🗣️THE WARNINGS AND THE TRUTH
Four years ago we warned where this was heading.
We warned about the marginalisation and eradication of generational match-going Reds. Nobody listened.
We warned about the Americanisation of our game. Nobody cared.
We warned that if Ratcliffe didn’t change direction, he’d become another Glazer in all but name.
Polls said give him more time.
So we did.
We even postponed a protest at Arsenal because fans wanted to give him more time. Again we got abuse.
That decision demotivated lads in The 1958 who have sacrificed years of their lives, time, money and energy fighting for this fanbase and never asked for a thing in return. Some lads had personal abuse. Not after sympathy, those are the facts.
We never asked for nothing in return. We always preferred to be pissing from the outside in. Stood shoulder to shoulder with you.
We have banged on about unity since day one.
And for the last 12 months we have spent an unbelievable amount of time trying to make it happen.
Meetings
Calls
Messages
Statements
Campaigns
Endless frustration
Meanwhile some fans wanted to be edgy.
Some said it wasn’t their fight.
Some thought it would never affect them.
Well look around now.
Ticket prices.
Season Ticket sanctions.
Long standing Reds treated like suspects.
Time served Reds receiving banning orders.
Concessions disappearing.
More hospitality.
More premiumisation.
A future built around revenue, not supporters.
The chickens have come home to roost.
We take no pleasure in saying it, but we have got far more right than wrong.
And we wish we hadn’t.
This was never about being proved right.
It was about stopping it before it happened.
So now the question is simple.
Are you finally United around what we have been warning about since the day we formed?
Wake up and smell the coffee.
This is your Club.
This is your fight all generations all ages.
Are you with us, or against us?
Time is running out fast.
STAND BY.
The 1958 🇾🇪
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COWARDS!
-Hired a manager with a different system to what they want. Won’t buy specifically for that system
-Witnessed shocking results, and didn’t sack him
-Forcing him to change his system, but won’t change the manager
-Won’t spend in January either.
Indecisive. Incompetent.
Understand there is growing tension between Ruben Amorim and Manchester United director of football Jason Wilcox.
Sources close to #MUFC say Wilcox would like Amorim to be more tactically adaptable, while the Manchester United boss is disappointed at the lack of planned activity in January having been told last year incomings were possible. Remains to be seen whether any senior arrivals come this month.🔴
🤝 @alex_crook
Ruben Amorim has raised doubts about his #MUFC future after putting himself on a collision course with sporting director Jason Wilcox and Old Trafford board.
Extraordinary outburst - felt very much like a back me or sack me ultimatum. It's been brewing
https://t.co/uQ4NVW1g1E
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2022/23 — 12 points after 7 games
2025/26 — 10 points after 7 games
In 22/23, United finished 3rd after getting humiliated 3 times in the first 7 games (Brentford, Brighton, City).
This is why I say it’s too early to talk about sacking the manager. You need at least 10 to 15 games to know how the season will go.
Based on the expectations for this year, this start of the season is not bad at all.
Only for United fans, being 6-7 points off 1st place is a tragedy. Such a reactionary fanbase.
During pre-season, a Sporting Lisbon fan reached out to me with confidence that Ruben Amorim would turn it around at Manchester United, highlighting his ability to turn a squad into fighters, a family.
I reached out to him today, asking him whether he was surprised about Amorim's stubbornness at United so far, shown through his inability to show any adaptation to his ways of playing football.
Here was his response:
"Hey Frank, I hope you are well. I am not shocked, even though I never thought it would be so hard for him to have the players doing the basics – but I knew it would be hard.
"Forget the stubbornness, that shouldn’t be your concern. Amorim changes a LOT in his teams – so many times last year we had just 2 in the back, or one of the centre backs going forward and acting like wingers, or one of the midfielders opening on a side to allow for one of the centre backs to go forward. He changes a lot but only once he sees the team are very comfortable with the basic patterns.
"The problem, though, is not this. I’ve said this after Grimsby, he gave up. He sees a team that can only be aggressive in big matches as Arsenal or Chelsea. I know him well and he said everything after that match – he feels he is not capable to make the team understand that they have to give everything in every single match, every little detail. So he gave up.
"I am absolutely confident that, if you guys sack him, he will have a lot of success elsewhere. He has a winner profile and knows a lot about football. The only mistake we’ve made (him and fans that know him well as I do) was to believe that he could make a team out of any group of players. He can’t. And I really can’t see who can make a team out of these United players.
"I don’t know United that well to be able to point the reason why this weak mentality is so prevalent there – I’ve been following Sporting every day for the last 27 years, it’s not the same with United. But I can tell it runs deep in the club. Too many years of bad football heritage.
"Also, you guys have a fanbase that is still not ready to accept being a mid-table team for a couple of years, but that’s what you guys are now.
"Little details (literally two penalties) would have put you in the 7th place now with Man City, but the fanbase is not ready to have the little details go wrong for long.
"Manchester United is huge, but history doesn’t win games and the size of the fanbase doesn’t win titles.
"I don’t think (at all) that he is setting you guys up to lose. I hate Dalot and even I think he should be able to know how to do the basics. Just as I love Bruno and I think he should be able to manage his emotions during the match. There are just too many little things to change. With no time to change them."