The Manchester United Thread X

Marca saying a payment/offer has been made from us for Falcao.

I enjoy such rumours with little sense.

I'd love to see someone signed who actually shoots, you know?

I think there's a growing sense of frustration around Old Trafford that we don't have many players who are willing to just hit it with power, particularly in the central midfield area. Maybe it's harder than it looks, maybe that's why we held on to Gibson for so long despite him obviously not being good enough.

Hazard would have still been played straight on the wings and fits the bill as a dynamic winger if needs be (not saying its his best position, but thats blatently where SAF was planning to place him, and probably why he went to Chelsea amongst other reasons).

Someone mentioned, I think it was you, how the world lacks dynamic wingers in general. Ribery and Robben are a bit old now, and the top wingers of the world of the new generation are more inside forwards (Kagawa, Isco, Hazard, Bale, etc). I don't see SAF changing his policy of traditional wing play - cant help but worry about it stunting Kagawa in particular.

Marca saying a payment/offer has been made from us for Falcao.

I enjoy such rumours with little sense.

Unlikely to be legit, but if so, why does Sir Alex seem to have a fetish for strikers?

We've needed a midfielder for about 5 years and still haven't bought anybody. We get outclassed in midfield all the time. I can't understand why a midfielder isn't the top priority. I'd love to ask Sir Alex why.

I'd love to see someone signed who actually shoots, you know?

I think there's a growing sense of frustration around Old Trafford that we don't have many players who are willing to just hit it with power, particularly in the central midfield area. Maybe it's harder than it looks, maybe that's why we held on to Gibson for so long despite him obviously not being good enough.

The team 12 points clear is average while the teams behind them are "the big boys"?

Yeah but the mediocre showings in the last 2 games were only a result of our arguably unlucky defeat against Real, it really seemed to affect the team. We beat them both earlier in the season.

We put in a great performance versus City, yeah, I remember that one well. 2-0 up and we were bossing it, but then we had a wrongly disallowed goal and City came back into it. We won it at the end, but it was somewhat fortunate; perhaps deserved fortune because of the offside goal.

Chelsea I remember less well... I know they got two red cards and we scored an offside goal to win it, so it doesn't sound like we bossed them from that.

So it's not exactly like we can say we were dominating our title rivals. As I said, the 12 point gap isn't a reflection of our best XI's, it's our our squads.

I don't remember he Chelsea game well either, but I looked at the match report. One of the red cards was for Ivanovic fouling Young when he was clean through at 2-2, so it was goal or red card. Anyway the point is we've won one lost one against each of those, and until an unfair red card we were holding our own against Real and were winning and the better team.
So it seems unfair to say we wouldnt have much chance against Dortmund, Barca and Bayern. Especially Dortmund, they're being overrated by loads of people.

Rooney's not going anywhere.


In other news, if Borussia Dortmund win the Champions League, do you think it could dent Kagawa's confidence? Moments like yesterday make you feel as if it may be their year. Then again, after Van Persie scored the equaliser against West Ham, I thought we would be ruthless in the FA Cup from then on.

You'd beat dortmund, barely lose to barca and bayern on away goals/one goal. I think you have that defence to handle their attacks and at worst you'll just play jones in CM to mark messi/ribery and do that ultra defensive stuff you've been doing in all the big games to keep the score down.

What happened in the chelsea game-we kept the ball, you guys then hit us on two dirty counters with valencia getting past cole and firing crosses to RVP in ten mins. We were playing with no width and slow tempo then while you guys dropped deep. Eventually mata started finding space and he scored that freekick. We then start dominating and it got to 2-2. You guys started getting back into the game after this point but it was 50-50 until the sending off. Even then it was still 50-50. It was only when hernandez came on and torres was sent off that you started dominating but that's expected. You wouldn't have beaten us when we had 10 I think but as soon as it went to 9 men the game was over obviously.