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Daily Telegraph Sports News Editor. Ex-ESPN. Guest lecturer for universities.

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Alex Shaw
2 years
I have never understood this about this clip. John Terry and Nemanja Vidic have similar clips where they put their head where it hurts and theyโ€™re lionised. To me, in this clip, all I see is heart and character amid a tough situation.
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2 years
7 years ago today, Phil Jones blessed us with this world class piece of defending ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ˜‚ #MUFC
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Alex Shaw
2 years
Ten Hag should be interviewing Man United as much as they are interviewing him.
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5 years
Presumably, go into Aldi and pay ยฃ39.99 for one.
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5 years
Aldi is selling pizza ovens for just ยฃ39.99 โ€“ here's how to get one
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2 years
Worth the money.
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Alex Shaw
3 years
Ronaldo's signing has crashed the Man United website.
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5 years
This is what football has become. It's abysmal.
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2 years
Find stuff like this interesting. How on earth has this got out?
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2 years
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Antony arriving at Carrington ๐Ÿ‘€
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Alex Shaw
4 years
Bruno Fernandes was told he wouldn't start against Liverpool and then stays 45 minutes after training to work on free kicks. Scores a belter. An absolute monster.
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4 years
Is it me or, the minute Donny van de Beek got involved, United looked a bit better ๐Ÿค”
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Alex Shaw
5 years
This is our game now. R.I.P.
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Alex Shaw
6 years
Have a watch of this. Bloke managing United and just, yโ€™know... having a laugh.
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Alex Shaw
5 years
Just came across the letter Fergie sent Cantona after he quit football and itโ€™s dusty in here. โ€œI havenโ€™t won the European Cup and it does get to me at times.โ€
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5 years
My dad died in December and he absolutely adored Man United. You could see in Daniel Jamesโ€™ eyes when he celebrated that it was for his dad. That was a special moment and it really resonated with me.
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Alex Shaw
5 years
I find Real Madrid fansโ€™ and Zidaneโ€™s attitude towards Bale an absolute disgrace. He has performed so well over there and handed them moments in their history theyโ€™ll never forget. The whole situation is absolutely bizarre.
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Alex Shaw
3 years
The Premier League is getting prepared for Jadon Sancho. It took a while but itโ€™s coming.
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Alex Shaw
3 years
Man United have named an academy player in their match day squad for 4,100 consecutive matches, a run that stretches back 83 years.
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3 years
Whatever happened to building with an eye on the development of youth? Manchester United in effect threw away the next 12 years of an improving 23-year-old Daniel James in a trade for two, or maybe three, years of a fading Ronaldo | @allyrudd_times
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Alex Shaw
5 years
Itโ€™s ............ Rebekah Vardyโ€™s account
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Alex Shaw
3 years
Man Utd could end up signing Sancho and Varane for less than what was quoted for Sancho last summer....
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Alex Shaw
3 years
Atletico Madrid are talking to UEFA about the UCL draw. UEFA are currently discussing whether the draw can go ahead in its current guise. Redraw decision coming within the hour is the word.
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Alex Shaw
4 years
This is crazy. How?
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Alex Shaw
4 years
Feels like it has gone under the radar that Greenwood, Rashford, Martial (54) have surpassed Salah, Mane, Firmino (51) for goals this season.
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Alex Shaw
2 years
Ten Hag putting Maguire up front when needing a goal is as clear a message he can make to the Man Utd board about needing a striker in January.
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3 years
Raphael Varane cruised through that game. Unruffled, experienced, serene. He was excellent.
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Alex Shaw
3 years
Solskjaer is done. The only way he keeps in a job is if United are happy to continue being a Netflix entertainment entity rather than a serious football club. I mean, donโ€™t bet against it. But Iโ€™m struggling to think of an available replacement.
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Alex Shaw
2 years
Ten Hag deserves a medal for making United competitive this season while having to put up with Ronaldo and all this. Weโ€™ve only seen the viral clips of his whinges. Imagine dealing with that every day at work.
