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Phoenix619:
Thursday night. That's after Wednesday Champions League night, that's when lower teams compete.

What's this thing saying?!

teadrake:
What time is our fixture against the Turkish giant?

9pm Nigeria Time!

Debroslink:
Just like I've said all along. Thank God man city proved me right tonight. Our midfielders are rubbish.

Enrique is not building players. He only depends on Messi's magic and when Neymar is on form.

Suarez and Busquets need to be replaced.

Pique is the biggest underrated defender in the world

I'll comment properly when the dust is settled. Good night

Lame!

bykebyke:
I swear if this isn't a wake-up call for us..I don't know what is.

FFS..I want to scratch my eyes out...Can't believe the pathetic display I just watched was Barcelona.

Though it pains, but you need to chill and stop scattering the Instrument for the Party!

Get a free Hug Bro!

I care..... if others don't!

Nihilist:
Oboi I need save this pic

DJ please give me Gucci Maine- First day out tha Feds.

Feel free to do so! LOL!

Shey Party go hold Tonight?!

kinggogo:
Nothing lyk pep masterclass abeg

We gifted dem dis match

That's exactly what happened at Nou Camp..... Barca was gifted the Match by the City's Players!

Roland17:
Pack your load go Barca thread. na there party dey..

#OZIIIILLLLLLL

sod09:
Did anyone notice d scummies ah left us alone
Moanrinho is showing den big time

Haterz don dey show!!!

[b]TALKING POINTS: FENERBAHCE V UNITED
Manchester United return to action on Thursday with an overseas trip to face Fenerbahçe in the Europa League. Here are six talking points to dissect and discuss ahead of the match in Turkey…

1: A MASSIVE INCENTIVE
United are second in Group A and a victory at Sukru Saracoglu would create a five-point gap over third-placed Fenerbahçe, leaving the Reds needing just a draw from the two remaining matches against Feyenoord and Zorya Luhansk to secure qualification. Jose Mourinho will be determined to progress as early as possible, too, with important Premier League matches against Arsenal, West Ham, Everton and Tottenham Hotspur sandwiched around those couple of outstanding group games.

2: NO ROOM FOR PROFLIGACY
It was well-documented that United registered 37 goal attempts during Saturday’s 0-0 draw with Burnley at Old Trafford, which was the highest total since Opta's records began in the 2003/04 season. Assistant manager Rui Faria believes the goals will come and the onus is now on the players to start converting chances again, beginning with this Europa League tie. Zlatan Ibrahimovic is the club's top scorer this season with six, but the Swede has not hit the back of the net since the 1-0 win over Zorya on 29 September. He will be determined to end that drought in Istanbul if selected by the boss. 

3: BASTIAN WILL NOT RETURN
Bastian Schweinsteiger was pictured training with the first team on Monday morning, but he will definitely not feature in the match against Fenerbahçe due to his omission from the club’s Europa League squad that was submitted earlier this season. The manager may discuss the German midfielder during his pre-match press conference, which you can follow in ManUtd.com's live blog from 16:00 GMT on Wednesday.

4: ROBIN AND FENERBAHCE IN FORM
Although United dismantled Fenerbahce with relative ease at home, registering a comfortable 4-1 win beneath the Old Trafford floodlights, Thursday’s match should be a more difficult task. The Turkish club have been boosted by consecutive league wins over Konyaspor and Karabukspor since we last met, with Robin van Persie scoring twice as the latter opponents were beaten 5-0 at the weekend. The ex-Reds striker notched in the second half of the first meeting and will hope to show his quality again in this return fixture.

5: EXPECT A HOSTILE ATMOSPHERE
Matches in Turkey are historically fiery occasions amid the unique passion of the local supporters and United are braced for a testing night in Istanbul. Luke Shaw has not played there before but the young left-back has an idea of what to expect. “We know it will be hard,” he told ManUtd.com this week. “We beat them 4-1 so they will look for revenge, especially in front of a hostile crowd. We need to focus on what we need to do and, if we can do that, I am sure we will get maximum points.” [/b]

[b]"They are not actually winning the games that you would expect them to win.

