Alison, basically. As good a performance as Courtois in the final a few years back.
Some great saves by Szczesny in the Barca v Benfica match last night too.
Well this is a dilemma…
Should have cashed out. Mrs Binners would have had that as a draw
Anyway, not to worry, I’ve got watching us get absolutely battered by Arsenal to look forward to tomorrow. Will our 65 million quid striker actually do something he hasn’t done for 20 games since early December and have a shot on target?
Of course he won’t. He’ll do what he always does and just aimlessly wander around in the opposition half to absolutely no effect whatsoever.
There are Southampton defenders who’ve had more shots on goal than he has
It’s going to be some battle for the champions league places, other than the top two spots, especially as fifth should get a place. City potentially missing out would have been unthinkable a few months ago.
Looks like the title is done and dusted and so are the relegation spots, but everything in between is bonkers!
What a lovely bunch the Rotherham fans were at Wrexham yesterday. I know every club has its idiots, us included, but having an England flag with Stop the Boats across the middle, a picture of Farage in one corner and On The Charge With Nigel Farage in another was just pathetic. At least we sent them home empty handed.
Rotherham is full of them.
Blimey, a half decent game seems to have broken out at Old Trafford! Not the first half, obviously, which was the usual turgid fare. God only knows how we’re one up here. Bruno nails us out yet again. That free kick was a peach!
I knew I should have bet on us getting beat by Man Utd today. It's 2 mid table teams battling it out for nothing.
Luckyboy8888 I can get my head around but even before the ****ing Tories made it the destination for terrace headbangers to talk about, Visit Rwanda was always a bit weird.
@binners - have you been talking to Mr Ineos again?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c7571gng06wo
That should do wonders to team morale
Winning the league by 2028 seems a pretty deluded comment to make. Can’t see it, they’ll be onto a new manager by then.
Can’t see it, they’ll be onto a new manager by then.
Recent times to go by, there's a chance they'll be onto a new manager by 20:28 tomorrow
Combative world cup winner Pogba's ban is lifted soon and will be available.
So the players are not good enough and overpaid, Sir Jim? No shit Sherlock?
Nice of the bloke who signed the last batch of duds and put them on ludicrous contracts to notice. Unfortunately we’re now stuck with them all. Casemiro is apparently refusing to leave unless his ridiculous £350,000 a week is matched, which just isn’t going to happen, so he’ll sit out his contract (costing tens of millions) and leave on a free, like Pogba did.
Meanwhile Antony and Sancho, combined transfer fee paid: £160 million, are out on loan at other clubs, while United are still paying a percentage of their wages and will be sold for a fraction of that. Rashford is at Villa.
Mainoo and Garnacho will be sold in the summer as they’re the only ones the club can make a profit on. Leaving us with a bunch of overpaid donkeys, the worst of which is a 65 million pound ‘striker’ who’s managed 15 shots in his last 20 games, none of which found the back of the net
I could go on…
The mismanagement of the club is absolutely off the chart and seems to have got worse under the new part-owners
Winning the title by 2028? I’ve more chance of winning Miss World
"We are going to sell Hojland and Onana, but before we do, let me talk down their value on the international transfer market, and further destroy their morale for the final matches of the season..."
The man's an absolute plum. I feel sad for Hojland, sure, he's not in form, but he's a young player, and they could allow him to leave with a bit of dignity.
It’s incredible, isn’t it? They’re just cynically trying to transfer the blame away from themselves and their own costly and catastrophic management decisions and on to individual players and even worse, the club staff.
Absolutely nobody is buying their nonsense
Close the canteen and make a load of people redundant having just seen the non-sacking then sacking of Ten Hag, then the pursuit and subsequent sacking of Dan Ashworth cost the club 25 million?
Absolute clowns!
I'm genuinely bemused as to why Ratcliffe bought into United in the first place. He's not even a majority shareholder, just gets to try and rescue the playing side of things, which seems like a thankless, doomed enterprise. I don't get the thing where they've taken Dave Brailsford who is brilliant at running a cycling team, and parachuted him into a sport he knows very little about, weakening both the cycling and football teams in the process.
I don't get the whole utter tone-deaf PR disaster they seem to be doubling down on over and over again. Morale inside the club must be absolutely shot to pieces, god only knows what it's like for the players seeing the support staff being treated like that.
It just seems nuts.
I'm a gooner and while the club under Arteta isn't perfect - letting Smith-Rowe and Vieira go in the summer without bringing in any sort of alternative back-up to Ødegaard, looks like a big error, it's the lack of traditional Wenger-style skill pixies that's preventing us from breaking down low-block, mass defences rather than the lack of a centre forward I reckon - a lot of what he's done is spot on.
Maybe it's just a simple 'running a football club is different to asset-stripping and streamlining oil refineries' thing. But whatever it is, seems pretty sad.
Maybe it's just a simple 'running a football club is different to asset-stripping and streamlining oil refineries' thing. But whatever it is, seems pretty sad.
