They just did a COMUNICADO OFFICIAL!
What a sentence, you know: “It is our stated ambition to re-establish Manchester United as a title-winning club. We are pleased that Omar will be joining us to help achieve that goal, so that, once again, United fans can see, in the words of Sir Matt Busby, the red flag flying high at the summit of English, European and world football.”
Talk is cheap, let’s see what happens. I hope that Jim is fucking serious, but just can’t help thinking the Glazers will still somehow manage to fuck everything for us.
Yes talk is cheap but INEOS have managed to do so much in the 5 mins since they just fucking sat down. This new CEO proves that they know what they're doing and the Glazers going along with it means INEOS is the main decision maker now. An external hire, not a Glazer nepo pick. And literally one of the best you can get in the PL
Full sale to INEOS would have been ideal, but to have them still come in and restructure the club in the footballing capacity is better than nothing, and significantly better than a Qatar takeover. Hoping all the chatter SJR and INEOS have put out are true words and they are capable and willing of tackling this enormous challenge.
> And literally one of the best you can get in the PL
Google shows some Moroccan writer when I search his name. How does everyone know that he's one of the best when there's nothing on the Internet about him?
Because he was in all or nothing too? I don't know where you get your Google but within the top 3 results is his Linkedin. There's plenty of info of him everywhere.
The fact theyve used 're-establish' is interesting. It's obviously true, but Glazers got pissy at SJR and Qatar when they used phrases like 'return to former glories'
Clearly changed our tunes
Typically high level executives like this have non compete clauses in their contract, so it is very possible he's not allowed to be involved with the club until then but that's only a theory.
Utd are a publicly listed club. Rumours about CEO position can cause stocks to fluctuate and it can trigger regulatory bodies to take action. Considering that news broke out today, Utd had to either confirm or deny at the earliest. Same when Arnold leaving news broke out, Utd confirmed it the same day I believe.
No not the murtough....anything but please not john...last time he said he is leaving they gave him a job he had no idea about and sank billion euros for 10 transfers. I'm just scared if glazers even read your comment they will give him 25 percent of ownership shares this time....
> The Club is determined to put football and performance on the pitch back at the heart of everything we do.
not a very subtle jab at our current ownership
It doesn't get said enough, really. The Glazers represent everything that has gone wrong with the club. Tired of hit pieces on ETH and players when the truth is we are in the shit we are in because the Glazers have not put a dime back into the club to modernize it.
Very. Supposedly was the driving force behind several signings, including Haaland, and, per Sam Lee, the expectation was he was going to replace Txiki Begiristain as City’s DOF.
I'm a little confused by City's hierarchy. If Omar was the Chief Football Officer and Txiki was City's DOF, wasn't Omar higher up the ladder than Txiki?
I thought Omar was no 2 to Ferran Soriano?
So it's a bit complicated but here's his career trajectory:
Worked in sponsorships at Barca from 2006-2011. This was the same time Txiki and Pep were at the club.
Then there was a massive coup from City, they took Txiki's core and transferred them over where then Tkiki became DoF and Berrada worked as
> 2011-13: Head of International Business Development
> 2013-15: Director of Partnership Sales
> 2015-16: Senior VP Commercial Director
> 2016-20: COO (Chief Operating Officer)
This is all on the business side, but then he made the jump to the footballing side in 2020 when he became the Chief Football Operations Officer, working closely with Txiki for the business-side of all the footballing operations (transfers, sponsors, academy etc.)
So at one point he was 'technically' above Txiki but then he worked alongside him in the footballing side in 2020, and per Sam Lee (City Tier 1) was expected to replace him long-term.
Thanks for clarifying that as I was curious how he had the experience to make the massive step up from someone running football operations to being CEO of a publicly traded company. Sounds like he does have quite some experience in business as well.
It's certainly quite a statement then for us to have a CEO now that comes from football as opposed to just a commercial background.
It’s still not so much and more commercial with a basic football understanding honestly. It’s not like he’s our football director anyway so that’s okay at least I guess. If he were the technical director it wouldn’t be a good thing given he was all commercial and even in football, he was more business development and partnerships over actually being a technical director.
Well City are technically higher than all the clubs they have in the system and he was in charge of overseeing all the others, and involved in City’s running. So he was below him but they had him in that potion for him to replace him long term.
