Manchester United Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread - Mod Note in OP, 13/8

Right, here goes...

I resent this "blind faith" stance and honestly, it's the reason why the "doomsayers" rub me up the wrong way. There's no attempt to see the positives at all. For me, this summer has been massively positive so far.

We fixed the biggest problem from last year (Moyes) and replaced with a far, far superior manager.
We signed two players who, at the start of the summer, played positions that the vast majority would have singled out as being our biggest problem areas (left back and center midfield).
We cut a tonne of deadwood, in the form of players who were past it and/or were never going to be near the first team (Rio, Giggs, Evra, Buttner, Bebe, with more to come).
The only player of significance we lost was Vidic;the reality there is he left when Moyes was in charge, and I personally would say that it was his own impatience to see what happened at the end of the season which saw him gone.

After that, LVG has been very open with regards what is happening; he said he was going to assess what players we needed, we got back from the tour and we started going after players. Everyone knows our CB needs backups, and we know we bid for Vermalean. And that's who we know; it's possible there's other bids were put forward and rejected, and likely that LVG didn't go "No Verm? Well, **** me then, we'll settle!". It's perfectly logical to think there's another CB target being chased now.

The transfer window doesn't close for another 3 weeks (not 99 hours), and the team we have now will be more than capable of steamrolling teams through to October (even Moyes was able to dominate the lower league teams). Meanwhile, on pre-season, we looked very dangerous in attack, decently solid in defence (again, only 1 goal from open play against Real, Liverpool, Roma, Inter and LA Galaxy, and it was a freak goal).

The only "disaster" in waiting is in center defense, and we know that's being worked on as is evident from the bid for Verm. After that, the reality is we aren't in half as bad a shape as some people are trying to paint; we won the league with far less than what we have now to be blunt. RVP, Mata and Rooney all working together will be a ****ing astounding front line, Herrera provides steal, and Carrick/Fletcher/Fel/Cleverly aren't as utterly useless as some people want to paint them as.

We're two players off having one of the best teams in the leauge; another CM and a CB, and we'll easily be in the Top 4 this season.

There's a hell of a lot of reasons to want to think positively this season, and crying "blind faith" shows, to me, just pure stubborness and unwillingness to accept the opinions of others. Fair play, you're worried, you feel its a disgrace. We get it. But there's plenty of people who, for good reason, don't think the sky is falling right now, so maybe respect their opinions too and stop crying "blind faith". And realise that maybe the reason people are moaning about the moaning is because it's nearing on being relentless and obsessive at this stage. If you want to continually post "disaster" and "disgrace", don't be shocked when people start getting frustrated and snapping back.

(And this isn't going to descend into a multi-quote circle. That's my stance on the summer so far, and I've no intentions of repeating this post in 100 different ways; you want me to respect your stance? Then respect mine, ok?)