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Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by elampiro(m): 3:36pm On Jun 07, 2015
parrotibaba:
na now I know say u start to watch match from 2010 ...were we unlucky when we lost 2-0 at OT against Coventry city in '08? or losing 3-0 against AC milan in '07 or losing at Fulham 3-0 in '09 n 2010? did we dominate Middlesbrough when we drew 2-2 with dem in '08? or villa in 2011? or Liverpool when de spanked us 4-1 in '09?
Coventry. Match played by our rookies.

All these were just one offs. Even Barca lose matches. Find another excuse not going to list matches spanning 5 seasons.
Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by elampiro(m):
parrotibaba:
dis is a ridiculous question even by ur standard ,u should also ask what happened to Eric jemba jemba , bebe ,obertan ,veron ,kleberson ,Alan smith ,Fabio ,liam miller ,kieran Richardson ,Darren Gibson ,Campbell ,etc
Obertan, bebe, etc never bossed games like Anderson and Cleverley did. Cleverley was already a feared midfielder in 2008. In 2011 he had come of age. All of a sudden he couldnt come out of a three months injury half himself. We should questioned those who manage his return to fitness.
Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by elampiro(m):
olabode89:
Bros stop jumping from pillar to post.... You have been cornered just accept that your "Lazy Fergie players" claim does not hold water.

We all know that Fergie's major weapon was his winning mentality and other attributes such as nurturing of talents, ability to make piss poor players astute professional and winning machines.

Fergie understood the rigor of seasonal football, bar injury he had his team sheets prepared already by the beginning of the season.

I also agree with the issue u raised concerning Fergie's Assistant coaches, the moment Carlos Q left, the team started having issues with recruiting young talented players and also some technicality with the modern game which Fergie was not really sound about meant we struggled against teams handled by master tacticians such as Guardiola, Mou, Bielsa etc. Yes men like d diick head, Mike Phelan contributed nothing to the team unlike Carlos Q, Steve Maclaren....

Elam-pawa although I enjoy ur "battles" with Coogar (dis man no gree battle for rap section again) on this thread, u got this particular claim wrong!


Can you show me where I said the above. The bolded?

When guys here lose argument, they change it to look as if they had a genuine point. I said our backroom staff mismanaged our players in Ferguson's last few years. Then starboard and co said I was blaming SAF. I stated categorically that I was pointing at the backroom staff, I even mentioned that possibly the change of assistant caused it. But they went back to say I blame Ferguson to get sympathy from readers like you.
Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by raumdeuter: 3:48pm On Jun 07, 2015
elampiro,

How you see the Nigerian Under 21 team. which of them you think say get prospect for future
Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by elampiro(m): 3:51pm On Jun 07, 2015
parrotibaba:
so ,Fletcher ,kagawa ,Dimitar berbatov ,carrick , evra r weak players baa?
Exactly. Carrick will not last half a season before he goes for a long rest.

Evra got his muscles resurrected in Juventus.

Berbatov was on a steady decline.

Kagawa was going to be on a steady decline.

Anderson and Cleverley on a steady decline.

Compare the above players with Pogba and Tevez.
Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by elampiro(m): 3:55pm On Jun 07, 2015
tess1:
How are they fitter?

The defensive midfield problem has always been there since 2010/11 season i think and it's still there up till today.

Moyes destroyed everything at Utd. These are some of the player's comments:



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2422051/Marouane-Fellaini-admits-struggling-Manchester-United-intensity-training.html#ixzz3cNgKjhTO

Ferdinand

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/manchester-united/11096067/Rio-Ferdinand-hits-out-at-David-Moyess-tactics-while-in-charge-of-Manchester-United.html
Where is Ferdinand today? The same intensity training is what we have today under Gaal. Weak bones will always complain.
Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by elampiro(m): 3:59pm On Jun 07, 2015
coogar:
i dunno why you are surprised.
mr pawa told us fergie hid rooney from gerrard because gerrard always shackles rooney. grin
You dont know tactics. When we were to play Liverpool in the return leg, I wrote on this thread that Liverpool will not play Sterling on the left. They would be avoiding a Sterling vs Valencia clash because Val has the speed to stop him. They would rather he faced Blind. On match day, that was exactly what happened.

Some players do well against certain layers, it's not matter who is a better footballer. Vidic always did well against Drogba- power vs power. But Vidic was always eaten for Dinner by Torres.

