re: Manchester United Season Long Thread 2024/2025 Because United are going Bilbao!!!!!!!

That’s karma, Arsenal are a straight mid table la liga shithouse team.

I was able to watch a replay finally, and I say this as someone that doesn't get too bent out of shape by the match officianting... that might be the worst bit of reffereing I've ever seen.

That's an all-time blunder. Professional footballers should never miss that. Antony has to go

Onana needs to be replaced

This is all on Ineos/Glazers we have spent however many 100s of millions and the players are just not good enough. I seriously think we have 1/2 players that get in that Brighton squad.

Starting to think this is irreversible. Ineos basically invested in the club to keep the glazers as majority owners and we are still being the worst run club in the prem.

What a wild 5 mins

This club has been everybody's free meal ticket for a long time...I don't understand how people criticize INEOS/Ratcliffe for any financial decisions at this point. Do they know how to run a successful top flight club? That remains to be seen, but I see a lot of media figures dumping on them for making spending cuts and raising ticket prices (like most other clubs around Europe) but don't see much gratitude for being the only party investing directly into the club.

If they don't back Amorim and let him become broken and disheveled like every United manager post Fergie, then I will be concerned. I'm not convinced it's even in INEOS's power with Joel and Avram behind the scenes...I guess we will see. United will be a relic after 4-5 more years of this shite.

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.I don't understand how people criticize INEOS/Ratcliffe for any financial decisions at this point.

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I criticize INEOS, because he boasted of being such a huge United fan. Also was spouting off at the mouth about hiring the best in class. He should have known not to get in bed with the Glazers, who are actual criminals IMO. Do I think Ineos had good intentions? Yes, but they are in way over their heads. It's probably an impossible job at the moment.

Glazers should have never been allowed to purchase the club with a leveraged buyout. Now we have to pay $61,000,000 in interest payments every single year because of that debt. What's hilarious is they are trying to sell Garnacho for around $60 mil, highly doubt that money will immediately reinvested into the squad. The stadium is literally rotting, 2nd rate training facilities, 2nd rate medical team, 2nd rate recruitment, etc.

The club should have been sold in full with a clean wipeout of the debt, but INEOS gave The Glazers a lifeline. Anyone who doesn't think the Glazers are pulling the strings are delusional, any time they show a news reel of United's board meeting you'll see Joel Glazers sleazy arse walking into the meeting.

Word is the glazers are holding out because they think there will be a boom in value of clubs post the US World Cup, they think United will be worth $10 billion in a few years. Only then will they finally cash out, hopefully.

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also just read that the rumors that the Glazers won't let United staff or players anywhere near Tampa Bay facilities during their American tours because they don't wont anybody to realize how far behind they are. Don't know how accurate that is but it still pisses me off

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Old Trafford finished its last expansion/renovation the year before Glazer bought the club, it hasn’t been touched since then. It’s sad to see just how absolutely shite things are.

I don’t think Ineos has bad intentions they just should have known how dire our financial situation is. We are literally operating with two hands behind our backs. You have to spend mega bucks to revamp a football team and we just cannot do that due to the debt and how that effects our FFP each season.

30M euros plus a potential of 5M in add ons according to Romano. Another one we overpaid for but that was always going to happen in the winter window.