Manchester United Thread 25/26 - Teamtalk/Transfers/Gossip Mod Note in OP 12.02.26

That was my point, Villa have over the last few years moved up and improved year on year under Emery while we have stagnated.

The OP thinks Emery will leave because "united" and ignores the fact we've declined massively, I hope they do but we cant predict how INEOS will take us forward, how many times have we had false dawns? Players/Manager we all thought would bring us back to our best and yet here we are 12th in the table and finished 8th last year after spending millions again.

Also the issue I had with Mitch's original reply was he just went off and said

Sure why bother watching if its good to nna be rubbish forever?

Zero chance if things improving. Club doing nothing at all to try change. Oh well.

I never mentioned anything about not watching or that theres no chance of us improving I just pointed out to the OP that we aren't the "united" of old, so found his comment odd and tbh a tad antagonistic.

Emery is an excellent manager at getting his team to punch above their weight when they don't have huge expectations.
But he doesn't have the same CV when it comes to being a bigger team with expectations on their shoulders each game.

Those are different skill sets like it or not.

Let's be fair, Villa can drop points any week and overall everyone will still praise Emery (rightly so) when they are there or thereabouts in European places but when you are at a club like Utd that doesn't happen.
Every time Utd lose it's a mini crisis. The media are all over it.. It is scrutinised to a level that Villa couldn't even dream of.
Stories in every paper, every tweet, TalkSport, SKY, Podcasts etc…

The only top club run he had was with Arsenal and we are in a fairly similar situation to what Arsenal were in at the time.
Big club looking to improve but with some players on the books who are obviously not good enough. It didn't work out.

You could argue that he didn't get enough time or a fair shout but Arsenal weren't looking like they were going in the right direction under him.
Like I said I just think he has a different skill set.

I'd be very unconvinced and uninspired by his appointment.

Roughly between £20m-£25m I believe. A loss for us on what we paid but a hit we needed to take imo.

Ok you didn't get what I meant....

First of all I never said hes a worse signing than Sancho, secondly if he has been a relative failure at City (the best team in the league) how in Gods name would he do better at United?

Also Grealish is a LW, Sancho was signed for RW so we already had Rashford for LW.

And to be extra pedantic its only just over double not x10 😉

You'd forget sometimes that Grealish is already 29. He's halfway through his 6 year contract at City, he'll be 32 when it runs out.

Find it odd that Fletcher was on the bench v Brentford, and Gore on the bench vs Porto… and then today we name a travelling squad with only 3 midfielders, and neither youngster. Can have 12 on the bench and we are only bringing 9, including two sub keepers.

Grealish shouldn't be left wing. Should be in the hole like Bruno or Palmer. And in that position he is a really good player.

Didn't Barca want to sell him in the summer? Should have tried for him.

ETH's press conferences are turning into a parody. I got of bit of the recent one!

When asked how he felt about playing against Fred and Amrabat he replied along the lines… well, with Fred we won the Carabou Cup and with Amrabat, the FA Cup.

You almost have to admire his determination to ram home the 2 Cup wins at any and every opportunity 🤣

If he could get the team to be as creative and opportunistic, we would be flying.

Looking forward to seeing if we can show some backbone tonight in what is going to be a tricky one.

Also any half arsed connection like them passing each other in a corridor once upon a time.

Looking forward to the game tonight, it's certainly interesting one with the ex player manger links a game we should in reality be winning hopefully we see a start similar to the Porto game without the collapse. Be nice to actually get a handy win against a decent outfit it's been a while.

Also interesting to see how the team does without Bruno, just from the a novelty perspective

You couldn't be too confident for tonight considering United's recent abysmal record in Europe. Would be great to get a positive result and a decent performance but it's more in hope than anything else.