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RuuDie: Most players at that price are still relatively unknown and are likely to be more motivated for success! Where did we unearth Vidic from? Where did Dortmund find Lewandowski? Falcao? Rakitic?

This is mostly why I sided with Moyes; I am sure he can find and bring those sorts to UTD.

Pls try and move past Moyes. I also sided with him and I still think he was a victim of circumstance. If you put he preseason under him vs Gaal's you will still see a clear difference.

As for bringing unestablashed players, you can use that approach to a solid team and get away. Not to a team that finished 7th on the table.

RuuDie: I agree with you - if we are going to buy anybody at all, it should be relatively cheap, < 15m and defence minded .

Are you for real?

Less than 15m?

It's only when it has to do with Man United that players are too expensive. At this time last year, pages were running here on Bale being too expensive and how he was a British hype. After 5 months, nobody said anything of sort again, not even the media.

If Man United were the team lining up such an amount (or even half of that) for Bale last summer, some posters would have given us a million and one reason why our wingers are better than Bale. Madrid and Barca don't reason this way, they land the player first.

^^^

If the above is true, then Di Maria will never be sold for anything less than £50m.

Can this be true?


Barcelona make huge offer for Angel di Maria, Madrid refuse to sell him
http://m.soccerly.com/article/pavelardo/barcelona-make-huge-offer-for-angel-di-maria-madrid-refuse-to-sell-him

MrTA: He'll go anywhere that can afford him.

I saw this:

Real Madrid offered Di Maria a contract worth €5M per year, he has rejected it. His agent has offered him to Monaco, PSG, United and Chelsea.

[via @jpedrerol, LA SextaTV]

One question. The transfer request Di Maria has sent to his club has been announced. But where does he have in mind to go?

Laurent Blanc admits that Paris St Germain look unable to move for Real Madrid winger Angel Di Maria because of the financial implications.

"With large players like Di Maria, there are a lot of clubs behind him certainly," he told L'Equipe.

"PSG cannot do what he wants in terms of recruitment (because of financial fair play). This is a difficult issue, the president has confirmed to me."

Di Maria has turned down the offer of a new contract with Madrid and is keen on an exit, but Ancelotti is still open to the idea of keeping hold of him.

Ancelotti said: "Di Maria asked to go in the summer and has rejected an offer from the club, The player has to look for a solution.

"If when the transfer market closes he's still here, he will work with us like last season and there will be no problem."
http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11835/9433315/transfer-news-psg-boss-laurent-blanc-admits-ffp-could-prevent-angel-di-maria-move

Second Man Utd star on the verge of Old Trafford exit in £5.5m move to Sporting Lisbon.

Anderson.

When I saw Lingard start with Nani on the bench, I knew he couldn't impress Gaal. Then Januzaj had to come in for Lingaard.

When Nani came on he was showing good signs first ten minutes, but he went missing for more than 70% his time on the field, and later we saw him trying to get into his old self.

Let's see how he progress in Portugal.

That writer sums up Nani's life and time (so far) at Old Trafford.

He touched the part I have always said here. That is, Nani plays well when there is no one competing his position with him. Yes, I have always said that Nani carried us so much when Valencia was injured (twice). But the moment Val returns, his game drops.

Some of the problems in the team is the fact that some positions are over stocked. We needed just two of Val-Nani-Young, irrespective of injuries.

afrodoc: You do have a point, but i hope the spending does not end here. We just do not have the physicality needed in central midfield, there are too many shadow markers and space protectors in that area of our team AND its not even as if they are so creative and inventive with the ball when they have it (bunch of sideways passers). They are neither hot nor cold.....the Holy Bible warned us about being lukewarm

Also i agree with you about Khedira but it seems Bayern is after him now, so i am not sure how realistic that is.
If we are to switch to 433 or 4231 then Rooney and RVP should compete for the lone striker position and may the better man win.

Rev 3:16.

So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth.

Buying Di Maria will be very okay. There's nothing too much now to save our club. Di Maria is very much different from anything we have on ground. This is a player who easily tear through the lines of the opposition beginning from midfield and into the final 3rd. Such players can single handedly win matches by the confusion they cause to opponents. He did it over and over again last season. He did it in the world cup, it's part of his game. It's not hat he's forcing it or learning it.

afrodoc: I hope we won't end up wasting more panic mode money before this transfer window ends.

We still another central midfielder to give a solid base to this team and i hope the management is going about things properly. All these links to cuadrado and di maria make no sense when khedira and song are looking for clubs and can come for relatively little money.

Khedira and Song might just be the last option when all hope of landing Vidal is dashed. ....and it looks dashed already.

For positional discipline, and even general discipline, Khedira is my choice.

montelik: ^^^ To be honest, no he isn't.

