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

I think most clubs would be happy with a point at Villa tbh even if from the bits I saw Villa looked very leggy
 
Playing you Wednesday, well your kids, in the latest EFL wheeze to try and shoehorn B teams into the league via a cup but starting with us non-league minnows first this time. The attendances at those fixtures already played have been pleasingly derisory. Th NLTV stream is free as they know no-one's likely to pay.
 
pbsmooth said:
“Worst start” is one of those things that fans of teams who never win anything care about.
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Yeah, but it's getting like hottest year on record stats - '3 of the worst starts to a United season have all happened in the last 5 years'.
 
Favelado said:
So glad it was a draw. I'd like a win next week to hold off the sacking for a while.
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He was told he was on borrowed time last Summer, pretty much a 'no confidence vote of confidence' in him. There's probably the odd counter example, but very few ever turn it around in those circumstances. For one thing, when the team came back after the Summer, I doubt their confidence in him/his authority was all that great. I struggle to be too worried for a multi-millionaire, but I've a hell of a lot more sympathy than for the Glazers or even the Ineos geniuses who spent several months bullying Old Trafford staff.

Modern Football is Shit etc.
 
Wilf said:
He was told he was on borrowed time last Summer, pretty much a 'no confidence vote of confidence' in him. There's probably the odd counter example, but very few ever turn it around in those circumstances. For one thing, when the team came back after the Summer, I doubt their confidence in him/his authority was all that great. I struggle to be too worried for a multi-millionaire, but I've a hell of a lot more sympathy than for the Glazers or even the Ineos geniuses who spent several months bullying Old Trafford staff.

Modern Football is Shit etc.
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Enjoyed your thoughtful reply and I agree.
 
pbsmooth said:
Teuchel down to 2-1 with the bookies...
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He was excellent at Chelsea although he does come with a reputation for falling out with both owners and players . Whilst this hasn't always been his fault , he will always feel threatened and challenged by what is now a culture of sporting analysts , data driven recruitment and Directors of Football rather than the manager having total control. On a positive side he might rekindle Mason Mount.
 
The39thStep said:
He was excellent at Chelsea although he does come with a reputation for falling out with both owners and players . Whilst this hasn't always been his fault , he will always feel threatened and challenged by what is now a culture of sporting analysts , data driven recruitment and Directors of Football rather than the manager having total control. On a positive side he might rekindle Mason Mount.
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Yep sounds like a decent option right now. Mount is never fit which seems to half the problem!
 
The39thStep said:
He was excellent at Chelsea although he does come with a reputation for falling out with both owners and players . Whilst this hasn't always been his fault , he will always feel threatened and challenged by what is now a culture of sporting analysts , data driven recruitment and Directors of Football rather than the manager having total control. On a positive side he might rekindle Mason Mount.
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The United job does seem like a poisoned chalice now. As you say, there's Radcliffe with his slide rules peering over your shoulder every day, along with a mad level of media attention and intrusion. Add in the fans who, while they don't actually think they'll win the league, still kind of assume they should be up there. Then there's the deterioration of the capital assets, along with a transfer budget that while astronomical doesn't reflect the income of the club. Transfer business is always going to be tricky now as they aren't in the Champions League but are still known as big spenders.

What does that leave as a reason for taking the job - money? According to this list, even that's on the slide and ETH doesn't get much more than Sean Dyche. :D
www.footballfancast.com

All 20 Premier League managers' salaries (lowest to highest)

Football FanCast breaks down how much each Premier League gaffer earns.
www.footballfancast.com www.footballfancast.com
 
Wilf said:
What does that leave as a reason for taking the job - money? According to this list, even that's on the slide and ETH doesn't get much more than Sean Dyche. :D
www.footballfancast.com

All 20 Premier League managers' salaries (lowest to highest)

Football FanCast breaks down how much each Premier League gaffer earns.
www.footballfancast.com www.footballfancast.com
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Yeah I don't know how he copes on £6.75m per year tbh. :p

Aside from the money though it's that there's a very limited number of jobs that come up at the 'big' teams and they mostly go to managers who've already done the job somewhere - hence the Teuchel rumours. If you can make any sort of decent fist of it then you're set for years aren't you, so there'll be plenty of interest in any of those jobs when they do come up.
 
Favelado said:
So glad it was a draw. I'd like a win next week to hold off the sacking for a while.
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I like to see United to do well so they can then do badly and even more badly afterwards and it's all the more enjoyable to watch :thumbs:

My favourite football schadenfreude soap opera in fact.
 
Wilf said:
Cheap as fucking chips vs that twat Antony (82 million apparently).
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That is the one thing he's added, a defence for maguire. Tho he has got better since they removed captain from him. Not 80m better but better.

Now fernandes is captain and making a tit of it. Maybe we need a ceremonial one, who won't play. Has ferguson got any pets?
 
newme said:
That is the one thing he's added, a defence for maguire. Tho he has got better since they removed captain from him. Not 80m better but better.

Now fernandes is captain and making a tit of it. Maybe we need a ceremonial one, who won't play. Has ferguson got any pets?
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Don't know if he was a red, but I'd have had Paul O'Grady, who could revert to Lily Savage to give them a bollocking at half time.
 
Monkeygrinder's Organ said:
Yeah I don't know how he copes on £6.75m per year tbh. :p

Aside from the money though it's that there's a very limited number of jobs that come up at the 'big' teams and they mostly go to managers who've already done the job somewhere - hence the Teuchel rumours. If you can make any sort of decent fist of it then you're set for years aren't you, so there'll be plenty of interest in any of those jobs when they do come up.
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Yeah, and in some ways, the bar has now been lowered. Anybody who can Champs League 2 out of 3 seasons is now the new messiah.
 
Riklet said:
I like to see United to do well so they can then do badly and even more badly afterwards and it's all the more enjoyable to watch :thumbs:

My favourite football schadenfreude soap opera in fact.
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it heartens me to know how much we hurt so many football fans by winning everything for 20 years :thumbs:
 
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