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Liverpool missing sitters. Long may it continue. Newcastle should at least hold them to a draw or even give them a late sucker punch

User09:
What I like most in this clip is his movement after making that pass.

Notice how he locates the vacant space - He's really top class in that department

I know i'm biased but I really rate this guy off the ball movement

iamJ:
he runs into the box whenever he plays 10, watch most of his goals, very intelligent, creates space, having him battle for ball in midfield is a waste of his abilities, it's why I proposed 4231

Give him freedom to roam as 10 and let's enjoy the guy

So apart from unlocking oga Kai Kai he also operates as an off the ball midfielder and a Roamist. Lol

iamJ:
Match ended almost 2 days ago, Why are united fans still here celebrating like they defeated Chelsea in a major cup final


Na madness?

Is the season over?

No class, no swag, no cruise, boring hooligans in red, most of us want Lampard out, trolling us means nothing


As for transfer failures

Let me remind you that we sold unwanted matic and Mata to desperate mugus for 80m cash


We have had some players that failed at Chelsea but compared to united, we dey learn work

Who remembers Anderson, Abi na the Brazilian brothers, or na di Maria, Abi na kagawa, abi na fred, abi na rojo and blind, abi na Luke shaw or depay

If everybody trolls Chelsea for player transfers una no join, chelsea have repeatedly sold players for a profit, even when the player wants to move, how many players have united sold for a profit? That graveyard for waning careers, when last did you win a major trophy?

You must be deluded if you think the following players flopped.

ANDERSON - was bought for £13m, he won 4 EPL Titles, 1 UCLs, 2 league Cups, 1 world club championship plus several community shields. Only John Terry has significantly won more than Anderson in your entire history as a club, making 105 appearances despite his injury problems.

RAFEAL and FABIO were bought for a combined fee of 5m Euros. They both won 2 league cups, 3 EPL titles, 1 club world champions. Both played in Champions league final. And Rafeal was a mainstay in 2011 and 2013 Title winning team

MATA has won 5 trophies for us making almost 200 apps for us the highest for any team he played in, plus he has been outstanding siince he came. You must be really joking.

MATIC has not been a flop for us, his contract was just renewed few months ago and he is still starting important games for us.

FRED and LUKE SHAW flops? If these 2 are flops then all Chelshit player are all flops. Fred is currently better than all your midfielder, he will bench every single midfielder at chelsea comfortably, a fan of a team starting Kovacic, Mount and Joggingnho is mocking Fred. Lol.

In that your list on De maria and May be Kagawa are flops.

Now for chelsea: Drinkwater, Morata, Bakayoko, Pasalic, Van Ginkel, Baba Rahman, Felipe Luis, Kepa, Cuadrado, Salah, Zappercosta, Batshuayi.Djilobodji, Toress, Marco Marin, Boulharouz, Sidwell, Shevchenko, Wright Philips etc. and more recently Werner and Havertz
I don't even want to go to when Abramovic came newly that one go be assembly.

madrid5:
most of Chelsea signings are young na (havertz 21)so thats why am saying it's too early to draw the sword

Its not early Havertz is not as good as you guys made him look. He is not a terrible player overall but he is average at best.

madrid5:
I would still argue Chelsea had a great transfer window,and its too early to judge,even sancho dey play rubbish

We walked out on dortmund and Sancho, we have learnt our lessons from teams giving deadlines. They do so to make you run and pay quickly

eph12:
Shekpites were on our thread for days when wenemighty and kaikai were announced. Season never even start that time o

Wernemighty abd Kai will cut teams like Butter

SyIvalord:
Wernemighty and high football IQ in the same sentence? My eyes have seen my ears

That one say they will cut teams like butter. Lol

BlueAngel444:
Our five first team signings so far in the order of

Thiago Silva the leader, his decisions defensively makes me my number 1 signing so Kia Havertz the X factor, his ability to literally do multiple things and replace any attacker or midfielder. No2
Hakim Ziyech the exciting factor, the joy of having a left footed right winger makes him my No.3 important signing, provide lots of assists
Timo Werner this is my No.4 the smart buy, hopefully he is not a sissy like Morata, for his fee a definite steal, I see him pressing from the front a lot, his defensive actions and combination with Havertz will cut through teams like butter.
Ben Chilwell the last No.5 I hope in time he show his importance and value and provide the useful and necessary assists to the team (hope for the money spent he adds more value to the defensive)

- KaiKai can replace anybody in attack and Midfield, but now na de same una de complain say Fat Frank de pkay am out of position.

