Not quite as they are marginally behind us at present but let's agree that both us and West Ham are competing for the premier league in a far more substantial manner than Liverpool are.
"Emre Can? Learning between running and passing? He can learn." Learning between running and passing?!? Is it just me, or does that imply Norbert thinks Can is as thick as two short Rooneys?
Nope, that's precisely why it's a comparison with last season's fixture, to avoid the appearance of good results from easy fixtures The £110m+ Van Gaal spent last window has got him exactly 0 more points this season than last by fixture
What's confusing you? You didn't compete for the league (or anything else) last season. This season you have the same points in the league and so far have got no further in the cups (plus this season you're also failing to compete for the CL)
You're confusing yourself. One minute we're "2 points off the top in October" but you're "referring to being there at the business end" and then the NEXT minute "exactly 0 more points this season than last by fixture." Are we looking at it now or the business end? As I said make your mind up. What I don't get, maybe you can care to explain. Is how you can show your face on here after your ex-manager spunked a couple of hundred million on getting you to finish from 2nd to 7th. You're a mid-table club and going nowhere. We went up the league last season and are currently higher than we were last season. Whichever way you look at it, we're doing much better than you and you look directionless with a squad of players your new manager doesn't want
To judge whether you're "competing" means considering the business end, which we can't do now but to get some idea of whether you will or not we can look at what you've done so far. And what you've done so far is only get the same points you did last season, when you didn't compete. So you being 2 points off the top is as irrelevant as, e.g., Leicester being top after a couple of games. Neither are an indication of competing
Football isn't a mathematical equation, fella. The league doesn't lie. The sooner you realise that, the sooner you'll stop making a fool of yourself season after season after season
What the **** has last season got to do with anything? most teams have different players now and many have different managers. I assume you will be expecting Chelsea to be relegated compared with last seasons results
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Stop digging and making yourself look even more wrong. Why would I just mean "take part" rather than actually challenge to win? But if that's the standard you hold Van Gaal to then congratulations I too predict Man Utd will (almost certainly) still be taking part in professional football matches by the end of his management.
