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popizaino:
Isn't it what you predicted about him and man United when he was having a bad season at chelsea then ?

When?

slimghost:
Anybody still making the 'players' excuse for Mourinho is an idiot.
This is practically the same Arsenal team Wenger burnt with. The only thing that changed is free transfer Sokratis and Leisteiner, then a nobody Guendouzi and Torreira.

Look what Emery has turned this team into. The special scam is looking for money to waste on Matadona and Pele.
Useless Portuguese Tony Pulis.

You talk like Arsene Wenger did not beat top teams and league defending Champions with even a weaker set of players. At some point it would appear he was going to win the league until Christmas and injuries set in.

Moreover, Aubameyang and co are having their second season, and they have settled. Arsenal can still finish outside top four.

melodyogonna:
Aubameyang to win EPL highest goal scorer - any bad mouth?

This was the striker I wanted when Ibrahimovic was struggling. I needed somewhere with so much speed and quickness.

raumdeuter:
Why do you think he would have succeeded with these 2.
And what do you mean by succesful for Juventus or Athletico?

The kind of players there, particularly the defenders.

eph12:
Not true at bolded!

Can you name the ideal starting eleven that Mourinho needs now to get his career back on track? Not some players he had 20 years ago

I think if he had been given Juventus or Atletico Madrid to manage instead of Manchester United, he would have succeeded.

eph12:
This thing that's happening to us don dey make people appreciate LVG and maybe Moyes sef

It's getting worse. We played better last season. Currently, we go into first half with no plan except to play 9 men behind the ball when we lose it. So it end up like we are parking the bus even against Kano Pillars. Half time Mourinho goes to make adjustments. It has been working that we play well in the second half. But yesterday, first half and send half were pattern-less

eph12:
Most coaches can argue that they will do well with very players that are very experienced and among the best in their positions. So what's special about him?

Moreover it will be difficult to assemble those kind of players anywhere again with more teams having around same spending power than before.

Not every coach can assemble such players and make them difficult to breakdown. That is Mourinho's strongest point.

His team doesn't worry about losing the ball or gifting possession to opponent, but his team makes it impossible for the opponent to attack meaningfully. They easily over power you and regain possession, then knock the ball around attacking area until they force one or two goals and the game is over.

Mourinho's style of play will only work with very experienced set of players. His defenders should be saome of the best in the world individually like he had in Terry, Cole, etc. His midfielders difficult to beat, tough and experienced, like Makalele, Essien, Ballack, etc. Unfortunately, United current players are not like that and it will take him many more transfer windows to assemble such a team similar to what he had in Chelsea or Inter Milan.

In United there is also not a super man. Martial's performance drops as he gets more playing time. It has happened every season. Perhaps, it works for him when he is very fresh. He will need to toughen himself more with training. He currently looks more like a blues singer/artiste than an athlete.

Dantedasz:
Get me right. I did not say it is a good result. I said under the circumstances I would take one point over no points considering our history with Soton. I remember we used to have a bad record at the old Dell even under Sir Alex. The records are there.

OK

Dantedasz:
A Manchester United manager is always under pressure. How the manager deals with the pressure is the important thing.
Soton have always been a bogey team for United ,even during the Ferguson glory days. While not making excuses for Jose I want to believe coming away from Saint Mary's with a point is not a bad result. It is better than no points considering the fact we were 2-0 down at a point.

It is a bad result because it continues the series of bad results. If we had been winning, we could take a draw against relegation haunted Southampton.

I will not start Fellaini, Matic and Pogba in same match.

nihilistjnr:
Matic demoted from CM to CB. Them go soon demote am to ball boy very soon.

I told you uncircumcised heathen so, 3 good years ago

Matic is not demoted. All the CBs, except Jones, are injured.

Adisaowalla:
Do you even proof-read some of these things you write before posting them?

If you have chosen not to understand what I write, then not my fault.

Good we won eventually, but I am not sure we should have removed Fred.

afrodoc2:
Elampiro will find a way to blame Martial for all those inaccurate crosses from Young on the left side.

And Mourinho’s fan boys will find a way of blaming everybody BUT Mourinho.

Young tried in that match. The accurate passes what did the central forward players do with them? Young even beat a man to go behind the defence line and we could not utilize such instances.

The right side of our attack was not forceful with Darmian playing behind Mata, so Palace concentrated on our left side. Yet Young did his best.

Unlimited22:
Please, I heard Luke Shaw gave him the pass. Help me ask elampiro whether it's true.