No be only cut teams like Butter, they will cut teams like akara. Lol

osamz007:
ALL THIS MATCHES BEING POSTPONED WHEN ARE THEY GOING TO BE PLAYED?

That one concern teams with many covid cases. Thats why our team need to protect ourselves from covid. It will be nice for city to keep postponing their matches, it will mess up thier schedule later in the season

handelex:
Amidst all these talks and arguments, make we dey remember Bruno for prayers abeg, we are one Bruno Fernandes injury away from becoming clueless again. If that guy get injury, all this title talk go disappear oo

Liverpool fans are already praying he get injured.

Expert17:


I no like OLE, but the team must succeed by fire by force

Correct, and if he Bleep up we will ask for his sack no apologies. If madrid can sack Vincente Del Bosque who is Ole?

Expert17:
When was the last time we were 2 points behind Liverpool at this point in a season??

When was the last time we had score more goals than Man city at theeis point in a season?

But but we shouldn't talk about challenging for trophies

Yeah we are not, but City, Everton, Spurs and Chelsea are contenders. Lol

Lana1:
And unfortunately for you, this is not Bayern, Real Madrid or Barca.
Woodward and the rest of the management dont sack and hire managers like the rest of these clubs. And thanks to them, they have ensured that we remain mediocre and unable to compete with all those other clubs you mentioned.

Ole is still in the job because he made top 4 last season which is a very good achievement. We all praised him for that. If he fails to make top 4 this season, i guarantee you that he will be off. Barca for example dont usually sack mid season just like us.
Sacking managers alone is not the factor that wins title, building a dogged winning mentality does, and that includes pressure from fans.

Expert17:
Before we do know serious EPL contenders after Christmas /January, but but because na Ole dey wan shift am go Febuary or March self

Title contenders emerge by December every year. Anybody taking it to March in just being mischievous. By March everybody don take position.

Title contenders
Top 4 Contenders
Europe contenders.
Teams who no longer have anything to play for.
Relegation battlers

patrickmuf:
I saw a start that says since Bruno joined, only Liverpool have amassed more points than us with 60pts to our 59pts but some how, Manchester United fans think we are not ready...

We don't have to wait for April or January to start believing...

In 2015/2015 Liecester are already in the title race as at December, they were 1 points behind Arsenal

patrickmuf:
The way Gerard has transformed that Rangers team erh! See them strolling to the SPL title...

If us now, we go tell Gerrard to take it easy and allow Celtic win the league since its not in our early season expectations. They only need to finish top 2 since it qualifies them to UCL, they need to build slowly

Lana1:
Who was the manager of United during this period? You know this yet na una go still talk say we cant win anything with Ole.
Continue.

This is man united, so any united manager that is not competing at the top must be sacked. I have no apologies whatsoever for whatever attacks or demand we make of Ole. Go to Real Madrid, Bayern or Barca and mess up and see of you wont be sent packing, thats our grade in global football. Even Chelsea sacks title winning managers the following season if they fail to perform optimally and they have been the most successful team since Roman took over. So stop thos guilty trip abeg

Smellymouth:
Whether they think it’s sustainable or not, the fact is Man Utd is in the title race.

We are no more than two wins away from the top of the table. Acknowledging any less is just shortsighted negativity.

Thank you very much.

Expert17:
What is bad in winning trophies even if we are still developing?

You think 25 years old Bruno and other stars would stay for years without any trophy.

We are not developing anything. We have Pogba, Bruno, Cavani, Matic, DDG, shaw, Telles, VDB, Mata in our team, we are not developing. No team is better than us now in EPL, we can at least challenge. Nobody shoyld decieve you with that developing nonsese

patrickmuf:
When Chelsea won the league with Conte, they weren't favourites, they just kicked on as the season progressed after a win against Arsenal or is it Liverpool and from there, they treated every match like a final...If only our players will have the belive that we can and take every game by the scruff of the neck, we will win the league...

