KetsbaiaIsBald

I don’t think being disappointed about the season is at all knee jerk or half empty glass. We’ve emotionally been put through it a bit this year and after the highs of last year it’s hard to take. We’ve had: - tonali ban - injuries - champions league draw - dodgy last minute penalty agains psg - losing against Liverpool against 10 men when a player who can’t score finds 10 minutes of form - being half an hour or so from champions league group qualification to lose it then also miss out on going into the uefa cup - league cup draw - fa cup draw - being minutes away from getting though against Chelsea to lose on penalties - losing director of football - new director of football turning us down - thinking we would get Europe not getting Europe as city lose their first game in 30 odd - no sponsorship deals - no news on new training ground - no news on st James Next year I’d just like a bit of luck. Not losing any big names. Some decent signings and not losing out on our targets. Some progress off the field. And something to celebrate.

I fucking hate football. man United are shite. Yet have two trophies in a couple years and we have nothing in my lifetime.

Man City must hate the fact we need them to win therefore jinxing their double.

It took them 9 months to investigate and the first one was in 2022. There could still be an investigation open on Tonali for his Villa one for all we know.

I guess us finding out the reason for Ashworth's arbitration may have motivated us to go looking for emails etc. So him being a dick could well have triggered something far worse for him as he should now be personally open to being sued.

Worked for me maybe it relies on someone with an account having done it. This full article was cached 4 hours ago for me.

Use https://archive.ph/

The club directly contacts the fans. Season ticket holder and members. Have a third tier if needed. Emails. I'd also like the club to have a government style question/petition thing. If you ask a question and it gets enough votes then it's discussed in a meeting and replied to. Maybe there are better ways to do this. But there has to be ways that the club and fans can communicate without a middle man.

100% agree. The club should set up better direct channels of communication with the fan (and to be fair they are tying). All the trust is a way to give a few people views more perceived weight to the club as in theory they are representing 10,000 members. Ultimately they are not though. When pressing issues like ticketing for the final occur they express their own opinions. They did not get the opinions of the members. I think an organisation like the trust can be useful when there is a breakdown between the club and its fans. If the club are not actively trying to engage with the fans. But to be honest when we were in that situation the trust position themselves as “not a protest group”. They did very little to help with Ashley(I doubt anyone could have) and when they had a meeting with the Premier league they were utterly useless. I appreciate that the members of the trust board may well be trying their best but the entire organisation should just be dissolved.

the club being inert could be true as well. I’m just hoping there is a reason for it. My thinking is the advantage could depend on how the deal is paid. If it was all upfront then getting that on first of ffp would leave it in the ffp tolling 3 year period for an extra year.

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I hope we’re playing possum. If we were really close breaking the rules I think we would have announced training ground and kit sponsors to put us in the green this year. My hope is that there is advantage to announcing these and getting the first payments in the next 3 year rolling period. I’m thinking that if signed something now and got a big payment it would put us in the green ffp wise by a big margin which wins you nothing. On a three year rolling period this would also drop out sooner. I’m thinking if you sign a 2 year 11 month deal right at the start of the ffp financial year it could be a win. I’m not an accountant so could be off. But I just can’t think of any other reason why we’ve not maximised all income streams yet. If we sign some straight after I think that will show this is thinking true.

in a position like his you’ve got to be an idiot to think if you send am email like that and it wont end up in the public domain. He could have achieved the same by talking to heads of departments and allow those people to sort the situation. So he’s either an idiot or he chose to send it knowing it would be leaked.

time will tell but I do feel like Man Utd fans are feeling about Ratcliffe like we did when Ashley took us over. We were desperate for change. Money was being leeched from our club. Ashley came in and made the right noises. Anything he did was praised. Then reality sunk in and we realised what we really had. There are so many red flags with Radcliffe that are just being ignored and even being celebrated (especially by amphibians). Man Utd have all of the advantages and anything less than consistent year on year title and Europe contention should be seen as failure. Let’s see what the situation is in a couple years.

I’m watching the game back now. He did keep it in. Then played it off a player for what would have been a corner. Maybe it’s my ignorance of the rules but I didn’t think a ref could stop play and give a free kick to a team for a dive.

I’m sure the commendation said something like they only had 1 player from their championship team. We had 2 on the bench from ours and one came on as a sub.

Did he stop the game to book Wilson? I thought he’d might have kept it in after getting up.

Ref was the biggest wet blanket, waste of space, soft wanker, useless cunt without making howlers I've seen in a while. No doubt in my mind he's a cuckold.

On 90 minutes 4-4 is fair. If we'd snatched it 5-4 I'd have loved it but genuinely would have felt bad for Luton fans. They deserved something today. But If we'd been set up right and been more composed we'd have won easily. Such a frustrating day.

if only we had a wing back with pace.

He set up Burn up to fail today. I love Burn, but play him when it fucking makes sense. This is the first time I've been proper annoyed with Howe.

FFP will save them ? The pattern of debt combined with on field failure has done this to so many clubs. Once money stops coming in the debt cannot be managed and it’s a downward spiral. I don’t see this ever being addressed.

It looks like FIFA got their wish of capping agent fees in the end.

All I noticed is playing out from the back we play some short balls now that initially make me shit myself. Then they reach a player in massive amounts of space.

I’m so glad we didn’t get Tielemans. I’ve never seen him have a good game.