Football is sense and tactics.
Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by elampiro(m): 4:04pm On Jun 07, 2015
raumdeuter:
elampiro,

How you see the Nigerian Under 21 team. which of them you think say get prospect for future
I will need to watch the knock out phase first. I missed today's match. It was no where on DSTV. I heard AIT took it to their local channel.
Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by tess1(m):
elampiro:
Where is Ferdinand today? The same intensity training is what we have today under Gaal today. Weak bones would always complain.
What a question! You expect Ferdinand at 36yrs plus to still be playing top flight football. He retired at the normal age most defenders retires. At what age did Carragher and Gary Neville retired?

Fellaini that came with him must be a lazy bone as well after getting to Man Utd despite training under him for so many years. He didn't get his rhythm until a certain LVG came.

elampiro:

Can you show me where I said the above. The bolded?
When guys here lose argument, they change it to look as if they had a genuine point. I said our backroom staff mismanaged our players in Ferguson's last few years. Then starboard and co said I was blaming SAF. I stated categorically that I was pointing at the backroom staff, I even mentioned that possibly the change of assistance caused it. But they went back to say I blame Ferguson to get sympathy from readers like you.
And who was the head of the backroom staff? Even, blaming SAF backroom staff is indirectly blaming SAF because everything they did was done under his watch.

Why are people not giving credits to his backroom staff for the success he achieved throughout his career at Utd? Whatever his backroom staff did must have gotten his approval.

elampiro:
Obertan, bebe, etc never bossed games like Anderson and Cleverley did. [b]Cleverley was already a feared midfielder in 2008
. In 2011 he had come of age. All of a sudden he couldnt come out of a three months injury half himself. We should questioned those who manage his return to fitness.
Looooooooooooooooooooooool!

Who feared Cleverley as a midfielder in 2008? When did he make his competitive debut for Man Utd? Where was Cleverley playing in 2008?

There's no point continuing this. Cleverley "already feared as a midfielder in 2008". I give up.
Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by Nobody: 4:51pm On Jun 07, 2015
elampiro:


Can you show me where I said the above. The bolded?

When guys here lose argument, they change it to look as if they had a genuine point. I said our backroom staff mismanaged our players in Ferguson's last few years. Then starboard and co said I was blaming SAF. I stated categorically that I was pointing at the backroom staff, I even mentioned that possibly the change of assistant caused it. But they went back to say I blame Ferguson to get sympathy from readers like you.
Nna please provide a link where I said such.
stop the slander. I don't pander around for sentiments.
You clearly said and I quote

" I keep saying, Ferguson backroom staff instilled
laziness into our players and 'killed' some. Our players
became the most lazy in the EPL and the older ones
retired before their age mates in other clubs. If Terry
and Distin can still play very well why shouldn't
Ferdinand and Vidic? Players like Anderson should be
ruling the league now."

www.nairaland.com/871307/official-manchester-united-fan-thread/1677



you started this nonsense and now you're playing the reporting victim game.
If Ferguson's backroom staff allowed players to be lazy like you claimed above, then Fergie is a bad boss whether he knowingly or unknowingly let such happen.

you said the players became lazy. How do you want to absolve Fergie from this bogus claim of yours( without faacts or figures or stats)?
Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by Nobody: 4:56pm On Jun 07, 2015
tess1:
Looooooooooooooooooooooool!

Who feared Cleverley as a midfielder in 2008? When did he make his competitive debut for Man Utd? Where was Cleverley playing in 2008?

There's no point continuing this. Cleverley "already feared as a midfielder in 2008". I give up.
Bros don't give up.
He must retract that nonsense he said.
He's adding even more cr.ap to his already bogus claims. now I am appealing to other people according to him because we are picking the fishnet holes in his logic.
im sure he's expecting his folk to jump to defence. but even that will not save him.
Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by Nobody: 5:09pm On Jun 07, 2015
elampiro:
Exactly. Carrick will not last half a season before he goes for a long rest.

Evra got his muscles resurrected in Juventus.

Berbatov was on a steady decline.

Kagawa was going to be on a steady decline.

Anderson and Cleverley on a steady decline.

