The Official Manchester United Thread

[TF S4DK]

Man Utd tried to sign players, Man Utd need players.

 

While I've stated I dont think Man United made fake bids. They didn't move like how Man Utd should...

 

Question marks must be asked about the leadership and management of the club.

 

To my amazement I read an interview today with Mr Fall Guy, Woodward where he outline the clubs approach to the window, he actually said the club outlined a midfielder and a left-back.

 

Regardless of the what happened with Fabregas, Thiago, Herrera, Khedira, Ozil, or that it took till deadline day evening they signed Fellaini. They achieved half of what they wanted.

 

Lets forget the literally last minute deadline day attempts for left-backs on LOAN... That leaves just Baines...

 

For the life of me I can't see how Man Utd with a whole two months couldn't have got Baines. Everton are a self-proclaimed selling club, even the current Man Utd manager knows that...

[TF S4DK]

Then that leaves the question of Bale...

 

He's not a left-back or a midfielder...

 

I felt Madrid left Bale late, for me considering how late it started early on I was convinced it would have to be a next season job...

 

If Man Utd was truly thinking Bale why didn't they move earlier...

 

Why didn't Man Utd bid for Ronaldo? You can't just free a squad number and then never make a bid... Meanwhile very lowkey leak to English media you was after him...

 

Like I said I dont believe in fake bids per say, but some of the sh*t don't make sense to me. Even Woodward saying at times he wished it was September 3rd already regarding Rooney just sounded weak, your Manchester f*cking United... Go fucking FLEX! Make the call to The Glazers and tell them sh*t needs to happen. Cos United moved like a club with restrictions and United shouldn't have these restrictions.

[stacksbranning]

Great win  for us  today .

Hopefully this is  a sign of things to  come .

[darkman]

My issues with Wenger are the same as when he was succesful... I'd have Wenger over any member of the board, so would United fans on Ferguson probably. The case between the two for me is similar, I think The Glazers are worse than Stan & Ivan, so imagine if Wenger had left this year, and Arsenal replaced him with Moyes tbh, a part of me would hate Arsenal. So for me its not a stretch of my imagination to get why its peak for United fans right now.

 

When Wenger was successful his teams didn't show the same weaknesses they do now so what exactly are your issues with him? Wenger should not be running the club and the team he has far too much power. I wouldn't want Moyes either but he is not the only manager out there.

 

Moyes has been underperforming for a few games compared to Wenger underperforming for a few years. You've got some fucking cheek

[darkman]

Man Utd tried to sign players, Man Utd need players.

 

While I've stated I dont think Man United made fake bids. They didn't move like how Man Utd should...

 

Question marks must be asked about the leadership and management of the club.

 

To my amazement I read an interview today with Mr Fall Guy, Woodward where he outline the clubs approach to the window, he actually said the club outlined a midfielder and a left-back.

 

Regardless of the what happened with Fabregas, Thiago, Herrera, Khedira, Ozil, or that it took till deadline day evening they signed Fellaini. They achieved half of what they wanted.

 

Lets forget the literally last minute deadline day attempts for left-backs on LOAN... That leaves just Baines...

 

For the life of me I can't see how Man Utd with a whole two months couldn't have got Baines. Everton are a self-proclaimed selling club, even the current Man Utd manager knows that...

 

OK how are the Glazers at fault here? Woodward was the man making moves

[darkman]

Then that leaves the question of Bale...

 

He's not a left-back or a midfielder...

 

I felt Madrid left Bale late, for me considering how late it started early on I was convinced it would have to be a next season job...

 

If Man Utd was truly thinking Bale why didn't they move earlier...

 

Why didn't Man Utd bid for Ronaldo? You can't just free a squad number and then never make a bid... Meanwhile very lowkey leak to English media you was after him...