It was not a direct pass from Shaw, it took a redirection from another of our player.

Anyone still believe these crop of England players are overhyped? They won the group of Spain, Croatia and England. They missed dozen of scoring chances against Croatia both legs, otherwise they would have massacre them.

eph12:
Don't forget Madrid changed coaches, they didn't just buy players alone. Same with City. And by the way, they weren't as horrible as this

Don't forget that we we have also been changing coaches. I don't understand your point on this. It looks to me that changing coaches like Liverpool over the years is even a problem.

City still finished outside top four after years of spending until they gained stability in 2011/2012 season.

eph12:
Out of the 8 first set of players, 4 of those players can comfortably come into the team and dominate opponents. The other two sets of players are doing very well in that team.

Now my question again, Which of our players have played well consistently or at least 70% of his time at old trafford?

That's what you think. The players have not fit in. Do you know the Madrid before CR7, all kind of big players arrived and never did anything. Same way City brought Robinho, Adebayo, etc until they gained a good team.

I can bet too that we are not bringing our first choice transfer targets.

There is also the problem of Pogba and Lukaku who took so much of our transfer budget and have not been able to carry the team on their shoulders.

eph12:
How long are we going to continue blaming our current situation on what happened in 2013. How long does it take to move on? Since Mourinho came, we've bought about 10 players. Do we have just one out of those 10 meeting expectations as expected?

Manchester City has brought in 16 first team players since Guardiola and we have brought in eleven.

2016/17
Nolito
Gundogan
Sane
Marlos
Stones
Bravos
Gabriel
Zinchenko

2017/2018
Benado Silva
Elderson
Walker
Danilo
Mendy
Laporte

2018/2019
Mahrez
Sandler

Manchester United

2016/2017
Baily
Ibrahimovic
Mkhitaryan
Pogba

2017/2018
Lindelof
Lukaku
Matic
Sanchez

2018/2019
Dalot
Fred
Grant

KingTom:
There are so many players we could've gotten and it pains me to see them doing well at other clubs, I have never supported the idea of buying a 45 year old (real age) Sanchez even if he was on 0 wages, the Assnal mentality under wenger was dribble aimlessly and hope you can get a square cross in, and look how it has eaten deep into the minds of these players. Smh

I saw Sanchez regressed before we bought him. He was not influencing games as much for Arsenal last season. But when he came, after two matches, I thought he was a marvelous buy. I was wrong. He is finished. His agility is gone as far as I am concerned

KingTom:
where we had Berbatov the god of first touches, now we have Lukaku. Where we had Scholes the midfield maestro, now we have... complete am

We need to bring in quality players. We should have bought Mbappe no matter the amount. The first time I saw his game, I immediately joined those who said we should buy.

Currently there is no super man in Manchester United. Martial is very good but he is not that kind of super man. I don't know if he will get there.

Oasis007:
Its so annoying United is sinking and vanishing into wilderness because of Mou's stupid Ego! What's happening to the Special Fraud?! Didn't he know he's becoming a Specialist in Failure already?!

I remember Martial was doing fine, so happy with the Number 9 Jersey, so motivated before the Eediot took it over from him. Rashford also was a Joy to watch. The Twerp stripped Martial his favorite No. 9 Jersey for a Pensioner, later to a Hulk of a Striker.

That ain't done with him, he sanctioned the biggest Scam in the History of United simply to kill the joy in an in-form Martial. I really can not blame Rashord for losing his mojo as a Striker either.

I will rather blame Mou, cos he does not allow him to develop his Skills mainly as a Striker. He keeps playing him across the Front lines instead of allowing the Lad to master the craft of a Striker.


What's different between Depay and Sanchez?! Depay is even firing and playing well at Lyon, while the biggest Scam is only firing on the Piano Board. I pray he finds a Suitor in January same as Lukaku, then Mou can fūck off in the Summer.

No Motivation to drop any Updates on United again, Nezzar did try to keep the Updates coming, even in Pidgin to make the Thread lively, but it seems he's no more motivated as well.

Fūck Mou, Fūck Ed, Fūck Glazers...... I pray the Club is bought by the Saudis, send Mou into wilderness before he completely destroy the Legacy of Sir Alex as his Predecessors.

Martial wasn't doing fine before Mourinho came. Gaal was already relegating him. Rashford was just coming up like we had Fredrico Machaida. We didn't know where he was headed. Gaal alrerady took DePay to the bench.

