Ravin Patel

Resident Doctor at Broomfield Hospital. // MUFC //

[PFA @PFA]

Bruno Fernandes is the PFA Players’ Player of the Year 🏆

Voted for by the players.

[Manchester United @ManUtd]

☎️ When Manchester United call, you don't think twice.

[Manchester United @ManUtd]

Dreams do come true.

@04Andrey is proof of that 🔏

[Ravin Patel @ravman_]

@muhammadbutt I imagine he'll come in as a starter and then will have to compete for his place. He's not a superstar that can demand to start every game. Plus with his injury record it makes sense to not run him into the dirt.

[Ravin Patel @ravman_]

@muhammadbutt Depth! hopefully close to 60 games next season, need two top players for each position. Mainoo/Tielemans, Santos + ??(Baleba/Kone)

[Manchester United @ManUtd]

Everyone is welcome at The Barbershop...

💈 @BMbeumo19

[90s Footballers @90sPlayers]

35 years ago today, Leeds and Man Utd kicked the shit out of each other 😂

[Ravin Patel @ravman_]

@theplantainshow Relegated to UEFA nations league B, qualified for the Euro 2024 and eliminated in R16, same as the last Euros. About par for the course for Austria. Qualified for the World cup, but in the greatly expanded 48 team tournament.

[Manchester United @ManUtd]

Club statement: Ruben Amorim.

[Ravin Patel @ravman_]

@AbdelBeheri https://t.co/IgjrsTN3p0

[Manchester United @ManUtd]

Bienvenue, Bryan 🫡

[Manchester United @ManUtd]

Our deepest condolences are with the loved ones of Diogo Jota and his brother, Andre, and everyone connected with Liverpool FC following today’s heartbreaking news.

[Manchester United @ManUtd]

This football club.

[☈ッ @TheFergusonWay]

People don't quite understand how insane this finish was.

[Manchester United @ManUtd]

Justice.

[John McMahon @JohnMcMah0n]

WHAT IS RAYA DOING 😂😂😂😂😂

[Manchester United @ManUtd]

David Moyes says #mufc must improve in a number of areas, including passing, creating chances and defending.

[The Tactixology @tactixology]

What Marcus Rashford had at United was a certain sense of purity and communal proximity pretty much gone from the professional game.

A throwback to the old days when local youngsters joined their local clubs and eventually grew into local heroes, scoring goals and helping poor kids on days off.

Not much value should be placed on nostalgia or nostalmania - such notions are often filled with forgery ans false memory - but in Rashford’s case, it was warm and pleasant, as nostalgia ought to be.

That dream was brutally destroyed, by the harsh realities of today’s football and today’s United: poor results, toxic fandom & the rage-baiting media complex.

They didn’t destroy the idea of Rashford despite his sense of purity; they destroyed it because of his sense of purity.

He was the perfect target for their cynical hot takes, engagement traps and reach boosters. Opposites naturally attract; nothing like dragging a decent man through vile mud.

And, yes, it was also destroyed by years of mishandling, misprofiling and miscoaching, robbing him of the opportunity to become the kind of a player he could have been.

Is he a perfect player? No. Is he a perfect player for Amorim’s game model? Doesn’t seem to be. In a pure footballing sense, the decision to sell works for both sides.

But on a broader cultural level, this represents a devastating defeat for Manchester United. And it’s a brutal verdict on how the club was ran for 10 years.

Clubs sell players. Club sell their academy players. Clubs even sell their best academy players. But not United. And not Rashford. With Rashford and United, it really wasn’t supposed to end this way.