 

Like I said I dont believe in fake bids per say, but some of the sh*t don't make sense to me. Even Woodward saying at times he wished it was September 3rd already regarding Rooney just sounded weak, your Manchester f*cking United... Go f*cking FLEX! Make the call to The Glazers and tell them sh*t needs to happen. Cos United moved like a club with restrictions and United shouldn't have these restrictions.

 

Again, you talk of waffle but nothing you really blame the Glazers for

[TF S4DK]

My issues with Wenger are the same as when he was succesful... I'd have Wenger over any member of the board, so would United fans on Ferguson probably. The case between the two for me is similar, I think The Glazers are worse than Stan & Ivan, so imagine if Wenger had left this year, and Arsenal replaced him with Moyes tbh, a part of me would hate Arsenal. So for me its not a stretch of my imagination to get why its peak for United fans right now.

 

When Wenger was successful his teams didn't show the same weaknesses they do now so what exactly are your issues with him? Wenger should not be running the club and the team he has far too much power. I wouldn't want Moyes either but he is not the only manager out there.

 

Moyes has been underperforming for a few games compared to Wenger underperforming for a few years. You've got some f*cking cheek

 

I don't think our board know the managers out there...

 

"Under performing" Wenger has performed better than "over achieving" Moyes for the last ten years... and before you cry yeah but clubs, look at the spend of those clubs and then look at what Moyes is doing with the current Champions... It's hardly cheek but lol at you.

[TF S4DK]

Man Utd tried to sign players, Man Utd need players.

 

While I've stated I dont think Man United made fake bids. They didn't move like how Man Utd should...

 

Question marks must be asked about the leadership and management of the club.

 

To my amazement I read an interview today with Mr Fall Guy, Woodward where he outline the clubs approach to the window, he actually said the club outlined a midfielder and a left-back.

 

Regardless of the what happened with Fabregas, Thiago, Herrera, Khedira, Ozil, or that it took till deadline day evening they signed Fellaini. They achieved half of what they wanted.

 

Lets forget the literally last minute deadline day attempts for left-backs on LOAN... That leaves just Baines...

 

For the life of me I can't see how Man Utd with a whole two months couldn't have got Baines. Everton are a self-proclaimed selling club, even the current Man Utd manager knows that...

 

OK how are the Glazers at fault here? Woodward was the man making moves

 

Who you think Woodward answers to? You think he didnt have to ring to see what he could spend on player X and player Y?

[darkman]

 

My issues with Wenger are the same as when he was succesful... I'd have Wenger over any member of the board, so would United fans on Ferguson probably. The case between the two for me is similar, I think The Glazers are worse than Stan & Ivan, so imagine if Wenger had left this year, and Arsenal replaced him with Moyes tbh, a part of me would hate Arsenal. So for me its not a stretch of my imagination to get why its peak for United fans right now.

 

When Wenger was successful his teams didn't show the same weaknesses they do now so what exactly are your issues with him? Wenger should not be running the club and the team he has far too much power. I wouldn't want Moyes either but he is not the only manager out there.

 

Moyes has been underperforming for a few games compared to Wenger underperforming for a few years. You've got some f*cking cheek

 

I don't think our board know the managers out there...

 

"Under performing" Wenger has performed better than "over achieving" Moyes for the last ten years... and before you cry yeah but clubs, look at the spend of those clubs and then look at what Moyes is doing with the current Champions... It's hardly cheek but lol at you.

 

Moyes has just joined Man U FFS. And you call me a troll? You have got to be pulling my leg

[darkman]

 

Man Utd tried to sign players, Man Utd need players.

 

While I've stated I dont think Man United made fake bids. They didn't move like how Man Utd should...

 

Question marks must be asked about the leadership and management of the club.

 

To my amazement I read an interview today with Mr Fall Guy, Woodward where he outline the clubs approach to the window, he actually said the club outlined a midfielder and a left-back.

 

Regardless of the what happened with Fabregas, Thiago, Herrera, Khedira, Ozil, or that it took till deadline day evening they signed Fellaini. They achieved half of what they wanted.

