This is the Manchester United the Glazers have built. They have destroyed the club, leeched on its soul for 21 years until now, with Sir Jim Ratcliffe, what is left?
For Omar Berrada & Jason Wilcox, what are the repercussions, the accountability? The antithesis of Best in Class.
Manchester United on the pitch are a product of their environment. No investment in elite coaching - whether it is tactical or fitness & conditioning - a manager & his players are expected to succeed in spite of the toxicity that swirls through the club from the top down. Poison.
Bruno Fernandes is not, and was never, the problem. He was one of the few things stopping this from happening to Manchester United, but he couldn't do it forever. This is a reminder of how bad the club would be & will be without him. Too many have taken him for granted.
Ethan Ampadu wasn't booked, Bruno Fernandes (rightly) booked seconds later for a lesser challenge.
Meanwhile, this should probably be a red card for Gabriel Gudmundsson. Darren England's handling so far has been horrendous, letting it get out of control.
Nearly half a billion spent this summer after City were informed of the verdict in July, multiple controversial refereeing decisions & a team two decades of financial doping in the making.
What a farce they’re allowed to play. Not a some plucky underdog, just a bunch of cheats.
We had a quality chant for Elanga, they came out with that godawful boys in blue. We have quality chant for Mainoo, and then they do this. Any danger of them ever having a shred of originality 🧐The only thing they haven’t copied off us is winning trophies in the last 50 years.
The Stretford End will display an updated version of the flag counting the years since Man City last won a trophy.
The flag first appeared in 2000, bearing the inscription “24 YEARS” — marking the time since City’s previous trophy, the League Cup in 1976. It was removed after City won the FA Cup in 2011, when the counter had reached “35 YEARS”.
The new version now reads “51 YEARS”, disregarding the trophies Man City have won since their takeover, following the PL's announcement that the club had been found guilty of breaches [@AndyMitten]
English football’s biggest transfer spenders by decade:
60s: Everton
70s: Everton
80s: Man United
90s: Newcastle
00s: Chelsea
10s: Man City
20s: Chelsea
…but Manchester United are the club financial rules were built to restrain?
#BlueBlackWhiteCarTel
These continued references by Man City to ‘the opinion’ of the commission are weird.
You mean an independent legal panel of experts who spent years poring over thousands of pages of evidence and listened to a host of witnesses.
This is genuinely mental.
He’s already “intervening” by coming out to publicly back the state owners who have made a laughing stock of English football for 15 years.
Embarrassing stuff.