Manchester United Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread - 2013/14 mod warning post#7259

superfurry1 · 31-10-2013 12:35pm

Still golden balls in my eyes........ thats how i roll

homerjay2005 · 31-10-2013 12:38pm

Nuts102 wrote: »

but he has not been terrible for United.

most fans would disagree to be honest, he has been very disappointing signing.

£16million and no goals in 19 months and feck all assists also.

Your Airbag · 31-10-2013 12:41pm

Backstreet Moyes · 31-10-2013 12:47pm

homerjay2005 wrote: »

most fans would disagree to be honest, he has been very disappointing signing.

£16million and no goals in 19 months and feck all assists also.

Yes i know i said he has been poor recently. That still doesn't take away from the fact of what i said he started well for United in his first season 6 goals 9 assists in 25 games i would class as good.

jameshayes · 31-10-2013 12:48pm

Nuts102 wrote: »

Young done very well with Villa and started well with United. But in the past year or so he has been very poor just like Valencia. He has had a lot of niggling injuries that didn't help but he has not been terrible for United.

Disagree with the 2nd part. He was good at Villa, but when he got to united, oppositions didn't expect his style of play and he popped in a few goals. As soon as they understood the way he worked, he was pointless.

He is still one of the best crossers, but not much else.

The same thing happened to hernandez, opposition adapted and pushed him from the game - but he done what young has failed to do, he adapted his game, improved his short play and is now a more rounded, unpredictable player.

Mitch Connor · 31-10-2013 12:50pm

I really don't understand why we persist playing Young on the left, when he is far better on the right. His right footed outswinging crosses are far more dangerous and he doesn't have to cut back to position himself either. Anything good he has done has generally come from the right.

Backstreet Moyes · 31-10-2013 12:53pm

Mitch Connor wrote: »

I really don't understand why we persist playing Young on the left, when he is far better on the right. His right footed outswinging crosses are far more dangerous and he doesn't have to cut back to position himself either. Anything good he has done has generally come from the right.

The same reason Nani spent a lot of time on the left when better on the right. Valencia being so one footed means he can only play on the right.

Mitch Connor · 31-10-2013 12:59pm

Nuts102 wrote: »

The same reason Nani spent a lot of time on the left when better on the right. Valencia being so one footed means he can only play on the right.

was it the liverpool we played giggs on the right and young on the left?

seligehgit · 31-10-2013 1:13pm

Mars Bar wrote: »

I'm a few chapters in to Fergie's book. Namedropping everywhere!

Is it worth buying???Got his first one,have a certain ambivalence when it comes to buying it as it appears all the salacious tit bits are out in the public domain already.In addition,disappointed in Fergie for apparently wanting to make a quick buck and demonstrating a total lack of loyalty to players who served him so well and of whom he would have expected unquestioned loyalty.
He could have waited a few years and let the new manager bed himself in.Still love Fergie!!:D

ericzeking · 31-10-2013 1:20pm

jameshayes wrote: »

didn't know he had form to start with?

Yes he was an excellent player with Villa and was very good initially for us. Then he started to get niggles and was in and out of the team and the whole thing went to pot.
I still don't think he is a bad player but more of a squad option.

Backstreet Moyes · 31-10-2013 1:21pm

Mitch Connor wrote: »

was it the liverpool we played giggs on the right and young on the left?

Ye i think so i can't remember the last time i seen Young on the right. What do people think for the weekend.

DDG

Raf Vidic Evans Evra

Carrick Fellaini

Janjuaz Rooney Kagawa

RVP

Ordinary man · 31-10-2013 1:23pm

Fabio was a danger to norwich in the cup when he played on the wing. He scored 1 and was nearly in a second time after that. That's a lot more than young did before him. I would prefer him and zaha as options on the bench rather than valencia and young who offer little or nothing as subs

Mars Bar · 31-10-2013 1:24pm

seligehgit wrote: »

Is it worth buying???Got his first one,have a certain ambivalence when it comes to buying it as it appears all the salacious tit bits are out in the public domain already.In addition,disappointed in Fergie for apparently wanting to make a quick buck and demonstrating a total lack of loyalty to players who served him so well and of whom he would have expected unquestioned loyalty.
He could have waited a few years and let the new manager bed himself in.Still love Fergie!!:D

I think if I'd never read it, it wouldn't bother me. It's not ground breaking. A lot of, "he's a great fella, him".

homerjay2005 · 31-10-2013 1:37pm

Mars Bar wrote: »

I think if I'd never read it, it wouldn't bother me. It's not ground breaking. A lot of, "he's a great fella, him".

its pretty amazing though when you read through and you see how much stuff the media actually get right or in other words, just how much of what gets reported on from behind the scenes is actually true.

id say if there are 100 things in the book, about 80 of them were already reported in some form, by somebody.

beakerjoe · 31-10-2013 1:46pm

homerjay2005 wrote: »

its pretty amazing though when you read through and you see how much stuff the media actually get right or in other words, just how much of what gets reported on from behind the scenes is actually true.

id say if there are 100 things in the book, about 80 of them were already reported in some form, by somebody.