 

Lets forget the literally last minute deadline day attempts for left-backs on LOAN... That leaves just Baines...

 

For the life of me I can't see how Man Utd with a whole two months couldn't have got Baines. Everton are a self-proclaimed selling club, even the current Man Utd manager knows that...

 

OK how are the Glazers at fault here? Woodward was the man making moves

 

Who you think Woodward answers to? You think he didnt have to ring to see what he could spend on player X and player Y?

 

You think the Glazers have a clue about players? He clearly had a budget to use, the Thiago and Fab bids were made earlier in the window

[Agony]

The reason Manchester United have not agreed a new deal with Wayne Rooney is that they did not want to commit £70million on keeping the player at Old Trafford.

Rooney is looking for an improvement on his current £250,000-a-week salary and would want a five-year contract the stay at the club.

But although Rooney’s form has dramatically improved this season after a major dip during the last campaign,explained by a break down between the player and former manager Sir Alex Ferguson, the club remain reluctant to make such a massive financial commitment to a man who is now 28 years old.

The club’s hand is strengthened by the fact that while it was widely known Rooney wanted away in the summer, only two teams displayed a genuine interest given the financial commitment. But Rooney’s failure to put in a formal transfer request meant that neither Chelsea nor Paris St Germain could push a deal through.

And new United manager David Moyes made it clear that he would not sell to Chelsea. That will remain the case during the January transfer window.

Rooney didn’t want to move to Paris in the summer and now that the French authorities could impose A 75 per cent tax band on earnings of over £1million a year, a move to PSG is a very unlikely option.

So United won’t be rushed into offering Rooney a deal of anything like he wants even if his sell-on-fee, that was around £20million, drops every month until it expires 20 months from now.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2477654/THE-FOOTBALL-GRAPEVINE-Wayne-Rooneys-wage-demands-turned-Manchester-United--Rob-Shepherd.html#ixzz2iruZ802U

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£70m to keep this cancer at the club, smh 

 

 

[Flojo]

ffs

 

Darkman the Glazers are draining the club's resources to pay their own debts, resources that could be pumped into the club.

 

They've brought fuck all to the table as owners and have actually been detrimental to the long term future of the club, I can't explain it any simpler than that.

[TF S4DK]

 

 

My issues with Wenger are the same as when he was succesful... I'd have Wenger over any member of the board, so would United fans on Ferguson probably. The case between the two for me is similar, I think The Glazers are worse than Stan & Ivan, so imagine if Wenger had left this year, and Arsenal replaced him with Moyes tbh, a part of me would hate Arsenal. So for me its not a stretch of my imagination to get why its peak for United fans right now.

 

When Wenger was successful his teams didn't show the same weaknesses they do now so what exactly are your issues with him? Wenger should not be running the club and the team he has far too much power. I wouldn't want Moyes either but he is not the only manager out there.

 

Moyes has been underperforming for a few games compared to Wenger underperforming for a few years. You've got some f*cking cheek

 

I don't think our board know the managers out there...

 

"Under performing" Wenger has performed better than "over achieving" Moyes for the last ten years... and before you cry yeah but clubs, look at the spend of those clubs and then look at what Moyes is doing with the current Champions... It's hardly cheek but lol at you.

 

Moyes has just joined Man U FFS. And you call me a troll? You have got to be pulling my leg

 

Explain the last 10 then, smfh.

[TF S4DK]

 

 

Man Utd tried to sign players, Man Utd need players.

 

While I've stated I dont think Man United made fake bids. They didn't move like how Man Utd should...

 

Question marks must be asked about the leadership and management of the club.

 

To my amazement I read an interview today with Mr Fall Guy, Woodward where he outline the clubs approach to the window, he actually said the club outlined a midfielder and a left-back.

 

Regardless of the what happened with Fabregas, Thiago, Herrera, Khedira, Ozil, or that it took till deadline day evening they signed Fellaini. They achieved half of what they wanted.