"I think if they won the league from this position it would be a miraculous recovery. But I think going forward now, there are a lot more questions in terms of Mourinho himself as a manager and his effect, and how long it is taking to get across to the United players.

"And I actually admire Jose Mourinho when he first came in, because we are talking about a team that finished outside the top four last year. He was not talking about top four, he was saying: 'No, we are Manchester United, we are going for the league'.

"And rightly so and the players he bought were players to win the league. You do not buy [Zlatan] Ibrahimovic to think: 'I am building something for two or three years.' You are buying him for right now.

"Even though Pogba, he is not young, he is only 23 and has his best years ahead, but it is a world-record fee, so you are buying him for right now.

"Same for [Henrikh] Mkhitaryan - I do not know what has gone on there. [Eric] Bailly I think has done really well at centre back, but unfortunately he has gone out.

"So I think he called it on himself, and rightly so, it is Manchester United and I think they spent more money than anybody else in the summer.

"The thing about Manchester United and specifically Jose Mourinho is, he normally always makes an impact when he first comes in and the questions have always been in year three - does that effect wear off?

"So if we are talking about actually building something, and maybe taking a little bit longer, more transfer windows and more changes, will the Mourinho effect still fall away in that third season?

"So you are thinking next season the pressure is massive to go on and if they want to maybe win the league. I think for Manchester United now and Jose Mourinho, they will be looking at top four and trying to get in that."


- Jamie Carragher[/b]

chrisley024:
He's being trained for sale

Nah!

I think He's simply given a chance to prove his worth! If he can adapt to Jose's Tactics and Game-plan, hopefully he wouldn't be sold, but if he fails to utilize the opportunity - then he's gonna join the Pensioners in the US League.

Basti is Happy to be BACK!!!

[b]"Obviously we would like to be in a different position in the table, higher up, but I think especially in the last games, not against Chelsea, but before that and the games against City and Burnley, we showed the football we can play.

"Against Burnley, it was a very weird game in the way we had more chances than ever to score but we didn’t. We need to keep going though, we have a great squad with a lot of quality to show we can play good football and win games and that’s our aim. We know we need to start winning soon and we have to find consistency because we are not in the position we’d like to be in.

"I think we have brought very good players in and I think the squad is very strong and obviously we know that at the beginning of the season the results are not the best that we could get and especially some games have been a little bit cruel for us.

"We know we can do better in some ways and that we need to get points. Football is about winning and also about how you win, the confidence you feel on the pitch and the football you play, but obviously you need to get results.

"It’s difficult to start a new era after the time Sir Alex was here but I would tell people that this club sooner or later will be fighting for trophies again and hopefully this season.

"We are bringing players every year trying to get that and, sooner or later, we are going to get that because, as I said before, we have a great squad and also an unbelievable support behind us. That’s one of the things that makes this club very special, the support we have even in the bad moments.

"I think we’re all very happy for him (Schweinsteiger) that he’s training with us, I didn’t train with him because we were in separate groups but obviously I wish the best for him and hopefully the best for the team as well."

"The group is very tight and it will be very important for us to win there and to get very close to qualification [for the next stages] but we know as well that they’re going to be very difficult. When you play in Turkey it’s a very difficult atmosphere and we have to face it."


- Juan Mata [/b]

"Zlatan looks like he's suffering from a lack of confidence. He doesn't look as if he's very confident when he's in on goal. There was a fantastic give-and-go that he did with Paul Pogba (against Burnley) and I thought if he'd just rip through the ball then he must score.

"But he didn't. He tried to side-foot it and it went for a corner-kick. At the start of the season he was smashing those in.

"He scored 52 in 50 games last year. He's a phenomenal centre-forward and I was delighted when United bought him.

