Manchester United

2022 - 3 - 15

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Manchester United star Paul Pogba says his house burglarized ... (USA TODAY)

Manchester United midfielder Paul Pogba said his house was burglarized while he played in a Champions League match on Tuesday.

Pogba's wife was at Old Trafford for the match. In a post on Twitter, the France midfielder said his “babies were sleeping in their bedroom” when the burglary took place on Tuesday. He has offered a reward for anyone with information. MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Manchester United midfielder Paul Pogba said Wednesday his house was burglarized while he played in the Champions League game against Atletico Madrid.

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Paul Pogba: Manchester United star reveals house was burgled ... (Daily Mail)

Paul Pogba reveals his house was burgled while his CHILDREN were at home during Manchester United's Champions League defeat by Atletico Madrid, as shaken France ...

We are now in Sweden and are spending some time off with our families. We are okay under the circumstances but it was obviously a very traumatic and scary moment for both me and my little kids. 'This occurred during the final minutes of last night's match when they knew that we would not be home. Please send any info to [email protected].' our sense of safety and security. Manchester United star Paul Pogba has revealed his house was burgled while his two children were sleeping in their bedroom as he played in the Champions League on Tuesday.

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Manchester United: a tale of mediocrity and greed finding its own ... (The Guardian)

Manchester United's loss to Atlético Madrid is just the latest illustration of a club riddled with incoherence on and off the pitch.

There is even a hint of the obsession with the past, with that great lost Fergie-land in the skies. There is even a kind of beauty, a glory in that ruined structure; albeit one that will before long, without a little care, a little love, find itself vanishing into the soil. This is not tribalism or a comment on the fitness of football governance elsewhere. What United are currently producing is an entirely joined-up, perversely logical vision of incoherence, from the vacuum between head coach and owners that has been filled by endless floating blokes (so, so many blokes), to the obsession with branding and eyeballs that has infected every part of this organism. The reality is that the players are not corrupt, flawed human beings. Not to mention, once the ledgers of overspend and underachievement have been tallied, a kind of natural justice. As opposed to the just rewards of haunting and cinematic failure? And it seems that elite sport, or at least the part we see on the pitch, still has some kind of logic to it. Because this is also a kind of art. But there is an aesthetic concern too, because there is an irresistible beauty in the gargoyles, the bowed walls, the mouldering buttresses, the wreckage of two decades of parasitic ownership. Unsurprising, then, that medieval English poets should get a little tearful at the thought of wet rot and not being able to light the fire. The work of giants is decaying.

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Manchester United: Man held over alleged racist abuse at Old Trafford (BBC News)

A man was arrested after a report of racist abuse during Manchester United's defeat to Atletico Madrid, police have said. The 31-year-old man was arrested in the crowd at Old Trafford during Tuesday's Champions League game.

Throwing objects on to the field of play is against ground regulations and subject to a three-year ban. A video on social media appeared to show him responding angrily to fans. A man was arrested after a report of racist abuse during Manchester United's defeat to Atletico Madrid, police have said.

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Man United have become a club that drains the talent out of their best players and, as Tuesday's loss proved, nothing changes until that changes.

When the heat is on, they wilt and it will take more than a new manager and another so-called "cultural reset" this summer to slam on the brakes and point the club in the right direction. United have won just two Champions League knockout ties since 2011, and there has been no home win in the knockout rounds since 2014. Atletico Madrid's 1-0 Champions League win at Old Trafford, which sent United out of the competition at the Round of 16 stage, was simply the same old story. This is a modal window. Manchester United play a big game, their star players fail to perform as they are out-fought and out-thought by their opponents and, as surely as night follows day, they lose. This is a modal window.

Manchester United's chase for trophies is over in March. Where does the beleaguered club go from here? (unknown)

Ralf Rangnick cut a frustrated figure during Manchester United's defeat to Atlético Madrid. (CNN) As Diego Simeone jogged towards the Old Trafford tunnel, the ...

