lol All that money on one great player, all the rest on one fat bald has been (well hasn't been for ages now), one aging injury prone 2 good seasons in the past ten, Dutchman and even more on another injury prone Colombian and what does it get you? 14th in the league with no wins, beaten at home of Swansea, out of the league cup 4-0 by a League 1 side and no European football.

You are acting like they are some kinds of LEGENDS.

The quote in the image you post, was attributed to Sir Alex Ferguson around two years ago while he was the United Manager.

At that time he was talking in the PRESENT TENSE i.e. about circumstances, in which MUFC were routinely either Champions or runners-up in the Premier League, year after year;

..... but THAT was the "present tense" as it applied to 2012, with no hint that it was intended to be cast in stone as an eternal principle.

Fergy was right: AT THAT TIME when he said:

"we are not like other clubs who can spend fortunes on proven goods"

because MUFC had been saddled with a crippling debt as a result of the manner in which the Glazers had purchased the Club; and in any case we did not need to buy "proven goods" because we already had a plethora, sufficient to rule the roost in the UK during his term of office.

Things have changed:

(a) the Club is no longer hamstrung by crippling debt as a fortunate result of huge sponsorship deals signed with Adidas

( c ￡750,000,000) and Chevrolet (c ￡357,000,000),

(b) the canny Scot, who was genetically predisposed to thrift and sound judgement, no longer manages the team, and was (sadly) replaced by an uncanny Scot who scarcely shared his genetic predisposition to thrift and was virtually devoid of sound judgement;

(c) the latter two have now been replaced by the Dutch LvG who has no such genetic predisposition to thrift, but may yet prove capable of sound judgement;

(d) United have gone through a whole season of humiliating underachievement, which is is clearly intolerable for a number of multinational companies who expect and require success at any cost, and who have put their monies where their mouths are;

United, together with their sponsors, are commercially successful organisations who expect sound financial management with a view to maintaining and increasing long term profits.

Anyone who tries to suggest that an off-the-cuff statement by a former manager,

..... should drag the Club (along with their sponsors) down into a financial abyss in perpetuity, is frankly living in cloud cuckoo-land,

presumably in some deluded hope that their own favoured Club(s) might somehow benefit from the mighty Red Devils' demise.

Stupid picture... all but two of those players were bought AFTER Sir Alex left and we brought Rooney up after getting him at age 18.

It's a shame we're paying so much for players and giving them such massive wages and are now doing what City and Chelsea have been doing to earn their success, but then it's a private enterprise - whatever the clubs earn through tickets, merchandise, sponsors, etc, is put into wages and whatnot.

I just hope that this talent we're bringing in is integrated nicely with our young (mostly English) players.

Completely agree. Liverpool Arsenal and United were outspending everyone and "ruining" football with money before City and Chelsea came along. They're just upset that the new kids are better at their own tactics.

MOney MOney everywhere

(Sarcasm alert)

I have a solution - at the end of March - each team in the Premier League can BUY upto a maximum of FIVE points at Five Million Pounds Per Point. There will be a three day window for this. I'd expect the top five or six clubs to buy the maximum and I'm certain the bottom six would too. So sixty million extra would be collected and added to the prize money for the finishing order in the final League table. So, instead of spending sixty million on buying players from France/Italy/Germany etc that may or not work out - the clubs buy the points directly. By doing this - we can prevent players from foreign lands being pelted with insults that they aren't worth A) what we paid for you.. or b) what you're being paid each week to miss goals or get sent off etc.

Yeah, I've never really understood the logic behind Alex to be honest. Kinda reminds me when he bought Berbatov for 33 million and hardly used him.

Lmao.

Still not as bad as Real Madrid

You're right, Man Utd are always spending billions thanks to those arabs that bankroll them whereas Man City have earned their way to the top, FACT.

That money could be given to charities....