Manchester United Thread 25/26 - Teamtalk/Transfers/Gossip Mod Note in OP 26.09.24

I assume it is now ok to say that United, could, should and will beat Forest and Spurs?

Those 3 wins in a row, have given us some breathing space. We're bang in the top 4/5 battle. Winning every game wins you the title, no one has that expectation right now (I always do, but won't be looking for his head if we don't).

2 points a game from here gets us Champions League, that's surely the target, a point or even a loss away to Spurs doesn't derail that.

Let's all take a breath and give the team a bit of space!

Well if That's your opinion I guess it's time to admit you misjudged the manager and shouldn't have been saying he was not up for the job after a month, brave to say you were wrong about that after being so vocal about it for so long

That's the way it works alright. The team expected to win always does in the Premier League.

Will I answer now or wait for the other two lads to repeat this?

It’s okay to say they COULD, not so sure about SHOULD but definitely not okay to say WILL beat those teams because sport doesn’t work like that. If it did the punters would get rich instead of the bookies. Does this have to be explained to you every week?

Only catching up now

Tbh we SHOULD be beating Forest but we all know how football is, Spurs I'd snap your hand off for a point.

There's strong rumour that the outcome of the City charges is imminent. Imo there's a fairly high chance that they will be found guilty on many of them and hammered. Much of the evidence is out in the public and smoking gun stuff, the reason why they've been able to get away with it for so long is because they've successfully dragged it out with legal challenges (which is running out of road now). I'm sure that's having a knock on effect as to why the panel is taking so long to produce the report. If you were on the panel, you'd know full well that City will try to find any angle they could to drag it out further with legal challenges, so it's understandable that the panel would preempt this and take more time with the report and ensure it's as watertight as possible.

It'll make qualifying for the top 5 much easier if justice is done anyway.

Is there a reputable source saying the announcement is imminent? Even if they are found guilty, they will appeal for another 5 years.

Completely disagree with all of the above.

The PL's reputation would be shredded if they don't throw the book at City because there are many precedents of hefty points deductions for clubs who have only committed a tiny fraction of offenses compared to the scale and seriousness of the City charges. Imo there's virtually no chance they'll be found not guilty because of the smoking gun evidence that exists and also little chance that they could only be given a slap on the wrist. It'll be severe. They've been able to obfuscate and drag things out legally so far, because that's what extremely wealthy entities do. But their problem is that the PL itself is also an extremely wealthy entity and they've pursued this for years, and haven't been scared off by the sheer costs and time consuming nature of the legal obfuscation. They'll see it through now they've come this far.

I want the titles stripped so that I can then say that aguero moment is meaningless cheating.

I hope the book is thrown at them but I find it hard to see that happening in reality considering how important their money is to the UK generally. A financial penalty for financial cheating would be ridiculous though, just lets them use more of their bottomless pit of money to escape genuine punishment.

I don't think the titles won should be given to anyone else either, a huge asterisk beside those wins will do for me. There should be serious sporting sanctions however for this season and also upcoming ones to properly reflect the (alleged) level of cheating that has occured.

I thought Inter got titles from that?