David Webb

VP @xtmintl Loving Father, Stretford Ender, Avid Sports Fan, bad golfer, general misfit, my views are my own and not of XTM.

[Casemiro @Casemiro]

Incredible atmosphere at Old Trafford. We're very close to reach our goal !!!! Come on Reds !!! 🔴

[Shaun Irvine @_shaunirvine]

Don't let the Michael Carrick news distract you from the reality; the only solution to Manchester United's problems is new ownership and a structure who knows what they are doing. No manager can come and be successful while the club is being run by toxic people at the very top who only care about their dividends instead of wanting to make the club the best football team in the world which that feeling creates a broken environment at every area of the club including on the pitch, sh*t rolls downhill, plus on top of that you have a football structure running day to day operations that are not fit to do so. All that's not including all the heat and talk from the media adding fuel to the already burning fire!

#MUFC #GLAZERSOUT #INEOSOUT

[The Swedish Rumble 🔰 @SwedishRumble]

⚽️Sad state of affairs — the blame game?

This is how the blame — must — be divided:
🔺Amorim deserves 5% of the blame
🔺Wilcox and Berrada deserves 5% of the blame
🔺Glazers and Ineos deserves 90% of the blame

And BTW, fans who supported or didn’t support this or that manager deserves no blame.

⚽️Why does the owners deserve the blame? We finished 15th and had a midfield that had been destroyed three season in a row.

We moved out Højlund, Rashford, Antony, Sancho and Garnacho up front, Eriksen at CM and Lindelof, Evans and Onana.

I.e. we moved out 5 attacking players, 1 CM, 2 defenders and 1 GK.

The owners sanctioned spending enabling us to buy 4 players.

⚽️Our wage bill is around 6th in the PL as The Athletic noted last week. By my calculations — less than half of City and Liverpool’s.

The cost of assembling this squad (removing the players out on loan, Onana, Sancho and Højlund) — is a fraction of our rivals.

We are a team in turmoil. It’s much harder to recruit well when you are struggling. Anyone who has followed football closely for a long time knows that a club in our position must overshoot, not undershoot, to get out of the funk.

⚽️The last thing that must be pointed out is that we are heavily influenced by a group of pundits who simply doesn’t a heck of a lot more damage than good.

Just the other day Nicky Butt and Paul Scholes were discussing how Roy Keane really should be given a chance as MUFC manager. He did well at Sunderland. Does anyone know how long ago he coached Sunderland? It’s 17 years since he left them.

We finished 15th and Gary Neville was positively surprised that we signed 3 players after moving out 9 (he forgot Lammens).

⚠️The fan base must come together and put pressure on the owners. There is so much they can do to support the team.

If we come to the spring and things aren’t going well — enough must be enough, once and for all.

[The Swedish Rumble 🔰 @SwedishRumble]

Loan or permanent deal doesn’t matter for MUFC. The club does not have problems with PSR and the club have never had problems with PSR.

This is clear beyond any doubt after The Athletic broke that MUFC submits Red Football Ltd’s accounts to the PL for PSR purposes and not the accounts for the listed Cayman company.

It is a bit technical, but huge parts of MUFC’s losses has come from (1) exceptional items related to the sale process, (2) costs for hedging the gigantic Glazer debt (in USD) against currency swings and (3) book losses from currency swings not covered by the hedging. But these costs are related to Manchester United Plc which is a company on the Cayman Islands. A PL club must be an English company, and the English company used is the subsidiary Red Football Ltd. Red Football Ltd pays interest on the Glazer debt — but exceptional items from the sale and the FX swings are excluded.

The reason the club plays two seasons without a LB, never does anything in January despite an injury disaster and so forth, don’t get an experienced striker that can back up a 19 y/o Rasmus Højlund and so forth — is lack of cash. The Glazers just blamed it on FFP, because lack of cash is directly attributable to the owners and something they easily can fix if they are prepared to open the wallet.

