[Welsh Leprecaun]

Anyone see the GiveMeFootball story on Rooney moving to PSG for £120million. They've already taken it down

[Simone739]

Maaaan u all the waaaay!

[pol pot noodles]

(Original post by Brainiac)
Could we get tiote?

Also can someone explain to me how the glaziers are running the club, why are we short on money? I have heard fans complaining but never had it explained to me, and was relatively young when they took over...

The Glazers took out massive loans to fund the purchase of Man Utd, which at that point was debt free. Since 2005 they've taken almost £500m out of the club to pay off interest and bond buy backs, yet we still have a debt of £420m.
Amazingly, since the take over Man Utd has still won four league titles and the champions league, but that's all been down to the hard graft of Sir Alex. Imagine if we didn't have that debt? Since 2005 that's an extra £70m odd a year at our disposal!

[Akkuz]

There are a few stories linking us with Modric for ~£30m. That would be epic.

[rohannnnn]

we're also being linked to Adam Johnson, highly doubt City will sell to us though haha

[Da_hopeful_1]

He's rubbish anyway, wouldn't want him at all.

[DaveSmith99]

Do not want.

[Spicey]

can't wait to see kagawa in action, he's been fantastic at dortmund, hope he will be just as good here or better

[Kenan and Kel]

Still think we should've signed De Rossi last year before Roma offered him a new contract

[Saf94]

Interesting article here, gives stats on the amount of injuries for each team this season. We were top of it with the most injuries, 39 major injuries and 1681 days lost to injuries. And the team that was bottom with the least amount of injuries all season...

Man City

http://www.teamtalk.com/news/2483/77...-of-the-crocks

[Akkuz]

So..we lost players to injury for 1,681 days and City lost out on 186 days And we still finished on the same number of points

[IBishell]

Really excited for Kagawa as are a lot of you on here... Definitely the most exciting signing for me in a long time.

Would love to get Nick Powell too and send him back out on loan plus another midfielder/striker depending on what formation Fergie is planning for the season ahead...

[Zerforax]

(Original post by Saf94)
Interesting article here, gives stats on the amount of injuries for each team this season. We were top of it with the most injuries, 39 major injuries and 1681 days lost to injuries. And the team that was bottom with the least amount of injuries all season...

Man City

http://www.teamtalk.com/news/2483/77...-of-the-crocks

(Original post by Akkuz)
So..we lost players to injury for 1,681 days and City lost out on 186 days And we still finished on the same number of points

Tbfh, having crocks like Owen on your books are going to inflate your figures.

But it was Michael Owen who was the player missing for the single longest spell for one injury with 193 days out with a thigh problem between November and May.

He alone was injured more days than all of City's squad but he wasn't exactly an important cog that was missing.

[DaveSmith99]

(Original post by Zerforax)
Tbfh, having crocks like Owen on your books are going to inflate your figures.

But it was Michael Owen who was the player missing for the single longest spell for one injury with 193 days out with a thigh problem between November and May.

He alone was injured more days than all of City's squad but he wasn't exactly an important cog that was missing.

Everything you are saying is true, but its also true for City and Hargreaves.

[Zerforax]

(Original post by DaveSmith99)
Everything you are saying is true, but its also true for City and Hargreaves.

The single most significant injury for City was Nigel De Jong's ankle problem. That kept him out for 39 days in August and September with City's six other significant injuries involving Sergio Aguero (twice, groin in October, then foot in March-April), Aleksandar Kolarov (groin November to January), Vincent Kompany (calf, March), Joleon Lescott (groin, March-April) and Pablo Zabaleta (thigh, March).

Doesn't list Hargreaves in the 7..

[Saf94]

(Original post by Zerforax)
Tbfh, having crocks like Owen on your books are going to inflate your figures.

But it was Michael Owen who was the player missing for the single longest spell for one injury with 193 days out with a thigh problem between November and May.

He alone was injured more days than all of City's squad but he wasn't exactly an important cog that was missing.

Lol, what about Vidic? He was gone for most of the season, isnt he an important cog? Your point is kind of irrelevent, even if you take out Owen we still had far more injuries than City and it did have a big effect on the title race you cant deny that.

[Tommyjw]

(Original post by Zerforax)
Tbfh, having crocks like Owen on your books are going to inflate your figures.

And yet ignoring him United are still top of this list, so what is your point?

[JayReg]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18276588

Does it have much impact at all?

"The US carmaker said Manchester United stood "head and shoulders" above other football teams."

[Rafa]

(Original post by Tommyjw)
And yet ignoring him United are still top of this list, so what is your point?

What Tommy said

[Zerforax]

(Original post by Saf94)
Lol, what about Vidic? He was gone for most of the season, isnt he an important cog? Your point is kind of irrelevent, even if you take out Owen we still had far more injuries than City and it did have a big effect on the title race you cant deny that.

(Original post by Tommyjw)
And yet ignoring him United are still top of this list, so what is your point?

My point is that the figures are either wrong or inflated with injuries to squad/fringe/irrelevant players.

Maybe United should spend more money on better physios or find less injury prone players.

I'll give Vidic but for example Fletcher's problems were known about so adequete cover should have been found and Ferdinand has been a crock for some time, which is why Utd have so much cover at CB.

Utd have had 'lots of injury problems' for a number of seasons now. At some point, it becomes no longer bad luck but systematic and a problem which should be addressed.