Ah there's probably alot of stuff in there that Fergie has denied and other things hes reluctant to speak about.

homerjay2005 · 31-10-2013 2:26pm

our fixture list is very very unbalanced this year. i know there are cup games involved of course, but at the moment its like this -

4 home games in a row just over.
5 of next 6 games are away from home.
then 3 in a row at home.
followed by 4 away games out of 5.
then 3 of the next 4 are at home.

would be very worried about the 2 runs of away games, something like that is not normal to happen twice in season.i think Saturday December 7th will be the day when we know more about how our season is shaping up and if Moyes is the man for the job. by then we will either be back in the title race, or out of it for good.

Cantona's Collars · 31-10-2013 3:00pm

Never noticed that with the fixtures,I thought they'd be rotated with home game one week & away the next.

Vic Vinegar · 31-10-2013 3:23pm

zerks wrote: »

Never noticed that with the fixtures,I thought they'd be rotated with home game one week & away the next.

They have to be rotated with City's games in mind too so it gets quite complicated i'd imagine! i wouldn't want to be in charge of that anyway.

sReq | uTeK · 31-10-2013 3:54pm

Mitch Connor wrote: »

was it the liverpool we played giggs on the right and young on the left?

Steve Staunton picked the team that night.

Cookiemunster · 31-10-2013 3:58pm

zerks wrote: »

Never noticed that with the fixtures,I thought they'd be rotated with home game one week & away the next.

They are with the league. No more that 2 in a row home or away. However when you add in cup ties and CL you get the longer runs. 4 of the 5 games in November are away, but this includes 2 away matches in the CL.

TheDoc · 31-10-2013 5:53pm

Timmyctc wrote: »

Complaining about pics of scantily clad weemin. This thread has reached a new low

Woodward's fault, didn't get hotter birds

homerjay2005 · 31-10-2013 6:19pm

our hottest fan has got herself an FHM shoot on the back of the pics she posted of herself on her twitter page a few months back.

sea_monkey · 31-10-2013 6:40pm

hottest fan?
thats not rachel riley

Kylo Ren · 31-10-2013 7:03pm

sea_monkey wrote: »

hottest fan?
thats not rachel riley

She gives me wood-ward.

Kerrydude1981 · 31-10-2013 7:38pm

And don't forget Alex Morgan

The_Kew_Tour · 31-10-2013 8:06pm

Rachel for me

but I would not kick any of them out of bed for farting

Your Airbag · 31-10-2013 8:22pm

sea_monkey wrote: »

hottest fan?
thats not rachel riley

Keno wrote: »

She gives me wood-ward.

Speaking of countdown, this was yesterday's countdown conundrum.

http://imgur.com/gn98E7a (Boards won't seem to link the picture so link only)

There is a word there to be made out of all nine letters, lets see who can get it first and no cheating/googling

IvySlayer · 31-10-2013 8:45pm

Your Airbag wrote: »

Speaking of countdown, this was yesterday's countdown conundrum.

http://imgur.com/gn98E7a (Boards won't seem to link the picture so link only)

There is a word there to be made out of all nine letters, lets see who can get it first and no cheating/googling

VAN!!

Rayne Wooney · 31-10-2013 8:47pm

P E R V A S I O N

Pervasion

kryogen · 31-10-2013 8:55pm

It spells the name of the Irish lad

Van O Persi

The_Kew_Tour · 31-10-2013 8:57pm

Ah know him well.

Your Airbag · 31-10-2013 9:40pm

Rayne Wooney wrote: »

P E R V A S I O N

Pervasion

We have a winner

Vic Vinegar · 31-10-2013 10:30pm

More talk of Man Utd going for Will Hughes in January.

Heard he was a Liverpool fan, is that right? might make signing him difficult if so.

Mitch Connor · 31-10-2013 10:36pm

Bombleswizzum wrote: »

More talk of Man Utd going for Will Hughes in January.

Heard he was a Liverpool fan, is that right? might make signing him difficult if so.

just like the difficulty we had we Arsenal fan Zaha, liverpool fan Solskjaer, liverpool fan O'Shea.

Cantona's Collars · 31-10-2013 11:03pm

Brooklyn Beckham could be joining our academy.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/oct/31/david-beckham-brooklyn-manchester-united

DM_7 · 31-10-2013 11:16pm

A few teams would be after Hiughea, but haven't United got enough prospects at this stage? Zaha & Januzaj, likes of Powell out on loan. Need to go out and buy some established players I would have thought.

