What if the Sheik Mansour had taken over 10 years ago

[Crossie]

Watching the Malcolm Allison video got me thinking about how much I miss Maine Road, how it felt like home, and its probably going to take a generation, or some proper fucking success before COMMS feels like a proper home. Don't get me wrong, its slowly becoming homely, but I'm sure you all know what I mean.

The big question on my mind is, with Mansour taking over that late that summer, would we have:

1) stayed in Moss Side and developed the stadium and regenerated the area?
2) bought a new plot of land and built something from scratch,
3) been more involved with the council and pumped some funds in to have made COMMS bigger for us???

Gazza signed for Everton, Michael Owen was king of the world, Hasselbaink was knocking them in for fun, Viduka, Phillips, Henry, Wiltord, Kewell, Heskey were all staring. Would we have signed any of them back then with limitless funds?,

Started the relegation season with Joe Royle as manager, we finished 18th , 8 points from safety. Royle was sacked, Keegan came in 3 days later, and everyone kind of forgot about relegation and starting getting excited about the next season.

But what the fuck would have happened with countless millions invested back then. The next season Scum bought Van horseface and Veron, Shearer was knocking them in, Henry, Pires, Berdkamp etc etc

Our was the squad:

20 G Carlo Nash 27
1 G Nicky Weaver 21
37 D Laurent Charvet 27
22 D Richard Dunne 21
2 D Richard Edghill 26
36 D Danny Granville 25
15 D Alf Inge Håland 28
24 D Steve Howey 29
5 D Andy Morrison 30
7 D Spencer Prior 29
16 D Paul Ritchie 25
4 D Gerard Wiekens 27
8 M Ian Bishop 35
17 M Tony Grant 26
6 M Kevin Horlock 28
12 M Andrei Kantshelskis 31
34 M Mark Kennedy 24
19 M Danny Tiatto 27
M Dino Toppmöller 20
18 M Jeff Whitley 21
Paul Dickov 28
10 F Shaun Goater 30
21 F Darren Huckerby24
28 F Egil Ostenstad 28
23 F Paulo Wanchope 24
29 F Shaun Wright-Phillips 19

oh and George Weah? i think.

[Kladze]

Must admit, I've often wondered what Keegan might have produced with the money at his disposal..

[Beefymcfc]

Must admit, I've often wondered what Keegan might have produced with the money at his disposal..

I think KK had more than enough money, we've only just started reaping the benefits of Danny Mills retirement!

[Crossie]

A better way of putting it might be if you could have chosen, what would you have done with regards to the stadium?

[zuricity]

Don't think like that , united wouldn't have been taken over, and wouldn't have won as many titles.