he would be adding to it just days after the club have to threaten to sack staff leaking info, it just looks terrible, we all know the club is in the shit.
If he knew he made a honest mistake and it was spur of the moment stuff, his team behind him would have him apologise by now
27.02.2025 09:22 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
It worked though didn't it, we won so the manager was right in doing so. If he has a problem he takes it up with Ruben after the game, instead he then went on Insta and posted some vague BS to compound it.
Nah, i've got no time for it, everyone there is feeling the pressure, none more so than
27.02.2025 09:22 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Garnacho, got subbed and made a point of walking down the touchline to the changing rooms and not taking his place on the bench. Few years ago a certain Irishman would have decked him for doing that.
Astonishing coming from a guy who has 3 goals all season.
27.02.2025 09:13 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
But of course the real arseholes are the Prem League and the government for allowing the takeover to happen in the first place, despite mass protests by the fans.
Football clubs shouldn't be treated like other businesses and should hold some heritage standing for the broader community.
25.02.2025 09:39 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Not sure how, it would have been taking in by regulators as per league rules. I'm being serious with it, i honestly believe that is our best outcome. So we are more awful than we are for 5/6 years and a lesson for future owners perhaps. I'd take that in an instant if it meant they go.
25.02.2025 09:31 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
to the debt? Do the Glazers start taking dividends again? Who pays for the new stadium and who owns what % of it after it's built.
It's a dead club walking and until the debt is gone, it will continue to be so. The debt was going to catch up some time, that time is now.
25.02.2025 09:27 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
This is the problem, the old mob are still there and so is the debt and they have shown no interest in paying it. The place needs huge investment, there are no funds and we still have hundreds of millions of poor buys still on the books.
Just say Ratcliffe does improve the finances, what happens
25.02.2025 09:27 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
I'm not being overdramatic either. Owners forced to sell as their cash cow has gone, oil states won't want the hassle of 4/5 years to get us back into the Prem. Price is lower so it opens it up to other buyers.
Didn't do Juve, Rangers, Barca that much harm when they got clobbered.
25.02.2025 09:19 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
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