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Illimitable:
Chelsea will be a tougher customer for Pep in the final than Real Madrid.

Mos def, thats why I want Chelsea to emerge victorious.

Good that Chelsea are winning , I see them beating City in the final.

It's now clear that tuchel took PSG to the final and not mbappe and co. as many people taught.

nitrogen:
Fringe players that were completely useless under Lampard.

Oga o...

Chelsea are ruthless, always works for them, they don't accept mediocrity.

Look at how long we waited before sacking Moyes.

If it was at Manchester United that Di Matteo won the CL and Fa cup and and started dropping disasterclass like he did at chelsea..
we would've let him to stay for two more seasons hoping he would win the CL again before realizing he wasn't all that.

Jodera:
No oooo.
I'm just strictly guardiola, just like Popizaino. Any other agenda, I no dey oo

Apari sports entails many many things including beefing hazard

Every member on dis board belongs to one of the group.. you can disagree with some of their Beliefs but you must belong to one.. me sha the citadel for the time been, I fit port next season.

Jodera:
Lol... I'm always Pro-guardiola

Apari sports then.

Jodera:
So all those years he had the Porto and shalke04 in group stage yet still got eliminated by the Monaco and Lyon of the world... Those are real champions league shey?

Some jokes write themselves

Are you Citadel or Apari sports?

Jodera:
@ first bolded. True tho. Dem fit go hire giggs say he's doing well with Wales team .


Lol... Subtle digg shey?

my hands are clean.

nitrogen:
Lol, Fergie signed a raw Ronaldo. Was a big gamble.

So? We should try it Antonio Valencia again? lol

Jodera:
Facts.
I once said here how van gaal was cautioning his players how to take shots (must trap the ball first). How his endless pass, pass and "filosofi" football nearly bore the death of life out of even van persie sef .

Di maria started well but disillusioned with the kind of play at man u (at a certain time he was even warming the bench). Coupled with the fact he didn't like the life at Manchester... Mahn have to ball out

That’s why I want them to just leave Ole there.

cause if he’s sacked you don’t even trust them to employ a better manager,this people fit go bring Pirlo as head coach.

At least with ole we go the get entertainment of 5-0 score lines multiple times in a season

Bombblacks:
Well said bro. Everybody is talking from a point of insight because it didn't go as expected. Spot on about the Ndidi and Schneiderlin part. If we buy ndidi now and 3yrs later he didn't work out some will say we spend the money senselessly.

manager recruitment was bad too, they sacked Van Gaal who was a possession based manager and employed Jose who was the opposite.

Imagine Van gaal type of players getting managed by Jose what more could go wrong?

The glazers are to be blamed for that cuz they employed a man who knows little about football as the man in charge of our transfers, player and manger recruitments... what do you expect ? Of course it’ll be a disaster.

Jodera:
What of payet? He hated life in London and even acknowledged he hated the weather and environment. That didn't stop him for grabbing a spot for pfa team of the season before forcing his way back to Marseille.

Di Maria even started well didn’t he even win player of the month and goal of the season?

The Leicester match changed everything and before then we looked up-to him to be our savior like Bruno which he clearly wasn’t.

Van gaal changed formation and became more defensive cautious and playing it safe, Bruno would’ve suffered the same fate as di Maria under van gaal. Cuz he didn’t tolerate any risky play.

nitrogen:
Valencia came good for us though. Remember the Valencia - Rooney combo? We won the league and got to UCL final with Valencia as one of our wingers.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/football/2010/may/05/wayne-rooney-antonio-valencia-manchester

Valencia was good , I was a huge fan, you guys seem to be missing the point.

We lost a GOAT player and replaced him with a 16million signing from Wigan. this is Manchester United, the biggest club in the UK not some accrignton stanley.. where’s the ambition?

KingAlabi:
I bluntly disagree, remove bailly please, I can consider lindelof.

The fact that you think Maguire is even a good ball playing CB.....

KingAlabi:
When talking about ball playing, please no put Maguire and Smalling for the same sentence, Jones is better at ball-playing than Smalling sef.

Maguire isn’t an exceptional ball playing CB as you people were made to believe. Bailey and Lindelof are better than him in that department.

Again who is the main stay in the 3rd best defence in the premier league this season?

Smalling was a mainstay in the best and 2nd best in a league season. We spent 130million to downgrade to 3rd lol.

handelex:
Smalling is not good on the ball Oga. That's one of his most glaring weaknesses, indecisive when on the ball. Defensively he's sound.

I was correcting the notion that being able to move with the ball and pass the ball makes you a Ball Playing CB.

Bombblacks:
Now you understand my point about insight. Back then those deals where celebrated and cheered as grea deals. It's because they didn't turn out great people are trying to act like the club made mistakes back then.

Still.. replacing a GOAT player like Ronaldo with Owen, Valencia and Obertan was comedy level.

KingAlabi:
Abeg no mention Smalling and moving the ball together biko.

Smalling was playing as a Right Back under the greatest manager of all time and also was a mainstay in the defense of a manager that brought the “ball playing cb” concept to old trafford, no the yarn dust.

handelex:
Lol, Morgan Schnerderlin, even that Sanchez swap...

Schnerderlin wasn’t bad too, I remember how we were buzzing when we got him, it just didn’t work out. I think LVG had the worst luck here when it comes to transfers.

Depay was a good youngster destined for greater heights, Di Maria just won the MOTM in a CL final, Schnerdelin, Blind, Darmian, Herrera were all hailed as smart business.

