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RuuDie: Will the naysayers now please cut J.Evans P. EVra some slack!!!?

coogar: make una leave evra alone jare - i know he can be a Arrow but we don't offer him any sorta protection as well. all the united players who we put ahead of evra all live drifting inside and leaving evra exposed. young, welbeck, nani, rooney, giggs! none of these guys stretches the play or stay on the touchline(like valencia) so it's a massive task for evra not to make errors!

montelik: Nice to see Hernandez is improving his overall/link-up play so far this season. [s]Welbeck also seems to make decisions faster as well[/s]. See what competition can do. Lets hope Fletcher is totally and fully recovered to push Carrick and co in midfield.

coogar: you're done because each of the points you have raised got demolished! nani is a beast on his day - we don't have another player like him.[b] only van persie and rooney have more market value than nani in the whole united squad!

debosky: Bruh. . .your type will accept consistent mediocrity over the potential to achieve fantastic heights albeit at unpredictable intervals.

QUOTE OF THE DAY:
"I am not the kind of guy who reads the papers or goes on to the internet. But when I hear people say Patrice never had someone to fight him for his place I think they have bad memories. They forget very quickly how I got to become Manchester United's left-back. I fought with two great players in Gabriel Heinze and Mikael Silvestre.
Football is like a pyramid. It is easy to reach the top of the pyramid but to stay there is the hardest part. It is too easy for people to say that now we have bought another left back Patrice Evra will have to fight for his place. Patrice Evra has always fought for his place."

— Yes, Manchester United left-back Patrice Evra really did call Mikael Silvestre a great player.

montelik: Lindegaard, Rafael, Ferdinand, Evans, Evra, Valencia, Carrick, Giggs, Nani, Kagawa, Van Persie.

Subs: De Gea, Buttner, Anderson, Scholes, Cleverley, Hernandez, Welbeck.

montelik: My preffered line-up.

Lindergard

Rafeal, Rio, Vidic, EvraButtner

Valencia Ando Carrick Cleverley *Nani

<---- Kagawa ------>

RvP

Delafruita: how about the reality of the fact that humans are also doomed to hell.

coogar: he was the best player on the pitch despite the penalty miss - on another day, he would have copped about 5 goal assists. was valencia even on the pitch last night?

darefestus: Its tym u lay off wateva it is u've been smoking. There is a more purposeful winger in Valencia, but technically Nani is the veri best in the league.

chamotex: You need a dirty slap!

debosky: Sam Allardyce would take Grant Holt and Andy Carroll over RVP or Tevez, but does that mean the former two are better than the latter two?

This is the whole crux of the argument - Starboard doesn't like Nani or his style of play in general, but that can't be the yardstick for determining who the best is.

onila: dont mind them drunkard, thief, theif cameroonians

debosky: Still waiting for the information on a better winger in Europe by the way.

Impossible to explain Van Persie loss

By Eurosport | Arsene Wenger – 8 hours ago

Manchester United's new signing Robin van Persie speaks at a news conference at Old Trafford in August 2012 (A …
Robin van Persie is the kind of player you rarely meet in your life: an exception, the very definition of the word. He has everything a coach dreams to have in a single player: he's smart, classy, clever when he moves, has killer-instinct, and is focused during 90 minutes.

He has a deep love for football. He watches matches at home, analysing everything. It's so rare for a single player to have such a quest for perfection, allied with such talent and class. It's fortunate. He spent eight seasons with me, and he never stopped developing himself. We could never imagine he would become the player he is right now. It hurts to see him wear another shirt when he is at top level.

He's not difficult to manage because he is an ultra-pro. He's at home every night. If you ring him at 10 in the evening, he will answer, because he will be watching some game or preparing himself for some match. With those roots, he is easy to work with. You can have different views to him and, because he has a strong character, he expresses himself like the Dutch usually do when talking about football. But it's pretty easy to discuss things with him because every movement, every gesture has to be done with perfection for him.

Now he's gone, don't ask the fans to understand what is not understandable. Even I do not understand, and I am deep at the heart of the decisions. You have to deal with it. That's life. We are here to help people to express their talents. A coach must have a positive influence on their players' lives.

I would have preferred Van Persie to sign for a club in a foreign country, in order to avoid playing against him several times per season, but it's a fine challenge for us to prove we can exist after such a move, to show we can score goals, play well and survive everything.

RVP and Wayne Rooney have everything to play together. Sometimes, great goalscorers don't really fit together. But if you analyse the pair's technical skills on the pitch, it can work. It will require some understanding, from the technical and from the personal point of view, but their separate success will increase the links between them. If those links exist and if they both score, it will be very, very strong.