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That goal has spoilt it so far. And the ball seems to have crossed the line before the pull out....

RuuDie: So if it isn't a CCC, Welbeck won't score!?

Anyway, no time for argument - our lord and saviour, LVG shares the same opinion as me on this one and that is why Welbeck isn't a UTD player today!

* I was just stating my observation about him. He is the master of CCC and One vs One with the goalkeeper in the EPL. I also love his athleticism and hard work.

* It's not a headache to me whether we sold him or not. Too many players in one position causes undue nervousness to the players and ultimately kill their skills. This is partly why Nani, Young and Val declined in their creativity. With Giroud out, Welbeck could just comfortably hit form gradually.

Dadehmola: Hernandez off the mark at real...what a goal!!

Our strikers will always do well once shared into separate clubs. It's a burden having too many strikers and less creators from midfield in a team.

kashmo: Not you bro, the few Welbeck bashers

Lol.

He is not near as bad as those guys would make us think. His ability to convert a clear cut chance in the EPL is second to none. He was outstanding at converting CCC last season in the EPL.

1 assist, 1 goal.

That has got to be the sexiest assist so far.

kashmo: What were you lots saying about Welbeck a forth night ago

Who?

Welbeck is destroying Aston Villa....

Former Manchester United striker Teddy Sheringham has questioned their signing policy.

Speaking to Ian Wright on his Absolute Radio show, Sheringham explained: "Again, they’ve got a lot of players in the same sort of area, don’t they?

"You’ve got the outstanding Falcao, Van Persie and Rooney but where do you fit all these players in. They are all very central players. I know Rooney has played out wide and a little bit deeper but he won’t want to do that will he? He wants to score his goals.

"So it’ll be interesting to see what happens on that front. It seemed to me that they needed a few more defenders rather than another big money signing up front.”

[Source: absoluteradio.co.uk]

.......


Wayne Rooney was a very 'angry young man' when he joined the club, according to Rio Ferdinand.

Ferdinand, who joined QPR this summer after 12 years of loyal service at Old Trafford, is bringing out his autobiography 2sides‬ which lifts the lid on his time spent with the Red Devils.

Ferdinand said: "Wayne Rooney always struck me as a very angry young man, always arguing with people outside the training ground, especially on the phone.

"He seemed to fly into a rage about the smallest things and went through mobile phones like they were sweets.

"He’d smash phones up in frustration, throwing them on the concrete. I don’t know what happened but he did calm down."

[Source: The Sun, Express, Independent]

Radamel Falcao is thrilled to be playing with Angel di Maria at Manchester United.

Falcao said: "When I was at Monaco, I tried to get him to join me there.

"He Di Maria is a key player, compliments are short in order to describe him. I know how much he can benefit a striker. He is going to be very helpful to me.

"We speak the same language, we are both south Americans. He is going to give an extra boost to Manchester United with his great talent."

[Source: Daily Star]

...


Angel Di Maria is keen to repay the faith shown in him by manager Louis van Gaal.

Di Maria scored and registered an assist in United's first win of the season against QPR on Sunday and says that the chance to work with the Red Devils boss was too good to turn down.

"Van Gaal was really important for me, in order to come here, he was one of the first people who spoke about bringing me here. The coach always has the last word about the players he wants.

"I am really grateful to him because, thanks to him, I am now playing for United.

"I keep trying to improve every day and for that reason I wanted to come here to United. I needed to change my life. I will try my best to play the right way. I will try my best every match and show my arrival at Old Trafford was worthy.

"Manchester United are trying to grow, we already know we didn't start the Premier League in the right way but those things always happen in football."

[Source: goal.com, Perform]

Van Gaal on formation:
“I started with another system because of the quality of the players. Now we have bought quality players in and so you have to look at these qualities and then want to perform the philosophy that we have. Then you are coming out in this system, but that can change also. It is not a fixed solution.