But that isn't my main point. 35M could be better spent elsewhere. With a 3-5-2 there isn't room for a winger like Di Maria. Why would you blow 35m on a relative luxury position when we could use specialist wingbacks, central defenders and midfielders.

So Lingard and Janujaz will perform more than Di Maria in wing back?

JayKayMaybachz: Hmmmmm !! Nawa ooo ... Na sion look mode activated profusely .. Man utd should not think of plying the same road Liverpool used ... I can't and i wouldn't find it funny .. Hmmm maybe it wasn't really moyes's fault though. It still beats me how SAF was able to win games with this average squad post 2009 ... Even the squad is a bit better than then ... He was a genius i mean

* Edwin Van Der Sar
* Scholes
* Ferdi/Vidic
* Rooney
* Evra
*Valencia
*Nani
* Young
* Carrick
*Anderson

Were very hot and some of the best in the EPL then. Not to add Park, Fletfcher, Rafael.

Now or recently, when our players go on injury, they never get their fitness back. May be Gaal will reverse that.

Aug 21, 2014 12:24:00

Di Maria

The Madrid coach has confirmed that the winger has told the club he wants to leave amid ongoing reports linking him with Manchester United

More to follow
Goal.com

It looks to me now our problem was beyond David Moyes. We have been getting weak and weaker for some time now. Bilbao humiliated us few years go. Since then we have not been winning or dominating small teams emphatically as it use to be. Experience matters, players like John Oshea use to cover lot of poo for us when the regulars were injured, yet he was only a squad player. If Oshea should return today, he wouldn't only be a regular any where in the defence and midfield but he could captain the team.

Manchester United are heading the same way as Liverpool and they could spend years in the wilderness, that is according to Paul Scholes.

Scholes, who enjoyed a trophy laden career at United, believes his old club are at risk of slumping into obscurity.

After an opening day defeat at home to Swansea, fears have arisen as to whether United will finish in the top four or not.

"I am scared for United, genuinely scared they could go into the wilderness in the same way Liverpool did in the 1990s.

"What do they need? Five players. Five proper players who can hit the ground running and turn round a situation that looks desperate.

"Let me be clear: I am sick of having to criticise the club to which I gave my life as a footballer. But United need to arrest their decline."

[Source: Independent]

PietroRico: hahaha. I was just about to quote the emboldened.


Well, everything xaviesta does reminds me of my playing days tooo .
If that's the case

You sure say u play football? Abi na d casual one wey u play for adult u dey talk about?

Please permit me to post one more thing about Oshoala.

Na only she waka come. It's 4 goals two assists tonight. Clever goals, clever assists. A goal from solo effort, a goal from outside the box. If she were a man her family would be in jubilation now like Iheanacho's dad. Financial breakthrough.

These girls started this tournament unconvincingly. But it looks like the coach find a solution when he moved Oshoala to attack. What a player! In number 4 position, she was very effective. In the number 10, she's a magician. These were my best positions in my playing days-10, 8, 4. Everything she does reminds me of my game- the goals, dribbling, some speed, stamina and energy.

Introduction of Sunday was the curse of the Korea today. Dike is very skillful and technical but she made life easy for the Korean defenders. Sunday is about the fastest player in the tournament, once she came on we had a deadly forward running at the Koreans and dribbling them like Ronald-Rooney-Tevez. The midfield became better as they had more space.

Njoku conceded a senseless penalty when we were 4-1 up. Good we quickly score more goals.



Kudos girls.

Oshoala 4th goal.

6-2.

Ayagayagayagayo

Commentator. "Nigeria has ripped apart one of the best teams of the tournament.

Oshoala injury scare. She's back on.

Time to kill the time.

We have a problem defending corner kicks.

Oshoalaaaaaaaa!!!!!! Hatrick. 6 goals in the tournament.

Classical goals today. Commentator "Sohoala got everything, speed, skills, power, ..."
5-2

Now time to tighten it at the back.

What a goal from Oshoala.

4-1.

3-1 Sunday, after two minutes of coming in for Dike in the number 9 position.

Oshoala is a good footballer. I noticed her from the very first game she played DM. She played Midfield the fisrt two or three matches before she was moved to the number 10 in the Q/final. And she also plays well when she drifts to he wing.

HT 2-1.

We have allowed them to come in.... That goal was avoidable. We had possession but two of players deciding to leave it for each other left the ball for no one. Then we defended awfully.

They Koreans are more technical and are more comfortable on the ball. They are like 14 on he pitch. Our defence has always been a problem. Commentators always said it.

2-1
What sort of defending was that?

ChristineC,

Are you watching? Can you see Dike looks like Anderson?

2-0

Oshoala caught them on the break with pace and power... Lol

The Korea girls are very good.

Another early goal from Falconets.

2nd group match against S.Korea, they scored at 12secs
Qtr final against New Zealand, they scored at 31 seconds.
Today, Semi final, they scored at before 2mins.


Can we win this?