Manchester United Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread - Read Mod Warning in OP 7/1/15

What else am I going to start off with but Herrera?! Before I get carried away, it was only Preston vs Megastars United, I'll say it was a massive night for the Spaniard. He has been virtually rotting on the bench but once called upon in an important game, provides us with a solid performance, a vital goal, and a clever switch of play where he turned the ball around a Preston player and played it out the far-side to Valencia, who then set-up Fellaini's goal. Herrera's goal celebration and the look on his face said it all, very important night for him never mind any public "it's great to be able to score for the team" soundbites.

I started the day off here thinking the worst of his future at the club, and it still maybe in the balance despite a good 90 minutes tonight, and I thought there would be more chance of old Giggsy getting named in the starting line-up tonight than him. When I read that he was in the team line-up, I really had to do a double take. Anyway, great shift from him tonight.

Ashley Young, great to have him back and to see that his spell on the injury list hasn't so far knocked the form out of him. Would have to be a definite starter for Swansea on Saturday (Haha, which by the way is "United's only European game of the season" according to piss-taking memes from the start of the season!)

Rooney, complete dive. I won't lie, it doesn't affect me, I didn't see it first time around in real-time and genuinely thought he got chopped down. The horses of happiness had already left the stable by the time I realised it was a dive and there was no calling them back. LOL at some calling out Roy Hodgson and Phil Neville for not going to town on him, you know Rooney the England captain weeks before some Euro qualifiers. In that case though, there's an argument for Hodgson and Neville not being there as pundits at all, but not an argument for here.

Other than that, it wasn't the worst reintroduction to his striker position, he made a few nice runs. Have to think though that P.L. defenders would have tracked those runs easier. The commentators on BBC were speaking as if Rooney was Usain Bolt. I thought the common consensus was that he had lost a yard in recent years? Would like to see more of him as striker, even lone striker in a 4-5-1 vs Swansea on Saturday, but he did end up back in CM by the end of tonight's game so who knows.

Falcao; Sad to say that bar something out of this world for the remaining games, it is not going to work out.

The manager: good starting line-up, unimpressive first half, great 2nd half tweak. Credit to him and the team equally, that is another positive result and yet another game where we have not conceded more than one goal. That is somewhere around 20 games right now?

Not the worst night to watch United, very curious to see more.

Also, in the minute I lost control upon seeing Herrera on the teamsheet tonight, I flew over to Boylesports at some point during the blackout, thankfully it didn't turn out the worst...




Now for a very late dinner of a chicken salad garnished with yummy, bitter tears from the match thread.