We Need To Talk About Sir Jim Ratcliffe

[@MvanPelt]

As a proud Brexiter, Sir Jim obviously wants nothing to do with Europe, so finishing outside the Top 7 is obviously the idea, Alfie.

[@ninjabiscuit1095]

Underrated comment

[@tuhin1264]

UTD has taken brexit literally 😂

[@jasepaul91]

People who can't tell the difference between the EU (A political union) and Europe (A continent)🤡🤡

[@CoolJoshido212]

that’s a good one lmao

[@lucaslonchampt613]

@@MvanPelt Brexit means Brexit innit?

[@djalland1]

Bit unfair on clowns

[@Hilversumborn]

Indeed, clowns are funny.

[@curtisj2165]

Ronald Mcdonald has been insulted

[@rijojohn85]

Clowns pay taxes.

[@somethinglikethat2176]

​@@Hilversumborn tbf there's probably 19 other clubs in the Prem who are finding it funny.

[@maciejbala477]

@@rijojohn85 I love how insistently Alfie has been bringing up the tax evasion. Comedy gold

[@jackgrove7493]

The monologue leading up ‘get fucked’ might be some of the best writing you’ve ever done, in the most complimentary way

[@kagishokgaile]

Shakespearean stuff.

[@geoffgardner2440]

@@jackgrove7493 you are a loser

[@DarkHorseF.C6686]

Ikr! 😂

[@RaggedDan]

Couldn't agree more haha, brilliant

[@swapnildeshmukh7113]

Timestamp?

[@mazamonx]

Perfect timing. Was falling asleep at work.

[@EliaFlowers]

Time to fall asleep harder 😈 (Alfie’s voice is so soothing)

[@RagingInferno-cd7hn]

If I ever fell asleep at my job, I would be fired on the spot. You are a lucky dude 😂

[@FuncleB]

This video will make you sleep more. Zzzzzz.

[@memphisdaniels3218]

​@@EliaFlowers "soothing" 😂 interesting way to say "painfully monotonous"

[@joegilbert3149]

I use his videos to fall asleep have done for months now 😂

[@corgiGY]

I know someone that used to work for Ineos and in a meeting Ratcliffe asked ‘How do we drill a well as cheaply as they drill wells in Texas?’ My friend replied ‘drill a well in Texas’ and was fired on the spot.

[@RW-nr6bh]

Ratcliffe is the kind of businessman that gives capitalism a bad name.

[@liamr194]

Yeah that's plausible and definitely not openly flouting every part of employment law.

[@Postmanton]

@@liamr194 It's cute that you think Ratcliffe is a man who would care about employment law.

[@marcuspoosz2190]

@@Postmanton find it funny that you think it actually happened lmao. This is the internet.

[@liamr194]

@@Postmanton He might not 'care' but he also won't want to be paying out millions via tribunals. So it won't and can't be true.

[@millienoble3482]

Antony, Bayindir, Casemiro, Diallo, Eriksen, Fernandes, Garnacho, Hojlund, ... now I see why ETH wanted Ugarte, Yoro, and Zirkzee. He's trying for a full A-Z squad. Maybe he'll be awarded a trophy if he achieves that?

[@rogerioceni2640]

What’s Abel Xavier up to these days?

[@marufjaved6551]

Xabi Simmons incominy

[@FilJR99]

@@rogerioceni2640He’s a tv pundit now. Still has the same hairdo.😁

[@BostonSQ]

ETH already has 2, so why not to get 3rd one

[@Job-zh8eb]

😂😂😂

[@SpookySloth10]

Things like this make me so angry. Just hearing about billionaires wanting handouts. Socialising losses and privatising profits, all while normal people struggle and feel the brunt of every financially decline while the rich get to continue being rich it’s disgusting

[@felixbache5369]

Welcome to the communist party

[@tombkingsethbattlechannel9419]

perfectly said. every 10 to 15 years guys like him drive the economy against the wall and regular people have to pay for them to keep him rich while the poor become more and more everytime.

[@abody499]

But a ngry at who?

[@abody499]

This is the system.

[@abody499]

These kinds of decisions are incentivised in the system.

[@maximusg88]

Fucking loved this, Alfie! Fuck billionaires who try to socialise losses and capitalise profits

[@dashcharger24]

Why are they getting away with this everytime? We don't need these people to make us happy or provide us with good living. Why are they still relevant?

[@yoshiko998]

The global economy is based around investment, most of the time this investments provide people with work. Like it or not, billionaires and mega companies are the income source for thousands of people.

[@maximusg88]

@@yoshiko998 if they pay their fair share of taxes I am fine with it

[@Don-Royall]

​@@maximusg88They pay but politicians are also their friends

[@Alx-h9g]

​@@yoshiko998 Yeah and like or not the people who actually do the work at those companies are the income sources for those companies and billionaires. Also you need to understand that ownership is not investment. When one person buys a stock/share of a company from another person. That is not investment that grows the economy. It is fundamentally different to actual investment, which is purchasing of resources, capital and employees, this is what actually grows the economy. This investment usually doesn't come from those billionaires or mega-corps, it comes from the companies previous year's profits. You know the part of the profits that isn't given to those billionaires as dividends for sitting on the sofa on their yachts, while the workers do the actual work. Very important to really understand this, that what Ratcliffe and his rich peers do isn't investment, in the way most people think of the word.

[@dr3ntel680]

my brother works at man United and they've made 250 redundancies and made all staff who were working from home come into the office 5 days a week, this forced a lot of employees out as people from all over the country had been given jobs on the basis that they would be working from home, all of this while paying antony £200,000 per week 😂

[@liamr194]

They can't sack Antony and they didn't sign him... Balance

[@dr3ntel680]

​@@liamr194yeah I get that I just find it funny, imagine how fuming you'd be getting made redundant on 30 grand a year when antony is paid 166 times your wage to play football, and he's rubbish at it

[@lougiacobbi725]

It would seem that it should have been impossible to be more slimy than the Glazers, but here we are.

[@gwheregwhizz]

I'd tell Antony to work from home by playing FC25.

