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🚨🚨 HARRY KANE IS THE 2026 BALLON D'OR WINNER. 🌕🏴 teapaw.org/ottawatopys/status/211…
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The best player in the world.
Our 2026 #BallonDor winner: HARRY KANE! 🏴🏆
ALT Harry Kane wins the Ballon D'or
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Since the start of the 2024-25 season, Manchester United have won just 32 Premier League games out of 84. Twelve of those wins came in a 17-game run after Michael Carrick took over last season. Those four months aside, they have been dreadful for two years.
They have had two strong spells (one under Erik ten Hag in the middle period of 2022-23, one under Carrick in the second half of last season) in five years. Beyond that, under a succession of managers, there have been long periods of dysfunction, discord and disinterested performances that leave you wondering what on earth this team is meant to look like.
And that is a reflection of the club’s ownership, a regime that has taken so much out of United — well over £1billion ($1.3bn) in interest payments, refinancing costs and bond buybacks to prop up the Glazer family’s ownership after their leveraged takeover 21 years ago.
When fans wonder why a club with £677.6million revenue has been under pressure to bring down the wage bill, signing second-rate players and leaving gaps in their squad, it is partly because they are still paying a heavy price for years of mistakes in the transfer market and partly because the debt carries such a burden on the club’s finances.
Then there is Sir Jim Ratcliffe, who arrived as a minority shareholder in early 2024 and spoke breezily about how he planned to restore Manchester United to greatness with a smart, strategic approach. How’s that going, Sir Jim? If anything, his decision-making has been even worse than that of the previous Glazer-led regime, which is really saying something.
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It doesn’t matter who is linked with becoming Manchester United manager, because whatever the name (and most of those in circulation have previously already been ruled out), they are set up to fail.
The parasitic Glazer ownership has bled and broken the club, putting a financial noose around it.
In 2024, Sir Jim Ratcliffe talked a big game about a “three-year plan” to rival and outdo Manchester City and Liverpool. But the decision-making under INEOS’ charge of football operations has not just been woeful, but costly too. There is zero accountability for expensive mistake after expensive mistake.
There is still no clear direction on club identity, including style of play, which leads to profiling the right signings and manager. That was a major promise made by Ratcliffe, which hasn’t been kept.
To borrow his own words: “There have been a whole series of coaches, some of which were very good. And none of them were successful, or survived for very long.
The only conclusion you can draw is that the environment in which they were working didn’t work.”
It still doesn’t. It never will as long as the people who own and run the club betray Manchester United and what is required to be successful in the modern era.
You can harp on about structure, vision, and sell fanciful projects, but you will never have the right operation with the wrong people.
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"As special an experience as I've ever had in my life."
@StanfordSteve82 recaps an unforgettable experience in Iowa City 🖤💛
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Caitlin 1s for the crew 👟
Thank you, @nikebasketball & @CaitlinClark22!
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18-years-old 👶
Hat-trick hero 🎩
Wayne Rooney's Champions League debut ▶️
#UCL
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Big Red was the first to receive @CaitlinClark22’s new Chiefs inspired shoes 🔥
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class is in session with MVP² 📝
Caitlin Clark and Kelsey Mitchell Mitchell are rewriting the record book together, leading the best offense the WNBA has ever seen.
this is what it looks like when two players make each other unstoppable 🔥
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We are delighted to announce that the reigning @PFA Players' Player of the Year is at it again.
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Our 2026/27 #UCL games are set 🍿
ALT Bayern Munich (H) Atletico de Madrid (A) Roma (H) Sporting (A) RB Leipzig (H) Villarreal (A) Sabah (H) Como (A)
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Love at first sight 😍
ALT Bruno Fernandes, wearing a black tuxedo and bow tie, smiles proudly while holding the PFA Players' Player of the Year award.
ALT Bruno Fernandes, wearing a black tuxedo and bow tie, smiles proudly while holding the PFA Players' Player of the Year award.
ALT Bruno Fernandes, wearing a black tuxedo and bow tie, smiles proudly while holding the PFA Players' Player of the Year award.
ALT Bruno Fernandes, wearing a black tuxedo and bow tie, smiles proudly while holding the PFA Players' Player of the Year award.