Joe Bryant

Manz like it crunchy

[Ryan, Carrick's MUFC 🇾🇪 @CarrickWay_]

0 wins in 2026.
5 wins in 18 games.

But Jamie Carragher and Gary Neville are still still silent because he doesn't manage Manchester United.

[The 1958 @The__1958]

🗣️DO NOT GET DISTRACTED BY CLUB & PRESS PR

Intended to move the narrative away from the real issues at the club.

Glazers, Ratcliffe and INEOS

We deserve better and our traditions need to be respected.

•⁠ ⁠Show fans are important with actions and not platitudes
•⁠ ⁠Reward loyalty stop exploiting it
•⁠ ⁠Act as the blueprint for other clubs to follow in protecting loyalty and fan culture
•⁠ ⁠Sort the ticketing and fairness system out
•⁠ ⁠Remove the profit and loss mandate for the ticket office its the wild west.
•⁠ ⁠Start acting like a bastion of the premier league

Performances on the pitch, signings, managers and a Disneyland circus stadium experience are secondary.

The 1958🇾🇪

[Ste Howson @MrStephenHowson]

2nd, debt free, able to spend on whatever and whoever we wanted.

Now 8th. A billion in debt.
Not for a new stadium.
Not for new players.

Simply because the name on the letter head changed.

Banks enriched.
One family enriched.

A legacy ruined.

Should never have been legal.

[Adam @AdamJoseph]

Samuel Luckhurst is a dickhead & he's always been a dickhead. Manchester United can't stop him being a dickhead on social media, but they can cut off his access if he's going to leak team lineups before a derby. Don't allow him in press conferences & on club property.

Enough.

[Sully @SullyTalkz]

𝑻𝑯𝑬 1958 𝑿 𝑼𝑵𝑰𝑻𝑬𝑫 𝑭𝑨𝑵𝑩𝑨𝑺𝑬

Standards have collapsed.
The debt is strangling the club.
Fans are being exploited.
A decade of mediocrity.

Fans have been and will always be the heart of the club.

Feb 1st, Old Trafford. (H) VS Fulham. The march.

#UnitedIsBroken

[The 1958 @The__1958]

🗣️A CALL FOR UNITY AND TO CAST ASIDE DIFFERENCES

Some journalists, paid accounts, and bots will do everything they can to discredit and defuse any message or action that challenges this ownership. That’s expected, we have always had to put up with this.

We do what we do for one reason only, the love of our club. Nothing else. We have never monetised this. We have never sold access, clicks, or credibility, unlike others.

We put ourselves out there to defend and fight for our club, fan culture and for the next generation of supporters. We are just honest, hard working lads who refuse to be silenced.

Look around. Cut through the bullshit. They do not want fans united against the ownership, so they will do whatever they can to divide opinion and fracture support.

We urge fans to unite, stay the course this time, no matter any previous differences. We can all go back to calling each other 🤬 after if needed. Fans are not the problem. We are not the problem.

One unified goal: the removal of this rotten ownership and inept executive team.

Follow the truth.

Tomorrow belongs to those who see it coming.

The 1958🇾🇪

[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.

[Adam @AdamMUFC24]

Fuck off Gary - you havn't helped one bit and quite frankly Manchester United supporters are sick to death of hearing your opinions.

18 months ago it was "Manchester United need a manager with a system"
Now its "Manchester United need a manager that fits the DNA of the club"

How's about Manchester United need the Glazers to fully fuck off?

How about stop telling Manchester United what they need when you can't even sort out Salford?

How's about Manchester United need you and your shitty employers to stop obsessing and over analysing everything the Utd manager does?

How about being fair in your punditry and treating managers of United how you treat managers of Spurs, Liverpool and just about every other club?

Just a thought?

[The 1958 @The__1958]

We posted this over a year ago and its now two years of shame. Nothing will change or get better until this dysfunctional ownership model is resolved. Until then our club, generational loyalty and fan culture will continue to be destroyed.

We postponed what we felt was a needed protest at the start of this season due to fan sentiment.

Are you all feeling the same way now?

The 1958🇾🇪

[Melissa Reddy @MelissaReddy_]

INEOS kept on a manager they had no faith in, openly canvassing Europe for his successor but then armed him with £200m to spend on players he wanted, and changed the backroom staff before sacking him anyway. They axed a sporting director, whose way of working was well established, because he did not fit in with how they wanted him to work. He warned them about selecting a head coach attached to a fixed style of play, which didn’t suit the squad and how expensive it would be to build a quality 3-4-3. They didn’t listen, insisted they believed wholeheartedly in Ruben Amorim’s approach, but then wouldn’t fully back it in the transfer market and asked him to change the tactical principles that attracted them to him. Some “best in class” decision-making…

[Adam @AdamJoseph]

🧵 THREAD: Manchester City, the charges, the evidence, & how justice was delayed.

