The Manchester United Thread Part XII

Man U U21s take on Norwich tomorrow night at Old Trafford. It's free entry to anyone who's a member or STH but I think you can pay on the gate if not. 7pm KO.

Text UNDER21 and your membership number to 60777 to activate your entry card.

Why replace one of the best players though, its just not viable. You play him, he scores goals, the team wins games, simple. Look at this analogy...

Arsenal: Henry, Cole, Nasri, Fabregas, Van Persie. They went from invincible to a 4th place team in a decade.

Liverpool 2013/14: Keep hold of Suarez, their best player. His attitude is in the wrong place, his conduct is appalling, but he plays and scores and now Liverpool are genuine title contenders.

Suarez thought about leaving yeah, he never put two transfer requests in, then he committed himself to the club publicly, something Rooney never did other than signing his £300k a a week contract. He hasn't propelled us to the top of the league. He has never single handedly won us anything unlike Ronaldo, Van Persie (last years title) (recent years are more relevant to do with him). Yes he's contributed important goals for us now and then but people need to remove him from this pedestal they insist on putting him on.

Arsenals fails are Wengers.

Rooney suits Moyes defensive style. He can't adapt to different styles and that's why he'll never go.

I'd much rather have Suarez than Rooney.

You can buy Shaw for £30m.

That's actually a ridiculous amount for an 18 year old fullback.

Azpilicueta was bought for 7m pounds.

Neither Rooney nor Suarez handed in transfer requests. They both hinted at it but didn't do it officially because they would have forfeited bonuses. I think its to our credit that he has not single handedly won us the league, we have always been able to score goals from all over the pitch. Fair enough, RVP won us the league last year.

Rooney scored 27 league goals in 11/12. RVP scored 26 league goals last season.
Rooney still scored 12 league goals with 1000 less minutes in 2012/13.
In 11/12, we scored more goals than we did in 12/13. Strength of opposition and end of season blunders cost us.

Poor season 10/11, still won the league

He scored 26 goals in 09/10, the year after Ronaldo went.

As for being adaptable, what's wrong with that? He can defend, attack and support. Fantastic. Drogba could do the same and he is one of Chelsea's all time greats.

Agree with the bit about Arsenal's fails being Wengers.

Because he's a prick.
He constantly tries to play that long ball that scholes did only to fail.
He's far to selfish at times. He's playing for Charlton's record nothing else. Possibly one of the reasons he never gave the ball to kagawa in the Bayern game when he did that dreadful shot.

Anyone is replaceable, and this is what is holding back the club. This mentality of you can't replace Rooney or Fergie with someone of similar or better calibre. Or anyone for that matter, it's not unique to them two.

Don't understand the Rooney hate. He's consistently been one of our best players down the years, including this season.

Not adaptable? Lowut?

Let's just not buy any more English players. Too little value and demonstrably little to no quality.

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What does everyone make of the Carvalho transfer? Heard lots but seen little of him, and that's a hefty fee for a 22 y/o.


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You have enough homegrown players anyway.

Sevilla's fullback or the one at Benfica are probably better options.

Luke Shaw favourited this Tweet



Keep in mind that its easy to accidentally favourite something on your phone, but still, odd.

The Daily Mail will have a field day with this. Posting an article with a few lines of text including old information everyone knows about along with a fountain of over sized images just to fill up space.