Manchester United Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2016

Antibac

Apparently offical announcement is tomorrow. Must be doing announcement/presentation at the same time?

Unearthly

This is clearly Sky trying to look like they got it first after they made a mess of things speculating lvg would stay

brinty

Antibac wrote: »

Apparently offical announcement is tomorrow. Must be doing announcement/presentation at the same time?

We're unveiling all our new signings too.....

Kerrydude1981

https://twitter.com/samuelluckhurst/status/735871891567747073

Mr.Crinklewood

Odds on him making reference to "special club " in his press conference?

IamtheWalrus

Kerrydude1981 wrote: »

https://twitter.com/samuelluckhurst/status/735871891567747073

Boo hiss

Trigger

Norwood is basically the club Photographer.. he was probably doing the pictures of hi. Signing the contract.

wintear

So Jose moving from London and joining the cast of real housewives of Cheshire

Trigger

https://twitter.com/rioferdy5/status/735873349704945664

brinty

astradave wrote: »

https://twitter.com/rioferdy5/status/735873349704945664

Astra, Rio's apparently on holidays???

MagicIRL

Boobs at the ready, gents. We're not out of the storm yet.

Kerrydude1981

Looking forward to watching that Lou Macari documentary on MUTV later on

On at 9pm

Quandary

hopefully this is the start of the proper post Fergie Manchester United.

IamtheWalrus

Is the first day Manchester United return to being a big club? This man guarantees trophies. Let's hope he settles and becomes a Utd legend. If he was impressed by Chelsea, wait until he experiences Old Trafford.

Kerrydude1981

Jim White is a gas man

Shows Jose walking down the street

"There is Jose with some documents under his arm,his Utd documents"

IamtheWalrus

astradave wrote: »

https://twitter.com/rioferdy5/status/735873349704945664

Bet he merked him.

Quandary

Every Rose has its thorn

Rossi IRL

Hodgson confirmed there that Rashford will be starting next game.

MagicIRL

Quandary wrote: »

Every Rose has its thorn

Rossi IRL

Quandary wrote: »

Every Rose has its thorn

Hope he stays.

Every club needs a Mata

IamtheWalrus

Happening status: it's

syngindub

yeah, mata is class act, there is another good season or 2 in him for sure. proper pro

Jayop

Why Quandary. Why would you do that right now??

Surely that's an infraction right there???

Bobby Baccala

syngindub wrote: »

yeah, mata is class act, there is another good season or 2 in him for sure. proper pro

Is the general consensus that Mata is gonna leave?

brinty

P4DDY2K11 wrote: »

Is the general consensus that Mata is gonna leave?

no, we don't have enough players like Mata that can play in the 3 for a 4-2-3-1 set up

Now if Jose brings in a few players maybe Mata might be on the way out but we'll see...

Strumms

P4DDY2K11 wrote: »

Is the general consensus that Mata is gonna leave?

It all depends exactly who Jose brings in. It's no secret that he didn't fancy him as a player in his Chelsea setup so you would have to wonder why he would have changed his mind. I hope he does stay but I am thinking at best he might be here for another season while Jose reshapes the team but still a chance he could leave either in this window or the next... Hard to know but I doubt he is in the long term thinking of JM going on what happened in the past anyway...

sky88

Not happy hes the manager but what you going to do

i guess the only thing to do is hop abroad the positivity train.

choo choo

Canadel

syngindub wrote: »

yeah, mata is class act, there is another good season or 2 in him for sure. proper pro

Not good enough for a title winning side.

And certainly not good enough for a club looking to seriously challenge for the Champions League.

Himself and Herrara need to be shipped back to Spain or anywhere that will have them pronto.

J. Marston

Mata will be fine, he isn't going anywhere.

brinty

Here comes Jose and the #positivitytrain

Trigger

brinty wrote: »

Astra, Rio's apparently on holidays???

It's obviously an old picture that he is using Brinty :pac:

Rio is such a muppet

Strumms

http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11667/10293151/jose-mourinho-appointed-manchester-united-boss

Sky Sports are saying he signed a contract an hour ago at a London Hotel...

brinty

astradave wrote: »

It's obviously an old picture that he is using Brinty :pac:

Rio is such a muppet

but he's our muppet...

RobertKK

As reported by ITK: RobertKK last night

Must be easy at times being a sports reporter.

jayo26

Strumms wrote: »

http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11667/10293151/jose-mourinho-appointed-manchester-united-boss

Sky Sports are saying he signed a contract an hour ago at a London Hotel...

