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The funniest thing about this Pochettino appointment is Utd approached him in the only two weeks of the year he was working.
This entire thing has been so horribly managed that you end up thinking if it's by design. Because it takes real talent to achieve such incompetence
People are misunderstanding the point. If Poch was the long-term plan, why hire Carrick permanently just to sack him after 3 months and then bring in Poch while spending a fortune in the process? Money that we didn't have for a LB apparently.
Call it hindsight now but one can argue that a better recruitment team thinks 2 steps ahead & avoids this mess. Don't appoint MC permanently if you weren't convinced by him. Right now everything feels all over the place with no long-term plan in sight. Mess
Poch will now have managed 3 of the Big 6 PL clubs. The only other manager to do so, as far as I can recall, is Jose Mourinho. Elite company
🚨 Manchester United finalising deal to bring Mauricio Pochettino to the club in event of Michael Carrick losing his job, as anticipated.
#MUFC set to contact USA over move.
Culmination of 11-year dalliance.
@David_Ornstein @AdamCrafton_ ⬇️
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Ratcliffe understanding everything that went wrong under the Glazers and then making the same (if not worse) mistakes after getting the keys to the club was a 180-degree I did not see coming.
Can't wait for Poch whose teams thrive on the collective will to press, work hard, be there for each other like a family to meet this Utd squad who are either fighting the execs, their manager or each other while simply picking & choosing which games to perform & which to give up
Meeting in Monaco is biannual INEOS summit for the organisation's CEOs, long-scheduled for November 10.
Omar Berrada + Jason Wilcox due to fly out to attend. Usually topics are long-term, business-related. Clearly #MUFC head coach discussed this time.
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Poch would have been a great appointment... in 2018
Like Mourinho would have been a great appointment in 2004 instead of 2016, LvG in 1995 instead of 2014
We never seem to get anyone at the top of their game. Always years behind
Won't matter, we'll be back here in a few months
The worst part is almost all of us predicted that the squad is not good enough and business wasn't enough in the transfer window and we shall collapse (granted, we didn't foresee such a freefall, but still). But not the decision-makers who are paid millions to make these calls.
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I gave this analogy to a mate a few months ago. You need open heart surgery. Would you entrust your life to an experienced surgeon with 20 years of experience or to a barely graduated surgeon?
United needed experienced people to run the club. People who have seen it and done it at these levels. Not these ex-City staff who have never held positions of such magnitude. The fact they came from City do not matter as
A. They never held these positions at City
B. City have been found guilty of systemic fraud so they never worked in a level playing field.
Ineos have spent around £580-590m since getting sporting control of the club. Most of that money have been spent on bad transfers, poor decisions (hiring Amorim with no idea of building a back 3 squad) and correcting their own mistakes (extending Ten Hag only to sack him after 3 months for example).
I get that money is tight, but you don't squander away £600m and have your team in the relegation zone. Many PL clubs would be able to transform their sides with £600m. Money must not be used as an excuse for incompetence.
Carrick would have been sacked first thing this morning if those injury-time goals hadn't gone in. But since we didn't lose, he might stay on. You cannot run a club by making plans like that. Come on, even Woodward had some form of long-term planning.
Wilcox and Co. had ZERO contingency plan. Were caught with their pants down. To save their jobs, they gave Carrick time till the international break, which has backfired spectacularly, as we all knew it would.
Everyone is looking for their own interests. United worse than ever
You just have to look at how ridiculous the situation is. The manager knows he is effectively gone. The only reason he hasn't is because Wilcox didn't have a replacement ready and needs time until the international break. Carrick knows he will have two more games no matter what. Everyone knows this, including the players and staff.
How do you expect to win games in such an environment? And this is over and above the recruitment and player mentality issues.
Just another season wasted with potentially grave consequences.
In the relegation zone now. Utd have done the impossible. They have systematically lowered our ambitions. Finishing 15th was supposed to be a one time never to be repeated event. Now we have gone a step beyond that. Kudos to everyone involved 👏
What's the point of these names when everyone knows we are going to be signing like our fifth or sixth choice target from the PL?
🚨 NEW: Manchester United are in the race to sign FC Twente’s 18-year-old centre-back Ruud Nijstad.
United have scouted the highly-rated, left-footed defender multiple times as they prepare a defensive overhaul.
Barcelona and Bayern Munich are also interested, with Twente reportedly demanding around £33M.
[@telegraaf]
United had a 175% lead over Liverpool when Fergie retired. Now they are ahead of us.
Our revenue grew by a modest 150% in the past decade. Liverpool grew by 275%. This is significant because football inflation averages around 120% in the past 10 years. We are barely keeping up while Liverpool are soaring.
This chart does not take into account our disastrous 2025-26 season when we finished 15th.
On-field performances have a direct impact on finances.
