DeadLinesman

AJ ruined that whole thing at the end. Embarrassing. As for Fury calling it the worst fight ever, he mustn't have watched back some of his over the years against absolute nobodies. Usyk just doesn’t have heavyweight power. The whole division is a farce at the minute. Nobody seems to have the combination of brains and the raw power to pull it off.

I’ve got 5 free 30 day passes for The Athletic. If anyone wants one, just DM me 

9 hours ago, Coma said:

No mate. I know blast furnaces and environmental regulations.  Someone on here had to tell me about VPN's.

Virtual Porn Networks are fantastic. 

God I hope this Jim Ratcliffe stuff is true.

5 minutes ago, Dr. Gonzo said:

Wow that happened pretty quickly, if true.

The ego of these players is remarkable. It takes some gall being way understands for multiple seasons and then telling the manager "nah we don't want to learn your new tactics, we think you should do things the way our last permanent manager that got sacked did things."

Take the time to learn the fucking new system and learn how to adapt rather than just give up immediately.

How many managers have these cunts thrown under a bus? But yeah, nobody can manage their ‘skill set’. The only skill they have is managing to act like professional footballers whilst being utterly fucking wank. 

We’ve pulled the Rabiot deal. His mum was demanding 375k a week on parity with De Gea ffs. Get in the sea you silly old cunt.

12 minutes ago, LFCMike said:

I'd imagine his wages would be an issue

Any player that passes though PSG becomes a wage issue to any side.

1 minute ago, Chickasaw said:

I think that a lot of City supporters will now expect 5 and 6 goals per match with Haaland and de Bruyne up front, let's see.

A goal for each of them.

51 minutes ago, Tar-Mairon said:

How much of that do you think is the managers being at fault too, from your perspective? 

The reliable sources seemed to suggest that Solskjaer wasn't interested in taking advice on replacing McFred and wanted to sign Van De Beek, who he never used.

Moyes 90% at fault. He wiped out pretty much all the back too staff and alienated players from the off. 
 

LVG 60-40. The football was dire but he was picking up the pieces from Moyes’ disastrous spell. 
 

Mourinho 50-50. Again, alienated half the squad and never took personal responsibility for anything. 
 

Ole 50-50. Never backed with signings he actually needed. Spending money is one thing, spending it right is another. Zero tactical awareness though.

Just now, Tar-Mairon said:

I agree that we were a better team when Conte took over - United do not have anything like Son, Kane, Romero etc. However, Conte would have had high demands, not been prepared to let the club have a transfer window like they are having and would not have allowed an utter donkey like McTominay anywhere near your first team.

Mind you, I'm glad Conte didn't go there for obvious reasons and think Ten Haag warrants a chance to completely flush the club out.

 

This is where you’re failing to grasp the absolute shit show that is Manchester United. Moyes, Van Gaal, Mourinho and Ole weren’t backed with what they needed (different from what we spent/got). It’s not happening for Ten Hag now. Conte would have been no different. He’d have just kicked up a fuss and left.

55 minutes ago, OrangeKhrush said:

I watched the repeat game and the result justified Roy Keane labelling Man United the easiest team to play.   Brighton should have had 4 or 5 on the day,  their movement and passing caused havoc all day and Man Uniteds' McFred midfield showed again how ineffective it is at the defensive aspect of their duties leaving the back four ruthlessly exposed.    Man United need two good defensive midfielders if they insist on playing that deep two midfield formation as I can't recall them offering anything defensively. 

Brighton also showed how bad Man U are when it comes to high balls into the box,  it was quite uncomfortable for McGuire and Martinez all afternoon. 

Ronaldo did help change the game a bit but its alarming that he wants to leave,  and Eriksen as a forward is just hopeless. 

We sit 3 weeks before the window shuts and Man United need the same 4 or 5 positions sorted that they needed in June.

If I was a Man United fan I will be extremely concerned,  your team and the way it is run is omminously like Mike Ashley is running it,  and that is not a good thing.   No fan is deserving of ineptitude from those running the game and looking at man united just makes me see Mike Ashley like nightmare of a self serving owner and inept structures to help the club all over again. 

 

As much as I agree we’re shite, we had more shots than Brighton and more of them on target. So if Brighton should have had 4-5, then United should have had 5-6? If Rashford knew how to finish and Bruno hadn’t blasted over from 6 yards out, different game. Woulda, coulda shoulda for both teams.

8 hours ago, Tar-Mairon said:

Does Neville want to stand by his remarks that Conte was wrong for United because he doesn't get the precious, precious DNA? Does he want to look at Spurs and United now in terms of the transfer window, our best players and how they now feel and this season's potential? 

