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bigkesh:
Kaloi is better than Sheva because Kalou succeeded the same place Sheva failed

Oh yeah......And Ozil was better Kaka


And Ultimately Kompany is way better than Boateng


Egbon prove your point without poor logic

Let me help you.

Saha better than Forlan

Lingaard better than Di Maria

Fletcher better than Veron

Fernando Gago better than sneijder (at Madrid)

Or Otamendi better than Yaya Toure

GloryIsaac:
Transition from what to what exactly.... Didn't Barca just get a new coach?, are they not regretting on how they did their transfer business in the past 3 years?, why do they keep talking about dead wood in their defence?...
So what exactly are you trying to say? don't forget you gave reference to when fergie won only carling and Fa in 3 years...

My dear,Barca changed coaches like guardiola,tata Martino and Enrique, with a combined tenure of 8 years,but United changed Sir Alex Chapman Ferguson the most successful manager in the history of British football, who stayed for 27years. And we had three disastrous seasons behind us, the recent season is better and there are signs of progress so there is a cause for mild celebration and optimism. After all the team did not go on an open top bus celebration. Nobody said we should paint the town red for our "useless" achievements this season, we are only satisfied with the progress so far. Next season our target will be higher and step after step we will reach there.

Nihilist:
Only 41 of Lukaku's 145 goals were scored in Belgium.

Try again.

true, to score over 100 goals in 5 years in clubs like Wes brom and Everton is not a small return considering his age, even Rooney at that age doesn't score that much. That been said, lukaku is not worth more than 40m in today's inflated market.

Oasis007:


Elampiro is not in the mood, simply to fully welcome the new Dude on Board. I trust him to let it slide this time around.

Elampiro sorry oo I you need to let it slide

GloryIsaac:
Having a sense of entitlement to the UCL and League Title is called having a CHAMPIONS MENTALITY!!!!!.... Why does it look like Barca had a bad season despite winning the Copa Del Rey? It's simply b'cos they're champions and don't enjoy being kicked out of UCL or finishing behind R.Madrid.....
Why was Ancelotti sacked?... Despite reaching UCL semis and finishing 2nd in La Liga (he even won UCL the previous season), or did the board tell you that they're not aware that Barca is a mighty opposition?... it's simply b'cos both teams have the CHAMPIONS MENTALITY!!!....
I guess that's why Arsenal is seen as a bunch of jokers, they lack the mentality required to be Champions.....

So pls don't tell me that it aint right when i say that a season without UCL or EPL is a failure, i can't be fighting for top four every fµcking year!!!, i'm not an Arsenal fan .. I'm a MANCHESTER UNITED fan!, i aim for the title always!, even if it means winning it consecutively.

club in transition is United, Barcelona are not

elampiro:
I like this CapitalCee, his 'epistles are rich. I am tempted to think it is Coogar behind it. I want to read more of matured posts like this with details and good history.

But I am sure CapitalCee and I would soon fight. Lol

No brother we won't fight,United fans usually are very intelligent and knowledgeable in football so will usually discuss with facts,figures and constructively, and I don't have time for many arguments. The only surprise I have hear is the guy that keeps saying Herrera telling mikhi to join attack against Ajax is a defensive move lolss that guy is funny Sha.

elampiro:
Good one.

Please who are you? Are you new here?

I am Humble sir, I am new here sir. I started supporting United the period Arsenal won the double in 1998 and almost everybody I know then around are Arsenal fans, because of Kanu and also they win things but I took a different route. UNITED!!!, so it surprises me that some United fans have this sense of entitlement that once we didn't win the league or CL in a season that season is a failure. Even Ferguson have stayed 3 seasons from 2003-2006 without wining either trophy infact we won only the Carling cup and FA cup within this period, not even playing good football. But the team came good later. It might interest you to know that Keane was the captain that time and he celebrated like mad when we won the FA cup in 2004 against championship side Millwall the next season we went trophiless and finished 3rd in a league that the only good team then are Arsenal and Chelsea. People listening to Keane don't know him well he is a dic.kh*ad.

Segadem:
Mourinho has nothing to prove again but Pep has

I think so

codedguy1:
They say Pep And mourinho especially must prove that all they won wasn't luck.