Manchester City weren’t charged because rivals complained or because they 'spent big'. They were charged because evidence shows a decade-long system designed to hide owner funding, inflate revenue & deceive & obstruct investigations.

The Premier League’s case didn’t appear overnight.
It began in late 2018, triggered by Football Leaks documents - internal emails, invoices, contracts - that contradicted what City had been telling UEFA & the Premier League for years.

Those emails are the backbone of everything that followed. At the centre of the case is a simple allegation: Manchester City repeatedly disguised owner funding as commercial revenue.

FFP rules require sponsorship income to be real, independent, and market value. What the emails suggest is that City’s biggest 'sponsors' weren’t paying what City claimed - Abu Dhabi was.

Take Etihad as an example. Leaked emails show City executives discussing Etihad paying only a fraction of headline sponsorship deals, with the shortfall quietly topped up by Abu Dhabi government-linked entities.

One email explicitly references ensuring funds 'come through the correct channels' so they are not detected as separate sources of funding. That is the definition of disguised equity. This wasn’t a one-off.

Emails show Etihad deals where shirt sponsorship, stadium, training kit & campus naming rights were all inflated wildly out of line with the market at the time - later confirmed in the actual contracts, not just drafts.

The numbers in the leaks weren’t hypothetical. They were real. UEFA auditors suspected this as early as 2013–14.

They found £47m of 'intellectual property' sales boosting income, a £5m 'win bonus' paid for an FA Cup final City lost & sponsorships from Aabar and Etisalat above market value.

City were fined & restricted - but crucially, UEFA never saw the full records. Why? Because City refused to provide them. This becomes a pattern.

When UEFA charged City again in 2020, they imposed a two-year Champions League ban. City appealed to CAS & had it overturned. City fans shout 'INNOCENT', shared out of context screenshots. They're wrong.

CAS did not rule that City were innocent. CAS ruled that UEFA could not meet the burden of proof - largely because City did not co-operate. City were fined €10m specifically for obstructing the investigation.

Even City's own expert witness was denied access to key information that could have disproved disguised funding. 'No evidence' doesn’t mean nothing happened. It means the evidence was withheld.

CAS explicitly stated that disguised equity funding could not be excluded - only that neither side could conclusively prove their case. That vagueness was entirely engineered.

After CAS, new emails emerged suggesting Simon Pearce, a senior City executive & Sheikh Mansour adviser, had given misleading testimony under oath. City declined to comment. Again.

While all this was happening, the Premier League had already been investigating City for years. City’s response? Delay. Delay. Delay. Obstruct. Litigate.

Court filings later revealed City challenged the legality of the investigation itself, filed repeated procedural applications, refused to hand over documents, forced arbitration, then challenged arbitration & tried to keep the entire process secret.

A High Court judge called it out in 2021. “It is surprising, and a matter of legitimate public concern, that so little progress has been made.” That’s legal spiel for stonewalling.

This obstruction accounts for 35 of the 115 charges alone & that’s before we get to the secret payments.

City declared Roberto Mancini's salary as £1.45m per year. On the same day he signed with City, he also signed a “consultancy” deal with Al Jazira - a club owned by the same man who owns City - worth £1.75m per year. That deal was explicitly marked confidential.

Emails show City executives arranging the payments. Same signatures. Same people. Same day. The allegation is obvious: City paid Mancini off the books.

Leaked documents allege undeclared payments for Yaya Touré, including via third parties. These aren’t rumours. They’re contracts, emails, invoices. This is why there are 14 charges relating to manager and player remuneration.

Then there’s image rights. City told UEFA they sold player image rights for a £24.5m lump sum to comply with FFP. Later, they quietly resumed earning millions from image rights again.

The buyer? A company whose directors included City’s own senior legal officer. Independent journalists couldn’t even establish its genuine commercial purpose.

All of this feeds into the core allegation across 54 charges: City failed to provide accurate financial information in good faith. Not once. Not twice. But repeatedly, over nearly a decade.

Now add politics. UK government departments discussed City’s charges with the British embassy in Abu Dhabi. Those communications are sealed - because releasing them could 'damage relations with the UAE'. City insist they are not state-backed. Then why is the state involved?

Yet still, the delays continue. A 12-week closed-door hearing. Half a million documents. Years of silence. City remain 'innocent' - not because the evidence disappeared, but because the verdict hasn’t landed.