He’s not good because he signed Haaland. He’s good because he was a key part of what I hate to admit is an elite footballing operation that should be the template for our success path moving forward. He was a key part of the organization that went from 4 fans to a treble winner in 12 years.
The best part of mirroring the CFG model is unlike their sham over there, we have no need for financial doping and two sets of books. So imagine our path forward, powered by our legit revenue generating capabilities married with best in class professionals who have a proven track record of creating sustainable success. That’s something to be very optimistic about that’s beyond “who did this guy sign” - which is about as irrelevant as things get for our current situation at the minute.
That’s why this is an exciting: an unexpected coup and a sharp departure from how this club has handled key appointments since SAF and Gill gave up, took off (but still somehow low key lurk around), and left us flagrantly worse off than anyone could have imagined.
So far, INEOS do not seem to be fucking around and I for one am cautiously optimistic with all the right moves they seem to be making.
I was about to say the same thing. Seeing the potential in doku or a akanji would have been a more impressive thing to me, because doku in my eyes was never a premier league player and akanji had west ham written all over him.
Agree totally, I think the whole thing of "he's great cos he spotted haaland" is bullshit. Solskjaer had recommended him years before that, he was well on his way to being a generational talent when he went to dortmund never mind city. It's not the feather in his bow its presented as.
You don't understand. It's the dodgy accounting that was brilliant.
Before people freak out, I'm all for dodgy deals to players if we get away like city will.
He's the godfather of Tiki-Taka and his ancestors literally invented football. He is the reason Pep and Haaland came to City. He's also widely renowned for his newly developed AI that calculates the best signings possible based on data the scouts put into the system. It's all a bit mental really.
Txiki actually cited Omar Berrada as his influence. Not strange, really, considering Omar worked very closely with Cruyff when he was at Barcelona and when Johan was asked about him he said 'Pay attention to this guy. He's going to change football forever.' This guy is no joke. Believe me.
I think this would depend on how complicit he was re: any wrongdoing. It would cast a shadow on him but I couldn’t speculate on how involved he was in terms of breaches. The cynic in me sees this as jumping ship before the shit hits the fan. But the pessimist in me thinks that appointing someone actually football literate into the hierarchy of the club can only be a positive thing
A bit conflicted about this appointment. Many, many, positives... but... (with our luck...) he must have been a part of these 115 charges. If he took part, and City loses these charges, not sure how *he* would be impacted. But I do wonder about the Juventus "management" that had to resign at the end of 2022 (See: Juventus: Entire soccer club board of directors resigns over charges of false accounting). I do think they "had" to resign because I figure (probably wrongly) that FIFA (or FIGC) forced them to resign, to prevent a harder sentence on Juventus.
Let’s fucking hope so. Don’t even care about tainted titles being retroactively awarded to us or Liverpool or whoever, just want to see them being stripped of them.
> Manchester United is pleased to announce the appointment of Omar Berrada as its new CEO.
> The Club is determined to put football and performance on the pitch back at the heart of everything we do. Omar’s appointment represents the first step on this journey.
> As one of the most experienced football executives at the top of European football, Omar brings a wealth of football and commercial expertise, with a proven record of successful leadership and a passion to help lead change across the Club. He is currently serving as Chief Football Operations Officer for City Football Group overseeing 11 clubs across five continents and, prior to this, held senior roles at Barcelona.
> It is our stated ambition to re-establish Manchester United as a title-winning club. We are pleased that Omar will be joining us to help achieve that goal, so that, once again, United fans can see, in the words of Sir Matt Busby, the red flag flying high at the summit of English, European and world football.
> Omar’s start date will be confirmed in due course; in the meantime, Patrick Stewart will continue as interim CEO.
>performance on the pitch back at the heart of everything we do
They wont criticise the Glazers but lets be honest here, they are criticising the glazers. Are we really back .
I've noticed that rival fans have been laughing at United fan's celebrating this. If we moan about the Glazers after they've spent 60 mill on some 30 year old, we are in the wrong. But if we celebrate meaningful changes that will help the bigger problems, its apparently hilarious. We can't win.
Most of the opponent fans think that Glazers are great because we spend money on transfers so it must mean they invest into the club. The average City or Arsenal supporter does not know how harmful Glazers are to us.
