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nickm replied to the thread Club ownership | Senior management team talk.I can get the need to make cuts/reduce expenses/size us for non European football. But what I don't understand is why we couldn't have done it once, got it out the way and started moving forwards. Cut hard once, do it as decently and humanly as...
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nickm replied to the thread Ruben Amorim - Manchester United Head Coach.I can see why you might want to be flexible for Baggio. Not sure the same applies for Amad
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nickm replied to the thread Ruben Amorim - Manchester United Head Coach.Tell that to Zirkzee.
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nickm replied to the thread Ruben Amorim - Manchester United Head Coach.Explaining ain't blaming.
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nickm replied to the thread Ruben Amorim - Manchester United Head Coach.We play a lot better away than home, and I think there is something about our home support that is unsettling the players and causing them to play over cautiously which disrupts the system. We saw something similar with England at Wembley for a...
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nickm replied to the thread Ruben Amorim - Manchester United Head Coach.We hired him knowing this was the deal. So we have an obligation. Judging him before we give him the tools would be wrong - and our finances are so bad we can't even do that yet. So let's just get this season out of the way before we go burning...
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nickm replied to the thread Club ownership | Senior management team talk.“Owner of business plays role in major asset purchases”. I’m shocked, shocked I tell you.
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nickm replied to the thread Ruben Amorim - Manchester United Head Coach.Amorims job isn’t to get the best price for Rashford, it is to demonstrate to the team what he requires from his players.
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nickm replied to the thread Club ownership | Senior management team talk.The prince withdrew his bid. That is a fact. And that happened because he wasn’t able to confirm to United that he had the money needed. That is was what United told the SEC, the US financial regulator, who are not people you fck with. There was...
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nickm replied to the thread Ruben Amorim - Manchester United Head Coach.I assume Amorim has decided the culture he wants to create is more important than whether one player has scored more than another. Maybe Rashford would individually score a few more goals in the short term, but the cost would be that the team...
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nickm replied to the thread Ruben Amorim - Manchester United Head Coach.I just don't care anymore. The most important thing Amorim can do, is make his standards ruthlessly clear. If he needs to make an example of yesterday's man Rashford to do that, so be it. I'm fcuking done with pussyfooting around players who...
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nickm replied to the thread Club ownership | Senior management team talk.I don’t think INEOS fcuked us. They were the only real offer on the table. It’s the Glazers who have fcuked us. Don’t lose sight of who our incompetent owners are. These financial problems are not because of INEOS. Something was always going to...
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nickm replied to the thread Ruben Amorim - Manchester United Head Coach.I think it was a comment designed to challenge Rashford’s pride, from someone who might see it as a last resort and who has nothing to lose. It’s one of those things that could go either way. At worse, a player who wants to leave, gets on with...
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nickm replied to the thread Club ownership | Senior management team talk.I do understand the point you are making, I am just saying that the business plan you advocate isn’t available. You’d need someone willing to put $1billion + into the club to clear the Glazer debt and buy out the player contracts. You can do that...
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nickm replied to the thread Club ownership | Senior management team talk.Your Amazon example proves my point. Even in the early days, Amazon had investor confidence because investors could see the value of their investment grow, because the machine Bezos was building reliably turned investment into revenue/customers...