This is why the case matters. If City walk away with a fine, it tells every club to cheat cleverly, obstruct endlessly, spend on lawyers, not compliance.. & the rules collapse.

This isn’t about jealousy. It isn’t about success. It’s about whether financial regulation in English football is real - or optional for the richest club in the league.

The evidence exists. The emails exist. The delays are documented. Now only one question remains, do the rules apply to City or not?

[Adam @AdamJoseph]

'Ryan' is 25 years old. Roy Keane was at Manchester United from 1993 until 2005, while he & Gary Neville were in their prime (& even when they left) Ryan was either not born, wearing diapers or wetting his bed.

Keane won 7 PL titles, 4 FA Cups & 1 CL in just 10 years. He was in the Team of the Century & Footballer of the Year, he & Neville were in the TOTY 5x, both players are Premier League & English Football Hall of Famers.

Trying to talk authoritatively on something you have no knowledge or lived experienced in is genuinely laughable, particularly when you support a 'club' that didn't even exist to you pre-2008.

Kids & their keyboards, bloody hell. Shut up.

[𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐚 @CantonasMind]

The Glazer family have completely destroyed Manchester United football club down to the rotten core yet you’ll see so many fans blame this on Ruben Amorim.

[Adam @AdamJoseph]

Mismanagement doesn't begin to describe the incompetence with which Manchester United has been run. For years, rivals have pointed to our spending & never understood why fans have been so anti-Glazer.

INEOS are now answering for 20 years of the Glazers. Make no mistake about it. Before tax, £313m has been lost in the last three years. No profits since 2018/19. £131m lost in 2023/24. Bad performance. Bad recruitment. Bad sales. Bad ownership.

Every league place is £2.8m less in prize money. Broadcasting revenues slumping because of no CL. Nearly £700m spent under Erik ten Hag. £966m the last five years. Meanwhile they are the only current PL club who has had no owner funding put in.

£391m in transfer debt. £100m on managerial changes & executive departures post Sir Alex, £731m in gross debt, £210m on the revolving credit facility, £834m paid in interest on the debt, £1.12 billion in total debt as it stands today. The bills are coming due.

INEOS can't say it because of legal reasons, but there is no other way because of the Glazers. They are why we are here today.

[Pilib De Brún (Phil Brown) @Malachians]

Constantly threatening your employees with the sack, withdrawing their previously agreed benefits and treating them as nothing more than a commodity does tend to lead to disgruntled staff who are only too happy to leak about their employer. I have an idea that would work better than another threatening email if they want to reduce leaks

[The 1958 @The__1958]

Some seem to have difficulty understanding what we are protesting about 🤷‍♂️

Let’s clear it up.

- Glazer ownership (the root cause) ✅ ✅
- The trajectory of the club (we can see it and it will not end well) ✅
- The contempt shown to fans (no communication, secret gagged meetings) ✅
- INEOS assault on fans, charities, staff (penny wise pound foolish) ✅
- Removal of concessions (from those most vulnerable) ✅
- The eradication of fan culture (the working class who built football) ✅
- The attack on the very fabric of our club ✅

Signings ❌
Performances on the pitch ❌
Results❌

It’s time to rise up or turn off the lights.

We have been working for some time in the shadows on UNITY at a scale never seen before.

There have been battles down the years but the great war to save football is about to begin.

TOGETHER WE ARE EMPIRE

The 1958 🇾🇪

Music courtesy of our good pals over at @SpangledBand

[James Ryddel @kick_in_grass]

How can you the @premierleague have allowed this to happen? Prior to 2005, Man Utd was a debt free, cash rich club.

[Melissa Reddy @MelissaReddy_]

Manchester United’s biggest scale of financial waste still lies in the interest cost of the Glazer family's leveraged buyout (now over £1 billion), and the incredibly poor football decisions which have continued under INEOS’ charge.

Like keeping Erik ten Hag in the summer, spending circa £200m on players suited to his style, then £10.4m to sack him and his staff.

Paying around £3m to get Dan Ashworth, and £4.1m to axe him after 5 months.

Hiring Ruben Amorim and staff for £11m with a squad so ill-suited for their approach and no money for the kind of rebuild necessary.

Job cuts and ticket price hikes won’t cover the real problems.

[Chris Wheeler @ChrisWheelerDM]

MUST have drawn attention to several other key points:
🔴 Interest costs of Glazer buyout have now topped £1bn after further £18.8m payment
⚫️ Without extra £80m from Ineos, Utd would be down to £15m cash
🔴 Total debt now £731m plus over £300m in transfer fees owed #mufc

[Mark Goldbridge @markgoldbridge]

Fair play! Mainstream starting to wake up https://t.co/n6ur7DgbQn