Originally posted by thaughbaer
I think 5 Premier League titles in 9 years against the spending of Chelski and City is a damn fine record. Although I think they have underachieved this season... but it's only one season. Just thank your lucky stars you are not a Portsmouth supporter ( I'm not really a supporter but they are my local team ).
Chelsea declined in that period more than Utd due to spending £50 million on Torres who did nothing and changing managers every season. City have had problems getting their team together, as did Chelsea when they first started spending, last year they just didn't play for Mancini, no way that Utd should have won the league so easily, any Utd fan will tell you they won a lot of games they shouldn't have.
This season it's all finally catching up on them, plus half of the reasons Utd were winning with such a mediocre squad was because people feared playing them because of Fergie. Take him away and a couple of early bad results and it snow balled. Plus I've said in a million times that Van Persie was the other msin reason why Utd won the league and this season has been mostly injured so there's a few factors. Lack of quality summer signings the other.
I don't think Moyes is right for the job, I said it as soon as he was appointed and I#m sure he'll be sacked next season around Christmas if they're not challenging for the title. Could be 20 years to the next title unless the owner put their hands in their pockets during the summer... doubt they will though.
Was good while it lasted though, I'm used to supporting a crappy team (NY Mets) so I won't be one of the fans who disappear.