Match Day Thread General matchday thread.

My plane was on the other side and came with some chewing gum on my tray

 

So it was just a random plane pic, to show you was at the airport, got it.

 

Reality has surely hit home at United that the way they operate needs to change.

Next couple of years will be the new manager putting his own style and plans in place, everything after that will involve us challenging to win stuff.

I honestly think the EL is winable as soon as next season, assuming we don't finish top four.

Even if we do finish top four, we would very likely not get out of the group and end up in the EL anyway.

I happen to think it's an ideal competition to target when a rebuild is happening. That and a domestic cup.

Then, in three seasons, we'll have improved and the pack comes back to us anyway, given that Liverpool are currently at peak, Chelsea are in a bit of flux, and Spurs and Arsenal are, and will remain, gash.

Only really City you could say will still just continue to snap up 100 million players (and then improve, obvs, such is the manager's genius) and stay at top peak.

 

Yeh and if my auntie had balls she'd be my uncle.

Seems like you got it all planned out mate, see you in 3 years

 

I’m surprised you find it puzzling when it happens to an oppo manager tbh bru

 

Your new man needs to write down about 10 names of players that he's keeping and the rest need to leave.

No if or buts, if your names not on the list then you're gone and it shouldn't matter about reputation, salary or cost. Now I realise that will be difficult but it absolutely needs to happen.

 

See you in eight hours actually, unless you'd forgotten.

 

He's obviously worried.

 

getting rid of all the deadwood will probably take more than a year unless they are out of contract as you pay so well .

 

No varane, fred, mctominay, possibly no ronny after his kid dying and Maguire deffo starts.

Whats to worry about

 

Pogba off for free so that's one

 

Ditto Lingard, Matic also confirmed as leaving.

Mata will probably leave, Cavani is confirmed as leaving.

Just needs one or both of Phil Jones and Bailly and that's a good start to the clear out.

Ronaldo deffo not playing tonight btw.

 

We're being set up for a fall here. I remember we went to OT @1998 with half our team missing, United reigning supreme, and we were in ****e form. We won one-nil with a Murphy free-kick, iirc, and Sir Alex was fuming after the game about how defensive we were, that it wasn't a free-kick (Neville literally grabbed the ball with his forearms and chucked it away) ,and the Daily Mirror went into a week's mourning.

Tonight will be hard, ****ing hard. But this is what we'd have bitten your hand off in January when it looked like the league was over.

 

If I were manager, I would win tonight's game with this team and line up.

 

Glad he's not playing, as he was basically your team in October and scored the best goal of the afternoon. Not happy with the circumstance though, poor bloke.

 

I'd go 5-4-1 with what you have available too. Don't think he will though.

 

I doubt he will, but what we have available is crying out for it.

 

Switches very easily to 3-4-3 when you have the ball, and there's pace at the side of Maguire for our counter-attacks. The passing of Thiago and the movement of our front three and our fullbacks will be key if you go 5-4-1. If we don't score in the first half-hour (and God forbid you nick one), I can see huge frustration.

 

If by "another team" you mean Spurs, then of course. Who doesn't like to laugh at Spurs?

Could be worse, you could be Everton. Proper Guvnor's Graveyard, that club. What was fat frank thinking of ffs?

 

Yeah, bit naive of Slurps to post that tbh

Standard to slate any oppo manager that has a sticky patch.

Gonna put it down to slurps being hungry and not thinking straight