Manchester United Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2015

irishfeen

zerks wrote: »

The Austin rumours came from a fake account.

adox

mada999 wrote: »

If utd are going to sell Hernandez they deffo have someone lined up.... hopefully not muller and hopefully Austin

Haha.

J. Marston

Pato, anyone?

RobertKK

I am just confused at this stage...

homerjay2005

Rossi IRL wrote: »

I laughed when ings signed for liverpool, ill cry if we get austin and sell Hernandez.

We will probably pay more for Austin than we will recieve for Hernandez

Of course we would, probably €7-10m more.

I refuse to believe these are true though... Surely not. I mean come on like, this would really tip the scales in terms of my disillusionment with the club.

nullzero

J. Marston wrote: »

Pato, anyone?

A potato would be better

Roquentin

anthony martial bid on red cafe

irishfeen

"If you risk... you deserve something" SAF after winning the CL in 1999.

LVG get out your stupid pad you walk around with and write that down!

xtal191

https://twitter.com/GFN_France/status/638061975629643776

Roquentin wrote: »

anthony martial bid on red cafe

Chagan

Berahino is the probably the most likely option with so little time left.

adox

Roquentin wrote: »

anthony martial bid on red cafe

https://twitter.com/rmcsport/status/638060847059890176

Rossi IRL

Munich signed kingsly Coman today from Juve.

MullerON?




No still not happening

TheDoc

Pro. F wrote: »

Missed two chances, wow, you never see strikers at top clubs doing that.

I love the way the criticism of him not making enough runs into the box has just evaporated without a mention too.

You expect strikers at top clubs, and "big name" strikers to finish the chances when it matters.

Rooney slots that easy chance home, we draw 2-2 at worse, which is a decent result away to Swansea. Instead he hesitates, takes a dive, and chance is gone.

Whatever Rooney does outside of that is irrelevant, he is 9 now, and needs to score goals. Whiffing a chance like that is just ammunition to those who think he is not good enough.

Rossi IRL

xtal191 wrote: »

https://twitter.com/GFN_France/status/638061975629643776

Good timing , Monaco vs PSG is on Bt now.


Sky 414

TheDoc

I also cant wait for any links or signings to be labelled as "panic buys"

Headshot

xtal191 wrote: »

https://twitter.com/GFN_France/status/638061975629643776

I dont know much about the player but he's done **** all in the game and utd bid 50m

Crazy

Roquentin

Roquentin wrote: »

anthony martial bid on red cafe

Don't know of him, any good?

Rossi IRL

zorro2566 wrote: »

Don't know of him, any good?

Neither do i but spurs were linked with him a few weeks ago for ALOT less

nullzero

xtal191 wrote: »

https://twitter.com/GFN_France/status/638061975629643776

Never watched him, but his stats aren't impressive, certainly not 50 million quids worth anyway

BenK

Pro. F

TheDoc wrote: »

You expect strikers at top clubs, and "big name" strikers to finish the chances when it matters.

Rooney slots that easy chance home, we draw 2-2 at worse, which is a decent result away to Swansea. Instead he hesitates, takes a dive, and chance is gone.

Whatever Rooney does outside of that is irrelevant, he is 9 now, and needs to score goals. Whiffing a chance like that is just ammunition to those who think he is not good enough.

No, I expect even the best strikers to miss chances fairly often, because I understand that these things happen. Other people see a United striker miss one or two chances and think that proves something. It doesn't, it's just a fundamental misunderstanding about how the best strikers do actually perform when you watch them every week.

adox

Headshot wrote: »

I dont know much about the player but he's done **** all in the game and utd bid 50m

Crazy

I think there was always going to be a lot of players linked in the last few days and the result and performance today will only increase that.

Schwiiing

Would be happy with Martial. Don't give a sh1t3 what he costs. It's not my money.

TheDoc

Pro. F wrote: »

No, I expect even the best strikers to miss chances fairly often, because I understand that these things happen. Other people see a United striker miss one or two chances and think that proves something. It doesn't, it's just a fundamental misunderstanding about how the best strikers do actually perform when you watch them every week.

Rooney was pretty dire again today.

Quickly changing my mind about him being able to lead the team at 9, and I'm also rethinking letting Falcao and RVP go, which I didn't think much of at the time

Rooney needs to sharpen up quickly.

J. Marston

TheDoc wrote: »

I also cant wait for any links or signings to be labelled as "panic buys"

They will be though. Anything done this late is hardly astute business.

Exclamation Marc

Martial for €50m??

Jesus. The epitome of overspending. He's decent enough but anything north of €15ish million for him is nonsense money.

Lord TSC

Headshot wrote: »

I dont know much about the player but he's done **** all in the game and utd bid 50m

Crazy

Would nearly think it's journalists capitalising on today's result to generate some clickbait headlines! :pac:

Rossi IRL

Roquentin

zorro2566 wrote: »

Don't know of him, any good?

i just watched his goals, skills, assists video on youtube and can say he looks unreal.

*joking*

he looks quick but isnt big, thats all i can tell from the video

gillamandango

Don't think so..he ain't worth €10m..


http://www.transfermarkt.com/anthony-martial/profil/spieler/182877

Schwiiing wrote: »

Would be happy with Martial. Don't give a sh1t3 what he costs. It's not my money.

nullzero

BenK wrote: »

Kim Jung Un has let himself go.

Pro. F

TheDoc wrote: »

Rooney was pretty dire again today.

