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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by tess1(m): 11:51pm On Apr 03, 2016
sinizia:
Watch how El RETARDINHO will bring up another excuse to make you waste your time with him. Don't fall for his tricks - empty brains have gotten nothing to offer!!
His stupidity is unquantifiable. A defender who reads the game better has the lesser interceptions. What is he reading then? Maybe map of UK.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by tess1(m): 11:37pm On Apr 03, 2016
Kagawa10:
This just a baseless rant.
Watch any of Leicester match and come back to tell me if Morgan isn't better on the ball than Smalling nor good at reading the game. Don't even look further, watch the recent leicester vs. Southampton match.
Also, how many times do I have to mention that I know that Smalling one on one tackling is impressive before you get it? Also, if a defender's positional discipline is good enough, he won't need to do too much tackling in a game!
Confused bunch!
I can see that you watch football upside down. That`s where you saw that Morgan is better than Smalling. If he reads the game so much like you claim, why is his interceptions not better than Smalling`s?
It`s only a mad man`s speech that`s always different.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by tess1(m): 11:31pm On Apr 03, 2016
I`ll like to know how and why somebody will be comparing Smalling at 25 with Morgan at 32.

Smalling has played 2520mins in the EPL this season.

PS% - 81.8%
Aerial duel won - 3.1
Tackles won - 1.8
Interception - 2.9
Dribbles - 0.7.

Wes Morgan has played 2880mins

PS % - 74.1%
Aerial duel won - 2.6
Tackles won - 1.2
Interception - 2.6
Dribbles - 0.3

As a matter of fact, it was highlighted that passing is Morgan`s weakness. And somebody is here telling us of reading and awareness of the game. He`s very lucky to have Ngolo Kante in his team, if not, he would`ve been exposed long time ago.

Ngolo Kante that averages 4.5 tacles and 4.2 interceptions per game is the one shielding the defence. The guy that can harass any player anywhere on the pitch.

Any day, any time, Smalling is a father to Morgan in EPL.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by tess1(m): 10:57pm On Apr 03, 2016
Kagawa10:
I said I won't repeat myself again but let me do this just once.
Morgan's reading of the game and positional discipline are far better than Smalling. He also takes more risk on the ball with his dribbling which shows how good he's on the ball. He's also as physical as Smalling.
Hence, not just Smalling poor football skills that's the problem.
Morgan`s reading of the game and positional discipline are better than Smalling? And Morgan with more stable back four with Ngolo tackling all over the pitch since the beginning of the season conceded more goals (31) than Smalling who didn`t have a stable back four because of injuries and and LVG playing wingers as full back in matches conceded 25 goals making the team the second best defence in the league. If Morgan faces half of defensive instability that Smalling have faced this season, he would`ve been found out so many times

Morgan dribbling? How and where? Smalling even has more dribbles than him. You are the one overhyping Morgan. Morgan is already 32. Where was him when he was of Smalling`s age? Smalling is miles ahead of Morgan in any defensive stats this season.

Thank God you were not our coach when Wenger requested for Smalling when we showed interest in buying Vermaellen.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by tess1(m): 10:00pm On Apr 03, 2016
Kagawa10:
None!
One plays for a possession team, albeit a boring one while the other plays for a counter attacking team.
None? And you called Morgan a beast over Smalling?

So, a central defender playing counter attacking football is not supposed to have good passing ability?

As a matter of fact, Smalling is far ahead of Morgan in passing ability.

What else makes Morgan a better defender than Smalling?
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by tess1(m): 9:34pm On Apr 03, 2016
Kagawa10:
LOL!
Do I have to see Jones play this season before I know if he's more composed on the ball than Smalling or not? Is Jones a new player in the league?
Anyway, being composed on the ball doesn't mean you must be a great passer. For example, Januzaj/Martial are composed on the ball but not good passers. Even Jones who's not as technical as the aforementioned two, has a good touch on the ball as opposed to Smalling.
So, you mean if one is not composed on the ball, he can be a great passer. I`m not going into that right now.
I`ve told you to leave jones out of this for now.