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Alex Shaw
2 years
Sir Jim Ratcliffe announces he wants to buy Man Utd. Hell of a long way to go, but genuinely believe such public proclamations are a direct result of the protests/dissent against the Glazer family from Man Utd fans. Direct action does work.
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Alex Shaw
5 years
I'm really bored of this guy now.
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5 years
Real Madrid enter the race for Matthijs de Ligt:
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Alex Shaw
5 years
Nobody could have foreseen it to be this bad, but genuinely believe Alexis Sanchez to United is the worst transfer of all time.
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Alex Shaw
3 years
If Rangnickโ€™s first intervention when he goes upstairs is to sell Maguire then heโ€™d be a success. Maguire is absolutely miles away from being a serious defender for a supposed big team. Heโ€™s an absolute calamity.
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Alex Shaw
2 years
That Varane header absolutely stopped a certain Pickford goal
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Alex Shaw
3 years
The decision-makers at Man Utd continue to stun me. In what reality is giving Solskjaer the Spurs game the right move? So, if he wins it's all good? Nothing to see here? It defies belief. A rot has set in; nobody seems to have the nous to rectify it properly.
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Alex Shaw
2 years
England fans have such an odd relationship with Man United players. What on Earth are they booing Maguire for.
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Alex Shaw
4 years
Man Utd confirmed UCL qualification on July 26. One of the world's richest clubs (even after paying their owners dividends) and yet here we are, 4 days until the new season, and still the same questions over the squad and no major sign of arrivals yet.
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Alex Shaw
6 years
For nearly 30 years Man United stopped Liverpool winning the league. The second Man City had to take over they screwed it up. Typical City.
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6 years
No replay, but a good picture. Pickford save.
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Alex Shaw
2 years
Ronaldo can protest all he wants but the reality is that managers for club and country now reckon their teams are better off without him. He reckons he can still play elite CL football but the only club keen on him at the moment is Al Nassr
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Alex Shaw
3 years
Europa League and Champions League finals, of the past 20 years: 15 times a Spanish team faced a non-Spanish team. 15 times a Spanish team won.
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3 years
I have looked into the future and can reveal Man Utd draw PSG in the CL today. Obviously.
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3 years
I genuinely donโ€™t remember the last time Man United even played vaguely well.
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Alex Shaw
4 years
I am a huge fan of Rashford but he has a long way to go in terms of decision making
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3 years
14 months apart. Last and first goals with fans...
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Alex Shaw
5 years
The chasm between Pogba at his best and Pogba at his worst is extraordinary. No other player on the planet can be utterly world class and utterly pathetic.
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Alex Shaw
3 years
Man United are aimless, clueless, insipid, indisciplined. Making it up as they go along. No clear direction, shape or strategy. Just individual moments out of nothing that prolong this ridiculous circus.
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Alex Shaw
4 years
Justice for Donny van de Beek.
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Alex Shaw
3 years
Youโ€™ve got Unitedโ€™s three most hated teams; Liverpool, Leeds and City, singing Solskjaerโ€™s name. Itโ€™s a total embarrassment - the club is rotting.
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Alex Shaw
3 years
Rashford is having surgery soon, and I hope he just takes some time, recovers, and comes again. Because he truly is so special.
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3 years
I honestly won't hear a bad word said about Rangnick. He's a smart, diligent guy who has good ideas. He can't make his ideas happen on the pitch because his players either can't, or won't, do them. He is not the problem and he should be absolved of all blame.
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Alex Shaw
2 years
Not sure those Man Utd fans questioning Richard Arnold about dressing room leaks have much of a leg to stand on when .... they're leaking the video.
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Alex Shaw
4 years
Messi leaving Barcelona is gonna hit โ€˜em on a Fergie-leaving-United level.
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Alex Shaw
2 years
Man Utd are, depending on where you read, around ยฃ10-ยฃ17m apart with Barca for De Jong. Reminder on Friday, Man Utd are paying out ยฃ11m in dividends to shareholders (namely the Glazer family). (This amid worst ever PL season, total debt around ยฃ500m)
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Alex Shaw
4 years
I wonder what Solskjaer makes of finishing above Lampard and then seeing Chelsea give him ยฃ230m to spend in order to sort the team out, while Man United do nothing.
