Ole The Muppet and other Manc sh!t

[Niall_Quinn]

shame noun \ˈshām\
: a feeling of guilt, regret, or sadness that you have because you know you have done something wrong
: ability to feel guilt, regret, or embarrassment
: dishonor or disgrace

Headline in Daily Fail today:
The 30 problems facing Manchester United: As Van Gaal's slump to fresh low with humiliating cup exit, here's the issues he must fix

So what happened to all that wall to wall genius, winning the league bullshit? What's the embarrassment threshold for a modern whornalist?

[Niall_Quinn]

BIG FIVE SQUAD TRANSFER FEES

Manchester United £401.2m
Manchester City £344.15m
Chelsea £341.8m
Liverpool £245.8m
Arsenal £209.5m

Media claiming Utd's squad is most expensive ever assembled. True if taken as a snapshot, but the chavs have blown an extra half bill to get to where they are (not including millions on manager pay-offs). Gypos must have blown a good few quid on top too. But £400mill for that Utd squad is a pretty big joke.

Fergie, Moyes, van Moyes

Wenger

[Niall_Quinn]

Martin Samuel really has defected, hasn't he?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...ic-buying.html

[Niall_Quinn]

Some interesting stuff going on with Utd fans. Seems to me the "Utd Way" is slowly becoming an item of scorn among the majority, whereas before it was viewed as the icing on the cake throughout the years of success. Winning without having to do a chavski. But one season out of the top 4 and fans who are expressing their concern about the money first, last and always approach are getting ripped to shreds. Fuck all that shit it only got us 7th, spend, spend, spend, it's the modern way - seems to be the new consensus.

To put things in context, if the spuds got a crook with billions in and they bought their way out of our shadow, would we be the same in demanding an instant money solution and fuck all that other shit, financial stability, giving youth a chance, etc, etc? I bet most of us would actually.

Don't care what team buys who, the players today aren't fit to lace the boots of the players who took to the pitch behind Vieira and Keane in those monster tussles. Your guts would churn all the way through those matches. What's the chance of ever seeing competition like that again?

[Niall_Quinn]

There's also a slow turn against Ferguson. Even if he did jump when the ship was sinking, it's harsh considering how long he kept them at the top.

[Niall_Quinn]

Somebody with the balls to break the taboo.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...s-skipper.html

'The only thing in any way remarkable about his performance is that he collects £300,000 a week to play that badly.'

United's new attacking line-up: for me, it'll be RVP and Falcao every time. And though there's lots of talk about him playing in the hole behind that front two, I think that'd be a huge mistake - why would you have Rooney there when Juan Mata or Angel Di Maria would do the job so much better?'

[Xhaka Can’t]

Who said that 100% factually correct statement?

[adzzzbatch]

Manchester United profits plunge 84%

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-29140959

[The Emirates Gallactico]

Manchester United profits plunge 84%

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-29140959

Sadly I don't think it matters much. It's still a profit thanks to their huge revenue streams driven by their gigantic combined commercial deals which automatically makes it better than most of the clubs in the PL who make a loss. This isn't factoring in their new whopping 75 million a year Addidas deal either. The money they've lost from no CL has become not that significant compared to the rest of their revenues.

The difference between Liverpool in the 90's when they went through their decline and United now is that Liverpool never had access to the same money pool that United now possess.

Unfortunately they're still a juggernaut that will still be around challenging for a while simply because of their size of their fanbase and the money they have. Only way to take them out would be if they miss out on CL football for several years in a row and their fairweather fans start jumping ship leading to some of the sponsers not renewing deals and (hopefully) exerting clauses in their deals for early termination.

[Niall_Quinn]

And they're cunts.