 

Lets forget the literally last minute deadline day attempts for left-backs on LOAN... That leaves just Baines...

 

For the life of me I can't see how Man Utd with a whole two months couldn't have got Baines. Everton are a self-proclaimed selling club, even the current Man Utd manager knows that...

 

OK how are the Glazers at fault here? Woodward was the man making moves

 

Who you think Woodward answers to? You think he didnt have to ring to see what he could spend on player X and player Y?

 

You think the Glazers have a clue about players? He clearly had a budget to use, the Thiago and Fab bids were made earlier in the window

 

They had a budget on a couple of players, lets say it was 40m, as nothing they did on them players ever suggests the was prepared to spend more that... Man Utd should have more as they make more.

 

Exactly they know nothing, but then they have grander ideas of Bale and Ronaldo... Why? cos they paid a company to tell them which players could increase their commercial profile Worldwide, in other words who can we sign to make it look like we care about on the pitch, when really its someone to make us way more money off the pitch... I'd spend 100m if its gonna make me 300m...

[Mame Biram Diouf]

Fuck off 

 

Darkman >>>>>>

 

Rolled back the years with this performance today

 

How has he got a die hard Tottenham, Arsenal and Liverpool fan defending Manchester United in our own thread

 

pmsl

 

 

[darkman]

The reason Manchester United have not agreed a new deal with Wayne Rooney is that they did not want to commit £70million on keeping the player at Old Trafford.

Rooney is looking for an improvement on his current £250,000-a-week salary and would want a five-year contract the stay at the club.

But although Rooney’s form has dramatically improved this season after a major dip during the last campaign,explained by a break down between the player and former manager Sir Alex Ferguson, the club remain reluctant to make such a massive financial commitment to a man who is now 28 years old.

The club’s hand is strengthened by the fact that while it was widely known Rooney wanted away in the summer, only two teams displayed a genuine interest given the financial commitment. But Rooney’s failure to put in a formal transfer request meant that neither Chelsea nor Paris St Germain could push a deal through.

And new United manager David Moyes made it clear that he would not sell to Chelsea. That will remain the case during the January transfer window.

Rooney didn’t want to move to Paris in the summer and now that the French authorities could impose A 75 per cent tax band on earnings of over £1million a year, a move to PSG is a very unlikely option.

So United won’t be rushed into offering Rooney a deal of anything like he wants even if his sell-on-fee, that was around £20million, drops every month until it expires 20 months from now.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2477654/THE-FOOTBALL-GRAPEVINE-Wayne-Rooneys-wage-demands-turned-Manchester-United--Rob-Shepherd.html#ixzz2iruZ802U

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£70m to keep this cancer at the club, smh 

 

Calling someone a cancer is just pathetic considering the seriousness of the condition

 

Without Rooney you'd be in the bottom half of the league so have some f*cking respect

 

ffs

 

Darkman the Glazers are draining the club's resources to pay their own debts, resources that could be pumped into the club.

 

They've brought f*ck all to the table as owners and have actually been detrimental to the long term future of the club, I can't explain it any simpler than that.

 

Flojo, this point has been made time and time again but let me just put this here (again).The clubs debt is approximately 400m. The Glazers sanctioned a bid of a player for 80 million (20 % of the debt). Surely if they just wanted to pay of their debt they wouldn't have allowed this?

 

Would they not have forced the club to accept a bid for Rooney too?

 

You can't say they've brought fuck all because the club has been successful under their reign

 

"The Glazers are supportive. You always appreciate people who support you and they have been very good," said the Scot.

"Everything I have asked for they have delivered, and they supported the club in all the improvements they made.

"Look at the training ground today. It is probably the best training ground in Britain. That is down to the Glazers.

"They have produced the medical centre. It is absolutely fantastic.

