Manchester City have an estimated global fan base of 5 million.
Real Madrid and Manchester United have estimated global fan bases of half a billion.
And yet Manchester City have greater annual revenue than both of them.
It’s not even subtle.
Rodri was suspended for 2 games and Manchester City lost both.
Spurs lose van de Ven and Maddison and they’re already falling apart.
Manchester United have been missing their entire first choice back four almost all season.
But Pep & Ange are geniuses while Erik is clueless?
Frank Lampard finished just above mid-table with Derby.
Then took Chelsea backwards.
Nearly relegated Everton.
Now losing every game back at Chelsea.
Ole Solskjaer was destroyed by the media for finishing 2nd & 3rd and getting to a European Final.
But Frank is untouchable.
THIS is pre-Abu Dhabi Manchester City.
THIS is Manchester City without oil money, without state funding.
Do Rodri, Haaland, De Bruyne or Ederson sign for THIS Manchester City?
Do Aguero, David Silva or Yaya Toure sign for THIS Manchester City?
Does Pep Guardiola join THIS…
Nathan Ake plays sporadically for City - Van Gaal: No problem, welcome to the Dutch squad.
But if Timber plays sporadically for United (and I think he’d play quite regularly tbh) he’s out of the Dutch squad.
It’s personal, unprofessional and not acceptable from LVG.
#MUFC
Just a little note for
@SkySports
Crystal Palace were involved in that game as well.
They actually won.
It was a huge result for them.
It’s not all about Liverpool.
Lots of City fans editing photos to remove Rashford from yesterday’s first United goal.
So I’ve edited City’s Premier League trophy cabinet if Sheikh Mansour hadn’t taken over the club.
#MUFC
It took Cristiano Ronaldo about an hour to quash rumours of him joining Sporting Lisbon.
And yet he hasn’t quashed rumours of wanting to leave Manchester United for well over a month.
That says it all to me.
#MUFC
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer had a plan.
Michael Carrick and Kieran McKenna fully supported the plan.
The plan was working.
The plan would’ve been successful under different ownership.
Sometimes you don’t fully appreciate what you had until it’s gone.
Martinez, Shaw, Casemiro, Mount, Varane, Maguire, Wan-Bissaka, Malacia, Amrabat, Rashford, Hojlund, Antony, Martial, Reguilon, Mainoo, Amad, Sancho
All been missing at times this season.
But hey, tough times for Liverpool 🤷🏻♀️
Ivan Toney:
232 breaches of FA’s betting rules
8 month ban from all football.
John Terry:
Found guilty of racism by FA
4 game ban.
Manchester City:
115 breaches of FFP regulations
Absolutely nothing.
Ake - barely gets a game.
Sky Sports - Nothing.
Havertz - Scores the winning goal in the CL Final but chances limited.
Sky Sports - Nothing.
Thiago - Zero impact at Liverpool with limited game time
Sky Sports - Nothing.
Donny Van de Beek.
Sky Sports - Every bloody day!
#MUFC
Ole Solskjaer took this shambolic United squad to back to back Champions League qualifications and a European Final.
Steven Gerrard is currently doing worse with Villa than Dean Smith.
But the media hounded Ole out while they continue to back Stevie G 🤷🏻♀️
Make it make sense.
If this was a 122nd minute goal for United being disallowed by VAR, the overwhelming majority would be praising its use and loving United’s heartache.
But it was in favour of United, so apparently it’s the worst decision of all time.
VAR is awful.
But if you can’t talk about…
Paul Merson on
@ManUtd
‘But what are Man United going to do when they play a team at the bottom of the table though?’
Bottom club Leicester were literally our last game Paul. We won.
#MUNARS
#MUFC
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer encourages an environment of learning from mistakes, supporting people when they are down, not giving up on people.
He gets mocked for this regularly.
Today that culture allowed Jesse Lingard and David De Gea to shine.
#MUFC
Ole Out is based on negativity, over-analysis, propaganda and more often than not, lies.
Ole In is based on passion, a genuine affection for the club we support, realism and hope.
We know Ole isn’t perfect, neither are we. But he cares about United and so do we.
#MUFC
Mitoma - £2.7 million
Antony - £80.6 million
Caicedo - £4.5 million
Fred - £47 million
Mac Allister - £7 million
Van de Beek - £40 millon
Enciso - £10 million
Sancho- £73 million
Food for thought 🤔
Tottenham - 1 point from last 5 games.
Manchester United - 12 points from last 5 games
The media - ‘Spurs really knocked by injuries’
The media - ‘Erik ten Hag has lost the dressing room’
HELLO!!!!! 🤷🏻♀️
What Jadon Sancho should’ve said today:
‘Turns out Manchester United were too big for me, I gave 50%, got called out on it, threw my toys out of the pram and sulked while happily collecting my extortionate wages.
It’s good to be home at Dortmund, much more my level.’
This is a performance that Marcus Rashford can’t come back from for me.
Our highest paid player walking around, sulking and letting his team down yet again.
I’m done with him.
This is why I have such a soft spot for Wout Weghorst.
Gives 100% every minute he’s wearing the shirt and is just living the dream for as long as it lasts.
