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21 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
If anybody tells you it is wrong to enjoy United's struggle at the moment because they will get it right eventually, tell them to fuck off.

They said the same when Moyes was sacked. When LVG was sacked. When Mourinho was appointed. When Josepipe was sacked.

Football is about
enjoying the moment. It is in the same miserable fucking way some people can't enjoy winning a match because it means nothing because we lost at West Ham, or need to beat xyz, etc...

You can't enjoy the ride in the UCL because it means nothing if you don't lift big ears.
Winning the trophy can't be enjoyed because we won't be lifting it again unless we strengthen the squad.

People want to find a just cause for you to stay miserable and fail to enjoy football because that is how they are.

So tell them to fuck off.
Pretty much through my entire school life and young adult life I had to watch United absolutely dominate English football. If they didn't win the league, they'd be second and win it next year. It was awful & you looked forward to a time when it was over.

And it is

So I enjoy it

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20 Nov
Thoughts on the XI?

Kinda what I was expecting given the fitness of Hendo, Jones, Robbo, etc.

It will be interesting here to see how the midfield plays without Hendo given a lot of people - myself included - have been very critical of him this season in that #8 role.
I love that 1% of our fanbase thinks the match will finish 7-0.

Behave! This isn't Ole's United we are facing here!
Bench is looking a little thin after the internationals. Origi, Hendo, Robbo all in the day-to-day category and should be back quick. Milner, Naby and Jones aren't far behind.

Still... I'll be delighted if Kaide Gordon can get some minutes in his boots here.
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20 Nov
He's done, isn't he?

Like I said when Moyes, LVG & Jose left... it is sad to see it come to an end. There will be fear they now get someone who breaks the cycle they are in. But given they are in the cycle not because of the manager, I'm doubtful changing the manager solves it.
It will probably be less shit than it is at present though for the immediate future.

And then either the stopping of that part of the rot aligns with them also addressing the bigger issues... or the rot will set in when the new guy realises he can't solve the problem alone.
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20 Nov
People talking about Leicester being poor. I always believe that a good team on top of their game will make other good teams look poor. You just shut down their entire gameplan. Sure... it is bad that Leicester and Rodgers had no solutions to the problem but I wouldn't

#LEICHE
use that to devalue Chelsea's win. Chelsea got their game plan right and had the mentality and ability to execute it. If you can do that you will make other sides look shit.

Do that consistently, you can be champions. They haven't this season - hence why underlying xG was used
to say they would regress. I always point out though that there is two conclusions to that story:-
1. Results regress towards underlying numbers.
2. Underlying numbers improve to align better with results.

If we are seeing the latter now, Chelsea become the favourites. But we
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5 Oct
The unescapable reality of the Salah situation is:-

- We need to give him a new deal
* but doing so may mean pay bumps across the board and we may end up no longer having revenue to cover our wages

- Or we sell him in the summer

- Or we lose him for free the following summer.
Those are literally the only 3 options and people making out like it is a simple thing and just give him whatever are perhaps not considering the knockon effect.

Do guys like Virg, Ali, Trent, Hendo etc have parity clauses in their contract. Maybe not to be the highest earner
but to say that they never earn <75% what the highest earner does.

And even if not, does it create a problem when you come to renegotiate with guys like Firmino & Mane and new signings in the future. Suddenly the upper limit in wages isn't 200k but 500k+.

Saying to Mane you
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5 Oct
People need to stop looking at the end and ask how to solve that problem.

Rather - start at the beginning and asked what caused the problem and how to avoid it.

Best way to fight fire is to prevent fire. If you are always fighting fires you get burned from time to time.
If Henderson is essentially starting fires in our midfield - and I honestly don't know a more apt way to describe what happened against City - then surely the onus is on finding a way to stop that happening rather than complain that Fabinho isn't great when in a forest fire.
If you have Fabinho in your time - you already KNOW he isn't a lateral player. So if you are putting him in a team where he has to cover laterally because the rest of the midfield get caught ahead of the ball it is just setting him up to fail.

Hence why I said you cannot play
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5 Oct
There is a narrative that Hendo was motm against Milan - and he just wasn't.

He was the match-winner for sure. But if I had to ask anybody to remember now what he did that match literally all you will remember is that goal - because that is how memory works. You remember those
big moments, particularly if they are anchored in a big emotion - the absolute joy of someone scoring a worldie to win a game. But that can't be literally the ONLY thing we consider judging motm.

And in truth he was the player who starts the chain reaction for us to
concede both goals. That isn't to say he is entirely at fault, or other players shouldn't have done better in their situations - just that his movement and positioning causes a collapse we never recover from.

First goal, he never presses the ball and the Milan player can take
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