The league position isn't on paper?
Erik ten Hag Appreciation Thread
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Sicario2 - Tier 1 so you'd rather be a United fan right now? I sure wouldn't. This is the plaster that covers up the fact they need major surgery.
Need to mute those WhatsApp groups if they bother you so much. 
Mate of course we had a better season but they have bragging rights.
Football at this level is ultimately decided in trophies. In 2012 we had a better league season than Chelsea by far but they won the CL (obviously CL bigger than FA cup) but they had the last laugh.
Imagine if Spurs win a trophy before us. We would be laughing stock. Need to win next year.
Sicario2 - Tier 1 what do you mean 'before' us? We won an FA Cup four years ago, so how far do we go back (rhetorical question if that wasn't apparent)?
If any United fan tried to claim they had bragging rights, I think I'd find it very easy to shut that chat down.
Bottom line - yes, we need to win trophies some time soon but if you're feeling insecure because United have won the cup today, then I don't think you're looking at the bigger picture/need to have more pride in what we've achieved & where we're headed. An FA Cup or not doesn't really change that.
We won four FA Cups from 2014-2020 – do we look back at that time as a glorious period, a proud trophy-winning era? No, that's our worst stretch since Arsene arrived in 1996.
Congrats to United, a trophy is a trophy but we have many FA Cups that don't compare to the league.
The path that Arteta is on, I am convinced can get us the bigger trophies. Wenger wouldn't have ever paid up for Rice.
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Sicario2 - Tier 1 Utd also better season than us (on paper).
Agreed, we need a complete rebuild whereas Utd look like a team on the cusp of winning the title.
Mikel won the FA Cup but people still go back and talk about 8th position rather than that. Yes, we gotta win something but let's not pretend league standing has no bearing on how well a season went.
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If United are going into next season with Ratcliffe insisting on any better than the Europa League places from anyone who's managing them, they've got it backwards. Right now the bookies have got them at 9/4 as the seventh most likely club to achieve top four, and that sounds about right. Let's hope the hyper-rational oil and gas investment arbitrage guy is exactly that impatient.
7 managers in 7 seasons for Nice apparently…
goon Yikes, but also, yay.
Thats what he does, baller lool
QuincyAbeyie 89>60
Big talk for a guy who finished 8th and over 30 points off the title winners.
Its incredible now that all of Chelsea United City and Liverpool are all managed by baldies
This "baldness evolution" photo triptych of Maresca from the Athletic's puff piece on him seemed to imply it may be the only qualification you require:
Haha. Qwiss. Are you a card carrying member?