[@jontyjames9121]

I don't think I have ever heard Alfie get so angry during a video before, I don't think some people realise how hard life is for these billionaires. I mean they come up with these great ideas and all they ask is that every day working people help pay for them rather than themselves. Come on guys let's help this very misunderstood minority out

[@Jonnyd05]

As a taxpayer this is an insult to every other club in England . I won’t want to pay tax on a rival stadium yet alone the fact it doesn’t help anyone else in the long run . Plus there is clubs going out of business not getting any help from the government that have history and struggle at the bottom. It’s ridiculous really is they should reject any notion as 2 billion the uk tax payers don’t need he’s got enough money to fund it himself

[@woodcote103]

i agree

[@FuncleB]

Do a but morr research. Alfie should too. This is all nonsense.

[@gdes4063]

​@FuncleB Its the weekly pearl clutch. This coming from an 'ABU'.

[@meldrew69]

Well unless you're a Man City fan, your taxes have already gone towards a rivals stadium.

[@carlhunter5581]

Man City and West Ham both have stadiums built by the taxpayers

[@user-s1o3nr532]

Virtually all of these "Titans of Industry" either got lucky or made one good call, which led them to think they're some kind of maverick genius in every department when in reality their abilities are very average.

[@Djsonley]

You can give Jim far more credit than City’s owners or the Saudi’s though. Those guys were born into wealth and spending money on insane things like imaginary cities in the desert built using AI that doesn’t even exist yet. The Middle East is the true clown show but everyone sucks upto them because right now their money seems endless until the day it’s not anyways.

[@MooseUK]

Absolutely agree. I have been saying this for years.

[@octavianpopescu4776]

They;re usually good at one industry only. I don't doubt him when it comes to chemicals, but outside of that field, nope... just nope...

[@martingonzalez2850]

So, what's stopping you from doing it, then?

[@gm2407]

And so it has always been.

[@fwayo]

I wish you talked more about the employees they cut, seriously just cruel, many like the club historian, kitman, and others who had been with the club for decades, as well as the fact that cutting 250 employees doesn’t help the finances as much as getting rid of one or two ridiculously overpaid terrible players, and it also harms a lot more people, and the club, significantly more

[@dashcharger24]

It happens daily unfortunately. You should read how they do not care about employees anymore. They are just a waste to them.

[@丂乇乇几-r4y]

You’re right, but he did talk about it. The more interesting talking point is about how he literally does this EVERYWHERE.

[@ethanpower381]

Ryan Giggs in 2011: "We would never collapse like Liverpool"

[@pierer91]

Yeah they didn't. They collapsed worse 🤣

[@HeinluckTV]

“We” all retired first dw

[@Alx-h9g]

I wouldn't trust Ryan Giggs' judgement in anything. Just ask his brother.

[@Dwahada]

And he never did he was talking about himself and his fellow teammates at the time 💪🏼

[@sped2942]

@@pierer91 Collapsed worse? You mean United haven't won a Premier League in 30 years? Oh wait, that was someone else.

[@mbos322]

As a Newcastle supporter, He sounds like Mike Ashley.

[@kwanman5146]

2 Capitalists United N Tory(s)

[@lucaslonchampt613]

More like Sir Jim Ratclown am I right? Anyway, there's a joke about OGC Nice in France, and it's that the club has been in transition and will do better the next season since roughly 2017. I'd say his work with the club has been... y'know, OK, but surely not awe inspiring. One would argue Nice has so much potential, both in terms of money and location, that they ought to do better

[@maciejbala477]

lol then he bought the perfect team in England then, since Man Utd have had like 10 different false dawns and surely will also do better next season as this is a transitional year

[@Simon-A.-Tan]

Just call Ratcliffe what he is: a LEACH.

[@press_button_for_assistance]

Clown leach?

[@rogerioceni2640]

The first three letters of his surname describe him pretty well.

[@TheHesseJames]

He is a ratcliffe. He might have coined this moniker, I think.

[@WGK90]

@@rogerioceni2640 That doesnt spell cunt

[@Mberrybb]

Sir rat of leach

[@flouf-p2j]

Been in crisis since the Glazers, Sir Alex was just that special now we just have an owner who thinks he’s a sporting director.

[@unkul_chi]

He hasn't been involved in sporting decisions though, and clearly hired at least 5 people for that. Let's not say things for the heck of it

[@Stegibbon]

He's literally hired 2 sporting directors, I don't get that notion at all.

[@miller3784]

jokes on you cuz he just said in an interview that the sporting people who were hired in July (Omar Beradda and Dan Ashworth) make the decisions about the team and not him lol. do your research before speaking about somebody you clearly know nothing about.

[@flouf-p2j]

@@miller3784Doesn’t matter what decisions are made by people he hires they still have to report their decisions to him beforehand. That press conference was just to wash his hands before TenHagg gets the sack.

[@flouf-p2j]

@@miller3784 Also, the jokes on our club mate we are still massively in debt after new owners, once the debts cleared and glazers are fully gone I will then be optimistic. Currently we are going to pay around 17 Million to sack a manager with no true replacement with players who don’t care for the club.

[@MatheusFernandes-xf4zm]

Billionaires hate paying taxes despite paying less tax than the average citizen (proportionally).

[@WuRuYi]

Is that true? Do you have any links to share which support this?

[@somethinglikethat2176]

​@@WuRuYi I remember Warren Buffet saying that he was on a lower effective tax rate than his assistant. The reason is that their income is run through a business so there's more deductions, offsets, ect. and the corporate tax rates are often lower than the person tax rates in the middle income range.

[@adambarker-wyatt6579]

@@WuRuYi It's just blatantly obvious to anyone with a brain.

[@WhispersOfForgottenTruths]

No wonder Tenhag Stayed and he will stay. Too much penny pinching United needs more than this.

[@senorpython2262]

Sorry Alfie, We actually need to talk about my Thai Mother in Law.

[@DGAMINGEN]

I want to know the story. Hopefully it involves talking about the win and repeated banning of the move forward party, Leicester City and Chinas naval aggression.

[@YesOkayButWhy]

LAOTIAN.

[@Dawg_Lotion]

Damn bro, she causing you that many issues?

