[alex_front2]

Originally Posted by Tarryn

I don't think losing DDG will make us "Just another team", I don't think that will ever happen.
We are a massive brand like Liverpool. We are more well known around the world than most clubs.
Money talks.
Plus, you can just as easily get to the top again as you can drop down the league. That's just the way it is.
Some like to make out we are over but with a new manager & a few good signings everything could change.
I would not be cheering for our demise just yet, I think you are getting ahead of yourself

Being a massive brand with a big history but no current success is pointless and empty (like a pretty girl with no personality), Liverpool, Valencia, Milan, Inter, Lyon and Newcastle are also massive clubs with massive fan bases. Hardly setting world on fire now are they. Truth is clubs like PSG 1970 are more enticing than Man U. You are more likely to hear players saying 'I dream of playing for Barca/ Real Madrid/ Bayern' than Man U. Man U only get the big names once they are 30+. Hello Schweini. Possibly Zlatan and a return of Ronaldo. Young stars often headed to Spain or PSG 1970. If they have to join a Manchester side then it's City.

Also what's the point in a young player playing for Man U now? Fergies gone, no manager will ever come close not even Mourinho or even a shock change for Pep. For a new player it won't matter what he achieves in the eyes of fans, they will never be as good as Sir Bobby, Best, Law, Cantona, RVN, Beck's, Ronaldo etc. Why be second best to history, when you can make history elsewhere? Rashford and Lingard get game time, but in LVG sides

Any Man U side now regardless of what they do will be unfavourably compared to as Man U 2006, 2009, 1999 (treble) or any thing achieved with Sir Matt. It will take another 10 -20 years for Man U to fully move on from Sir Alex's considerable success, the way you had to after Sir Matt's success. It would just be money to entice players now. Except Sky money means the smaller clubs can hold onto the Payets, Kantes, Bolassies, Mahrezs etc. You can't even steal them and even if Man U could, more and more of these players don't want to go to Man U. Too much 'big club bulls*t'. Man U post Fergie is just not as attractive as it once was. What can Man U give a player that Man City can't. I highly doubt a player from Nigeria, Uruguay or Austria gives a fig about your history, history just isn't important to a lot of young players.

Say what you want about West Ham or Leicester City but Payet , Noble, Vardy, Drinkwater and co can be smug safe in knowledge they are playing at the best ever West Ham and Leicester teams of all time, just as Suarez, Neymar and Messi are playing at best Barcelona side of all time. Will current Man U players be able to say that?

Man U are a team living in the past a club obsessed with past history, sides like West Ham, Spurs and Leicester City are making "future" history.

[Tarryn]

Originally Posted by alex_front2

Being a massive brand with a big history but no current success is pointless and empty (like a pretty girl with no personality), Liverpool, Valencia, Milan, Inter, Lyon and Newcastle are also massive clubs with massive fan bases. Hardly setting world on fire now are they. Truth is clubs like PSG 1970 are more enticing than Man U. You are more likely to hear players saying 'I dream of playing for Barca/ Real Madrid/ Bayern' than Man U. Man U only get the big names once they are 30+. Hello Schweini. Possibly Zlatan and a return of Ronaldo. Young stars often headed to Spain or PSG 1970. If they have to join a Manchester side then it's City.

Also what's the point in a young player playing for Man U now? Fergies gone, no manager will ever come close not even Mourinho or even a shock change for Pep. For a new player it won't matter what he achieves in the eyes of fans, they will never be as good as Sir Bobby, Best, Law, Cantona, RVN, Beck's, Ronaldo etc. Why be second best to history, when you can make history elsewhere? Rashford and Lingard get game time, but in LVG sides

Any Man U side now regardless of what they do will be unfavourably compared to as Man U 2006, 2009, 1999 (treble) or any thing achieved with Sir Matt. It will take another 10 -20 years for Man U to fully move on from Sir Alex's considerable success, the way you had to after Sir Matt's success. It would just be money to entice players now. Except Sky money means the smaller clubs can hold onto the Payets, Kantes, Bolassies, Mahrezs etc. You can't even steal them and even if Man U could, more and more of these players don't want to go to Man U. Too much 'big club bulls*t'. Man U post Fergie is just not as attractive as it once was. What can Man U give a player that Man City can't. I highly doubt a player from Nigeria, Uruguay or Austria gives a fig about your history, history just isn't important to a lot of young players.

Say what you want about West Ham or Leicester City but Payet , Noble, Vardy, Drinkwater and co can be smug safe in knowledge they are playing at the best ever West Ham and Leicester teams of all time, just as Suarez, Neymar and Messi are playing at best Barcelona side of all time. Will current Man U players be able to say that?

Man U are a team living in the past a club obsessed with past history, sides like West Ham, Spurs and Leicester City are making "future" history.

You are a massive Man U hater. Get over it.
Man City are hardly much better than us right now. Chelsea are going no place & Arsenal are content with just being top four. Are these teams over ?.
This season has been strange with so many so-called smaller clubs doing well.
Nothing major. It happens sometimes.
Get past the Man U hate & move on.
I totally disagree with pretty much everything you have posted.

[alex_front2]

Originally Posted by Tarryn

You are a massive Man U hater. Get over it.
Man City are hardly much better than us right now. Chelsea are going no place & Arsenal are content with just being top four. Are these teams over ?.
This season has been strange with so many so-called smaller clubs doing well.
Nothing major. It happens sometimes.
Get past the Man U hate & move on.
I totally disagree with pretty much everything you have posted.

I've obviously hit a raw nerve of reality.

Don't worry I hate all EPL clubs more or less equally. I can reassure you, in these post Fergie era there is nothing special about Man U to hate, don't you worry. In fact I probably hate the more powerful Manchester club, Man City.The Manchester club of the future. Heck, even ex united stars are sending their kids - the future - to the City academy.

Again, dont worry Tarryn, Man U have the monopoly of the past. I think you'll find I am more scathing about Arsenal and Liverpool, but you don't hear those fans whining, playing the "everyone hates us" card. I hate to shatter Man U fans egos but to be fair I dont even hate Man U nowadays , Man U are no longer special, dominant or good enough to hate. Man U are just another club now. I like to think of Man U as being just like Southampton but with a few more fans and a few more trophies.....from the past. You are now closer to Stoke City, and Bournemouth than you are to the new elite of Barca, PSG 1970, Bayern, Atletico and Braga. Welcome to the 'just another club' club.

The day Fergie went was a day I began to feel pity for Man U. Pity is worse than hate IMHO. No Law, no Robson, no Whiteside, no McClair, no Krankelskis, no Irwin, no Keane, no Ince, no Paliister, no Beck's, no RVN, no Ronaldo? No Fergie. But hey, you've got Matteo Darmian and erm Rojo. Man U not even worth hating Nobody really hates Man U It's all about hating Barca and Spurs these days

Finally, this season isn't strange. Leicester may not be in the title hunt next year, then it might be a Stoke or a Southampton or even a relegation survivor eg Norwich doing a Leicester. The Sky TV money will kick in an everyone will be quite rich and Man U will be even less special. Sorry, mate.