The Manchester United Thread X

The trophy plans have been confirmed by the club this morning. The trophy will be presented, as expected, on Sunday May 12 following the game vs Swansea City at Old Trafford.

The following day a parade will take place. They're doing it early evening this time so it should attract more crowds. Last time City had their parade at tea time and United's was during the morning on a Monday which was odd. The last one started in town, came up Deansgate and around the ground then up into Stretford. This year it's starting at the ground and ending in town, the full route will be confirmed soon.

In other news, The Courteeners track "Not Nineteen Forever" has been announced as the official theme of this years title win. The band are donating proceeds from sales of the song this week are going to the Manchester United Foundation, the club's community charity. Good move, local lads and united fans, and they're a lot of reds favourite band at the moment. I'm not a huge fan but its a nice gesture, and I do like that song.

Edit: The full parade was televised free-to-air live on MUTV last time. I expect this will be the case again although that's not confirmed as of yet.




Nowhere near, not even our best squad in the Premier League era. The United of 95-97, 98-01 and 06-09 were all stronger, in some cases by a long way. This could go on to be a classic side in 2-3 years time if it continues to grow and improve, but its not there yet.

If Rooney stays, and I believe he will, the long term plan has to be for him to become a central midfielder. With that said we have no need to be clamouring for any big signings this season, nor will we get any. Robin was the man Ferguson wanted for a long time, he got him. There's no other big names on the radar in reality, just a lot of lies made up to sell papers.

As far as the midfield goes, lets give it a couple of years and see what we really have in Kagawa, Cleverley and Powell. I have a feeling if Tom gets a consistent run in the team and avoids injury he'll mature into such a great player nobody will be fussing over the midfield anymore. That's the hope anyway, we always prefer to build stars rather than buying them. We're not City.

Does anyone know if Lewandowski has a release clause in his contract?

I don't know if this has been posted yet, but the following image has started circulating about today as the "new Manchester United logo".

No release clause but his contract is until summer 2014. I presume he's on pittance for his quality since he was signed relatively cheaply by Dortmund and there have been no contract renewals/extensions.

I believe the player has said that he has no intention of signing a new contract at Dortmund at the moment and on this basis, everyone assumes that Dortmund will look to cash in on him this summer when he still has a year left (rather than losing for free the following summer).

He could still sign a new contract with Dortmund or they may sell before the window closes in the summer or I suppose they could let him go for free the following summer.

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I always wondered why other teams showed off their success and United didn't. Interesting rule, if a bit odd. Even weirder when you think that England's kit usually has a star on it.

We need Lewandowski more than ever now!

a Bender would improve our team and fill that cm hole

Think we might see Nick Powell in these last few games? Kinda disappointing we took him from playing every week to playing in our reserves. Could've loaned him out somewhere I'm sure, even if it was just back to Crewe. Though maybe training with United and playing the handful of games he's played has been a more beneficial experience, idk.