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elampiro: Arsenal €25m bid for William Carvalho rejected.

I must say if Vidal is not coming, looking very likely by the day, we should go for him. Though I see late move for De Jong.

elampiro: This is Ferdi's number.

* why do we print two names now?

Ya. Vidic's 15.

Vidic's jersey no. Let's see how it goes.
Goodluck!

#TeamEnugu. I just got their text. 23/08 by 0900Hrs @ IMT Campus 3.

PietroRico: they probably think hard training will reduce the shitness.

elampiro: Rio Ferdinand has tipped his former club Manchester United to become champions and expects Wayne Rooney to win the Premier League's Golden Boot.

"I'm backing Manchester United to win the league,

"Manchester United will win because they have a good manager. Wayne Rooney is a good choice as captain. This is his 10th year and he will be top scorer in the league this season.

"Obviously they need their best players fit. Last season Robin van Persie did not play much but he could also be a top scorer."

[Source: London Evening Standard]

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*BREAKING NEWS*
Marouane Fellaini suffered a knock to the ankle during training yesterday. There are no official news on the severity of the injury yet, but early reports suggest he could be out for 4-6 months.

Napoli are waiting for updates as a loan move could now be in doubt.

4-6 months? All these our players that get paid weekly doing nothing for the club.

RuuDie: A fvcking PITBULL thats what... a downright mean, tenacious, blood-curdling mother0fvcker. I don't even care if he can kick the ball or play a simple pass - if he can kick the opponents with clean, deadly accuracy and break some limbs every now and then; that will suit me just fine!
Heck, Vidal don't even cut it for me; Rojo fits the profile small - I will come up with other names!

I see. A 3 CBs of Jones...Luiz...Rojo will send chills down the spines of CFs.

teeo: Fellani just injured his ankle in training. for how long we dont know yet. Another gbege

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2729694/Marouane-Fellaini-suffers-ankle-ligament-damage-Manchester-United-training.html

That means he stays.

Read Vidal is unfit to play friendlies.

Real Madrid with all their attackers couldn't win on their own ground.

coogar: there's fire on the mountain then....

in terms of experience.....
terry? kompany? metresacker? jaglieka? compared to smalling/jones??

We will manage Evans experience. That's if he stays fit.

coogar: @ £60m?
unless we have now added drug-trafficking to our business at old trafford, there's no way we would pay that amount for a winger & still buy vidal, hummels, blind, etc.

we should focus on the area we need reinforcement the most & that's replacing rio/vidic and scholes/hargreaves. we have enough wingers at united - di maria isn't really a considerable upgrade on what we presently have.

montelik: Old Trafford is not The Royal Mint.

I don't think we'll get another defender. Likely a midfielder and that ends it until maybe the next transfer window.

coogar: so you would rather we spend that amount on a winger while overlooking the gaping holes? do we have a world class defender? do we have a world class central midfielder? look around us, city + chelsea + spurs + arsenal.

di maria would flop without a strong defensive backup.

His signing doesn't displace other needed signings.

@coogar @montelik
The truth is our team is like it has no winger. Pls don't mention Val and Young. Like I also stated above, the presence of Di maria will allow him to switch easily between the 2 formations. We don't even know the one he'll use mostly. LvG said we lack good wingers and the reason he has sticked with 3-5-2. Let's not forget Nani just left.

elampiro: If we play 4 at the back, how are we going to play Shaw and Rojo?

Maybe Shaw as the LB but that's if we play 4 at the back which is likely to be used few times.

Rojo being able to play @ the LB and CB is a good thing since we know the injury history of our defenders.

montelik: If we sign Di Maria for anywhere close to the figures being bandied around, I will lose what little confidence I have in Woodward and serious confidence in LVG. We spent £27m on an ill suited Fellaini, then £37m on an unneeded Mata, Now we want to spend £45+m on a winger when we plan on playing with wingbacks and no wingers, even though we have the likes of Valencia, Young, Zaha still in the squad. This would be basically flushing £100m+ down the toilet, while ignore the need to strengthen the spine of the side, central defense and central midfield.

