Its wrong. You can add the transfer fee of our players and compare it with City squad.
If I have done calculation correctly, ManUtd squad was assembled for 473 Million pounds or 494 Million pounds (if Martial addons are paid in full) with plus or minus few millions.
City paid 532 Million pounds to assemble their squad and that is without adding addons for Stones, Gabriel Jesus.
Real Madrid paid 581 Million Euros or 611 Million Euros (If you include Coentrao whom they have loaned out) to assemble their squad.
Yeah I think I'd take Sky Sports' calculations over yours mate.
Wow, you're taking things out of context and rewriting history now. A Chelsea fan suggesting that United treats its managers poorly is incredible to say the least.
You brought up Moyes and compared his treatment with your treatment of Rafa.. I think even though all United fans dislike Rafa as well, most of us sympathized with him and thought that his treatment at the hands of Chelsea fans was nothing but a disgrace. In fact it is one of the most disgraceful examples in PL history of fans being toxic.
Moyes finished 7th and won nothing. Still a lot of us backed him until the situation became toxic. For his first half season at the club many fans and the club itself were willing to give him a chance. Rafa on the other hand was mercilessly mocked and tormented from the first day he was appointed. He was given no chance whatsoever. Is that fair? Is that decent? No matter what, when you're not even willing to give your manager a single game, that's not justifiable under any circumstances.
Rafa actually got you guys in the top four AND won you the Europa League - Moyes won nothing.
And more importantly Rafa was treated horribly even before he started, and he delivered results despite this. Total opposite of what happened with Moyes.
Now as for LVG. The majority of United fans were (and still are) fair and balanced in assessing LVG's reign. Mourinho even went so far as to dedicate the Community Shield to him. Fans did not protest against LVG every single game from the very day he was appointed, and did not mock and jeer at him incessantly regardless of results. Which is precisely what you did to Rafa. Not a fair comparison. I think you shot yourself in the foot by bringing up Rafa. That was just completely classless and toxic behavior from your fans.
Benitez said some disparaging things about Chelsea and Jose while at Liverpool. He's just generally a twat and it was a poisonous union. However, again, not all Chelsea fans treated him with contempt. But I simply cannot understand
@Blue Barrett 's attitude regarding this. It's hypocritical, to say the least.
@Blue Barrett Stop acting like that is indicative of the entire fanbase. A minority were responsible for that, and if i recall correctly, the fans at OT actually rallied around the massively unpopular Moyes when that banner was flown over OT, booing the banner in the process.
What you two either can't seem to understand or are completely clueless about is that Benitez was one of the most hated opposition managers before he ever got hired by Chelsea. In fact, fans were upset at Roman for disregarding our wishes and hiring him. Maybe you were both too young to remember (and I don't mean that in a disparaging way) so I'll help you remember.
Between 2004 and 2009 the rivalry between Chelsea and Liverpool was intense. It was a lot more intense than our rivalry with United or even Arsenal, probably because we met Liverpool in cup finals and played them in the knockout stages of the Champions League 3 years in a row, got knocked out by them the first two times. If you've been watching football for a while, you'll know that Benitez is the originator of the term "plastic" as used to describe a football fan, in this case Chelsea fans. Having a dig at Chelsea supporters for waving flags during one of our matches against them and saying Liverpool fans support with "heart and passion, not plastic flags" was extremely insulting, utterly classless and totally unnecessary.
In all the years Fergie and Wenger had spats with each other at the height of the United-Arsenal rivalry, neither manager stooped as low as attacking the opposing fans. In all the years Jose has been having a go at Wenger, he has never once attacked Arsenal fans, as easy as that would have been to do. Benitez is a narcissistic cnut who decided he had no problem having a go at fans who paid hard earned money to come support a club they love. He said that right in the middle of an intense rivalry too, which made it even more offensive. And mind, this was barely 2 years after Roman had taken over at Chelsea so the "play thing", "toy club", "fake fans" jokes were all very fresh and that just took it up several levels. Hilarious, by the way, because I'm certain that 80% of Liverpool's 40 and older fan base started supporting Liverpool during their glory days of the 70's, but that's another topic entirely.
But you don't get to insult a whole fan base like that as a manager and then come around expecting us to forget it all of a sudden just because you're trying to be an opportunist, adding Chelsea to your resume for a quick buck to set yourself for whatever other job (and surprisingly getting offended towards the end of his tenure that we'd even think about bringing back Jose rather than keeping him long term, the fat cnut). We had every right to boo him. It wasn't about the football that was being played on the pitch,
it was personal. That's the difference here. Even Lampard acknowledged we had every right to have a go at Rafa. Add to the fact that fans were upset RDM wasn't given much time despite the CL and FA Cup victories the previous season (whether you think RDM is a quality manager or not is not the point here).
When he produced the results at the end of the season that he'd been paid good money for, we gave him his credit and he went on his way.
Guess what?
We still didn't fly a bloody plane over the Bridge. And you have some real balls right there to say "oh it was only a small section of the fan base flying the plane, it doesn't represent all United fans" but turn around to paint ALL Chelsea fans as racists when 4 racist idiots push a black man off a train in Paris. You want to talk about hypocrisy? Please.
. He is probably right, in the case that Jose needs to be backed as we all know Jose is always good at his second seasons in charge.