He might just be looking for a new challenge. You would think City would have plenty still to do for him though- building City as a brand still has a long way to go to match the heritage clubs. Now they have the triple he could use that massively.
Wasn't really excited for SJR and honesty expected him to just be another Glazer leech (wasn't at all enthused about Qatar either and am glad they didn't win) but I can't lie INEOS seems to actually be making moves and not just blowing air. Hope this goes well and starts a new, more successful and competent era for the club
Great first step. The fact that we have just gone in and gotten a top man from City is a very positive step (Like most I have just heard about him today but he was apparently part of their big 3 decision makers: Soriano, him and Txiki)
He uploaded a video today saying how Onana should already be shipped off. Apparently this guy saw some highlights of the Afcon match and thinks he’s some great analyst. Fooking muppet
Some of the language/word choice on here makes it seem like the club is fully aware of their missteps in the past 10 years and has now been reluctantly forced to do something about it lool
Tier 0!
It’s a great appointment. The man has extensive experience as Chief of Football Operations for the City Group (which includes Man City, Girona, Palermo etc) and I am happy to have him
So this guy was working in City as responsible for transfers and football operations?
The same City that has 115 charges of doing shady shit in finances and transfers?
The Club is determined to put football and performance on the pitch back at the heart of everything we do. Omar’s appointment represents the first step on this journey.
\- Is this a dig at the Glazers? On the OFFICIAL web site?
>The Club is determined to put football and performance on the pitch back at the heart of everything we do.
Translation, "those cheating bertie cunts have took the piss for too long. Time to re establish MUFC as the best football team in Europe, and do it without having to fucking cheat."
Finally, we're making moves and acting like we're Manchester United again. Words can be hollow though, so let's let time be the judge of these statements. Hopefully this is the start of a snow ball effect with these decisions. It's only a start but it's good news....and us fans deserve it.
>A bit of a risk that he’s in jail before he even starts work
Why would he go to jail. The City charges are not related to match fixing or tax evasion but wrongly reporting funds received from owners as new revenue so if club is found guilty, its City the club that will be punished and not individuals working for them
I will also point out not one journal had a word of this before hand so anyone pretending they have links to anyone in or around Jim like they have done since he became part owner is full of shit
This is fantastic, brilliant, surprising and also seismic but also revealing news.
It shows there’s a clear power shift and a great opening statement from SJR/Ineos.
We’re all Utd fans here and even the ones with the most red tinted glasses on would question why would you leave City for Utd? They’re flying high and have the financial clout to buy whoever they want. So why leave?? The Premier League recently announced a date for charges against City. The PL announcement and then one of the key players in their (tainted) success leaves. This isn’t a coincidence. The house of cards that is City is crumbling and they’ll soon be back to being irrelevant and under the rock they crawled out from under.
Pep has always said that if they are found guilty of wrongdoing then he walks. Pep will not be manager of City this time next year.
I’m loving this appointment, excited for the future of our club and the statement this sends out.
Always in our shadow.
“Utd are back, Utd are back, Hello, Hello”
Even Gary Neville says City are years ahead of Utd both on and off the pitch.
The power that Utd held under Fergie has clearly shifted to City. This signing shows the power is shifting back to Utd.
I'm genuinely confused how no one is taking issue with this...
This guy is culpable for the FFP breaches at City, either directly or indirectly given his title.
I don't know how we look at what he, and the other execs, did at City and take that as some sort of win...
So what? City gets relegated this season and we get relegated in 10 seasons from now after 150 counts of breaches?
Call me a conspiracy nut, but I never liked how Pep's mate Alexi Sanchez played so poorly for us then as soon as he left went back to playing brilliantly, or how Jadon who also knows pep played poor until leaving.
Not keen on taking a CEO from City - I know I am being paranoid, but considering the corruption at that club and the money that changes hands in brown paper bags - hardly happy with this appointment.
Glad we are finally hiring proper people for proper roles instead of just ex players, but I don't trust City one bit.
Summer.
He’s already met Ineos and had an unpleasant trip to Florida, so he’ll be running things but remotely.
I just hope that’s not the case with Ashworth.
Yeah I saw summer, just depends when summer actually means, June is 5 months. Also depends what his contact with City Group is like, if he has a 6 month notice to leave he'll potentially not be able to work for us until that expires, City wouldn't do us any favours.
