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  1. Tangles

    **Official** English Football Season 2025/26

    I’m waiting for the end of window to see if they stick to their guns on not doing last minute sales at lowball prices. I can’t see them wanting to have no sales despite what they say publicly.
  2. Tangles

    **Official** English Football Season 2025/26

    Saw United at MB on Sunday and Bruno was easily the best player I saw all day and it wasn’t close. The biggest issue I saw was the midfield. Ugarte is slow, can’t carry the ball or pass. I didn’t realize it until then but he’s a worse version of Fred. Mainoo also isn’t fast so them together...
  3. Tangles

    **Official** English Football Season 2024/25

    The glazers had issues selling because they didn’t understand that the market sets the rate. You don’t get the 90 you paid for Sancho if no one but you thinks he’s worth that. Simple stuff.
  4. Tangles

    **Official** English Football Season 2024/25

    Any smart team that knows they need cash will low ball at best. More likely to ask for loans or just wait till the end of the window and figure United might panic. The Glazers would definitely panic at the end of a window. Be interesting to see what Ratcliff does.
  5. Tangles

    **Official** English Football Season 2024/25

    Glazers want that money. Didn’t even give them a summer break before a friendly.
  6. Tangles

    **Official** English Football Season 2024/25

    I doubt they will be able to attract a proven goal scorer without silly wages, which they said they were done with. Delap seems like putting hope on a younger player like Hojlund. Cuhna seems more of a 10 or a forward from what I’ve seen. Think you’re a bit harsh on Zirkzee who looks like he...
  7. Tangles

    **Official** English Football Season 2024/25

    Being so close to relegation by league position has made me wonder about the Adidas and shirt contracts the Glazers rely on to service the debt. There would have to be relegation clauses in there. Unless they never figured it could happen. The Glazers need to go but since Ratcliff bailed them...
  8. Tangles

    **Official** English Football Season 2024/25

    Reporting says that purchases need to be financed by sales. Let’s see how that goes since they are generally poor at that. I would sell Onana, Shaw, Maguire, Lindelof, Casemiro, Eriksen, Mount, Antony, Rashford and Sancho. I expect them to have issues selling players on high wages again and...
  9. Tangles

    **Official** English Football Season 2024/25

    FFP is a problem now. The previous approach of buying flashy players and upping the debt to pay for it won’t work now.
  10. Tangles

    **Official** English Football Season 2024/25

    That’s what I said about Ole and Jose. People take the piss at Jose saying 2nd with United was like wining the PL but it looks like he over performed with a Glazer squad. The players stopped wanting to put in for both those guys and the modern approach is to bin the manager. I find it hilarious...
  11. Tangles

    **Official** English Football Season 2024/25

    You can sack Amorim but it doesn’t fix anything. Like I said when ETH was sacked, the manager isn’t the biggest problem. Only Alex could make it work with the Glazers. Jose and Ole have been the best in the league but LVG and ETH are not bad managers. A decade of marketing based signings have...
  12. Tangles

    **Official** English Football Season 2024/25

    the silver lining to no Europe is lost revenue for the Glazers. Both from the loss of CL and iirc this will trigger sponsor issues. Adidas has a clause in their contract about European football.
  13. Tangles

    **Official** English Football Season 2024/25

    I knew it was 3 out of 3 for Spurs going in and still had low confidence.
  14. Tangles

    **Official** English Football Season 2024/25

    You can blame him for picking Mount and Casemiro against a Prem team. You can’t blame him for it looking like spurs had an extra player because they wanted to win more. You can’t win trophies with a dodgy keeper.
  15. Tangles

    **Official** English Football Season 2024/25

    Striking how average a display that was and it wasn’t even surprising. These players just continue to do this under different managers. I’m not even surprised when they put this little effort in. I was suprised how well Mount played on Thursday. He genuinely changed the game when he came on...
  16. Tangles

    **Official** English Football Season 2024/25

    Casemiro was unfit and poor last year. He has put in the work to get fit so credit there. He can’t play a box to box role anymore. But he’s a good passer and can get forward and score. He can be a useful 3rd mid but he absolutely needs a workhorse next to him. It can’t be him. I read that up to...
  17. Tangles

    **Official** English Football Season 2024/25

    Sancho and Casemiro and Ronaldo the most recent examples. They were better in the last window under Ratcliff but have been on a drunken spree since Alex retired. The Glazers are chiefly behind this. They wanted a US franchise driven approach to transfers where proven names can sell shirts...
  18. Tangles

    **Official** English Football Season 2024/25

    You can’t sack another manager this fast. Every one of them struggles managing the island of misfit toys. Amorim wanted to come in the summer but Ratcliff wouldn’t wait. It’s going to take years of proper transfer windows to offload the old and the crocks and the not good enough players on...
  19. Tangles

    **Official** English Football Season 2024/25

    Guy makes Barthez look solid. He gives me real James for Liverpool vibes. Always got a goal in him.
  20. Tangles

    **Official** English Football Season 2024/25

    And the upside is? INEOS are as dumb as the Glazers are?

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