Tempting as it is to keep laughing at frustrated Man Utd fans, the appalling financial rape of the club by the Glaziers feels like it should be a crime.
Never mind all that, is Miss World still a thing?
Never mind all that, is Miss World still a thing?
If it's done by public vote, we could maybe help binners win?
the appalling financial rape of the club by the Glaziers feels like it should be a crime.
We’ve been asking the same question since the Glazers took over… how can what they’re doing possibly be legal?
Ironic that today we’re looking at a similar thing at Thanes Water, as the ‘owners’ continue to take literally billions out, while simultaneously loading the business with debt
Its going to get worse too as the enormous debt will shortly need refinancing and the interest rates will be far, far higher.
Ratcliffe said that the club has run out of money and he’s right. Manchester United, a club that didn’t have a penny of debt and was massively profitable when the Glazers took over, is virtually bankrupt with a billion in debt hung round its neck
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cvgprplz94yo
My freakin' eyes! Did Gerry Anderson design that?
Regeneration guff is coded way of saying we'd like a taxpayer handout to subsidise the glazers and jim the tax exile
I'm interested in knowing what that roof will be made from if it is meant to withstand Manchester weather year in, year out. If they actually build that, it will look like a dog's dinner within ten years.
More fantasy economics from Ratcliffe and friends. The Govt won't fund any of it so it won't happen in it's current form and he'll get all pissy and blame others for not playing his game with his rules. He's a strange bloke
Never going to happen.
God knows how many times we’ve heard all this ‘regeneration of Old Trafford’ bullshit over the last 20 years. Meanwhile the whole place is literally falling down, as away supporters never tire of reminding us
Just more pie in the sky nonsense
SQUIRREL!!!
I wonder if they just got AI to 'design' the new stadium for their PR hack?
Once they take down that safety netting there may be a nicely designed stadium lurking underneath. Bedouin design next to the Manchester Ship Canal, what a juxaposition, and not a particulary good one. Norm is off his head, is this a sales pitch to the middle east?
I know we’re a billion quid in debt and haemorrhaging money due to years of absolutely appalling mismanagement, but do you fancy lending us another 2 billion?
No… oh ok… well, we tried. We’ll just eventually get round to fixing the roof on the north stand and it’ll be reet. It’ll probably stay standing for a while yet. Probably…
Ground sharing with City or Everton might work whilst they repair the leaky roof.
My freakin' eyes! Did Gerry Anderson design that?
Maybe they'll rent it out to Saudi for their World Cup? Just get some sand and camels shipped in - nobody will know the difference.
Ground sharing with City or Everton might work whilst they repair the leaky roof.
That's an idea - rent out Goodison now it's surplus to requirements.
I do love billionaires & their no one is good enough attitude - ignoring the fact they got rich trampling on those people.
I guess the kitchen staff must've been pretty well paid if they can pay for this new stadium with the savings.
If nothing else they'll have the newest stadium in the Championship.
This does have the potential to see what happens when one of the biggest sides in the world are mismanged to oblivion.
I listened to the Ratcliffe interview with the BBC. It's gas-lighting central. Never mentions the Glazers and the money the club is doling out to them every season, which makes the whole financial side like a bucket with a hole in. Never explains how the relatively paltry savings made from staff cuts are going make a dent in the massive losses from the playing side of things. It's all suffer now for gruel tomorrow.
Presumably they'll sell the naming rights to the new stadium to some hideous petrochemical giant and use the future income to secure even more debts for the club 😐
My freakin' eyes! Did Gerry Anderson design that?
As a keen gardener, I applaud the idea of keeping the vegetable patch safe.
I only saw highlights of leg 1 but by all accounts PSG were streets ahead and only Alisson kept them out. Tonight - wow, their press and workrate, and then the ability to beat the press at the other end was amazing. It was more even and Liverpool had chances but PSG looked fully deserved winners over the two legs and the penalties were just different class, both the ones they scored and Donnarumma's saves.
I don't think anyone will fancy playing them in the rest of the competition.
Yep, looks like PSG finally moved away from the Harlem Globetrotting philosophy and built a team.
Agree, feels weird to root for them but they’re some team. Thought Liverpool were excellent second half tonight but just no way through, and in extra time they were done physically.
Random input but it seems 5Live Breakfast are doing an "inside Brentford " feature this morning. Just before 8 I caught a really interesting interview with their head of recruitment, might be of interest to anyone to hunt out on BBC Sounds
Well, it’s a shame Real are still in the Champions League because they must be favourites again. However, what odds would you have got for the last two English clubs left in being Arsenal & Villa?
I’m slightly off grid this week staying with my dad - no internet and terrestrial TV, but I did hear Reading beat Holyhead backed club Wrexham.
I’m slightly off grid this week staying with my dad - no internet and terrestrial TV, but I did hear Reading beat Holyhead backed club Wrexham.
You misheard at least one word in that sentence 😉
