Manchester United
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Yeah, be able bit of a slap in the face if they're cutting folk in admin when they've said silly money and wages for players, all whilst the glazers have done what venture capitalists do.
Can't blend a core of home produced players earning less collectively than Johnny come lately international superstar. When there are cliques in the dressing room it doesn't produce a good team environment. Ferguson wouldn't wear a minute of it, shape up or I'll ship you out.
They've not been ruthless like him since.
I mean, they've been ruthless with the cleaners and cooks, and whoever they made redundant that used to look after the roof. But on the pitch, they've pandered to throwing money around hoping spending more than everyone else will get them the quality.
Cash only buys so much quality, can't buy dignity, and belief, and hunger.
That soliloquy from Layer cake glances through my mind again... "You're born, you take spit*. You get out in the world, you take more spit*. You climb a little higher, take less spit*. Till one day you're in the rarefied atmosphere and you've forgotten what spit* even looks like."
Entitlement breeds complacency. Only one direction to go from the top.
JLW
Player Valuation: £70m
They are in a terrible mess, its great to see.
I think they are that bad now they are losing some of there pulling power.
Not sure many top players would want to go there now.
I don’t get who their global fan base are these days and how they make any cash apart from match day revenue. They’ve not even really challenged for the league in 10 years or something.
Surely they should have been screwed by PSR.
Surely they should have been screwed by PSR.
Saw something earlier on TikTok or something and it listed out about 8-9 players like him, Rashford, Sancho etc that binning would save them £88m per year in wages alone.
Aye but as we found out. That’s not so easily done and they’ll have to subsidise wages on loan deals. Players aren’t martyrs, willing to take a pay cut.
Bryan+
Player Valuation: £40m
Talking to a work mate who’s a Man Utd fan, I said I see so much of Everton in your side, and it took practically 4/5 years to clear the way. They need the same from Amorim’s appointment and shift out one way and balance the books the other.
I joked that Dyche would be a good option there in consistency, depending on what kind of consistency you want.
They would need to be humble enough to accept 2-3 seasons of stripping back and not challenging. No chance the entitled bloaters will accept it. They’ll keep trying to spend to get out their mess before some Middle Eastern consortium ends up having to rescue them by buying them out.
they’re still a huge franchise annoying so
You’d think so but a lot of overseas fans are fickle. I’ve seen PSG, Barcelona, Madrid and annoyingly Man City shirts round my way but never United. I’d assume someone was a Brit or Irish if I did.
Course they’re still a huge team but the money and support can dry up.
Ring master
Player Valuation: £90m
They are like Blockbusters: great in the day (the brand for the weekend), but they have slowly sleep-walked into a crisis that is only getting deeper and deeper.
Old Trafford is a dump, Carrington has been starved as investment (being there regularly, it's shabby!) and they have spent hundreds of millions on rubbish.
Out of today's starting XI, how many would get into most of the top six teams? Top eight? K'in ell, how many would we take off them, even on the cheap?
I even checked for injuries and it's Shaw, Martinez, Mount, Evans, Diallo and Eriksen, so you couldn't even say that is a real issue. It's just a poor squad!
With how much they have wasted on spending and PSR, they are going to struggle to rebuild quickly, and that's only if they can get rid of lots of the dross.
They aren't going down this year (not with the teams below them), although I do think they may continue to slip into midtable abyss for a year or two.
Old Trafford is a dump, Carrington has been starved as investment (being there regularly, it's shabby!) and they have spent hundreds of millions on rubbish.
Out of today's starting XI, how many would get into most of the top six teams? Top eight? K'in ell, how many would we take off them, even on the cheap?
I even checked for injuries and it's Shaw, Martinez, Mount, Evans, Diallo and Eriksen, so you couldn't even say that is a real issue. It's just a poor squad!
With how much they have wasted on spending and PSR, they are going to struggle to rebuild quickly, and that's only if they can get rid of lots of the dross.
They aren't going down this year (not with the teams below them), although I do think they may continue to slip into midtable abyss for a year or two.