Paul Talbot

[Mark Goldbridge @markgoldbridge]

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[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

This is what evil looks like

[Added Time @AddedtimeX_]

🚨 Ruud van Nistelrooy on the difference between Amorim and Carrick:

🗣️ Van Nistelrooy: “Amorim and Carrick were given two completely different jobs. And only one of them is being asked to do something difficult.

Amorim was brought in to implement a style of play. To reset habits. To build structure. To change the identity of the team. That takes time. It also costs points in the short term. And United fans hate that. They want results now and a process later. They always have.

Carrick, on the other hand, is here for six months with one clear objective: get United into the Champions League. Nothing more. Nothing less. No identity. No project. Just points.

Short-term coaching is about maximising what you have. Long-term coaching is about building something that lasts. That’s why Carrick can collect more points with the same players Amorim was trying to rebuild. Because he doesn’t care how it looks. He just cares that it works.

Amorim refused to take the easy route. Sitting deep. Playing safe. Chasing quick fixes. He stuck to the process even when it hurt him. And they sacked him for it. Or they let him leave. Same thing.

Some fans look at the table. Others look at the direction. United fans only look at the table. They always have. And then they wonder why nothing ever changes.

That’s the difference.

One manager was asked to change how the club thinks. The other was asked to get results before the end of the season. And right now, only one of those jobs is being judged by the points on the board. The other one is already forgotten.

People will say Carrick is getting more out of the same squad. Fine. But what is he actually getting? A few more points? A temporary climb up the table? And then what? The same players, the same habits, the same problems waiting for the next manager.

Amorim was trying to fix that. He was trying to make them uncomfortable. To make them press. To make them play out from the back. To make them understand that winning the ball high up the pitch matters more than sitting deep and hoping for a counter.

United fans called it naive. They called it stubborn. They said he was too wedded to his ideas. And when the results didn’t come fast enough, they turned on him.

Now they have a manager who will do whatever it takes to pick up points. And they’re happier. For now.

But the table doesn’t lie about the long term either. If you keep choosing the short-term fix, you keep ending up in the same place. Near the bottom. Looking for the next man to save you.

Carrick might get them into the Champions League. He might not. Either way, the problems Amorim was trying to solve will still be there when he leaves.
And United will be looking for another manager who can fix them. Again.

That’s the cycle. And until the club decides it wants more than short-term points, it will keep repeating.”

[life @iamnotfriendly1]

Amorim was given 5 players in 3 windows. Sesko, mbeumo, lammens, Cunha, and dorgu.

Carrick has been given 4 in one window. Baleba, tielemans, Santos and darlow.

Amorim came into the club in the middle of a season where the club was already 14th and finished 15th. He met an attack of gernacho, hojlund, Anthony and 9.5. The following season he left the club 6th position and 3 points off top four by January.

Carrick met the club in 6th and took them to third and it was tagged miracle work. Started his full season the club has its worst start in 40 plus years, no wins in 2 months, 2 wins in 11 or twelve games against ipswich town and Sabah. Every newly promoted team has more wins and points then them and united is 17th by October already.

I swear if he met the attack of hojlund and gerncaho in the middle of a season we were 14th I swear on my life we will end that season in. A legit relegation scap and lord have mercy if we would have survived.

One is regarded as the worst manager and the other is pampered and given standing oversion after disgraceful displays

[Melissa Reddy @MelissaReddy_]

‘Michael Carrick will be given time to turn things around’ and ‘the hierarchy do not want to rush next steps’ should be read and digested for what it really is: an indecisive club without any succession planning or contingencies because it doesn’t have clarity of identity in the first place. A club that often takes the cheap instead of the smart or right route because of the crippling Glazer debt, plus decision-makers who are never aligned - except in their own self-preservation. And it ends up costing more.

It explains the chaotic nature of lurching from one coaching philosophy to its extreme, to revisiting candidates that were on the agenda - some as far back as 2019 - that were already ruled out, to having a shortlist of options with nothing in common to take over a mishmash team that has suffered from horrid squad planning; both in incomings and exits.

Blame the players, blame the name in the dugout while the people who brought them to Manchester United, kept them, created the absolute opposite of a culture of excellence are allowed to rinse and repeat.

[J Stewart @triffic_stuff_]

🔥WATCH THIS: Kaveh Solhekol absolutely TORCHED Jim Ratcliffe on @SkySportsNews! He’s to blame. Full stop.

Solhekol didn’t hedge or soft-soap it. He laid out exactly how Ratcliffe’s arrival, buying only 29%, bailing out the Glazers, and seizing control of football operations, has wrecked the club.

He was ruthless in his assessment:

“I’m going to tell you who’s to blame for this situation at the moment. The person to blame is Jim Ratcliffe. He bought the club almost three years ago. He bought 29% of it, when the Glazer family put the club up for sale. He didn’t buy the whole club, he only bought 29% of it. And by buying 29%, it meant that the Glazers stayed in place and Jim Ratcliffe got to run the football operations.”

That’s the original sin. He didn’t clean house. He just propped up the Glazers.

Then the arrogance of the man who thought he knew better:

“He’s come in and he said, ‘I know better than anyone else how to run this club. We’re going to do things my way’. And look what it’s turned out to be over the past two and a half years.”

