afrodoc:
Midfield diamond with carrick at the base and di maria at the apex and herrera and blind either side.
.....................di maria......................

........blind.....................herrera...........

......................carrick....................

This offers the best option for our midfield to control possession with accurate passing and gives good protection for our defence

joeace2020:
So much for Southampton being challengers for champions league places... Mscheeeeww... Small boys occupying spot meant for big boys... Beaten at home by 3goals like a true mid table team they are

afrodoc:
Midfield diamond with carrick at the base and di maria at the apex and herrera and blind either side.
.....................di maria......................

........blind.....................herrera...........

......................carrick....................

This offers the best option for our midfield to control possession with accurate passing and gives good protection for our defence
.

joeace2020:
So much for Southampton being challengers for champions league places... Mscheeeeww... Small boys occupying spot meant for big boys... Beaten at home by 3goals like a true mid table team they are

PietroRico:
Dortmund are rock bottom Àfter 13 games .
Waetin dey do those guys

nitrogen:
To be candid, we have many players, geez! And they are good players, Van Gaal's 3-5-2 will fit in two players in each position,

3 at the back, Smalling/Jones, Evans/Mcnair, Blacket/Rojo.

5 in the middle, Valencia/Rafael, Fellaini/Mata, Blind/Carrick, Di Maria/Herrera, Shaw/Young.

2 at the fore-front, Rooney/Januzaj, Vanpersie/Falcao.

And the bench has got one or two youngies, meanwhile, Nani and Harnandez are coming back o. Nawa o!

Abeg, we need just one or two solid defenders or better-still, one defender and one DM, then we can offload Evans and maybe Carrick.

Seriously, this reminds me of 2007/2008/2009, too many players, infact, I see united in second position or even winning the league, bar injuries sha.

SailorXY:


and to think say board considered Klopp to handle us this season

NOVEMBER 30, 2014 AT 20:48
warrored says:
Yeah the much maligned Young Fellaini and Tony V have all improved this season under LVG. He reckons he can improve any player.

Off topic, what constitutes violent conduct? Yesterday Costa elbowed a player and two footed another and got off scot free.

Last week Wilshere headbutts Felaini on the chin and then the chest but Bleep all.

Think back a few weeks v West Ham when Rooney takes the leg of a player and is red carded and banned for 3 games, ABUs and the media all demand he’s stripped of the captaincy of club and country yet every game such a foul is committed at least once with only a yellow being given as he took it for the team and it’s termed a professional foul. Yet Wayne does it and he’s the Yorkshire Ripper.

elampiro:
Second time I have seen Dortmund play league football this season. Their game is uninteresting. One would enjoy a Kano Pillars game more.

coogar:


he's the best manager in germany....
you people don't realise the damage bayern munich have caused to them. they have lost top quality players to their league rivals in the last 2-3 years & that has truncated their progress. injuries have been unkind to them too. the players they have brought in have less quality than the ones they have lost.

the board will keep faith with him but they need to spend more money & retain the precocious talents coming through. they cannot relegate......they are too good a side to slide down into oblivion.

Deiok:
HAPPY NEW MONTHTO UNITED FAITHFULL'S I wish you all the best in this month of December. And i pray this month shall be a month of celebrations and winnings for us all
GGMU

SailorXY:


and to think say board considered Klopp to handle us this season

PietroRico:
their problem is not klopp.

Na the know jare.

At least iif they miss out on ucl, loads of decent players will be up for grabs

SailorXY:
I have been having fun with piggies who think they are scammers this past week them don see mugu wey never go North America before!

I will paste screen shots on this board later, or maybe open a thread for our conversation cuz of spambot...

Keky:
LVG not happy with the festive fixtures. This is a manager whose team is only playing in the EPL No UCL. No COC

raumdeuter:
When English clubs were doing well in Europe between 2005-2009 were these fixtures absent?

Only one English club would top their CL group, 2 might not even make it to knockout phase. Is this poor performance also due to the Xmas fixtures they haven't played?

“It’s the toughest league in the world,” he said of the Premier League. While everyone is having their holidays - as I did the last three years, and trust me it helps a lot - [here] we play December 26th, December 28th, January 1st.

It’s not the same getting into the Champions League knockout stages after playing every two or three days in the Premier League compared to having had 10 days off on holiday, where you can go to Dubai and enjoy yourself.”

raumdeuter:
While other league players were stressing themselves in the summer and going deep into major competitions like world cup and euro cup English league players are mostly taking a break.

E.g last summer while muller robben Lahm messi hummels were slugging it out in Brazil till mid July, most epl players were on vacation

coogar:


what vacation?
what about the preseason that followed shortly after world cup? were robben & lahm not given up to a month to rest before joining their peers in preseason? you talk a lot of nonsense.

uefa carried out a study & it was revealed a player is 4 times more likely to be injured in the last three months of the premier league than the other leagues in europe.

checkmate!!

ChristineC:
Manchester United are returning to the top end, where they belong.
Rivals Should Watch Out!!!