Compare the above players with Pogba and Tevez.
that would be the same Pogba whom you felt years ago we didn't need when forum members questioned Fergies decision to let him walk away in 2012. Suddenly to attempt to make your point you label Pogba a "powerful" and "hardworking" player to suit your argument.
suddenly Fergie who was right by you to have let Pogba go years ago is being victimized by you (unknown to you though, because you say a lot of stuff in general without checking to see where you hsve been previously) because he kept "lazy" ones and let a "hardworker" one go.
Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by Danhumprey: 5:27pm On Jun 07, 2015
coogar:
i dunno why you are surprised.
mr pawa told us fergie hid rooney from gerrard because gerrard always shackles rooney. grin
Lmao!gringringrin
Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by leggo: 5:39pm On Jun 07, 2015
apparently England's match in Dublin put a lot of fans on suicide watch... England play like African teams, zero tactical awareness
Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by MrTA(m): 6:00pm On Jun 07, 2015
SAF's backroom staff made our players lazy? I've definitely heard it all now.
Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by chrisley024(m): 6:08pm On Jun 07, 2015
Adam Bate picks out five questions for England manager Roy Hodgson after the team’s 0-0 draw with Republic of Ireland on Sunday…
Below is the excerpt that concerns our two players:

What is Rooney's best position?
This was not exactly a game to remember for many people in the Aviva Stadium but few performed further below par than Wayne Rooney. The low point came when the England captain squandered the clearest opening of the game - failing to control a Jordan Henderson pass that looked to have put him through on the Ireland goal.
He cut an isolated figure for periods of the game, attempting only 14 passes in 74 minutes, and while England assistant Gary Neville has admired the way that Rooney had embraced seeing less of the ball at Manchester United under Louis van Gaal, this was a test of that theory.

What is Jones's best position?

Former Manchester United and England midfielder Paul Scholes suggested in the build-up to Sunday's game that Phil Jones, his former team-mate, might not be clever enough to succeed at centre-back. Jones found himself at right-back against Ireland and produced a typically spirited performance in getting forward up the flank.
However, his physical characteristics mean that he is surely better suited to a central role. As Scholes points out, showing he has the savvy to match is another matter. Jones is 23 now and needs to nail down a role soon.
http://m.skysports.com/article/football//9877960


JACK OF ALL TRADE grin smh
Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by parrotibaba(m): 6:15pm On Jun 07, 2015
elampiro:
Obertan, bebe, etc never bossed games like Anderson and Cleverley did. Cleverley was already a feared midfielder in 2008. In 2011 he had come of age. All of a sudden he couldnt come out of a three months injury half himself. We should questioned those who manage his return to fitness.
which cleverly was feared? in 2008? did u eat frog dis afternoon? undecided in 2008 he was still a reserve player for united so how was he feared? d truth is cleverly performs in smaller teams as he did in Wigan n now Aston villa ,when d pressure was intense he buckled ...Anderson was always as we know an inconsistent player ,plays well dis week n disappears next week ...dominating games ko bullying games ni

Nani is also a lazy player
Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by parrotibaba(m): 6:19pm On Jun 07, 2015
elampiro:
Coventry. Match played by our rookies.

All these were just one offs. Even Barca lose matches. Find another excuse not going to list matches spanning 5 seasons.
so de r now one-offs baa? I thought u said we dominated d games n d ones we lost we were unlucky? Maybe Ac Milan was also a one off or Bayern munchen in d first leg 2010 or even when arsenal used kids to dominate us in '09
Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by parrotibaba(m): 6:31pm On Jun 07, 2015
elampiro:
Exactly. Carrick will not last half a season before he goes for a long rest.

Evra got his muscles resurrected in Juventus.

Berbatov was on a steady decline.

Kagawa was going to be on a steady decline.

Anderson and Cleverley on a steady decline.

Compare the above players with Pogba and Tevez.
berbatov was on a steady decline yet in just 13 league appearances he scored 7 goals in 2011/2012 n was a regular starter for Monaco last season ,kagawa dat was punted to d left wing was lazy but he is a starter at Dortmund...
Carrick was lazy yet he was our best midfielder last season
Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by parrotibaba(m): 6:34pm On Jun 07, 2015
Nothing elampawa no de argue ,b4 u know it he go tell u say Mike phelan no d barb im hairs
Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by parrotibaba(m): 6:45pm On Jun 07, 2015
Double post!!
Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by parrotibaba(m): 6:45pm On Jun 07, 2015
TRANSFER RUMORS

ROBIN VAN PERSIE HINTS AT UNITED EXIT;

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Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by coogar: 6:59pm On Jun 07, 2015
elampiro:
You dont know tactics. When we were to play Liverpool in the return leg, I wrote on this thread that Liverpool will not play Sterling on the left. They would be avoiding a Sterling vs Valencia clash because Val has the speed to stop him. They would rather he faced Blind. On match day, that was exactly what happened.
this is just rubbish!
liverpool lined up based on the calibre of players they had available in the game.

