The Official Manchester United Thread (Vol 11)

[Challo]

DeltonaS said:

It's his usual way of responding; he informs the press with what he wants to say and nothing more. Usually in a kind of staccato way, with short sentences, He won't fight the press like LvG or Mourinho do sometimes. He will keep them at a short but clear distance as much as possible. He will certainly make sure not to lose players in a press conference or waste too much energy on it.

He got quite a bit of stick in the NL's in his early period (given his background, accent and the way he speaks), both by the media and part of the fanbase. He kept calm about it and carried on, never reacted or looked back on it either. Strong character.

He should work on his English though.

I watched his press conference yesterday and it was quite funny to watch him interact with the press. Doesn't give anything away, clear concise answers, and direct in his responses. Some of the reporters didn't know how to react of take from it.

He does have a very strong accent and english isnt great but who cares. Roll on the new season.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyLjD5TFiE8

[unident]

Challo said:

I watched his press conference yesterday and it was quite funny to watch him interact with the press. Doesn't give anything away, clear concise answers, and direct in his responses. Some of the reporters didn't know how to react of take from it.

He does have a very strong accent and english isnt great but who cares. Roll on the new season.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyLjD5TFiE8

Klopp, Tuchel, Pep, Frank etc all have strong accents, their English has improved as the seasons have passed. Poch couldn’t speak English when at Southampton, Bielsa didn’t even try.

He is Dutch, so his English will come quickly, but there will always be some sort of accent, just as I’ve still got a strong Irish accent, despite living here for over a decade now. Hell, Ferguson was still hard to understand when he got into a rant when the Weegie accent came out even after 20+ years.

[jammy-git]

FYI, I've heard Biesla could actually speak quite good English. He could just never be bothered for interviews.

[Ntv]

Re Old Trafford ... is the thinking to sink the railway and then use the land above the railway, adding a second tier to the BCS and the two adjacent quadrants?

Should work well and free up some land behind the stadium. Doesn't deal with the roof line - perhaps they could look at a new style of roof for the new stand?

[GTO-3R]

Ntv said:

Re Old Trafford ... is the thinking to sink the railway and then use the land above the railway, adding a second tier to the BCS and the two adjacent quadrants?

Should work well and free up some land behind the stadium. Doesn't deal with the roof line - perhaps they could look at a new style of roof for the new stand?

As much as I love OT and the history of the place, in my opinion it needs pulling down. It's not fit for todays standards in many ways.

I work in the rail industry and can guess it would cost at least 150 million to drop the railway and do all the necessary structural work needed for the stadium to bridge it. It would be a huge job and would end up costing nearly as much as just rebuilding a state of the art stadium like Spurs.

[anonymous-user]

GTO-3R said:

As much as I love OT and the history of the place, in my opinion it needs pulling down. It's not fit for todays standards in many ways.

I work in the rail industry and can guess it would cost at least 150 million to drop the railway and do all the necessary structural work needed for the stadium to bridge it. It would be a huge job and would end up costing nearly as much as just rebuilding a state of the art stadium like Spurs.

Agree

[unident]

anonymous said:

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Yep. It’s a relic now and probably cheaper to knock down and rebuild then trying to renovate it. Spurs stadium is fantastic amd they’ve got the right idea by trying to make it a full match day experience by getting people to go early and stay afterwards to generate more cash on the day.

[Gone a bit AMG]

anonymous said:

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No chance the Glazer's are dropping a £1bn+ on a new stadium. `

I agree with you all that it should be done but demolishing OT isn't going to happen. They will have affordable solutions to take the capacity to over 80K and enhance the hospitality further still for 15% - 20% of the cost of a new build. We all know the Glazers well enough.

[vonuber]

GTO-3R said:

As much as I love OT and the history of the place, in my opinion it needs pulling down. It's not fit for todays standards in many ways.

I work in the rail industry and can guess it would cost at least 150 million to drop the railway and do all the necessary structural work needed for the stadium to bridge it. It would be a huge job and would end up costing nearly as much as just rebuilding a state of the art stadium like Spurs.

Getting network rail approval for that would be fun in of itself!
Much cheaper just to level it and redo, especially when it comes to upgrading utility infrastructure etc for the next few decades of changing demand.

[unident]

Gone a bit AMG said:

No chance the Glazer's are dropping a 1bn+ on a new stadium. `

I agree with you all that it should be done but demolishing OT isn't going to happen. They will have affordable solutions to take the capacity to over 80K and enhance the hospitality further still for 15% - 20% of the cost of a new build. We all know the Glazers well enough.

True enough, but we can dream. The railway line is a real problem for a]bolting stuff on though, so you never know. Levelling it and rebuilding might actually turn out to be a similar cost.

[unident]

Sorry to bring up the Carragher stuff again, but has anyone seen the twitter spat with Liam Gallagher that happened after Sunday’s results? You’d think Sky would have some form of professionalism conduct written into their contracts, especially after the spitting incident.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/liam-galla...

[anonymous-user]

unident said:

Sorry to bring up the Carragher stuff again, but has anyone seen the twitter spat with Liam Gallagher that happened after Sunday’s results? You’d think Sky would have some form of professionalism conduct written into their contracts, especially after the spitting incident.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/liam-galla...

A Scouser and a City fan having a row, nothing to do with us?

[Cie]

Mad how they’re getting on for 50 year old men

[anonymous-user]

2nd half of the interview went live this morning, his first target is to get us back into CL via top 4 or EL qualification

https://www.manutd.com/en/news/detail/erik-ten-hag...

[unident]

anonymous said:

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I know it’s not it was just there was a little discussion about Sky football becoming difficult / impossible to watch because the pundits are more like fans now and it’s too tribal.

[Cie]

anonymous said:

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Would be nice to win the EL. I know it's "just" the Europa but it's a realistic target and a good start.

[Radec]

I'm not sure the BBC can claim this as breaking news

https://mobile.twitter.com/scottygb/status/1529057...

[ddom]

So Hag. Recently he’s won a noddy cup and a Dutch league title. That’s it. I know it’s Man U and he’s puffing his chest out but I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s another Rangnick. Talks well, but ultimately no metal? Are you really that excited by him?

[Ntv]

unident said:

Gone a bit AMG said:

No chance the Glazer's are dropping a 1bn+ on a new stadium. `

I agree with you all that it should be done but demolishing OT isn't going to happen. They will have affordable solutions to take the capacity to over 80K and enhance the hospitality further still for 15% - 20% of the cost of a new build. We all know the Glazers well enough.

True enough, but we can dream. The railway line is a real problem for a]bolting stuff on though, so you never know. Levelling it and rebuilding might actually turn out to be a similar cost.

Impossible to know without insight on the numbers. I could see however that you could do a hell of a lot for £500m including the tunnel, 88k capacity, expanded concourses (maybe new roof?) vs £1bn+ to actually build a new stadium?

The roof massively detracts from old trafford, but I guess it's not a great ROI on that change. Unless you went full retractable roof and massively increased the use for concerts etc.

[Cie]

ddom said:

So Hag. Recently he’s won a noddy cup and a Dutch league title. That’s it. I know it’s Man U and he’s puffing his chest out but I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s another Rangnick. Talks well, but ultimately no metal? Are you really that excited by him?

Yeah