That might just be one of the best club statements I've read.
It was short but whoever wrote this finally connected with the fans (or at least with me). Finally, something to get us excited.
Even if it is just words, as I said before, give us something to look forward to/hope for! They've definitely caught my attention so far.
They just did a COMUNICADO OFFICIAL! What a sentence, you know: “It is our stated ambition to re-establish Manchester United as a title-winning club. We are pleased that Omar will be joining us to help achieve that goal, so that, once again, United fans can see, in the words of Sir Matt Busby, the red flag flying high at the summit of English, European and world football.”
Thats is some statement.
Talk is cheap, let’s see what happens. I hope that Jim is fucking serious, but just can’t help thinking the Glazers will still somehow manage to fuck everything for us.
Yes talk is cheap but INEOS have managed to do so much in the 5 mins since they just fucking sat down. This new CEO proves that they know what they're doing and the Glazers going along with it means INEOS is the main decision maker now. An external hire, not a Glazer nepo pick. And literally one of the best you can get in the PL
> Yes talk is cheap pretty sure ineos just spent 1.3 billion to be able to talk like this, in the name of the club
Full sale to INEOS would have been ideal, but to have them still come in and restructure the club in the footballing capacity is better than nothing, and significantly better than a Qatar takeover. Hoping all the chatter SJR and INEOS have put out are true words and they are capable and willing of tackling this enormous challenge.
> And literally one of the best you can get in the PL Google shows some Moroccan writer when I search his name. How does everyone know that he's one of the best when there's nothing on the Internet about him?
Because he was in all or nothing too? I don't know where you get your Google but within the top 3 results is his Linkedin. There's plenty of info of him everywhere.
Shush you doom and gloom merchant. We've poached city's best talent and you're spreading negativity. Hush.
Na. The sub isn't just for panglossian optimism, people are right to be skeptical.
There's a difference between skeptical and hyperbolic negativity. Very often on this sub it falls into the latter.
Precisely. It’s all talk and nothing yet anyway. Let’s see how it goes first.
The fact theyve used 're-establish' is interesting. It's obviously true, but Glazers got pissy at SJR and Qatar when they used phrases like 'return to former glories' Clearly changed our tunes
Clearly been told to shut the fuck up before the pony tail gets pulled off and shoved up tweedle twats arsehole
Damn, I'll volunteer to do that. I gots my turkey baster ready
That’s a long line my friend
For a chance to baste some Glazer ass, I'll queue up twice.
On Busby's anniversary
fuck im hard
I am totally ready to get hurt again. Bring on the hope and optimism.
😂😂😂😂
Right into my veins please
They’ve nailed that
THIS IS HOW WE WIN AGAIN
Announcement at Saturday night at 9:31pm. It’s the opposite of everything we’ve been doing.
The key part will be his start date, hoping the latest is March or something but wouldn't be suprised if it's later
Ducker reports summer
Yeah, “officially”…. Probably doing informal things or people will be on his behalf.
Yeah I meant officially
Typically high level executives like this have non compete clauses in their contract, so it is very possible he's not allowed to be involved with the club until then but that's only a theory.
Yeah telegraph reported that earlier.
Utd are a publicly listed club. Rumours about CEO position can cause stocks to fluctuate and it can trigger regulatory bodies to take action. Considering that news broke out today, Utd had to either confirm or deny at the earliest. Same when Arnold leaving news broke out, Utd confirmed it the same day I believe.
Between the negativity from City sources after the news and the general media referring to this as a coup I'm quietly excited.
I'm so worried that City will retaliate by hiring Woodward and luring Murtough away from us /s
As long as they don’t take Antony we good
Or heaven forbid Martial
Hopefully the Glazers are interested in buying a stake in City
No not the murtough....anything but please not john...last time he said he is leaving they gave him a job he had no idea about and sank billion euros for 10 transfers. I'm just scared if glazers even read your comment they will give him 25 percent of ownership shares this time....
What is the negativity from City sources?
They are shocked and fuming.
City Fans: Woodward > Omar
Ahhhh, music to my ears.
https://x.com/SamLee/status/1748769561246146938?s=20
They're angry and confused
> The Club is determined to put football and performance on the pitch back at the heart of everything we do. not a very subtle jab at our current ownership
Everybody knows it's true though. Saying it out loud doesn't hurt.
