OK so I'm worried

[Wilderat Heart]

people are missing my main point here and it's not oh god if we go up it will be a disaster, its my concerns about if we did and we reacted in the wrong way. Money has always derailed united either having none, or more often spending it on the wrong thing at the wrong time. My first united side was the 70s team essentially never being updated because of the south stand. Burnley are my model here they did sack a manager but then they kept faith with Dyche and it paid off. If we go up this season spend big but sensibly, if we are struggling we accept we are way ahead of schedule and allow Wilder to build, regardless of our position. If as a fanbase we realise the size of the challenge and keep faith with the manager and team it can only be the pot of gold everyone on this thread keeps telling me it is. That's a lot of ifs. I never doubted last season that we would do well this season. We won the league at a canter playing the best football we've played for years. I'm swimming to the ship but as an old united fan I won't be surprised to see it flying a skull and crossbones and be made to walk the plank.

 

[grafikhaus]

We need to go up, we need to keep Wilder, we need to be kept (in the ownership) of the McCabes. Kevin McCabe has learnt about football clubs the hard way and those lessons are best remembered. We can't have some Johnny-Come-Lately coming in to restart the process.

Up to the owners to back him.

Trouble is, the game's changed. McCabe is a traditional 'local lad made good' who has a lot more money than our fans and has the good of the club at heart - actually attending most home games. But we've seen the increasing involvement of super-rich, largely foreign investors even at our level. In the PL, you've got Coates (Bet365) and Mel Morris at Derby (King Digital, Candy Crush Saga, one of the richest men in the UK) among others who KMc is nowhere near. At the very top of the football tree we've got the likes of Man. City and PSG who are owned by countries.

 

[Sean Thornton]

Trouble is, the game's changed. McCabe is a traditional 'local lad made good' who has a lot more money than our fans and has the good of the club at heart - actually attending most home games. But we've seen the increasing involvement of super-rich, largely foreign investors even at our level. In the PL, you've got Coates (Bet365) and Mel Morris at Derby (King Digital, Candy Crush Saga, one of the richest men in the UK) among others who KMc is nowhere near. At the very top of the football tree we've got the likes of Man. City and PSG who are owned by countries.

You can beat that drum every five minutes on here, playing a tune that is factual and correct. You will still get people ask why he hasn't put a further x million in.

That's without even thinking about those who believe and laughably claim to know for certain he's making money out of us.

 

[Hamburg Blade]

Wednesday would have had a bigger quake already which would've been massive and The Stir would be raising funds to rebuild the sty.

Don't be stupid. Who would actually notice if there'd been an earthquake at Hillsborough? In fact, there's probably already been a couple.

 

[benn5712]

If it's a steady progression I'll accept it. Softly softly catchy monkey. Do not want the rug pulled again. Board might have no money, so be it. There does not seem to be an uncle Jack Walker - Blackburn - but I would rather our club still be our club rather than a foreign owned subbuteo team.

 

[Fulwood Blade]

people are missing my main point here and it's not oh god if we go up it will be a disaster, its my concerns about if we did and we reacted in the wrong way

................and the point that you don't see is this:

If we don't go up then no one will ever know.

If we go up then we have 2 choices - succeed or fail. In the Premier League, CW and his team will at least have the CHANCE to succeed.

We might spend the money the right way - bit like Burnley have.

Whatever has happened in the past does not have a bearing on the future as it hasn't even happened yet. The future is what you make it.

UTB

 

[super_pig]

some interesting and well considered arguments here but consider this..
it would be worth it to get promoted just to piss off S6

 

[blademark]

Don't be stupid. Who would actually notice if there'd been an earthquake at Hillsborough? In fact, there's probably already been a couple.

True story, they had an earthquake at Hillsborough once, it caused about £50m of improvements !

 

[blade too long]

wednesday fans told us the gulf to la liga was going to be way too big a gulf in class for us to cope with
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many of our fans believed that crap too

we should have stayed up last time , to go down with 38 points is very unlucky and had Warnock bought better that jan we should have pissed it

this team is far more capable than that one so allay your fears, lets get up there and let them worry about us

 

[super_pig]

Anyone know if there's a bar in magaluf streaming the earthquake

top drawer PPC .. lmao

 

[Revolution]

personally, I'll save worrying about the possible negative aspects to getting promoted for when we actually get promoted.

And worrying about United in some way screwing up a promising position is like worrying if the sun's going to come up.

 

[Plymouthblade]

Concerns ! Utb