The job is STILL not done.
You and I both know Luke Shaw won’t be available all season. It’s not a World Cup year.
Mason Mount…
Well, he’s Mason Mount. Nothing more needs to be said.
That leaves us with holes at LB and in midfield.
And if Zirkzee leaves, we’ll need another striker too.
Yes, you can argue Rashford or Mbeumo can cover there.
Maybe.
But why are we settling for patches when there’s still time to build the squad properly?
There is STILL a chance to get this right.
INEOS better understand the assignment.
Back the manager.
Fix the squad.
Finish the job.
The job is STILL not done.
You and I both know Luke Shaw won’t be available all season. It’s not a World Cup year.
Mason Mount…
Well, he’s Mason Mount. Nothing more needs to be said.
That leaves us with holes at LB and in midfield.
And if Zirkzee leaves, we’ll need another striker too.
Yes, you can argue Rashford or Mbeumo can cover there.
Maybe.
But why are we settling for patches when there’s still time to build the squad properly?
There is STILL a chance to get this right.
INEOS better understand the assignment.
Back the manager.
Fix the squad.
Finish the job.
I will not blame Michael Carrick. Honestly, we all knew what was coming.
We called it out.
The fanbase went crazy. We were called names “Amorimsexuals” and everything else because we dared to question the direction of the club.
Most fans asked for patience. But patience became an excuse to ignore what was happening underneath.
People mistook results on the pitch for progress across the entire football operation.
They are not the same thing.
Transfers matter. Squad building matters. Dressing-room authority matters. A manager cannot simply walk into a club with a thin squad, accept whatever recruitment hands him, and hope everything magically holds together over 60+ games.
As Thanos said:
“The hardest choices require the strongest wills.”
And Manchester United has some hard choices to make.
We could win games. We could even start the season brilliantly. But the Premier League alone is 38 games. Add the Champions League — potentially 13 or more if we go all the way — plus the FA Cup and Carabao Cup, and suddenly you are looking at a season that can push beyond 60 matches.
That requires depth.
REAL depth.
Not a starting XI that looks good on paper and a bench full of question marks.
We are not equipped for that yet.
And this is where I have a problem with Carrick.
Amorim failed on the pitch. That cannot be rewritten. His results were not good enough.
But off the pitch? He was fighting for the right things. He wanted specific profiles. He wanted players who fit his football. He had influence over recruitment, and some of those players are now showing exactly why he wanted them.
Carrick cannot afford to be a yes man to INEOS.
Because if he simply accepts what is given to him, keeps quiet about the squad, and walks into another season with known injury problems, limited depth and an enormous fixture list, then he is not protecting himself.
He is setting himself up to fail.
And when the injuries arrive, when the legs get heavy, when the same players are asked to carry 50–60 games, when the quality drops and the season begins to unravel — we will have every right to ask:
Why didn’t you demand more when you had the chance?
United cannot build another season on hope.
The ending to last season was good.
Fine.
But a good ending does not erase the problems that were already there.
You cannot walk into a new battlefield with the same ammunition and expect a different war.
Carrick has to be ruthless.
INEOS has to be ruthless.
The recruitment has to be ruthless.
Because this club does not need another manager who simply survives the squad he is given.
It needs a manager strong enough to demand the squad required to win.
This kind of window cannot happen under Ruben Amorim, INEOS saw it after his interview in January and decided to sack him.
If Ruben Amorim was to be here up till now, we would have signed Carlos Baleba, Tchuoameni and Mateus Fernandes but because Carrick is here, INEOS are settling for less.
Now we all know why they wanted only Michael Carrick. It’s clear now and everyone is seeing.
Some people genuinely don’t understand how Polymarket predictions work.
Arsenal won the league last season. Of course they’ll have higher odds of winning it again BEFORE the new season even starts.
Same with Barcelona. Same with every league champion.
It has NOTHING to do with how well prepared they are for the new season.
People see their club with higher odds and suddenly think, “We’re better prepared than everyone else.”
No.
Last season, Liverpool were among the clear favorites to win the league on Polymarket because they had won it the season before.
Guess what?
They didn’t even finish top 4.
That’s the point.
Stop confusing prediction markets with proof of preparation.
Some people genuinely don’t understand how Polymarket predictions work.
Arsenal won the league last season. Of course they’ll have higher odds of winning it again BEFORE the new season even starts.
Same with Barcelona. Same with every league champion.
It has NOTHING to do with how well prepared they are for the new season.
People see their club with higher odds and suddenly think, “We’re better prepared than everyone else.”
No.
Last season, Liverpool were among the clear favorites to win the league on Polymarket because they had won it the season before.
Guess what?
They didn’t even finish top 4.
That’s the point.
Stop confusing prediction markets with proof of preparation.
INEOS always needs something to force their hand before they act. Now, injuries are doing it.
They missed out on Mateus Fernandes, then suddenly Tielemans and Santos happened.
Now they spent weeks acting like this squad was perfectly fine.
They forgot Luke Shaw is rarely fit outside a World Cup season, and Mason Mount is… well, Mason Mount.
Now BOTH are injured.
And what happens next?
Panic buying. Shady names. Emergency signings. Then we’ll be told it was all part of the plan.
That’s how INEOS operates.
That’s how Manchester United operates.
Shaw played 38 EPL games last season and is injured again before the season has even started. The “only fit during World Cup seasons” allegations are writing themselves.
What a shame.
INEOS better wake the hell up.
INEOS always needs something to force their hand before they act. Now, injuries are doing it.
They missed out on Mateus Fernandes, then suddenly Tielemans and Santos happened.
Now they spent weeks acting like this squad was perfectly fine.
They forgot Luke Shaw is rarely fit outside a World Cup season, and Mason Mount is… well, Mason Mount.
Now BOTH are injured.
And what happens next?
Panic buying. Shady names. Emergency signings. Then we’ll be told it was all part of the plan.
That’s how INEOS operates.
That’s how Manchester United operates.
Shaw played 38 EPL games last season and is injured again before the season has even started. The “only fit during World Cup seasons” allegations are writing themselves.
What a shame.
INEOS better wake the hell up.
Both teams looked a little rough really but Vitinha and Neves are normally doing the side ways passing.
Good players but not the type of players that shine and show themselves out of the many.
Bro has been a football fan for less than a week and he has opinions.
Bro the football club you chose has no legend.
Has no relevance.
Has no soul.
Just 115 cases of corruption and bribery and 14 years in the big leagues with big boys.
You and the other 17 city fans need to relax man.
Bro has been a football fan for less than a week and he has opinions.
Bro the football club you chose has no legend.
Has no relevance.
Has no soul.
Just 115 cases of corruption and bribery and 14 years in the big leagues with big boys.
You and the other 17 city fans need to relax man.
Both teams looked a little rough really but Vitinha and Neves are normally doing the side ways passing.
Good players but not the type of players that shine and show themselves out of the many.
@David_Ornstein@DocOmeiza@TheAthleticFC Where is the busy activity of United that you told us about.
Maybe you meant that ineos would be busy sleeping in the transfer window
Some Manchester United fans kept defending Ruben Amorim...shame on y'all.
Ac Milan will suffer more than what Manchester United experienced.
See how Chelsea is turning his side like Eba...nonsense!!!
@Blesing_Andrew The same Amorim destroyed this Chelsea so what’s the point.
The same Chelsea is still struggling even after having a good transfer window as usual
It’s nothing out of the ordinary