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If we keep playing the same 11 we will soon start losing. Fatigue has started to set in.

GloryIsaac:
Has always been a weak link.. No idea why Valencia has been missing for a long time.

Valencia is finished. You heard it here a month ago.

Only an injury crisis would get Valencia back on the pitch for us.

We need a second goal. Leicester usually start poorly and come on strong later on.

Rashford is injured.

Rashford don start again

Lol.

Rashford don start again.

De Gea
Young
Bailly
Lindelof
Shaw

Matic
Herrera
Pogba

Lingard
Sanchez
Rashford

Subs: Romero, Jones, Dalot, Fred, Lukaku, Mata, Martial.

PietroRick:
Levitt's time away from the spotlight Greenwood, Garner et all have seems to be coming to an end too.

Its a good thing our next manager is going to be someone that won't ignore youth for sure. Anyone we end up with between Pochettino and Ole (if he continues to impress) will be fine.
They are both guaranteed to give what we have coming from within a proper look in.

Worst case scenario we fill up squad spaces with some of these guys in the next 2-3 years, even if they don't develop to be World beaters and then only go out to break the bank for confirmed gems.


Nicky Butt deserves credit for the way he's running the academy.

A good number of players with potential but i don’t think any of them is ready for the EPL.
The best thing that can be done is to keep them away from the first team until next season, UNLESS there is an injury crisis.

Shey cigarette never wreck this man brain so?

He does not want to change what is not working well? Na which kain Father Tiko be this?

PietroRick:
Afrodoc2, were you able to catch the u23 match today?
Levitt made his first start. There were a couple of other debutants too.
The team was basically the u18 team of last season, that McKenna was using to flog everybody. Word is that they played very well, even though they lost by a lone goal.
Be like them don chase all the average young adults out of the club either on loan or permanently.

Watched it. That Southampton team with older and bigger players parked the bus for 90mins.
Their coach Radhi Jaïdi should be ashamed.

George Tanner at RB was useless going forward, he is not going to make it here.
Williams at LB was quite good in both boxes even though he is right footed.
Our CBs can pass the ball but like i said earlier they are crap defenders.

Garner, Levitt, and Gomes bossed the midfield but struggled to really create chances.

Greenwood was not on form but he still created our best chances.
Chong didn’t have a good game, and he struggled with decision making.

raumdeuter:
I was in Ife between 1998 and 2004

When you mentioned your sickle cell cult friend i remembered the 99 crisis in Ife.
I knew a number of guys in that set including an albino guy and 2 other guys that were brothers.

raumdeuter:
I had one classmate he was SS sickle cell. All the vices he does even more than normal people. He was short like 5ft7 very skinny yet na him you go see where dem dey smoke igbo, smoke cigar, na him go carry the biggest yansh ashi. I even heard he did confra in University

Sometimes, I think maybe because he knew he might not live long, he was trying to fast-track his death

Were you in Ife in 99?

PietroRick:
I try to watch all academy highlights I can lay my hands on, and Levitt splitting defences open with o pass from deep is quite common.

A number of really good players are quietly developing in the shadow of the ones currently in the spotlight (Gomez, Greenwood, Chong etc).

Apart from Laird, I hear good things about O'Connor but he's a bit all over the place, playing across the defence line.
RB today, CB next day and LB, the day after.
He trained with the Irish national team in the last international break

You get am!
I have heard great things about O'Connor, but even though i often watch the full games i still can't make a good assessment. Guy plays a different position every game.
And like i said before if this is done to an extreme it can negatively impact the player. 2 good examples are TFM and McTominay.

What i can say though is that the club has multiple full backs with potential coming up e.g Laird, O'Connor, Brandon Williams ( but is an inverted full back and can be rash at times).
But the CBs are all trash.

Unlimited22:
Y'all are invited. 4th of February it is. No blame me o, na just this evening them make am official.

Congrats! Unlimited success in all your endeavours as you enter the next phase of your life.

The reserves coach Ricky Sbragia is another potential problem.
Since Jose left the reserves under Sbragia is now the side that plays the ugliest football in the United set up.

eph12:
How is the performance of the midfielders in the academy sef? I only do hear about the forward players

There are some decent midfielders.

