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It looks like Jones is injured

Confirmed squad members seen entering The Lowry Hotel:

De Gea, Romero, Fosu-Mensah, Smalling, Rojo, Carrick, Schweinsteiger, Pogba, Lingard, Young, Mata, Martial, Rooney, Ibrahimovic, Rashford.

*Mkhitaryan stays at The Lowry and Blind lives nearby so they tend to rendezvous with their teammates who disembark the team coach.

raumdeuter:
League is a more important competition than Capital 1. Infact many coaches use capital one to test run their reserve team

We still have an opportunity of beating them in the league. But we have forever buried them in the Capital1 cup this season.

Metroescobar:
So what would you call rooneys form! 26 appearances in all competitions since the season began in august 2016, 3 goals, 6 yellow cards?


That's POVERTY!

Rooney has played just 813 minutes and has 5 Assists as an AM, winger. Rooney is not been considered to worth £50m and a future of the team.

Griezmann would becoming as a future of the team, I think he is not qualified

Evra was finished in the EPL before he left.

Greizman, 6 goals from 15 starts, 1261 minutes.
That's poor.

The rumours will not go away.

United want to bring Evra back

United in personal terms negotiation with Griezmann. To match Pogba's salary
....

The very reliable Skysports Italia journalist Gianluca di Marzio reports that Manchester United could be making a play to bring about the return of Patrice Evra and Juventus now has a decision to make about the possible departure of Evra.

[via @DiMarzio]

SIRcumalot:
Dem no look Rooney side jare .
Mikel is my Nigerian brother but his not a household name
The whole thing na 419 by CFC people. tevez and Witsel na just smoke screen.

Na only you no know say Chinese clubs want to make Rooney the highest paid. They increase his weekly wage every transfer window in order to lure him.

SIRcumalot:
He would be very good for them,
I hope the price is fair.
chinko people no see Morgan for ground before them buy Mikel.

For now, Chinese want names, big names, not real football. Who will go watch Schneiderlin in the Stadium? Football is also business.

Why do you think they want to pay Rooney and Tevez the highest fee when they could bid less for Vardy or Kane?

PietroRico:
lol.. Elamps warrisdis?
Dude has been playing well for how long now?
People were too quick to to jump on his neck, don't you think?
Even when he was struggling, it was more of a 'system problem'. His ability was still evident for all to see

You blame system problem for an unnecessary double leg over when a clear forward or through pass is on? Most times when he was unsuccessful in his attempted dribble and got blocked, he reversed and eventually passed back to defenders. Yet he was $89m.

#BREAKING Morgan Schneiderlin is having a medical with Everton

Raumdeuter
City beat us in the league. We eliminated them from Capital 1 cup.
So what's the problem sef?

PietroRico:
Seeing Kante was dominated yesterday by dembele and wanyama, you can't help but appreciate pogba and how he held his own physically against these guys in their defeat at old Trafford.

Too many people don see pogba finish sha.

The man has an appreciable amount of almost everything; strength, passing range, creativity, can dribble, shoot, defend, attack, head, etc you just name it. Plus he scores goals and dabs perfectly.
But all some people will have etched in their memory is the few times he overdribbles and loses possession. (even some of our fans who desperately want to hold on to their initial waste of money yarns)

To top it all, he's still only 23! And will get better.

United for pay 120m for this man and I for still no complain

What you said now makes sense only because he has started playing well

JayKayMaybachz:
We don't need him.. He's old already... 31 ffs.. We have teiger same age

Carrick is older than Schweinsteiger. It's not the age but the style of play. Then mobility, positioning and combativeness.

But I doubt the news due to Schneiderlin inclusion in the deal. Expert if we will get paid on top.

Mkhitaryan is a polyglot, who is fluent in six languages: Armenian , Russian , English, German, French, Portuguese and some Italian

#BREAKING Manchester United have re-approached Marseille for midfielder Lassana Diarra. French media say Morgan Schneiderlin could be used as part of the deal.

[via FootMercato, getfootballnewsfrance.com, @KhaledKarouri]

Oasis007:
He [Mourinho] just told me to stay wide and try to isolate the full-back and we did in the end. I'm just following orders, of course!

"I'm very pleased with the three points. We're in and around the top four. It's very tight between sixth and second so we have to take it game by game and try to win every game."


- Marcus Rashford

Now he discusses the manager's tactics to isolate the right back from the rest of the opposition defence.

Lana1:
Lingard is always poor. Simple things always hard for that boy. I dont just understand. He will score a brilliant goal today and then off for several months after that playing rubbish for us.
Scored against Chelsea, Off till FA Cup Final.
Scored in Community Shield, then Off till Fenerbache game.
Scored against Fenerbache and he hasn't been seen since then.

He's a squad player and has no business anywhere near the starting 11

His major weakness is that he cannot dribble. He is not creative either, he runs straight with the ball and has a good retracting ability.

Although you failed to mention he provided a good Assist for Ibrahimovic few matches ago.