❤️
Gabby Agbonlahor STILL isn’t convinced by Casemiro.
Well Gabby, he’s at least 20x better than you ever were, and yet
@talkSPORT
think you’re qualified to judge a 5x Champions League winner.
🤷🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
People using this image to imply United’s 2nd goal should’ve been offside, cutting out the Leicester player in the middle playing him onside.
Desperate
People come on here and say Sir Alex’s Manchester United didn’t face the same quality that exists today.
I’ll just leave this here:
Zidane
Pirlo
Del Piero
Ronaldinho
Rivaldo
Ronaldo
Maldini
Shevchenko
Gattuso
Redondo
Figo
Roberto Carlos
Hierro
Raul
Casillas
Henry
Bergkamp…
Agbonlahor just said no one should be judging Darwin Nunez after just 3 months.
Agbonlahor who wrote off Lisandro Martinez before he even kicked a ball in the Premier League.
🤷🏻♀️
If a club has nothing to hide, if they feel they’re innocent, they prove it.
If a club knows full well they’re guilty, but feel the rules shouldn’t apply to them, they try to take on the organisation accusing them.
Manchester City are 100% the latter.
#115charges
@uwe2_8
I agree, United’s recruitment has been awful and City’s has been very good.
But that doesn’t change where the money is actually coming from.
Good old Kim Aguero eh 😉
If Sir Jim Ratcliffe wins control of United and keeps all 6 Glazers involved with the club then no one can convince me that he has the club’s best interests at heart.
If you’ve wanted
#GlazersOut
for years then you cannot settle for this, this is not the change we need.
When Ole let Lukaku go and he did well for Inter it was apparently all Ole’s fault.
Now Lukaku touches the ball only 7 times in a game for Chelsea but Tuchel is apparently completely blameless.
The media agenda against Ole was horrific. In the end I think it did affect him.
Andy Hinchcliffe and Izzy Christiansen now doubting United’s mentality because they nearly conceded while 5-0 up on course to win YET ANOTHER game at Old Trafford.
My ears are bleeding.
#MUNNFO
City fans think our comments on not filling their stadium are purely a criticism of their fanbase.
No, it’s much more than that.
How do you record profits beyond the likes of Real Madrid when you can’t even fill a 53,500 capacity stadium?
We all know how.
Casemiro has won 5 CL titles.
People said he was coming for a pay day.
He wasn’t even starting tonight.
But just look at that passion.
This team are together as One.
#MUFC
City fans:
Pep would never be associated with cheating!
But…
Pep was still playing professionally for Italian side Brescia, when a drugs test found Nandrolone in his blood, a potent anabolic steroid, he was given a four-month ban.
And then there’s Barcelona… 🤔
#115charges
@piersmorgan
It’s very possible that all the celebrities/politicians you have been appalled at and attacked on live TV also put their masks on seconds after the picture was taken, but you didn’t care about that until now. Hypocrisy strikes again!
Borussia Dortmund
AC Milan
Manchester United
3 clubs who aren’t dominant in their league, none of them are current champions or top at present.
All have capacity crowds weekly, no matter the date, time or opponent.
Manchester City are a joke.
115 pending ⏳
@HKane
@BBCMOTD
@England
If you respond to this tweet with anything negative or insulting about Kane or any other England player, then you’re part of the problem.
If United were relegated tomorrow, the vast majority of their fan base would remain.
If City were relegated tomorrow, they’d be left with the Maine Road faithfuls who followed them down to League One.
City fans are kidding themselves if they think otherwise.
@UtdFaithfuls
If you doubted Marcus Rashford, wrote him off and lost all patience, don’t do the same to Jadon, look at Marcus now. Jadon Sancho is a quality player having a crisis of confidence, he needs our support.
Aaron Wan-Bissaka might not be the stereotypical modern full back, but against an old fashioned winger like Doku, you wouldn’t want anyone else.
Thank-you Aaron 👏🏻👏🏻
People say Bruno Fernandes isn’t world class, that he wouldn’t get anywhere near City’s team.
Well today he gave a footballing lesson to De Bruyne, Rodri, Bernardo Silva & Foden.
Bruno is and always has been an elite level talent.
We are so damn lucky to have him.
Our Captain
Paul Scholes has spent the last 5 years on TV saying how boring United are and how they should be entertaining the Old Trafford crowd.
Antony does a spin and he wants him disciplined for it, says there’s no place for it.
Scholesy - incredible player, 💩 pundit.
People angry on here saying Axl Rose didn’t do ‘Sweet Child O’ Mine’ justice.
Maybe time to remember that he’s 61 years old and the song wouldn’t even exist if he hadn’t written it.
When you’ve written and performed an immortal rock classic, then check back in.
#GunsNRoses
Michael Oliver was effectively employed by Manchester City to work on VAR in the UAE.
And the FA see no problem with giving him VAR responsibility for the FA Cup Final in which Manchester City will play.
It’s pretty obvious that City’s 115 charges are going to magically vanish,…
My last one for the night:
When Jurgen Klopp leaves Liverpool this season, the media will actually ask if Klopp is in the mix for greatest manager in Premier League history.
