Manchester United Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread

Peyton Manning · 01-03-2010 12:28PM

By the way, special mention to Park for yesterdays performance. One of the best players on the park (see what I did there?).

He may not steal many headlines, and may not be the most conventional winger in the league, but he does it time and again in our big games and you know you've got nothing to worry about when his name is on the teamsheet.

Paul Tergat · 01-03-2010 12:30PM

Archimedez wrote: »

By the way, special mention to Park for yesterdays performance. One of the best players on the park (see what I did there?).

He may not steal many headlines, and may not be the most conventional winger in the league, but he does it time and again in our big games and you know you've got nothing to worry about when his name is on the teamsheet.

+1

He does get a lot of stick in here but like Carrick/O'Shea etc are the types of players you need to win titles.

Please God no injuries from these stupid friendlies this week.

Mitch Connor · 01-03-2010 12:32PM

Archimedez wrote: »

By the way, special mention to Park for yesterdays performance. One of the best players on the park (see what I did there?).

He may not steal many headlines, and may not be the most conventional winger in the league, but he does it time and again in our big games and you know you've got nothing to worry about when his name is on the teamsheet.

fair play to him, he was good yesterday. will need more good performances from him to win me over though.

Too often he is a nearly player.

Nearly getting the pass right.

Nearly getting past the player.

Nearly getting on the end of a cross.

Nearly scoring.

Yesterday though, he did look dangerous.

Peyton Manning · 01-03-2010 12:34PM

p_larkin99 wrote: »

Please God no injuries from these stupid friendlies this week.

I have a feeling Rooney may have aggravated that phantom knee/flu injury during his excessive final whistle celebrations yesterday, and will unfortunately have to miss out on the Egypt game

kryogen · 01-03-2010 12:36PM

i hope all united players have a slight head cold for the friendlies to be honest

Headshot · 01-03-2010 12:41PM

i like the sig arch.

M.E.N gave carrick a rating of 8/10. iirc they said he controlled the game, i was pretty surprise by it

Peyton Manning · 01-03-2010 12:43PM

Headshot wrote: »

M.E.N gave carrick a rating of 8/10. iirc they said he controlled the game, i was pretty surprise by it

I refuse to comment on Carrick's performance. I was defending him furiously in here before kick off, and then he repays me by playing like....like....like that.

Strange thing is, all we've seen from him in the past would indicate that, in theory, he should take a good free kick. lol to that theory!

Dave! · 01-03-2010 12:44PM

Headshot wrote: »

i like the sig arch.

M.E.N gave carrick a rating of 8/10. iirc they said he controlled the game, i was pretty surprise by it

Me too, cos clearly it was Berbatov who controlled the game

Peyton Manning · 01-03-2010 12:45PM

Dave! wrote: »

Me too, cos clearly it was Berbatov who controlled the game

Berbatov was class. I'll never get sick of watching that "I dont give a fúck" backheel flick for Valencia's assist for Rooney.

Headshot · 01-03-2010 12:47PM

Dave! wrote: »

Me too, cos clearly it was Berbatov who controlled the game

Spot on

Dave! · 01-03-2010 12:47PM

Archimedez wrote: »

Berbatov was class. I'll never get sick of watching that "I dont give a fúck" backheel flick for Valencia's assist for Rooney.

Plus the backheel to set up Carrick

Plus the backheel to set up Park

Plus the ball through for Mickey Owen when he did his hamstring -- d'oh !

Peyton Manning · 01-03-2010 12:51PM

We're coming up to our 1000th page here lads! Its been another great season to discuss so far.

Jordonvito · 01-03-2010 12:51PM

Berba made a couple of tackels as well, great overall performance, try telling that to paddy mulligan or eamon dunphy though.

Le King · 01-03-2010 12:53PM

Thought Carrick was quite poor yesterday and I'm usually a big fan of his.

Surprised by an 8/10 rating from anyone.

jaykay74 · 01-03-2010 12:54PM

Archimedez wrote: »

We're coming up to our 1000th page here lads! Its been another great season to discuss so far.

you could change your setting from 15 posts per page to 40. It helps not having to constantly open new pages as things move along... I'm only on page 375 or so.

keane2097 · 01-03-2010 12:55PM

Archimedez wrote: »

We're coming up to our 1000th page here lads! Its been another great season to discuss so far.

375 for me...

Great season alright though.

Most entertaining for a long time.

I'll admit I hope Arsenal have a great run in and push us all the way to the wire to spice things up...

