The Manchester United Thread XX

I've seen all of United's games and they have 9 points without even having a particularly good game. Under LVG you can guarantee they would have 3/4.

As the cliche goals, a sign of champions is winning when you don't play well, and United have been excellent at that so far.

Nah Arsenal are poor, very poor. Watford were tearing them apart in the 2nd half, and we absolutely destroyed them in 20 minutes.

That's more what I was saying about yesterday although we didn't score we were creating the chances at a better rate than previous games, indicating our conservative nature may have been more a result of the score lines than inability. Still the attack worries me the most about us at present.
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Sub appearance to do something and putting on a player when you're chasing a game.

He also did the same with Kenedy and Loftus Cheek a few times. If you're chasing a game or trying to score you put on forwards, if you're shutting a game you put on defensive subs. The attacking options after Mkhitaryan(who came on first) was Rashford or Young, ones basically a defender for the other team. Does it mean he's getting starts, na. De Bruyne also came on a few times and so did Juan Mata at Chelsea and he got shipped off 3 months later.

I want you lot to beat City personally, fear that they have a few gears to step up and if they're getting results now it's going to be a struggle catching them when they do hit serious form.

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Mourinho doesn't integrate untested players from the youth system into the first team, but we've seen throughout his career that he'll play young players if they've shown they're good enough at the senior level - Santon, Balotelli, Varane, Zouma. Rashford's clearly in that category.

He doesn't need league starts right now, at age 18 sub appearances and cup starts are plenty and that seems to be what he'll get based on what Jose said yesterday:So Jose will keep giving him games and if he keeps playing as he has done there's no reason he won't be trusted as the main striker once Ibra leaves, presumably in 2018-19. Or who knows maybe even next season with him theoretically improving a lot and Ibra declining.

Mourinho does that a lot, whenever the side are 2 goals up he doesn't really see the point of wasting energy scoring more goals, he doesn't rotate a lot so over a season so makes up for it playing at a lower intensity and more conservative when possible. Boring as hell but you didn't really see his Chelsea sides hit people for 6 a lot for a reason.

Attack against smaller teams has always been a problem for Mourinho teams because they usually open up less and sit deep. We usually thrashed teams when small teams tried to play like big teams.

To an extent I agree, however the guy messed up on De Bruyne, he's also messed up on Schurrle and Bertrand, who have shown their qualities before hand. Saying that Guardiola didn't actually get a single Bayern youth squad product playing regularly in the first team and he's highly heralded for his youth strategy. In fact LVG is the only manager to do this consistently.

In terms of untested players, he tends to give starts to them every now and again(Morata/Jese/Loftus Cheek) but not play them often enough to really give them a chance to gain form. He doesn't stay at a club for long enough too, when he starts to use the youth he's probably leaving end of that season anyway.

He didn't really mess up on De Bruyne, it was a case of right place at the wrong time. At the time, Mourinho was keeping Oscar at AM because of his industry and Hazard (Young Player of the Year) on the left, so he was basically competing with Willian, Mata and Schurrle for the same spot, so obviously his chances were limited. When he did get them in the cup games, he underperformed so would rightly have to wait. However in January, he asked to leave despite Mourinho stating that he was part of his plans going forward (especially as Mata was sold that month).

I don't really think he messed up on Schurrle, as he was a benchwarmer when he was sold for £20 million.

Bertrand I'm not sure is a top four full back.

I think you guys are obviously happy with your transfer window but do you think that there are any clear positions of concern at the moment personnel wise?

Also if Fabinho comes in your squad is officially stacked and you should really have no excuses to not win the league.

You also have the solution to the game vs City if Fellaini is out injured.

Imagine the uproar if Fellaini or Costa flung their elbow out like Aguero did.

Fabinho in? Good RB and can also play CDM. Him and Pogba is physical goals.

I think you guys are obviously happy with your transfer window but do you think that there are any clear positions of concern at the moment personnel wise?

Also if Fabinho comes in your squad is officially stacked and you should really have no excuses to not win the league.

You also have the solution to the game vs City if Fellaini is out injured.