Mourinho have proven that he is a winner everywhere he goes. Even this current Madrid team, he converted it immediately from a round of 16 exit team to the likes of Lyon to UCL contenders, he also won Laliga in the midst of peak Messi,iniesta and xavi. He won the league on his return to Chelsea, so what is he proving again? It's just like telling Fergie to come back and win all the trophies he won to prove its not luck. Is that not a stupid talk?

fourfourfour:
so true, so true... some people seat n talk trash thinking people who succeed didn't work for it

Don't mind them, tomorrow if Marco Silva who nearly saved drowned hull city goes to a big club after his exploits they will say he is a cheque book manager.

eph12:
Yeah I don't expect Pep to. Same with other top coaches around but I wonder what would happen if we take away the money from some of them top coaches

I am not among those that worship pep, but he together with Jose have paid their dues as top managers, Keane could not cut it anywhere that was why he has not been allowed to manage any big team. Most of the big managers we know today have done well to deserve there promotion to the big time hence the amount of money given to them, pochetino transformed Espanol from relegation fodders to European football, he did same at Southampton before spurs came calling, Ferguson lead Aberdeen to break the old firm club Scottish league duopoly, and won the old European Cup, defeating Real Madrid all with little Aberdeen, after that he lead Scotland to their first world cup before United employed him, Wenger won Ligue one with then unfancied Monaco.

Now coming to the 2 examples people are lazily labelling cheque book managers Pep and Jose, for all I know is just a farce .
Pep joined a Barca team that have not won Laliga for 3 years running, he started by promoting Pedro and Segio busquets bringing back Young pique from man u for only 5 million euros. Let important senior players like Ronaldinho, Marquez,Deco, thuram,zambrotta and van bommel to go, bringing in Dani Alves, we know what happened that season....wait! Before you start listing the players he have, xavi iniesta and Messi, but he integrated them fully into the team without spending much. He won the lot.

Now Jose whom many try to criticize even if he raise the dead. He started as a full manager at relegation club Union liera, just like Keane, and finished comfortable mid table, then Porto called him due to his exploits, at that time Benfica where champions, he lead Porto to league,cup and UEFA cup treble in his first season, the following season he took unfancied Porto to win the champions league as well as the league again without spending millions, this catapulted him to stardom, he KL left for Chelsea and won EPL in his first season with the league Cup, with record points not equaled to this day. He repeated the same a year later after Fergie outfought him the next season(who won't be?) He was sacked by the Russian(Scolari and Ancelloti suffered the same). He left for inter that has been in the shadow of Juventus and ac Milan for decades and won the seria A at first attempt. During his second season he lost his best player and top scorer Zlatan to Barcelona in a swap deal involving Etoo, inter received about €45m, he brought pandev and Lucio for free, he brought Diego milito and Thiago Motta for a combined fee of 17m pounds. Then promoted Balloteli, he won the treble, league, Copa Italia and the big one. Spending almost nothing and gaining 45m euros. Have you seen that Jose doesn't really spend loads of money everywhere he goes.
So if Keane want to be given money as you are imagining he should prove himself

ChristineC:
the testimonial reference was a cheeky sling, he certainly had a testimonial game.

thing is he's always taken shots since he abandoned the club midway through a season fully knowledgeable that the club had no replacement at the time, he had hoped for a collapse engineered by his jumping ship and probably Sir Alex prostrating to have him back. None of that even remotely happened to his dismay.

He lambasted 'below average' Darren Fletcher to bits, the same man took up his position and anchored, alongside Michael Carrick, title wins to his utmost embarrassment. he's not constructive in his criticisms of anything connected to the club and it's easy to smell the grief.

he has beef with both the club and Jose Mourinho. I remember quotes of him saying if Jose Mourinho tried shaking his hands before the game was over (as he always did when he won his last league title with Chelsea) he'd punch him square in the face. annoying character from Jose Mourinho, yes but Uncle Ade, that's personal beef.

