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When Grandma doesn't understand what AI is and you create a movie clip with her in it 🤣
Writer: Ian
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How is Technical Director Jason Wilcox still employed by Manchester United Football Club?
He says he feels lucky?
Jason Wilcox - Lucky Man
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We're set to play at least half a season without a striker. Half a season where we don't have a single back up option for a position that is arguably the most important position on the pitch.
Welcome to Manchester United.
🚨 Confirmed: Benjamin Sesko out until at least January through shin injury.
Period of rest is required so striker is fully healed.
Details + analysis ⬇️ #MUFC @TheAthleticFC
nytimes.com/athletic/7716805…
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‘Michael Carrick will be given time to turn things around’ and ‘the hierarchy do not want to rush next steps’ should be read and digested for what it really is: an indecisive club without any succession planning or contingencies because it doesn’t have clarity of identity in the first place. A club that often takes the cheap instead of the smart or right route because of the crippling Glazer debt, plus decision-makers who are never aligned - except in their own self-preservation. And it ends up costing more.
It explains the chaotic nature of lurching from one coaching philosophy to its extreme, to revisiting candidates that were on the agenda - some as far back as 2019 - that were already ruled out, to having a shortlist of options with nothing in common to take over a mishmash team that has suffered from horrid squad planning; both in incomings and exits.
Blame the players, blame the name in the dugout while the people who brought them to Manchester United, kept them, created the absolute opposite of a culture of excellence are allowed to rinse and repeat.
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🚨On behalf of Manchester United fans ALL OVER THE WORLD:
THIS is the FIRST announcement we want to wake up to tomorrow morning!
PLEASE, @ManUtd — JUST DO IT! 🙏
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Emotional exit by Michael Carrick as fans sing his name. A farewell?
Supporters turn on players once Carrick down tunnel.
#MUFC
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Sense of decency 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Sources have told ESPN that the handling of the job cuts did not sit well with the Glazers, particularly Joel and Avram.
One source said Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s implementation of the programme jarred with Joel’s "sense of decency and old-fashioned values." [@MarkOgden_]
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Since the start of the 2024-25 season, Manchester United have won just 32 Premier League games out of 84. Twelve of those wins came in a 17-game run after Michael Carrick took over last season. Those four months aside, they have been dreadful for two years.
They have had two strong spells (one under Erik ten Hag in the middle period of 2022-23, one under Carrick in the second half of last season) in five years. Beyond that, under a succession of managers, there have been long periods of dysfunction, discord and disinterested performances that leave you wondering what on earth this team is meant to look like.
And that is a reflection of the club’s ownership, a regime that has taken so much out of United — well over £1billion ($1.3bn) in interest payments, refinancing costs and bond buybacks to prop up the Glazer family’s ownership after their leveraged takeover 21 years ago.
When fans wonder why a club with £677.6million revenue has been under pressure to bring down the wage bill, signing second-rate players and leaving gaps in their squad, it is partly because they are still paying a heavy price for years of mistakes in the transfer market and partly because the debt carries such a burden on the club’s finances.
Then there is Sir Jim Ratcliffe, who arrived as a minority shareholder in early 2024 and spoke breezily about how he planned to restore Manchester United to greatness with a smart, strategic approach. How’s that going, Sir Jim? If anything, his decision-making has been even worse than that of the previous Glazer-led regime, which is really saying something.
📝 @OliverKay
🔗 nyti.ms/4Bs8GVG
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Thing is with #MUFC, the people who have the power to sack people are actually the people who need to be sacked.
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If Manchester United’s players had even a fraction of Michael Carrick’s love for the club, they’d be in the top five.
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United are one of the best outputs this country has. That it was allowed to be sold, via a now illegal leveraged buy out, to an American vulture and saddled with ruinous debt is one of the biggest shames of football. Owners who don’t see it as a community asset, just theirs.
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Manchester City blew every other interested club out of the water to sign Ayyoub Bouaddi this summer, spending £100m on the 19-year-old.
He’s started just one Premier League game since.
No other club can do this. How can you compete? Wonder why?💰⚫️❌
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Erik Ten Hag on Cristiano Ronaldo:
"He let the team down, and he let me down, because we planned with him"
"I flew out to Portugal to speak with him about what I was aiming for before I came to United. Obviously, he’s one of the best in football history. I respected him a lot. But at that time, as a manager, I had to make a rational decision and keep the players I admire in.”
According to Ten Hag, Ronaldo pulled out of training sessions, did not get his heart rate raised to the required level when he did train, and only completed two of the three scheduled laps of the infamous run Ten Hag made his players do after they lost 4-0 at Brentford in August 2022.
"I confronted him with this,” says Ten Hag. “Many times I say, ‘Ronnie, everyone wants to work for you to bring you in the right position, but if you can’t bring yourself in the box, you can’t score’.
He was not capable to do this. It’s the wrong idea to put this to me that I expected him to do the pressing, that he’s exhausted.
But he couldn’t. He ran neither in possession nor out of possession. The reason was because he didn’t prepare himself.
"Every top team has to embrace the top player, but the top player has to work for the team."
"He was telling the players, ‘Save your legs at the training’. I understand it when you are top fit; you have sessions, you can save the legs. But first you have to train yourself to get into the right fitness levels." [@lauriewhitwell]