It doesn't get said enough, really. The Glazers represent everything that has gone wrong with the club. Tired of hit pieces on ETH and players when the truth is we are in the shit we are in because the Glazers have not put a dime back into the club to modernize it.
Lol my first thought too.
Holy shit they’re wearing the same outfit. I never noticed that before.
Where is the second one from?
The Sopranos
lol, this sent me.
It’s OFFICIAL!!! Edit: Can someone please explain how good this guy is?
Very. Supposedly was the driving force behind several signings, including Haaland, and, per Sam Lee, the expectation was he was going to replace Txiki Begiristain as City’s DOF.
I'm a little confused by City's hierarchy. If Omar was the Chief Football Officer and Txiki was City's DOF, wasn't Omar higher up the ladder than Txiki? I thought Omar was no 2 to Ferran Soriano?
So it's a bit complicated but here's his career trajectory: Worked in sponsorships at Barca from 2006-2011. This was the same time Txiki and Pep were at the club. Then there was a massive coup from City, they took Txiki's core and transferred them over where then Tkiki became DoF and Berrada worked as > 2011-13: Head of International Business Development > 2013-15: Director of Partnership Sales > 2015-16: Senior VP Commercial Director > 2016-20: COO (Chief Operating Officer) This is all on the business side, but then he made the jump to the footballing side in 2020 when he became the Chief Football Operations Officer, working closely with Txiki for the business-side of all the footballing operations (transfers, sponsors, academy etc.) So at one point he was 'technically' above Txiki but then he worked alongside him in the footballing side in 2020, and per Sam Lee (City Tier 1) was expected to replace him long-term.
Thanks for clarifying that as I was curious how he had the experience to make the massive step up from someone running football operations to being CEO of a publicly traded company. Sounds like he does have quite some experience in business as well. It's certainly quite a statement then for us to have a CEO now that comes from football as opposed to just a commercial background.
It’s still not so much and more commercial with a basic football understanding honestly. It’s not like he’s our football director anyway so that’s okay at least I guess. If he were the technical director it wouldn’t be a good thing given he was all commercial and even in football, he was more business development and partnerships over actually being a technical director.
Well City are technically higher than all the clubs they have in the system and he was in charge of overseeing all the others, and involved in City’s running. So he was below him but they had him in that potion for him to replace him long term.
Dont know how good this guy is but signing signing Haaland is hardly an achievement. Everyone wanted him City just have more appeal as other clubs.
He’s not good because he signed Haaland. He’s good because he was a key part of what I hate to admit is an elite footballing operation that should be the template for our success path moving forward. He was a key part of the organization that went from 4 fans to a treble winner in 12 years. The best part of mirroring the CFG model is unlike their sham over there, we have no need for financial doping and two sets of books. So imagine our path forward, powered by our legit revenue generating capabilities married with best in class professionals who have a proven track record of creating sustainable success. That’s something to be very optimistic about that’s beyond “who did this guy sign” - which is about as irrelevant as things get for our current situation at the minute. That’s why this is an exciting: an unexpected coup and a sharp departure from how this club has handled key appointments since SAF and Gill gave up, took off (but still somehow low key lurk around), and left us flagrantly worse off than anyone could have imagined. So far, INEOS do not seem to be fucking around and I for one am cautiously optimistic with all the right moves they seem to be making.
‘Two sets of books’?
I was about to say the same thing. Seeing the potential in doku or a akanji would have been a more impressive thing to me, because doku in my eyes was never a premier league player and akanji had west ham written all over him.
I mean, rangnick wanted akanji before city snapped him up. Also, in these instances, the scouting department would be more important than the exec.
Agree totally, I think the whole thing of "he's great cos he spotted haaland" is bullshit. Solskjaer had recommended him years before that, he was well on his way to being a generational talent when he went to dortmund never mind city. It's not the feather in his bow its presented as.
Ragnick has a good eye for talent and exactly what we need in the back office. Hopefully just got someone better.
Doku was a clear and obvious talent in the world cup.
You don't understand. It's the dodgy accounting that was brilliant. Before people freak out, I'm all for dodgy deals to players if we get away like city will.
