Manchester United Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 11/12

Trilla wrote: »

One question Pro F, and odd one but I'd be interest in your answer....

If Carrick never played this season and we had Fletcher and Scholes fit and playing from the start of the season until now, do you think we'd be better or worse off now?

That's a complicated question to answer.

I think Fletcher at his best is a better player than Carrick at his best. Not as good defensively but still decent defending when he was fully fit (which I'm not sure he was for a few seasons). And Fletcher was better with the ball at his feet, although I still think he came up a bit short in that regard.

I don't really know how to answer the question about if Fletcher and Scholes were fit and playing from the start of the season because I don't know how many games we should hypothetically expect them to have played. In a comparison of a hypothetical Carrick/Scholes pair who play every game to a hypothetical Fletcher/Scholes pair who also play every game I would say the Fletch version would have done slightly better. But it's close.

And in reality Fletcher has had trouble playing consecutive games for a good few seasons, maybe even for his whole career.

lordgoat wrote: »

Sure i can see his limits. He's just not as bad as you think!

Fair enough We're agreeing to disagree again.

Ix Deadmau5 wrote: »

Just tie it all up tomorrow with a win.

If experience has taught us anything, it's that even if United are 5 in front tomorrow night? They still are guaranteed nothing.

Shane St. wrote: »

Well any1 here following Dutch football. I know its the Mirror (who are esp awful when it comes to Utd) but sure let the muppetry begin. Any good??

We should sign more Dutch players considering what the last 3 have been Van Der Sar, Ruud and Stam. Not so bad like

Strootman is keeping Nigel De Jong out of the Dutch team and apparently is the real deal, a mate of mine who lives in Holland says he is like Christian Eriksen but with more defensive responsibility.

Sounds good to me.

Patsy fyre wrote: »

Tricky game tomorrow and I wouldnt be surprised to see points dropped as United never do things the easy way.

Well ain't that the truth and I see Mancini is predicting that we will draw. Hopefully SAF can use that as an extra incentive to push for the win.

Corvus Maximus wrote: »

Well ain't that the truth and I see Mancini is predicting that we will draw. Hopefully SAF can use that as an extra incentive to push for the win.

I think it was more to do with communication problem. Probably he meant "Hopefully" but instead used "Will". His english is not good so its maybe obvious mistake.

kryogen wrote: »

From memory his words were " i think Manchester United will do draw tomorrow probably so we will be three points behind anyway"

Yeah, he said:

I think on Monday United will probably do a draw and we are always three points behind.

Then he also said:

“United will draw – do you want to bet with me? Even if they win there are another seven games,”

So I think I was wrong. He knew what he was saying.

Scholes should play this game. Cleverley is fully fit so he will get few mins, hopefully we will have easy time out there. We had enough twists this season already.

The_Kew_Tour wrote: »

won 4 in row from 94/95 to 97/98 seasons..

but after that it's pretty poor actually

It's ironic that Blackburn were a lot stronger back then too.

To be 8 points clear by the time City kick off away at Arsenal is a must, if we're to win number 20. This is far from over at the moment.

If we can get 3 wins from the next 3 we're in very good shape. Considering they still have to go to Newcastle & Arsenal who are both fighting for CL/European spots.