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@samuelluckhurst This shit stirring weasel is still at it.

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@AbuZeenah_ Robinho

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@samuelluckhurst Wish youd cover any other team than united. Negative - click bait shite journalist.

[The Swedish Rumble 🔰 @SwedishRumble]

Neville is an absolute machine at saying the most brain dead things right now.

United has one DNA: Winning.

To win, we must get better players. Our squad is not even remotely good enough. Cunha and Mbuemo makes a big difference, and are miles above what we have seen from previous suspects playing regularly. But they aren’t enough, need about 10 more players of that caliber.

To get better players in — we must get a heck of a lot more backing from our owners who has taken out well over a billion from the club.

Neville only makes excuses for the owners, and blames everyone else. Yesterday he said that he was positively surprised that we signed 3 players in the summer (after moving out 9).

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@rioferdy5 So do the opposite because you haven't a clue - Ole's at the wheel...

[Martien 🇳🇱 @MartienBall]

What’s truly alarming is that Amorim won’t be sacked for poor results but for pushing the board to back him with signings.

That speaks volumes about INEOS and their priorities.

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@MarkOgden_ Such an anti United wanker. Click baiter

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@Carra23 @MikeKeegan_DM Best thing Jamie has ever said 👏

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@ibzsmo3k Shouldn't he be with his national team 🤣🤣🤣

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@NickMiller79 State of this. " Journalism "

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@centredevils Since when did these accounts just become another fan voice. I followed for facts not your opinion

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@UtdXclusive @FabrizioRomano What's the point in the page now. Betting apps and fan boy comments.

[Nick Newell @_NickNewell_]

Altay - Mistake against Arsenal
Altay - Mistake against Fulham
Onana - 2x Mistakes against Grimsby

Honestly all United have to do is back Amorim with a proper keeper and most of these problems go away. #MUFC

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@speeds_c What a wanker you are

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@UnitedTyson You've never seen him play once ya melt

[Henry Winter @henrywinter]

Even with all the problems at Manchester United they are still the biggest club in the country, probably second only to Real Madrid globally*. Even with the wretched Glazers, the debt, decaying stadium and years of poor recruitment, over-paying and under-achieving post-Sir Alex Ferguson, United are still a huge draw. That will be confirmed if Benjamin Sesko does follow Matheus Cunha and Bryan Mbeumo in signing for a team who finished 15th last season. 

Great clubs don’t lose their reputation overnight. United have a huge fanbase locally, nationally and internationally. It’s why the media cover them in such endless depth. Interest. It does need highlighting that the club laid off hundreds of loyal staff to save money and still have £70m for a 22-year-old. Sesko still an upgrade on the willing but shot-shy Rasmus Hojlund. United just need a dynamic Baleba-type in midfield and probably a more reliable goalkeeper than Andre Onana.

It’s still a long way back, other clubs have far better squads and are far better run, but United have a good head coach in Ruben Amorim determined to make his 3-4-2-1 system work (still a sadness for those of us who love United’s tradition of flying wingers). They have bought well this summer with Cunha and Mbeumo, who bring goals, assists and PL nous, also there’s the promise of 18-year-old Diego Leon. Patrick Dorgu looks to have settled in. Amad excellent. Mason Mount is fit, creating and scoring pre-season, but he’s 4th on the list for the two 10 slots. Amorim still has plenty to sort out. #MUFC

*the biggest club in the country/world will always be *your* club - because they matter most to you.

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@OddsOnFPL Why are they talking €- to make it look like it's more ?

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@D_DeGea Scumbag. You deserved sold long before ten haag got rid

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A longer break down of the window is coming tomorrow — but while people like Jamie Carragher will thrash what MUFC is doing — I think Sekou Kone perfectly illustrates what this window has been about.

🔺Almost 50m (!) slashed off a wage bill that was the 4th biggest in the PL going into the summer, while all rivals added wages. 💣

🔺Yoro, Zirkzee and Ugarte are all signings for the future. De Ligt is 25 and Mazraoui 26.

🔺Sekou Kone and Obi Martin provide great immediate depth in the talent pool, that already includes Amass and Collyer who are odds on favorites to be regulars before end of season.

🔺10 outfield players start every game, and you need depth at all positions. Those are the positions available, and there are no other. If United signed Rabiot, Collyer wouldn’t play. If United signed a LB, Amass wouldn’t play.

There are reasons not one single academy player have been integrated into Arsenal’s first team since Arteta took over. You cannot both sign players like Trossard and Zinchenko and expect a player from the academy to come in at the position Trossard/Zinchenko will occupy.

Injuries are a great concern in this regard — but it is clear that the club is being disciplined and not intent on risking the development process of the youth players by obtaining an abundance of coverage. People can question a lot about ETH, but I doubt anyone second guess his ability to turn talent into elite footballers by a high European standard. This will be really valuable for the future — regardless if ETH survives long term.

����With that said, it is also important to underline that all of MUFC’s rivals have signed players for improving “now”, not tomorrow. And have increased their wage bill, not decreased it. Neto, Chiesa, Caliafori, Merino, Solanke and so forth.

It is perfectly possible that this will come at a cost. I mean, we have already seen it with two RBs going after the same player vacating the LB position against Brighton (haven’t analyzed it in depth, it’s possible it was someone else’s task to stay there on a set piece, but it looked suspect). And I am sure there will be other times it’s costly.

Hence, I do think that it is important to be patient with this squad. If you want to optimize performance in 24/25, you sign a Fullkrug, Sterling, Rabiot and a LB/CB like Hermoso and perhaps not Yoro and Zirkzee, and send Collyer on loan before selling him to Fulham for 20m in 2-3 years. And if you do that, you can expect to be much more consistent from day 1 this season.

OTOH, this does not spill over on that we shouldn’t have expectations on the team to play decent football on the pitch. It is no excuse for ETH if he got a couple defenders like Martinez and MDL healthy plus fullbacks like Dalot and Mazraoui. But it — is — an excuse for lost pts over 38 games, but rather lost games you should have won as opposed to what we saw last season.

My grade? I got to sleep on it — but this is much better than I ever — even remotely — expected in May. Would be surprised if I don’t land on an 8.5 out of 10. Sure, Eriksen, Lindelof and Maguire are still here, but as I understand it, we would have received less than 50% coverage of Lindelof’s 6.25m wage for example (from Lazio). 2.5m? You get to a point where it probably is more or less a wash between the value of keeping players like him, Eriksen and Maguire as depth compared to a really limited saving from moving them.