Man United - the team that gets me excited? 2024-2026

[Skinny Ethel]

Never known a club to spunk so much money willy nilly. Maybe Chelsea could give them a challenge.

 

[Zapp Brannigan]

Onana has probably been the best keeper in the league and we’d conceded joint least number of goals when I looked last weekend… He didn’t have a great game yesterday but I would be keeping him.

New manager needs time. Still been positive change. Forest had 3 shots and 20-something percent possession so on another day we would have won that match.

Onana has not been the best keeper in the league; he's shit. His highlights reel looks impressive because he makes some unusual and occasionally excellent saves, but his basic positioning is the worst I've ever seen from a professional goalkeeper. For the perfect (but by no means only) example, watch highlights from the home defeat by Brighton last season, where shots from 12 yards are flying past a man stood on or behind his own goalline; I once coached U12 teams, and our goalkeepers had a better grasp of the concept of narrowing the angle.

The downgrade from De Gea to Onana, at a cost of £50m+, is laughable and encapsulates everything wrong with Man Utd over the past few years. Marginally better this season than last, but that's a really low bar to hurdle.

 

[Skinny Ethel]

Never forgive them for selling Peter Daventport to us and thieving Gary Pallister of us.

 

[Wilf]

Never forgive them for selling Peter Daventport to us and thieving Gary Pallister of us.

Use to watch United a fair bit in the mid 80s and kept thinking 'hmmm, this Peter Davenport, he's almost good enough'.

 

[newme]

Apparently our best player for the month is homophobic, kind of annoyed in general now.

 

[newme]

Dan Ashworth gone now. Quite funny given all the faff they had of getting him away from Newcastle. Fucking geniuses these Ineos lads.

Dan Ashworth leaves role as Manchester United sporting director

Dan Ashworth has to leave his role as Manchester United’s sporting director after only five months

www.theguardian.com

Idiot wanted southgate, who barely qualifies for a bottom half championship team otherwise.

 

[Lotte]

Poor footballers, how dare they be forced to treat gay people like human beings.

 

[Wilf]

This just about sums up the Radcliffe 'performance revolution':

David Squires on … Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s attempts to improve efficiency at Santa’s grotto

Our cartoonist on how Manchester United’s head of football operations could shake things up at the North Pole

www.theguardian.com

 

[Dandred]

Not comments the massive mid-table game on right now?

 

[editor]

Not comments the massive mid-table game on right now?

If Man City can't beat Man Utd at home they really are past their prime.

Weird to view Man Utd as the underdogs these days too.

 

[Skinny Ethel]

Someones getting sent off before long.

 

[Ualan]

That was an excellent second-half performance by United. This is a massive result for them.

 

[Petcha]

Rashford getting entirely dropped from the squad because of the way he dresses?

I mean he does bling it up. And does look silly but still.

It was suggested that Amorim’s mention of dress sounded like a disciplinary reason. “You can dress in the way that I really don’t like but it is not a disciplinary thing.

 

[pbsmooth]

HAPPY FUCKING DAYS

 

[pbsmooth]

 

[skyscraper101]

It was a great win, but Onana has a lot to do before I'm convinced he isn't one of the weakest links in Man United. Per usual he seemed to just watch the Gvardiol goal go in while stood on the line with no attempt at a save yesterday. I'm really not convinced he's the one.

 

[pbsmooth]

It was a great win, but Onana has a lot to do before I'm convinced he isn't one of the weakest links in Man United. Per usual he seemed to just watch the Gvardiol goal go in while stood on the line with no attempt at a save yesterday. I'm really not convinced he's the one.

I was warming to him and he's had a decent season but the fuck up against Plezen was a step back. I don't really like him dicking about on the ball so much and passing it short.
but nice to see any player seemingly celebrating a win so genuinely.

 

[Petcha]

I honestly don't know who will pay Rashford £365k a week. They're gonna have to just sack him, surely. He's not, and never has been, that good...

Manchester United view sidelining Marcus Rashford as key to cultural reboot

Marcus Rashford has been marginalised and put up for sale by Manchester United as part of a cultural reboot deemed necessary to transform the club

www.theguardian.com

Garnarcho has bags of potential though so I hope they reform him.