[@sidvyas8549]

@@YesOkayButWhywhat ocean?

[@nbr6116]

The utter gaul of Radcliff to say tax payers should pay for a new ManU Stadium. Holy Sh!t man.

[@Malky24]

That's what they do in the U.S. it's seen as quite normal. Which is probably why the U.S is now the grifter capital of the world.

[@gejamugamlatsoomanam7716]

​@@Malky24US also has no public health care and the largest homless population in all developed countries.

[@jamesmoran7391]

​@@Malky24 look at the super sonics to see why thats terrible for the local fanbase.

[@totsh2056]

​@@Malky24 the greatest trick the US government ever played was to legalise corruption.

[@drebbihc]

@@Malky24 at least in America some of the stadiums in the NFL (at least by my understanding) are built and owned by the state and then leased by the NFL team, so the community owns the stadium and it will remain if the NFL team ever moves, plus they can generate revenue from other events. Unless Ratcliffe wants to lease the “Wembley of the north” from the UK government for Man United to use, the tax payer should be putting absolutely sweet fuck all into it

[@jekanyika]

There are no good billionaires, although some are worse than others.

[@tkay25]

The notion the billionaires are inherently bad is crazy

[@jekanyika]

@@tkay25 You don't become a billionaire by being a nice person.

[@eyeballjellyforbreakfast]

@@jekanyika You absolutely can. You are insane if you think that wealth is the measure of a man.

[@Micfri300]

If you invested in gold from 2000 onwards you would have been one..

[@jekanyika]

@@eyeballjellyforbreakfast There is wealth and there is obscene wealth.

[@stevenwilliams1329]

Usual millionaire move, buy a company and make as many staff as possible redundant.

[@leviwood5526]

“The poor bastard”😂 Never change Alfie

[@capio78]

Appreciate you confirming the size of the font. These little details make all the difference.

[@thelistener2909]

Ong

[@ifan_1234]

Alfie, last night, the Welsh champions were able to hold off fiorentina for 65 minutes in Florence in the Europa conference, only losing 2-0 in the end, and yet the Cymru premier is still ignored, under-supported and underfunded. please make a video about our league.

[@ShellysAshes]

Unfortunately the reason the welsh league is so ignored is because the biggest clubs all play in england.

[@ifan_1234]

@@ShellysAshes yes, although that might change. recently there have been plans for the Welsh clubs in England to start playing in the Welsh league cup, this could be a first step to having them back in the Welsh league

[@giuliopipoli3345]

I'm a fiorentina fan, this fiorentina team is garbage rn, that's why

[@ifan_1234]

@@giuliopipoli3345 you are in the serie a and have been finalists in this competition in the past 2 years

[@giuliopipoli3345]

@@ifan_1234 yes but this year half of our starting 11 changed and our manager is also new. We have been playing horrendous football

[@chlcrk]

I know this is not related but today's news about Lassana Diarra's case at the ECJ ruling in the player's favour and means FIFA has been ordered to rewrite the transfer rules feels like the kind of thing perfect for a future HITC 7s video. Maybe

[@joshuafrimpong244]

This could be massive, but why was it him who sued FIFA mainly? I don't exactly know the details

[@chlcrk]

@@joshuafrimpong244 Something about FIFA blocking an attempted 2015 move to a Belgian side after FIFA initially sided with Lokomotiv Moscow and fined Diarra over ten million Euros

[@joshuafrimpong244]

@@chlcrk oh, ok, thanks

[@archstanton6102]

Almost 30 years on from the Bosman case, this could again change transfers.

[@seandelap8587]

Everything that has happened to Man Utd since Alex Ferguson retired has only enhanced is already enhanced reputation as one of the all time great managers and his ability to build team after team was phenomenal and you may say that he had the money to do it but so have his predecessors but none of them have reached his success so clearly its not all about the money but the ability to manage a team and get the best out of the players at your disposal and create a winning team which is a phenomenally difficult task

[@joegallagher9238]

Not really can’t say he’s even better now because the team has been a mess since he left it’s to separate things. Yes he’s one of the greatest managers ever but United have been in disarray since a lot of big names left you United shortly after he left and their recruitment and more so their structure fell apart. He has everything built for him, obviously he built that himself which is a big positive for him but to say we should think even higher of him just because the team has sucked since is a false equivalency. Still incredible not trying to take anything away from him

[@BinaryDad]

Man Utd have only appointed 1 manager in the last 75 years that has actually then won them the title. They maybe shouldn't expect as much success without Fergie as they seem to.

[@JayTechZM]

This is an insane stat

[@RANDOMZBOSSMAN1]

Only 3 Manchester United coaches have won the prem/first division Fun fact of the day

[@davidparsons97]

​@RANDOMZBOSSMAN1 Ernest Mangnall, Sir Matt Busby and Sir Alex Ferguson, I believe. That being at the start, middle and end of the 20th century. Mangnall was the one who beat the mighty Bristol City in the FA Cup final in 1909.

[@bhutochakrabarti4173]

​@@RANDOMZBOSSMAN1So Manchester united apart from Matt busby and ferguson have been mediocre throughout their existence?

[@RANDOMZBOSSMAN1]

@@bhutochakrabarti4173 yeah they’ve been a dysfunctional team Those 3 managers were a aberration to the mean

[@Moray2023]

Mercedes F1 fell off hard when he invested. I don't know why anyone was surprised

[@patrickbateman1660]

Correlation isn't causation. Mercedes only dominated due to having one the best engines ever made with decent aero. Then the new regs came in and aero was important and their mid aero wasn't enough anymore.

[@Manlikerik8]

Mercedes has been outdeveloped on the engine front since 2019. While it is true that merc had a giant engine advantage in 2014 to 2018 they never stopped developing the aero and in 2020 they had the best aero package by a mile and a half. They were beaten in the aero department in 2022 because of a simulator issue ​@@patrickbateman1660

[@somethinglikethat2176]

​@@patrickbateman1660 and his other two sporting failures? 3 clubs and a racing team failing down him. Seems like a bit of a link

[@harrismazari5484]

@@somethinglikethat2176 you mean the former all conquring cycling sky team turning to ineos and becoming a joke?