This makes zero sense. Conte would be working at United under Glazer ownership. Spurs already had a better team than United when he joined. Just how exactly was Conte going to do anything at United without the players he can utilise at Spurs? Conte WAS wrong for United at the time. He’d have lasted 6 months tops. Hell, he was halfway through the door at Spurs with a decent enough team at one point.

18 minutes ago, Redcanuck said:

I don't think if we sign Rabiot it's a sign FDJ is not coming, although there are other signs that lean towards that outcome. We need to new midfielders to replace Fred and McTominay,  why not FDJ and Rabiot?

Not saying I wouldn’t take it. Just can’t see it unfortunately.

22 minutes ago, Stan said:

why are you signing more midfielders  

If this isn’t the sign that FDJ isn’t coming, I don’t know what is.

Just fold the fucking club. Panic button well and truly pressed.

Thank god if true.

4 minutes ago, Danny said:

If you can't now then when can you?

I want my brand new 85” OLED. Oh wait, that’s riots.

I’m genuinely fucking fuming. Manchester United supporters are being taken for absolute fucking mugs. 
 

On Friday, Ten Hag said he only want players for the future to suit his needs. Arnautovic? 33 year old carthorse? Get in the fucking sea. 
 

Falcao, Ibra, Ighalo etc. Like Neville said, it’s a pattern and the Glazers are taking everyone for fools. I think you could see genuine full scale mass protests if this continues. What else can you do? 

2 hours ago, Chickasaw said:

For me there's only one remedy for Man Utd and that's a VERY TOP name at the helm but the trouble is the top names are taken. Ten Hag has succeeded Ragnick but is he a higher profile coach? I'm not sure. When Poch was at Spurs I said that if he leaves we should get Ancelotti. I was mocked but look what he did last season and that's what Utd need. Klopp, Pep, Ancelotti or Conte. Certainly not Poch, he's not the man for Utd.

Ragnick was a snake oil salesman. I’ll take a progressive 3 time winner of the Dutch league over him.

2 hours ago, LFCMike said:

Arnautovic? Bid rejected apparently.

If this isn’t a sign of how far we’ve fallen, I don’t know what is. Utterly embarrassing we’re bidding for this over the hill, never even world class donkey.

Henry Winter, Chief Football Writer at The Times:

Glazers. Bored saying it. If leadership is not hands-on, things drift. Their obsession with money has changed focus at the club. There are many good people at United, hard-working and loyal staff, and your wonderful Foundation saves lives, but the Glazers have changed the culture. The balance needs to shift to football first. Marketing, merchandising, money is all very well, and helps pay the players’ wages, as well as the Glazer dividends, but the centre of the club has to be the dressing room not the marketing department. However warped the culture under the wretched Glazers, players still have to take individual responsibility. Too few did.

Oliver Holt, Chief Sports Writer for The Mail on Sunday:

They’re an easy target, I suppose, but the obvious answer here is the Glazers. Everything stems from the owners and it was them who persisted with Ed Woodward for as long as they did and presumably them who sanctioned the half-baked succession to Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. The disaster of 2021-22 also includes, as far as I’m concerned, the increasing disintegration of the infrastructure of the club. There are lots of promises being made about investing in the stadium but I’ll believe it when I see it.

James Ducker, Northern Football Correspondent at The Daily Telegraph:

Last season’s chaos felt like the culmination of years of mismanagement and the result was one big, toxic mess. The ultimate responsibility rests with the Glazer family and the former executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward, who presided over an utterly dysfunctional football operation. The appointment of managers with wildly differing styles of play and approaches, combined with a shambolic recruitment set-up, was always going to be a recipe for disaster and last season was the straw that broke the camel’s back.

The only upside of Ralf Rangnick’s calamitous six month interim reign is that the German had no qualms about exposing the scale of the problems. I found the entire Ole Gunnar Solskjaer experiment utterly bewildering, including the decision to extend his contract last summer, but in many ways his appointment underlined how abysmally the club has been run.

33 minutes ago, Danny said:

parlez vous English you mug

Barsa haven’t exactly got the £667mill they claim because they decided to leverage £150mill back into their own pockets. It’s like me lending you a tenner, asking for it back and claiming it as profit. They need to pull some more levers…..

https://www.marca.com/futbol/barcelona/2022/08/05/62ed86fe22601d6c6d8b4589.html
 

The gift that keeps on giving. 

2 hours ago, JoshBRFC said:

Does everyone actually believe what they read about Barcelona? Things aren't great, yes, however i'm sure the media exaggerate it all. It doesn't make any sense. All these signings and there may be more.

They’re not gonna shag you mate.