Manchester United 2022-23 Thread

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12:37p, 2/16/23
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0-0 HT.

It was a lackluster first 15 or so minutes but then things opened up a bit. Both teams seem hell bent on making a mess out of playing out from the back and both should have given up a goal from it. Barca seems unhappy at the Referee for actually calling fouls against them.
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12:50p, 2/16/23
Weghorst should have scored. Ter Stegen made a really good save on Rashford. We're getting chances but honestly defensively look shaky. Midfield really looks suspect without Eriksen. His absence till May is going to cost us something I'm just hoping it's not a high price.
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12:57p, 2/16/23
Fred losing his man on a corner, no one on the post, and De Gea kinda flailing about combine to make it 1-0 Barca.
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12:58p, 2/16/23
I LOVE YOU MARCUS RASHFORD
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12:59p, 2/16/23
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Look who. Mr. Nuclear Explosion Marcus Rashford. He is so hot he could power a small nation.
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1:05p, 2/16/23
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Rashford just made Raphinia his ***** and gets an assist on an OG.
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1:06p, 2/16/23
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LOL at Rashford claiming that one.
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1:13p, 2/16/23
Rashford blatantly fouled on a breakaway but ref didn't have the balls to call it because it would have had to be red.
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1:14p, 2/16/23
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It wasnt a penalty as it was outside the area (hence no VAR) but he missed it because he was so far out of position and behind the play. Then he calls arguably an even weaker one the other way. And of course cards Casemiro because someone has to get carded for all the dissent.
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In reply to Mathguy64 • 1:21p, 2/16/23
His AR was right there and should have helped him.
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In reply to Dre_00 • 1:23p, 2/16/23
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Thats what ETH was so mad about. He partly swallowed his whistle because as you said if he calls it its red for DOGSO and he partly was so out of position he couldnt call it. It was a bad miss.
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1:36p, 2/16/23
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Rashford is exhausted. Totally exhausted.
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1:41p, 2/16/23
That was a much more open, entertaining game than I anticipated. Can't complain about a draw at Nou Camp but would feel a lot better about things if away goals still counted.
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1:42p, 2/16/23
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The last 45 was totally different that the first. That could have been 4-2 for either team. Take the tie and come home.
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1:44p, 2/16/23
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If you would have asked me yesterday, I would have been happy with the draw. As it stands afterwards, I'm annoyed we didn't come away with the win. Defense looked shaky at the end and Casemiro had some uncharacteristic giveaways, one that cost a goal, but they looked dangerous AF in the attacking third.
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In reply to HummingbirdSaltalamacchia • 9:28p, 2/16/23
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HummingbirdSaltalamacchia said:
If you would have asked me yesterday, I would have been happy with the draw. As it stands afterwards, I'm annoyed we didn't come away with the win. Defense looked shaky at the end and Casemiro had some uncharacteristic giveaways, one that cost a goal, but they looked dangerous AF in the attacking third.


Yeah, Barcelona is good, especially at home.
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10:51a, 2/17/23
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11:05a, 2/17/23
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Glazers: "What if we took the money in line items 2-4 and consolidated that into line item 1?"
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In reply to Aston94 • 11:13a, 2/17/23
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Aston94 said:
HummingbirdSaltalamacchia said:
If you would have asked me yesterday, I would have been happy with the draw. As it stands afterwards, I'm annoyed we didn't come away with the win. Defense looked shaky at the end and Casemiro had some uncharacteristic giveaways, one that cost a goal, but they looked dangerous AF in the attacking third.


Yeah, Barcelona is good, especially at home.


No pedri, no gavi? Will dembele even be back by then? Despite the draw I'd be happy about how that's setting up.
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11:31a, 2/17/23
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I've been told by a reliable source that while this Qatar group is related to the PSG Qatar group that they are just cousins. Don't even talk. Live on the other side of the palace completely.
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12:04p, 2/17/23
Sounds like a Chinese Wall type of situation.

Have to use this phrase while I still can, because it's falling out of favor.
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In reply to Showstopper • 12:07p, 2/17/23
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Those numbers are why I don't think Ineos can really compete.
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In reply to Furlock Bones • 12:37p, 2/17/23
Is this an Elsa/Anna situation? Which one has magic powers?
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In reply to Dre_00 • 2:06p, 2/17/23
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The one handling transfer fee negotiations for Mbappe.
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2:10p, 2/17/23
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2:19p, 2/17/23
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2:22p, 2/17/23
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$10 Billion debt free....must be nice.


Well if you are going to have Middle Eastern ownership group, my vote would always be Qatari or Jordanian, they are definitely the most progressive, western cultures of the region (excluding Israel).
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2:28p, 2/17/23
Unless the league blocks it, he'll get it if he's serious. Not pleased at all about that.

His bid looks to have support from fans ig polls are to be believed. About 50/50 as to whether fans like the idea of a Qatari owner but even fans that don't want one say they'll support the club if it happens.

And that's why this keeps happening time and time again.
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In reply to Dre_00 • 3:33p, 2/17/23
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Fans like winning. End of discussion.
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In reply to Aston94 • 10:07p, 2/17/23
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Yep. We all put up fronts until it's our club in which case spend that cash and win silverware
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In reply to wangus12 • 10:59p, 2/17/23
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Well, honestly, I'm still not real crazy about it, personally, but I don't think the Glazers are going to solicit my opinion before the sale. In the race between cash and altruism, I think we've gotten a pretty good sample size on which side of that particular divide they fall through past conduct.
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In reply to Showstopper • 2:28a, 2/18/23
Showstopper said:
In the race between cash and altruism, I think we've gotten a pretty good sample size on which side of that particular divide they fall through past conduct.

"they" can equally refer to the Glazers, the fans...humanity in general.

I do think society as a whole does apply a morality minimum when it comes to things like owning a football club. If Adolf Hitler III popped up with a 10 billion EUR bid funded by the sale of the Jewish artifacts that his grandfather had stolen and bequeathed to him, there would be moral outrage and it wouldn't be successful.

But it appears that for the most part, people don't really care what brown people do to other brown people on the other side of the world. At least not as it relates to whether they can own their favorite football club.
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7:06a, 2/18/23
Ratcliffe's announcement. Unsurprisingly, he leans into the concept of "football governance". Interestingly, he's bidding for "majority ownership". 2 of the 6 Glazers don't want to sell. I wonder if he's offering to buy out the other 4 to take majority ownership but retain some Glazers on the board.

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In reply to Dre_00 • 8:21a, 2/18/23
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I was with you until you brought race into the equation. Chelsea fans were more than happy to have a White Russian oligarch as their owner, making his billions off the public property of the Russian population.

Europeans have been told for 40 years to be inclusive and accepting of those from the Middle East, so if anything there was cultural pressure not to oppose or comment on their purchase of the big clubs initially.

Racism did not lead to the current state. A system that allowed a few to capitalize on the resources of a country did.
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8:41a, 2/18/23
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Somehow I don't think anyone or any group is going to come close to the $10B already on the table and if they did, the Qatari royals would just casually grab another $1B out of the couch cushions and toss it on the pile.
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