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Following United about since the 70's. Last seen in the Stretford End. Occasional ranter. Glazer Out mug owner.

Salford, England
Joined July 2011
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2 years
£100m for Nunez to the Scouse, nothing said. £100m for Grealish who can't get games at City, nothing said. £97m for Lukaku to Chelsea who's out onloan, nothing said. Utd miss out on CL football and have to overpay and spend £80.7m for Antony. War breaks out. United are massive.
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2 years
Why on earth would Erik want McClaren whos managed Middlesbrough to a European final and FC Twente to their only league title in their history and who was an assistant manager to the best boss in our history and won the only treble in English football with him too. Ludicrous.
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5 years
No Martial, Lingard, Matic, Herrera, Mata, Pogba and Sanchez against Paris and for some reason I've not written us off. What has Ole done to us reds.
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2 years
Lingard and Pogba finally getting removed from the official United website is so refreshing.
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2 years
Right. I rarely tweet about inside information but keep a close eye on Jim Ratcliffe and Manchester United.
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3 years
United practically trolling Newcastle with Lingard apparently being worth £50m because they wanted £50m when we came in for Longstaff. Very impressive if you ask me.
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4 years
I truly hope I'm alive to see Manchester United being sold to someone who actually cares about this club one day.
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2 years
To terminate his contract 6 weeks before it ends and to fly straight to Manchester without no hoilday one day after the Dutch League has finished just shows how committed Ten Hag is to fixing Utd. Absolutely love that. Just need the Glazers to play their part and back him now.
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1 year
Casemiro is what we all thought we was getting when we signed Paul Pogba. He's only 1 year older than Paul too. Scary when you compare the two.
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2 years
Chelsea paid £101.7m for Lukaku and the media haven't once jumped on his back for having a very poor season. I suppose only Manchester United player's get the clicks.
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2 years
No Ronaldo, No Pogba and no Champions League football. Go on Glazers sell up you know you want to. 😉
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2 years
So glad Pogba has left. He's contract isn't even expired yet and he's already doing interviews about United. It's all about him, massive attention seeker. He came to Manchester twice, failed twice. Jose was right about him. Slow Italian league is where he belongs. Good riddance.
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2 years
Mata, Lingard and Phil Jones earn more than Salah and folk wonder what's going wrong at Manchester United.
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6 years
If only Pogba had half of Herrera's passion for this football club he'd be some player.
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6 years
Jose & Pep arrived at the same time. Pep has signed 20 players, Jose has signed 9. Ridiculous to expect Jose to win a gunfight with a bread-knife. Utd board have no vision or direction. They just want to continue to milk the cow. Qualifying for the champions league is good enough
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2 years
Ornstein is now the most trustworthy journalist on this platform hands down. The others just follow and repeat.
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5 years
Utd have gone from watching Rooney run the length of the pitch to win the ball back at our own corner flag to watching Pogba, Martial & Romelu jog around the pitch. You can be the most talented player in the world but if you don't put the effort in, I don't want you at this club.
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2 years
Now folk know why Ole played Fred and McTominay so much. Basically covering for our defenders who can't defend.
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3 years
36 year old Thiago Silva went to Chelsea and added bags of experience and was probably their best centre back. Varane who turned 28 years old only 3 months ago is finished and suddenly one of the slowest centre backs in world football. All because he's signing for Utd. Amusing.
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2 years
Jim Ratcliffe never wanted to buy Chelsea. An professional businessman would've never put his bid worth billions in too late. It was a stunt and publicity for Jim to let the Glazers know that he's got the funds to buy Manchester United without direct talks. Smartly played.
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6 years
Imagine Sala telling his wife/family that he's moving to a new city and a new club and he's excited to try something different. Now picture what has happened in reality. We have almost no control over our lives, even though we seem to think we do. Enjoy every minute you can.
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6 years
£50m and Messi for Pogba and we'll think about it you cunts @FCBarcelona
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2 years
Fair fucking play to that Goldbridge fella. He could clearly see that Utd sells and gets clicks so he's worked his arse off to get to the top of the youtube/fan cam world and landed himself a spot on talksport. Not bad for a Forest fan. Just goes to prove you don't need to GCSE's
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5 years
Utd have actually made a signing based on talent, age, hunger and commitment Instead of marketing. That doesn't sound like a Ed signing at all. 👍
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2 years
Talksport hate Utd, but they know Utd get the clicks so they constantly talk shite about Utd for reactions. I find the whole Danny Murphy and Agbonlahor thing quite amusing talking about Utd's recent bad patch, when both never won the League in 951 appearances between the two.
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2 years
Ruben Neves is 25, already knows how Bruno plays from playing together at international level so would fit like a glove and earns 50k per week at Wolves. I seriously don't know why Utd aren't all over him. Any serious club who needs to drastically improve their midfield would be.