[@Redeemed95]

​@@patrickbateman1660 this is the biggest load of hogwash ever. Most likely a Max Verstappen fanboy who's mind has been twisted by Red Bull. Engine was the most important factor from 2014-16 From 2017 onwards it's been Aero + engine combo. Even Ferrari with their illegal starship engines couldn't win in 2018 despite having the better up until the Singapore GP. 2019 Ferrari best (illegal) engine... Didn't win. So your deliberate lies are invalid. INEOS = Regression. Also the 2022 cars onwards are to do with ground effect, further evidence you are chatting out your b@ck side

[@jackbennett2269]

This is an extremely important moment for a video like this. People online are currently backing him more than ever and its wild

[@dashcharger24]

People like fake people nowadays, it's quite sickening.

[@seandelap8587]

Its a strange era of football that if you're a Man Utd fan you cheer on Man City just to prevent Liverpool from winning the league or Arsenal to prevent Man City from winning it which certainly would never have been the case throughout the 90s or 2000s but thats where Man Utd are as a club these days hoping others fail rather than looking forward to major success themselves a spectacular fall from grace for the club

[@liamr194]

Not a single United fan from Manchester feels this way.

[@lordpelagius5078]

​@@liamr194so every man utd fan feels that way?

[@liamr194]

@@lordpelagius5078 is that rhetorical? If you can find me a Mancunian United fan who feels the way the OP has described you've found me a liar.

[@notcalledbob2654]

@@liamr194 they do. Simple numbers. City can win for another decade before challenging our records. Liverpool already do. In that time we have small, and increasingly unlikely chance we can turn it around. It got to the point last year, I was panicking Arsenal would bottle 2nd place as that would have given Liverpool the advantage if City end up forfeiting their trophies with FFP. I am aware of how much my footballing aspirations have fallen in a decade.

[@slayingroosters4355]

But city have 10 premier league titles already, if they win for another decade they have more than surpassed United's records 🤔

[@gavinthegoliath]

As a long term supporter from Manchester, someone who worked there, been to many matches. Went to the treble parade in 99, i have PLENTY of issues with our new part owners ineos. 1.. Ineos were done for dumping toxic waste into the Manchester ship canal. 2... hes a penny pinching billionaire who is telling people not to work from home and redundancies 3.. matchday staff are having the lunch packs provided taken away. Doesnt seem like a lot. But it really was, youndo long shifts on minimum wage and then this guy comes in and takes your lunch?? 4.. Fracking.. Sir Jim the monaco clown is responsible for the majority of frackin in the uk. He is one of eiropes biggest polluters. Hes about to build a huge new plastic plant in europe and spew waste into our skies. He only bought 27 percent, and was supposed to be football only ... so why is he taking lunches off people and sticking his grubby dirty billionaire hands into this club?? I hate him and his fuxkin company.

[@DionysusOsiris40]

I met the man once in a central London pub in 2016. I had no idea who he was, I thought he was just a friendly older bloke who paid for our drinks and wanted to talk football. He was very interested in Ligue 1, asking interesting questions like “which lesser known French club would you buy if you could?” and “would you rather have a minority share in a big club, or own a smaller club in full?” (all with a view to making money ofc). Anyway, I said I’d buy Nice outright because of their recent success at the time and for total control over decisions. …Fast forward 2 years, and it’s announced that Nice have been bought by Britain’s richest man, with a picture of the guy I had a couple beers with and talked (what I had assumed was) tipsy nonsense to!

[@markussiahaan2006]

woww.. Some experience that 😂

[@Agustin-nz6uz]

😭😭 shut up no believes your lying ass!! LMAO

[@maciejbala477]

I was there, I was the drink Ratcliffe got

[@langletprolet8378]

Cool story bro

[@samstacks]

Then everyone got up and clapped

[@cago7960]

I don't think Ratcliffe is the one to blame in this particular situation YET at least

[@T.E.S.S.]

there isn't 'one' to blame, but he is the guy who came in with all his big ideas promising he could fix things

[@farney8878]

​@T.E.S.S. give him time. Jesus. It takes along time to clean up ship wrecks

[@danielcunningham6727]

​@T.E.S.S. it's been less than a year....he's the least the blame it's the glazers and the players.

[@alec.mp4]

All he’s done is support the manager and get him his transfer targets….ETH hasnt repaid the trust INEOS given him

[@milaninter2442]

​@@farney8878 He's part of the shipwreck though😂

[@Justinian-IV]

You only really need to look at his Cycling team, Ineos Grenadiers are not a patch on Team Sky.

[@bofadeligma7939]

Ever since Egan Bernals tour win (which that team was basically still sky built anyway) it’s fallen off a cliff (no pun). Other than a 700 year old Garaint Thomas placing 2nd in back to back giros they’ve had little success in classics stage races or tours. Utterly dominated by the Visma and UAE squads

[@jorisoims3085]

@@bofadeligma7939 Well to be fair things would be really different for Ineos if Bernal didn't have is terrible accident, that almost cost him is life and career. He would more then likely be able to challenge Pogacar and Vingegard in Grand tour. They also had success in classic with Pidcock.

[@bofadeligma7939]

@@jorisoims3085 idk. Unless Egan switched his main focus to the other grand tours I simply don’t see him being able to compete along side them. Hell I don’t think he would’ve been able to compete with roglic. Piddcock is a multi tool and has had good success especially in cyclocross but outside of that he’s been underwhelming the last two seasons imo

[@WGK90]

Because sky as we know are the arbiters of truth and social justice.

[@bofadeligma7939]

@@WGK90 no one cares about the company I’m just a cycling fan

[@LouisVanGaalsArmy-ty6cq]

2:17 very detailed video, the easiest bit of research though was finding out what European competition we're in.

[@zi1594]

I was like what is he on about 😂 How does he not know we’re in the Europa league

[@John17489]

Video on the rise of Bodo Glimt, from having never won a top flight league title to having won 3 in the last 4 years and a 4th soon to also beating bigger teams financially in Europe. Also on why their manager Kjetil Knutsen hasn’t left for a bigger team yet.