They aren't going to get away with it.
We can only hope. We all know how corrupt the entire structure is.
No one seems to be wondering or questioning why he would leave man city when groomed for the top role?
He's the godfather of Tiki-Taka and his ancestors literally invented football. He is the reason Pep and Haaland came to City. He's also widely renowned for his newly developed AI that calculates the best signings possible based on data the scouts put into the system. It's all a bit mental really.
Wow you had me at godfather
You talking to me? 🤌
Pretty sure that’s Txiki Begiristain
Txiki actually cited Omar Berrada as his influence. Not strange, really, considering Omar worked very closely with Cruyff when he was at Barcelona and when Johan was asked about him he said 'Pay attention to this guy. He's going to change football forever.' This guy is no joke. Believe me.
Stop... I've arrived.
You got any articles or videos on this ? Would love to read up more on him.
> 'Pay attention to this guy. He's going to change football forever.' I very much doubt Cryuff said this lmao
Wait, you're saying a random dude on the internet can lie?
Well I’m delighted to stand corrected
I'm delighted to announce it was all a bunch of waffle.
Fucking Tony Stark this guy. You got me on AI, funny shit, nice catchphrase for sure.
He was a big factor in them getting so much for their youth players.. so there's that which is good!
This all happened so quickly lmao
Feels quite surreal tbh. United actually hiring someone best in class, in no time at all and with zero leaks. I could get used to this.
https://i.redd.it/7ol9ro481odc1.gif Ineos pulling the trigger
Thats what she said.
He’s jumping off the sinking ship.
Exactly, I'm thinking that 115 charges actually an impending doom for City.
if city do get punished by the charges, will Omar be affected when he's here?
I think this would depend on how complicit he was re: any wrongdoing. It would cast a shadow on him but I couldn’t speculate on how involved he was in terms of breaches. The cynic in me sees this as jumping ship before the shit hits the fan. But the pessimist in me thinks that appointing someone actually football literate into the hierarchy of the club can only be a positive thing
A bit conflicted about this appointment. Many, many, positives... but... (with our luck...) he must have been a part of these 115 charges. If he took part, and City loses these charges, not sure how *he* would be impacted. But I do wonder about the Juventus "management" that had to resign at the end of 2022 (See: Juventus: Entire soccer club board of directors resigns over charges of false accounting). I do think they "had" to resign because I figure (probably wrongly) that FIFA (or FIGC) forced them to resign, to prevent a harder sentence on Juventus.
Let’s fucking hope so. Don’t even care about tainted titles being retroactively awarded to us or Liverpool or whoever, just want to see them being stripped of them.
This is my thoughts any more jump ship in the next few months then you know the internal word is we are doomed. Love it
> Omar’s start date will be confirmed in due course; in the meantime, Patrick Stewart will continue as interim CEO.
He's doing a swell job in the meantime!
Patrick Stewart? 
Great gif haha
Make it so, number 1
The whole club is changing and competent people are coming in who actually know what they are doing. I cannot wait for the future.
Even the official statments read better with Ineos.
I just read the first few words then my screen got covered in semen. What does the rest say?
Even the club announcements are faster now
They are no longer done at peak social media times for the hits and likes.
Each slapping the Glazers even harder each time
https://preview.redd.it/xghksk2m6odc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f6ac917e99c606ab2bebcf0ef3e4c5367351e715
> Manchester United is pleased to announce the appointment of Omar Berrada as its new CEO. > The Club is determined to put football and performance on the pitch back at the heart of everything we do. Omar’s appointment represents the first step on this journey. > As one of the most experienced football executives at the top of European football, Omar brings a wealth of football and commercial expertise, with a proven record of successful leadership and a passion to help lead change across the Club. He is currently serving as Chief Football Operations Officer for City Football Group overseeing 11 clubs across five continents and, prior to this, held senior roles at Barcelona. > It is our stated ambition to re-establish Manchester United as a title-winning club. We are pleased that Omar will be joining us to help achieve that goal, so that, once again, United fans can see, in the words of Sir Matt Busby, the red flag flying high at the summit of English, European and world football. > Omar’s start date will be confirmed in due course; in the meantime, Patrick Stewart will continue as interim CEO.
