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Manchester United Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours 2018/2019

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[Deleted User]

I hope to ****ing good we get no more injuries

I can't remember an injury crisis as bad in a long long time

It's weird, on the match I still have that nervous feeling that anything is possible

No fear anyway

BazBox

Great to see 4 academy players on the bench. I know it is due to injuries mainly but still great to see, and some of them will come on tonight no doubt.

Come on United!

GSPfan

Rossi IRL wrote: »

5 at the back

Exactly. People saying 3 at the back are being a bit unrealistic.

Zeek12

That's a team sent out to prevent more serious damage.

Understandable to be fair. The squad is decimated.

I fear our midfield will be chasing shadows

RobbingBandit

Dalot 20lad super sub 2019

0gac3yjefb5sv7

No Dalot...

LuckyGent88

4 academy players on the bench and then Dalot.

Not expecting much. Hopefully try and make a game of it in the first 20 minutes and see where it gets us.

Rossi IRL

5 at the back

DM_7

Back three. Yikes.

https://twitter.com/SimonPeach/status/1103366257879977990?s=19

#MUFC starting line-up v #PSG: De Gea, Young, Bailly, Smalling, Lindelof, Shaw, McTominay, Fred, Pereira, Rashford, Lukaku

letsgo2018

If Giggs was playing today would he be playing on the right wing as an inverted forward and would he score a lot more goals

GSPfan

bangkok wrote: »

BELIEVE

BE REAL

[Deleted User]

bangkok wrote: »

BELIEVE

C'mon, everyone, all you down the back...♪ ♫

Getting back into Top 4 this season was a "miracle", but as the song goes - there can be miracles...plural.

So on that note, I will accept the miracle of us not being put to the sword in Paris.

bangkok

BELIEVE

jayo26

My opinion on the ole and recruitment process I believe it has been a bit missinterpreted by some people.

When I watched the presser this morning and he basically talking about signing players it was more of a case that he was coming in at the end if targets.

A while back he said that the club like United are always scouting players they had targets for various positions they had been working on for a while and were planning windows in advance.

So I picked it up as he was coming in at the end if the Price as and giving his opinions on players that have been scouted and were on lists. I don't think it's a case that the club are deciding who needs to be signed and no input from the manager I think he will say who he likes but now he has managed the team and if he gets the job going forward he will sit down and say what type if player he feels they need.

I know the club has a profile of player but I don't believe they would push a player on a manger without him wanting to work with that player or fitting him in the plans.

jayo26

areu4real? wrote: »

Sanchez for bale would be good business imo, don't think there's an ice cubes chance in hell but we can only dream. I'll be long asleep for the game tonight, hopefully checking BBC in the morning will bring a very unexpected surprise.

I'd say we have more chance if getting varane for Phil Jones.

Drumpot

ericzeking wrote: »

Re. Ole only being at the end of the recruitment process.

The club have been criticised ad nauseum for a scatter gun approach, hiring different managers and buying different players for those managers leading to a supposedly unbalanced squad full of "deadwood".
Now the club appears to have some sort of strategy whereby suitable players (I imagine there is a pretty limited list of the same players which all the top clubs have) are identified and then put to the current coach. This is also criticized.

So which is it, do we want an over arching plan or do we continue to appoint and sack managers, buy and discard players?

All this is because seemingly people think it is all one guy (Woodward) playing real life fantasy manager with a multi billion euro corporation, which is a pretty crazy idea.

I think ideally Ole would be the coach who for the most part would be given the best players available and a director of football be appointed which would largely just be for optics as it wouldn't make a difference to how transfers come about. But it would appease those who just think Woodward is clicking buy and sell on his computer.

Hold on, what exactly is the clubs transfer strategy now ? I don't know how anybody can make any statement about what non managerial strategies/roles have changed/improved internally since Ole has taken charge.

Since you feel Woodward is getting such a hard time I would love to hear what information you have on his role in transfers. Maybe some of us have been too hard on Woody . . He is in the highest position at the club and has been a constant fixture at that level since SAF retired and has presided over an awful period of the club. Maybe you can clear up the misgivings that many of us have about his motives (shiny marketable and young players - not necessarily what first team needs) and his qualities that we just do not appreciate?

In fact, can you tell me how the last 6 years haven't generally been a scattergun approach to managerial and transfer signings ?