You need to see Bruno's reaction to Rashford's goal yesterday and right there you'd see a man who believes impossible is nothing...

Ask them why Sporting CP and Ac Milan are challenging for title. Even Rangers od Scotland. Teams that were far far behind previous seasons

patrickmuf:
At the start of the season, Liverpool and Citg were outright favorites but as the season has progressed, Liverpool and City have been hit by injuries to their best important players resulting in their inconsistent performances thus far. Do you expect us to see out rivals faltering yet stick to a top 4 finish when the possibility of winning the league is there? It's this review of the season that is making us believe we stand a chance if we maintain same level of consistency...

Talking about being a big team, in the period under consideration, we have won one FA Cup, UEL, Carling Cup and Community Shield and reached the final of the FA Cup as well as semi finals of major cup competition...The only thing missing is the EPL title and UCL...Is this Manchester United standard? Hell no but we've been thereabout...Do we have the quality to nount a serious challenge? I say YES in the affirmative...We have the right mix of experience and youth to blend...When you look at the investment in the squad and the quality of players we have, it'd be shocking if we don't see ourselves as strong contenders...

If we are not contenders now, is it next season when Liverpool are back to full fitness and City with a refreshed team that we will be contenders?

Baba forget all these people. They dont know history. We are not asking to win the title, we are asking for a challenge. Go to Liverpool fan pages and see the way they are scared whenever we win any match, some cheeky ones keep talking down our title chances, but deep down they are scared to death.

Since January this year we have gathered more points than any team in the EPL, that a 30+ match stretch, so how is it not a title winning form?
Spurs never prepared for a title challenge in 2016 and 2017 but they gave it go when they saw the opening, so why are all these people trying to shout us down for daring to dream.

KingAlabi:
I hope this is only

OPEN PLAY GOALS

Baba forget i like Martial but Rashford is a better professional than him, moreover Rashford was promoted from academy, while Martial was bought for megabucks. We are not even supposed to be making this comparison sef

Leyqute:
This unexplainable urgency to win big is the reason we’ve fallen so deep since SAF left. The want for instant success is the reason Mourinho was appointed and look at where it brought us. If you dont have a good squad, if you haven’t built a team of challengers, changing managers anyhow is just time wasting. You can buy the new manager 13 players and things still won’t work. Look at Conte and Inter.

You people want a team that has been collecting an average of 66 points per season to suddenly become challengers.

The problem is that peeps don’t look at where we’ve been and compare it with where we are.

FYI, Man Utd hasn’t been a “big” team for the last half decade. We’ve only played UCL football 2-3 times and have been struggling locally. So all these talks about “we’re big, we should be challenging “, I don’t know where you guys get it from.

The first step is to move in the right direction - and that’s claiming 80 points and above this season. It’s going to be an upgrade from last season. That’s the barest minimum , if we claim a title in the process, good. But title should not be the main main.

From there we can move on, upgrade and then become contenders every season.

At the beginning of the season the expectation was a top 4 finish given how the TW went but 2 months later you guys are demanding a title. Cool down nao.

And we are telling you that 80 points +/- 5 can win the league this season so why not try it out? If Acmilan and Sporting CP are currently challenging their league titles why not united?. These teams barely played UCL in the past 5 years

I dont think you are in the board meeting where it was discussed that tge expectations is top 4. Leicester's expectations weren't league title when they won it. Liverpool finished 4th more than 20 points of man city in 2018 and lost the next seasons title by a point, before that they last played champions league Once in 9 years. Chelsea finished 10th in 2016 and won it the next.
Baba stop lowering expectations, if you dont want a title race leave us alone to chase it, if we fail we fail.

nitrogen:
Maybe I watched a different game, Pogba played well today sha.....

He did. He was our chief orchestrator. He played better than Bruno sef. Bruno will usually get tge odd goals and assist because he is more adventurous

Expert17:
If we lose the title based on his decisions (bad decision like benching Romero in last season FA cup and Europa league Semi-finals)

We go drag am like gen

Lol.

