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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 12:55pm On Oct 06, 2020
Starkizito:
He's a club legend and his influence can be used to close off deals in the future.
Not only him(Ole) the likes of 'dem Beckham,Evra.etc can hold that down,imagine a club as big as united sends out lawyers to go seal transfer deals.

Now imagine if you are sancho and Beckham comes calling you won't you force a move by all means sir?
I would rather go get someone who has experience at executive language like VDS and it does not even have to be a club legend. Appointing another legend without experience or achievements would be repeating the Ole mistake at DoF level.

There are good, experienced options out there like Rangnick, Monchi, Reed, Campos.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 12:41pm On Oct 06, 2020
weedtaker:
wan bissaka and Maguire, I think.
Both are deeply flawed players and actually count against him.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 12:29pm On Oct 06, 2020
Starkizito:
OLE should calmly resign and take up the role of technical director or so tbh..
Technical director? For what?

What has he done to show that he would be a good technical director.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 12:22pm On Oct 06, 2020
Oasis007:
grin

Engr. You don rinse your Face?
cheesy
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 9:55am On Oct 06, 2020
96forever:
you disagree? Generally I have no problem with mbappe being the better player, but as RW Sancho is better.
A RW is meant to score and assist. Sancho might provide more assists but Mbappe will score far more goals. Mbappe's general talent level is so much higher and he is such a better scorer that he will outperform Sancho in any attacking position.

The speed and acceleration gap as well as the finishing gap is the difference.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 9:45am On Oct 06, 2020
96forever:
Sancho is better than both Gnabry and Mbappe as RW.
Calm down.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 9:43am On Oct 06, 2020
It is simple. We make champions league again and we go for Sancho again next season if we still need him.

A statement had to be made. Now they have to keep to it. No more maga payments.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 9:36am On Oct 06, 2020
iamoyindamola:
Who else think since this girl with big breasts switched clubs
Arsenal is doing well they even won trophies.
But man utd is the new arsenal cheesy
See better software. Make person download this one finish e go be season film.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 9:31am On Oct 06, 2020
Nezzjnr:
I want to see the Teams that will bid for Sancho next summer
I wonder why you just developed beef for the innocent boy just like that. He didn't slap the price tag on himself AND he was not the one that slammed the door shut on United.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 9:28am On Oct 06, 2020
SyIvalord:
Manchester United: We want to sign Sancho

Insatiable Man Utd fans: Why sign Sancho for a record breaking fee when we can go to the South American League and get a good player for a lot cheaper? What are our damn scouts paid to do? Why can’t they identify the good talents that abound in South America?

Damn scouts: Goes to the Uruguayan league and identifies Facundo

Manchester United: Signs Facundo

Insatiable fans:
LMAO. Now this is very funny. cheesy
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 9:16am On Oct 06, 2020
elrony:
I was banking on the fact that he'd improve since he was young.

I don jejely collect my L in peace angry
Hehehe. You were one of those tackling me that time?

See, in football once you enter your 20s what you can do is IMPROVE on what you already have and also be more consistent at it. You can't suddenly ACQUIRE a new skill.

In particular at that age it is almost impossible to suddenly develop a great touch or great dribbling. It is easier to improve shooting, crossing, tackling, positioning e.t.c BUT touch and dribbling is developed before 18.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 9:05am On Oct 06, 2020
olabode89:
If Ole is a smart coach, since we have been unable to buy a proper RW and our defence have been comical he should switch to a 3-5-2 formation. Rotate Martial, Greenwood, Rashford and Cavani as the two strikers. Shaw can play as the LCB closest to the LWB. Telles is s perfect candidate for LWB. The problem is who will play as RWB. Wan Bissaka is extremely poor with a very low football IQ, poor touch, etc. Crystal Palace scammed us big time.
You don't mean it? cheesy

Just for that 50m AWB purchase Ole and Matt Judge deserve to lose their jobs. I never watched Crystal Palace 2 seasons ago but when i heard the rumors of the impending deal and the fact that people were hyping him for benching AWB i went to watch a few highlights.

It didn't take me more than 2 minutes of highlights to confirm that he was a small club fullback. Zero attacking nous, negative passing ability. But some here argued with me that he will get better in a big team as if he intentionally refused to show those skills at Crystal Palace.