DM_7

bucketybuck wrote: »

Questioning and criticising are not the same things.

When the manager says very clearly that he is not involved in recruitment until the end of the process, its a reasonable question to ask who is making the decisions before that?

When this new process doesn't seem to tally with what happened in previous transfer windows then its reasonable to wonder why?

Criticism might come later, but for now there are still far more questions than answers.

Why does it not tally? The likes of Lindelof, Bailly, Dalot, Martial, Shaw were probably brought to the manager as options based on work the club did to identify them.

letsgo2018

Unless it was a swap with Sanchez and no more than 20m I wouldn't go near Bale . Would much prefer us to sign chucky lozano. He's only 23 and I think he can play both wings too . The time to get bale was when he went to Madrid. We matched their offer and he turned us down so feck him

[Deleted User]

Rossi IRL wrote: »

As long as he stays away from De Gea I don't care what he does

Courtios is the perfect Jose goalkeeper sit deep and force people into crossing, have the gentle giant come out and catch said cross (something which he is probably the best in the world at) launch counter

bucketybuck

ericzeking wrote: »

Now the club appears to have some sort of strategy whereby suitable players (I imagine there is a pretty limited list of the same players which all the top clubs have) are identified and then put to the current coach. This is also criticized.

So which is it, do we want an over arching plan or do we continue to appoint and sack managers, buy and discard players?

Questioning and criticising are not the same things.

When the manager says very clearly that he is not involved in recruitment until the end of the process, its a reasonable question to ask who is making the decisions before that?

When this new process doesn't seem to tally with what happened in previous transfer windows then its reasonable to wonder why?

Criticism might come later, but for now there are still far more questions than answers.

secman

BBC reporting Klopp and Poch are top of RM list, with Mou not in the running, hope they go for Klopp

and Virgil van Dyke and maybe Salah

Interesting to see how Ole tackles this one tonight, no real pressure as we are deemed to be out as it is. Footy can be a funny oul game !

ericzeking

Re. Ole only being at the end of the recruitment process.

The club have been criticised ad nauseum for a scatter gun approach, hiring different managers and buying different players for those managers leading to a supposedly unbalanced squad full of "deadwood".
Now the club appears to have some sort of strategy whereby suitable players (I imagine there is a pretty limited list of the same players which all the top clubs have) are identified and then put to the current coach. This is also criticized.

So which is it, do we want an over arching plan or do we continue to appoint and sack managers, buy and discard players?

All this is because seemingly people think it is all one guy (Woodward) playing real life fantasy manager with a multi billion euro corporation, which is a pretty crazy idea.

I think ideally Ole would be the coach who for the most part would be given the best players available and a director of football be appointed which would largely just be for optics as it wouldn't make a difference to how transfers come about. But it would appease those who just think Woodward is clicking buy and sell on his computer.

Bleating Lamb

Don’t think you are meant to ask about streams so apologies Mods if that’s the case....don’t have Sky TV....can anyone pm me a way to watch game tonight please.

areu4real?

Mantis Toboggan wrote: »

And Sanchez down the left would be ideal.

Sanchez for bale would be good business imo, don't think there's an ice cubes chance in hell but we can only dream. I'll be long asleep for the game tonight, hopefully checking BBC in the morning will bring a very unexpected surprise.

0gac3yjefb5sv7

Rossi IRL wrote: »

As long as he stays away from De Gea I don't care what he does

De Gea is definitely going no where. Don't know why anyone is worried. He loves it here.

Especially after Courtois is there.

Rossi IRL

jayo26 wrote: »

Klopp and Salah in the summer would be perfect for them.

Klopp now would be even better

Beechwoodspark

Is the match on any Irish channel tonight folks?

Mantis Toboggan

jayo26 wrote: »

Klopp and Salah in the summer would be perfect for them.

And Sanchez down the left would be ideal.

jayo26

MrMac84 wrote: »

They’ll hound him out of there again! Madrid should look at Klopp or Poch, people that play offensively

Klopp and Salah in the summer would be perfect for them.

J. Marston

MrMac84 wrote: »

They’ll hound him out of there again! Madrid should look at Klopp or Poch, people that play offensively

Madrid are desperate now. They'll want proven winners, not long term project managers who ultimately win fúck all.