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coogar: of course, rooney is also on the verge of chasing RVP outta the first 11. so injured players or the ones who aren't in the tour are on the verge of being chased out of the starting xi?

Everybody knows Rooney/ Rvp partnership is almost certainly gonna be the 1st choice.

coogar: the only reason valencia is playing is because rafael is injured. from what i have seen so far under van gaal.....if ashley has a 8/10 rating, valencia would have 2. he's simply uber-useless. i cannot remember any positive thing he's contributed since the friendlies started.

I feel LVG will prefer Valencia as his 1st choice RB, while young will be confined to the beck as usual. The season will soon start- we'd soon know for sure!!

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coogar: you must be suffering from conjuctivitis...

It's better than glaucoma that causes cleverley to be seen as world class for your eye

coogar: well, that's about the only time he's had a run of back to back games where he's been played to his strengths. other times, it's either he got injured or moyes had other horrible ideas.

I actually don't care about the excuses you put foward for him. My own be say- it's either he shapes up or ships out to burnley fc where he rightfully belongs.We are tired of the div10 football he has been serving us ever since he joined the club!!

coogar: the critics of cleverley & young have all gone quiet now. another excellent game for the duo but i am sure they would say "oh, it's only the preseason".

The same reason you'd put foward when it comes to Rooney, despite the fact that he has been our best player in pre-season so far..

Valencia, who was on the end of some serious bashing here last season ( especially from your end), is on the verge of chasing Rafael outta the 1st 11, what's your take on that?

coogar: a real manager knows how to get the best out of his players. who can keep young off the first team now? he's having the best spell of his united career.

.... During pre-season!!!

coogar: the critics of cleverley & young have all gone quiet now. another excellent game for the duo but i am sure they would say "oh, it's only the preseason".

The same reason you'd put foward when it comes to Rooney, despite the fact that he has been our best player in pre-season so far..

coogar: a real manager knows how to get the best out of his players. who can keep young off the first team now? he's having the best spell of his united career.

.... During pre-season!!!

From the look of things, it seems nani and zaha have no future at the club... especially with this new system. Januzaj may also have to go on loan.

lekkie073: What do u normally smoke before coming up with this Ur theses?

My money's on saw dust + dried cow dung!

coogar: why was he sacked? if you don't meet the expectation of your employers, then it's failure. stop adding sentiments to a logical issue.
he is a failure to have been sacked. don't you get it?

Your opinion..

coogar: yes, he would have been a failure for spain.

When a manager that led Spain to victory at the euro championships & also guided them to their 1st and only world cup triumph( all within the space of 25months) is being labelled as a failure prolly because he was sacked after a poor performance, then it's best to drop such an argument!

coogar: it was a failure.
the start is history, it's how you finish that matters. this is why most managers resign immediately after winning something big, they don't want to smear their remarkable record with some rubbish letdowns.

porto/inter will never forget jose
bayern will never forget heynckes
united will never forget fergie
france can never ever forget aime jacquet.

scolari should have left the brazil job alone. he was a hero in 2002. i am sure no one thinks the same of him now in brazil. he could get shot if he's ever found in the favelas of brazil.

In his four seasons in charge, Del Bosque ushered the club through its most successful spell in modern history, having steered the club to two UEFA Champions League titles in 2000 and 2002, two domestic La Liga titles in 2001 and 2003, a Spanish Supercup in 2001, a UEFA Super Cup in 2002, the Intercontinental Cup in 2002 as well as finishing in the last four of the UEFA Champions League every year he was in charge. Not since the great Madrid side of the 1950s and 1960s that had Alfredo Di Stéfano and Ferenc Puskás did the club succeed so consistently. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicente_del_Bosque

If you feel this man isn't gonna be remembered as one of the greatest coaches at Madrid & feel his tenure was a failure because he was "systematically sacked" (your words),then you are on your own!

coogar: even the holy book says it's not how you start but you how you end your race. fergie left on a high(genius). mourinho left porto & inter on a high(genius). heynckes left bayern with treble(genius). such examples are the managers that cannot be messed with

Assuming Del bosque was sacked after Spain's disastrous outing at the worldcup, what would you categorize him as?

coogar: when you offer a manager the role of a technical adviser with the intention of bringing another man to do the manager job, what do you call that? that's systematic sacking.....they knew he wouldn't take such offer & they refused to renew his contract.


if they thought he's valuable, why decline to renew his contract? del bosque went to besiktas from there & he still performed below expectation and got the axe again.

Let's even assume he was sacked (ofcourse he wasn't).....Was his tenure as Madrid's manager a success or a failure? I need a straightforward answer please!

Was del bosque actually sacked at madrid?

coogar: don't you wish the fat scouser can score like this?

https://giant.gfycat.com/FaroffVastBigmouthbass.gif

Cooger..... Barney, young, bebe & cleverley (your favorite players) are actually the worst calamities to have befallen man utd in the last 3 seasons!

