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nitrogen:
This shyte is painful and emotionally draining. Chai!

We die there, all of us.

Illimitable:
Mourinho inherited the worst United side since the Gulf war. City had Aguero, KDB, Sterling, Fernandinho, Kompany, David Silva, Hart, etc. City didn’t finish below top 4 post-SAF. United finished top 4 just once post-SAF.

The people that said what you are claiming now are part of the problem.

Illimitable:
Mourinho inherited the worst United side since the Gulf war. City had Aguero, KDB, Sterling, Fernandinho, Kompany, David Silva, Hart, etc. City didn’t finish below top 4 post-SAF. United finished top 4 just once post-SAF.

The people that said what you are claiming now are part of the problem.

CapitalCee:
Class of 92 own the pain me pass, it is high time they are banned from ever talking about Man Utd

raumdeuter:
Man Utd had Rooney = Aguero, Sterling = Rashford, David Silva = Mata, Hart < DDG, Fernadinho = Schneiderlin, Yaya = Schweinsteiger Martial was the new kid on the block
Man Utd and City finished level on points, City won the Carling, Man utd won FA cup

Mourinho and Pep inherited basically the same thing. It's the quality of coaching that made Mourinho finish behind Pep consistently

afrodoc2:


Once Fred is involved that is what happens. Like someone else has taken over the account. LMAO

patrickmuf:
This team go fit beat Atalanta?

CapitalCee:
You forgot to mention that Man city were champions league semi finalists, while united crash out at the group stage

Rooney was finished at that time, Aguero was the best striker in the league.

Lol. Rashford just broke out from the feeders team, with no season worth of football yet, Sterling was already involved in a tense title race 2 seasons before and was a £50m marquee signing.

Silva was a world class Midfielder and a regular starting XI in La roja, whime Mata was a bench warmer, they were never in the same level.

Lol Schnerderlein that flopped at even everton that Tom davies was benching him, you are comparing with Fernandinho? One of the best DM EPL has seen.
Scheistwiger was finished.
Only DDG was ok

elampiro:
These players were in the team:

Shaw
Smalling
Herrera
Fellaini
Depay
Lingard
Martial
Young
Valencia
Fred
Mkhitaryan
Lukaku

Searchingvictor:
If we lose our match next week, where we will find ourselves on the table won't be nice oh. Thank goodness, it's the last game for next week. They'll know where they are already

raumdeuter:
Man Utd had Rooney = Aguero, Sterling = Rashford, David Silva = Mata, Hart < DDG, Fernadinho = Schneiderlin, Yaya = Schweinsteiger Martial was the new kid on the block
Man Utd and City finished level on points, City won the Carling, Man utd won FA cup

Mourinho and Pep inherited basically the same thing. It's the quality of coaching that made Mourinho finish behind Pep consistently

CapitalCee:
You forgot to mention that Man city were champions league semi finalists, while united crash out at the group stage

Rooney was finished at that time, Aguero was the best striker in the league.

Lol. Rashford just broke out from the feeders team, with no season worth of football yet, Sterling was already involved in a tense title race 2 seasons before and was a £50m marquee signing.

Silva was a world class Midfielder and a regular starting XI in La roja, whime Mata was a bench warmer, they were never in the same level.

Lol Schnerderlein that flopped at even everton that Tom davies was benching him, you are comparing with Fernandinho? One of the best DM EPL has seen.
Scheistwiger was finished.
Only DDG was ok

elampiro:
All the points you mentioned above, I also mentioned, but they kept shouting me down. However, Mourinho didn't deserve to remain because we were relegation bound before he left. The players he bought were also not playing well. The only plus then was Mctominay he promoted from the youth team and looked like Herrera 1.5

nitrogen:
This shyte is painful and emotionally draining. Chai!

We die there, all of us.

nitrogen:
Everything is wrong with the team. Our full backs won’t overlap, our wingers won’t cross, they’d rather cut in and try to play shots (e.g. Greenwood) or pass back 90 percent of the time to the full backs, even though we have the best header on the pitch, we have an energetic Bruno that is always running around without direction, and mostly he is with dem Ronaldo and Greenwood, and also trying to rush passes or play shots, we have the midfield gap because only two players are around to prevent counterattacks, meanwhile Pogba is relatively slow and finds it difficult to track back, why won’t any decent team counterattack us easily? We also have some players that started training yesterday playing today, when the bench has players.

Indiscipline, favouritism, mediocrity, laziness, no chemistry, etc. It’s just a mess right now!

elampiro:
I saw comments still blaming McFred

patrickmuf:
Are you holding brief for Ole?

elampiro:
Ole, ole, ole is all you know .

Illimitable:
My God, Xavi is the god of midfielders.

Of all players some research groups have filmed in the past 20+ years, Xavi Hernández is the one with the highest average scanning frequency in a full game (measured last 10 seconds before receiving the ball):

For those who don’t know, a scan was operationally defined as a player’s active head movement where the face (and hence, the eyes) is temporarily directed away from the ball, with the assumed intention of gathering information about teammates and/or opponents, to prepare for subsequently engaging with the ball.

Xavi’s head is always moving to check his environment before receiving the ball. No wonder United players were chasing shadows in 2009 CL final. We couldn’t get close to him. Fergie said it’s like he had eyes behind his head. If you think you have closed Xavi down, he just turns to the other direction he had scanned before receiving the ball and eludes his marker.

McFred in a million years can’t attain this level of awareness.

TrebleChamp:
This guy hatred for Bruno no be here, you made plenty sense except the bolded...

Panther7:
I read that article, it was very interesting but I have my reservations sha. I want to see how Xavi would have perform in this age where pressing is more relevant. (High press). Against the likes of Liverpool or City let's see how scanning will help him.

Panther7:
I read that article, it was very interesting but I have my reservations sha. I want to see how Xavi would have perform in this age where pressing is more relevant. (High press). Against the likes of Liverpool or City let's see how scanning will help him.

afrodoc2:
Harvetz don become mathematical function that needs to be integrated.

It is what it is.

afrodoc2:
Gaddemit!

What number does this Kai Harvetz play sef?

He is neither a 7 nor an 11. He does not play like an 8, 9, or 10.

If push came to shove i could call him a 0.

Kai “Orogbo” Harvest.

CapitalCee:
Most of their player no even start. Zapata was on the bench, Gosens, Djimsiti and Pessina were all injured

BikeMan:
How far? Wetin we go con do about the 73M player you used 2 years to pursue like this? I heard he came from the same league as Champions League winning Kai Havertz

elampiro:
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Ole, ole, ole is all you know .

Illimitable:
Xavi would impregnate all of them. Look at the other names on the list who scan less frequently than Xavi, markers couldn’t touch them too.

KDB or Gundogan for example. They were running riots against the likes of Kante or Wijnaldum and they have less awareness than Xavi. Xavi is too crafty - small but mighty.

People thought midgets like him couldn’t run a midfield because of the size. The likes of Edmilson, Vieira, Van Bommel and other human mountains were preferred for combative football. Xavi changed that notion for ever with his high level appreciation of time and space.