JimsAlterEgo · 01-03-2010 12:55PM

On the whole berbatov trying and effort thing - you do wonder how Cantona would have been recieved on message boards had they been around at the time. Both similar type players IMO, as in often perceived to be a luxury and not trying.

Not trying to say Berbatov is as good as Cantona before I get attacked just comparing their perceived styles.

ShiverinEskimo · 01-03-2010 12:57PM

I think Catona posessed a little more urgency that Berbatov though. Sometimes Berbatov holds it up for a little too long.

I am a huge fan of Berbatov though. I love his ball retention and link up play.

Paul Tergat · 01-03-2010 12:57PM

Archimedez wrote: »

Berbatov was class. I'll never get sick of watching that "I dont give a fúck" backheel flick for Valencia's assist for Rooney.

In the last couple of games Berba-Roon-Valencia have create their own little trinity of sorts (and yes Dave, Berba can be God). Valencia gives a fantastic outlet just being out on the touchline and Dimi can find him easily. From then, as long as the ball is in the penalty area Rooney will 100% get a header on it

Jordonvito · 01-03-2010 01:00PM

JimsAlterEgo wrote: »

On the whole berbatov trying and effort thing - you do wonder how Cantona would have been recieved on message boards had they been around at the time. Both similar type players IMO, as in often perceived to be a luxury and not trying.

Not trying to say Berbatov is as good as Cantona before I get attacked just comparing their perceived styles.

I think berbas price tag is one the main reasons for his criticism, if we had of picked him up for 10-15 million there wouldnt have been as much hype around his signing and expectaton to what was a ridicoulous amount of money, as for cantona, he was the bargain of the decade

TonyD79 · 01-03-2010 01:02PM

Ray Houghton was on Sky sports earlier saying Carrick had a great game. How anyone on this is comparing Berbatov to Cantona is beyond me. Put Berbatov in with Hughes instead of Cantona in 1992 and see where we would be now!!!!

Dave! · 01-03-2010 01:05PM

JimsAlterEgo wrote: »

On the whole berbatov trying and effort thing - you do wonder how Cantona would have been recieved on message boards had they been around at the time. Both similar type players IMO, as in often perceived to be a luxury and not trying.

Not trying to say Berbatov is as good as Cantona before I get attacked just comparing their perceived styles.

TonyD79 wrote: »

Ray Houghton was on Sky sports earlier saying Carrick had a great game. How anyone on this is comparing Berbatov to Cantona is beyond me. Put Berbatov in with Hughes instead of Cantona in 1992 and see where we would be now!!!!

That didn't take long did it

keane2097 · 01-03-2010 01:06PM

Cantona was more of a leader, took games by the scruff of the neck.

Very dissimilar to Berbatov tbh, the comparisons are fairly misguided imo.

Le King · 01-03-2010 01:16PM

Loved Berba's performance yesterday. Played really well.

100th page

Peyton Manning · 01-03-2010 01:19PM

Osu wrote: »

Loved Berba's performance yesterday. Played really well.

100th page

Keep up man, its only 375. It's what all the cool kids do these days.
:cool:

kryogen · 01-03-2010 01:20PM

Berba and Cantona?

only similarity is that they are both capable of sublime football really

I love the Berbalove lads, keep it up please!

redout · 01-03-2010 01:27PM

Osu wrote: »

Loved Berba's performance yesterday. Played really well.

100th page

Archimedez wrote: »

Keep up man, its only 375. It's what all the cool kids do these days.
:cool:

Its actually 1,000th page.

Mr_Roger_Bongos · 01-03-2010 01:32PM

TonyD79 wrote: »

Ray Houghton was on Sky sports earlier saying Carrick had a great game.

That's a shocking thing to say. Of all the players to pick.

I don't know how many set pieces i watched, not clear the 1st man. Very poor.

SlickRic · 01-03-2010 01:34PM

Carrick did have a good game.

but like Lucas on our side, many have their minds made up about him, so sometimes it's hard to notice.

it was only his God-awful free kicks that really let him down.

Peyton Manning · 01-03-2010 01:40PM

SlickRic wrote: »

Carrick did have a good game.

but like Lucas on our side, many have their minds made up about him, so sometimes it's hard to notice.

it was only his God-awful free kicks that really let him down.

Have to say I disagree. Im one of Carricks biggest fans (see this thread before kickoff yesterday for an example) but he had an awful first half yesterday, and only a decent second half. His free kicks were awful, he was really slow both on the ball and in picking out his passes, and picked up a silly yellow card to top it off. He won't have as bad a game for the rest of the season.

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