[@maciejbala477]

he was linked with Brighton at some point but they went for de Zerbi

[@Mydigitalepitaph]

I think the thing that needs to be highlighted and emphasized more is that the period under Ferguson was the exception, rather than the norm for Manchester United. They've had a total of 3 managers who've won the league. Some guy in 1911, Busby and Ferguson. Thats it. United were the third or fourth most successful club when SAF took over. I truly believe that exceptionally long persiouif success will always weigh more when not successful. Arsenal had the banter era post Wenger, Chelsea went mad post Abramovich, and United seemed utterly lost 12 years after Fergie.

[@GayActorMichaelDouglas2]

The best thing for United would have been the Saudi ownership in full, but the Glazers rejected that. Now it's just going to be more of the same

[@sped2942]

you realise Chelsea were non-existent as a threat for a very long time before Abrahimovich? And Arsenal got most of their PL titles in the 30's - 50's and from the the 90's - 2004. What the norm is for United is that they are the most successful club in England, as well as the largest English club and the second largest club in the world. That's the norm.

[@FRH13]

His failures in Grangemouth should have been a major warning. The guy is a fraud. Great video, and a great highlight of his disservices.

[@jekanyika]

Indeed

[@fmmike]

As an analyst who spends WAY to much time looking at Man Utd, it is the notion that Man Utd is supposed to be a top 4 club every year that is a problem. Any realistic and objective views on Man Utd will tell you that the current squad is overpaid and not good enough to be a top 4 club. Can't really blame Radcliffe until we get some of the underperforming high wages players out and the rebuild is complete.

[@kieronparr3403]

Glazers

[@fmmike]

@@kieronparr3403 Yeah Glazers has a part of this as well. But what United need is a complete rebuild, build from the foundation and upwards. Let is be ok to be 6-8th place 1-2 seasons.

[@samshyam5347]

@@fmmike The problem is all these youtubers and news know they can milk united for views and spam all of internet with constant negativity about united as soon as we don't win 2 games in a row. Then some casual fans join in, along with rival fans, and before you know it, the whole club is drowning in nonsense negativity. No United director or manager is ever getting enough patience to properly rebuild like during Sir Alex Ferguson's first few seasons or Arteta's first few seasons. And until that doesn't happen we will never really do anything. We might get a good purple patch from new manager bounce like Ole or Ten Hag's first season but nothing is gonna happen unless this constant barage of negativity stops. We have our own so called fans wishing for our team to loose so that they can get the manager sacked, own ex players like Schloes going around talking shit about new recruits like De light, there is no support for them. I wont be suprised if almost all of our players and coaches and staff have depression and other mental health issues

[@Micfri300]

The midfield not been fixed is den haags problem though.

[@fmmike]

@@samshyam5347 I agree with the negativity. Most of the "big" influencers are just to negative. This is why I am advocating for patience and lower the expectations for some seasons to let us do a rebuild. I do understand the frutration fans feel of "underperforming" but it is because we are not being realistic and then the influencers hype to team up as a "top 4" contender and then bash the team when they do not live up to it. some times it almost feels planned. I will always advocate for lowering expectations for some seasons, do the rebuild and get the old United back. When it comes to Ten Hag, I wish he would stay but will also understand if he gets sacked.

[@dunerosenberg8602]

This is the journalism we need

[@YouAimYourArrowsHigh]

As a Newcastle fan and big fan of this channel, I am well aware of Alfie's justifiable anger at our owners But also as a Newcastle fan who grew up in Manchester and has watched Jim Ratcliffe unprofessionally steal our sporting director and then moan about us in the press regularly (sometimes after doing a marathon)... ...I'm getting the popcorn out. Give him both barrels, Alfie

[@rocky1169pt]

As a FC Porto supporter, yesterdays game was incredible but also irritating. To be able to revert a 0-2 result only to drew in a corner in the last minute, against a 10 man, it was saddening. Porto's defence has been average, despite having 2 15 million euros center backs that have been average and we are missing a leader like Pepe. But fortunately chelsea rejected Samu and he has been great and compensated how bad our defence has been

[@insertgenericusernamehere2402]

As a united fan, highly expected you to win 3-2, when Maguire scored I was so numb I didn't even celebrate. That Samu kid you have up front looks lethal. Good luck with the rest of the tournament

[@RANDOMZBOSSMAN1]

Samu is a big big problem I wish he could play for Nigeria but Spain will definitely play him sooner rather than later

[@insertgenericusernamehere2402]

@@RANDOMZBOSSMAN1 over morata? I don't think so

[@RANDOMZBOSSMAN1]

@@insertgenericusernamehere2402 More to guarantee his future for the Spanish national team He’s still raw but his ceiling is super high

[@insertgenericusernamehere2402]

@@RANDOMZBOSSMAN1 I feel he'd already be called up now if they saw a future for him look at yamal he's playing for them and is what 16/17

[@krisr3868]

The Ineos cycling team can mostly be seen as failure in recruitment (and retention - Carapaz, Adam Yates, Dani Martinez and Dylan Van Baarle), where the recruitment for the 2022 seasons and onwards have been either awful, decent domestiques, or young riders not ready for World Tour level. And since they don't have a development team, they are forced to sign riders such as Michael Leonard, Theodor Storm, Andrew August to the main squad, or risk another team getting them instead. There's also some bad luck involved with Chris Froome and Egan Bernal crashing in 2019 and 2022 respectively, and never regaining their former level. The death of Nicolas Portal (age 40), who was second to David Brailsford in the sporting structure, in 2020 may also play a role. With their scouting being all over the place, and the team not seeming as cohesive as they used to be, they need something new to happen on the sporting front. As for the stadium, had it been in my country, I'd want my government to do as you suggested. The taxpayers should own a percentage of the stadium equivalent to the part that's been paid.