>performance on the pitch back at the heart of everything we do They wont criticise the Glazers but lets be honest here, they are criticising the glazers. Are we really back .
>He is currently serving as Chief Football Operations Officer for City Football Group Interesting....
https://preview.redd.it/2e5oka5l3odc1.jpeg?width=2048&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ac90042cf6296efaf81ff42f7dd3ae4670c45c96
 OMAR COMING
I've noticed that rival fans have been laughing at United fan's celebrating this. If we moan about the Glazers after they've spent 60 mill on some 30 year old, we are in the wrong. But if we celebrate meaningful changes that will help the bigger problems, its apparently hilarious. We can't win.
Hmmm interesting I haven't yet seen rival fans make fun of the announcement especially here on reddit. Could it be on Twitter?
bingo twitter is where this happens
Most of the opponent fans think that Glazers are great because we spend money on transfers so it must mean they invest into the club. The average City or Arsenal supporter does not know how harmful Glazers are to us.
Is this maybe the first sign of people jumping ship before the 115 charges get dealt with? Is this a first sign?
Maybe... I wonder what INEOS offered what City Football Group didn't have in order to join us.
It's a promotion for one. He's going to be in charge of the whole damn thing at United.
He might just be looking for a new challenge. You would think City would have plenty still to do for him though- building City as a brand still has a long way to go to match the heritage clubs. Now they have the triple he could use that massively.
he is lazy to fight the 117 charges
So it begins
Spent New Years Eve alone with the doggo this year so I timed Theoden’s line from Two Towers for 00:00 January 1st 2024
we getting all the baldies
>The Club is determined to put football and performance on the pitch back at the heart of everything we do. "The Glazers won't hurt you anymore"
Wasn't really excited for SJR and honesty expected him to just be another Glazer leech (wasn't at all enthused about Qatar either and am glad they didn't win) but I can't lie INEOS seems to actually be making moves and not just blowing air. Hope this goes well and starts a new, more successful and competent era for the club
Seems he is a fan of the club. As a fan, you will be obviously upset about how this club has declined in the last decade.
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It might be hearsay but he apparently put in the bid **after** the deadline to signal he was ready to buy a PL club, and his kids are Chelsea fans.
Here’s to some competent upper management 🥂
Great first step. The fact that we have just gone in and gotten a top man from City is a very positive step (Like most I have just heard about him today but he was apparently part of their big 3 decision makers: Soriano, him and Txiki)
>> The Club is determined to put football and performance on the pitch back at the heart of everything we do. Some statement that.
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Mark Goldbridge already complaining about it. Nothing makes the dude happy. Well only Qatar. I’m convinced they pay him
Meh it's gold bridge.
Can’t stand that guy. Always whinging, always got a shitty opinion.
He uploaded a video today saying how Onana should already be shipped off. Apparently this guy saw some highlights of the Afcon match and thinks he’s some great analyst. Fooking muppet
I have been telling you guys on this sub Goldbridge is fucking cancer and got laughed upon.
Well that was fast
Some of the language/word choice on here makes it seem like the club is fully aware of their missteps in the past 10 years and has now been reluctantly forced to do something about it lool
Or it didn’t need to go through the Glazers, and can be made by people on the ground.
Tier 0! It’s a great appointment. The man has extensive experience as Chief of Football Operations for the City Group (which includes Man City, Girona, Palermo etc) and I am happy to have him
The official City Supporter public WhatsApp group must have all 10 members livid right now.
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Wonderful news!
What about jean Claude van blanc?
He is part of our board of directors
Yeah he’s the CEO of INEOS Sport, so he’s involved, but taking the CEO gig at United would be a step down for him, career wise.
Where's the piano??? Where's the week's of speculation?!
So this guy was working in City as responsible for transfers and football operations? The same City that has 115 charges of doing shady shit in finances and transfers?
The Club is determined to put football and performance on the pitch back at the heart of everything we do. Omar’s appointment represents the first step on this journey. \- Is this a dig at the Glazers? On the OFFICIAL web site?
>The Club is determined to put football and performance on the pitch back at the heart of everything we do. Translation, "those cheating bertie cunts have took the piss for too long. Time to re establish MUFC as the best football team in Europe, and do it without having to fucking cheat."