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5 years
Van Persie is retiring from football? It only feels like last month he was winning us the League singlehandedly in Fergie's last season. The best £24m spent in United's history.
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2 years
It has to be Garnacho, Rashford and Sancho with Martial being injured, but we all know it's going to be Elanga.
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5 years
City paid £53m for Walker and £52m for Mendy two seasons ago and Ed thinks £40m will get you Wan-Bissaka in today's market. You definitely won't be getting young English Premier League proven talent at that price anymore. Idiot.
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5 years
Pogba & Rom want out, Herrera gone, De Gea refusing to sign, Mata holding out, Sanchez needs moving on, but comfortably earning his 500k per week wage, Young, Smalling, Jones all need replacing, Matic's legs have gone, Rashford wants 300k per week and folk say stop being negative
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1 year
Here come the experts on Marcel Sabitzer. If he's good enough for Erik, he's good enough for me. Simple.
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2 years
Elephant in the room. Greenwood would've finished them chances off today for dinner. Say it quietly, but I think we're missing Greenwood more than some folk actually like to admit.
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5 years
£75m on VVD, £70m on Alisson, £40m on Fabinho, £35m on Mane, £30m on Firminho, £42m on Salah, £55m on Keita. The media will still try to convince you all that Liverpool's top season is all down to Klopp. They've spent clever and big like City and now getting the rewards. Simple.
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6 years
How can you hate on Rashford who is 20 years old and who has come through the ranks at Manchester United for getting the number 10 shirt? You don't understand Manchester United at all. Folk wind me up.
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5 years
The negativity surrounding signing Maguire on here is bizarre. He's the type of signing Utd used to make year after year. Why get yourself upset about the money it costs? I'd be more concerned about the shite we haven't gotten rid off who are costing us millions year after year.
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Play 7 defensive players and get spanked against West Ham then come out and mention Martial's lack of defensive ability. I've defended Jose repeatedly, but enough is enough. He's actually lost it. Please leave my club.
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2 years
Ralf is gone. He told the Glazers how to run the club properly and then got the boot. Nobody has a chance with our owners.
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2 years
I'm convinced that the sheikhs are paying the Glazers to ruin Manchester United. I've got nothing left.
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5 years
Dybala is being forced to join United, he doesn't want to play for a club with no Champions League football.. Bollocks. His agent travelled to London was the biggest indication that he has interests to move to United or he could have clearly refused. You lot need to relax.
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5 years
If Utd manage to recoup the Maguire fee by selling Lukaku and don’t sign anyone else then our net spend would be Wan-Bissaka and Dan James. We’re talking £75m net for a team that finished 6th and needs to get back into the top 4 and start winning trophies again. Very embarrassing
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2 years
Where's all the January money gone that the Glazers didn't release for Ralf to spend because they was saving it for the new manager? It's like they've fooled everyone again and have currently spent less than all our rivals even when finishing 35 points behind and 10 departures.
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5 years
I refuse to believe United couldn't identify a single midfielder out there who would improve us. The likes of Wolves and Everton played us of the park last season. 1 day left in the transfer window and Ed's fucked it again.
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1 year
Gentle reminder that Chelsea only ever had a single 2nd place finish in the Premier League before their oil money man turned up from Russia. City's best finish was 9th in the Prem before their take over. United won the League 20 times before any takeover. Never compare the three.
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2 years
Timber only has 8 caps for the Dutch. If he's really putting his county before club football and scared to battle Maguire and an injury prone Varane then I’d rather we stay away from him. You really have to question the lads mentality.
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2 years
I think Manchester United are possible the only football club that can't talk to more than one player at one time.
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James Stretford
2 years
Murtough & Arnold are somehow managing to be worse than whatever the structure was under Ed. Didn't know that was possible. Both should be sacked. Find somebody like Rangnick to take over football operations. Oh we practically sacked him because Glazers didn't like the truth.
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2 years
Glazers selling Manchester United will be celebrated like winning the treble back in 1999. The end is near, It might not be this month, but I'm putting my neck on the line and saying in the next 24 months they'll be completely removed from our beautiful football club.
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2 years
Charlie McNeill has 600 academy goals between City and United. That stat has blew me away. Only 18 too. Surely should be getting a sniff in the first team soon.
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5 years
I personally don't think the majority of Utd fans have anything personal against certain players. Just that they aren't good enough for this football club. Its as simple as that.
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2 years
City will humiliate most teams this season and they're still unbeaten, but United's second half kind of gives me hope that were actually not so far behind. I'm not expecting anything more from Erik this season than maybe that top 4 spot. That 4 week break killed our momentum too.
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2 years
Three years after we got spanked 4-0 by Everton we've still got the same midfield and folk are wondering what's gone wrong.
