Predict what United's fate will be in 3 years time

K Stand Knut said:
Jesús!

As if this place needs any encouragement to be unbelievably negative.

This is going to end terribly!!
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The club are aiming to win the league in 2028

Some will strongly doubt their ability to achieve that, but it seems to genuinely be the plan.

They’re targeting players around 20 years old, so by then they should have a young squad with their best ahead too.

There are flecks of light in the dark
 
Our remaining league fixtures: Everton (A), Ipswich (H), Fulham (H), Arsenal (H), Leicester (A), Forest (A), Man City (H), Newcastle (A), Wolves (H), Bournemouth (A), Brentford (A), West Ham (H), Chelsea (A), Aston Villa (H). We could easily lose all of them, as the only way we are scoring is through a penalty or a return of Own Goal. We have 29 points. I won't do the permutations, but we are not out of the relegation woods just yet.

Assuming we stay up: in three years' time, February 2028, we will not be challenging for the title, Amorim will be gone, and we will be playing with half the team being academy graduates, and the other half bargain players brought in specifically to play this Amorim style. The style won't ever take hold.

Ineos hasn't made many good decisions (any?) so that will probably continue.

2025: finish 16th. Knocked out of both cups in next round.
2026: marginal improvement with new players, but a hard year with more "teething pains". Finish 13th.
2027: the "deadwood" is gone, the academy kids are in, as are some notable new flops. The formula just doesn't gel, and we are back to arguing about whether it's the players or the coach (assuming this argument ever stops in the first place).
2028: New manager gets a preseason and talks about returning to United's "heritage" of youth, courage, greatness, with attacking football. We look like we are playing Oleball 2.0.

rinse.

repeat.
 
Top 4 again. City are regressing, Liverpool will be a shadow of their current side if VvD, Salah and TAA leave. Spurs are Spurs, Chelsea will likely have had another 3 managers by then, Newcastle will lose Isak, Guimares and Tonali once the big clubs come calling, Villa are punching above their weight and won't hack it regularly, Brighton/Forest etc will lose their best players and Arsenal might just buy a striker so they'll likely be table toppers by that point assuming they don't lose the core of their current squad.

If United buy well and clear out the dross in those 3 years, they could easily be title challengers as all the big players will have had to do some kind of rejig themselves. Aside from Arsenal who I think have all the ingredients already, just missing a top striker. If they get Isak in the summer, they'll be champions in 2026, no question.
 
It wouldn't surprise me if the club ends up relegated.

The biggest issues are the finances, but when you think that even we'll run clubs having to invest in stadiums were hampered in the markets during selective windows, can United even stage a stadium rebuild on top of existing debt exceeding 1 billion with interest?

The club is toast, once again not tooting my own horn but intuitively I haven't liked INEOS from the beginning given the Glazers put the club up for sale and that initiative is still unresolved. I put numerous posts out about the debt refinancing and the numbers have come to light. Additionally, I don't see Amorim being a success given United won't back him as adequately as other managers.

The club is done, on field success is probably the only outlier alongside having a middle eastern venture just randomly raise finances to match the clubs projected valuation. Both those outcomes at this point are closely aligned with the term miracle.
 
Stadium plans finalised, construction just started or about to start. Regular top four side. Lots of very good/top class players entering their prime. Competitive across all major comps. I think we’ll also see Ineos with a bigger ownership share or a third party having bought in.
 
Hopefully Jim will have have had enough and Qatar will come in and save us all by kicking the glazers back to Florida.
 
I still have almost absolute faith in Ruben Amorim. I think this summer will see a lot of sales (a few that supporters are very upset about), a few shrewd buys and a proper actual striker, as well as the further integration of some youth. Same again with the summer after that when some of the more talented U18s will be ready which is likely when we see Bruno depart the club.
 
Expecting us to be pretty much what Everton are today. A bottom half team, short on quality, grinding results here and there but ultimately playing underdog football more often than not.
 
Eric_the_Red99 said:
Pundits will start to ask whether the current, glamorous top team ‘can do it on a cold, wet night in Manchester’
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When the pundits are talking about us on match day, one pundit will ask another if they think Man Utd could possibly “Nick a point at home” or “cause an upset” when we play anyone in the top 10.
 
Canteen ladies replaced by robots
Cleaning services replaced by AI roombas and vaccuum cleaners
Only employs interns and that is to restart robots when they get stuck, nothing else to do outside of that
The team thankfully is still all humans because thats what sports is all about, said Bill Gates who is now the CEO of Premier League - cyborgs are allowed if they retain their humanity side
Antonyreturns. Is now a half human half robot that caused controveries after he got stuck spinning in the middle of the match for 3 mins straigt but he said it was his human side who did it as his signature move and not the robot part
 
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We will have been a pretty middling side and then leave the collective media rights selling deal and release our own direct to consumer subscription service. It will raise our revenues into the billions overnight at which stage the Glazers will sell us for 20 billion.
 