After the match in which Keane criticized Fletcher amongst otgwrs, Fletcher shut him up to net the wining goal against the then all-conquering Jose mourinhos Chelsea the next match. The team, at that time was in fourth when Keane left, and have been knocked out of the champions league group stage by Benfica, Fletcher took over from Keane and did well, he then got injured, Fergie have to draft striker Alan Smith to Defensive Midfield, when Smith got injured against Liverpool in the FA cup , O'Shea was drafted there till Fletcher returned to finish the season in second, wining the league Cup, Keane left us when we needed him most, inexperienced Ronaldo, Rooney and Fletcher needed mentoring from him as the captain, and I remember Clearly also that Paul Scholes at that time has an eye problem that put him out of the season, so out midfield was bare but he left, that team came back with only Carrick as the addition to win the league for 3consecutive years as well as the champions league. Keane doesn't have any moral justification to give any advice, he has been bitter since then, he waits only to take a shot at United. He should mess off. We don't need his opinion. The team has achieved it's season objective and that is all that matters what Keane and his likes say is irrelevant.

Lana1:

Exactly. Mesef no like Roy Keane. But there is a measure of truth in what he said. Doesn't matter if he has never said anything nice about United b4 or if he's a failed coach or not....

People are now comfortable to finish 6th and call it a good season bcoz we qualified for UCL. When did we become Arsenal fans??

This is a team in transition, and have not been that successful since SAF left and have qualified for champions league just once since then, winning trophies while still qualifying is worth celebrating. AC Milan is a very big team and have not qualified for even Europa for some time now and have not won anything meaningful. So are you telling me that they won't celebrate if they win Europa and qualify through that medium even if it means finishing tenth in the seria A? One step at a time brother. The board is probably happy that the 2 previous managers failed woefully while wining nothing and are pushing man U to total obscurity, but now they are back to the big time and can give out money for transfers knowing they will get quality unlike van gall that brought in delay, Schweinsteiger, schnerderlien and di Maria.
No matter how you denied it Keane is not a character to pay attention to period

Funlord2:
It seems you all have forgotten who "Keano" is? He has always had a vicious tongue! Fergie knew it, his team mates knew it, older fans know it and even his country knows it!


He will never change and he has even earned the right to lambast the clubs declining status based on what he has done for united in the past...he is a Legend...that probably still misses being at united! Some times the truth can be salty!

He can advise not downplay the club, tell me anything good about United that Keane have said since Fergie threw him out? Or are you saying we have not done anything worthy of praise since then? Even in his country Ireland he pulled out of the 2002 world cup at the last minutes for his despicable attitude? Is he the only United legend that is still alive? Giggs won more trophies than him, Scholes also have even Gary Neville have you heard them throw vitriol at the team. There is no team that can continue to dominate the league forever, sometimes you rebuild and that is what the club is doing now, you don't expect to lose a legendary manager of 3 decades and not rebuild. Celebrating 3 trophies and a champions league qualification is perfectly in order now, little drop of water makes a night ocean.

ChristineC:
nobody misinterpreted anything, the stench of bitterness is all over him like a deodorant.

Did he even get the honor of a testimonial match?

He's a club legend, like Peter Schmeichel; but it ends there. No FAN take their comments with any pinch of salt.

Roy Keane is a bitter man, he failed as a manager. He doesn't have any moral justification to criticize any manager, at least not a serial winner like Jose.

osgreat:
Is UEFA Super Cup not counted as a trophy?

Ask that bitter jealousy man

bigkesh:
Who would have believed the United fans who always form classy will one day count a community shield as a competition they played in......Seriously??


The same ones who almost killed Arsenal fans for doing the same



Chai!!!!!!

You have to qualify for the community shield to be able to win it. Premier league and F.A cup winners play to determine who is the best. Since there is a trophy presentation and medals handed out, why will it not be a trophy. Chris smalling was sent off in the FA cup final and missed the community shield match, so its a competitive game in the English FA calendar. Downplay our trophies this season all you want, it doesn't removed it from our cabinet.

eph12:
The question is will Mourinho like to take that challenge to prove it wasn't luck then?