Olamsoh:
Guardiola cleared out;

Yaya
Nolito
Jovetic
Bony
Navas
Moy
Fernando
Sagna
Kolarov
Iheanacho
Unal
Hart
LeJeune
Denayer
Nasri
Dzeko

And we're still starting Rashford, Lingard, Young, Fellaini and Smalling with Jones still on the bench in 2018.

We are not ready to win anything

We don't have same stability and dept.

patrickmuf:
Now the dust has settled, let me rant...
If Fred had signed for City, he'd have been starting yesterday with Fernandinho on the bench but no, the fool who encouraged the club to pay mega bucks for him didn't even consider him good enough to start or play any role in the encounter, dude must be asking himself serious questions.

Elampiro, how does Mou convince the board with this attitude of his? Bailly was on the bench, Fred was on the bench, Sanchez was on the bench, Dalot is almost always out injured, Lukaku has been all over the place...Of his signings, only Lindelof (he is only starting cos Jones can't keep fit even if his life depended on it) and Pogba, the rest are glued to the bench, if you're Ed, will you still trust his decision making?
At City, Pep starts over 80% if not more of his signings, Mahrez, Walker, Stones, Bernardo Silva, Mendy (after a long injury lay off) and Ederson, now tell me why the board wouldn't oblige him when next he demands they splash the cash?
Mourinho is his own problem, apart from his negative approach to games, he hasn't spent wisely, he should be booted out asap.

It is going to be like this until we have a good base to build upon. The transition from Ferguson to whoever his predecessor would be was the problem. In his final days, Ferguson wasn't making concrete plans to get the best legs for the team. Journalist asked him how he intended to replace Giggs and Scholes, he said those kind of players (Scholes and Giggs) don't fall from the tree.

At that time and for some years before then, Manchester City were doing fit-in or fit-out. They brought players with high sign on fees every season, some left the next season. Toure, Aguero, Silva, Fernadino, Kompany provided a long term stability with some very good ones coming and going. Nasri, Balotelli, Tevez, Lescott, Robinho, Adebayo, Dzeko, Zabeleta, Kolalov, Clinchy, Sagna, Bravo, Nolito. Many more like Onouha, Barry, Veira, Bellamy, Nastasilc, Richards, Negredo etc . Just before Pep arrived they brought Otamendi, Sterling, Stones, Mangala,

Recently they have tried Iheanacho, Caballero, Bony, Navas, Delph, Fernado,

We have not brought in enough players to test those who would be fit into the system. Even Pep has brought some players and either sold them or stopped using them. He met a system that was working. If SAF handed over to Mournho, we would not have suffered for too long.

raumdeuter:
Some good news

33yr old Valencia and Ashley Young are discussing abut their contract extensions

neezar leyqute, patrickmuf afrodoc This is a very solid win for you guys keeping your legends

Cheers and congratulations

The fact that 33 years old Ferguson signings are still starting tells the poor quality of players coming to Manchester United since SAF retired.

Look at Manchester United. Where we had Evra who could use the ball as good as Marcelo, wwe now have Luke Shaw. Where we had Vidic and Ferdinand, we have these pretenders. Even Wes Brown and John Oshea in their prime did more dependable jobs when called upon to fill the central defence. We can go on and on.

Sometimes playing two big game is not easy. It was a hard fought victory in Turin, and coming to play in Etihad after just four days is not an easy thing for this team that is yet to get consistency. Under normal circumstance, some over used players like Young, Matic, Shaw deserve rest. Young particularly put in so much hard work running the line every match.

Even the time of Giggs, Anderson, JS Park, Hargreaves, Nani, Ferguson had the luxury of comfortably rotating his team without the feeling of missing a player. Such was the case that Ferguson had the luxury of resting Rooney, Ronaldo and Scholes in the kockout return leg against Roma because we were to host Arsenal in four days. Both were home fixtures. Ferguson threw Tevez into the starting line up when we hosted Roma, whereas Tevez was on the bench when we beat Roma in Italy, and again sent to the bench when Rooney and Ronaldo had to start in home win against Arsenal. Such was the quality and depth.

ikdaddy01:
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Herera was never in the game. The number is missed passed and error balls were plenty.me I Don tire tode talk

He still did better than Mata.

sod09:
your club was never in the game, even with handicap.

Midway into the first half we were playing well. Second half, City were scared when we got one back. But Mata and Sanchez coming made the team impotent pushing forward. Every ball they got was frustrated and they were easily dispossessed. They just could not move.