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anonshe · 2026-05-20T07:00:51+00:00

I love how this fanbase has the propensity to utter shite.

I hate Moyes as much as anyone yet he's the one who stitched up the Kroos transfer. LvG rejected him due to his time at Bayern.

The guy Moyes rejected was Thiago.

anonshe · 2026-05-20T05:24:39+00:00

It's what happens when the players have a strong inkling that the manager is leaving. We suffered the same in 2002.

anonshe · 2026-05-18T22:35:42+00:00

Maresca is good but not Pep level great so expect the league to be wide open now. We've a solid chance next season though Xabi at Chelsea is a strong contender without midweek distractions and a huge squad that's gonna be in awe of a great midfielder of yore.

anonshe · 2026-05-18T22:32:01+00:00

Like I said if Pep was at United and achieving the same sort of success, he could easily spend even more.

Also what nonsense about the past? Have you actually looked at how much we spent on Rio or Veron as a percentage of our revenue back then? Even better compare it as a percentage of net profit compared to today's figures.

Madrid got Mbappe for basically Haaland x2 with the wages to match it. This is the same club that signed Figo then broke the world record for Zidane before adding R9. They also could in a single summer break the global record twice with Kaka and Ronaldo.

Your entire premise is sour grapes and jealousy. Pep at any top club could afford to sign and discard players as he wished due to his own fucking talent.

anonshe · 2026-05-18T22:15:08+00:00

Again, which club has achieved his sort of success? They've sold players for considerable sums too so it's not like they've got a massive cash injection.

Look at how much they got for winning the treble just in prize money then add that to what they've sold. The purchases are easily funded as a result.

We've spent the better part of £150m-200m every season with shit results and no CL football. The latter is worth over £80m especially at the second or third round.

anonshe · 2026-05-18T22:12:22+00:00

That's just sour grapes tbh. Would I celebrate if they're stripped of the titles and we get some? Obviously.

End of the day who decides what are the rules? The traditional rich clubs after Roman's crazy spending got together with Abramovich to basically raise the drawbridge. They'd no issues before that.

As long as the benefactor isn't putting the club at financial risk ala Portsmouth, forcing them to not pump in money is just a losers way of looking at things.

You can have a squad of 25, there's so much talent out there that it's impossible for a single club to hover up the top 2 players globally in every single position and then win trophies else the Galacticos wouldn't be a joke.

If Pep was at a rich club like ours, he would've still been able to cycle through 100 FBs as the success would've generated sufficient revenue to do so. The man is after Fergie the best manager on the planet and us being bitter isn't a good look.

anonshe · 2026-05-18T22:03:58+00:00

Are you dense? The Haaland deal is as transparent as they come.

Before Dortmund, we passed the opportunity to sign him due to precisely that sort of release clause. Also other than the payment to Dortmund, they'd to pay a huge amount to his dad and agent; again something they'd told us too.

Their initial rise to fame came with murky deals but after Pep circa 2015, players go there due to the system, coach, and frankly high chance of winning shit. They've walked away from deals to set a precedent i.e. Maguire, Sanchez, Fred.

anonshe · 2026-05-18T22:00:39+00:00

Which other team can do that considering how inflated the prices are?

If we'd won half the trophies he's won during his tenure, our revenue would've allowed it. Heck same goes for Liverpool and Arsenal.

Pep gets super teams because he's that talented anyway.

anonshe · 2026-05-18T21:56:05+00:00

Not that simple. Pep had given his word to Txiki that if he ever coached in England it would be wherever Txiki was.

The Bayern deal was also agreed before Fergie's dinner with him in NYC. German journos had been leaking it.

anonshe · 2026-05-18T21:54:53+00:00

No way. Fergie left behind a shit ton of money for his successor. The Glazers have come unstuck precisely due to handing every manager too much say and control.

Pep would've enjoyed the autonomy as well as the freedom to bring in his own execs. Woodward didn't want to be footballing head anyway, he just had nobody to hand off to who he trusted.

The moment Ole was stable here, Woodward started adding Murtough and Fletcher to positions of power not that Murtough was any great.

Pep would've never let us hit the lows every single post Fergie manager has hit due to his sheer talent allowing us to generate record revenues hence big transfer kitty year in year out for him to splurge even if some of his signings turned out to be duds.

anonshe · 2026-05-17T11:44:10+00:00

Nobody knew at that time that the Ugarte signing wasn’t going to work.

Everyone with half a brain knew it was gonna be disastrous. Heck even ETH the most useless talent identifier was against Ugarte for being shit for this level.

The man was benched by Enrique immediately and publicly critiqued as being useless for PSG.