 

[newme]

I honestly don't know who will pay Rashford £365k a week. They're gonna have to just sack him, surely. He's not, and never has been, that good...

Manchester United view sidelining Marcus Rashford as key to cultural reboot

Marcus Rashford has been marginalised and put up for sale by Manchester United as part of a cultural reboot deemed necessary to transform the club

www.theguardian.com

Garnarcho has bags of potential though so I hope they reform him.

He just needs to adapt to a system with a striker that can actually score. Rashford scored loads from wider once and seems he got the same idea. Bold asking not starting him yesterday and amad is showing how it's done now.

 

[Zapp Brannigan]

Garnarcho has bags of potential though so I hope they reform him

They'll have a job. Almost limitless potential, but an ego to match and very little in terms of actual output to date (bar one admittedly very special bicycle).

Plus Man Utd's lineup gets leaked to the MEN every week, including almost 24 hrs in advance this weekend when there's a story to be had about Rashford and Garnacho. It's a pretty open non-secret that the source of the leak is Garnacho's brother, no prizes for guessing where he gets his info from.

He thinks he's the next Ronaldo, but in reality he's just as likely the next Januzaj.

 

[pbsmooth]

Garnacho has scored some decent impact goals so hopefully he can come back.
Shame about Rashford but he’s had more than long enough to prove himself consistently and hasn’t happened.

 

[editor]

Still, that was a bloody cracking end to the Man City game.

 

[Wilf]

Garnacho has scored some decent impact goals so hopefully he can come back.
Shame about Rashford but he’s had more than long enough to prove himself consistently and hasn’t happened.

He's got the kind of face that looks he's always got a gob on. Admittedly, when substituted, he usually has.

I notice Rashford, or his 'people', made the effort to congratulate the team on the win. Garnacho may have done but I've heard about it.

 

[Wilf]

Plus Man Utd's lineup gets leaked to the MEN every week, including almost 24 hrs in advance this weekend when there's a story to be had about Rashford and Garnacho. It's a pretty open non-secret that the source of the leak is Garnacho's brother, no prizes for guessing where he gets his info from.

They should get Colleen Rooney on the case.

 

[pbsmooth]

I don't read a lot of gossip coverage or fanzines the way I used to but it does seem Garnacho/his team are acting like arseholes on social media. so fuck him.
Amorim is on the right track in making sure we only have people/players around who have the right mindset.

 

[Petcha]

Good analysis about the changes going on here

Rashford runs out of road at Manchester United as Ratcliffe shows steely edge | Jamie Jackson

Billionaire is taking a ruthless approach at a club which, under the Glazers, became a byword for complacency

www.theguardian.com

 

[The39thStep]

Good analysis about the changes going on here

Rashford runs out of road at Manchester United as Ratcliffe shows steely edge | Jamie Jackson

Billionaire is taking a ruthless approach at a club which, under the Glazers, became a byword for complacency

www.theguardian.com

The Guardian werent talking about Ratcliffe and his steely edge when he fucked off to Monaco to avoid paying tax

 

[Petcha]

The Guardian werent talking about Ratcliffe and his steely edge when he fucked off to Monaco to avoid paying tax

I dunno anything about that, but it's not relevant to his tenure at United and his frankly welcome approach to taking down certain egos. Look at those Rashford numbers in the article.

 

[The39thStep]

I dunno anything about that, but it's not relevant to his tenure at United and his frankly welcome approach to taking down certain egos. Look at those Rashford numbers in the article.

I think you'll find that there is no bigger ego for taking down than actually Ratcliffe's own inflated self . His operating model and profit chasing of INEOS is actually essential to the running of his share in Manchester United hence his support for Brexit, tax avoidance and now Trump There's always time to get both the bigger picture of the way he operates as a businessman ie putting up ticket prices, making staff redundant and the smaller detail that the actual decision to leave Rashford out of the squad was made by Amorim and the assessment of which players in the squad could be available for transfer more likely to be part of an assessment made by Wilcox , probably Ashworth before his departure and Berrada.