United are a huge mess to the very core of the club. The focus isn’t on winning it’s about making money. They have appointed yes men to key positions like CEO and director of football who have no experience in the job. Technical Director Darren Fletcher was in the dug out at times last year, what’s that about?
The attitude of the squad absolutely stinks, they have no fight in them. Primadonnas like Fernandes sulking and being petulant in big games (Liverpool last year, City on Sunday). They have no backbone. They need Ratcliffe to come in and install a proper footballing set up upstairs and to modernise the thoroughly outdated training ground. Even then, it’ll take years for them to catch up. They’re 5 years away from being genuinely competitive (and I don’t mean using a new manager bounce to get top 4 now and again).
Chelsea are in a much much bigger mess than people realise. It’s not just that they’ve spunked over a billion quid on talent, they’ve only bought kids. Raheem Sterling is one of their most senior players and he’s only 28. Not to mention he’s hardly a beacon of mental fortitude. When United used kids in 94 onwards, the squad was still packed with experienced pros to help guide them. Schmeichel, Irwin, Bruce, Robson, Cantona, to name just a few. Chelsea needs more players with experience to help them on the pitch but that means spending more money.
The ownership seems blindly insistent that either the players will become world beaters or they’ll get their money back in sales and will avoid FFP through clever accounting tricks. This only works if they regularly get into the Champions League which looks miles away right now.
I genuinely think there is a strong possibility of Chelsea doing a Leeds and getting so fucked by FFP it’ll take years to recover. The owners have tried to shake up established norms that are established for a reason. They’ve totally screwed the pooch.
In summary both clubs are in a bad bad way but United are much worse. If the reforms Ratcliffe attempts don’t come off they’re looking at Liverpool esque years in the wilderness.
Chelsea by contrast can save themselves by bringing in some more experienced heads on the field but it’s already an uphill task to turn around a naive and I experienced dressing room.
United are a huge mess to the very core of the club. The focus isn’t on winning it’s about making money. They have appointed yes men to key positions like CEO and director of football who have no experience in the job. Technical Director Darren Fletcher was in the dug out at times last year, what’s that about?
The attitude of the squad absolutely stinks, they have no fight in them. Primadonnas like Fernandes sulking and being petulant in big games (Liverpool last year, City on Sunday). They have no backbone. They need Ratcliffe to come in and install a proper footballing set up upstairs and to modernise the thoroughly outdated training ground. Even then, it’ll take years for them to catch up. They’re 5 years away from being genuinely competitive (and I don’t mean using a new manager bounce to get top 4 now and again).
Chelsea are in a much much bigger mess than people realise. It’s not just that they’ve spunked over a billion quid on talent, they’ve only bought kids. Raheem Sterling is one of their most senior players and he’s only 28. Not to mention he’s hardly a beacon of mental fortitude. When United used kids in 94 onwards, the squad was still packed with experienced pros to help guide them. Schmeichel, Irwin, Bruce, Robson, Cantona, to name just a few. Chelsea needs more players with experience to help them on the pitch but that means spending more money.
The ownership seems blindly insistent that either the players will become world beaters or they’ll get their money back in sales and will avoid FFP through clever accounting tricks. This only works if they regularly get into the Champions League which looks miles away right now.
I genuinely think there is a strong possibility of Chelsea doing a Leeds and getting so fucked by FFP it’ll take years to recover. The owners have tried to shake up established norms that are established for a reason. They’ve totally screwed the pooch.
In summary both clubs are in a bad bad way but United are much worse. If the reforms Ratcliffe attempts don’t come off they’re looking at Liverpool esque years in the wilderness.
Chelsea by contrast can save themselves by bringing in some more experienced heads on the field but it’s already an uphill task to turn around a naive and I experienced dressing room.