It was not until he got here and we watched him regularly that we discovered that apart from zero attacking ability he was also had poor positioning.

As an uncapped, unproven defensive fullback he should not have cost more than 15m pounds.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 8:55am On Oct 06, 2020
elrony:
This one off me grin grin grin
I don't think Ole is the right person for the job but to think Woodward or Matt Judge have any sense when it comes to football matters is very laughable.

Throughout these chaotic years 3 managers have come and gone, dozens of players have come and gone, Woodward and his college roommate Judge are the only ones to remain. Connect the dots.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 7:40pm On Oct 05, 2020
Ibime:
Indeed he wants to play a certain style but fails to identify the qualities in each position needed to play that style. I don't totally blame him for failing to spot Magwayas lack of pace though. Magwaya at Leicester and Sheffield drifts past players with the ball when driving forward from defence that it will give you the false impression he has some pace. You will not know he drifted past those players due to feints that put them off balance and allowed him to surge past them. It is only when you turn Magwaya toward his own goal that you notice his lack of pace.
I noticed his lack of pace before we bought him. It was actually obvious to me.

This was my post about him last year June before we bought him.

afrodoc2:
Positives: Maguire is stronger than any of our defenders, as good in the air as the best(Smalling), as good on the ball as the best(Lindelof).

Negatives: He is English. He has a weight problem and is already starting to slow down in his mid 20s. The day he will finish it will be overnight.
And did i mention that he is English?
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 6:58pm On Oct 05, 2020
kokaneprodigy:
I get am before no be property, keep basking in past glory, you’ll go the way of Leeds United.
grin

This is coming from an Assanal fan?
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 6:42pm On Oct 05, 2020
Panther7:
According to reports "United's hierarchy believe he will talk straight into the starting 11"
United hierarchy get sense before?
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 6:37pm On Oct 05, 2020
Chris Smalling has left finally. 2 left legs. cheesy
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 6:23pm On Oct 05, 2020
Ibime:
Ole is always asking for the wrong players and una dey defend am.

His first need in that team is a solid DM. He could have asked for Hojberg and Allan who would cost him a combined £40m and solve half his problems, yet he keeps going for megabucks players.
It is actually more than just a solid DM. He is buying and using players that do not fit his football philosophy.

He wants to play out from the back he went to buy a RB who has zero footballing ability at 50m.

He wants to press high up the pitch and he bought a last man who is as slow as a turtle for 80m. You as an ex-footballer should know what happens when a team presses high while its CB drops off.

He wants to press high up the pitch and he is playing 2 immobile midfielders in Pogba and Matic.

But the most significant problem is that whatever his football philosophy is he is not able to implement it on the training ground. His tactical incompetence is just the cherry on top.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 5:19pm On Oct 05, 2020
olabode89:
Chief, the leaky nature of our defence is based more on our coaching and defense system than the defenders. Against Spurs, their Wingers were usually drifting inward dragging our FBs inside providing space for their FBs to bomb forward. I was shocked on numerous occasions where we couldn't defend this simple strategy. Our wingers (Greenwood and Rashford) were supposed to track and defend against their fullbacks or defend using the zonal system, where the DM would track the winger coming inside towards the 18 yards box.

Agaisnt Brighton they explored us with one of the benefits of playing the 3-5-2 or 3-4-3 systems. I repeat we actually have more of a coaching problem than a personnel problem.

Our coaching is very poor no doubt but coaching did not make Maguire mess up a simple header in the box then tackle his own man. These are individual errors and what they do is spread panic throughout the defence. Once such errors happen once or twice in a game the whole defence starts to panic and everything becomes shaky.

With regards to the narrow full backs that is partly due to coaching and part ly due to players. You can be a bit narrow as a full back without totally abdicating your role as a FB. There were times i saw Shaw at CDM yesterday!

With regards to what is in bold, that is no news. All you need to do is rate Bruno, Martial, Pogba as players and do the same for Ole as a manager.

Yesterday's loss had everything to do with the manager and the players and nothing to do with the board or managment.

Our shambolic soap opera of a transfer window though has everything to do with Woodward and his college roommate.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 4:48pm On Oct 05, 2020
For you to know that the people driving this club's bus have apollo they are planning to buy 3 wingers Amad Traore, Pellestri, Dembele in one window, meanwhile the defence is leaking goals like no man's business.