“I have played that already in my first match at Ajax, where it was a law that we played 4-3-3. But I played 4-4-2 as trainer-coach of the second team because I saw it was more suitable for the quality of my players. That was 1998, a long time ago.”

Asked if van Persie and Falcao can play together:
“I don't think that Falcao interferes with van Persie or that he interferes with Falcao. Falcao is a very good striker, I already said that when he came here in his first press conference. Falcao is a good striker and I like Van Persie. Then we have Rooney, Januzaj and Wilson. We have 5 players for 2 positions. I don't think any player is fixed, only the captain has more privileges."

On Januzaj:
“He has to compete with very good players and that is the reason, you cannot put 15 players in the squad, only 11, and with this system he has to compete with a lot of very strong strikers. When we play 4-3-3, for example, then he should have maybe more chances. It is always dependable on the system that we play. When I have changed my system, he has played.”

On ever-presents in the starting XI:
"Blackett the surprising one but he's doing very well." I've been impressed!"

On The fans:
"The fans shall enjoy themselves watching the Reds' attacking style this season."

On Ronaldo:
"When it is possible, what I said with Falcao, players like Ronaldo give a lot extra to a team, but I don’t think Real Madrid shall sell him.

"It’s always a discussion in the papers and I don’t think the media shall buy Ronaldo."

On team news:
"I'm very happy you asked me that question! I only have six injuries now. Smalling is back."

Good to see Nani progressing...

Our style might just be cool for him when he returns.

Herrera vs QPR:

* whoscored MOTM, rating 9.9

* He made the highest tackles despite not being in defence. He made 8 tackles. Rafael was next with 3 tackles. Evans, Rojo and Blind 2 tackles each. Di Maria 1 tackle. the rest no tackles.

* Herrera and Di Maria made the highest key passes- 4 each. Van Persie was the next with 3.

* Herrera and Di Maria made the highest dribbles, 2 each.

* Herrera won the highest fouls 2.

* aerial duel won 100%.

Some statistics:


Possession: Man United is 1st with 61.8%, followed by Arsenal, Tottenham, Man City, Everton and Chelsea.
Pass accuracy: Man United, Tottenham, Swansea, Arsenal, Liverpool, Man City and Swansea.
Area Duels: Stoke, Palace, Bolton, Liecester, Arsenal, Hull. ... Man United is 10th.

Shortpassing per game. 1. Arsenal 562, 2. City 559, 3. Man United 547.
Long passing per game: 1. Burnley 78, Man United 77,Man City is 19th while Arsenal is last with 42 long passings pergame.

Through balls per game. We are 15th. Arsenal and Man City are first and second respectively.

On whoscored, Herrera is our best performer so far. Followed by Phil Jones and Di Maria. Herrera

JayKayMaybachz: Coogar, Elampiro, Afrodoc, Dahdehmola, starboard, christinec, odunharry, sailorxy etc ..
.Mek una con read wetin dis bald head man talk oo

He's confused.

SAF enjoying his retirement at last.

sugaarbear: maybe you sud stop drinking garri n water alone..try add milk even if it 20naira milk cus your vision is getting weak.........a blind man wud have seen that jet or helicopter hovering round that building.

You must be an illiterate. You don't understand common article. No one said the plane did not hover around the building, the NAMA official is saying the plane was just on an 'innocent' flight around Egbeda. The plane has nothing to do with the collapse which was due to substandard materials and unprofessional construction.

Did you not read the report earlier where LSG officials said there was a construction work going on in the building, where rods and parts were being cut into?

ChristineC: Comfortable win at last! It made my weekend complete. Seven points off the pace, not insurmountable at all, just four games out of thirty-six or is it thirty-eight!
I like the urgency and desire to attack, although I didn't fancy the missed chances and the reduced pace after the fourth goal. It didn't help Falcao's debut at all.

More of the same

Yea. Reduced pace has it's advantage and disadvantage 'cos the league is a marathon. May be the energy saved will help us get some hard three points somewhere. I wished too Falcao had scored. But he too was too in a hurry to register his debut goal that he denied Van Persie a goal. Then Januzaj denied Falcao twice (I think). Altogether, about 4 to 5 clear chances not taken.