[Manchester United Forever @UtdForever7]

🚨I grew up in the era where Luis Nani was seen as “mid,” and now I’m expected to rate Sancho, Antony, and Garnacho?

Nani was a hard-working, useful player who still got hammered for “inconsistency” (and yeah, sometimes he was). Nobody cared about his confidence, whether he needed an overlapping full-back, or if he was better as an inside forward.

In 2010/11, he put up 28 G/A in 33 PL games as a midfielder and still got slated as the most inconsistent player in the squad.

Now, players with worse numbers get a laundry list of excuses. Standards have fallen, but it’s no shock — most United fans online have never even seen us win the league. #MUFC

[David Webb @DavidWebb1982]

@UtdXclusive No

[David Webb @DavidWebb1982]

@ManUtdMEN Risk should be with him. Pay him 5k a week with goal and assist incentives. Hes a mule not a stud so we should pay accordingly. If he doesn't accept then he is not for us @ManUtd

[Paul Manc Bald and Bred @MufcWonItAll2]

If it's true about Manchester United even considering signing Dominic Calvert-Lewin, then people need sacking immediately.

[David Webb @DavidWebb1982]

@utdforever7 @ManUtd Absolutely not

[Sale FC Rugby @SaleFC]

2 games 2 wins. Great afternoon for the club #onesalefc

[Patty’s Football Tips⚽️ @Pattystips]

Still amazes me! 🤣🤣

[David Webb @DavidWebb1982]

Onana is the worst goalkeeper I've seen ever. I've watched national league and also Sunday league. Why we paid 50 million I'll never know

[David Webb @DavidWebb1982]

Rest in peace #DenisLaw. I never watched you play but will live forever in our hearts. #busbybabe #legend. Look forward to paying my respects this Sunday at OldTrafford which was your arena

[David Webb @DavidWebb1982]

@FBAwayDays Yes

[David Webb @DavidWebb1982]

@FabrizioRomano @TimesSport What a terrible day for English football. Not only a German in charge but one who is egocentric. Would Germany employ an English manager? The FA need to hang their heads in shame.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

A poll on Boris Johnson.

Like - He's a lying scumbag.
RT - He should be in jail.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

The UK has fully privatised Energy, the France fully nationalised.

Any questions?

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

There's 195 countries in the world, only the UK and Chile privatised their water.

And they both have some of the dirtest, most expensive, and badly maintained water systems in the world.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Lord Bamford owes £500,000,000 to HMRC he has retired from the House of Lords and fled.

He expects his debt just like Michelle Mone's £232,000,000 debt to be written off.

We must recover every penny from these thieves, and toss them in jail.

[Magic hat 🎩 @themagic_tophat]

🚨𝗔𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘆𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗠𝗮𝗻 𝗖𝗶𝘁𝘆’𝘀 𝟭𝟭𝟱 ⚽️⚖️

In my interactions on Man City’s 115, I often observe many folks fail to truly grasp the potential impact that the charged breaches could have had on PL outcomes.

Maybe that’s why they think Man City will only get a slap on the wrist for the charges?

As such, I wanted to do some indicative analysis, year by year, on the potential scale of sporting impact.

For this analysis, I will not incorporate the potential impact of the charges relating to off-the-books remuneration and instead, only focus on the potential impact of the charges for disguised equity injections.

Reading the leaked emails, they outline ongoing arrangements to subvert FFP by the following amounts:
£69.5m annually from 2011/12, increasing to £92.5m annually in 2013/14, increasing to £122.5m annually in 2015/16 and carrying on until the 2017/18 season (at least).

The Der Spiegel leaks came in November 2018 and so it’s not possible to know what actions took place for 2018/19 onwards.

Converting to Euros at the time, this means the emails discussed subversion of FFP/PSR rules to the tune of:
2011/12 - €77.2m
2012/13 - €80.1m
2013/14 - €106.3m
2014/15 - €117.1m
2015/16 - €170.1m
2016/17 - €145.0m
2017/18 - €136.9m

€833m total over the 7 seasons

Let’s take a look at the potential impact of these injections, season by season 🧵