08 Sep 2023 09:47:08
Club currently rotten from the top downwards, all predicated by Glazers desire to run United as a financial institution rather than a football club.

All decisions are linked to money, cost and profit implications, with no thought to actual football decisions.

Hence the chaos and stinking moral cesspit that United is becoming. (Greenwood, Antony, team spirit etc)

My only hope is that the Glazers see United as the sinking ship it currently is and cash out while they can.

Then new owners - motivated by achieving football success rather than financial - can sweep out all the fetid structures and actually start to invest in the football team and infrastructure do we can start to catch City, rather than continually falling behind…

Being pessimistic (am really down on United at the moment) can see us doing a Chelsea this year and finishing mid-table: this season has that feel about it, with the injuries, internal politics, bickering, etc.

Maybe short term pain for long term gain if it means Glazers finally go if they cash out now because of crumbling season.

1.) 08 Sep 2023
08 Sep 2023 10:01:19
Unfortunately I agree with all of that and feel the same way.

2.) 08 Sep 2023
08 Sep 2023 12:37:00
I’m sure I’ll be called negative and pessimistic, but from what I’ve seen so far I think United will be lucky to finish mid table. So many good looking teams in the league this year, most of which look to be playing with far more fight and belief.

I think the home form will keep united’s heads above water. But another season of getting spanked away from home I feel.

But as you’ve said, if a terrible season means the owners go, then maybe it will be worth it.

Suppose the worrying part of that type of scenario is will the manager and some of the better players be around next season if it ends up being that bad a season.

3.) 08 Sep 2023
08 Sep 2023 13:55:05
I said years ago I’d take relegation if it meant getting rid of the leeches

Really sad that I’m more bothered about what is happening off the field than what goes on it

Being saying it now for over a decade that the club is rotten to the core

Praying for a miracle.

4.) 08 Sep 2023
08 Sep 2023 14:44:58
Fallguy,

How much money do you want with me that we are not ‘lucky to finish mid table’ by the end of the season? What a crazy thing to suggest of teams that came 3rd last year, got to 2 finals and has improved in the summer.

5.) 08 Sep 2023
08 Sep 2023 16:29:02
It would be a bet I’d be happy to lose. Just because we finished third last year doesn’t mean a thing this year.

Chelsea finished third in 2022 and then look at them the year after! Liverpool finished second in that same year and they fell off last year.

I want to be wrong. I hope I’m wrong. But I’m not seeing anything (yet) to prove we are in line for a top 4 battle and a trophy hunt.

You can’t guarantee we’ve improved. We’ve bought players. No guarantee they will make an improvement to the team.

6.) 08 Sep 2023
08 Sep 2023 12:26:55
Exactly right, Wallace I think the club, needs to start again afresh, hoping it’s new owners come in and have total new team from top to bottom, have some sort of plan moving forward and all singing from same hymn sheet, purchases made with the plan in mind, all teams playing the same way get an identity, so every club knows how we play and it’s there job to stop it, just like City have managed to do in a relatively short space of time.
Manager moves on anytime another steps in same progression, ATM we just lurch from one catastrophe to another, nothing convinces me we have any direction on or of the field, the football style ain’t great, the acquisitions are not great, we clearly have no youngsters coming through, then problems in the camp etc etc. terrible attitudes of players.
Due diligence needs to be done competently, because clearly atm that’s not happening.
That’s why I say every department needs an overhaul
But of course to do that you need someone with very deep pockets who is prepared for the project, sadly they may only be a state ownership, who wants to use it as a promotional vehicle, but it can’t go on like this, because we are falling further behind every season that goes by.
I know most of you on here see things in your red tints but you seriously need to wake up and smell the coffee. It’s a total mess
To those of you that say we are improving be honest with yourself, how many times have you actually sat down and seen a great game from united and think wow that was fantastic…
This is not being a Debbie Downer this is being realistic, stop accusing me of not being a supporter of united, but I am not liking one bit what I am seeing, some people seem to be in a time warp.

7.) 08 Sep 2023
08 Sep 2023 19:47:49
Wish my red tints could filter out commas!

8.) 09 Sep 2023
09 Sep 2023 00:44:26
The issue isn’t with your opinion Maze, it’s that you feel the need to constantly write the same thing on every single post whether it is about that or not, we get that you think all the players are crap and Ten isn’t good enough, even you must be bored of typing it 200 times a day even if it is for a reaction.