United won the Europa League last season - that's not what he was talking about. 10-15 years ago we were at the end of David Moores and the Hicks Gillett takeover. The Club was in a mess at the top.
10-15 years ago, ie: 2003/4-2009 we were on the up for a lot of that time, minus Houllier's last season, for a few seasons we were one of the most feared sides in Europe and our biggest problem in the league was the fact we couldn't compete financially with the mancs or Chelsea, it's a million miles from where they are now, they can still afford to buy more or less whoever they want but they choose to chuck money at whoever the FIFA fanboys/footie hipsters think is boss, c*nts like Pogba etc, no free signings to try and bulk the squad out like Rafa had to put up with, and that's before the shit hit the fan big style in 09/10, we won the European cup on a shoestring and then continued to punch above our weight compared to what they were spending then, this lot they have now will be lucky to get past the next round and not one of the big sides will be that worried if they draw them, hell let them get Porto then us in the QF's
He shouldn't even be comparing them to us after that as we've had to rebuild from the shite left by Hicks & Gillett
for the money they've spent they should be at least challenging the top sides in Europe instead of the wank they serve up now, at best he could compare them to us under Souness when we were wasting a fortune (at the time) on the likes of Paul Stewart, wasn't too long after that that they changed the financial landscape and started outspending everyone until the oil money showed up, shite comparison full stop