Dstv no show the match?

afrodoc: ..and here young is exposed once more as nothing more than an aston villa legend.
When his age mates like lahm are retiring from international football we are still waiting for young to "fulfil his potential"

Dunno why coogar is having issues accepting the bolded!!

coogar: young was better than adnan last season

On your FIFA14 or PES abi ??

dayokanu: Obviously you're pained that all your German players your were chasing you ended with a disappointment in everyone

From Kroos to Muller to Robben now Klopp has told you to Bleep off. Rejection is a bad thing

Most top footballers won't want to play for a team without a chance of winning and struggling to make 7th in the league

It's obvious The truth is bitter

Dayo, what do you think would be pep and rummenigge's opinion on the hummels deal?

•Are there plans by you guys to insert a paltry buyout clause of say 25m in his Dortmund contract, then purchase him some 8months later (same way the goetze deal was thrashed out)?

•Is he to follow klopp to bayern when the time is right for the later to become pep's assistant, or has he decided to wind down his contract and join you guys free of charge (just like lewandowski)?

Tel us as e dey happen Abeg!

chrisley024: Vidal now, Strootman January

I just hope the man utd guys involved in the negotiations for Vidal aren't foot-dragging, probably because we are the only ones who seem to be interested in the dude for now.

afrodoc: Shinji does not protect the ball well enough.
IF YOU ARE SMALL PROTECT THE BALL

This has been one annoying part of kagawa's game for a while now. Technically gifted petite players are always known to attract the most fouls and free kicks to their team's advantage, but Shinji....

chrisley024: I'm sure Dayo is interested in a swap deal of Dante for Hummels

That's why he has been taking panadol for headache wey no dey worry am.

Abi oo.

We all know a decision on hummels' future will be taken at the next bayern board meeting- let's keep out fingers crossed!

afrodoc: Ehn? When? Diareez God oó
When where and how did dadehmola change his views on welbz?

That I always seem to enter the Ghanaian boy doesn't mean I won't be happy if he improves on his mumu ways in the final third- decision making to be precise!

Sooner or later, One or both of RVp and Rooney will soon lose form permanently - it won't be a bad idea to see welbeck leading the line for us.(that's if he changes Ofcourse).

dayokanu: [size=14pt]Bundesliga -bayern president : I will 'eat a broomstick' if Hummels joins United[/size]

Fixed!!

Thank me later

Dayo, what can we do to make bayern approve the sale of hummels??

StarBoard: Reus at this point would mean someone has to go.

That's the koko - Why should we replace kagawa with reus, only for us to start complaining that he is being played outta position AGAIN??

StarBoard: I think if van gaal gets Strootman, we don't really need too much additions in the middle.

Yeah but strootman is currently out with a serious injury. I wouldn't mind khedira- he shouldn't cost more than 25m.

afrodoc: I love 4231 but 3412 solves a few problems
1) it is the best way to get the best out of both rooney and vp at the same time.

2)it makes the best use offensive of our wingbacks without weakening the defense too much

3) it gives us numbers in central midfield as our CM players dont have to worry too much about being drawn wide.

One draw back is that it relies so much on the full backs for width and if the 1 behind d 2 strikers is off form then the 2 at the top could become isolated

True.

The only problem is the implementation of the system in the league.

Mancini tried it and failed, despite having excellent players for each position.

Recently, Juve seem to be the only top club in Europe to have succeeded with the formation, but it was only in the serie A- their form in the champions league has been horrible!

afrodoc: Shinji competes with mata and adnan or one of them gets sold.....hopefully your boy shinji lol to dortmund so we get hummels or reus.

...To ease or worsen the selection/ tactical headache that seems to be developing already?

afrodoc: Yeah i know. Personally i would prefer 4-2-3-1.....hope he goes that way. I just have d feeling however that he would experiment a lil.
The players that are out of place in the 3-4-1-2 are nani and young. Other players can find roles.

The success of any formation depends on who else we are able to get

If LVG's going with 3 at the back, why does di Maria's name keep coming up like a re-occurring decimal? I don't see where he would fit in with that set-up.

elampiro2: I don't know. But it's ridiculous.

Don't worry- the money will be used to pay rooney's salary for 2months!!

afrodoc: Adnan can play as the 1 behind d 2 strikers, so can mata and kagawa.

The boy's promising career might just have come to an abrupt end

afrodoc: No obvious place for nani or young though valencia can deputize for rafael

Hmmm.. Let's see.

Woulda loved to watch the pre-season games but the timing dey one kind

elampiro2: So how much was Evra sold?

Less than 2.5m

elampiro2: S
We don't appear to negotiate well or know when to make money from our players.

How much should we have sold him?

afrodoc: 3-4-1-2 i suspect might be the starting formation.
it might be changed though if results are not good.

.....just like he did with the Netherlands, right?

The million dollar question is- which players would be deployed as Wing-backs? Rafael and shaw readily come to mind but what will happen to the likes of januzaj and nani?

Abeg, how this matter take affect the formation wey LVG go use this season?

I just hope The vermalen rumour won't become a reality all in the name of replacing evra with a CB who can also play at LB.

dayokanu: Ask the average epl fan they would be talking about Lampard and Gerrard when Scholes is the real don. Which shows many don't know football

But according to your logic, lampard and Gerrard are miles ahead of scholes since they are more decorated, even in Europe

Your obsession with the unnecessary criticism of the EPl and English players appears to be confusing you yourself!