You still haven`t answered my question. Who is the better passer of the ball between Smalling and Morgan? There`s no need to be beating about the bush.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by tess1(m): 9:06pm On Apr 03, 2016
Kagawa10:
I'm not even talking about passing skills here but composure on the ball. Even Jones is more composed on the ball than Smalling.
You need to talk about the passing ability because you just said a good foitballer whether he`s a defender or not should be able to handle the ball in his feet. And that`s one of the characteristics you`ve been hammering on in comparing Smalling with Morgan. So, let`s start ftom there.

There`s no need bringing in Jones because he hasn`t really played this season.

My question again. Who is the better passer of the ball between Smalling and Morgan?
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by tess1(m): 8:52pm On Apr 03, 2016
Kagawa10:
As a footballer, you should be able to handle the ball well in your feet whether you are a defender or not. I repeat that Smalling has God to thank for not making Pep his manager.
His positional discipline, reading of the game are average at best too. No one can fault his pace and one on one tackling though
And who is better at passing the ball between Smalling and Morgan?
Autos › Re: Tokunbo 2003 Nissan Primera by tess1(op): 12:19pm On Mar 30, 2016
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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by tess1(m): 4:44pm On Mar 13, 2016
AdeLaNa1:
The still ve a replay at Etihad
Which replay? Chelsea bungled them out.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by tess1(m): 8:24pm On Mar 12, 2016
afrodoc2:
Mikel was at fault for both goals today, you can quote me anywhere . Where was he when lukaku was spinning Cahill like a DJ?
Na show me your number.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by tess1(m): 8:06am On Mar 11, 2016
Elxandre:
The painful thing is I used my money to go watch it outside because PHCN refused to bring the light. sad

I may have to stop watching United play till next season.
Never have I seen a more hopeless coach and an even more useless board that has refused to fire him because of their useless politics.

What has Herrera done to deserve this treatment?
The guy is obviously the most mobile senior midfielder we have, yet he's always on the bench at the slightest instance.
Carrick is ahead in the pecking order, but he can't even run a yard without dying of Asphyxia.
Felliani comes and gets an automatic spot too.

Herrera-Schneidelin-Mata

and we would have controlled this game easily. sad

What has Rashford done exactly too to deserve benching Lingard for him?
Okay why not even play Rashford as CF and bench Depay instead?

Thank God Di Maria saw the light and fled for his life, else he would prolly be playing LB by now.

Useless philosopher with dull English fans that can't protest and send this man back to Holland.

And no, Giggs must never get the job, because he obviously accepts the stupid line ups, else why hasn't he resigned?
Thank God i didn`t waste my time watching the match.

I knew we`ll lose the match when i saw the line up.

* Bringing in Fellaini who haven`t played since like two months in an important away match at Anfield

* Putting Herrera on the bench after playing well in the past few weeks

* Starting Memphis definitely means Martial won`t play where he`s been most effective.

I`ve decided not to watch many of our matches since Dec. because of the useless old man we have as coach. He`s the one killing this team. It is either he brings a useless starting line up or he makes his useless substitute.

I am not expecting anything good from this team untill he`s scked. I`m on Siddon dey look mode.
Autos › Re: Tokunbo 2003 Nissan Primera by tess1(op): 10:56am On Mar 09, 2016
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Autos › Re: Tokunbo 2003 Nissan Primera by tess1(op): 12:14pm On Mar 03, 2016
xpirence:
how much and where is the location of the car?
Sorry for the late response. It`s 700k. It`s in Ikorodu.
Call if you have any further enquiries.
It`s still available.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by tess1(m): 2:07pm On Feb 22, 2016
Felipe Anderson to join Man Utd for €60mill?