The managerial mess followed immediately:

“First of all, he said, ‘I’m going to back Erik ten Hag. We’ve been chopping and changing managers too much’. Then he went off and started meeting Thomas Tuchel and any other manager who was available behind Erik ten Hag’s back.”

“When they couldn’t find somebody else, they gave Ten Hag a new contract and money to spend. A couple of games later, Ten Hag loses his job.”

“In the middle of the season, they beg Ruben Amorim to come to United. He doesn’t even want to go there in the middle of the season, he wants to wait until the summer. They pay a fortune to get him, even though he plays three at the back, a totally different kind of football.”

“Dan Ashworth doesn’t want him. Dan Ashworth leaves, Ruben Amorim comes in, they go all in on Ruben Amorim. That doesn’t work out. They get rid of him.”

“They bring in Carrick as an interim. Okay, results are better. Then they give him the full-time job.”

And then the transfer policy that locked the club into mediocrity:

“In the meantime, Ratcliffe has come in and said, ‘We’re going to do things my way. No player is going to get paid 250, 300 grand a week here anymore. That’s not going to happen. We’re not going to sign any players for more than 60, 70 million pounds’.”

“‘So Mateus Fernandes, Elliot Anderson, Harry Kane, Declan Rice, all these players, we ain’t going to be signing them. And also, we’re only going to be signing players with Premier League experience. And we’re going to sign forwards one window, then the following summer we’re just going to sign midfielders, then next summer we’re just going to sign defenders’.”

“So this is Jim Ratcliffe’s way of doing things. So he is to blame for this situation.”

He’s right. Ratcliffe rode in as the saviour and has made things measurably worse. It was a mistake from the start and I said so at the time. It was NEVER going to work. The only people who benefited were the Glazers. I’m still surprised so many fans backed this and thought it could succeed.

Kaveh just laid bare how damaging Ratcliffe has been for Manchester United. And unfortunately, there’s no end in sight.

[Stretford Post @StretfordPost]

More balls than most of our ex players well said @SkyKaveh 👏

[Rami Elghandour @RamiElghandour]

This is Israel. This is Zionism

[Martien 🇳🇱 @MartienBall]

This cannot be real because Tacticos on this app told me the inverted CB was the worst thing ever, a back 3 formation doesn’t work, and United being top three for goals scored, chances created and xG was all just LUCK.

Just look at how well United are doing now that they’ve been proven right about everything and we’re finally back to playing with a back 4 and the famous “United DNA” football.

[Terry Flewers @terryflewers]

Rangnick, Ronaldo, & Amorim were all kicked out the club for calling out the owners, Martinez will be kicked out as well. Fans have called the Glazers out for years, finally the players are doing the same. Back Martinez and push for more, the club can’t bury it!

[Martien 🇳🇱 @MartienBall]

He’s not under fire. He has the support of THE ENTIRE FANBASE.

All the noise is coming from sell-outs who don’t want to lose their paychecks from INEOS.

[Melissa Reddy @MelissaReddy_]

Lisandro Martinez putting the pressure where it should ultimately be, on the ownership and hierarchy at Manchester United for their decision-making and the direction of the club.

He is correct in saying that the performances have been “a reflection” of the club itself and that accountability stretches well beyond who is in the dugout plus the players.

There can be no argument that the squad is lacking depth, quality, balance and the right profiles.

He also nails it in terms of cycling through managers, but not having any question marks over what’s happening upstairs.

United openly interviewed around Europe for Erik ten Hag’s successor, only to keep him and arm him with new coaches and circa £200m in players before sacking him and his staff for £10.4m.

They hired Ruben Amorim despite knowing the squad - which they allowed EtH to shape - was so ill-suited to his approach. They were very aware Amorim was unwavering on his philosophy and promised to persevere with both him and it.

Only to then try to dictate style, system and selections to him. They stuck with Michael Carrick only to sell him very short.

Let’s not forget the big, long play to the tune of £3m to get Dan Ashworth, before paying £4.1m to axe him after five months.

If the performances on the pitch are a mess, they speak to the state of play off the pitch.

[Terry Flewers @terryflewers]

I really wish people would listen to what Martínez is actually saying instead of twisting it into another attack on Carrick or the players. He supports the manager. He doesn't publicly turn on his teammates.

What he's highlighting is that United needed greater squad depth, and that raises a much bigger question: why wasn't the squad properly equipped for the demands of this season?

[Ariana Jasmine @arianajasmine__]

You are genuinely sick in the head if you still defend this

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

You can hear the cries of a little girl. The daily horrors from Gaza never stopped.

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

"Small children were killed with their hands tied behind their backs."

ISRAEL IS EVIL!

[Martien 🇳🇱 @MartienBall]

The character assassination from the club has already begun BUT WE WILL NOT ALLOW IT.

HE DIDN’T SAY THIS. HE SAID WHAT LITERALLY EVERY PLAYER IS THINKING. They think they can win this battle with PR but we’re not that stupid.

INEOS, YOU ARE SHIT. YOU ARE CLUELESS. AND YOU ALL NEED TO PISS OFF.

[Prof Zenkus @anthonyzenkus]

A 33 year old Palesrinian mother burns to death as her little daughter watches in horror as Israel continues to bomb Gaza.

Did she have a right to exist?

[The Saviour @TheSaviour]

You don't hate Israel enough

[liam cunningham @liamcunningham1]

This is Zionism