Luck? Are you listening to yourself? He doesn't have to prove anything to anyone, he has won the league in every country he have managed and won both the champions league and Europa twice each, when Keane have accomplished that he can criticize Jose, if not he should Bleep off

eph12:
I didn't think that is the question on ground. It's not up for debate if this is our best season post-fergie. His worry which I share is if this should repeat itself (I mean exactly how this season ended) next season, are we will still going to celebrate and claim to have a successful season?

What are you talking about? Mr man your argument is rubbish, when Jose came to United we did not qualify for champions league, which is not his fault, infact Van gaal was sacked for this reason, Jose was given a target, which is :qualify for next year UCL, and that he did. The route he took to qualify is irrelevant, except if you are an ''Einstein'' to add flavour to it, he won 3 trophies plus an opportunity to compete with either Juventus or Madrid in the super cup. So what do you really want? 2nd like Spurs and total disgrace in Europe, Gent an eighth place team in Belgium eliminated them, crashed out of UCL group stage in an easy group, or like guardiola that spent more than everyone while being knocked out by youthful Monaco, he took a of champions league semifinalist and league cup winners and went trophiless. How about Liverpool that lost the same "useless" Europa(according to you) last season, and crashed out of all the cups to give them more time to concentrate on the league and are not in any European competition like Chelsea. But only finished fourth. And requires a qualification to progress to where we are now.
We don't need your types as United fans, your types possess this negative energy that brings teams down.
Talking about that bitter slowpoke Roy Keane, Ferguson chased him away from United, when he started criticizing his teammates publicly, after a lose to Middlesbrough in 2005. That team he slated won the league cup that season and celebrated it to the fullest. The following season SAF added on Carrick and won the league, the following season tevez and Hargreaves came we won the league, champions league and world club cup. In that team that Keane criticized, has a young, Rooney,Ronaldo,Fletcher,J.S park, Vidic saha and Brown. Which are the foundation for a hatrick of league titles and 3champions league finals in 4years. Since then Roy Keane has been bitter about everything United, Real United fans don't pay attention to him. He is a bitter failed manager.

toseen7:
Manutd will become the second English
team to win all major European trophies,
Chelsea were the first team to do so.......

Chelsea had not won world club championship

Stop accumulating Nonsense, play few games and rest. I will never accumulate anything again.

I for knack this game 40k ooo. Anyway Sha no more accumulations for me , heavy stake for 1 game is the way. Watch out for z ml Lyon vs Nice home win.

MediumStout:
Let's win this millions together. Stake 150


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Calebsky:
Arsenal - Manchester Utd
X/1 HT/FT
5.40

Arsenal will not win Man u

GambaOsaka:
Guys be wary of Monaco o. Remember they have a do or die champions league match coming up. They may chose to rest players o.

They won't rest players, if they lose PSG will overtake them, and that their champions league match with Juventus is not do or die, they are as good as eliminated, they can't overturn a 2 goal deficit away at the old ladies. Monaco will trash whoever they meet in Ligue one tomorrow

Please how did I offend Porto, imagine this idiots

47xxx:
Sao Paulo

Ludogorets

X/Arsenal & 1.5

Westham (1.5)
Y
Flensburg (2.5)

Neumunster (2.5)

Torino (1.5)

Milan (1.5)

PSV (2.5)

Linfield (2.5)

Partizan

Bilbao (2.5)

Basel (2.5)

Cardiff metropolitan.(2.5)

In as much as linfield may most likely win, they don't totally put teams to sword. That 2.5 is very dangerous.

Nigerian league home win through out

3L65VJG

Chop one chop all, thank me later

kumulus:
Dep. La Corunna vs Betis
HT/FT 1/X

Sarajevo vs Travnik
Handicap (0:2) 1

Turnovo vs Tikves
HT/FT 1/1, CS 3-0

Chennai vs Bengaluru
D.C HT/FT 1X/X2

Saipa vs Esteghlal
HT X

Ancona vs Matera
HT X

Cantolao vs Sp. Rosario
CS 1-2

Juan Aurich vs Garcilaso
CS 2-2

Partizan vs Metalac
HT/FT 1/1

Al Jazira vs Al Ain
HT/FT 1/X

Al Jazira vs Al Ain. Away win

I no know wetin carry me enter isreal league beite Jerusalem thank you for sending me to the village.