In saying that with so few I options in midfield and Anderson not making NY impact at all maybe its worth bringing players with potential.

kronsington · 31-10-2013 11:23pm

Alright lads, just curious for a United perspective on Kevin Strootman who was heavily linked with ye for a long time. He joined Roma from Psv and is playing brilliantly with them as they just won their tenth game on the trot. I think he would have been a brilliant signing for ye (or anyone really)

Jimmy Iovine · 31-10-2013 11:35pm

kronsington wrote: »

Alright lads, just curious for a United perspective on Kevin Strootman who was heavily linked with ye for a long time. He joined Roma from Psv and is playing brilliantly with them as they just won their tenth game on the trot. I think he would have been a brilliant signing for ye (or anyone really)

OK

Paul Tergat · 31-10-2013 11:36pm

kronsington wrote: »

Alright lads, just curious for a United perspective on Kevin Strootman who was heavily linked with ye for a long time. He joined Roma from Psv and is playing brilliantly with them as they just won their tenth game on the trot. I think he would have been a brilliant signing for ye (or anyone really)

we should have signed messi when he was 5. look how good he has become

kronsington · 31-10-2013 11:52pm

Paul Tergat wrote: »

we should have signed messi when he was 5. look how good he has become

Very clever

Quandary · 31-10-2013 11:53pm

In fairness, the strootman signing was one we really couldn't lose on for a variety of reasons. Very annoying we pulled out of it.

Nothing we can so about it now though

Kylo Ren · 01-11-2013 12:26am

kronsington wrote: »

Alright lads, just curious for a United perspective on Kevin Strootman who was heavily linked with ye for a long time. He joined Roma from Psv and is playing brilliantly with them as they just won their tenth game on the trot. I think he would have been a brilliant signing for ye (or anyone really)

Winston Payne · 01-11-2013 1:24am

I'd be more worried about Hughes' EDL leanings than him being a fan of Liverpool to be honest. Not that we need to sign him either way.

NoviGlitzko · 01-11-2013 7:00am

kronsington wrote: »

Alright lads, just curious for a United perspective on Kevin Strootman who was heavily linked with ye for a long time. He joined Roma from Psv and is playing brilliantly with them as they just won their tenth game on the trot. I think he would have been a brilliant signing for ye (or anyone really)

Well said. **** the haters, let the man speak.

TheDoc · 01-11-2013 8:55am

It's the only transfer I'd directly blame Moyes and Woodward for failing in this summer

TonyD79 · 01-11-2013 9:41am

When his name was mentioned on here during the summer the general feeling was that he wasnt what we needed as in too carrick like. Saying that I would rather have another Carrick than what we already have. Woodward said we signed the first central midfielder in 6 years in Fellani which is pretty shocking.Would Fergie have signed one this summer?

Red Crow · 01-11-2013 10:01am

Winston Payne wrote: »

I'd be more worried about Hughes' EDL leanings than him being a fan of Liverpool to be honest. Not that we need to sign him either way.

Hard to believe that any bright young lad would want to associate themselves with the EDL. He wouldn't look too bright if those links turned out to be true.

TheDoc · 01-11-2013 11:33am

Having a wonderful time reading SAF's Auto Biography.

At present on a chapter where he is discussing Nani, Anderson, Hargreaves and Bebe. Bebe has been no doubt the most interesting read so far.

He indicates Bebe is the only player he signed without seeing first, but trusted his scout, and had no fabrications about what was coming. A homeless boy, playing in the homeless leagues, was signed up by a second division side, but came onto the clubs Portuguese scouting network. Bought with the pure intention that he would be a player that would develop later then most, but has the talent to easily bag 20 goals a season, tremendous feet and strike.

Indicates he obviously struggles with playing on a full pitch, obviously due to limitations of how he grew up playing football. But Fergie seems to have no problems giving him time, and says he had no intention of selling him, knowing this was a work in progress, and rewards would come in time.

His analysis of Nani is top notch as well. You can tell he had no intention of selling him, and that all Nani needs is to realise he is not and will not be Ronaldo, and appreciate his own strengths.

jameshayes · 01-11-2013 11:36am

TheDoc wrote: »

Having a wonderful time reading SAF's Auto Biography.

SPOILERS dude, spoilers!!!

arseballs

Rubber_Soul · 01-11-2013 12:18pm

TheDoc wrote: »

Having a wonderful time reading SAF's Auto Biography.

I liked the part where he said

Thiago was as good as Cleverley and that he may have slightly overpaid for Young.

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