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2 years
No way United are releasing 35 year old Uruguayan Cavani and buying 22 year old goal scoring Uruguayan Darwin Gabriel Núñez Ribeiro. It makes too much sense and United don't make sense at all when it comes to planning and transfers.
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2 years
Rashford, Sancho, Ronaldo, Elanga, Cavani, Pogba, Bruno for strike power and some folk are getting their knickers in a twist. Maybe we should go back to playing Valencia on the wing and get David Bellion and Bebe back too.
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6 years
Jose has managed how many players in his career? 200? He's fell out with maybe 10. Why didn't he fall out with Drogba, Terry, Lamps, Materazzi, Zanetti, Ibra, Alonso? The only players he does not tolerate are slackers who don't give 100% which is crucial in football to succeed.
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5 years
There is going to be a huge meltdown once people realise a huge rebuild isn’t happening and that a lot of our players aren’t going to be sold either.
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6 years
That guy who Moyes signed. That guy who Jose begged to stay in the summer and was given a new 2 year deal sends United into the final 16. Haters will hate but you've got to give credit to Fellaini how many times he keeps saving United. Respect needed.
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6 years
Rijkaard got Sparta Rotterdam relegated before he went to Barca, Enrique failed miserably at Roma, Poch was essentially sacked by Espanyol when his team was bottom. Klopp got Mainz relegated. The list goes on, most managers have a bad run, often early on. Don't write Ole off.
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2 years
Jessie Lingards brother is the leak. It's all starting to make sense now.
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2 years
Sancho & Rashford both doing training before pre season has even started. I'd put my house on Erik being able to get a tune out of them both. Sancho obviously the more talented one, but Rashford having a full pre season and 1 year after his op should be proving alot of folk wrong
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6 years
Kompany only had two weeks off. Walker and Stones both start today. Hungry players who have already won the League but want more. Meanwhile Mourinho gets hammered for trying to coax his players to do the same for the United cause.
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6 years
Even under LVG we saw evidence of coaching a certain style. It didn't work, but at least we saw what he was doing. I literally have no idea what Mourinho is trying to accomplish in terms of style. There's just no progress in our play, garbage.
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1 year
115 rules broken. I don't think that happend when we won the treble in 99. Correct me if I'm wrong.
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Pogba staying is like a new signing and Harry Maguire getting bailed is like having a new player back. Two big signings. Good work @ManUtd
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If we start a 5th consecutive season without a single RW in the team, two 33 year old wingers playing as fullbacks and defence of Smalling & Jones then we're royally fucked. Absolutely pathetic for a club of our size and if anyone needs to be sacked first, it's the board.
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James Stretford
5 years
So Manchester United have now had a lower net spend than newly promoted sides (Fulham & Villa) in 2 consecutive summer windows. That tells me where this club is heading.
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2 years
Michael Knighton on Jim Ratcliffe buying Manchester United. "In business, everything is for sale" 👀
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5 years
4 months ago Spurs fans wanted Utd to stay away from Pochettino, now they want him gone. They need to remember who they are and how far he's taken them. Not signed a player all season and they're in the last 8 of the CL & top 4. Poch is overachieving. Punching above their weight.
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United and Barcelona both clubs who make their own money both fined, but City with their Oli rich owners pumping money into such a small club breaking 115 rules on the way. Nothing. Football is on its arse.
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James Stretford
2 years
Replacing Pogba and Matic in midfield with De Jong, Eriksen and also Martinez who can play there is very good football business no matter how badly you think of this football club. Hopefully from this day on we'll only be signing players for football reasons and not merchandising
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Ole loses against one of the best squads in Europe and folk start to turn on him. 1 loss out of 12 after beating Spurs and Arsenal and getting the team to score 29 goals too. It's not his fault that Martial & Lingard both got knocks and our defence crumbled. Cut him some slack
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2 years
Mike Raymond aka Mike LUHG is a City fan from Milton Keynes and still thousands of reds are taking him and his constant hating on Manchester United serious. I can't believe there's so many gullible folk on this platform.
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5 years
Here comes De Gea's new contract to hide Ed Woodward horrid transfer window.
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6 years
Missed Lingard's running off the ball massively. He makes so many intelligent runs off the ball which pulls player's out of position. Something that folk only miss when he's not playing. That said, another victory and finally that clean sheet for Dave. Splendid
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5 years
Maguire's definitely underated by Utd fans because the standards set by Rio/Vidic. He can run with the ball & pass what Smalling & Jones cannot do, good in the air, 26, entering his prime years. He would instantly become our best defender and is a leader, something else we lack
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James Stretford
2 years
Remember when our government blocked Rupert Murdoch/BSkyB's £625m bid for Manchester United in 1999 but let The Glazers buy our football club in 2005 with borrowed debt. If I remember rightly at the time they reported that it will damage the quality of British football..