Martial was even the signing that had question marks, now he’s the only LVG signing in our books.

handelex:
Lol how is that not a bad deal. Someone doesn't want to come yet you signed him and a year later he leaves at a lose, bad deals doesn't get worse than that.

I mean the fee, he was worth 60mil then.

Bombblacks:
Everybody's got some power of insight looking back now.. If any of Owen, Valencia, Di Maria, Depay or Sanchez worked out, this would be a moot discussion about 2009 and we'll be talking of how shrewdly we replaced Ronaldo.

lol

eph12:
Stones was exceptional what? After one season? If he wasn't English, we won't even be hearing his name like that. Please there was nothing exceptional about Stones.

lies, he was exceptional with the ball at his feet. You are saying after “1 season” like playing with the ball is the same as scoring goals. You can know who’s good with the ball in just a game only, just as you can know who’s slow and who’s fast.

At bold, those two statements contradict themselves. How are you comfortable with the ball and can move with it and play passes without being a very good ball playing CB? What's there to do again?

Keep playing yourself. Like smalling can’t move with ball and play pass na abi.

Leyqute:
60m for DiMaria. 54m for Fred.

What the fvvvck

Di Maria for 60 wasn’t a bad deal, he just doesn’t want to come here and Woodward somehow manage to become blind, deaf and dumb to that.

hensben:
I think the type of players mou use for his tactics are no longer playing football. Mou tactics rely strength, pace and counter attack and only average team want to play that way now.

His style doesn’t work that much now, he still hasn’t come to terms with that,

that’s why to me SAF will always be the GOAT manager, he always adapts.

Pep tactics revolutionized modern day football I think.

that can be argued, Spain were already playing tiki taka with Luis Aragones.

Pep though really brought it to limelight.

hensben:
You have a point tho.

of course he has, Mourinho is and will always be one of the greatest managers ever. But he’s not that much NOW.

He is past his prime.

Pep now is among the best of the current crop.

ouzo1:
Bros u deserve one full parcel of MaryJane. Word

you just the know the Maguire propaganda was real when in his first match he was given the MOTM award in a game we won 4-0 with Black Ronaldo scoring twice and Pogba giving two assists.

That 2009 transfer window will always be a funny one, Madrid were desperate for Ronaldo and were bent on offloading Sneijder and Arjen Robben.


Sneijder and Robben ffs! they pocketed the 80millions and bought Owen on a free. Jesu!

Leyqute:
I understand that some of them are siding the Glazers because they have shares in the company. But come on! This thing is obvious to the blind. The money the club has spent on servicing debt alone would’ve improved the club a lot. No wonder SAF and David Gill left when they did. They saw a sinking ship and saved themselves.

Why didn’t SAF speak out against the glazers? Gill?

We Fvcking replaced a “GOAT” player with Micheal Owen and gave him the no.7 shirt.. Jesus Christ!

eph12:
The same way you can't see Maguire qualities was how Stones was being abused back then.

False, Stones was an exceptional “Ball Playing cb” his defensive game though was average at best and he was rightfully dropped.. and was labeled a flop then..

Man ironed his deficiencies and fought his way up the pecking order, He earned it.

No shortcut like “because he was the most expensive CB, he must play”

Luke Shaw faced similar thing.

Shaw’s story is similar to John stones, Fvcking Brendan Williams was keeping him out of the team, he had to rediscover himself and work his way back to the starting XI.

Maguire on the hand has played the most minutes of any outfield player in the league since making his debut.

If he plays nonsense, he starts.

his hand is broken, he starts.

he just came out from prison, he starts.

Pray tell.. how’s Maguire’s case similar to that of stones and Shaw? He’s very much similar to LVG’s “My captain must play” Wayne Rooney.

With John stones you know he can play with ball at his feet. even then people were still not convinced with his defensive side of the game and it showed on his first season with Man city.

Shaw was a speed star and even earned himself a place in the PL team of the season playing for Southampton.

Maguire isn’t known to be a genius ball playing Cb that was just a narrative the press and propaganda created and millions swallowed it,

he only knew how to move with the ball and was dominant in air, that’s what he was good at, and we are seeing it here in Man United.

defensively he’s average, people always say he’s good defensively but that’s just to make themselves feel good about the 80millions.

He’s average and the fee we paid for him is comedy level.

He’s 26-27.. what you are seeing now is his prime.

Ruben Dias giving me Nemanja Vidić vibes.


Stones turnaround is unreal similar to Luke Shaw’s.

Illimitable:
This was Maguire in the last few seconds against Everton.

Mans turns like 2nd hand “Tippa”


Head is just big for nothing.

When is pep leaving seff, him winning the CL and staying at City for another 5years will be hard for me to stomach, this guy wants to outdo SAf for real.

I hope Tuchel beats Madrid tomorrow cuz i can see him beating this City team in the final, I don’t have that confidence in zidane’s Madrid.

Poch the bottler should have just allowed Bayern to go through.

Again comparing Maguire and Pogba lol.

The only comparison is their fee, nothing else.. at 22 Pogba was rubbing shoulders with the big boys by being included in the World XI, at that age Maguire was still battling relegation in the Efl.

Main Man has appeared in a CL final, Europa Final, Euro Final, World Cup final, Fa cup final, Copa Italia finals, Super cup final etc.

Maguire's biggest achievement is getting the armband from Ole within weeks of his signing at Man United.


#Respect ....X3