Eric

2018, 2021, and 2023 Masters Pick ‘Em Champion. 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 Fantasy Premier League Champion. Views expressed here are my own.

[Eric @Esklen11]

Super Bowl, Super Browns at the NFC Championship game @KenCarman

[Pilib De Brún (Phil Brown) @Malachians]

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[Eric @Esklen11]

This is exactly why City are refusing to play the final at the Etihad this year. They know it would be taken over by thousands of United fans

[Stretford Paddock @StretfordPaddck]

4️⃣ years ago today…

United’s U18s beat Nottingham Forest 3-1 to win the FA Youth Cup in front of 67,000 at Old Trafford 🔴🏆

#MUFC

[Eric @Esklen11]

And people still question the anti-United agenda

[The Athletic | Football @TheAthleticFC]

"Bruno Fernandes winning Footballer of the Year is long overdue recognition for a truly outstanding player. There are legendary No 10s who didn't ever achieve this level of consistency.

"But my vote went to… no one. No Premier League footballer this season has been at the requisite standard. The football has not been entertaining enough. The matches have been lacking in the technical quality and individual inspiration we’ve been accustomed to in previous years.

"Fernandes deserves his award, but it's a damning indictment of the individual quality in the Premier League that by simply maintaining his typical level he's suddenly the victor by a landslide."

📝 @Zonal_Marking

🔗 https://t.co/U6ib2U88ad

[Eric @Esklen11]

And people say “every fan thinks their club is treated differently”

[Notch 🎅 @CraniumO]

Amazing how often when United have something 'controversial' go their way it's oppo manager outrage and media scrutiny all the way.

Meanwhile nothing was given, no analysis, no outrage and 0 replays of this blatant shove which injured a United player, forcing a substitution.

[Shaun Connolly @shaunconnolly85]

🚨Lisandro Martinez has received an additional game ban for Gabriel’s head motion towards Erling Haaland.

[Stretford Paddock @StretfordPaddck]

“We’d batter them” is a MASSIVE understatement.

#MUFC

[OptaJoe @OptaJoe]

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58 Anton Stach, Declan Rice, Dominik Szoboszlai
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52 Bukayo Saka
51 Enzo Fernández
50 Florian Wirtz

Outlier.

[Stretford Paddock @StretfordPaddck]

Today and always we remember all those who tragically lost their lives in the Munich air crash.

The Flowers of Manchester ❤️

[Scott Patterson @R_o_M]

If you needed a reminder, we’ve had a larger average attendance than them every single season since WW2. Even when we played at Maine Road when Old Trafford was bombed. Even when we were in Division 2 and they were Division 1. Regardless of success, we’ve always had more fans 👍🏼

[mufcshirts @mufcshirts]

You don’t do this for players of any other club you weirdos

[Mitul Mistry @Mitul__Mistry]

Sliva is what everyone thinks Bruno is. A rat

[𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐭𝐝 𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐯𝐞 @TheUtdArchive]

Can somebody tell me why this literal kick on Bruno in the Man City box, wasn’t checked on VAR or even talked about by pundits?

I’ve seen endless replays of Dalots high challenge but the media is silent on this?

[Eric @Esklen11]

@CraniumO Former players of other clubs do everything they can to protect their club’s current players. Our former players do everything they can to slag ours off

[Stretford Paddock @StretfordPaddck]

🔴📊 Erling Haaland has been kept quiet by Lisandro Martínez - failing to score in six of the seven games they’ve gone head-to-head 👀🔒

#MUFC

[E @utd_Eman]

He couldn’t believe his eyes 😭

https://t.co/2DuunynkZq

[Aidan Walsh 🔰 @AidanWalshMUFC]

For those who don't understand:

• Glazers bought the club with a loan
• Transferred the debt of the loan to the club
• Have put £0 of their own money into the club
• All transfers have come from club revenue
• They have taken 2 billion from the club

#GlazersOut

[Adam @AdamJoseph]

If Kyle Walker & Lisandro Martinez switched places, or it was Martinez who dived not Walker & Burnley were denied a goal instead of Manchester United, which would've directly influenced the result, it would be the leading story in the media today.

No consistency, no secret why.

[The Swedish Rumble 🔰 @SwedishRumble]

⚠️To fully grasp City’s £460m spend over January 25’ to January 26’ — the wages paid must be taken into account. 🤑

Donnarumma was signed for app. £25m but will earn around 500k a week at City. That is £25m per year or £125m over 5 years. With a £25m transfer fee amortized over 5 years — this means that his Total Cost will be £25m (wages) + £25m (transfer fee) / 5 years = £30m per year (not including agents fees that will have been recorded high). 💰

In comparison, Man Utd signed Rasmus Højlund for a £64m transfer fee and paid him £75k per week, which gives him a Total Cost of £16.7m per year. So if you only look at transfer fees — it seems like Rasmus was twice as expensive as Donnarumma. In reality Donnarumma is twice as expensive as he was. The cost for ”£17m signing Senne Lammens” is £3.3m per year, about a tenth of Donnarumma. But if you look at the transfer fees — 17m vs 25m — it looks like they are about the same cost.

The Total Cost is of course all that matters for a club. PSG signed Messi, Donnarumma, Ramos, Wijnaldum and Perreira for a total of £12m in transfer fees in 2021 — but their Total Cost was app. £175m per year. Was they cheap?

Erling Haaland of course became one of the most expensive players in football when City signed him. Leaked documents show how his total cost was app. €70m per year, which is app. what, £56m per year. 3.5x the cost of a Højlund. Yet — his ”transfer fee” was £48m according to Transfermarkt.

Liverpool pay just as high wages as Man City.

I can go on and on about this. But it is so frustrating — facts are that the reporting on how much Man United have spent on its squad is — extremely — misleading.

Indisputable facts are that since Ralf Ragnick said we needed open heart surgery — we have not even invested 50% of what City, Chelsea and Liverpool have invested in their squads. They had world class squads at that point, and had barely anything (I don’t think many realize how big of a loss Pogba was).

And so many genuinely believe that the Glazers and Ineos has backed investments in our squad that is almost as high as City, Liverpool and Chelsea. But it’s just common sense — yes total transfer fees paid for Haaland and Donnarumma was £73m and total transfer fees paid for Højlund and Lammens were £81m. But even if Gary Neville don’t get it — we don’t even have to do the math, it speaks for itself that Haaland and Donnarumma are a heck of a lot more expensive than Højlund and Lammens.

[Notch 🎅 @CraniumO]

Says the expert.

[Ste Howson @MrStephenHowson]

Is Wirtz a shareholder in the athletic or something? I’ve NEVER seen defence of a single player like this. Ever.