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United last won the Premier League nine years ago.This summer may be the most important of the Glazers' tenure.As for coming up for winning formula for the team, United need a masterplan and quickly. Last week, United revealed further plans it has to redevelop Old Trafford, which has been showing its age for several years.The club's chief operating officer Collette Roche said they have developed "a Masterplan for the modernization" of the famous stadium.United fans have pleaded with the Glazer family, the club's absent owners, to sell up for several years now, believing the Americans' main priority is to make money, with on-pitch success a distant second.United might not have won a trophy since 2017, but according to Forbes, the club's value is $4.2 billion.Since Ferguson's retirement in 2013, United have won just three trophies -- the FA Cup under Van Gaal in 2016, and the League Cup and Europa League under Jose Mourinho the following year -- but none of football's major prizes. Privacy PolicyPLEASE NOTE: Consent to store and/or access information on a device is required to customize and improve your experienceCookies, device identifiers, or other information can be stored or accessed on your device for the purposes presented to you. Simeone's Atlético Madrid had just ended United's last hope of winning any silverware this season in the only way a Simeone team knows how.Cholismo, the sacred art of defensive nous and intense work ethic, had helped Atlético secure a 1-0 win and passage through to the Champions League quarterfinals and left United supporters staring at a fifth straight season without a trophy.Another Champions League meltdown, star players booed and rumored departures: What next for PSG?However, once their rage with Simeone and his team subsides, those United fans will likely realize their real anger is not with an Argentine coach and his divisive tactics, but rather with their own club." It's hard for the club, for us and the fans. Not at Old Trafford nor at the Wanda Metropolitano, where three weeks ago it looked as though the team had earned a valuable 1-1 draw.Cristiano Ronaldo struggled to impact the match against Atleti.The reality is this team hasn't been good enough for several years now and the club finds itself in a perpetual state of failed rebuilding; waiting for another unsuccessful season to end before trying to remedy that lack of success with high-profile summer transfer signings or a new manager.Since 2012, United's net spend is €1.075 billion ($1.18 billion). The club has paid €1.545 billion ($1.7 billion) in transfers while receiving €470 million ($516 million) in player sales, according to study published by Switzerland-based independent research group CIES Football Observatory.The squad United has built is unquestionably a talented one but has lacked an identity since Alex Ferguson's departure in 2013. For too long now, the team has relied on moments of individual brilliance to dig it out of holes -- see Cristiano Ronaldo's hat-trick against Tottenham on Saturday -- and when that doesn't come, the attack simply grinds to a halt.Chelsea made plea for 'sporting integrity,' despite oligarch owner being sanctioned after Russia's invasion of UkraineThe appointment of Rangnick -- a manager lauded for his intense, proactive style -- was supposed to help provide United with a new identity, or at least begin laying the foundations for one.Tuesday's game was the 20th time Rangnick had taken charge of this United team, but he's yet to come up with a framework to get the most out of Ronaldo, Paul Pogba and Jadon Sancho.Instead, the team continues to wander aimlessly through a barren period that is the club's worst since the late 60s, with no apparent plan in place to help guide it to success once again.United, which finally appointed a director of football in John Murtough in March last year, has continued to get decision after decision spectacularly wrong in recent years.Whether it's appointing the wrong head coach -- or taking too long to sack him -- or spending vast amounts of money on players who are either not good enough or do not quite fit a manager's system, it's easy to see why United has stagnated so badly.The difficult part, as the club hierarchy is no doubt aware, is fixing it.Many feel getting the next managerial appointment right is the crucial first step of setting the club back on the right path, with PSG boss Mauricio Pochettino and Ajax head coach Erik ten Hag reportedly the frontrunners.However, it's difficult to see either of those men succeeding where Jose Mourinho, Louis van Gaal, Ole Gunnar Solskjær and now Rangnick have failed without serious structural change.Rangnick even admitted last month he doesn't "really know" what Darren Fletcher's role at the club is, after the former United midfielder was appointed the club's first ever technical director in March 2021.But the rebuilding of the club doesn't end on the pitch. We are out of one of the most important competitions so we are very sad.

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