[@superstar_h_gamer5211]

Chelsea won a UCL went into Crisis found a superstar and are looking like competitive again.... meanwhile united are at the exact same spot

[@Goozero1]

Chelsea went from hot garbage to finding it a bit cold 🥶

[@samshyam5347]

Lmao we will see. They are just having a purple patch. They could be competitive again but it's not gonna be this soon

[@superstar_h_gamer5211]

@@samshyam5347 I'm not talking about title contenders that maybe next or two seasons away but in general positive. They score a lot of goals

[@patrickbateman1660]

They spent 1.5 billion double man U since that UCL.

[@maciejbala477]

yeah so far it does look like it is working, but it's early doors. I hope they become title challengers though. Would be hilarious to have Pep and his pupils be the only ones fighting for the title

[@BZ2YYZ]

Thanks for this, Alfie. The adulation amongst British media for Ratcliffe always baffled me. And any Man U fans I speak to don't seem to think it matters that his other sports ventures have, at best, stood still.

[@maciejbala477]

That's because Man Utd fans are high on copium, so to speak. They NEED Ratcliffe to come good, to escape the misery of the recent decade and the Glazer ownership, so they need to believe that he will turn it around, therefore, in their minds, they ignore all the signs that it might not be so. Seen it a lot online. That's no doubt also why they were praying for the Qatari takeover to go through, ignoring everything else apart from the fact it would finally get rid of the Glazers.

[@RANDOMZBOSSMAN1]

I rather would have had the Qataris buy united than Jim the Rat

[@dashcharger24]

How is the media reporting news about them? I'm not always a big fan of our news reporting, but they detailed how bad everything was going when this brand/people came to do business.

[@StephenBest-m1q]

Ineos are dismantling the club stone by stone From Matt Busby & Duncan Edwards, class acts - to the Glazers and SJR, roots con dinero

[@brunokagawa6287]

I don't think non-United fans know nor care about the actual situation of Manchester United. As long as the Glazers are in charge, the Reds are always going to having two hands tied behind their back. Neither Sir Jim nor Sir Alex could achieve any sort of quick turnaround on the football pitch. You could sack all the managers in the world, but at the end of the day you must still work through a certain process instead of bowing to popular demands.

[@albertbrammer9263]

Fans of other teams love it when Man Utd lose. Keep EtH. Keep losing, you clown.

[@patrickfortune3057]

One hand tied behind there back with the 2nd biggest spend and biggest wages

[@RBzee112]

The Reds are Liverpool. Man United are the Red Devils.

[@brunokagawa6287]

@@patrickfortune3057 This is a very misleading argument circulating around. The Glazers don't put money in the club, they take it out. The club is able to spend a lot because they have a large fanbase pumping it up, not because of those so-called owners, and the club spends it poorly because, well, of the Glazers' mismanagement.

[@adambarker-wyatt6579]

simp

[@Sluetch90]

That rant was brilliant … Especially the end 😂😂

[@Theflippacino]

You are a very well-informed man, young Alfie. I am learning more about life and how to sound smarter from each video.

[@ForzaBantams]

It’s funny how time goes. When I was a kid and first got into football, Manchester United went from being the team they are now to a team that seemingly were going to dominate forever. And now they’re back to the team how they were back in the 80’s when Liverpool dominated winning titles, and even Everton were part of the big 6.

[@gregorybertrand645]

Hearing Alfie talk about cycling, my favorite sport, is such an out of body experience.

[@bonjouritsready]

It’s hardly a niche interest get a grip

[@AdityaKumar-eg5tn]

Since 2017 one thing is common manager has lost the faith of the squad. Glazers are to be blamed for this. Players were made to beleive that they are bigger the club and the manager.

[@buffaloslamhd8380]

It’s quite ironic you have that thumbnail considering today is the day Joker 2 is out in cinemas

[@Randomaccount9470]

The jokes on us coz it sucks 😢

[@MrBizteck]

Another disaster too !

[@andreyanodesousa-5321]

Seeing pictures of my hometown at 6:11 is the craziest thing ever. Been watching this channel for 5 years, never in my wildest dreams would I have thought that I'd one day see pictures of my town on the channel. Absolutely crazy!!

[@Notnice44]

Being a fan of this team is so damn stressful…

[@SiggiTh]

Try supporting Arsenal during the lockdown era. Only true believers got thru that hell!

[@elixir8417]

being a fan of the most successful English club ever is stressful? Cry me a river 🙄

[@Neomoeng-i4u]

Come to the blue side :)

[@lucaslonchampt613]

Still, could be worse. At least your team is guaranteed European football every year more or less. Many would love to say likewise

[@Chippychips8-2]

​@@lucaslonchampt613 It's a matter of standards. A Brighton fan is happier than a United fan.

[@venturer9400]

The awareness and knowledge of geopolitical events alone could at this point make talking about them your job on here. I really admire that.

[@AblemanSy]

Wonderful, Alfie! But notice: Lausanne and Luzern are not the same city. From what I've gathered in the video Ratcliffe owned Lausanne which is pornounced kinda like lowzanne.

[@octavianpopescu4776]

Lo-zan (without the w, the o sounds like o in "port" and the a like the a in "car" or "park").

[@Dubious_Neon]

Don't even need to watch this. As a Utd fan I was horrified by our two prospective owners. An anonymous benefactor from Quatar, the state built on oil and fuck all else, or a petrochemical billionaire who thought Brexit was great, then fucked off to Monaco. Clowns upon clowns upon morons upon clowns

[@phoenix3872]

But at least the dude from Qatar wouldn't be asking for tax payers help with the infrastructure and would have wiped out the club's debt & started anew with a fresh start

[@MatThomas-o1o]

What's wrong with the government funding infrastructure projects that would create jobs in an area that could really benefit from them ?

[@darrell5403]

@@phoenix3872governments are meant to put money into infrastructure. wtf do you think taxes are for?

[@yogimash]

Great research and journalism here my man, kudos 🙏🏽

[@darrell5403]

Couldn’t even get the competition right that it’s play in

[@christiansimbarashe]

three cheers for yorkshire man. Dude is so consistent with this video drops

[@BrummieRoader]

Was it Lausanne or Luzern he owned? I think it's Lausanne, but it sounds like you're saying Luzern. Which is like the Gent/Genk thing. In fact, they're playing each other tomorrow.

