Are you serious? They already look like donkeys, sacking the manager after appointing him few weeks ago on the back of just renewing the contract of the previous manager is one of the most idiotic footballing decisions ever made by any club in history. They will be the laughing stock of every club.
We’re already the laughing stock of football, they renewed ETH then gave him £180 million to spend and sacked him weeks later even though he should have been sacked straight after the cup final and gone out on a high.
Right, so you think our freefall is because of INEOS? Nothing to do with the mismanagement of the club for the last 10 odd years?
Instead, blame the ones that been at the club for 1 year.
Ineos have had control of the footballing side of the business since January last year so every bad decision since January last year is on them, the years of mismanagement by the parasites have fecked us financially but the 13 months of Ineos controlling the football side of the club is a completely separate thing.
They knew everything within the club before coming in as had full disclosure to the accounts and the entire workforce so had full knowledge of everything then had from January 2024 through to the end of the season to analyse things further, they then absolutely fecked things from the cup final onwards and that isn’t even a debate.
First off there's the shambolic internal review on whether to keep ETH or not by a fecking cycling coach in Brailsford where Ineos openly interviewed other coaches like Tuchel then flew to Ibiza where ETH was on holiday to tell him he’s staying, it was heavily reported that Brailsford pushed hard to keep ETH so they extended his contract and then brought in RVN and Hake on big money.
That decision was only the start as then they gave ETH over £180 million to spend then weeks later did what they should have done after the cup final and sacked ETH, only now though rather than paying ETH off only a years contract the club had to pay him two years contract plus his staff plus Hake which hurt us massively PSR wise.
The next big decision was who would replace ETH which is where it turns fecking shambolic as Ashworth who was brought in to run the footballing department after we’d created a saga of bringing him in then paying for him had his power effectively stripped from him by non footballing directors and pulled rank.
Ashworth wanted Howe or Frank but if they weren’t available then RVN or Potter strictly as interim until the end of the season, problem was Brailsford wanted Southgate and Berrada wanted Amorim so what Ashworth wanted was a non starter even though he was head of the footballing department.
At a guess it was probably because of Brailsford wanting to keep ETH he wasn’t listened to in regards to Southgate but Berrada was and within hours of ETH being fired Berrada was on a plane to Portugal to tell Amorim it was now or never to join United even though Amorim didn’t want to leave mid season, there’s no way Amorim would have left mid season if he wasn’t promised certain things as he was flying in the league and doing well in the CL too.
Ashworth was against Amorim coming in simply based on the fact Amorim is married to his system and we neither had the players to play it or the money to bring players in to play it either yet Berrada was insistent, Ashworth then mysteriously leaves the club after 5 months so we lose more money in another pay off and Wilcox who has a relationship with Berrada from City effectively moves into Ashworth’s role along with Vivell who was only meant to be a consultant.
Then we have the shambles of moving Rashford and Antony on then triggering Maguire’s contract to create money to bring in a kid from relegation bound Lecce of Serie A to play left wing back only for Amorim to play him at right wing back not to mention things like Mainoo as a striker.
We all know how fecking bad the Glazer’s have been but Ineos were insistent when coming in that THEY run the football department so for all the bad the Glazer’s have done what’s happened on the pitch between the cup final and now is on Ineos as THEY have made the decisions, why people are giving them a pass and saying it’s all a result of the years of mismanagement is insane as Ineos have had full control footballing wise.
What we are seeing right now is Ineos making the exact same mistakes of the past decade or so where non footballing people make footballing decisions and think we can run before we can walk, Brailsford and Berrada shouldn’t be anywhere near footballing decisions as one is a fecking cycling coach and the other a commercial and sponsorship guy which means they’re as qualified as Woodward and Arnold were and we know how that went.