Well, a good thing though to be able to create so many chances. From the strikers we have, we will be converting high percentage of the chances.

FORMER Real Madrid president Ramon Calderon claims that Cristiano Ronaldo has lost patience with Florentino Perez and would be open to a return to Manchester United.

Reports continue to suggest that United, Chelsea and Manchester City are lining up a massive £60m bid for the Portuguese winger at the end of the season.

And Calderon - who brought Ronaldo to Real back in 2008 believes that the Ballon d'Or winner has grown tired of seeing his best teammates depart.

He told talkSPORT: “My impression is he is fed up with the policy of the current president. When he came to Real Madrid with Arjen Robben he thought he would be a good colleague for him in the team but then he was sold.

“Two years ago it was Higuain sold and he didn’t like that. Last year he thought it was a mistake to let Ozil leave and the last straw was selling Xabi Alonso and Angel di Maria this summer.

“When I signed him in 2008, I remember he said he was grateful to Manchester United. He had a marvellous time there, he likes everything. It is a really great club."

[Source: Talksoport, Express]

Odunharry: where av u bn?

Bros I dey o.

I was a bit tired so I went on a break.

JulianBond007: well,I am making my comment based on TB Joshua's words that there was a strange aircraft hovering around the building before it collapsed. If he feels the strange aircraft was responsible for the building collapse,he should seek for investigation to trace the aircraft.

See report below:

.... But a top official of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency said the plane that was seen   hovering around Egbeda was on a special training of some Air Force personnel on the use of   a newly acquired landing equipment called Instrument Landing System.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity explained, “I wonder why people just say what they don’t know. When I heard that a mysterious helicopter was hovering over Synagogue church building, I just laughed. It was actually an Air Force helicopter that was undergoing a special training that hovered around that area several times on Friday morning   till some minutes before noon.

“The Air Force personnel were being trained on our new equipment called ILS. We deployed the plane in the Ikotun-Egbe area because there was no much traffic   there that time. The aircraft did not hover around Synagogue church building alone. It was around the entire area.”
http://www.today.ng/news/missing-jet-linked-to-synagogue-building-collapse-military-intensifies-search/

coded01:
Venue: https://www.nairaland.com/924289/galacticos-2.0-champions-europe-10/77#25694814

Date: August 22, 2014

Dhelake: We've lost so many games with Di maria playing, so forget it

Coded01: Ko jo mehn!

Without Di maria, Madrid would have ended the season trophy-less...

Dhelake: Remove Cr7's 50+goals and let's see what Di Maria's endless runs amount to, Even Bale had better stats than Di Maria last season, he is a great player but not indispensable

Coded01: If it's about goals, then without Di maria, Ronaldo would amount to nothing!

I mean his assists n runs are enough to cause pandemonium in opponent's defence while ronaldo is left open n we know the rest...

Who does runs like di maria?

Date: August 24, 2014

Austeenx (Barca fan): Madrid, please sell Di Maria.

Usbcable (Madrid fan): we are just waiting for the right price

Dhellake (Madrid fan): £72m for Di Maria. ..... Good Sell, Perez got it right this time

Date: At The Moment
Austeenx, Barca & Man Utd Fans be like... https://cdn.content.sweetim.com/sim/cpie/emoticons/00020201.gif

Usbcable & Dhellake be like...

https://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/10/10_9_211.gif

Pardon them for they didn't know what they were saying. I also had pages of arguments on Di Maria's abilities on this thread.

In the last three seasons, I saw Di Maria as someone who could single handedly lift Madrid play with his killer speeding run from the deep midfield into the final third, and he was hard to stop. Some of his final decisions which were sometimes disappointing were improved upon in the last two years. I always rated him far above Ozil, but some people only grade players based on statistics as goals and assists. In Madrid, Di Maria was one player who starred in big matches.