Also can any Bible believing brother explain to me why Maguire likes tackling his own players?
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 4:44pm On Oct 05, 2020
nitrogen:
Naso now, he has lost everything, imagine the fight between 2 players he bought, not even Pogba vs Bruno or Magwaya o.......lol

E be like say Bruno sef na stubborn boy, he likes the street!
Bruno is a low key Roy Keane. Leadership and drive are inherent traits, it is either you have it or you don't.

Bruno has it, Maguire does not.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 4:11pm On Oct 04, 2020
KingAlabi:
Match rustiness I can say

This guys train everyday
Play indoor friendlies with each other
Training is never the same intensity as real game.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 2:46pm On Oct 04, 2020
Sylvalord and nitrogen you guys should please sheathe your swords.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 2:39pm On Oct 04, 2020
GloryIsaac:
� AS Roma have made a new €15m offer to MUFC for Chris Smalling. United are aware that probably no one in England would be able to match this offer and are now seriously considering it. [@DiMarzio]
AS Roma are increasing their offer by 25 dollars every day. Shey Ogun no go kill those guys laik dis?
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 2:37pm On Oct 04, 2020
Ole contributed to Ighalo's recent poor form by benching him for extended periods of time.. He was doing fairly well initially and still had decent movement. You can't bench someone of his age for such a long period and not expect his form to drop and match rustiness to creep in.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 2:20pm On Oct 04, 2020
SyIvalord:
I even think all these players want to come to United because they actually believe in Ole’s plans.
I have no idea why they want to come, whether it is cos of Ole o, or Old Trafford, or money. The fact of the matter is that we have had very little difficulty convincing players during this transfer window. The difficulty is in the negotiation with the clubs. And that is squarely with Woodward's roommate.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 1:53pm On Oct 04, 2020
nitrogen:
Doc, must you mention Woodward.......‘Woodward’s college roommate’.

Not sure Woody and the Glazers are leaving anytime soon, Utd is a cash cow, there is no way those guys are leaving. Una go just para tire. If things don’t improve, OGS is going!
Ok.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 1:42pm On Oct 04, 2020
GloryIsaac:
Dembouz
Put some respek on his name. Dr Dembouz the orthopedic surgeon.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 1:25pm On Oct 04, 2020
TrebleChamp:
I concur Doc. But going forward other clubs will now realise we won't be paying crazy transfer fee to sign players. Am really sad that the club did not sign a good RW and striker, i hope Ole can tweak his formation to bring out the best in his players.
Yeah you are right about that. That is why even though i am a Sancho fan i have not been too vocal about the issue. He is not worth that amount of money in this post-COVID world and at some point in time we have to stop paying these maga fees and wages.

We should have a good plan B in case Dortmund continue to be stubborn towards the end of the window.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 12:54pm On Oct 04, 2020
TrebleChamp:
Valid point as well Doc, but i remember Zlatan saying he agreed to join us because of Jose. Most big players will want to play for us now cos they are aware the club pays crazy wages. Sanchez already has a deal with City before Mourinho and Ed came up with a crazy wages plus bonuses, dude switch lane sharperly. like Nezzjnr said, maybe Ed is trying to make a statement that United is no longer a maga club. Ole needs to work on his weakness and get this team playing well winning matches, even if it's mostly against lower teams...
This has nothing to do with the fact that contrary to your claim our targets for this window agreed to come to the club. It is their parent clubs that are playing hardball with the fees. This has nothing to do with Ole.

We should learn to apportion blame fairly and honestly. Players have not refused to join us this window because of Ole's stature. It is clubs that are refusing to budge on their transfer demands and the onus is on Matt Judge to solve that problem, not Ole.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 10:50am On Oct 04, 2020
TrebleChamp:
Valid point...
Not valid. Not today that we have been messing up transfer windows.

Reguilon, Sancho, Cavani, Telles have all agreed to come. Combination of their greedy clubs/agents and out poor negotiating team is the problem.
Nothing to do with our coach.

This one is squarely at the doorstep of Woodward's college roommate.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 9:42am On Oct 04, 2020
Ibime:
A lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth on this thread.

After mocking Chelsea as "WewonthetransferwindowFC", see them wailing about transfer window.
We were not mocking Chelshit. We were congratulating you guys on your hard fought victory.

You guys sure won the transfer window trophy.

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