Ben Johnson

[Ben Johnson @ben_johnson9]

@SamC_reports SAM THE HERO WE ALL NEEDED THIS MORNING!!!

[Sam C @SamC_reports]

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Understand Coventry have recently submitted a package worth around the £20m mark for Carl Rushworth.

Carl spent the 2025/26 season on loan at Coventry from Brighton & Hove Albion.

Talks ongoing.

[Ben Johnson @ben_johnson9]

@England @FIFAWorldCup

[Ben Johnson @ben_johnson9]

Standard of football in the Premier League is shocking and at an all time low, the officiating in the Premier League is even worse and the only thing the you can count on is the inconsistency of it all.

The perfect way end to a dreadful watch of a season….all down on VAR.

[Paddy Power @paddypower]

Throwing a headbutt towards another player: Yellow card.

Touching someone's ponytail: Off you go.

[Ben Johnson @ben_johnson9]

Anything to help Tottenham

[Sky Sports News @SkySportsNews]

BREAKING: The EFL Championship play offs will be changed from four to six teams from the start of next season 🚨

[Ben Johnson @ben_johnson9]

Ruben Amorim needs sacking again for what he did to this team!! #MUFC

[Sully @SullyTalkz]

Benjamin Sesko, what a f*cking cameo. Off the ball movement is improving game by game, good hold-up play, and an elite striker's finish to win us the game. So talented with so much room to improve as well 🇸🇮🌟

[Ben Johnson @ben_johnson9]

@Dominos_UK Manchester 115 City

[The xG Philosophy @xGPhilosophy]

Man Utd (3.81) 2-0 (0.47) Man City

[Ben Johnson @ben_johnson9]

I’m not getting carried away but I’m getting a “Sir Michael Carrick” tattoo on Monday.

We are so fucking back!! #MUFC

[The 1958 @The__1958]

This statement was released today by a collaboration of online accounts. They’ve had enough of the Glazers, INEOS and the way the club treat fans and match going supporters. The inept running of the club and the shite we are served up every week whilst expecting us to pay more for the privilege.

These accounts have a combined reach of over 3 million United fans. They’ll be supporting the protest on the 1st Feb before Fulham.

Putting differences aside to get behind a coordinated, collaborative message that will be spread around the world to maximise impact before, during, and after the protest.

Fair play to them.

The 1958🇾🇪
#UnitedIsBroken

[Sully @SullyTalkz]

The club is broken from bottom to top. £1.18 billion removed from the club between 2005 and 2024 from the Glazers (debt,dividends). Ineos knew all of this and paid them to buy their shares keeping them in charge. Fans are broken and most have lost connection with #MUFC.

Retweet.

[Henry Winter @henrywinter]

Manchester United used to be synonymous with leadership. In the dug-out, on the pitch, in the boardroom. Sir Matt Busby, Sir Alex Ferguson, Bryan Robson, Roy Keane, David Gill and many others, revered, even feared, authority figures, rated, adored, never ignored. Leaders who thought about the team and the club and fought for them.

Football (society?) has fewer real leaders generally currently. At United, this great club changed the moment the Glazers arrived in 2005. United gradually came more about what could be taken out (£) rather than put in (commitment). The leadership principle was eroded, and that accelerated when Ferguson and Gill stood down in 2013. United lost expertise, experience and wisdom. They lost leaders.

David Moyes and others tried but the culture had changed under the Glazers. They didn’t know enough, didn’t appoint well enough. They spent money - fans’ money - on the football side but not judiciously enough. They seemed more focused on the business side. The brand played on. The tills were alive with the sound of revenue, the distant Glazers were happy.

But the football drifted. The squad cried out for more players with the right character, and proper investment in training ground and stadium. The Old Trafford leaky roof summed up the lack of attention – and a lack of love and leadership.

New co-owners Ineos promised better. They promised strong leadership. They have delivered some good things, investment in the training ground, but the team continue to slide. How many United players would get into Arsenal’s XI? Arsenal showed leadership and judgement in appointing Mikel Arteta, and backing him because they could see his leadership qualities. Arteta has authority as well as his obvious coaching strengths.

United keep appointing managers and they don’t last. Ruben Amorim – an Ineos appointment - was Manchester United’s fourth manager in their four most recent trips to Elland Road on Sunday following Glazer appointees Ole Gunnar Solskjaer 2021, Ralf Rangnick 2022 and Erik ten Hag 2023. Pay as you churn. How much will Amorim get in his pay-off? Millions. For failure. In a period when Ineos culled good staff – people who care about the club - to save a few quid. Poor leadership. And where was the judgement and leadership in recruiting a head coach committed to wing-backs? United are about wingers.

Amorim deserved to depart for his stubborn commitment to a formation and philosophy that didn’t suit United’s squad or their DNA. Good managers adapt. Good managers also don’t talk like Amorim did in too many press conferences. Nice guy, but naïve, a headline waiting to happen, rarely positive.

“Maybe the worst team in the history of Manchester United” – not great for players' morale? “I came here to be the manager of Manchester United not the head coach” – his job title from the word go was head coach. “That’s going to finish in 18 months and then everyone is going to move on” – basically predicting his departure. No wonder Jason Wilcox, Omar Berrada and Ineos had had enough. At least they’ve showed leadership in taking action. At least they’ve appointed a leader in Darren Fletcher to take the team for the trip to Burnley.

Amorim never felt like a leader. A Manchester United head coach should sound the part – defiant, always positive about his players – and carry some aura. Also be appreciative of the great privilege of leading this great club. Look at United’s remarkable and patient travelling support. Total commitment to the cause. The biggest club in the country deserves to be properly led.

And so to the pitch. Where are the leaders? Bruno Fernandes is captain, United’s best player, but not a natural leader. Moans too much on the pitch (but an admirable ambassador for the club off the pitch). Harry Maguire’s a good leader but not certain of his place (or pace). Bryan Mbeumo in a quiet way. Casemiro’s ageing. Too few leaders. Under Ferguson, there would be 5-6 you could give the armband to. Where are the standard-setters now?

Any complaints about the criticism of pundits Gary Neville, Paul Scholes and Keane should be dismissed. Neville, Scholes and Keane represent the standards that United players should aspire to. The levels of commitment. All of them responsibility-takers, winners, and, in different ways, leaders.

Manchester United need to recruit more leaders and for those already at the club, from dressing-room to board-room, to show greater leadership. Amorim was a symptom of the malaise as well as a cause. #MUFC

[Ben Johnson @ben_johnson9]

This is why you don’t social media when full of emotion.

[Ste Howson @MrStephenHowson]

Gone from our best football of the season to being absolutely dreadful.

Heaven ain’t it. And tbf. Bruno’s decisions absolutely shocking.

[Ben Johnson @ben_johnson9]

@TheAthleticFC @David_Ornstein This was not on my 2025 bingo card

[Ben Johnson @ben_johnson9]

@sw2sam @David_Ornstein @TheAthleticFC Imagine how much her salary was to be able to afford this 💰💰

[Ben Johnson @ben_johnson9]

@CraigHope_DM @lucabianchin7

[Ben Johnson @ben_johnson9]

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