Someone's having a real laugh - sperm of gollum to Utd.

[TheDrowningMan]

9 hours ago, The Guest said:

I accepted it ages ago.  Makes it easier to take.  We couldn’t afford to fall behind and we did.  It was a shame it was against absolute shite like these where it happened.  It always feels like if we are ever going to win it we are going to have to be massively out in front.

 

It doesn’t take away from the team being sensational this year.  I’m not even disheartened by it really.  We are one of the best teams in the world and we are in the running for the big trophies again.  When you look back at old threads on here you realise the position we were win.  I reckon I’m enjoying football a lot more than them sad bastards that couldn’t even be arsed celebrating a last minute winner in a European cup quarter final as well.  If they win it which I think they will nobody will care.

 

Yep.

 

If City, given full permission to spend whatever they want, continue to rack up points as they have this season it won’t be just their supporters who are apathetic. Can you imagine if they carry on for another 10 seasons, only being challenged every now and again by a team like ours falling short despite having one of the greatest seasons in history? People will lose interest and the Premier League will end up throwing all sorts of wacky ideas out there to ensure that the TV money doesn’t decline. We’ll end up with an American-style ‘post-season’ to crown the true champions.

[The Golden Eel]

That's the thing - even if we don't win it, you'd fancy us to have a good crack again next season. It's been a while since I thought we had any type of genuine chance before a season started. Even the year we nearly won it, that always felt to me like it would have been a "Leicester" (I know Leicester happened after that) and that we wouldn't have been "back" as it were. Now we're genuinely one of the best teams in Europe. It's a shame we might end up with nothing to show for it but we're in a pretty good place right now so it's hard to be too down-hearted. 

[Boss]

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[SlugTrail]

13 hours ago, cloggypop said:

He needs to buy the best 4 or 5 players from Molde, players he knows and trusts, and build the team around them. 

Do you think they would be willing to take that step down.

[suzy]

6 hours ago, TheHowieLama said:

I thought it was a cardboard cutout for awhile.

He really does look like one!

[cloggypop]

50 minutes ago, SlugTrail said:

Do you think they would be willing to take that step down.

Edward Woodwoodwoodwood could make them an offer they couldn't refuse. 

[Tj hooker]

 They might be starting to see the light : Manchester United executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward held crisis talks with manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and his assistant Mike Phelan at the club's training ground following a seventh defeat in nine games in the Manchester derby. (Mail) 

[Jennings]

Hope not.

[Thoth]

Manchester United made a ‘desperate telephone call’ to Southampton at the last minute to see if Virgil van Dijk was available, only to be told he had completed his medical at Liverpool, according to reports.

Manchester City and Liverpool were the two frontrunners for Van Dijk’s signature when the speculation was building ahead of a proposed exit from St Mary’s, with United – who kept the rumours at arms length – taking up a watching brief

Van Dijk is now part of a Liverpool team that could be on the verge of their first title in 29 years as they trail City by one point in the Premier League with three matches to go.

Some eyebrows were raised when the Reds purchased Van Dijk for a whopping £75million 16 months ago but it now looks like brilliant business.

And The Times claims that United’s ‘botched move’  was ‘as late and hopeless as their bid to sign Gareth Bale when he left Tottenham Hotspur for Real Madrid’.

The newspaper’s chief sports writer Matt Dickinson reckons it ‘sums up the dysfunction at Manchester United’ currently and that it ‘encapsulates the lack of understanding between manager(s) and board, an absence of vision or even basic planning when it comes to recruitment’.

The report added:

‘Tottenham Hotspur were never going to spend a world-record fee on a defender. Arsenal thought about it but not when the cost jumped above £50 million.

‘At Chelsea, Antonio Conte was very keen but the club’s hierarchy would not sanction the outlay which, not for the first or last time at Stamford Bridge, worsened the rift between manager and board.

‘City had Van Dijk high on their list but it was a list that also included Aymeric Laporte, who has done much to justify the £57 million fee that took him to Manchester from Athletic Bilbao, while not matching the Dutchman’s huge influence.’

[Guest]

On 25/04/2019 at 23:33, cloggypop said:

Edward Woodwoodwoodwood could make them an offer they couldn't refuse. 

They could use an equalizer or two right now.

[Jennings]

Didn't know City paid 57M for Laporte. Hardly gets mentioned the amount they pay for nearly every player.

[Aventus]

2 hours ago, Jennings said:

Didn't know City paid 57M for Laporte. Hardly gets mentioned the amount they pay for nearly every player.

Yeah, a city fan had a dig at us for trying to "buy the league" because we had the most expensive defender ever. 

 

Ignoring the fact that they had the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 6th most expensive defenders ever making up their back 4. 

 

 

[El Rojo]

20 hours ago, Thoth said:

Manchester United made a ‘desperate telephone call’ to Southampton at the last minute to see if Virgil van Dijk was available, only to be told he had completed his medical at Liverpool, according to reports.

Manchester City and Liverpool were the two frontrunners for Van Dijk’s signature when the speculation was building ahead of a proposed exit from St Mary’s, with United – who kept the rumours at arms length – taking up a watching brief

Van Dijk is now part of a Liverpool team that could be on the verge of their first title in 29 years as they trail City by one point in the Premier League with three matches to go.

Some eyebrows were raised when the Reds purchased Van Dijk for a whopping £75million 16 months ago but it now looks like brilliant business.

And The Times claims that United’s ‘botched move’  was ‘as late and hopeless as their bid to sign Gareth Bale when he left Tottenham Hotspur for Real Madrid’.

