Manchester United Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 12/13

Mr. Guappa wrote: »

:eek:

*pre-season, thanks for that :pac:

Absolute buzzkill of a result.

Everton played their balls off defensively, so imo a lot of this result goes to them being good rather than us being bad.

Rooney had a nightmare for the first hour, started to manage to link up a bit after that.
Nani and Welbeck were both poor, but Everton are great at cutting off supply to the wingers, so I'll cut them a little slack.
Evra and Valencia were poor going forward as well.
Scholes and Cleverly were okay. Everton did great work pressing them but they still managed to move the ball around well enough, the problem was more in the final third.
Kagawa was fantastic. Any ball that came anywhere near him he managed to control and pass to a team mate. He is an unreal player. It's ridiculous that he might well not be playing in that central attacking position for a lot of games this season.
DDG did well. Vidic did well - which is a big relief. Carrick did his best playing out of position against the afro monster.
RVP was quiet when he came on (I nearly forgot to mention him here), but I wouldn't worry about that. I wonder will he start next game.

People saying that we won't win the league without improving the central midfield are overreacting. As long as we get any sort of luck with injuries over the course of the season we will be close enough at the business end of the season.

Well that was a pile of absolute sh*te. Such a downer after all the excitement of the last week in signing rvp etc, to be playing catch up in the league already.

De Gea and Kagawa the only positives, a lot of negatives.

Said it after the 4-4 and its even more obvious now, we should throw money at Everton for Fellaini, he absolutely dominated us from start to finish yet again, he's a great all round player and is a hugely physical box to box midfielder, something we've lacked for quite a while. If we had 30m+ to bid for Lucas or Hazard then try and go for Fellaini, he'd improve the Man Utd team far more than the other 2 would.

Rooney is unfit
Fergie should drop him imo

Oranage2 wrote: »

De Gea rooted to the spot and flapped and flopped at every cross and corner. class shot stopper just not a class keeper- united won't win the league with him between the sticks!

sean?

Another thing.

Why in the name of God was Michael Carrick marking Fellaini for the goal? Could we not have given ourself a better chance by putting Vidic on him? I know Fellaini beat out Vidic on a number of occasions, but I would fancy myself in an aerial 50/50 with Michael Carrick (who I thought did well, not having a go at him).

The only positives from tonight were the performance of de gea who looks like he's brought last seasons excellent performances into this season , vidic who looks as if he'll be as good as he ever was after another few games, and kagawa seems to have brought another dimension to our attacking tactics.
But the main positive for me tonight was the glaringly obvious fact United need a central midfielder and it was laid bare in front of fergies eyes and there's still lots of time to get in the player we badly need. Someone with fight, someone good in the air and good on his feet , someone who obviously has pride in the jersey. Stand up mr fellaini.
United will bounce back as they have done so often in the past, they may very well win the next 6 games in a row but stevie wonder could tell you that tom clev and ando are just not good enough.

Poor start to the season but it's only day 1. Credit due to Everton for the way they played. Plenty of positives in the passing tonight, especially Kagawa. Onwards and upwards from here boys!

Jame Gumb wrote: »

Eh, significant news...

George Soros has purchased 7.85% of Manchester United.

Apparently he's given away 8 billion over the years to charities. I hope someone tells him that we're a charity as well and we'd like a few billion if he doesn't mind.

I really don't get all the Cleverley hate on here. What exactly do you expect him to do? He had Scholes and Kagawa along siðe him. None of the 3 are defensively minded.

Also Nani was brutal tonight no doubt. But people calling for him to be sold? I mean wtf???????

Liam O wrote: »

Rooney should be made play on the left until he bucks up his general play.

I think he should be dropped.

Only the 2nd time we have lost game on Monday night from 28 attempts.

The other was last season(bad memories)