Lazio President “I signed Felipe Anderson for €8m and have already re-sold him for €60m,” “Next year he’ll go to Manchester United
How true is this?
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by tess1(m): 11:15am On Feb 16, 2016
elampiro:
Last season he moved Sociedad from relegation to middle table, at some point. You didn't mention that.
What relegation to Mid table are you talking about? He met them 15th on the log and finished the season on 12th.

Talking about playing pattern. This was what you guys said when LVG was coming. I remember there was a lenghty article about Gaal's playing pattern, how his players can control game, do not give possession awayion over the opponents which guarantees game control, etc. So how had having a pattern help us and having a world class coach.
At least LVG has a pattern we all know he's trying to implement, only that his own is just too restrictive and docile. It is this same pattern Barca and Bayern are playing effectively to dominate teams and win games.

Also Everton had a pattern. Everton played a high tempo football, and they were the most feared outside the top four. When City beat United every day, Everton used ten men to dominate City and won 2-0. I think Moyes would have done better if given a second season, perhaps we would have saved ourselves the financial wastages of the last two summers.
The same pattern he used to beat City at Goodison park. How many times throughout his 11 years at Everton did he go away to Man Utd, Liverpool, Arsenal and Man Utd to win? And it continued when he came to Man Utd. The worse of it was that the Everton that he left did the double over Man Utd for the first time since 1969. He visited those grounds a whooping 44 times without a single victory and you call such a team "the feared team outside the top four"! Why didn't he use the same pattern to win at least once out of those 44 visits?

What financial wastage would he have saved us when he was the one who started it with buying over-priced Fellaini?

Again if you look at Chelsea, you would understand that it's possible for a team to move from number 1 to mid table.
Mourinho can be excused because he was a champion and has always been a champion. If not, why will there be so much rumours of him coming to Man Utd? As things stands now at Man Utd and you are given the opportunity to choose between Moyes and Mourinho. Who will you choose? That is simply the difference between them.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by tess1(m): 10:02pm On Feb 15, 2016
elampiro:
But some of the players were past it. Ferdinand and Vidic have not played football since that time. Evra is using idea to cope in slow paced Seria A. I have not heard of Buttner, Fabio again. Evans, Smalling, Carrick, Cleverley and Fletcher were never fit. Van Persie couldn't work with him.

And I look at how Everton has struggled ever since with better spending, I wonder if Moyes is really bad.
This is just an excuse. It is simple, Moyes was incompetent for Man Utd.

When Vidic, Ferdinand and Evra have past it, why didn't he find adequate replacement for them in January transfer window?

Our football had no direction under him. We had no particular playing pattern other than players running around on their own volition. Sometimes, players will be huffing the ball up aimlessly. We all know that we made the highest number of unsuccessful crosses into the box under him. His style of play shattered a lot of players confidence and these are players who just won the premier league.

A coach that will have a one goal lead and all he's thinking was how to defend that one goal lead when he's supposed to be thinking of how to score more goals. He'll take out an attacking player, bring in a defensive player and will eventually lose or draw the game. Is that a competent coach.

He refused to play some players while overplaying other players. He also over-trained a lot of players which resulted in a lot of injuries in training.

His transfer dealings were appalling. He left realistic targets like Alcantara and Hererra chasing Bale, Khedira, Fabregas only to end up with Fellaini at a price higher than his buyout clause.

What about his pre and post match comments? They were disgraceful for a coach of Man Utd stature. Is it a defeatist comment like "They may well be favourites. Their league position suggests they are ahead of us and they possibly do come here as favourites" ahead of a home game against Liverpool. Or a post match comment after a loss to Man City where he said he would have taken a draw against Cardiff before the match or where he said "I don't know what we have to do to win" after a loss to Stoke city. Al these attest to the fact that he's grossly incompetent.

He crashed a defending champion to number 7 spot on the league. If he was given another year, i am sure we would have been in relegation battle.

I can go on and on with how incompetent he was. He also dragged ordinary Real Sociedad to relegation before he was sacked. He couldn't win at home in the season he was sacked gaining 15 points out of possible 42 points. What does that tell you?

