PR stunt…
Richard Arnold secretly filmed whilst speaking to supporters
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Arnold would have to be some sort of evil genius to have a PR stunt which included first about planning about twenty OT match going fans to come at his house for protest, then actually meet them in a bar and give frank answers and also say that under this ownership the money has been wasted, admit that the protests are working(he implied that) and they'd need outside investment for stadium and facilities and do all of this without giving permission to get filmed. C'mon lads!
Some of our fans, jeez! There's just so much wrong with this behaviour that I don't know where to begin, so I won't.
Fair play to Arnold to try to engage with them, came across well and did not try to justify the club's failures. I also do not think that he spoke anything out of turn at all, and there are a lot of false quotes floating around.
Fair play to Arnold to try to engage with them, came across well and did not try to justify the club's failures. I also do not think that he spoke anything out of turn at all, and there are a lot of false quotes floating around.
Lifetime Old Trafford ban to the person who filmed that seems reasonable. cnut move.
I see what you did there.Definitely not a contrived press stunt.
And conveniently, at a crucial point, everyone now likes / feels sorry for Arnold and views him as a ‘bloody good bloke’.
That worked out well for the Glazers.
Happy days
Really hope this is genuine, otherwise they are spending way too much time cooking up things like this instead of just doing their job.
it must have got lost in the piles of letters from fans asking him to “announce player x” or tie lingard down to a new 5 year deal. though i think the majority of those ones came directly from jesse. i told him i was there continuing my secret scientific research but he was having none of it and had me escorted off the premises. fortunately i had already squirrelled away a pair of briefs in my cheeks like a hamster and was able to continue my experiments in the woodland opposite his house.
Man Utd isn’t just a game to some people, the club is literally their life. It’s like a second wife. It’s a love affair that lasts someone’s entire life; not saying it’s right or wrong but that’s how it is.
From his comments that means the manager controls who gets in and out. Maybe thats how ETH prefers it to be and one of the reasons why we let Ralf go.
I've been a United fan for close to thirty years. I regard the club as part of my life, one of my life's constants. But the thought of intimidating any club employee (regardless of scumbag status) at their private residence, even if he or she lives next door, has never occurred to me. Some lines are not meant to be crossed.
I couldn’t agree more. I’m just saying the mentality of some fans that’s how it is. It’s all they care about.
Fans protesting outside a guys home who hasn’t even had chance to shows he’s clearly been making at the club.
Makes zero sense to me.
It’s not like the club hasn’t just changed nearly all its backroom staff in a short space of time.
This reminds me of the Ultra’s in Italy. Gatekeeping fans who seem to force their opinions on a club through pure intimidation.
Huge problem in Italy so we don’t want it at United. Doesn’t help anyone.
Makes zero sense to me.
It’s not like the club hasn’t just changed nearly all its backroom staff in a short space of time.
This reminds me of the Ultra’s in Italy. Gatekeeping fans who seem to force their opinions on a club through pure intimidation.
Huge problem in Italy so we don’t want it at United. Doesn’t help anyone.
Fans wanted to protest at his house? This sort of thing winds me up so much. What has he done to be deserving of that? Even Woodward, who we all know isn't exactly loved by the fans isn't deserving of that.
A man's personal space, home should be off limits. The place that he shares with his wife and children should be off limits. Could you imagine your young child having to witness a mob of people at their front door? Disgusting sense of entitlement.
I can't stand what's happened to our club these past few years but NEVER would I consider going down to his house with a bunch of Top Reds.
A man's personal space, home should be off limits. The place that he shares with his wife and children should be off limits. Could you imagine your young child having to witness a mob of people at their front door? Disgusting sense of entitlement.
I can't stand what's happened to our club these past few years but NEVER would I consider going down to his house with a bunch of Top Reds.
So they turn up near his house, he has a friendly beer with them and they film the whole thing. What a cnut move.
Who wears jacket with shorts anyway.
Who wears jacket with shorts anyway.
Transfers irrelevant but they still asked him about that...
If I had to guess, they just didn't get to hear what they really wanted to hear from Arnold
Sours took out a loan. No one uses their own money to improve or build a new stadium, that’s just simple business sense.
CEO or players barely talk to fans and completely isolated - "Today's footall is so disconnected with common people, I hate it"
CEO or players talk to fans - Whole thing is a set up and done for PR.
CEO or players talk to fans - Whole thing is a set up and done for PR.
No no. Fans bad. Glazer-thing good. All forgiven. Clean slate. Duh.
So these fans protested against what? Lack of transfers? 
The club spends almost everything every year, like almost every other clubs around. Unless it starts sparing money for future large expenses, the club will need investors or loans to heavily invest in infrastructure.
This is all fascinating and revealing stuff but what we really want to know is did anyone give him a wet Willy?
Apparently transfers are irrelevant according to them. They are only the single most important thing in making a team successful.So these fans protested against what? Lack of transfers?
Really bizarre and stupid move from these fans. You moan and get wound up that there is no transparency at the club and they’re not doing things to rectify the situation so one of the top men comes out to meet you and you decide to betray his trust by secretly filming him. He would be within his rights to decide never to do something like that again or talk to the fans again after that.
Eyyy, the fans only had to go to the CEO's house to get some actual human communication from the club instead of the usual robotic PR bullshit.
Well some people still think what he said was PR BS. But hey, that’s the state some of the fans are in, delusional
Interesting take this one.
The guy is nice enough to go to the pub with the protesters and buy them a drink, so they film him
I think these protesters can vent all they want, but filming him when he is being as candid as he can is completely idiotic and lack integrity. How do you expect Arnold to conduct his interaction with the fan base going forward? It’s the stupidest and quickest way to burn bridges with the management. Utter wankers.
Why do you need human communication with the CEO of a large entity? Is it something that people expect or demand routinely? Also he didn't say anything that hasn't already been said by anyone with common sense.
What dishonest and vicious people who film him without his permission and then post his statements online. It's so unsympathetic.
It’s not the right way to go, whatever the context. He didn’t really say stuff we didn’t know but now he won’t trust fanbase anymore when he originally went out of his way to communicate. This group of idiots ought to be outed.
They’re not ashamed of it. Outing them wouldn’t do anything. They have a Robin Hood complex.
Next time he'll think twice to communicate with fans in that way which really is a shame.
Respect to Arnold
Those morons have now broadcast to Barca that that we have loads of money for frenkie de jong which goes against the 120 million briefing that had been put out last week. That’ll help with negotiations you bell ends
Those morons have now broadcast to Barca that that we have loads of money for frenkie de jong which goes against the 120 million briefing that had been put out last week. That’ll help with negotiations you bell ends
Are we sure that Richard did not know that he was being recorded?
Exactly my thinking the fecking idiots
He may not have known, but he wouldn't be surprised. It's 2022, he knows the world we're living in.
Exactly. I am sure he filtered what he was saying and this leak will not be of a big surprise to him. It was him who decided to visit the pub and have a face to face conversation with fans/protesters.
Not that what they did was right but I imagine he would have been fully aware that he may have been recorded, whether by video or audio. These guys were ready to rock up to his house, privately recording him is probably further down in the dick move spectrum.
Clever and a respectable thing for Arnold to do though and while I'm sure he couldn't be 100% honest it seems like he said what he could and credit to him for that.
Hopefully rocking up to people's houses becomes a thing of the past.
Clever and a respectable thing for Arnold to do though and while I'm sure he couldn't be 100% honest it seems like he said what he could and credit to him for that.
Hopefully rocking up to people's houses becomes a thing of the past.
We should rock down to electric avenue