burner | intrusive thoughts

Joined January 2011
‘Michael Carrick will be given time to turn things around’ and ‘the hierarchy do not want to rush next steps’ should be read and digested for what it really is: an indecisive club without any succession planning or contingencies because it doesn’t have clarity of identity in the first place. A club that often takes the cheap instead of the smart or right route because of the crippling Glazer debt, plus decision-makers who are never aligned - except in their own self-preservation. And it ends up costing more. It explains the chaotic nature of lurching from one coaching philosophy to its extreme, to revisiting candidates that were on the agenda - some as far back as 2019 - that were already ruled out, to having a shortlist of options with nothing in common to take over a mishmash team that has suffered from horrid squad planning; both in incomings and exits. Blame the players, blame the name in the dugout while the people who brought them to Manchester United, kept them, created the absolute opposite of a culture of excellence are allowed to rinse and repeat.
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Fuck Jason Wilcox. Fuck Omar Berrada. Fuck Jim Ratcliffe. And an all-time, colossal FUCK YOU to the Glazer family.
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SACK HIM.
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Good luck to the committed Carrick this weekend. But this #mufc regime are worse than Woodward's. Not the first time they've lost their nerve when it comes to a necessary change of manager and the incompetence is rather breathtaking now. Or they're looking after themselves.
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this is regardless if you think eddie howe is a good coach or not. jason wilcox has made countless bad decision after another. no other top club would have him appointed still. however at united there's no standards. i'm not backing anymore decision he makes. #NoToHowe #WilcoxOut
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INEOS said we would compete in 2028 and their special plan is to hire a manager who has NEVER won or competed for a league title. Incompetent. Not even the Glazers were this thick
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#JasonWilcox - The worst Director of Football in the premier league. #MUFC #Glazersout #Wilcoxout
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Every time as a #mufc fan, you’d think it can’t get worse - it does. The way the club is run is an absolute joke! Moyes, Ole, Ragnick ten Hag, Amorim and now Carrick, and each time has gotten progressively worse. The owners need to go, the Man Utd we once knew, no longer exists.
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Never thought I'd say this, but yeah... they're WORSE than the Glazers. "Best in class" my arse.
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Haaland. Kane. Bellingham. Rice. All in the top 15 of the Ballon d'Or. All wanted by Ole at Utd. But the hierarchy above didn't listen, didn't care & didn't want to back him. Proof they should have & that Ole deserves another chance. Until the hierarchy changes, nothing will.
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We all gotta view Lewa as a Ballon D’or winner ngl
Levels to this game
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Harry Kane going from football’s most famous trophyless player to a Ballon d’Or winner might be the greatest example of why changing employers can improve your life.
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🔥WATCH THIS: Kaveh Solhekol absolutely TORCHED Jim Ratcliffe on @SkySportsNews! He’s to blame. Full stop. Solhekol didn’t hedge or soft-soap it. He laid out exactly how Ratcliffe’s arrival, buying only 29%, bailing out the Glazers, and seizing control of football operations, has wrecked the club. He was ruthless in his assessment: “I’m going to tell you who’s to blame for this situation at the moment. The person to blame is Jim Ratcliffe. He bought the club almost three years ago. He bought 29% of it, when the Glazer family put the club up for sale. He didn’t buy the whole club, he only bought 29% of it. And by buying 29%, it meant that the Glazers stayed in place and Jim Ratcliffe got to run the football operations.” That’s the original sin. He didn’t clean house. He just propped up the Glazers. Then the arrogance of the man who thought he knew better: “He’s come in and he said, ‘I know better than anyone else how to run this club. We’re going to do things my way’. And look what it’s turned out to be over the past two and a half years.” The managerial mess followed immediately: “First of all, he said, ‘I’m going to back Erik ten Hag. We’ve been chopping and changing managers too much’. Then he went off and started meeting Thomas Tuchel and any other manager who was available behind Erik ten Hag’s back.” “When they couldn’t find somebody else, they gave Ten Hag a new contract and money to spend. A couple of games later, Ten Hag loses his job.” “In the middle of the season, they beg Ruben Amorim to come to United. He doesn’t even want to go there in the middle of the season, he wants to wait until the summer. They pay a fortune to get him, even though he plays three at the back, a totally different kind of football.” “Dan Ashworth doesn’t want him. Dan Ashworth leaves, Ruben Amorim comes in, they go all in on Ruben Amorim. That doesn’t work out. They get rid of him.” “They bring in Carrick as an interim. Okay, results are better. Then they give him the full-time job.” And then the transfer policy that locked the club into mediocrity: “In the meantime, Ratcliffe has come in and said, ‘We’re going to do things my way. No player is going to get paid 250, 300 grand a week here anymore. That’s not going to happen. We’re not going to sign any players for more than 60, 70 million pounds’.” “‘So Mateus Fernandes, Elliot Anderson, Harry Kane, Declan Rice, all these players, we ain’t going to be signing them. And also, we’re only going to be signing players with Premier League experience. And we’re going to sign forwards one window, then the following summer we’re just going to sign midfielders, then next summer we’re just going to sign defenders’.” “So this is Jim Ratcliffe’s way of doing things. So he is to blame for this situation.” He’s right. Ratcliffe rode in as the saviour and has made things measurably worse. It was a mistake from the start and I said so at the time. It was NEVER going to work. The only people who benefited were the Glazers. I’m still surprised so many fans backed this and thought it could succeed. Kaveh just laid bare how damaging Ratcliffe has been for Manchester United. And unfortunately, there’s no end in sight.
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The silence and indecision from the hierarchy is another damning indictment of the leadership at #MUFC. The way they’re continuing to treat Carrick is nothing short of diabolical. What’s causing the delay? A U-turn? An inability to secure the right replacement? The owners must go. That said, the results on the pitch have been nowhere near acceptable either.
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زيدان لمس رأس كامافينجا بإيده المقدسة قام عالج له التخلف العقلي اللي عنده
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How the f*ck can you not know if the head coach is taking training or not TOMORROW?! What on earth were you doing for 8 hours today?! Absolute incompetence. Are we seriously trusting these people to choose the next person in charge?
🚨 CARRICK LATEST 🔺 Man Utd boss left in limbo 🔺 Spent 3hrs at Carrington today 🔺 Watched #mufc friendly v Hull City 🔺 Owners & execs in crisis talks 🔺 Players back for training on Tues 🔺 Unclear if Carrick will take session 🔺 Howe & Nagelsmann options
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