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would usually agree but 'm not sure about that with last season. How many times did we score 4 or more? standard of defences in last years EPL was dreadful. Those last two games were comical.
Sarah Winterburn and her salty tears...
Morata? Belotti? Just go big and flash for Harry... - Football365
Morata? Belotti? Just go big and flash for Harry... - Football365
- Forbes rich list, Manchester United are worth £2.86bn; Tottenham are worth £821m.
Five years ago, had the latter, poverty-stricken (in comparison) club boasted the Premier League’s most prolific striker, who had won two successive Golden Boots and proved himself rather more than a one- or two-season wonder, Sir Alex Ferguson would have made absolutely damned sure that the player in question either became a Manchester United footballer or was at least knocked worryingly off his stride like the tired steeplechaser who catches the final hurdle.
He would have promised £200,000 a week where there was £100,000 a week, first place where there was second place, a cabinet full of trophies where there was none. Ferguson would have criss-crossed the line between charm and bullying until he got what he wanted. Robin van Persie was reluctant but ultimately powerless in 2013; he left the club and manager he loved and yet he would never regret his decision. The streets of Manchester were – as promised – paved with gold.
As Ferguson watches on in the summer of 2017 as United are reportedly told that the price for Real Madrid substitute Alvaro Morata is £78m and that Andrea Belotti would cost even more, is he not saying the words “just bloody go for Harry Kane” over and over again. What is the point in being the richest club in the world if you cannot make an uncomfortably large offer for the leading striker in the Premier League? What’s the point of being worth £2.86bn if you are not willing to bid £100m (or 3.5% of your worth) for the prolific striker you desperately need? Be brash, be boorish, be the rich kid who thinks they can buy anything and anybody with money.
The eye-watering figures may now be much bigger but Ferguson was accused of overpaying for Van Persie and for Dimitar Berbatov before him; did he care or did he just add shiny trophies to an already greedy collection? Were he still in charge, he would be sanctioning three-figure bids to remind Tottenham that they may have finished second and they may play ‘better’ football but lads, it’s still only Tottenham.
The bids would likely fail – at least this summer with season tickets to sell for Wembley – but even the most loyal of footballers would start to daydream of a different life, especially if the season does not start at a canter, or if other teammates leave, or if fans get impatient when you start the season slowly. Kane does not look like the kind of man to let questions whirl around his head at night, but ‘somebody was going to pay £100m for little old me’ is a pretty powerful thought to shift.
So why are we hearing about Morata (far better than some sniffy Manchester United fans would suggest but still lacking the pedigree to suggest he can lead the line) and Belotti (promising but still has only 18 prolific months to justify his extortionate fee) but very little of Kane, who has scored a ridiculous number of goals over three seasons in England? Why has that trail gone quiet when United should be screaming ‘we’re bigger than you’?
It’s unfathomable that anybody would think that Manchester United could somehow do better than Kane, so why not very publicly and very brazenly give him and his chairman something to ponder? Make Daniel Levy visualise how much of a stadium that money could buy. Make Kane visualise himself lifting a trophy. Create doubts, create fear, create a sense of inevitability that United can become a force again.
Sarah Winterburn
What absolute Bollocks, the most self entitled bunch of fans in sport.
From a look at her twitter she says she has fallen heads over heels for Sanchez. So she's a fecken gooner troll. And probably a maggoty one, come to that, eh
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She is actually right (aside from some of the snide throwaways). Yanited can afford any player in the World and Kane is one of the best strikers in the world.
What she fails to acknowledge of cause is it's been 10yrs since Yanited have taken one of our players, failed to acknowledge that Yanited have been unsuccessful in previous attempts to bring him in (they have been linked to him for 2 years now), she fails to mention another failed attempt to get McDermott to head up their academy, failed to mention their failed advances towards Lloris, Rose and Dier. And who could forget their attempts to get Poch, well apart from her of course.
She also fails to acknowledge the pauper team has finished above this drunk and gluttonous joke of a club, the past two seasons, playing attractive winning football whilst achieving that. A club that has been going about it's business quietly for a number of years now, one that has moved out of a tiny training ground to one of the best in the world and soon to move into one of the best stadiums in World football. A club that has been slaying old ghosts against once bogey teams.
She also fails to acknowledge that Yanited have been spending their way out of their stupor for 4 seasons now and with every transfer window they have got worse, not better, now falling 17 points behind the poverty stricken club. So, maybe, just maybe Kane and our other players and management do not see Yanited as an attractive destination.
Maybe she should take her head out of her arse, come up for air and see that the landscape has shifted. It's 2017 not 2000's.
Our u18's boss, McKenna
Who took over? McDermott?
No one permanent as far as I am aware (might have used u20's coach, Matt Wells, who is Cliff Jones grandson). Kenny Jacket came in for a few months but has now just left having taken the Portsmouth managers job and not sure of what his exact remit was. So ultimate responsibility was McDermott.
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What a deplorable piece of Journalism.
I normally quite respect football365 as well, apparently she's the editor of 15 years.
You would think that someone of that generation would condemn the advocacy of "wealth over all" in modern football, but i suppose Utd are so desperate to be back on their pedestal that they'll piss over any morals they once had, even letting Jose bore them all the way to a couple of trophies.
Also, never mind the fact that as a woman working in football she should appreciate what its like to try and infiltrate an old boys club.
"Its not fair daddy, i want the shiniest one!! Buy it for me now or i'll scream and scream and scream"
Maybe, rather than screaming "wah its not fair we're not the best anymore" she should be encouraging Utd to start generating great players of their own once again.
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"He would have promised £200,000 a week where there was £100,000 a week, first place where there was second place..."
Serious typo. She meant to write that he was being offered sixth place where there was second place.
Serious typo. She meant to write that he was being offered sixth place where there was second place.
Paul fat disgusting mess of a man Merson trying to flog Kane off again because he's scared how good we can become.
I hope he has a horrifying death, of which I shall celebrate fully.
I hope he has a horrifying death, of which I shall celebrate fully.
He will never get the recognition for his all around play because of how he looks, because he's tall they think he is a lump, he's fast, strong, can score from anything at any angle & his all round play is fantastic, some of the flicks he does to ease it to a play on the other side of the pitch is phenomenal.
