A very emotional Gary Neville on Sky Sports after the game and a lively exchange with Jamie Redknapp.
āLook at me when Iām talking to youā
Lovely words of praise from Gary for Chairman Levy and what heās put in place at Tottenham and how thatās the type of ownership that Man U are crying out for.
Far too much heed payed to the opinion of former players alright. Rio firstly instrumental in helping Ole acquire a permanent deal and then working behind the scenes to bring āCR7 homeā. They could have Conte at the helm if it hadnāt been for G Nev saying he wasnāt a Man United style manager. Whatever that is these days. Imagine Liverpool hierarchy basing their decisions on the musings of Mark Lawrenson and Jamie Redknapp.
Back when Liverpool were at their lowest ebb, Gerrard and Carragher were instrumental in bringing in Hodgson and also pushed for Curbishley because Carraās missus wanted more English speaking wags to drink Lambrini with.
Well he was available all that summer and Man Utd didnāt have any interest in him until it looked like he would go to Man City so at best he was indifferent to it and the pursuit was led by people above him and other ex players
Ferguson left just as the age of mass social media narcissism and trolling had dawned.
Just as the GAA decided to make up rules and formats based on what loud idiots on social media were demanding, Manchester United is a club that has allowed itself to be ruled by the social media mob. Managers sacked and appointed and not appointed, players signed and sold or not signed, all because of what Twitter accounts with telephone numbers for names are saying, or on the say so of United menā¢ who get their views from Twitter accounts with telephone numbers for names.
Manchester United does not understand that a lot of the most vocal voices on social media about what should happen at the club actively want the club to fail and become a laughing stock. The club and now its own supporters are like the fanatical Trump supporters, the Brexiteers and āanti-wokeā cult in the US and Britain who donāt understand they have been fooled into cheerleading the destruction of their own countries by Russian active measures.
Manchester United is like a political party that believes in nothing, stands for nothing, and makes incoherent policy based exclusively on low quality polling and looking at social media.
It is a club that has been trolled to death, the brains of everybody at the club turned to mush for the last nine years. The thinking processes at the club are like a row of laptops with cracked screens lined up beside each other. Manchester United - like GAA championship formats - is The Homer - the car designed by Homer Simpson, the car designed to give everybody what they want, the car which bankrupted the fictional Detroit motor company which was to manufacture it.
Manchester United donāt know whether they are coming or going. It is a club where the owners, managers and players are like lemmings, and the supporters are both furious and completely apathetic, both completely on edge and completely numb.
Manchester United need to sack Erik Ten Hag NOW.
Manchester United need to back Erik Ten Hag to the hilt NOW.
Manchester United need to neither sack nor back Erik Ten Hag and instead fall deeper into the trap of confusion, paralysis and stagnation which has enveloped the club.
Its worth noting that while every club in the Premier League started an official Twitter account around 2009/2010, it was July 2013 before United entered the Twittersphere.
If The Boss hadnāt left thereās a fair chance United still wouldnāt have one
But united are just consistently underperforming their financial strength and spending every single year. In fairness to Neville he went some way to explaining the anti glazer thing as just a simple case of them being really really bad at running the club (or hiring the right people to run the club) rather than any lack of spending which obviously isnāt the case.
Woodward was a great man to sell pillowcases and arrange official tractor partners but should never have been let near footballing matters. Think it was his first summer in charge when they both Fellaini for more than the release clause and a load of imposters were negotiating with Herrera.