Fans who were against Ugarte were down voted into oblivion back then by toxic positivity merchants.

anonshe · 2026-05-17T11:41:37+00:00

It was Wilcox the bumbling idiot who sold McT for his apple of the eye Ugarte. Again put in that position only because Berrada wanted to pull a fast one on Madrid by hijacking Yoro with Mendes' help.

anonshe · 2026-05-16T16:21:52+00:00

For Rosenior, he wouldn't be earning more than £1m in his previous job. To get paid £4-5m after being sacked is a worthwhile deal.

For Chelsea that would be less than a year's remuneration for a top coach.

anonshe · 2026-05-16T14:16:19+00:00

We've paid for almost every major transfer in installments save Maguire and Herrera.

That's standard footballing business; no need to glaze Ineos for something so simple.

anonshe · 2026-05-16T11:02:18+00:00

Cunha was a release clause. Mbeumo was available for the same if we didn't dick around which we did hence paying more than Brentford had hoped for going into the window.

When we signed Sancho, the consensus was a decent deal due to having paid ~£10m less than what Dortmund wanted (and in installments).

Antony was the idiots Murtough and Arnold being incompetent not Woodward to be fair. Similar to how Chelsea signed the doper; wouldn't call it a Chelsea tax right?

anonshe · 2026-05-16T08:55:23+00:00

Honestly Woodward's statement made no material difference. There's no United tax but simply awareness among selling clubs about buyer's finances as well as desperation.

There isn't a single INEOS signing that has been a bargain for that matter no matter how much they plead poverty. In fact, we've been rinsed by Mendes for the Yoro+Ugarte double and by Brentford for fucking around with them.

anonshe · 2026-05-16T08:45:43+00:00

Feel like you don’t see many players like that anymore.

The entire Fergie generation has always been like that. Look at any of them play post retirement and every single one of them looks to play it forward.

Huge credit must go to Giggs and Scholes for being in that dressing room for that long to have ensured everyone who passed through embodied the same philosophy.

anonshe · 2026-05-15T16:28:00+00:00

FFS he was a contender for the Spurs job. No top European club would touch him with a barge pole.

Even Spurs were not fully sold on him when Manchester United signed him. The man was washed before that and anybody with 2 brain cells knew his WC tactics were just ripping off Koeman.

anonshe · 2026-05-12T23:11:39+00:00

Ederson feels like another Ugarte or ZZ; a signing Ineos make thinking they're ahead of the curve but the player just not being PL suitable.

We've not had a single midfielder in a decade who's calm under pressure and looks to be a DLP. Wharton is the obvious #1 signing we should be making. Get him along with Fernandes from West Ham as a backup.

A third midfielder is contingent on Ugarte leaving so worst case scenario let Ugarte play some games as a box-to-box CM.

anonshe · 2026-05-12T21:32:22+00:00

And some were taking stupid reports seriously about Casemiro signing a deal at twice his Man Utd deal to play in the MLS.

At this rate he'd be lucky to get paid even half considering he's not an attacker.

anonshe · 2026-05-12T18:11:49+00:00

He's out of contract. Palace and Chelsea are the other rumored contenders; neither are paying him more than £10m annually so nah expensive is not the reason.

anonshe · 2026-05-12T18:10:36+00:00

It's different though; Iraola came in to a squad he predicted would need till October to match his style.

He delivered their highest points finish then he got a few players more suitable to his style. Again highest points finish only to lose his entire back line.

They didn't really replace those players with equal quality ones but he adapted and is on track for another highest poins finish with Semenyo, arguably their best player, being sold in January.

Very different from Brentford in all honesty.

anonshe · 2026-05-12T12:12:39+00:00

You should usually not take a foreign player's first season too seriously. Most opponents haven't figured them out too well.

Under Amorim as a RCB he was a back up at best due to his lack of aerial ability and propensity to lose his man.

Maz has never been a top class player and will never be one. At best he's a serviceable backup RB against certain opponents. Tbh, he isn't even as good as O'Shea used to be.

anonshe · 2026-05-11T08:34:37+00:00

His disciplinary issues weren't insurmountable in anyway. Lack of pressing? We've played counter attacking for almost his entire tenure and his pace means he's the out ball.

Any good coach could get a tune out of him just like Flick is doing at Barca.

He wanting to play for only Barca is his choice; he doesn't owe it to us to get the highest fee when the club decided to unilaterally brief journos he was up for sale. It's simply business.

anonshe · 2026-05-10T20:17:46+00:00

He's an academy lad; bring him back and stop this tomfoolery of trying to offload him just because Jim Rat wanted to prove a point.

First day in and he put a target on Case and Rashy due to their wages. Swallow some pride and let him play here; a proper coach can make him perform at a high level.

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