Did you have a good sleep????

Lithium93_

Next few seasons with José are gonna be interesting, and exciting

Strumms

jayo26 wrote: »

Did you have a good sleep????

Quiet I'm trying to sleep !

**** me, lots to catch up on!

Next step, own the transfer window boom

sigmundv

Kerrydude1981 wrote:

Looking forward to watching that Lou Macari documentary on MUTV later on

It should be good. I like Lou.

Speaking of MUTV, they have been completely silent this week. Bit of a disgrace really to not even have a single phone-in to allow the fans to have their say.

Mitch Connor

I don't think he has signed the contract yet - because United have not announced it.

I don't think they would be allowed to delay the announcement on him, for Stock Exchange reasons. I don't buy into all the BS spoken about having to delay announcements til the Stock Exchange opens; but I also don't think they can keep it quiet. I believe they can't (within reason) allow time for people buy/sell shares based on such information before it is made public.

Strumms

sigmundv wrote: »

It should be good. I like Lou.

Speaking of MUTV, they have been completely silent this week. Bit of a disgrace really to not even have a single phone-in to allow the fans to have their say.

Well the Paddy Crerand show has been mysteriously taken off the air and apparently Paddy is not to be speaking to the press... we don't know if that is permanent or temporary.. He is a funny old codger and I always like his appearances on the pre season tours...

But yes the station has been mostly running replay's of games instead of anything interactive with fans or about the sacking of LVG from what I can see anyway

The_Kew_Tour

Will I get the Train ready?

#CHOOCHOO

Kerrydude1981

The_Kew_Tour wrote: »

Will I get the Train ready?

#CHOOCHOO

Yes,start it up

sigmundv

Strumms wrote:

Well the Paddy Crerand show has been mysteriously taken off the air and apparently Paddy is not to be speaking to the press... we don't know if that is permanent or temporary.. He is a funny old codger and I always like his appearances on the pre season tours...

Ditto, so I hope he'll appear again! And I think he will; normality will surely ensue when Mourinho has been announced.

NoviGlitzko

Finallty! I'm absolutely delighted. Finally, a manager worthy of taking over from Fergie.

Hank Scorpio

Done Dealio

GSPfan

With no news on Uniteds website or anything else I dont think he has actually signed. More like he has agreed everything and shook hands and he will put pen to paper in front of a camera at some stage soon to make it official. Probably tomorrow.

jayo26

Mitch Connor wrote: »

I don't think he has signed the contract yet - because United have not announced it.

I don't think they would be allowed to delay the announcement on him, for Stock Exchange reasons. I don't buy into all the BS spoken about having to delay announcements til the Stock Exchange opens; but I also don't think they can keep it quiet. I believe they can't (within reason) allow time for people buy/sell shares based on such information before it is made public.

They kept lvgs sacking quiet tho didnt they? He would of been sacked earlier and was out of the country by time they announced it. I think it is done and dusted and they will announce it tomorrow for reasons sky say they want it to make as big an impact as possible.

CR 7

https://vine.co/v/iriU37DiB3Q

NoviGlitzko

Mitch Connor wrote: »

Martial has been playing brilliant from the left. Keep him there. Sign a striker - be able to rotate Rashford out of the side (or Martial) without having to play Ashley Young up front. Or relying on Rooney to remember how to football.

Rashford is 18 years old. his chance conversion stats are insane. He could be awesome, he could be a one season (half season) flash in the pan). To not sign a 34 years old striker so that you can look to play Rashford in 100% of the games next season is just so damned short sighted imo. Its the same mistake that was made last summer, basically.

Front three of, for example, Martial, Ibrahimovic and Greizmann - with Rashford, Memphis and Rooney (who could be played CM, though I'd prefer sold) as options to come in for them.

How about we look to build a squad capable of competing rather than just a first 11, built on hopes and prayers.

Only seeing this now.

You missed my point. I just don't want Rashford to be second choice. I wouldn't mind as much if we say, got someone like Greizmann but I'm not excited by the prospect of Ibra signing at all. He's too static, on the decline, and doesn't benefit us in the future, unless his name is a draw for other players which I'd be skeptical of. I don't see him being a success & yet he will start ahead of Rashford because of his status. And the whole argument of us being light up front? I agree. Let's buy a world class winger or 2. We have Rashford & Martial to play CF if needs be.

I'll gladly eat my words if he's a success but I don't want Ibrahimovic.