Quickly changing my mind about him being able to lead the team at 9, and I'm also rethinking letting Falcao and RVP go, which I didn't think much of at the time

Rooney needs to sharpen up quickly.

He really wasn't. He held the ball up and linked up well. He did miss two chances, one which he created for himself, where you would normally expect him to come away with one goal, but these things happen to all strikers, regardless of how important it is that they score at that moment.

TheDoc

J. Marston wrote: »

They will be though. Anything done this late is hardly astute business.

as Van Gaal said himself, players are scouted. Who is to say that something hasn't just taken this long, or something that wasn't possible is possible, or a turn somewhere?

Lord TSC

TheDoc wrote: »

as Van Gaal said himself, players are scouted. Who is to say that something hasn't just taken this long, or something that wasn't possible is possible, or a turn somewhere?

Because obviously Woody has been sitting on his ass, twiddling his thumbs, looking out the window thinking everything is ok :P

mada999

Austin rumours still lingering.... article on how he would fit into the team, not a bad read imo

http://tinyurl.com/2fcpre6

deaddonkey15

Pro. F wrote: »

No, I expect even the best strikers to miss chances fairly often, because I understand that these things happen. Other people see a United striker miss one or two chances and think that proves something. It doesn't, it's just a fundamental misunderstanding about how the best strikers do actually perform when you watch them every week.

I agree. There seems to be this illusion here that strikers at other top clubs around Europe are ruthless goal scoring machines when given half a chance. They're all human and they all regularly miss chances. It's just the top sides are set up to get the best out of their goal scorers, since goal scoring is the whole point of the game. They get many chances, they'll miss plenty of good ones,but still score a lot and rack up impressive stats.

Unfortunately this United team are set up to keep possession and make it difficult for opposing teams to break down. Goals aren't a priority sadly. I would love to see an old fashioned 4-4-2 again with Rooney and Hernandez up top. Let other teams worry about stopping United's undeniably talented attackers rather than restricting them to a rigid possession based 4-2-3-1 regardless of who and where we play.

Having said all that, Rooney really should have scored today.

FutureGuy

I have never heard of Martial.

TheDoc

Pro. F wrote: »

He really wasn't. He held the ball up and linked up well. He did miss two chances, one which he created for himself, where you would normally expect him to come away with one goal, but these things happen to all strikers, regardless of how important it is that they score at that moment.

Thought he was relatively poor, with the Swansea CB's having an easy time of it and Rooney struggling in just about every challenge with them.

The interplay he did bar one I can think of, was normal run of the mill stuff that simply doesn't deserve noticeable praise.

Gomis the opposite end was much more impressive in terms of how to play the lone striker.

Cantona's Collars

Pro. F wrote: »

He really wasn't. He held the ball up and linked up well. He did miss two chances, one which he created for himself, where you would normally expect him to come away with one goal, but these things happen to all strikers, regardless of how important it is that they score at that moment.

Ah now,he was shocking,he has the touch of Larry Murphy at an ICA meeting.Contributed very little and when he had 2 chances he let Williams back to tackle him while he dithered.He's lost his instinctive play and is a shadow of the player he was-certainly not a £300k a week player.

TheDoc

FutureGuy wrote: »

I have never heard of Martial.

Me neither, which is worrying for a rumoured £50m bid.

Exclamation Marc

Charlie Austin is apparently at Reading festival anyway according to his missus' Twitter so pretty doubtful he's having a medical tonight.

adox

I thought Rooney was poor today. Very sluggish. Not just that he missed those chances but that he seemed to take an age to decide what to do and by then it was too late. Like the og earlier in the season.

Roquentin

TheDoc wrote: »

Me neither, which is worrying for a rumoured £50m bid.

35 millon sterling, 50 million euro

Lord TSC

35m pound is a lot. Wondering if wages, etc are being included in the rumoured fee....

FutureGuy

mada999 wrote: »

Austin rumours still lingering.... article on how he would fit into the team, not a bad read imo

http://tinyurl.com/2fcpre6

What a legend. Almost as hilarious as Liverpools performance vs a dire West Ham. Almost as hilarious as Stevie slipping up and watching you all realising its the closest ye will get for another 25 years.

Rossi IRL

FutureGuy wrote: »

I have never heard of Martial.

Spurs were linked to him for 15mill already this season and now we are linked for over 50 mill.

Something isnt adding up

Cantona's Collars

adox wrote: »

I thought Rooney was poor today. Very sluggish. Not just that he missed those chances but that he seemed to take an age to decide what to do and by then it was too late. Like the og earlier in the season.

Bet he wished it was Kyle Walker behind him instead of Ashley Williams.

nullzero

Manufactured Miracle wrote: »

Charlie Austin is apparently at Reading festival anyway according to his missus' Twitter so pretty doubtful he's having a medical tonight.

Festival you say? Probably shouldn't do a drugs test or if could be another Rio fiasco.

Exclamation Marc

nullzero wrote: »

Festival you say? Probably shouldn't do a drugs test or if could be another Rio fiasco.

Not hope he'll be doing drugs, it's the Libertines headli........ Oh.

RobertKK

Sterling at 20 has 19 league goals in 99 games. Cost £49 million.
Martial at 19 has 11 goals in 51 league games. a claimed bid of £36 million/€50 million.
I know they are different leagues.

I never heard of him as I haven't been watching Monaco, but he looks alright so far tonight in that match against PSG.
Meanwhile Griezmann got an assist for Atletico while he was on the ground, his determination got the team a goal.