Now that we have all agreed and stamped it on this thread that this guy is a world class player, let's move on and hope that he continues like this so as to be a ballon d'or candidate soon.

* As for Real Madrid, I also said that they will be making a mistake to sell Di Maria. That meant they have a player less who can play on same speed as Ronaldo does. I think they have unbalanced their team somewhat as they will find it harder to kill big opponents on the counter- the weapon that got them over big teams last season. They might be able to blend the new players later, but it will need some adjustments from individual players in their style of play.

United too use to be a team which killed big teams on the counter in the time of Ronaldo, Rooney and Tevez. Then Hargreaves, Park, Anderson, Nani added some force and bursting runs from behind. Val and Young did add theirs a little when they first arrived.

This might have been partly the reason our players became bad when the formation and pattern was gradually being adjusted to passing game.

iheanyi40: who are we playing next...

Leicester.

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* Are you guys still expecting Strootman or Vidal even though Woodward has since ruled out any significant spending in January? .......With United monitoring development at Madrid about CR7, there's need to be conservative in January. Although Mourinho has now ruled out any Chelsea move. That will help to keep the price reasonable.


*Some demonstration of football artistry by Manchester United yesterday. Had it not been for poor final decisions, it could have easily been 7-0 or more and with all our forwards on the score sheet.


* Interesting: Gaal and Mata said Di Maria's goals was something brought from the training.

* With Rafael in his element, it won't be wise to go back to three defenders formation.

* Everyone is suddenly playing well. If everyone stays fit, it will be interesting to see how Gaal keeps all of Di Maria, Falcao, Rooney, RVP and Mata happy. No thanks to no UCL actions and Captital1 premature exit.

* The defense is a worry. You cannot afford to play like that against Everton or Chelsea. They will cancel out your goals and make your possession meaningless.

* Our next fixture is against a team that play with power and aggression. That will be a good opportunity to assess how much we have arrived.

Hope rising......

Odunharry: if elampiro dy here i go talk...wat was he doing on d bench when Rafael was on the pitch?didnt he see d runs and crosses?he nids 2 go take some tutorial 4m Rafael

Waz up?

Has there ever been a debate of Rafael vs Valencia on this thread? They don't play same position. The only position they could possibly have clashed is the wingback.

coogar: that's elampiro....

You are over there in UK. You even schooled in Manchester. Na you...

Tragedy: Scores die as Synagogue church building collapses

on September 13, 2014 at 7:20 am in Headlines


By  CHIOMA GABRIEL, EVELYN USMAN & YINKA LATONA

TRAGEDY struck yesterday following the collapse of a part of a multiple storey building inside the premises of the Synagogue Church of All Nations, SCOAN, leaving many worshipers dead, while others were critically injured.

The incident at the Lagos based church, reportedly happened at 12: 45 pm.

Vanguard gathered that the structure served as a guest house for foreigners, who troop to the church in search of miracles.


The collapse of a part of a multiple storey building inside the premises of the Synagogue Church of All Nations, SCOAN

It was further  gathered that the structure was initially a two storey building before it was converted to a five storey edifice.

Those who were  trapped under the debris included foreigners, some kitchen staff and  construction workers.

Ambulances were seen at the scene conveying the injured and dead to Igando General Hospital, Primex Hospital Igando and Isolo General Hospital.

Some of the victims were allegedly rejected by some private hospitals, which could not accommodate them because they had many victims, they were   taken to the Isolo General Hospital.

Some SCOAN workers, who spoke on condition of anonymity told Vanguard that  the severely injured victims had their legs and hands cut off.

At the scene, there was pandemonium,  as confused relatives of some of the lodgers were seen asking questions about their whereabouts.

A large crowd of sympathisers thronged the premises of the popular church, leading to traffic gridlock in the area.

Men of the Lagos State Fire Service and Nigeria Police Force , were around to provide emergency services.