 

 

 

 

My issues with Wenger are the same as when he was succesful... I'd have Wenger over any member of the board, so would United fans on Ferguson probably. The case between the two for me is similar, I think The Glazers are worse than Stan & Ivan, so imagine if Wenger had left this year, and Arsenal replaced him with Moyes tbh, a part of me would hate Arsenal. So for me its not a stretch of my imagination to get why its peak for United fans right now.

 

When Wenger was successful his teams didn't show the same weaknesses they do now so what exactly are your issues with him? Wenger should not be running the club and the team he has far too much power. I wouldn't want Moyes either but he is not the only manager out there.

 

Moyes has been underperforming for a few games compared to Wenger underperforming for a few years. You've got some f*cking cheek

 

I don't think our board know the managers out there...

 

"Under performing" Wenger has performed better than "over achieving" Moyes for the last ten years... and before you cry yeah but clubs, look at the spend of those clubs and then look at what Moyes is doing with the current Champions... It's hardly cheek but lol at you.

 

Moyes has just joined Man U FFS. And you call me a troll? You have got to be pulling my leg

 

Explain the last 10 then, smfh.

 

The fact you consider Wenger to have perfomed better than Moyes at Everton says everything about you. You are a loser. We are a top tier club FFS.

 

Wenger has only won 7 major trophies in 17 Years. Pathetic

 

 

 

 

Man Utd tried to sign players, Man Utd need players.

 

While I've stated I dont think Man United made fake bids. They didn't move like how Man Utd should...

 

Question marks must be asked about the leadership and management of the club.

 

To my amazement I read an interview today with Mr Fall Guy, Woodward where he outline the clubs approach to the window, he actually said the club outlined a midfielder and a left-back.

 

Regardless of the what happened with Fabregas, Thiago, Herrera, Khedira, Ozil, or that it took till deadline day evening they signed Fellaini. They achieved half of what they wanted.

 

Lets forget the literally last minute deadline day attempts for left-backs on LOAN... That leaves just Baines...

 

For the life of me I can't see how Man Utd with a whole two months couldn't have got Baines. Everton are a self-proclaimed selling club, even the current Man Utd manager knows that...

 

OK how are the Glazers at fault here? Woodward was the man making moves

 

Who you think Woodward answers to? You think he didnt have to ring to see what he could spend on player X and player Y?

 

You think the Glazers have a clue about players? He clearly had a budget to use, the Thiago and Fab bids were made earlier in the window

 

They had a budget on a couple of players, lets say it was 40m, as nothing they did on them players ever suggests the was prepared to spend more that... Man Utd should have more as they make more.

 

Exactly they know nothing, but then they have grander ideas of Bale and Ronaldo... Why? cos they paid a company to tell them which players could increase their commercial profile Worldwide, in other words who can we sign to make it look like we care about on the pitch, when really its someone to make us way more money off the pitch... I'd spend 100m if its gonna make me 300m...

 

You don't really believe what you're typing do you?

[Agony]

Rooney = Cancer + AIDS

 

 

 

 

[TF S4DK]

Which bit exactly don't I believe?!

[Agony]

WOODWARD ON TRANSFERS, MOYES AND MORE...

On his background…

I went to Brentwood School which had a lot of football connections. We had an amazing school team. Frank Lampard went there, Neil Harris from Millwall. I played until I was 11 when I got juvenile arthritis, which still affects me. That knocked me sideways I was massively into sport.

I was quite lucky in my career. A friend suggested that I should look at a bank and I got in at Flemings bank just before they changed the rules on working at such banks. Flemings was bought out by JP Morgan and I was involved in the United takeover as an advisor. I jumped at the chance of working on that as I love sport. Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine that I’d end up working for United, let alone running it.

On the Glazer takeover of United in 2005…

I totally understand how fans became concerned. Fans quite understandably weren’ t clear about what was going on. There was resistance from (United’s) management team and yet some of the major shareholders were willing to sell. There were two areas where people were concerned: the debt level and what would happen next.

The biggest issue, which the fans had boiled down into one line was a fear for the future.

