Said this the other day about parking two buses in midfield. Even Chelsea play Matic and Fabregas in the pivot at home v lesser sides. In fact we even did it v City away stupidly last week. Re pacey winger: did you want Pedro on the right?
You also started with Ramires last week but played him in an odd position. Possibly part of Jose's strategy to demonstrate that he can't do FFP and needs another £100million to make the team progress...
Manchester United boss Louis van Gaal: "We can be satisfied with the performance but not with the result - we were unlucky. "We did not make the right choices in the final third but we played fantastic as a team. I like these kind of games when we work like this, but not this result. "The performance was one of the best in my period but we don't reward ourselves and there was only one club that wanted to win and that was us."
1 goal from 3 matches and you have 7pts? You are slightly leading Pool on Luck race. Darmian looks S#!te alright. He barely managed to avoid Red against villa. He looked battered today. You are going to have a hell lot difficulty next week, when you travel and back from Belgium. My predos stand. You will be lucky to make top 4.
Uncertain start but still 7 points. Despite the chavs getting the United reject I think it is they who will be happy to get 4th this season. They haven't started well have they
Better than 2 goals and 1 point I fear a Brunt hattrick from 65 yards and another red card for Courtois
Pressure on Maureen to deliver. Despite moaning about the expenditure of other clubs, he spends 22m on the Barca /United reject and he is begging the Russian for more. All to no avail. Will struggle to get top 4 this season
Certainly a relegation battle going on between them and West Brom this weekend. I wonder what Maureen's meltdown will be about today?
It's irrelevant what we wanted, van Gaal claims he didn't. Let's see how that pans out for him. If we sign no one else then the responsibility for that and not replacing a proven top drawer striker in van Persie will be his alone.
Maybe. FFP is changed now. The only true champions of FFP were the winners 14/15. And we won the league with 12 players! It won't be done again. Ramires played wide right: he has played there many times under RDM and Jose too. Fab played in the pivot. Student conspiracists would say he played Fab in the pivot for the first time in ages in a big game especially away so we got battered and funds were released. The same conversations were had in the student bars when Real lost 5-0 in Nou Camp. Personally I doubt it. Jose likes to win most games and probably just got his tactics wrong
Bale would be great at United. You may not get him this summer but I think you will soon. Griezmann is good too
Pedro isn't pacey. I think that's why LVG wasn't sure about him. He's very similar to what we have already. Maybe he's got better technique and / or is a better player than what we currently have, we'll find out soon enough, but he wouldn't have been the answer to what we currently need.
Not surprising when you have roman's money to pay the ref!! At last the chavs admit it themselves. Fair play
Imagine if Suarez for some crazy reason ended up at Utd. I wonder how long it would take before the banners about him being so great would appear at Old Trafford? Would you lot take him if given the chance?
Tbf Giggs is only learning his new role, with a highly reputable manager (and one that appears to be an egomaniac). I think he would have probably been more vocal with Fergie though - not that he'd needed to be.