"But the Premier League is not an easy division. We have seen the coaches saying it - even Pep Guardiola - that every game is different.


- Ray Wilkins

"It's always nice to have him (Mourinho) there on the sideline because he likes to give information out to us, especially the full-backs,

"We get to do what he wants during the whole week. He's working with us for the whole week, so there's no worries if he's not on the sidelines. We've got Rui (Faria, assistant manager) and he's a good character as well.

"I don't know what happened with the way he got sent to the stands because I was only focused on the game.

"He gives information and encouragement and that's good because I can pass that on the other players, being a full-back.

"I can take criticism, the manager only wants to make me play better and I want to prove to him that he can trust me.

"I've felt fitter and stronger, in the last game especially, and I just want to keep improving and keep helping the team as much as possible.

"There was no disagreement from me on what was said by the manager in our talks and he knows what he's talking about.

"I need to take that on board and do what he wants me to do."


- Luke Shaw

"The back four is very strong, best goalkeeper in the country. I think you play Carrick, Herrera to the right, Pogba off the left, Rashford off the left and Mkhitaryan off the right.

"It’s a team, I genuinely believe, is as good a team [as any] in the Premier League."


- Owen Hargreaves

UNITED AND MLILY ANNOUNCE PARTNERSHIP

• Five-year global partnership
• Mlily mattresses to be installed at Aon
Training Complex.

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We are coming back stronger...... Haterz should keep off, before it's too late!!!

Funlordjnr:
It seems this mata guy wants to go into politics?

Perhaps a Blogger..... life after Retirement!

"If one player can overcome this moment it is him (Ibrahimovic) because his attitude, character and the way he works is fantastic.

"I’ve got no doubt he’s going to score a lot of goals for us but it’s not only him – we’ve missed a lot of chances. 

"He did a lot of good things for the team. A lot of the chances we created were because of him. We have one of the best strikers in the world."


- Ander Herrera

Return of Schweinsteiger to the First Team Squad..... is it a good news?!

Hi everyone,

I’m writing to you at the end of a typical autumn Sunday in Manchester, with the night arriving earlier after the clocks have gone back by an hour. The winter season is approaching...

The day has been quiet and I’ve been thinking a lot about Saturday’s game, arguably one of the weirdest draws of my career. If you watched our game against Burnley, you will agree with me that it’s very difficult to create so many chances to win and yet get only one point. I guess Heaton, their goalkeeper, will remember this evening of October for all his life, and you can do nothing but congratulate him. He saved absolutely everything.

The team showed a good attitude from the kick-off. We started very focused and kept fighting for the goal until the final whistle, despite the fact we had to play with ten men for quite a while. We had countless shots on target, but between the woodwork, the defenders and, especially, the goalkeeper’s outstanding performance, the goal never came. I know it sounds repetitive but this sport is like that. There are games when the score is cruel and it doesn’t reflect how well you did. Sometimes you don’t deserve to win but you end up with three points, and sometimes is the opposite.

I honestly think that our performance on Saturday reinforces the idea of a team that we want to show in the long term, more than if it had been a lucky win after a bad game. If we had taken a couple of the chances that we had, now we would be talking about one of our best games of the season, so we shouldn’t see this from an extremely negative perspective when we did so many things well. However, we are aware that we must get better in that area.

As always, thank you for showing your support after the game, it means that you perceived the effort made by the team. Have a nice week.

‎Hugs, Juan.


Cc AdisaOwala, Eph12..... the red part is for you Guys!

Marcus Rashford (No.19) turns 19 Today!!!
Happy Birthday to him!!!

While we are still gnashing Teeth, posting Epistles, counter-arguing on the Team's Performance against Burnley..... the Kids in the Team have moved on!

Jose Mourinho seems not taking it lightly with the Players Today?!

Mkhtaryan and Schweinsteiger are training so hard to get better and fitter!!!