SyIvalord:
I don’t see you talking about DDG today though. If he has a bad game, you and expert won’t hesitate to slander him all week. But he kept us in the match with 2 very good saves and you keep mum? God dey oo

He had an ok game today.

Baba DDG is one of our most senior players we have right now, both in terms of experience and top level professional football, he is the only surviving member of our last title win( bar Jones), he is expected to be a leader and even captain now urging the younger ones on. He is a world class GK one of the best in the world and has already cemented his legendary status in Man United. So i get very disappointed whenever he commits silly mistakes that lets the team down expecially when it has to do with lack of concentration. Go and watch Van der sar and Schmeichel, these guys on thier one wins extra points for the team expecially when it gets very edgy in the season, not just for thier dives, saves and punches. So DDG is supposed to be that man. In case you dont know Schmeichel wasnt ecen in form during the 1999 season, but his intimidating presence and leadership charisma was one of the reasons we won the treble.
Have you ever seen me criticise Greenwood, Williams and Mctoms etc? on this board even when i do its subtle. But players like Pogba, Bruno, DDG, Marguire,Lindelof and Shaw are supposed to be leaders so we dont only expect their football abilities only on the pitch, we also expect character, psychological strength, grit and tenacity to win things.
Sir Alex teams didnt win those several trophies just by the pkayers footballing abilities alone, they won mostly with work ethics. Imagine if we have people with Bruno’s mentality like 5 in this team we will be wrapping up titles right left and centre.

In 1999 for eg there are Stam, Keane, Beckham, Schmeichel and Irwin as absolute professionals and leaders plus even Ronny Jonsen.

In 2008 we had Giggs, Rooney, Van der sar, Ronaldo, Scholes, Carrick, J.S Park, Vidic and Ferdinand.
I don't want to even go to Cantona, Bruce, Hughes, Robson, Kanchelskis and Gary Pallister who formed the bedrock for the successful fergie years.

So in summary i dont hate DDG, infact he is one of my favourites, were is tge defensive organisation? Where is him screaming and scolding Lindelof, AWB or even Fred & Mctom in DM? Where is him commading his box, scaring away oppositions players, were are the occasional penalty saves in tight games? Where is him making it known to the defence line that he won't tolerate any loss of focus? These little things counts at the end of the season in tight title races and these are the trademark of legendary goal keepers whom DDG is at the level

SyIvalord:
14 goals in all competitions for Marcus Rashford whilst playing as a LW. It’s not even mid-season yet. Give the lad a break!

I like Marcus Rashford, not because of gis philanthropy. But because of his work ethics and professionalism

KingAlabi:
I can't get my hopes up you know

We are not saying Ole should win the league. I swear, if he push for the league a bit and fail at the end we are all fine. We just want to get that feelibg of a title race involving us.

Mark this Alabi, if we tighten our defence and Martial and Greenwood enter their groove in second half of the season we will win the EPL i am that confident

Expert17:
I was about typing this, we have to stop playing Lindelof and Maguire together

That combination has to stop. If Bailly was there in our home game versus PSG we will not lose that game.

patrickmuf:
It's for reasons like this and the inconsistency of rivals that makes some of us think we are contenders...But unfortunately, some of you still don't think we are contenders...

And uf we repeat this form for the next 20 games we will have 82 points after 35 games. I swear 85 points is enough to win the league this season.

I went to several Liverpool fan pages, Oh God! They are damn scared of us.

codedguy1:
If you know the meaning if suppose as used in that sentence you won't write this thrash.

Regardless of who the manager is, I repeat na we suppose really challenge/Prevent Liverpool from winning the league again.

And for your info, I still believe we can do better than Ole.

You want to talk sensebily to that one. Just liok at how people are ignoring him to understand

afrodoc2:
If not for Bailly Traore and Podence for wreck us. Bailly's potential is the highest out of our senior CBs but he has decided to be a doctor. If he continues on that path he will end up being the next Phil Jones.

Is Bailly the final puzzle to our defence jigsaw?


Shaw was fantastic when he can on, but AWB just the gba atilogwu everywhere.