Manchester United Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 11/12

MANUTD99 wrote: »

I never like his style of football at Chelsea. Very defensive minded I thought. While at Man United the philosophy is completely different. Counter attacking rip your team apart football. This was even the style under Matt Busby and less successfully with Docherty, Sexton and Atkinson

His current Real Madrid team are one of the better counter attacking teams. I love watching them play!

Following on from that Berba/Suarez stat earlier, here's another one I saw on Twitter:

Michael Carrick (defensive mid) has more goals/assists in 733 mins than Stewart Downing (winger) & Andy Carroll (striker) combined in 2,247.

Carrick has 1 goal and 2 assists and the others have a combined 2 goals. Some crack altogether :pac:

kmart6 wrote: »

Blatter posted that on the last page...crazy enough though!

Can't believe I missed that post. Ah well there goes my chances of getting a few thanks

IamtheWalrus wrote: »

Today's results and gap closing is bittersweet for me. I want the club to stop the charge of Man City but on the other hand, a part of me would prefer to not win the title this season. Just like last season, winning the title could give Fergie the impression that the squad doesn't need strengthening when clearly the first 11 does. You could argue that Fergie will realise this regardless of success but I don't think so.

It seems there is little money to spend. From listening to Fergie this season, it seems he has his eyes on a few 'hidden gems' across the world, ala Hernadez, and is waiting for those to become available. Hope they're brought in to improve the first team, not to further bloat the squad with 'decent' players.

I really don't get this attitude.
Winning the league = more money + bigger attraction for better players.

Fergie will do what he wants to do regardless. Even if we didn't win the league last season, I don't think he would have bought anyone.

If we keep winning the league and "papering over the cracks" then I'll begin to wonder if there even is any cracks!

great day of results, things look a lot better today than 3 weeks ago though along way to go yet. we have 11 senior players class as injured this evening and add in PIG, pogba and Morisson and thats 14 who are to come back sooner or later.

parker kent wrote: »

Great performance and great result. I hope the current league table is closely studied by the doom mongering "City are an unstoppable machine" merchants from a few weeks ago.

hang on, hang on, lets not get carried away just yet. city are still the favourites. yes results have been good since basle, BUT we need perspective. all of the "doom" was spot on, we were playing s*it and scraping results. we had our worst period of scoring goals in years from november to mid december. we are still no longer in the CL, that wasnt down to fluke or luck, that was cos we were not playing well enough. a 5-0 win v fulham and wigan does not change that. city were flying and lets not forget, they beat arsenal last week.

their fixtures are easier on the basis that we still have to go to spurs, chelsea, arsenal and them. going out of the CL at this stage has happened us 2 times in 16 years, that is nothing but a disaster and a low low point for the club. thankfully they have started playing better, which is all people asked for. carrick coming back to form has been huge as has the emergence of jones in CM.

the exciting thing is that we have played s*it but still are in there and now look to be returning to form, BUT that can change quickly. our injuries are huge at this point in time.

The_Kew_Tour wrote: »

I remember being laughed at when I suggested this league was not over before City played Liverpool weeks back.

Where are ye;););)

Good day all around really.

i doubt very many said the league was over. as i said the analysis back 3 weeks ago, was spot on.

we need to not get carried away, there is nothing won yet. relax a little

Berbas second goal was a thing of beauty. It's great to see us level on points at the top despite at least a couple of months of indifferent football. Also great to see the goals flying in again.

It's going to be tight for sure this season but our experience and ruthlessness with dispatching the weaker teams could see us nick it.

Have been going back and forward to the folks house over Christmas as the whole family are home. Delighted I brought my Apple TV over with me today. Hooked it up to their LCD, got the stream off liveonlinefooty, and we all sat together and cheered as the goals went in. Great stuff.

homerjay2005 wrote: »

the chances of united getting the player of the month for december is very high, though does anybody stand out? maybe rooney, but for sure jones would have been up there, had he not missed today.

still has a chance of course with a big game on sat if he plays, but he mas pretty much missed the last 2 games and that may not be enough, would be great for him if he was to get it.

assume fergie will get the Manager award.

I'd give player to Demba Ba tbh...

adox wrote: »

I would give it to Carrick if it were to be a United player but I can't see that happening.

he has a chance alright i suppose, though Ba is a good shout. thing about BA, the player that gets it, normally comes from a team who has had a decent month and newcastle have not had that.

Van Persie has to be up there also.