Not a waste. It means he can easily switch between 3-5-2 and 4-3-3.

Even if we get Di maria, we still need minimum of 2-3 players in defence and midfield.

elampiro: The team is unbalanced, and it looks like it's being unbalanced the more.
Anyway, Gaal is an experienced coach.

How?

But this is unlike United; announcing a deal that's still subject to medicals and personal terms.

Are they afraid of the #GlazersOut and the fans protests?

elampiro: Reports are that Di Maria has been given the clearance to move for £50m


E be like say Woodward don vex, after it was reported on Sunday that Gaal has requested for three players. One defender, one DM and Di Maria.

Let the DM be Vidal na Though I don't believe Di Maria's story (PSG are likely to snap it) until he is confirmed.

Saturday's loss might be a blessing in disguise afterall.

coogar: there's no iota of truth in that stats. someone made that up on twitter & they have been bandying it about.

That's from Skysports as someone claims.

It is like we are paying €9m and Nani's wages.

Highest net spenders in Europe (last 5 transfer windows)

PSG (£165m)
Man Utd (£165m)
Barcelona (£155m)
Chelsea (£137m)
Real Madrid (£126m)
Man City (£126m).

We've been buying shyte and the more reason our players worth little in the market.

IKILL: Even the birds know ashley young is shyte that they had to shiiit in his mouth to prove it


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXzCtIhHJYQ

coogar: nani is having his medical at sporting lisbon, he's to be confirmed in the next 3 hours for a season-long loan deal.

woodward is yet to send a plane to lisbon and fetch rojo for his medical. they said ed woodward forgot his cellphone at home to make the necessary arrangement.

WoodHead.
Read it is a free loan deal.
Bad market

Elowhite245: . Chrisley i have not gotten any text too

The text will come. Just prepare for 23rd.

Heard SE exam is 23rd. I have not gotten a text though....

RuuDie: Name one defender who isn't prone to positional errors and concentration lapses every now and then...?

A "nutcase" I totally want; we have way too many "soft" players abeg!

I also read he sometimes kicks the ball away when a soft free kick is awarded to opponent.

He'll be interesting to watch though

coogar: our biggest issue is our injury curse. we can sign the whole madrid players & barca players, of what use would they be if they cannot be fit to play. as we speak, we have 8 or 9 first team players injured & that has been the case for more than 7 seasons now.

according to injuryroom, this has been our record since 06/07. the importance of the player injured is put in the bracket

2007/08 - 8th worst (6th worst)
2008/09 - 7th worst (3rd worst)
2009/10 - 3rd worst (2nd worst)
2010/11 - 7th worst (5th worst)
2011/12 - 1st worst (1st worst)
2012/13 - 5th worst (5th worst)
2013/14 - 7th worst (2nd worst)

how can we compete with this kinda horrible luck? the season has barely started and we are 2nd worst already. we need to address this ish. we lost the league in 11/12 cos of injuries.

How to address it is the problem. They're not self inflicted, so...?

Rojo has managed to pick up 21 yellow cards and 4 red cards in 49 league games.

The guy's temper is a serious concern.

SailorXY: there a players like Modric & Fabregas, who can bridge @ least half of what Scholes can do. what we haven't come close to replacing is Keane, & who the hell is Matic? he has problems moving his heavy body about.
if u had options of modric or schwein or Martinez for our middle now, who will be ur pick

Schwein sharpally!

afrodoc: That is why i suspect we wasted 100m pounds or more on our most recent transfers especially Fellaini,Mata and Herrera.
Mata and Fellaini were both obviously panic buys and Herrera is possibly just a miscalculation(i hope he proves me wrong).

The players i wanted us to get in midfield in recent years were Modric,Fabregas,Strootman but somehow they all went to other clubs for around the same amount that we bought these otu oshi for......it is mind boggling how badly the management has bungled our transfer deals.

Yeah. We've spent huge with no significant change.