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The Manchester United Thread XIV

You guys spent £150m but have you strengthened the squad to the tune of £150m, chel$ki spent half that and made significant improvements

Reply 7981

liarpoker

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Original post by Orange s0da

You guys spent £150m but have you strengthened the squad to the tune of £150m, chel$ki spent half that and made significant improvements

Chelsea came 3rd last year and we came 7th.

It makes sense that Chelsea could make 'significant improvements' without spending close to £150mill.

I'd say it depends on how the players gel. Only one of the new signings has kicked a competitive ball for us.

Reply 7982

jammy4041

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Original post by JammyGit07

Spends 150 million....Fails to buy a centre back.

Indeed! They needed at least 3 new center backs; the one they did get still needs a work permit, and plays left-back for his country. Johnny Evans and Phil Jones will get sliced open. They still lack another box-to-box midfielder, defensive midfield reinforcements. That list of attacking talent looks impressive, but they can't all be on the pitch at the same time.

Reply 7983

NathanW18

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Lol, you guys with your 4-2-3-1's. We're going to be playing 3-5-2. Gotta accept it. Hopefully it'll work eventually.

Original post by liarpoker

http://t.co/GrBwE1ybJL Watching with sad music

Original post by liarpoker

Rooney is pretty much the closet to United through and through left lol.

He isn't. Fletcher and Evans are.

(edited 9 years ago)

Reply 7984

Blobar

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Original post by jammy4041

Indeed! They needed at least 3 new center backs; the one they did get still needs a work permit, and plays left-back for his country. Johnny Evans and Phil Jones will get sliced open. They still lack another box-to-box midfielder, defensive midfield reinforcements. That list of attacking talent looks impressive, but they can't all be on the pitch at the same time.

Johnny Evans is an absolute clown. Yeah Man Utd don't have a very good balance ATM

Reply 7985

samba

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Original post by NathanW18

Lol, you guys with your 4-2-3-1's. We're going to be playing 3-5-2.

Why do you think so?

Reply 7986

NathanW18

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Original post by samba

Why do you think so?

Falcao arriving and selling Welbeck. Him and Rooney will be our forwards. Di Maria, Herrera and Blind will play in midfield. We also let Welbeck go, who can play as a wing forward. Based on our ins and outs, I don't see how else we're going to play.

That's assuming Van Persie is going to be out for a while. If not, I don't know what will happen. I'm kind of surprised that Keane went out, though. I don't think he's anywhere near good enough atm, but if we're playing 3 CB's, we need bodies.

(edited 9 years ago)

Reply 7987

jammy4041

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Original post by Blobar

Johnny Evans is an absolute clown. Yeah Man Utd don't have a very good balance ATM

Perfect balance.... :tongue:

The thing I find funny, though, is that how we now have people saying that we're just buying superstars and they're not going to work as a team. For the past year, we've been told that our squad is terrible and now we buy top quality, that is also a bad thing. Yeah, they will take time to settle and work as a team, but regardless of who we bought, it would have been the same. If we didn't improve the squad, people would still be saying we have a terrible squad. Regardless of what we did, it would have been criticised.

The biggest criticism last year was our midfield. Van Gaal has bought a brand new one. Still not good enough, apparently? Defence is a bit conerning and I'm surprised we didn't bring in more than Rojo. Hopefully he's good. We'll probably look at bringing in another two players in January. If anybody decent is available.

I'm pretty damn happy with everything that has happened this summer. Apart from Welbeck leaving, but it was what he wanted. Fair play to Woodward.

Reply 7989

qasidb

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Original post by Strange Fruittt

You said 'get bent' mate, the quote doesn't lie. Sr90 will put you in your place, ie the banned list.

If that phrase is homophobic then there would be a lot of controversy surrounding The Simpsons, namely Bart Simpson.
I think it's just you trying to cause an uproar over nothing.

Reply 7990

zKlown

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Yeah we all happy now.

But what happens when we play our next game with Ashley Young in a 3-5-2?

Reply 7991

Old_Simon

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Maybe ADM could teach Valencia how to put the ball in ?

Reply 7992

jam278

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Original post by zKlown

Yeah we all happy now.

But what happens when we play our next game with Ashley Young in a 3-5-2?

What happens is that you'll get a point.

Reply 7993

jam278

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Original post by samba

Pretty close to what it could be. Falcao prefers playing alone though, and rooney could get in the way of both him and Mata.

Falcao played with Costa next to him, If Rooney does all the donkey work then Falcao would love it which Rooney certainly can do. Funnily enough Falcao would have loved a 4-4-2 with Welbeck.

Reply 7994

Dirtybit

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Surely we are going to switch to 4-3-3 with Will Keane leaving. Considering our CB'S get injured all the time.

Reply 7995

jam278

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Original post by Manchester United

The only problem with 4-2-3-1 is the problem the England national team faced in the World Cup. Do we stick Rooney as LAM or CAM?

you know where to put mr 300k, on those soft red leather seats behind the manager.

Reply 7996

ZÃ¼rich

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Original post by NathanW18

I'm pretty damn happy with everything that has happened this summer. Apart from Welbeck leaving, but it was what he wanted. Fair play to Woodward.

What is the cult surrounding this guy with Utd fans?

Falcao was touted around Europe, all he did was say ''OK'' at paying £350k a week to the guy. Di Maria you overpaid for a player Real forced out the door. What did Woodward do, fax through the paperwork? Blind, Rojo, Shaw all standard transfers for a club of Utd's size.

The guy has done absolutely nothing out of the ordinary from the surface, at least wrt transfers. He's probably added value with your commercial deals behind the scenes.

Reply 7997

jam278

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Original post by Zürich

What is the cult surrounding this guy with Utd fans?

Falcao was touted around Europe, all he did was say ''OK'' at paying £350k a week to the guy. Di Maria you overpaid for a player Real forced out the door. What did Woodward do, fax through the paperwork? Blind, Rojo, Shaw all standard transfers for a club of Utd's size.

The guy has done absolutely nothing out of the ordinary from the surface, at least wrt transfers. He's probably added value with your commercial deals behind the scenes.

It's because United have been clearly lacking in buying key players for the side and tbh Glazers only sanctioned these transfers as United were falling into the wilderness. Second United win the league again the Glazers will not spend a penny.

I don't think what he did was great either tbh.