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Fernández, Hannibal, Garnacho and Garner added to the 1st team. Toxic players leaving and players linked with arriving makes me feel positive going forward with a manager who can actually manage. Hopefully we'll be talking about the football next season and not their bad attitude
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If Jose can't win us the league, then there isn't anybody else with the squad we have. Blame the board. You cannot keep firing and hitting reset button every 2 years. We have a serial winner who's told the board what he needs, to win. Now, it's up to the board to deliver
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2 years
Sparky was always a tough bastard. Now at the age of 58 nothings changed.
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James Stretford
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Folk attack Lukaku because he's not as gifted with the ball to feet than Rashford or Martial, but supply him the service and he'll finish it. He's a goal scorer not a showman. A very good goal scorer too.
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Another £11m getting sucked out the club to the Glazer family when our club is currently in debt and needs massive recruitment & refurbishment. Let's worry about Paul Pogba's hair cut though. I wish some of you would put that much effort into hating the real problem, The Glazers.
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Signs old player, Jose gets hated on. Signs young player, Jose gets hates on. Signs big name player, Jose gets hated on. Signs unknown player, Jose gets hated on. The man can't win.
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If the Glazers do give Ole the job they better keep Phelan. He's the glue.
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5 years
So Pogba hasn't said a word about his future since that silly interview. He's got his head down and trained hard and is committed to United whilst he's still here but his flop of a brother comes out and speaks about him leaving etc.. What a massive disappointment his brother is.
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Love the fact that 5 ft 8 Martinez kept United a clean sheet and got man of the match against Southampton, but 6 ft 2 Koulibaly and 6 ft Da Silva couldn't handle Che Adams and conceded 2 goals. Media ripping into Martinez all week and won't mention anything about that, will they?
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Steve's not like Phelan. He's got zero ties with these current players and board so he's definitely not another puppet or yes man. McClaren pretty much gave Ten Hag his break in football management at Twente too. Trust is a massive thing in football, top appointment if you ask me
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Henderson saying he felt like a cage animal playing second fiddle at Utd for 12months. I'd love to be caged whilst getting millions and looked after by professional fitness teams. You're 25 Dean, not 35. You've won sweet fuck all and played for Stockport, Grimsby & Sheffield Utd.
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5 years
Anyone feel like the seasons over before it's even begun and that's not me being super negative?
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James Stretford
2 years
How the fuck can Southgate name Shaw and Maguire in the England squad and leave out Sancho. I seriously give up.
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James Stretford
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Garner, Gomes, Greenwood & Chong all getting games/experience in the Europa next season is the only positive to come from this season. Every cloud has a silver lining. We need to think long term, instead of short term. That's why we're in this mess, no planning and structure.
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James Stretford
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Pogba's transfer fee £90m + Annual wages of £15m for 6years cost Utd £180m. His 154 appearances worked out to be something like £1.17m per game. Absolute waste of money & energy surrounding this football club. Talented footballer that rarely rose to the heights he was capable of.
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Anyone else feel absolutely filthy wanting City to get a result so the Scouse don't win the League. Look at the state the Glazers have put us in. The blame should lay at their door.
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We can all moan about United being shocking in the transfer window, but when it comes to match days I'll be supporting whoever Erik puts out. I think some folk would rather be right about the team being shite than just enjoying the team win unfortunately.
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James Stretford
2 years
Henderson likes to run his mouth doesn't he. No real surprise for me, seeing as he was one of our biggest leakers last season.
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James Stretford
2 years
Completely on the fence with Rashford. Clear as day there's a player there somewhere hiding and a very decent lad who lives his life in a very good respectable way. Sometimes he has Welbeck written all over him, sometimes he has Mbappe. One more chance with Erik is my prediction.
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James Stretford
5 years
Paul Ince would have won 9 consecutive away games out of 8.
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James Stretford
5 years
The last six seasons have been an absolute disgrace to this football club, and almost everyone who was involved should be ashamed of themselves. Van Gaal needs to shut his mouth and stop talking about Manchester Utd the lunatic. He spent £248m on shite.
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James Stretford
5 years
17 days after our season ended and we've not announced no director of football and made zero signings. Not good enough for a club who's levels behind the top 4 and has to rebuild majority of the squad.
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Don't the Saudi state part-own the paper outlet who are paying you?
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Even if United won everything under Qatar, it would mean nothing
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Ole doesn't have to throw players under the bus to get them out of the club. Valencia, Herrera, Lukaka, Sanchez, Smalling. I personally think he's doing a superb job at moving players on in the decent way and remaining professional. Just need our shit owners to show ambition.
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Looking like Sanchez will make his debut at Yeovil. I can see it now, headlines reads "Sanchez earns more in one month, than the whole Yeovil team earn in one year".
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