[@Alex58399]

Lausanne, he just pronounced it wrong

[@maciejbala477]

Yeah, I was confused as to which one he was mispronouncing (Lausanne is "Lozan" and Luzern is "Lootzern") before i saw the team logo

[@melchizedekhi-powa2581]

It s FC Lausanne-Sport. The Ineos hq Switzerland is in Rolle which is between Lausanne and Geneva...

[@BojackTrunks]

Two months later this vid has certainly aged well

[@matthewlewis2072]

Ineos Grenadiers (the cycling team) have consummately failed to build on the Team Sky legacy, keeping hold of ageing riders whilst bringing in a succession of poor younger signings. 😂😂😂😂

[@Ligmaballzallthetime]

So, pretty much Man United. We are cooked 😭

[@inatama5136]

This is now the third highest search result for "Jim Ratcliffe" on KZbin

[@Dannydurangi]

I'm not going to pretend to be a Jim Ratcliffe fan, but the part about the stadium being funded by taxpayers is completely unfair and untrue. He said that the stadium will be completely funded by private money; he wants taxpayer investment to improve infrastructure in the local area around the club, i.e. transport to improve the flow of money into the area. Yes, that would help Manchester United financially, there's no point in denying that, but it would also help a lot of local businesses and residents. He asked for state money to invest in the parts he can't do privately. Personally, I don't like the idea of privately funded roads and tram lines, so I think it's a fair ask from him. Other than that, this is a good video; I learned a lot about his dealings that I didn't know before. Surprised you didn't mention him living in Beverley and attending Beverley Grammar, but I suppose that's immaterial.

[@dashcharger24]

And you really think he cares about the average person living in that area?

[@Dannydurangi]

@@dashcharger24 I didn't say that. I'm just pointing out he never asked for public money for the stadium itself; it's a common misconception.

[@meowwww9275]

I genuinely love who you are as a person Alfie my dude, your clear distain for hypocrites and morally corrupt people shines bright and i am a moth to the flame.

[@martinrees9756]

Loved the video Alfie

[@joemurphy1690]

United have made objectively good signings this summer. The fact they play like they don’t recognise each other every game can’t be blamed on Ratcliffe

[@yingyang1008]

Ugarte is terrible, Zirkzee was very mediocre in Italy and is completely unproven, Yoro is a kid, De Ligt looks like the Dutch Maguire and failed at Juve and Bayern, Bayern were also happy to sell us Mazraoui - the fans didn't care at all

[@Ricky07753]

Good signing??Lmaooo Zirkee is average striker in Italy can't even finsih better than Holjund.Ugarte is another Casemiro who can only tackle.Materozi??it's okay. De Ligt?the guy that got bench by Dier and injury prone lmaooo.Yoro?Huge amount of money for 18 yrs old lmaooo.

[@c1obme792]

@@Ricky07753you see this is the problem with you Man Utd fans. You seem to think every player you sign is useless when majority of there cv’s with other teams are flawless. Casemiro and Varane joined after winning the champions league, Zirkzee had a decent season at a great tactically balanced Bologna, De ligt from a decent Bayern side on a downfall and yoro who got injured after one game. Can’t you physically see that it’s the manager to blame? If you can’t then don’t watch football mate.🫡

[@OfficialFingazMC]

Hated Man UTD since I was a lad, but right now it's ABC, anyone but city. It's so boring now...

[@eyeballjellyforbreakfast]

I am sorry for the child abuse we dished out...

[@maciejbala477]

Totally agree. It's just too boring if one team is basically always winning

[@JPL454]

Ineos in cycling is in a very bad place right now, not a 'crisis' per say but in football terms they went from Champions League Real Madrid form to Premier League Chelsea nowadays

[@matthewlewis2072]

You mean, massive spending, incoherent strategy and disappointing results? Hmmm...💯

[@JPL454]

@@matthewlewis2072 yes, that is what I meant😅

[@RANDOMZBOSSMAN1]

Yup they went from being the most feared team in Grand Tours and especially the TDF to also rans for the Grand tours now Even teams like Quick-step who historically wasn’t a Grand tours team have better GT riders now their best rider Carlos Rodriguez is a second tier GT rider at best and has the most wins for the team this year at a paltry 3

[@JPL454]

@@RANDOMZBOSSMAN1 Everything has been going wrong for them honestly, Carlos Rodriguez was pretty good last year but this year there are no GT stages won (except for Ganna in the Giro iirc) and not any monument

[@RANDOMZBOSSMAN1]

@@JPL454 and Ganna didn’t even win the Olympic/Worlds ITT this year vs Remco

[@LimerickWarrior1]

He's not running the club, the people he appointed in key positions are running the club

[@baazkhinda3471]

Well no shit mate that’s how owning a mega business works 😂

[@Linesjointspenaltypoints]

Hiring and firing is all apart of owning a business. So yes he is running the club 🤦‍♂️

[@the_amazing_crappo]

Sir Jim Pratcliffe

[@aristeia71]

Alfie is the best

[@keithsilke50]

Lausanne Sport is the closest “big” Swiss club to the Ineos HQ (Rolle, Vaud).

[@davidpalin1790]

Don't you think this typifies ALL wrong with football 😢

[@christopherbrennan5954]

Your pronunciation of Lausanne sounds far more like Lucerne, which is very confusing, as they are both Swiss teams that play in the same league, in the same colour. Lausanne is French-speaking so should sound something like "Lor-zann" in English and although Lucerne is German-speaking (Luzern in German), we have the English "Lucerne" for it, which you seemed to be using throughout to refer to Lausanne. Keep up the good work otherwise.

[@albertbrammer9263]

Well done Alfie. Always said Ratcliffe is a clown.

[@D1Snr]

I watched nearly all the videos on the Ineos KZbin channel and it was immediately noticeable that Jim Ratcliffe came across as a disgusting arrogant and thoroughly unpleasant man. Bear in mind the videos were produced to show him in the best possible light. He is surrounded by 3 fawning sycophants who are clearly terrified of him. What was also very noticeable were his interactions with the 'shop floor' workers. He seemed very condescending and outright rude and unapproachable towards them, and you could tell he enjoyed it. Fair enough, he made a series of good business deals that made him a fortune, but clearly in the sports/business industry he is not the mastermind he believes he is. I said when he acquired part of Man Utd that the fans would end up despising him. I still stand by that.

