Many times we've heard that players are bought first and foremost for their commercial viability. Woodward wet his pants when we signed Pogba because our social media hits skyrocketed. I think Ole was appointed full-time based on emotion after the win in Paris, when we should have waited until the end of the season. A lot of what we do makes no sense.
Think this blows this theory out the water. If you’re outspending literally everyone, you should be winning everything. Or at the very least a trophy every year.
All we need is a good manager at the right time.
Every single one has been poor.
Certainly correct about Ole appointment.
Yes there were a number of good results. But his credentials simply did not stack up as a manager for Manchester United.
Conversely, there is some logic to the appointment of RR. Not just in the interim, but for the next 2 years.
We desparerately need someone to get to grips with the multitude of problems without having the day to day football challenges to deflect him.
And the 2 year timeframe seems realistic.
Depends on how much influence RR will have after the new manager steps in. If it's just a consultancy role, then the club is free to accept or reject any advice he gives. Will he be allowed to get to grips with the problems, especially if the source of those problems outrank him? I dunno.
I wonder how much more profitable we would have been if we'd been successful in the last 10 years.
Man Utd spent the most money to improve the squad (included players and managers) for the past decade. Whether the club did a good job on recruitment is another story.Posts like these annoy me - you’re just wrong. We spend enough money to buy the players needed to win leagues, we just buy the wrong ones. This is a fact, we spend more money than most other clubs if not all. Another aspect is that the owners of course wants to win trophies, we just aren’t able to because we’ve had a shit manager for years + buying the wrong players. 80m for Maguire, for god’s sake I feel ill when even writing it.
So no, the premise in the opening post is just plain wrong. We can be successful, we just need better players and a great manager. The top clubs have top managers, we have had an amateur until recently.
If the plan of the Glazers was to gradually de-sensitise United fans to the idea of winning trophies, the last few years have proved to be a master stroke. Years on from our last trophy of any description, we are no closer to winning the PL title. Yet the boardroom level outrage that you would expect to see at our fellow big club rivals appears to be completely missing.
Whatever one says about the managerial merry-go-rounds at Chelsea, Real Madrid, Barcelona PSG, no-one can say that those clubs are not run by people who see silverware as the sole currency of success. Conversely, at United, profit is the singular motive of the Glazers and silverware seems all but incidental to that goal. The tragedy is that we are in a virtual death spiral with the Glazer family. They have found ways to keep United continually profitable, without it needing to be successful. Not only that but massive wages have created inflated egos and relative to investment, produced poor on-pitch returns.
The amateur hour efforts at succession planning in the wake of Sir Alex's departure are the clearest evidence if it were needed, that those running the club are utterly clueless. As we amble towards the summer and the appointment of a permanent manager, can we be confident that an appointee is being sought to suit the board or the club? As painful as it may sound, if it means that United can finally break free of the Glazers, years out of the Champions League and a declining global brand may actually be the best thing for us.
What do others think?
I wonder how much more profitable we would have been if we'd been successful in the last 10 years.
We should stop paying over the odds for players we don't even need.If the plan of the Glazers was to gradually de-sensitise United fans to the idea of winning trophies, the last few years have proved to be a master stroke. Years on from our last trophy of any description, we are no closer to winning the PL title. Yet the boardroom level outrage that you would expect to see at our fellow big club rivals appears to be completely missing.
Whatever one says about the managerial merry-go-rounds at Chelsea, Real Madrid, Barcelona PSG, no-one can say that those clubs are not run by people who see silverware as the sole currency of success. Conversely, at United, profit is the singular motive of the Glazers and silverware seems all but incidental to that goal. The tragedy is that we are in a virtual death spiral with the Glazer family. They have found ways to keep United continually profitable, without it needing to be successful. Not only that but massive wages have created inflated egos and relative to investment, produced poor on-pitch returns.
The amateur hour efforts at succession planning in the wake of Sir Alex's departure are the clearest evidence if it were needed, that those running the club are utterly clueless. As we amble towards the summer and the appointment of a permanent manager, can we be confident that an appointee is being sought to suit the board or the club? As painful as it may sound, if it means that United can finally break free of the Glazers, years out of the Champions League and a declining global brand may actually be the best thing for us.
What do others think?
First things first: I do agree that the money spent could have been enough to win several titles, probably should have with better recruitment strategies.If the Glazers really only cared about the financials, why have we spent nearly £1BN net in the last ten years?