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Alex Shaw
4 years
Bruno Fernandes goodness me. The quality, the mentality, the demands he makes on his players. Absolutely elite and should be the United captain.
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Alex Shaw
6 years
This Liverpool fixation with Sergio Ramos is beyond weird and embarrassing. Let it go, Christ. He's not the reason they lost a Champions League final.
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Alex Shaw
2 years
Anyone looking for a brave, bold new era at Man Utd will be disappointed. Fly out for the tour tomorrow at 4.30pm with just a left-back signed and their main striker engineering an exit. Ten Hag's got one hand tied behind his back. Good luck - he'll need it.
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2 years
Itโ€™s some going considering what he did in his first spell, but Ronaldo has absolutely shredded his legacy here. Wrecked it.
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2 years
I get why the Premier League are so aggressive in rooting out dodgy streams and IPTV boxes but that's what they're driving people towards. How Sky/BT/Amazon can't simply whack on Man Utd v Leeds tomorrow is beyond me.
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Alex Shaw
3 years
It was last chance saloon time for Martial at Man United this season, and I think thatโ€™s it for him.
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4 years
I have loads of wishes for 2021 but I think top of them all is to never watch Man United v Wolves ever again.
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4 years
Took him a while but Moyesy finally got Man United challenging for the Champions League.
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Alex Shaw
2 years
It has to be said: Marcus Rashford was abysmal today and this is a trend that has gone on for more than a year. No idea why itโ€™s happened, but itโ€™s happened. He looks a different player to the 2016 version.
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6 years
Think this should be the end for Mourinho at United. Clear it has got so poisonous to the point of no return. The team selection was ridiculous and you can tell the players aren't there for the manager. Should just make the change this week.
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Alex Shaw
3 years
The UCL draw will get done again and United will get PSG, Liverpool will get Villarreal and Man City will get Salzburg.
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Alex Shaw
4 years
Beckham was an overrated 1-trick pony. Scholes and Giggs were frauds. Keane a bully with no real talent. Fergie wasn't all that. Truly remarkable how a bunch of no-marks dominated English football and won a Treble when you think about it. Some miracle.
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2 years
If I was Ten Hag Iโ€™d genuinely resign after this. Get out now before your reputation is shredded.
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2 years
The thing is, this isnโ€™t even rock bottom yet for Man Utd. I have a feeling itโ€™s going to get a lot, lot worse. The only way this improves is if the Glazers sell. Itโ€™s toxic, rotting. Itโ€™s past the point of no return on this regime.
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2 years
It is better to be second and right than first and wrong. Always.
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2 years
Ten Hag said, literally three days ago, it wasnโ€™t about signing any old player but โ€œright players.โ€ If he thinks Arnautovic & Rabiot are the answers to this ridiculous mess then thatโ€™s the 1st red flag against his name. I almost donโ€™t believe he thinks that.
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Alex Shaw
2 years
Jim Ratcliffe said he was interested in buying Man Utd but โ€œthe Glazers didnโ€™t want to sell.โ€ Well, now they do. So now itโ€™s his move.
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2 years
Oh my god can we cease the obsession with Lisandro Martinezโ€™s height, please.
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4 years
Donny van de Beek: smart player. Been thinking of the adjectives for him but the best one is ... smart. ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ
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3 years
Itโ€™s a weird mix. Man United are good because Ole made them good. But, having got to that point, they could be so much better. Testing times.
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2 years
A lot was made about Sanchoโ€™s price tag and how slow he was to adapt. So now he has adapted and now he is up to speed. That should be highlighted too.
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5 years
I am absolutely sick of the name Bruno Fernandes.
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4 years
Feels like Marcus Rashford deserves some sort of official recognition for all he is doing.