Some policemen were hostile to journalists, as  a Corporal shot into the air when the crowd queried their hostility to journalists.


A Nigerian Television Authority,NTA, journalist, had his camera seized by a policeman.  Some worshipers were heard raining curses on whoever  masterminded  the incident, as they claimed that it was not a mere building collapse.

There were also claims  that the incident happened shortly after  a plane was sighted hoovering round SCOAN.

Meanwhile, Lagos State Building and Control Agency, LASBCA, Mrs Abimbola Animashaun yesterday said the state government could not confirm trace of any document stating that the building was approved.

Animashaun who led her team to the scene of the incident said none of the church members could provide evidence of approval for the collapsed building.

According to her, “We have been here challenging them on the building approval but they haven’t said anything convincing. They claimed to have approval but we could not confirm it. They were told to bring the building approval authorised by the state government but none of them could provide it.”

When Saturday Vanguard visited  Isolo General Hospital at about 6pm, eight of the rescued victims were sighted at the emergency ward.

About seven others were admitted at the Intensive Care Unit.

When the South-West Spokesperson for National Emergency Agency, NEMA, Mr. Ibrahim Farinloye was contacted, he noted that three persons died. But unconfirmed reports put the figure at 15.

Farinloye said: “The collapsed building was a five storey building which was initially a two storey building. The additional three were being constructed when it collapsed.

‘’The church members have been very aggressive   and tried attacking emergency responders. Before emergency responders’ arrival, about 15 persons were said to have been rescued. On arrival, we rescued three persons and a child, while three dead bodies   were also recovered . Many are said to still be trapped under.”

The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, Miss Ngozi Braide, could not give the exact number of casualties.

Braide said: “Officers are already on rescue mission. I can   not confirm the number of casualties  now as rescue operation is ongoing and the injured have also been taken to the hospital for treatment.   Police have condoned off the area in order to prevent any breakdown of law.”

The SCOAN that is famed for signs and wonders had embarked on an expansion drive over the last few months.

The Guardian Newspaper in the United Kingdom,UK, had reported that the SCOAN attracts more weekly attendees than the combined number of visitors to Buckingham Palace and the Tower of London.

At the time of filing this report, many were still trapped under rubble, even as the founder of SCOAN Pastor Temitope Joshua, was yet to make an official statement on the matter.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/09/tragedy-scores-die-synagogue-church-building-collapses/

ironheart: tb Joshua spoke about himself but didn't realise it



https://www.nairaland.com/1898974/militant-hijack-planepray-pope-francis#26257641

Why did he have to prophesy about the Pope few days after ISIS threatened Pope Francis.

So why is this prophesy coming few days after ISIS threatened Pope Francis?

Time to exit. I have decided to shun arguments.


Keeping hating on Wayne Rooney.

My joy is.....












The men running football at Old Trafford know football. Na person matter Rooney dey think na? He dey chop e money wey God take bless. If e easy, tell your favourite player make e go be England 'golden boy' or 'white pele' to dey heavily marketable for 12 good years.... running/counting.



Rooney is blessed.







Logout.

^
If if if. Lol

RVP was not on the pitch. Take it.

However, RVP was on the pitch in 2012/13 when Rooney scored 12 goals, 10 assist with almost all of them from open play. That's contribution of one goal per match. Rooney did not play number 9 even for ones. He played some in the wing.


* However, RVP and Mata in the pitch, Rooney or Young takes free kick from left side of the pitch. RVP or Mata takes from right side.

* Again, RVP was on the pitch when Rooney headed in from a corner kick.









If if if if if if....... Ukwu!!!

lekkie073: Rooney..... either his passes are too short or too long....
Overall gameplay is nothing to write home about.
How can a player be recieving more than 250k per week and play the rubbish Rooney plays? Rooney has been/was good but presently, he is poo..... as in confirmed poo....

...And he created the highest number of key passes in the match yesterday.





* what about RVP who falls before he controls the ball? Or Mata who can't battle in the middle and dictate the game?