Just expected to take the apology and believe in all seriousness that this is all just totally genuine incompetence. Nothing to see here. Same guy who did Spurs-Liverpool? Just a tragic coincidence.

“Yeah Roy you can see he’s gone in just above the kneecap, and he’s definitely gone for the eye gouge”

“Yeah but he’s not been at the races, he needs to smash into somebody and be a big personality, it’s his job!”

Need Matt Le Tissier. He’ll stop VAR ruining the game by insisting their footage is airbrushed.

What should be done to differentiate between PIF loan deals and more developmental ones is that there should be a cap on the total wages of players loaned in, relative to their total wage package in their contract and the total wage budget of the club seeking the loan. So Newcastle can’t bring in PIF players on 900 grand a week, United can’t get loans from INEOS clubs to get around them being on the limit for FFP such as happened with Amrabat, etc.

Multi club ownership is its own conversation, but when it comes to loans, they need to be regulated with common sense and not just banned out of hand.

This is bait. The new rule book allocating money is completely separate to the Everton case or any FFP case. But just say Man City in any news article to generate outrage.

Nothing. United just begin to fall off in terms of revenue, reputation and fan base, with City doing the opposite. Clubs previously considered big fall all the time. Leeds went from CL semis to relegation in a few years. Chelsea went from champions to being mid table a few years back and haven’t had consistent form for a while now.

Some clubs can make themselves intractable and consistently top of the tables if they have sufficient resources and/or shrewd long term operations. That’s why City can do what no PL club, even United managed to do and create a clear step up between themselves and everyone else. If clubs like Brighton continue to be run brilliantly it’ll be them as a consistent big club next.

As United slowly fall out of touch with the legacy SAF built, and the players and fans he endeared himself to become older and new football fans who never saw the great United teams become more of a majority, United will lose their grip.