1 League title
1 FA Cup
2 League Cups
1 Champions League
9 Years
Sir Alex Ferguson:
13 League titles…
Manchester City, apparently the greatest of all time, won the Premier League title for the 4th year in a row.
No one cares.
Manchester United, apparently living off past glories and no longer relevant, won the FA Cup.
Biggest story of the year.
Manchester will ALWAYS be RED.
Bruno Fernandes has played more minutes than any player across all of Europe’s top leagues.
Here he is sprinting forwards, full of energy and determination.
This was the 94th minute, seconds before the final whistle, already 2-0 up.
Phenomenal ❤️
#MUFC
@piersmorgan
@realDonaldTrump
And just like that, Piers and Donald are friends again, and the anti-Biden stuff this week all makes sense. So damn fickle.
Erik ten Hag didn’t see Aaron Wan-Bissaka in his plans.
No whinging on social media though, no interviews or tantrums.
Just hard work.
Erik saw that, and respected that.
And AWB is now the clear first choice RB, probably been our best player so far this season.
This is the way.
@petehausler
The funny thing is, part of the process for creating these stats, which are very easily accessible btw, is retail, club memberships and international merchandise sales. City can’t even fill their own stadium.
@real_defender
@JoeBiden
If Joe Biden had his way, the pandemic in the US would already be under control and hundreds of thousands may well still be alive to share Christmas with their loved ones.
@rpoultz
@sportbible
@GNev2
How did he become a millionaire? Sat on his arse tapping away at a keyboard, or training every day from the age of 5 and playing his heart out for club and country for 20 years?
@piersmorgan
Everyone? As a teacher are you saying I definitely caught it today? Or are you just exaggerating to scare everyone again?
By the way, how was Antigua?
Manchester United has been built on the passion and drive of Sir Matt Busby and Sir Alex Ferguson.
It is now being destroyed by a group of Florida based businessmen who probably watched their first game of ‘soccer’ 16 years ago, and haven’t bothered since.
#WeWantOurBallBack
Heard a lot over the last few days about great rivalries.
One of these is a rivalry, one is a few messages on pieces of card away from Love Actually.
#MUFC
There are United fans on here who know The United Stand presenters, but don’t know who Denis Irwin is.
They decide whether legends of the past were any good based on YouTube compilations and playing FIFA.
They have no respect for what came before them, the term recency bias was…
Would Sheikh Jassim be spending days meeting everyone associated with the club including Kath?
I very much doubt it.
Sir Jim Ratcliffe has already demonstrated how important this venture is to him.
It feels right and a really positive step to have him onboard.
#MUFC
Martin Keown saying Arsenal having to play so many games makes it completely understandable that they will have dips.
Don’t recall any understanding or sympathy from Martin towards United who have played more games than Arsenal.
To quote Danny Dyer - ‘Twat’
If a United player posted WTF on social media in relation to a referee, the investigation to determine the length of their ban would already be underway.
But Haaland & City will probably get an apology.
Casemiro has signed.
The De Jong deal was probably dead along time ago.
I still think we’ll get at least one of Gakpo or Antony, still possibly both.
Goldbridge woke up and remembered that negativity = clicks
@utdreport
I’m so bored of these pathetic performances from Pogba. He’s given away 3 penalties already this season which is probably equal to the number of new hairstyles he’s modelled on social media.
@piersmorgan
You don’t hang around when you hear some Meghan and Harry news. Every time they do exactly what you say they should do, you find a way to immediately dismiss the gesture.
If you learnt a lot about the Qatari human rights situation this winter, and you’re watching where Middle Eastern investment has led City, then I’m not sure the rumours that Manchester United are about to be bought by Qatari investment should sit well with any of us.
Sir Alex Ferguson will always be the greatest for me, but the Sir Alex vs Pep debate is always a little disrespectful to Carlo Ancelotti.
The only manager to win league titles in all 5 top European leagues.
4 Champions League titles.
Understated and underrated.
@Kevin35786505
@IanWright0
What an utterly ridiculous response to Ian’s heartfelt message. I even get the vibe that you’re more put out by Luiz’s sending off than racist abuse. 🤷🏻♀️
The way every single pundit refuses to discuss the ‘elephant in the room’ makes you actually wonder if they’re just the latest to be paid off by the ‘Champions’
#115charges
@UtdFaithfuls
Maybe he’s watched the first 2 games and realised a different midfield approach is required in the Premier League.
He may also think that although De Jong could do the role he wanted, no one else can, so if we can’t get FDJ we need to change the system.
@TheFergusonWay
No need to be disrespectful to someone getting into tennis though.
This is still a very good final, not the greatest play, but certainly an emotional rollercoaster and a great story.
Apparently Mason Mount is a flop, Garnacho is clearly overrated, Bruno has lost it now he’s captain, Casemiro is too old, Rashford will never score again and ten Hag should go.
1 game folks.
Just 1 game.
If you’re making judgements after 1 game then go play with your TikTok.
@Joe02814943
Poor decision, even if it’s technically correct by the letter of the law?
Most people saying it was the wrong decision are not basing that assessment on facts, they’re basing it on the desire to see Coventry beat Manchester United.