His successor at Sociedad who was a Team B coach at Barcelona have won 22 points out of possible 39 points with the same players taking the team from 17th position to 10th on the league table.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by tess1(m): 12:56pm On Feb 15, 2016
elampiro:
If tess1 see Moyes for road, na war be that.
Lol. Na real war o. I go even body slam am sef. He started this problem we have right now. He shattered the confidence of a lot of players with is incompetence.
Autos › Re: Tokunbo 2003 Nissan Primera by tess1(op): 11:32am On Feb 15, 2016
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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by tess1(m): 10:46am On Feb 15, 2016
elampiro:
"I knew Manchester United need to qualify for the Champions League," Moyes told Sky Sports .
"They are a club of status and want to be at that level, if not more. They want to be winning it if they can, never mind qualifying for it.
"That's what happens at Manchester United. It's that level."
United returned to Europe's elite club competition following a fourth-placed finish under Van Gaal last term, but they appear likely to miss out on the competition for the second time in three campaigns after a 2-1 loss to relegation-threatened Sunderland on Sunday, a result that left the Red Devils six points off fourth-placed Manchester City.
Moyes did express some sympathy for Van Gaal's plight and criticised the media for its of the ex-Ajax, Barcelona and Bayern Munich coach.
"There's so much media attention on Louis van Gaal just now," Moyes said.
"When I lost my job, he was lauded by everybody in football - by you people, the media and everybody else. Now many of you are the ones saying he should lose his job.
"If you got to Manchester United, that's what you get. You get an awful lot of media attention, but I still believe I was the right person to take the job."

Lol
He's talking crap. He's just not good enough for our team whether he admits or not.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by tess1(m): 2:12pm On Feb 14, 2016
chrisley024:
Kante is the best DM in the league this season.
That guy is a player. He's all over the pitch winning tackles.

He can't play the way he has been playing under LVG. He'll tell you he's getting too attracted to the ball and chasing the ball too much. He has to wait for the ball.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by tess1(m): 1:54am On Feb 03, 2016
chidexxy007:
You guys just got me confused the more... Which one I wan take nw...
Ryan Giggs absent from Old Trafford: Manchester United assistant on compassionate leave

Ryan Giggs was absent for Manchester United's game against Stoke City due to a family illness.

It was noted that the assistant manager had not taken up his usual seat in the Old Trafford dugout alongside Louis van Gaal, even sparking rumours that he was set to be appointed as Celtic manager.

However the reason for the former player's absence was compassionate leave due to a family illness.

Giggs missed a fine performance from Manchester United.
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/ryan-giggs-absent-from-old-trafford-manchester-united-assistant-on-compassionate-leave-a6849896.html
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by tess1(m): 11:06pm On Feb 02, 2016
chidexxy007:
nice game from the boys today. Hope this continues.
why wasn't Giggs on the bench.
I read he wasn't on the bench due to family illness
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by tess1(m): 10:13pm On Feb 02, 2016
SailorXY:
Jamie Vardy!

Booombah Leicester 1 Liverpool 0
The was audacious from that guy.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by tess1(m): 7:46pm On Feb 02, 2016
Manchester United XI: De Gea, Darmian, Smalling, Blind, Borthwick-Jackson, Carrick, Fellaini Lingard, Mata, Martial Rooney

Schneiderlin dropped
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by tess1(m): 7:28pm On Feb 02, 2016
Chicharito wins the Bundesliga Player of The Month for the third consecutive month. He has scored 21 goals in 24 games (13 goals out of 16 league games) for Laverkusen this season.

http://metro.co.uk/2016/02/02/ex-manchester-united-striker-javier-hernandez-wins-third-bundesliga-player-of-the-month-in-a-row-5658302/
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by tess1(m): 9:39pm On Jan 31, 2016
weedtaker:
I actually don't know, i've not watched him b4, but he's rated highly.
I did not see anything spectacular about the guy in his video i've watched to make him worth such a ridiculous amount.
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