Recent content by nickm

  1. 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 possible, and move on. These continuing cuts are...

  2. 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

  3. Ruben Amorim - Manchester United Head Coach

    Tell that to Zirkzee.

  4. Ruben Amorim - Manchester United Head Coach

    Explaining ain't blaming.

  5. 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 while.

  6. 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 another manager.

  7. Club ownership | Senior management team talk

    “Owner of business plays role in major asset purchases”. I’m shocked, shocked I tell you.

  8. 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.

  9. 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 no option other than INEOS. Source. At the end of...

  10. 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 would see they could get away with being lazy if they...

  11. 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 aren't the future of our club. The players with the...

  12. 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 give, the money was running out. And it’ll take...

  13. 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 that. At best, he says fcuk you to Amorim in the...

  14. 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 by issuing new shares, but that would dilute the...

  15. 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. So they were willing to keep putting money in...
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