Essential Football special - Man Utd's decade in the dark: 10 years without a Premier League trophy
Sky Sports Premier League Podcast
Sky Sports
4.0 • 760 Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Despite spending just shy of £1.5bn on players in that time, United have failed to reach the heights set by Sir Alex Ferguson - and fresh from writing a feature-length piece on 10 years of false dawns, Zinny charts where it's all gone wrong for the club in that time.
Featuring insight from inside and out of Old Trafford and interviews with former assistant manager Rene Muelensteen as well as long-time Guardian Man Utd correspondent Jamie Jackson - the man who elicited THAT 'Respect!' rant from Jose Mourinho, this is the story of Manchester United: A decade in the dark.
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| 0:53.3 | This was the moment at 8.31 this morning. The news broke that Manchester United had sacked David Moyes after less than 10 months as manager. |
| 1:03.0 | I show you the cup and I don't discuss it with my friends of the media. |
| 1:09.0 | Who already seconded me for six months. |
| 1:12.6 | Which manager can do that, what I have done? |
| 1:15.6 | Three new, but also mean three premierships and I won more premierships alone than the other 19 managers together. |
| 1:23.6 | Respect, respect, respect, respect, respect, respect. |
| 1:28.5 | This idea that Manist United only won the league a few years, though now is gone, they're |
| 1:31.7 | in the wilderness. |
| 1:33.0 | Where do you see the next league title coming from? |
| 1:35.5 | Yeah, things can be turned around quickly, but good decisions, big decisions have to be made |
| 1:39.0 | quickly. |
| 1:40.0 | So poor. |
| 1:41.0 | The difference in class, quality, decision made. |
| 1:43.5 | And Shillettas have not had a clear plan of exactly what they want to do. |
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