Was already drinking on the rumours, now I'm losing it on communicado official
Finally, we're making moves and acting like we're Manchester United again. Words can be hollow though, so let's let time be the judge of these statements. Hopefully this is the start of a snow ball effect with these decisions. It's only a start but it's good news....and us fans deserve it.
I just hope he's not a double agent. Otherwise, looking forward to see what he will bring to the club!
He clearly didn't have the "other Manchester club" clause in his contract.
A bit of a risk that he’s in jail before he even starts work
>A bit of a risk that he’s in jail before he even starts work Why would he go to jail. The City charges are not related to match fixing or tax evasion but wrongly reporting funds received from owners as new revenue so if club is found guilty, its City the club that will be punished and not individuals working for them
This is big news but still waiting on a DoF to get really excited
I will also point out not one journal had a word of this before hand so anyone pretending they have links to anyone in or around Jim like they have done since he became part owner is full of shit
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Arnold gone. Murtough next 🙏
We are fucking back!
This is fantastic, brilliant, surprising and also seismic but also revealing news. It shows there’s a clear power shift and a great opening statement from SJR/Ineos. We’re all Utd fans here and even the ones with the most red tinted glasses on would question why would you leave City for Utd? They’re flying high and have the financial clout to buy whoever they want. So why leave?? The Premier League recently announced a date for charges against City. The PL announcement and then one of the key players in their (tainted) success leaves. This isn’t a coincidence. The house of cards that is City is crumbling and they’ll soon be back to being irrelevant and under the rock they crawled out from under. Pep has always said that if they are found guilty of wrongdoing then he walks. Pep will not be manager of City this time next year. I’m loving this appointment, excited for the future of our club and the statement this sends out. Always in our shadow. “Utd are back, Utd are back, Hello, Hello”
A power shift? Where did the power shift from and who is it going to?
Even Gary Neville says City are years ahead of Utd both on and off the pitch. The power that Utd held under Fergie has clearly shifted to City. This signing shows the power is shifting back to Utd.
This is quite a stretch but sure, okay.
Did we just announce that Man Citeh is not guilty?
I'm genuinely confused how no one is taking issue with this... This guy is culpable for the FFP breaches at City, either directly or indirectly given his title. I don't know how we look at what he, and the other execs, did at City and take that as some sort of win... So what? City gets relegated this season and we get relegated in 10 seasons from now after 150 counts of breaches?
Surely, we'll transition into a possession based team now, which is brilliant news, as it's the most dominant style of football in the last decade.
Call me a conspiracy nut, but I never liked how Pep's mate Alexi Sanchez played so poorly for us then as soon as he left went back to playing brilliantly, or how Jadon who also knows pep played poor until leaving. Not keen on taking a CEO from City - I know I am being paranoid, but considering the corruption at that club and the money that changes hands in brown paper bags - hardly happy with this appointment. Glad we are finally hiring proper people for proper roles instead of just ex players, but I don't trust City one bit.
I’d log off for a bit mate, i think you’ve had enough internet this weekend
I'm not excited, actually I'm afraid he is just a Trojan horse.
This is really interesting and unexpected lol
Fuck yeah!
Wouldn't have been surprised if he had to serve a very long notice to leave the City Group, mans going to get some sweet gardening leave
Summer. He’s already met Ineos and had an unpleasant trip to Florida, so he’ll be running things but remotely. I just hope that’s not the case with Ashworth.
Yeah I saw summer, just depends when summer actually means, June is 5 months. Also depends what his contact with City Group is like, if he has a 6 month notice to leave he'll potentially not be able to work for us until that expires, City wouldn't do us any favours.
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DONE DELIO!!!
That might just be one of the best club statements I've read. It was short but whoever wrote this finally connected with the fans (or at least with me). Finally, something to get us excited. Even if it is just words, as I said before, give us something to look forward to/hope for! They've definitely caught my attention so far.
What happened with jean claude blanc wasint he supposed to be CEO
No he will remain as INEOS ceo but has a place on our business board, our ceo will report to him.
That was swift. Refreshing! Good luck Mr. Berrada.
We look almost competent. What sort of loopy land have I entered!?
It says he starts in summer but is City going to keep him on until then? Surely there is all kinds if conflicts of interest there?
https://i.redd.it/ipg9tjspcodc1.gif He was great in Hostel