The newspaper’s chief sports writer Matt Dickinson reckons it ‘sums up the dysfunction at Manchester United’ currently and that it ‘encapsulates the lack of understanding between manager(s) and board, an absence of vision or even basic planning when it comes to recruitment’.

The report added:

‘Tottenham Hotspur were never going to spend a world-record fee on a defender. Arsenal thought about it but not when the cost jumped above £50 million.

‘At Chelsea, Antonio Conte was very keen but the club’s hierarchy would not sanction the outlay which, not for the first or last time at Stamford Bridge, worsened the rift between manager and board.

‘City had Van Dijk high on their list but it was a list that also included Aymeric Laporte, who has done much to justify the £57 million fee that took him to Manchester from Athletic Bilbao, while not matching the Dutchman’s huge influence.’

They probably reversed the charges on the phone call too, the pathetic bums. 

[Guest]

Paul Scholes linked to the position of Director of Football at Manyoo. Please let that be true. 

[Lee909]

 

[Shankly]

Relax Ole, it’s just one finger 

 

[Anubis]

Chelsea to beat them today and go level on points with Spurs.

[Bruce Spanner]

On 27/04/2019 at 07:22, Jennings said:

Didn't know City paid 57M for Laporte. Hardly gets mentioned the amount they pay for nearly every player.

 

You have to take anything they do with a pinch of salt. Mangala was reported as costing 30m, but leaked docs show it was really about 42m basic, without conditions and fees. This is before the widely reported ‘massaging’ of the official wages through several dodgy sponsors and ambassadorial roles the players have.

 

I’ll be glad when they’re back playing Luton.

[Gnasher]

A lot of their problems are down to fergurson. He bought a lot of old players towards the end of his reign (van Persie etc) and the younger ones were not top class (jones smaliling etc)  

 

He retired knowing his best players were over the hill, Van Persie  Scholes, Giggs, Rooney etc  he didnt really bother replacing them in last few years because hes a self centered person.

 

Ferguson man utd career has been blessed with luck. He inherited a swathe of young world class players, Giggs, Beckham, Scholes and bullied the fa and referees. He had over prem managers licking his arse and made sure the board bought the best players avalible (ferdinand Rooney, keane etc although thats a  job he did well) 

 

Fergursons record abroad is pretty dismal  2 very lucky european wins in al them years. It gives a truer reflection on his talents when he didnt have the luxury of euro refs giving  him every major decison.

[Curly]

21 minutes ago, Gnasher said:

A lot of their problems are down to fergurson. He bought a lot of old players towards the end of his reign (van Persie etc) and the younger ones were not top class (jones smaliling etc)  

 

He retired knowing his best players were over the hill, Van Persie  Scholes, Giggs, Rooney etc  he didnt really bother replacing them in last few years because hes a self centered person.

 

Ferguson man utd career has been blessed with luck. He inherited a swathe of young world class players, Giggs, Beckham, Scholes and bullied the fa and referees. He had over prem managers licking his arse and made sure the board bought the best players avalible (ferdinand Rooney, keane etc although thats a  job he did well) 

 

Fergursons record abroad is pretty dismal  2 very lucky european wins in al them years. It gives a truer reflection on his talents when he didnt have the luxury of euro refs giving  him every major decison.

That’s the most Everton like post I’ve ever seen mate. Ignoring all achievements and spinning them into luck. Only 2 European cups eh? What a failure.

 

Ferguson is a cunt, but he was a quality manager. Not everyone would have got what he did out of those youngsters in 92. In fact hardly anyone. It wasn’t a given.

[Gnasher]

2 minutes ago, belarus said:

That’s the most Everton like post I’ve ever seen mate. Ignoring all achievements and spinning them into luck. Only 2 European cups eh? What a failure.

 

Ferguson is a cunt, but he was a quality manager. Not everyone would have got what he did out of those youngsters in 92. In fact hardly anyone. It wasn’t a given.

It was a given, Giggs for example was highly touted as a future superstar at the age of 15.

 

As was his two euro wins, one was down to john terry missing a penallty, its a fact. 2 wins in all that time is a poor return imo.

[KMD7]

9 minutes ago, Gnasher said:

It was a given, Giggs for example was highly touted as a future superstar at the age of 15.

 

As was his two euro wins, one was down to john terry missing a penallty, its a fact. 2 wins in all that time is a poor return imo.

And only a brilliant Barca team stopped him winning 4.  He was a great manager,  no need to denigrate his achievements. Bob was better though

[Thoth]

 

[manwiththestick]

Have a bad manc in work who has spent most of this season taking the piss out of us and Klopp (honestly)

 

The other day he ask me if there will be pressure on Klopp and even suggested his job should be on the line if he's empty handed again. He also seems to be beside himself that our potential points total of 97 will be an epic failure.

 

This guy would not stop championing the job OGS was doing after about 6 games so my responses at the moment always has the phrase Ole's at the wheel shoehorned in somewhere.

[Grinch]

1 hour ago, manwiththestick said:

Have a bad manc in work who has spent most of this season taking the piss out of us and Klopp (honestly)

 

The other day he ask me if there will be pressure on Klopp and even suggested his job should be on the line if he's empty handed again. He also seems to be beside himself that our potential points total of 97 will be an epic failure.

 

This guy would not stop championing the job OGS was doing after about 6 games so my responses at the moment always has the phrase Ole's at the wheel shoehorned in somewhere.

 

"What's the title race got to do with you lot?"

 

Does the trick.   Then again it probably helps that I don't give a fuck about what they do either.