Man United

[Darran]

Av it.

 

[Swanjaxs]

Av it.

Kenny Hibbert?

 

[Derwydd]

Man Utd in financial difficulties. Big season for them next season.

Manchester United are set to pay a £10 million fine as a result of not winning Wednesday's Europa League final against Tottenham. Failing to meet Adidas sponsorship agreement that requires them to qualify for Champions League at least once every 2 seasons. So they have to pay Adidas 10m

The defeat to Spurs also means that the Old Trafford outfit will miss out on a major windfall of cash that they would have received by qualifying for the Champions League.

Not only will this provide yet another stumbling block when it comes to the club's ability to keep up with FFP, it comes months after Sir Jim Ratcliffe suggested the club could have gone bust without further investment.

Things were bad enough financially amid the non-stop cost-cutting measures

It may force the club to sell several key players, with Alejandro Garnacho and Bruno Fernandes speaking out about their futures after the defeat to Tottenham.

credit Callum Bishop at givemesport

Me.

Also, players that may have joined Man U this season will now not because of lack of Champions League. They were on the verge of beating Arsenal to Gykyores for example.

After last nights performance they could be in for another dire season. Man Utd in the Championship anyone?

 

[J_B]

I've seen them in the Championship (second division) in my lifetime.
Jim Ratcliffe must be cursing getting involved at all.
Oh dear, what a pity, never mind.

 

[FearOfAJackPlanet]

They are absolutely donald ducked having failed to win qualification to the Championa League last night. I was wondering towards the end of last season whether I'd seen them suffer enough and maybe it wasn't entertaining anymore, but then I came to my senses.

 

[Andrew - North Hill]

I might be wrong on this, and I'm sure if I am someone will correct me, but I'm fairly sure this is the first time since Fergie left that they have gone two consecutive years without Champions League football.

As the article above suggests, that's going to cause them no end of financial issues. Adidas won't be their only contract with such clauses.

Can easily see them doing an Arsenal and being 4-5 years without CL qualification, the state they're in right now.

 

[Derwydd]

I've seen them in the Championship (second division) in my lifetime.
Jim Ratcliffe must be cursing getting involved at all.
Oh dear, what a pity, never mind.

Me too. 1974/75
Man City went 1 better and a lot more recently

Man City (note Division1 is now Championship and Division 2 is now League 1)

95/96 Relegated from Premiere League
96/97 14th Division 1
97/98 Relegated from Division1 to Division 2( League 1 today)
98/99 Promoted to Division 1
99/00 Promoted from Div 1 to Prem Lge
00/01 Relegated again back to Division 1
01/02 promoted back to Premiere league

 

[RodgerTheDodger]

I've seen them in the Championship (second division) in my lifetime.
Jim Ratcliffe must be cursing getting involved at all.
Oh dear, what a pity, never mind.

Denis Law's last kick of the ball in professional football to to score for Man City against them and get them relegated. He regrets that.

 

[J_B]

Denis Law's last kick of the ball in professional football to to score for Man City against them and get them relegated. He regrets that.

I'm afraid that's an urban myth. They would have been relegated whether he'd scored or not.

 

[JackSomething]

Man United need to stop thinking they're one of the top clubs and thinking throwing money at their team will help them. Decisions like paying Rashford £350k a week and spending £80m on Antony are why they're Donald Ducked.

They need to sell their highest earners or let their contracts expire and start buying players at a lower price point who have the potential to be worth more in the future. A signing like Huisjen for Bournemouth last summer for example. If they go about things in the right way, they may find their way back to the top at some point. If they carry on going about things like they have since Fergie retired, they'll probably get even worse.

The rest of us owe the Glazers a big thank you. If they hadn't saddled United with so much debt they'd be spending on a level to make Man City blush.

 

[RodgerTheDodger]

I'm afraid that's an urban myth. They would have been relegated whether he'd scored or not.

It's what Denis Law said in an interview, I saw the interview, and he wasn't happy about it. Why would he feel sad about something that didn't happen?

To be precise, morning of 74-04-27 United were 2 points behind Birmingham in 19th place. That day Birmingham beat Norwich 2-1, but Law having scored meant that United were relegated that evening even though they had a game in hand over Brum. Had they drawn they could conceivably escaped with their last game although it would have needed a huge win on the last day. As he said "I got them relegated".

True, they lost their last game anyway, but they had already been relegated.