Leyqute:
Until Shaw is fully fit, we have no option than to play Darmian, though I think he shouldn't be playing for Utd at the moment. Blind is awful in that position when we are under pressure. The only thing he brings to the table is his calmness and sublime passes. Against lowly placed teams at OT where we'll dominate, he'd do well. But it would be costly to start him when we're away to a spirited West Ham side. Antonio would bully him every now and then. Darmian is less calamitous in this regard.

Young has lost his confidence and although he might seem enthusiastic he's inefficient. The only thing he has at the moment are his DJ skills.

As for Martial, Mou has his reasons for benching him. It could be to rest him since he played on new year's eve or it could be a simple squad rotation.


Our next 3 games are at OT. Let's hope we win the first 2 with panache and beat Liverpool as well (who, BTW will play away to Soton on the 11th before coming to OT on the 15th. Utd will play Hull on the 10th at OT)

Blind is better than Darmian. Blind has had just one bad game in the left back with many outstanding performances there, but Darmian has never been outstanding there. Darmian also has had woeful outings.

Odunharry:
Checked livescore now and saw d scores.

Abeg how the match be generally cos i no watch am.
elampiro, uniquegem, elrony, chrisley024, lana1 et al

For the first time this season, referee bad decisions went our way, that was the major advantage we had today. West Ham slightly had the upper hand then they suddenly and unjustly went a man down when their man went on a a reckless tackle against Jones.

Our players became too careful because they thought Mark Dean might correct the error by sending one of our players off. We were virtually not marking them anymore. But we dominated without proper penetration. Lingard was poor, he had opportunities of taking on their right back but he always reversed and passed back. Darmian on that left side also didn't help matters. Mkhitaryan was nowhere near his best, he was just there. Valencia was trying to bite from the right, but he missed an opportunity to put us ahead, he hit straight at the goalkeeper when he was unmarked from 4 yards and Lingard couldn't put the rebound into an empty net. He hit the upright from three yards with an empty net to score.

Second half, Darmian was off and Mata came one. Rojo went to left back while Carrick paired Jones in central defence. At one point it could have been disastrous for us when Valencia and Rojo erroneously played a man onside, it was DeGea who came to the rescue.

Rashford was brought in and our attacking play immediately improved. He got behind the defence line easily getting to the byline and cutting back. On his second or third attempt he successfully cancelled his markers and cut back to Mata who fired in from close range.

The second goal was scored by Ibrahimovic. He is now second on the top scorer chat behind Costa. He is a born scorer. Although I would still want the management to put a big bid on Aubameyang.


I don sleep o. Good night

You cannot beat what pace brings to a match. Without Rashford we would have still be passing aimlessly.

What is the essence of dropping Martial when he had not played many matches this season and he is in form? Our left side of attack is dead.

Why was Jones acting? Next time he might not be taken serious even when he sustain genuine injury.

We need to win this match.

Odunharry:
omo i no wan see Darmian there befre Antonio wound am finish for us.

May be Blind was actually left out due to the physical nature of the match.

Odunharry:
Where's Blind

No answer here. I copied it from a source

Jose Mourinho has been left frustrated with the Ivory Coast after they refused to delay Eric Bailly’s African Nations Cup departure by 24 hours.

Bailly returned to the starting XI in Saturday’s 2-1 win over Middlesbrough and Mourinho was hoping he would be available to take on West Ham on Monday as well.

That could not happen without the consent of his national side, who are preparing for the tournament in Gabon, and coach Michel Dussuyer was not willing to take the risk.

Mourinho is concerned about a lack of numbers at the back and said: “Bailly is leaving – he goes to the national team. He has to be with them on 2 January. We asked them for him to be on 3 January but they refused, so he cannot play against West Ham.

“With these kind of decisions they are controlling every second, so for sure they are going to win the African Cup. I know I lose Bailly for a month so I’m going to have Smalling, Rojo, Jones…three players for eight matches.”

[Source: teamtalk.com] #MUFC #Bailly #Mourinho

For much of December, it looked likely that Victor Lindelof would join Manchester United from Benfica.

The Portuguese press have been consistently reporting that Lindelof would cost 45m and would be the most expensive departure ever from Benfica.

However, last week, the BBC reported that Jose Mourinho has changed his mind. The form of Rojo and Jones had caused Manchester United to drop their interest.

However, Benfica continue to remain convinced that the departure of the Swedish defender is on and A Bola reveal that Benfica are convinced there will be an official confirmation of United’s signing this coming week.

Lindelof was completely left out the squad for the League Cup match with Pacos de Ferrerira on Thursday and A Bola report that he is now set to be rested for Tuesday’s game with Vizela in the same competition.

Finally, A Bola reveal that if United have given up on Lindelof, this has not been communicated to Benfica.

[Source: abola.pt] #MUFC #Lindelof

Confirmed United squad for trip to West Ham:

De Gea, Romero, Johnstone, Fosu-Mensah, Valencia, Darmian, Smalling, Jones, Rojo, Herrera, Carrick, Pogba, Fellaini, Young, Mata, Lingard, Mkhitaryan, Martial, Ibrahimovic and Rashford.

Worst officiating

Clattenburg admits he was wrong to have sent Mourinho off