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Alex Shaw
2 years
It's City v Liverpool this weekend. Two decent teams... As a rivalry? Not a chance. There's barely anything there. I long for the days of United v Arsenal. The hatred and storylines were totally gripping. Even a 0-0 (RVN v Keown) was an epic event.
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5 years
Sergio Romeroโ€™s clean sheet record at Man United is obscene.
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Alex Shaw
4 years
This really is simple: Lukaku wanted to leave United, and he needed to, to improve. Him leaving has also allowed Rashford, Martial and Greenwood to gel as a 3 and has been big in Greenwoodโ€™s rise. Thereโ€™s no โ€œmistakeโ€. It suited everyone. The end.
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Alex Shaw
3 years
Michael Carrick leaving Man United. A legend and one of the most underrated players Iโ€™ve seen in my lifetime.
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3 years
Solskjaer and his subs eh ๐Ÿง
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3 years
Chelsea finished 2nd in their group and got the 11th best team in France. After, shall we say, a "curious" draw, Man Utd finish top of their group and draw the best team in France.
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2 years
Lisandro Martinez is an outstanding defender as well. Heโ€™s been brilliant so far.
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Alex Shaw
2 years
My reading on De Jong: Utd have been inept for years in market, but *surely* despite FDJ's camp briefing he wants to stay, United have been told the opposite by him. There's surely no *way* they could spend months on this without being *sure* he wants to come
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Alex Shaw
3 years
Wouldn't be the first time I'm wrong but something about Zidane to Man United doesn't feel like the right choice. But...there really isn't another choice.
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2 years
The only way Man Utd will progress is if a striker is signed.
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2 years
Man Utd fans online have genuinely been influential - to some extent - in getting the club to rightly bin off a move for Marko Arnautovic. A novel approach to transfer dealings but there we go...
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Alex Shaw
5 years
Let us never speak of the 2018-19 season ever again.
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Alex Shaw
3 years
That is absolutely criminal from Rashford. Not even trying.
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Alex Shaw
2 years
This is tragic
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centredevils.
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๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿšจ๐ŸŽ™| Cristiano Ronaldo on being the most followed person in the world: โ€œI feel proud for that. It means a lot. It means people like me. Why am I the number 1? Why me? Sometimes I ask myself that. I think being good looking also helps.โ€
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Alex Shaw
4 years
Solskjaer has done some good, some bad. But losing to Arsenal - this Arsenal, Artetaโ€™s Arsenal! - is sinfully ugly.
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Alex Shaw
3 years
@GNev2 He was responsible for the club's finest hour and will forever be lauded and loved for it. However just because he scored an injury time winner in 1999, doesn't mean he's the right man to manage Man United in 2021.
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Alex Shaw
2 years
It blows my mind that John Murtough seemingly prioritised going for Rabiot before that fell down over wages and instead targeted ....Casemiro.
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Alex Shaw
4 years
Man United are waking up. After Donny Van De Beek, Solskjaer now targeting Upamecano: @MarkOgden_
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Alex Shaw
3 years
This is not on the manager. This is on the players. I refuse to believe Man Utd are inherently this bad technically. Bad passes, decisions, easy to play through, no real energy. They can make ordinary sides look better than they are. Itโ€™s ridiculous.
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Alex Shaw
2 years
Let us never speak of the 2021-22 season again.
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Alex Shaw
6 years
The funniest thing about PSG handball-gate against United is that Dalot's shot was going about 50 yards over the bar.
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Alex Shaw
2 years
Also, Bruno Fernandes is a shadow of his former self. Loses the ball constantly and has little to no threat or creativity. He was brilliant once, but those times are a long way back.
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Alex Shaw
4 years
As it stands, Man United in pole position for Donny Van De Beek. Wanted him in January. Solskjaer has personally intervened to get this deal moving. @RodrigoFaez @alexkirkland
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Alex Shaw
2 years
It is crazy that Man Utdโ€™s decline has transcended sport to the point where Elon Musk is joking about buying the club, but I also feel that without such obvious and vocal fan opposition to the Glazers, itโ€™s unlikely heโ€™d have noticed / tweeted that.
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