If you’re not told about what the strategy is, if you’re not told ‘we’re going to invest in the team’, if you’re not told ‘nothing is going to change’ or ‘don’ t worry about the debt because it won’t have any impact on transfers’ and if you don’t hear guarantees that we’re not going to re-name Old Trafford, then you start to worry.

Could the PR side have been handled better?

Can PR be done better? Read the recent newspaper articles about me. Do I look like a PR expert?

I’m not going to not say things just because it means I’ll get some negative press

Could we have done better? Absolutely.

We need to be clear that we’re not going to put the club under financial risk and communicate that.

On Fergie quitting…

The announcement that I’d be replacing David Gill went out shortly after I’d been for lunch with Alex. Two hours onto that lunch he told me he was leaving. I was gobsmacked, absolutely gobsmacked. We had some red wine on the go and I nearly dropped my glass.

I would have given my arm just to have the chance to have worked with the most illustrious man in British football, if only for a year.

I’m quite gutted that I can’t work with him, to listen to him, to learn from him. That wasn’t to be.

I said ‘really?’ to him several times.

On his lack of experience in the job …

I can’t hold my hands up and say before the summer that I’d completed a transfer. I hadn’t.

We don’t have a director of football because we back the manager to make those decisions.

We don’t want the manager to be a hired gun for the next two or three years, we want the next generation to have him there creating his own legacy.

He can decide, he’s the football expert. He makes the decision, all I do is negotiate it. And negotiating is something I’ve done all my career. I feel I’m very good at that.

On appointing David Moyes …

Nothing really happened before March and the first part of April. We had some meetings, myself Joel and Avi (Glazer), Alex and his son Jason. David Gill also gave input. Bobby (Charlton) too, but later on.

Alex gave his views and wrote down notes as to who should be on the list. David was always top of that list. There were conversations about other managers, largely to cross them off the list.

Without the recommendation of Alex there may have been a different process. We may have ended up with the same answer.

Alex called David Moyes. He sat him down in his boys’ room at home by the snooker table. He said ‘you’re our number one choice’. I met David the next day in the same place. Alex went downstairs and I spent a couple of hours with the manager.

To be honest it was done when Alex said. But it was good for me to meet him and hear his ideas and plans.

On criticism of United’s transfer dealings in the summer …

It was disappointing that we didn’t sign more players but I always knew it was going to be a tough window.

We had a manager leaving and a manager arriving on July 1. As a club, we didn’t want to impose a plan on the new manager that had come from the old manager.

I know other clubs have done that across the Premier League where a director of football has brought players even before the new manager has arrived. That happened very close to home.

So we knew we had a truncated window with less time to operate.

The early view was that we needed a central midfielder and a left-back. That was David’s view, but he also wanted to spend some time with the squad. There wasn’t a long list of people he wanted to go after. We agreed early on that we didn’t mind carrying a big squad into the season. We didn’t need to make disposals, to sell players, until the manager was absolutely clear in what he wanted to do.

So we kept the players and added Fellaini, the first central midfielder we’ve bought in six years. And Varela, the right-back. Zaha was paid for with money from this summer so we spent £42million in total.

But I do understand why people don’t view it as a successful window.

I’ve learned about the media – and about not putting my head in my hands while being on television at a match.

On making the bid to Barcelona for Cesc Fabregas public …

Because it was an approach specific to the selling club. They have ownership structure that means there has to be a debate before a player is sold.

On keeping Wayne Rooney …

It was very important from day one that we made our position very clear. There were a lot of conversations and meetings. I’m delighted that he’s still wearing red.

I wanted to click my fingers and for it to be September 3. He’s irreplaceable and phenomenal to watch.

On bidding for Athletic Bilbao midfielder Ander Herrera?

I think we should have denied all the stories on the last day about Herrera because they were rubbish.

I think people wanted it to be done. The truth is quite boring. We’ve tracked him for nearly three years. He’s got a lot of big plusses. The decision to put Ander on the list was a very late one. We had a figure in our minds about what he was worth.