Some players do well against certain layers, it's not matter who is a better footballer. Vidic always did well against Drogba- power vs power. But Vidic was always eaten for Dinner by Torres.
so how come fergie never hid vidic from torres? grin has there been any game we played against liverpool & vidic was fit but fergie refused to play him cos of torres? if you cannot find one game like this then you are talking nonsense.

Football is sense and tactics.
claiming fergie hid rooney from gerrard is nonsense & tactical hara-kiri.
Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by Nobody: 8:57pm On Jun 07, 2015
Fellaini enroute to scoring a hat trick for Belgium. cheesy
Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by adebayo201: 9:16pm On Jun 07, 2015
two goals already
Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by Nobody: 9:26pm On Jun 07, 2015
Put your hands together for Mr Penalty Hazard.... cheesy
Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by SailorXY: 10:37pm On Jun 07, 2015
chrisley024:
Adam Bate picks out five questions for England manager Roy Hodgson after the team’s 0-0 draw with Republic of Ireland on Sunday…
Below is the excerpt that concerns our two players:

What is Rooney's best position?
This was not exactly a game to remember for many people in the Aviva Stadium but few performed further below par than Wayne Rooney. The low point came when the England captain squandered the clearest opening of the game - failing to control a Jordan Henderson pass that looked to have put him through on the Ireland goal.
He cut an isolated figure for periods of the game, attempting only 14 passes in 74 minutes, and while England assistant Gary Neville has admired the way that Rooney had embraced seeing less of the ball at Manchester United under Louis van Gaal, this was a test of that theory.

What is Jones's best position?

Former Manchester United and England midfielder Paul Scholes suggested in the build-up to Sunday's game that Phil Jones, his former team-mate, might not be clever enough to succeed at centre-back. Jones found himself at right-back against Ireland and produced a typically spirited performance in getting forward up the flank.
However, his physical characteristics mean that he is surely better suited to a central role. As Scholes points out, showing he has the savvy to match is another matter. Jones is 23 now and needs to nail down a role soon.
http://m.skysports.com/article/football//9877960


JACK OF ALL TRADE grin smh
It's an unfortunate situation, especially with Rooney... all that earnings & yet have no idea if he's even the best for any position in LvG's squad!

the management's biggest mistake this summer will be to rely on Rooney as our point man next campaign - shrek is clearly not that good anymore.
Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by elrony(m): 10:53pm On Jun 07, 2015
the way some people try so hard to make silly things sound so right here sef... chai!!

case study :baba elamps on trying to justify Moyes and SAF making our players lazy ...

makes me wonder if Buhari has legalised weed in Nigeria! !
Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by elrony(m): 10:55pm On Jun 07, 2015
SailorXY:
It's an unfortunate situation, especially with Rooney... all that earnings & yet have no idea if he's even the best for any position in LvG's squad!

the management's biggest mistake this summer will be to rely on Rooney as our point man next campaign - shrek is clearly not that good anymore.
Rooney is so versatile, he might be deployed as a CB next season hahaha!!!
Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by olabode89(m): 11:49pm On Jun 07, 2015
elrony:
Rooney is so versatile, he might be deployed as a CB next season hahaha!!!
Lmao... To me SAF greatest mistake was not shipping out Wazza before his retirement. The MF held the club to ransome on two different occasions and contemplated about joining the enemy (City).
Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by Nobody: 12:08am On Jun 08, 2015
olabode89:
Lmao... To me SAF greatest mistake was not shipping out Wazza before his retirement. The MF held the club to ransome on two different occasions and contemplated about joining the enemy (City).
And Chekpe too
Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by coogar: 12:36am On Jun 08, 2015
olabode89:
Lmao... To me SAF greatest mistake was not shipping out Wazza before his retirement. The MF held the club to ransome on two different occasions and contemplated about joining the enemy (City).
rooney was the worst player on the pitch against ireland. i have seen enough to know rooney is past it. he's become a massive liability like gerrard was to liverpool this year.

LVG should get 2 world class strikers. if rooney buckles up & plays better than them then fair play. if they play better than rooney, then rooney should sit on the bench or be the choice striker in the FA cup games!

we will never win a major trophy with rooney in the line-up.
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