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Someone's having a real laugh - gollum?


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We've got it wrong . Dave was a winner after all and the Glazers are laughing all the way to the bank.  The Mancs obviously like their comedy more than their football.


 


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-27426235


Manchester United has reported a sharp rise in profits and revenue despite a disappointing season on the pitch.


For the three months to the end of March, profits were £11m, up from £3.6m a year ago. The club also posted record revenues of £115.5m for the period.


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The Telegraph has an article today summing up the total loss by employing David Moyes, and the final bill comes to £50.4 million, they say.

 

Roughly £35m from missing out on the CL, £8.4m from finishing 7th instead of 1st, and add in £7m for his wages/payoff.  I reckon it's actually more than that, because they seem to have swallowed the line that he only got a £5m payoff which is what United have fed the press but is surely bollocks, and they haven't included the paying off of the staff he brought with him in order to clear out all the talented and proven assistants they already had under contract.  Plus under the new TV deal there's more to the payouts than the finishing places - they may only lose £8.4m for finishing 7th, but there's also a difference in the TV payout as well that probably tacks on a few more million to that figure.

 

Add to all of that the reduced attraction to sponsors in the future (the idea that United are always going to be head and shoulders ahead of the likes of Arsenal is now irrevocably gone) and I reckon that one bad decision could waterfall into £100m in costs and reduced future income.  Staggering.  What makes it even funnier is that anyone with half a brain could have seen that hiring Moyes was a ridiculous decision.

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http://prosoccertalk.nbcsports.com/2014/05/21/bbc-live-has-story-of-giggs-convincing-moyes-to-cancel-alcantara-deal/

 

This is great. Seems Giggs was having the last word on Davy's transfers. Fergurson let the looney's take over the asylum.

 

That is absolutely genius.  "Not a Manchester United player."  Yeah, that's true.  Alcantara is actually good.

 

Makes me wonder what the almighty oracle that is Ryan Giggs said when they were talking about Fellaini.

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Their arrogance is shocking, i can throughly envisage Giggs doing that, and Neville being the nodding lapdog in that situation. The problem is they are all like that. If you venture over to Redcafe they are a shoe in for top 3 next year and we'll finish between 5th and 7th, we'll just miraculously fall away, no reason why, but it's a mathematical certainty.

 

Then someone mentions Benitez in the top 10 managers in world football and they all go mental, who's better? Mazzari apparently, although he's won one Copa Italia in his entire career....manc logic. Manc logic also dictates Suarez isn't a top player because 52% of his goals came against the bottom 6 sides by all accounts. Manc logic that Janazaj is a better player than Raheem Sterling because it was his first year, and judging by Sterling's first year, Janazaj was more impressive....was he? Don't think so, anyway....

 

Never get in the way of Manc logic, it's told us that Moyes would carry on in Fergie's footsteps, Giggs would be the new Guardiola, Cleverly is miles better than Henderson and also that Welbeck is light years ahead of Daniel Sturridge in terms of development. 

 

Their overinflated sense of self worth will be their downfall, and that Giggs speech about Kroos is a perfect personification of that.

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http://prosoccertalk.nbcsports.com/2014/05/21/bbc-live-has-story-of-giggs-convincing-moyes-to-cancel-alcantara-deal/

 

This is great. Seems Giggs was having the last word on Davy's transfers. Fergurson let the looney's take over the asylum.

 

Astonishing if true, if they had any sense they'd clear the likes of Giggs out and make a clean break. The fact that he's assistant coach ready and able to undermine LvG at the first opportunity just makes the whole thing so entertaining.

 

Mancs are basically convinced next season is normal service resumed, the fact that they have a new manager who usually takes several seasons to get his methodology instilled into his players whilst at the same time undertaking a major rebuilding of both the first team and the squad appears to have completely passed them by. That LvG won't realistically be able take the reigns on a day to day basis until a couple of weeks before the season starts is also completely overlooked.

 

Equally the teams comfortably ahead of them at the moment will somehow not improve their squads and the fact that they're not in the CL is in no way a limiting factor with their transfer activity and will not force them to pay over the odds. Definitely not.

 

In reality their new manager could do a thoroughly good job laying down the foundations next season but they could still easily finish outside the top four. 

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It's the first noble and gracious thing Fergie has done in his managerial career, sabotaging United in retirement and putting their League title count on hold... while we catch up.

(Perhaps he knows in his heart of hearts that 20-18 just doesn't sit right and is fraudulent!)

 

Over to us.

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