This was once a club every team feared. Now its a club full of overpayed homegrown players no one wants, or rejects from other teams.
Woodward and his incredibly poor footballing decisions. Such a waste of money. His tenure was an absolute disaster. Really fucked the club. All this happening with nothing in the infrastructure Changing in the background. There was no forward thinking and other clubs were moving on.
Then the final cherry on top was wasting 3 years with Ole. He was hopelessly out of his depth. That was Woodwards final big Fuck up, to complete his full sabotage. We’ve never really recovered…
Terrible owners that bought the club on debt, only see the club as asset like any other, don’t understand football, and only want guaranteed TV money from a SuperLeague
Tbh they have been like this for a decade. Can’t see it changing anytime soon.
The Glazers happened. Overnight, United went from being debt-free to being hundreds of millions in debt and “owners” who didn’t care about making United the best they could be. They only cared about making money and knew that they didn’t have to win titles for that to happen. They brought in ex-bankers to run the club which tells you all you need to know. United won’t challenge for major honours while those parasites are still at the club.
Alex Ferguson fooled everyone into believing Man United were a big club
As woeful as many of them have been, I don’t agree that the players they’ve been signing from other teams are “rejects” at all.
Manchester United have consistently spent big to bring in their first choice transfer targets in recent years. Rarely have their signings been fringe players at their previous clubs. But United have had a remarkable knack for paying hefty fees for players who then can’t make the step up, or worse still, actually end up becoming worse than when they arrived.
Chronic mismanagement from top to bottom. The club is without a plan, without any ideas and the owners are happy so long as it turns a profit.
The corruption and money of City and Pep happened. Everyone else is a victim.
All that means is that the opposition got better. Can’t blame that on united turning into a clown college.
The Alex Ferguson era is over.
They are a “has been” team"
People crap on City for being an “oil-money club”, but they ignore that it has a very solid sports department that recruits the players that are suitable for Pep’s style. Guardiola is a superb manager, many of the team’s players evolved into world-class athletes at the top of their game. City has invested in training facilities, youth development, sports science experts and everything needed to succeed. United is the exact opposite. They’ve spent a billion pounds in pure rubbish, have hired abysmal managers (Mou miraculously won 3 trophies with the mediocre players that he had) and their ownership is satisfied with the club’s influx of constant revenue without investing in anything. Cristiano and Zlatan said that United’s facilities are archaic and it seemed as time froze at Old Trafford.
It’s fun for me as a supporter of a rival team, but it’s bad for football to have one of the biggest clubs in the world suffer such a decline.
Don’t know but I’m enjoying it.
SAF went on vacation, prizes never came back.
Parasite owners with no passion for the game, just taking money out and investing nothing. How any organisation, even beyond football, can continue to operate while in that much debt is beyond me. I’m a Liverpool fan but have a lot of sympathy with the fans of united. Must be awful to see your club rotting from the top down and be powerless to force a change.
No real collective goal at the club.
Need a proper football director and coherent scouting system. Have a focus/identity and buy players to fit it, don’t buy Casemiro because you panic last minute.