[@Xenunt1]

23:19 for the fundamental part of this video 😂

[@OK-wm9ou]

Thank you for today’s gift, Alfred

[@NL-fg6it]

Rare Alfie mistake. Man U are in the Europa League, not the conference league.... Carry on. 🤓

[@joshuafrimpong244]

Soon they will wish they were in the conference league

[@ethanpower381]

United will be lucky to get Conference League this season at this rate

[@theemotionalremix]

Lol they're not even conference league standard. They snuck in the Europa League and absolutely don't deserve it.

[@RANDOMZBOSSMAN1]

They don’t deserve to be in the Europa league

[@Sillykat321]

Boy, I sure hope somebody got fired for THAT blunder

[@ygrbooks]

Another brilliant analysis: thank you so much and 👍👌👏❤! Apart from Sir (?) Jim Ratcliffe's environmental and financial crimes, it is most irritating that ManU expect the cash strapped public (who have to pay taxes) to fund their new stadium. As they say, "You learn to save money with the rich." As a consequence, I have come to enjoy every time the team loses, buys forgettable players at horrendous fees and keeps paying them £300'000 a week 🤪. Please, please make this club go away or down where they belong 😊.

[@MrRokkit]

The fact that Utd's playing staff have been exempt from Ratcliffe's ruthless cost-cutting is fascinating. Especially given the fact that Utd's wage bill is (put kindly) bloated.

[@Jc4302-i4s]

I think contracts prevent that m8

[@MrRokkit]

@@Jc4302-i4s true. There are obviously ways of avoiding the full hit but maybe none worked out. Maybe this summer!

[@oisinquinn9469]

It's a credit to Alfie on how entertaining this is consistently with minimal imagery(no need).

[@haydensgamingadventures]

Why you making a 'We Need To Talk About' video about Man United... we are a world class club and we will win The EFL Championship next season 😅

[@robertsmith4830]

An especially miserable predicament? Au contraire Alfie, it is a chef's kiss of a predicament and I, for one, am enjoying every single second of it!

[@LiftandCoa]

This is damn brilliant When United signed Yoro thwur fans were already talking that they are "loading up" and have "finally a good person at the helm" and "the clubs feels way more structured These claims have changed so fast, expecially for United-ians which immediately turn on the management (but basically on everything all the time as well, then they scapegoat the 100 million euro transfer they do very few years lol)

[@Evemeister12]

You can imagine jim ratcliffe being thin-skinned enough to sue for defamation of character.

[@lukemidani2149]

wake up babe, Alfie has posted again

[@dondamon4669]

Such a weird embarrassing comment!

[@awene4675]

Watching from Namibia, scratching my head about this mysterious academy.

[@bjh1202]

some united fans in the comments truly missing the point of the video, the title of the video isn't "jim ratcliffe is ruining manchester united". if you watch this video and what you take away is the need to defend jim ratcliffe in any capacity i worry about your mental state

[@KaraWisdom]

Love the channel Alfie. Are you planning to do a video about the ruling in the Lassana Diarra case? It seems like it could be transformative for football and I'd love to hear your thoughts about it

[@spencercole23]

Didnt u know all of uniteds problems are down to bruno and rashford

[@LiftandCoa]

United fans have always a list of players who are quote on quote at fault for the situation. Not having thus list would require to critique the clubs culture and surroundings.

[@spencercole23]

​@@LiftandCoa I know I was being sarcastic I am a united fan it's ridiculous we have been one of the worst run clubs in all of football for the past decade I don't blame ten Hag at all theres a reason no one wanted the United job in the summer

[@trademark23]

@@spencercole23 Exactly.

[@rstein926]

The only reason Man Utd have successfull in the 90s and 2000s was because they spent a quarter of a century with Ferguson. Obviously since then Utd are a shadow of the side they once were.

[@Nicofanis]

Why Namibia and Botswana of all countries? They have like 4 Mio. ppl between them and are two of the least densly populated places on earth.

[@stevqtalent]

they're (relatively) rich, safe and stable though, which is important for a place you want to invest money in.

[@Nicofanis]

@@stevqtalent yea makes sense, I also wasn't paying attention and it's "just" for Lausanne. But I enjoyed the pictures of Swakopmund very much.

[@EntertainmentKingProductions]

Just WOW!! I'd love to know how much work you put in to researching your videos. Well done, HONESTLY, on saying what everyone else is thinking. Just to be clear......you are a genius and love watching everything you put out 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@John17489]

Without Sir Alex and the influence he had on refereeing decisions they would be a mid table team. Now that’s almost a reality.

[@patrickbateman1660]

Lmao what a cope

[@Spoony___]

OGC Nice have also had a fair share of "issues", the biggest being Galtier accused of racism towards his own players, all under INEOS.

[@bauer89]

As a United fan I was interested to watch this. The problem is United are so big only a very rich person could afford to buy even a partial stake. Being a United fan from near Manchester, Ratcliffe was the best we could hope for. I don't like some of the things he's done either, but no one who has solid morals could afford it! It's still better than the Glazers destroying the club unchallenged (it's been thoroughly miserable and infuriating, and now at least we have some hope) It's way too early to judge the job INEOS have done at United. The ETH situation was difficult because of the Cup final win. A lot of fans lost perspective and wanted to keep him which meant it was difficult not to - they didn't want their first major decision to go against the fans. There's nothing wrong with looking at other options and then deciding to stick with what you've got. It's obvious ETH was on thin ice after finishing 8th. They've been smart in getting RVN as a coach who can takeover if ETH is sacked now, this time with the backing of most fans. I think you're too quick to judge - you don't know anything about running a football club or a large business. Sorting out the mess the Glazers have made will take a while, it's not as easy as you make out. Fair enough you're calling out his moral indiscretions, you're very good at what you do - but you get carried away sometimes (calling people clowns) when they are clearly intelligent and successful, and you have no experience in their line of work.