I'm sorry, but this is just not true.
Look at the treatment of VdB to start with. Then the so-called youth players, what happened to Amad, scored a wonder goal one game, then is never seen again. New signings you say.... well what about Jadon Sancho, the club (no doubt with Ole's backing), chases him for 2 years, gets him & then he leaves him on the bench. The most bizarre one of all: Jesse Lingard. He goes out on loan to West Ham and looks like a world-beater so the club has two choices - sell him to get as much money as possible, or recall him and get the same performances for Man Utd as he was giving at West Ham. But the 3rd option, recall him and bench him makes absolutely no sense at all.
Having said that, Lingard, Amad, VdB (and there are others too) all suddenly find that a 36 year old Portuguese player is brought in and has to have his name on the team sheet before anyone else's.... and who's fault was that?
It was Fergies fault, as I believe he made a last ditch phonecall to Ronaldo when he was considering a move to Manchester City. Perhaps that is why Fergie is at the training ground today offering his support to OGS, it is the least he can do after causing so much trouble for his ex-striker, this season.
How many successful years did SAF have at Old Trafford by-the-way? 1990 - 2013 so 23? But he facilitated the Glazers involvement from 2003, he ran down the playing squad and built the club around himself and himself alone so that once he left, a massive gaping hole appeared. One which doesn't look like being filled anytime soon, except that now he has regained good health, he wants to be more and more involved again. When the next manager joins after OGS they need a massive character with balls big enough to tell Sir Alex that his time is gone and to just stay out of things. In addition, I can't understand why they don't have at least one club box with with privacy glass for the old guy to watch the games from, because Sky or the BBC just love to capture Sir Alex shaking his head when things are going wrong, which was massively hypocritical last Sunday, when he is the cause of much of it. It just makes the club look bad.
Last season a number of Man Utd fans got an important match postponed - also vs Liverpool and they did so in the name of green and gold and to protest against the Glazers, but the ironic thing was their so-called greatest managerial hero caused that due in part his own personal greed over a racehorse (so not even a footballing issue) and none of them dare face up to that. Manchester Utd. are living on past glories and it needs fans to accept where the blame really lies, before the club can even think about moving on.
I agree with all parts except the “Ronaldo to City” bit.
You’ll surely agree that nobody who knows anything about the City way of playing football could possibly imagine that they could hope to function with a bloke who wouldn’t run for the last bus, stood up top.
It’s a club where anybody who doesn’t commit fully to the press, and to tracking back as required, gets substituted.
It’s a club where nobody is guaranteed so much as one start in a season, and there are no exceptions to that rule.
Ronaldo doesn’t run, refuses to press, refuses to lay the ball on for other players and, most crucially, he wouldn’t countenance joining a club where he wasn’t guaranteed that his name was first on the team sheet.
So, basically, City wouldn’t have him at any price, and he wouldn’t want them to, so it was never going to happen.
IMO it’s a puzzling situation. I’ve heard the theory that City were happy to keep schtum, as a little favour to Jorge Mendes and Juventus, so that Mendes could pressurise Woodward into making a totally unsuitable signing.
Well maybe, but I kinda doubt it because Woodward’s not that daft. Surely?
I think it much more likely that Ronaldo was bought because the Glazers needed to take money out of the club and they saw an opportunity because his fame and celebrity status would temporarily inflate the Utd share price so that they could quickly offload some shares before the negative footballing effect of having Ronaldo could wipe out the price boost that his celebrity had initially introduced.
I can certainly believe that Woodward would give them good support in that manoeuvre. He’s an accountant and investment banker, manipulating share prices is his sweet spot, it’s what he’s very good at.
He’s the Glazers man and that’s where his loyalties reside, not with Utd, so he’d be particularly pleased that the costs of Ronaldo are met by all shareholders, large and small, while his pals the Glazers profit hugely from the scam.
So the Glazers, with their pockets full of money, are now increasing and diversifying their sports portfolio by buying an Indian cricket club, while Utd are saddled with the burden that is an old, slow and arrogant Ronaldo with an obscene salary,