I know the president at Bilbao and put a bid in. He was very courteous and no. Given that they can only take players from a limited Basque pool, they wanted to keep him. Once they said to us ‘only the buy-out clause being met will issue a release’ we knew it wasn’t going to happen. Our rating of his value wasn’t the buy-out clause.

On the infamous three imposters who were said to have hijacked the deal …

They were nothing to do with us, nothing to do with the agent and, according to Bilbao, nothing to do with them.

On the last day, the story seemed to have legs of its own. I had seven people call me on the last day and try to insert themselves into the deal. This happens a lot

I can only imagine that people who wanted to insert themselves into the deal turned up at the league’s offices.

On big-money transfers …

Spending an extraordinary amount on a player, that is more than you should on a player, can have negative consequences on other players in the team and also on the player who has the burden of being the most expensive player in Manchester United’s history.

Was Fernando Torres worth £50m? Was Andy Carroll worth £35m? If that deal had happened at the theoretical market value, maybe the weight of expectation wouldn’t have been the same on both players and they wouldn’t have acted the same.

It also has a knock-on effect on a salaries of the other players. A perception that we overpay is not a good thing either.

All we try to do is pay the right amount for a player. We’ll pay a bit more within a range like we did with Fellaini, but we weren’t willing to go to 36m euros with Herrera.

On Cristiano Ronaldo playing for United again …

Who knows? I don’t like the fact that, in the list of 25 players in the Ballon d’Or, we’ll have Robin and Wayne. I don’t like the fact that there are consistently more players from Spain on that list. We as a club should be aspiring to have the best players playing for us. We’re in for players if the manager wants to be.

I don’t like the fact that we miss him (Ronaldo) as a player., he was phenomenal. I’ll always remember him at Arsenal in the Champions League semi-final. That guy was a genius, an absolute top, top player.

On the lack of atmosphere at Old Trafford …

All fans are important but the Stretford Ender who turns up at one minute to three, who doesn’t spend any money in the Megastore, who doesn’t buy a beer, doesn’t even buy one of our delicious

pies, that’s our core fan. He’s the one watching through tunnel vision. He’s red, white and black all over. And he matters. We’re conscious of what fans want. We know they don’t want a United helter skelter outside the stadium, we know it’s not Disneyland.

On bring back standing areas for fans …

Standing is something we’ll look at. I can definitely see the appeal of the German model, Dortmund being the standout in that thjeir ticket prices are very reasonable. That and their team have completely delivered.

You can still have an amazing atmosphere at Old Trafford. Real Madrid at home, the 7-1 v Roma. Spine tingling nights.

Standing can make a difference though. Look at the Bernabeu in Madrid. They have a standing area behind the goal which helps.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2477402/Manchester-United-rule-bringing-director-football-chase-top-players.html#ixzz2iseXsoud

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[Mame Biram Diouf]

Good read

 

All talk until I see action 

 

Though

[Flojo]

Interesting read, seems like he's pretty up front about everything.

 

It'll be interesting to see if any clubs in England change any of their stands to safe standing areas given the widespread debate about the lack of an atmosphere being generated by home crowds.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On his lack of experience in the job …

I can’t hold my hands up and say before the summer that I’d completed a transfer. I hadn’t.
We don’t have a director of football because we back the manager to make those decisions.

We don’t want the manager to be a hired gun for the next two or three years, we want the next generation to have him there creating his own legacy.

He can decide, he’s the football expert. He makes the decision, all I do is negotiate it. And negotiating is something I’ve done all my career. I feel I’m very good at that.
 

 

[Benicio del Toney]

lmao

[Mame Biram Diouf]

get out

[Mame Biram Diouf]

 

 

[Kompressor]

In fairness to him he's opened up dialogue with supporters, something Gill stopped after the takeover. The worrying thing is what he might come out with.

The Interview is in United We stand if anyone is interested.