Dear Ronnie

I’ve been a MU fan for the last 50+ years and write this as a lifelong MU fan.

Thank you for returning to Utd even though I wasn't totally thrilled when I heard you were coming back. 

Thank you for helping the club achieve all that it achieved before you left for Madrid but the club hasn’t achieved anything since you came back as we all know.

Why say you’re being forced out of the club now just as there is no point saying it was an open secret that you wanted to leave before the start of the season?

Why say you’re being forced out of the club unless you still want to stay? Either way your contract ends in 6 months so what is to be achieved by saying you’re being forced out?

Can we agree that it’s in your interest to leave in January? I can’t speak for the club but I suspect the club will also agree that it’s in the club’s (and team’s) interest that you leave.

So, if it’s in everyone’s interest that you leave in January why not just ask the Club if you can just leave?

Oh. You want to be paid the rest of your salary for the remaining 6 months? That’s a totally different thing.

You want to leave AND be paid for not staying? Isn’t that called having your cake and eating it?

If you love the club as much as you say you do why ask the club to pay you on top of letting you leave?

Don’t you see that if the club agrees to let you cancel your contract the money that you would have been entitled to for the rest of your contract can be spent buying a replacement forward?

What are your options then?

These seems to be the only options :

a.      Stay at the club and be paid your salary but be banished to the reserves;
b.      Apologise to the club, the team, the fans, everyone for everything you said in the interview;
c.      Sue the club to be released from your contract;
d.      Ask to be released from your contract and accept a simple ‘drop hand’s outcome and part ways with the club paying you nothing.

Let’s be clear, even if there was the slightest chance the club would have agreed to let you leave AND pay you your salary for the remaining months of your contract you blew that up when you gave that interview. 

You’ve made a rod for your own back by trying to back the club into a corner because the club can never agree to letting you leave and paying out your contract if the same thing can happen with another player.

We know options a and b aren’t acceptable to you.

With option c by the time the case comes up for trial you would already have left the club.

Looks like option d is you only realistic option unless you want to go down option c when you have your family to think about. 

What shall it be Ronnie? 

Warmest regards and good luck in Qatar.

Just another lifelong MU fan
 
PS poll question - Which option should Ronnie take? a,b, c or d?

In the interests of balance, we should have a thread for the women's team.


And the first piece of news is that Ella Toone has signed a contract extension!  She has signed a contract extension with the club until the end of the 2025/26 season.

The 23-year-old forward joined United in 2018 as part of their inaugural FA Women's Championship winning side, and has gone on to score 43 goals and become the club's first centurion with 110 appearances.

Ella Toone is Manchester United Women's all-time leading goalscorer with 43 goals and the club's first centurion with 110 appearances; Toone, 23, won the European Championship with the Lionesses this summer, scoring the opening goal in the team’s 2-1 final victory over Germany

Might have guessed this!!!

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Hi all

I have just subscribed to gold, and I was wondering how long it takes to activate, as I am hoping to catch the game tonight!

Thanks!

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August 2022

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<td class="fixu">7th</td>
<td class="fixu">Premier League</td>
<td align="right">Man Utd</td>
<td class="fixu">1 – 2</td>
<td align="left">Brighton</td>
<td class="fixu" style="font-weight:bold;color:white;background-color:#ca0f0f;border-bottom-width: 2px;border-bottom-style: solid;">L</td>
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<td class="fixu">13th</td>
<td class="fixu">Premier League</td>
<td align="right">Brentford</td>
<td class="fixu">4 – 0</td>
<td align="left">Man Utd</td>
<td class="fixu" style="font-weight:bold;color:white;background-color:#ca0f0f;border-bottom-width: 2px;border-bottom-style: solid;">L</td>
</tr>
<tr class="fixu">
<td class="fixu">22nd</td>
<td class="fixu">Premier League</td>
<td align="right">Man Utd</td>
<td class="fixu">2 – 1</td>
<td align="left">Liverpool</td>
<td class="fixu" style="font-weight:bold;color:white;background-color:#0fca6c;border-bottom-width: 2px;border-bottom-style: solid;">W</td>
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<td class="fixu">27th</td>
<td class="fixu">Premier League</td>
<td align="right">Southampton</td>
<td class="fixu">0 – 1</td>
<td align="left">Man Utd</td>
<td class="fixu" style="font-weight:bold;color:white;background-color:#0fca6c;border-bottom-width: 2px;border-bottom-style: solid;">W</td>
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