Gomes appears to have settled as a midfielder now, which is better for him cos he would not have made it as an attacker IMO.

James Garner is the darling of the coaches but is just 17 like Greenwood. He is mainly a CDM

Dylan Levitt does not have as much hype as Garner but i really like him, he supplies a lot of Grenwood’s goals. He is a CM/AM.

ALL the central defenders are crap. From reserves to 18. Very, very crappy.

The most highly rated full back is Ethan Laird who OGS mentioned in his last interview.
Only 17 but physically mature BUT it seems he is a little injury prone.
He is a RB.

eph12:
My point was that the board has done an incomplete job. They were supposed to sell Fella and get another person

During the next couple of windows we have to be careful about the players we sign.

It is this mentality of just quickly sign someone that has left us with an overbloated senior squad full of mediocrity.
Players like Fellaini, Darmian, Rojo etc.
I would have been okay with us offloading 2 to 3 of them and freeing up some space for youth team players and then we take our time to sign the top class players we need at the end of the season.

hoopLA:
Whatsup guys?

Lol

eph12:
There's no point celebrating this because there is not going to be a replacement. We still have to depend on Andreas, Fred and McTom to deputize for Pogba, Matic and Herrera

Nothing should make us depend on Fellaini or a player like him for anything.
I would rather play 17yr old Garner instead of that iroko tree.
Fellaini is not and has never been a Man Utd type player.

See as 4 kondo dey make all man talk like omoluabi?
After dem burn e mouth. Hehehe

Person wey dey form Gandoki yesterday don turn Gandhi today.
Josh King turned him from Rev King to Martin Luther King in 24hrs.

Suffering no good walahi. LMAO

BikeMan:
Not that any of this is any concern of mine o.You're probably a doctor and probably married with kid(s), I'm guessing a certain level of maturity should come with everything

See this yeye bike rider.
So you knew all these scriptural lessons when you were coming to misbehave on our thread following a draw?
4 kondo don reset your Bible knowledge abi?
Thunder faya those leprous hands that you used to type such rubbish.
And yes it’s none of your business.

Agbakolly:
Go play with ur kids that's if you have one sef
Ibime once exposed u for begging on here

Lol begging for what?

All the best with our hustle bro. Smash those catering exams and head on to Dubai.
Even if you no wish me well, i wish you well.

Agbakolly:
God blessing no fit dey on top person wey dey dig up old post over harmless banter......Bye unfortunate motherfvkerr

Ah Han. Someone can not play with you again?

Agbakolly:
Same way ur siblings at home we direct you how to get of Aussie jail after dey nab u for illegal activities
Eleribu somebody

I am wishing you well in your endeavors in Dubai like you always wanted, but you are wishing me bad?

And you want God to bless you?

Agbakolly:
I knew it you're a confirm slowpoke,even have time to dey dig up post,uselessness personified ....Na who give u license in naija sef....Aussie is not like naija where you can get away with manslaughter....Ur oloriburuku sef go just rot in jail

All the best. Some of your brethren here will direct you on how to escape Naija through the desert.

BikeMan:
Goodbye till you learn how to write well

Goodbye.
4 - ever.

Agbakolly:
Mofo you're the fool here bitchassnigga
Cretiin still thinks I'm like his brother in naija who sits for jamb ever year
U Berra take ur sibling to one CAC mountain
Oponu agba

Try again. I have no sibling in Nigeria.

But that is by the way. Have you finished that your catering institute course so that you can hit Dubai to be serving couscous like you always wanted?

Agbakolly:
Took that uselessness from you konsogbo doktor

You took uselessness, but it definitely was not from me. We ain’t related.

BikeMan:
Which school taught you to write like this fake doctor?

Ebi olokada. How far?
Have you bought your JAMB form for this year?

eph12:
Buahahahaha

Lol. The guy na real nitwit. Even amongst the many fools that call themselves shekpites his foolishness shines like a million stars.

That’s why he keeps buying Jamb form like recharge card.

Agbakolly:
slowpoke

You are good 4 - nothing.