While it's likely not happening, I've always imagined a PES/EAFC (FIFA) scenario where a 2nd Division team could've still been able to compete in UCL!

11 hours ago, Dobbo said:

Well that looked like a fun ending, I didn't watch the game but talk about doing things the hard way. It's very Coventry in the FA Cup a few years ago, did our absolute best to throw it away but hey ho we got over the line somehow!

Imagine the Europa League final being 16th vs 17th in the Premier league 🤣

Shows the strength of the league 😜

Both games will be tough. Tottenham have beat Man Utd three times this season. Athletic B are pretty good too but both very winnable if Amorim gets it right. The money from it desperately needed to create a title winning squad next year

14 hours ago, Liam S said:

Difference is Man Utd are the biggest club in the world and Man Utd against anyone is a bigger game than Liverpool against PSG.

Two more teams to beat and Man Utd are back in the champions league 🫡

It’s this attitude and why it will never not be funny at how terrible Man Utd currently are. Long may it continue.

18 minutes ago, Rooney said:

It’s this attitude and why it will never not be funny at how terrible Man Utd currently are. Long may it continue.

Something special is brewing. Enjoy the days of Man Utd being terrible because they’re almost over

15 minutes ago, Liam S said:

Something special is brewing. Enjoy the days of Man Utd being terrible because they’re almost over

A return to the dizzy heights of 6th in the Premier League?

Score in the last minute against a team with 10 men and suddenly Utd are back. I’ve seen this story SO many times and it never stops being funny.

7 minutes ago, Rooney said:

A return to the dizzy heights of 6th in the Premier League?

Score in the last minute against a team with 10 men and suddenly Utd are back. I’ve seen this story SO many times and it never stops being funny.

Way to play down one of the greatest

European comebacks of all time in perhaps the greatest europa league game of all time. Two wins away from champions league football and two trophies in two seasons.

Just so people know the reason you see two Liverpool fans playing down the result last night is they have PTSD from last season where Liverpool were leading Man Utd in extra time and they ended up going out to a last minute Amad winner. They saw it happen again. Man Utd have great comebacks in their DNA and there will be no greater comeback than finishing 16th then winning the title next year. Just you wait

Edited April 18Apr 18 by Liam S

37 minutes ago, Liam S said:

Way to play down one of the greatest

European comebacks of all time in perhaps the greatest europa league game of all time. Two wins away from champions league football and two trophies in two seasons.

Just so people know the reason you see two Liverpool fans playing down the result last night is they have PTSD from last season where Liverpool were leading Man Utd in extra time and they ended up going out to a last minute Amad winner. They saw it happen again. Man Utd have great comebacks in their DNA and there will be no greater comeback than finishing 16th then winning the title next year. Just you wait

It was a good comeback. Similar to Liverpool vs Dortmund in 2016. I would hardly class it as one of the greatest European comebacks though. A good Man Utd comeback but certainly not one of the greatest of all time in Europe.

And PTSD about what? No Liverpool fan even cares about the FA Cup game from last season. It’s just classic Man Utd post Fergie, the amount of times the corner gets turned then you crash it’s genuinely hilarious to all other football fans who grew up in the 90s and early 00s. Got spanked by Newcastle, will drop points to Wolves at the weekend but Utd are back. Like I say, will never stop being funny.

More chance of Southampton delivering a Premier League title next season than Man Utd.

Last nights game was a cracker even from a liverpool fans POV as I love football. I also like Harry Maguire and think he gets too much flack.

But context is everything in these things. It’s the Europa league Q-F (basically like saying the championship of European football had a great playoff final), Lyon are an average French side currently 4th in Liga 1 nearly 20 points off the top spot, they were down to ten men and in that context took a 2 goal lead against United in ET before a great comeback. But to hyperbole it and say it was the greatest European game of all time is getting carried away(there’s been plenty of CL knockout games like this).

Not saying United won’t improve with Amorim (I am a fan) they likely will if you look at the current league table there isn’t much between 17th and 4-5th spot, they all beat each other but the telling part will be again recruitment which United have already spent 1 billion on post Fergie.

Winning two trophies in two seasons under two different managers potentially? Just symbolises the state of the club.

One thing is, yous can’t get any worse than this season. So he likely will improve yous but where that’ll end up we will have to wait and see.

On 18/04/2025 at 13:14, Liam S said:

Both games will be tough. Tottenham have beat Man Utd three times this season. Athletic B are pretty good too but both very winnable if Amorim gets it right. The money from it desperately needed to create a title winning squad next year

Spurs are Spurs - they don’t win big games!

22 hours ago, Steve201 said:

Winning two trophies in two seasons under two different managers potentially? Just symbolises the state of the club.

What a state.

Yup but for Liverpool it was a handover from a legend to a new man who is set to win the league in his first season in charge 😀

3 hours ago, Steve201 said:

Yup but for Liverpool it was a handover from a legend to a new man who is set to win the league in his first season in charge 😀

Yeah that’s a bonkers dig 😂 Club legend who has effectively retired from managerial to a man who nobody had heard of 12 months ago who’s about to win the league. I’d say that’s called some exceptional succession planning from the higher beings at the club.

And yet Steve claims that two managers winning two different trophies in two seasons symbolises a club in a sorry state. Go figure that one out.

Well it does, Liam tried to claim that if you’d win the Europa League it’ll be two trophies in two seasons which is a statement which doesn’t show any context whatsoever.

Whereas you are having a dig that Liverpool are doing the same which factually is true but the context is hugely different.

4 hours ago, awardinary said:

And yet Steve claims that two managers winning two different trophies in two seasons symbolises a club in a sorry state. Go figure that one out.

I think what Steve was trying to articulate is Man Utd are poorly run. Ten Haag should have been sacked in the summer, yet he wasn’t. Now you have Amorim who, I think the jury is out on, who is going to buy a load of players to suit 352. Yeah that’s fine but when Amorim leaves who’s going to be the next manager? Instead you’re left with a load of wing backs who can’t play full back and can’t be wide forwards.

How did you even get to this. The context doesn’t matter. Two trophies in two seasons wouldn’t be bad. The FA cup was won by a thrilling extra time QF win over Liverpool and beating Man City in the final. If the Europa is won securing a champions league place after a troubled season that will salvage the season.

Also I don't think any United fan is under any illusion how bad the club is run. Gary Neville makes it clear in almost every interview and I agree with him. I too haven't shied away from making negative comments about my team as shown throughout this thread and the last one and I have no need to edit those comments when again they were factually true to both the results and quality of play. We expect better and this transition is a time of restructuring that will get us back to being a stable club again run better than it has been in all the time since Fergie left.

Also for context I wouldn't call this a successful season by any standard even if a trophy was won, but if it's a ticket back into the champions league for next season then it's going to be a huge attraction for future recruits.

No need to edit your comments @awardinary , def not. Everyone’s entitled to their say!

The thing I took exception to was the context. I mean winning a trophy especially something like the Europa League is fun but it isn’t where you want to be as a club (the biggest in the world according to some comments the other day). It’s basically the championship of European football. So context is important when looking at the bigger picture surely is all I meant. But I take the point it helps get you back to where you want to be albeit it’s the long way to doing so.

It's only worth being in the Champions League if we're actually gonna make a fist of it. I was thrilled when we finished 3rd in 2022/23 but then we absolutely embarrassed ourselves in the CL the following season. I'd rather avoid the ignominy of going through that again. Amorim is gonna need one hell of a summer transfer window if we somehow do sneak our way in. This current squad would do well to avoid finishing 36th in the new group stage format.