Ian Watson

1 week ago | football365.com | Ian Watson

Manchester United have been treading on rakes in the transfer market for a decade now; selling Bruno Fernandes would be the most catastrophic mis-step yet. Apparently, the clock is ticking on Al-Hilal’s offer to make Fernandes their marquee player ahead of the Club World Cup. That in isolation is not an offer that you would expect to tempt the United captain. But £700,000 a week is a sweetener few could simply dismiss without serious consideration.

1 week ago | football365.com | Ian Watson

We had a lovely Bank Holiday afternoon poring over the F365 tables now 2024-25 is in the bag. Don’t pretend you were having more fun with your family and friends…After all, we’ve got 21 different tables, and within those, plenty of nifty filtering options and all sorts of other user-friendly features. You just don’t get that in the pub or out in the fresh air. So here are 16 Conclusions drawn from those very tables…1) Let’s start with the one that really matters: the actual league table.

1 week ago | football365.com | Ian Watson |Matt Stead |Lewis Oldham |Sarah Winterburn

The Premier League season is over and that can mean only one thing: going back to our pre-season predictions and laughing our heads clean off at the hilariously confident wrongness contained within. Mocking our ridiculous and frequent inaccuracies in this fashion makes us realise why you lot enjoy it so much in the comments. Anyway. Let’s crack on.

2 weeks ago | football365.com | Ian Watson

This is what rock-bottom looks like, is it? Manchester United fans, with a view skewed by years of Sir Alex Ferguson-led glory, assumed many, many times in the dozen years since that the nadir had been reached. Nope. Come 6pm on Sunday while likely looking up from 17th in the Premier League, all that is left beneath is the Championship.

2 weeks ago | football365.com | Ian Watson

Of the many areas Manchester United need to strengthen this summer, goalkeeper is the position they will most resent having to address. Andre Onana should have been United’s No. 1 for a decade; that was the plan when the Red Devils spent £43.7million on the Cameroonian in 2023 to replace David De Gea and, to be fair to the recruitment ‘brains trust’ at Old Trafford at the time, there was very little dissent over their pick.