No change to the current ownership situation.

Competing hard for a play-off place in the Championship.
 
25 - Wrote it off ages ago, don't expect us to go much further in the cups.
26 - General improvement back to our usual level, somewhere between 5th and 8th, similar runs in the cups to 25 season
27 - 4-5th, cup win most likely league cup or Europa.
28 - 2nd-3rd, knocked out of the cups early
 
I'd say we'll have changed manager at least twice. In these 3 years we may win a cup or 2 but we'll still be awful in the league. If we're competing for a league title, it will the Championship. The club is too broken to be high up in the Premier League, I genuinely don't see one positive.
 
I think we will win the Premier League next year or the following ( being very optimistic..you can quote me later) …Amorim needs Atleast a pre season and time to implement his type of football and the type of players that we have recruited and the toxic culture since SAF left hasn’t helped

Atleast Amorim is clear that we would struggle a lot. And to be realistic, we don’t have technically sound players in the midfield and final third.

Arsenal was also in this same phase but they always had technically better players due to recruitment early or later and they wouldn’t sign an Osimhen for an example..
 
Depressing thread.

I know we’re shite, but seeing people just conform to a - at best - mid table future is tough
 
How Everton are seen today, a once great club, who are now remembered as always being a small relegation-level team by the average fan.

Except Everton will soon be known as the bigger club, with their new stadium and new owners who have the ambition to buy big-name players, whilst INEOS look for bargains in the Championship.
 
Either on the verge of bankruptcy fighting a relegation battle in Championship or premier league title winners.
 
Man United is the hardest club in England to fail with. To oversee decline like the Glazers have done takes spectacular incompetence. But they've made themselves rich in the process, so from their POV its a job well done.

I'm not backing INEOS because they are miracle workers. Its more that you would have to be an absolute dumb ass not to be able to get Man Utd to be competitive and regular CL qualifiers.

Competitive is where I expect us to be. Not necessarily winners.
 
I'm gonna be positive on this

If you are Ratcliffe in his 70s and in your acquisition you look at the books then none of these financial constraints are a surprise. Why would you buy a part of United with our hands tied unless you had plans in place for a full sale? Why would you say nonsense like project 2028 when it's practically impossible given squad constraints?

So for me......

by end of 2025 full sale agreed
creative finance decisions/investment with Glazers gone
Floods of SJR/INEOS money in club
debt cleared and psr fixed
by Summer of 26 we will be able to add 1/2 elite players to the young ones we buy in Summer 25 and 26
By 28 we will be challenging for league


rose tinted or what
 
It's time to contrarian since most fans are depressed and expectations are low. Fans usually get it wrong. So here goes:

Winning the league!
 
A League 2 title challenge and a deep run in the EFL.

Nah, just joking. We'd probably be back in the top 4, not challenging on anything, crashing out early from European competitions, the usual.
 
Megatron will be using our academy to produce energon cubes for Trump's appeasement.

You heard it here first.
 
I find it odd that everyone is backing Amorim with blind fait yet the feedback in this thread is filled with negativity for the future. Doesnt seem aligned.
 
1 billion in debt, 10th place, new coach, in the process of moving Amorim's players and planning the next rebuild for season 31-32.
 
Martial said:
How Everton are seen today, a once great club, who are now remembered as always being a small relegation-level team by the average fan.

Except Everton will soon be known as the bigger club, with their new stadium and new owners who have the ambition to buy big-name players, whilst INEOS look for bargains in the Championship.
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Remember Moyes said we needed to strive to be City because they were ahead of us. Now we can say we aspire to be Everton. Fun times
 
The golden axis of Maguire-Bruno-Rashford will still be around. Some will still be wondering why we can play only a certain style of football.

Either Hojlund or Zirkzee will be the cause of frustration for the fans for failing to score in ten games, after being given a new six-year deal on big wages for hitting the 15 goal mark just once (with the fans congratulating INEOS for being swift).

We finally move away from giving managers a blank cheque and putting aging superstars on crazy money, but we go all the way to the other extreme and start signing underwhelming youngsters. Not knowing what better to do, INEOS give Amad/Mainoo/Garnacho/Yoro new lucrative contracts, hoping that they will carry the team on their shoulders. They regress, though, and fans are left wondering whether the club is cursed or not.

After ETH, Amorim and * insert name of your choice * have solidified United's lower midtable status and "modern tactics" have become anathema around Manchester, Solskjaer returns to OT to take the best out of the existing players.

After a positive start to the season, things go downhill. Last week of the season, United need a win to avoid relegation. In the 90th minute, Bruno, who's radar had been off all game, finally plays an inch perfect long ball to Garnacho on the left. The latter breaks on the counter and, as he enters the box, he can just play a square pass to Amad for a tap-in...
 
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