Phil Jones-Davies

Web developer at @SPORTSBIKESHOP. Opinions my own.

[SPORTSBIKESHOP.co.uk @SPORTSBIKESHOP]

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[Phil Jones-Davies @philjjd]

@SkunkAnansie Time travelling to Liverpool 🤣🤘

[The 1958 @The__1958]

The clubs Q2 24/25 financial results are out and as suspected. It’s grim reading.

1Billion paid to service debt repayments.

700m+ outstanding Glazer debt.

300m+ owed on transfers.

Surely this debt is the elephant in the room at board level?

Our club is financially spiralling into the abyss due to crippling debt repayments and 20 years of mismanagement.

We all know what the root cause of this. We have always known. Nothing has changed.

Governing and ruling bodies have been complicit and have failed us.

This financial burden not only limits our ability to invest in the squad, infrastructure, and community but also risk undermining the values and ambitions that define us.

Our commitment, since we started was to remove the Glazers and ensuring the future of the club remains bright and secure. This will never change.

Punishing fans who can least afford it with ticket price increases is not the answer.

The answer is the Glazers need to go!

YOUR DEBT NOT OURS!

Join us in protest on the 9th March before the Arsenal game.

The 1958🇾🇪

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@DarrenSladeCopy @ParamountPlusUK Today I was able to get in. Privacy message at start and a new login (following previous app re-install). Shocking that I’ve not received notification about this from Paramount+.

[Phil Jones-Davies @philjjd]

@ParamountPlusUK logged in tonight for the series finale of Frasier and have been greeted with a cookie prompt. It will not close when I have a save settings, so I cannot watch anything 😤

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[Phil Jones-Davies @philjjd]

@TenHagEra Don’t get that kind of analysis from mainstream media in the UK.

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@UnitedStandMUFC United KO vs Liverpool

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@GolfClashGame Still waiting for this…

[Phil Jones-Davies @philjjd]

@markgoldbridge Don’t get me wrong we need Bruno, but I could see INEOS thinking that he’s our most saleable asset and as such, cash in as we have players who could play his position. Fits with everyone for sale, unless you’re young and masses of potential.
This is why we wanted #FullSaleOnly

[TRA - The Red Army (MUFC) @TraMufc]

Sir Jim, if you care about the match going fans (and proper Utd everywhere), you’ll stand by our manager. We want him to stay, do the right thing. 🙏🇾🇪

[Phil Jones-Davies @philjjd]

@markgoldbridge We need him to stay, but the way he’s been treated, if he “walked” I’d back his decision.

[Phil Jones-Davies @philjjd]

@SkySportsF1 Typo in the post. Session should be season. Clear why @LewisHamilton is leaving.

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@GolfClashGame From College Chaos 9-hole cup #SOTW

[Henry Winter @henrywinter]

Plenty of understandable positivity emanating from Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s involvement with #MUFC. Acting quickly, appointing good operators in Berrarda and, eventually, Ashworth, consulting Sir Alex Ferguson, talking to staff, supporters and media. Sir Dave Brailsford is an attentive figure at games, seeing the strengths and flaws in the team, squad and culture. So far, so good. Ratcliffe and Brailsford engage well. Here’s five of the main other issues they need to address…

NEW TRAFFORD. Take Old Trafford down and build a new stadium on expanded site. Renovation pointless. New era needs a modern, state-of-the-art, architecturally stunning, 90,000 stadium. Statement of intent, the regeneration game. The best stadium in the country is the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, shoehorned elegantly into a far tighter site. Brilliant for Spurs fans – look at the rake of the South Stand – and for the lucrative corporate clientele and money-spinning other events. United could do that, and even bigger. But please don’t dare call on taxpayers’ money, beyond any legitimate sporting grants. The public subsidising a billionaire tax exile and distant US owners during a cost-of-living crisis in a tribal world like football? Wrong. “Wembley of the North” narrative is misleading. It’s different to Wembley; New Trafford is a club enterprise. Plus build a Munich Museum adjacent, open every day, having carefully re-located the clock and all the powerful images and artefacts from the Munich Tunnel.

MANAGER. Back Erik ten Hag. There’s been too much turnover. Support him with words, patience, players, and more elite staff. He’s a good manager, desperate to succeed, did well last season, and trying to bring discipline to a dressing-room in need of it. He gives youth a chance, Garnacho, Mainoo etc. But please get Ten Hag to lighten up a bit so players warm to him more. He comes across as solemn, earnest. Of course he’s totally focused on the team but could still show his more personable side. I had a private chat with him on the terrace adjacent to players’ canteen at Carrington once and he told a very good joke, slightly against himself. He’s very likeable. Be good to see more of that. A manager’s personality matters as well as tactical and man-management substance.

LEADERS. The first training session of one of the current United squad was greeted critically by two of those present. “Not strong enough for United,” they told each other. There’s too much of that with this squad. All recruitment should now focus on player ability but also character. United need leaders, strong characters, responsibility-takers on and off the field. Leaders. Bruno Fernandes is a fine footballer but not a true captain. Moans too much. As well as improved incoming, some outgoings essential for PSR and squad balance/strength. Sancho, Martial have to go. Antony has yet to deliver consistently. Eriksen, probably, too.

GLAZERS. Impossible to laud Ratcliffe fully until he buys the rest of United and gets rid of the Glazers. If he is truly a fan, as the Failsworth-born billionaire says, and truly wants the best for this famous club, as he clearly does, Ratcliffe has to have a plan and pathway for the Glazers’ exit. He has to understand the depth of loathing for the Glazers, most powerfully on the Stretford End. Glazers' presence, a shameful symbol of debt and dividend, is embarrassing for a club of United’s history and stature. Glazers may want to stay, as Ratcliffe will get the football operation going properly, and they will make even more money. Pity. Ratcliffe will be embraced fully when he gets #Glazersout.

MASON GREENWOOD. Sell. Whatever happened - and what was heard on that tape cannot be unheard - bringing Greenwood back would cause too many problems. Protests and distractions, endless negative headlines and opposing chants, as well as the very obvious moral debate. Ratcliffe has to be quite clear on this, and not repeat the blurred comment the other day. United cannot countenance Greenwood’s return. He’ll never play for England again, even if he moves to Barcelona and excels. Greenwood denied wrongdoing but said in his statement that he accepted he made mistakes and “take my share of responsibility for the situations which led to the social media post”. Returning is not in his interests either. Good player, doing well in Spain, good luck to him and his partner and their child, but it’s time for both parties to move on. United should invest what fee they receive in the academy.

So good luck to Ratcliffe. He has plenty to do at United. He also has plenty of energy and expertise with which to do it.

[Phil Jones-Davies @philjjd]

@currys Interstellar would be simply epic #CurrysLGOLED

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@footballontnt @FIFAcom have heard of the #ClimateCrisis right?

[Mark Goldbridge @markgoldbridge]

So they forgot to tell the Ref it was onside then the rules are they can't tell him once the game restarts....yeah get rid of all of them. No clue about football at all