Manchester United Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2016 - Mod Note in OP, 13/9

ElChe32

That's more like it boys!

adox

Pogback!

Manutd_4life

We've wrapped up the game by half time!!! Am I dreaming

How Soon Is Now

Won't get an easier half then that.

Kerrydude1981

Oh Christ Rojo is on

Must be a chance for him to impress Fenerbahce

Mars Bar

I'm worried Lingard and Pogba will run out of stupid celebrations in this game alone

Jayop

Mars Bar wrote: »

I'm worried Lingard and Pogba will run out of stupid celebrations in this game alone

Heretic

How Soon Is Now

Surprised how easy this has been really.

bangkok

How Soon Is Now wrote: »

Surprised how easy this has been really.

world class players v average and over the hill ex premier league players.... not really surprising in fairness, just everything clicking after the first goal.

pity we didnt get early goal v stoke

Jayop

Early goal is everything.

bangkok

pogba carrick and herrera...... how good would that be

Jayop

bangkok wrote: »

pogba carrick and herrera...... how good would that be

Mata's doing a fine job in there for Herrera.

bangkok

Jayop wrote: »

Mata's doing a fine job in there for Herrera.

imagine

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carrick

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herrera

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pogba

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Mata

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Martial

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Rashford or Ibra

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How Soon Is Now

bangkok wrote: »

world class players v average and over the hill ex premier league players.... not really surprising in fairness, just everything clicking after the first goal.

pity we didnt get early goal v stoke

True but we haven't exactly impressed in Europe of late.

Trigger

Oh Memphis!

TheTownie

Big Sam will be happy with Lingard's performance! :pac:

adox

Memphis can make an easy pass look difficult.

How Soon Is Now

Think should either loan Depay out or sell him.

He's piss at this stage.

Can see he's trying his best but god going forward it's really not coming together for him.

jayo26

Nice touch from evra here showing his class as always.how to capture screen

J. Marston

RVP, get in!

Rayne Wooney

Surely nowhere near 71k people there

beno619

Happy for RVP to score but Rojo was terrible.

ElChe32

What was Rojo doing for the goal, he was in no mans land.

jayo26

Rayne Wooney wrote: »

Surely nowhere near 71k people there

They count season ticket holders I assume they have to buy European tickets too?

brinty

Lads I think Memphis might just need a goal
The touches have been there

jayo26

Poor rooney he has had one of his best games for a while and never stopa trying but he has clearly lost a large percentage of his agility and pace. He turns like a sumo wrestler.

bangkok

fergie loved that rvp goal

PhlegmyMoses

brinty wrote: »

Lads I think Memphis might just need a goal
The touches have been there

I feel bad for him at times. He clearly has quality and he looks genuinely gutted when what he tries doesn't come off. I'd love to see him get a late winner from a piece of individual quality and see whether something like that couldn't spark him off.

Lord TSC

jayo26 wrote: »

Poor rooney he has had one of his best games for a while and never stopa trying but he has clearly lost a large percentage of his agility and pace. He turns like a sumo wrestler.

Even Savage, who usually defends him to the hilt, was lamenting his inabilty to get the shot off at the end of the game

Pogba's and Lingard's Screamers were great, and nice to have a very, very comfortable win sandwiched in between Pool and Chelsea.

deaddonkey15

jayo26 wrote: »

Poor rooney he has had one of his best games for a while and never stopa trying but he has clearly lost a large percentage of his agility and pace. He turns like a sumo wrestler.

I thought Rooney showed plenty of pace at times tonight.

adox

PhlegmyMoses wrote: »

I feel bad for him at times. He clearly has quality and he looks genuinely gutted when what he tries doesn't come off. I'd love to see him get a late winner from a piece of individual quality and see whether something like that couldn't spark him off.

His composure seems to be lacking at the moment. Like he has a bit of a rush to the head when a through ball is on and mucks it up.
He's unlucky in a way that two of our strikers are being used a lot as wingers and have more pace and dribbling ability than him.

He may be a success somewhere else but I'd be surprised if he turns it around at Utd and becomes a first team regular)hope I'm wrong of course).

Flint Fredstone

deaddonkey15 wrote: »

I thought Rooney showed plenty of pace at times tonight.

Were you sitting on your Sky remote by any chance?

adox

jayo26 wrote: »

Poor rooney he has had one of his best games for a while and never stopa trying but he has clearly lost a large percentage of his agility and pace. He turns like a sumo wrestler.

His pace is definitely gone. He'd be down the pecking order in my pick from the current Utd squad.

jayo26

Flint Fredstone wrote: »

Were you sitting on your Sky remote by any chance?

Loved this so much haha.

PhlegmyMoses

deaddonkey15 wrote: »

I thought Rooney showed plenty of pace at times tonight.

Really? I thought he had a good game but it is abundantly clear that he doesn't back himself even over 5 yards anymore, let alone 20. There was a momens second half where he did a nice flick on the turn in the box and tried to get around his man but it just harmlessly trickled to the keeper. He knows what he wants to do but struggles to execute because he has lost that yard.

All that being said, there should be no doubt after tonight that Rooneys best position is up top. Hasn't looked as involved and assured in his game plan in a long time.

jayo26

deaddonkey15 wrote: »

I thought Rooney showed plenty of pace at times tonight.

I'm not gonna get in a debate about it there is no need to but there is a big difference in showing a bit of pace running in a straight line then showing the kinda burst of pace on the turn that he used to have in an abundance and he has not got that now and I think that's why his first touch looks so bad at times.

But he did well tonight he played well with some good touches but it was still clear what he was missing.

jaykay74

deaddonkey15 wrote:

I thought Rooney showed plenty of pace at times tonight.

Pace? No.

deaddonkey15

Flint Fredstone wrote: »

Were you sitting on your Sky remote by any chance?

I thought you had me blocked? No, I wasn't sitting on my sky remote. I thought there was plenty of bursts of pace from Rooney tonight where he was surprisingly fast. He showed good pace in the build up to the 3rd goal.

Flint Fredstone

deaddonkey15 wrote: »

I thought you had me blocked? No, I wasn't sitting on my sky remote. I thought there was plenty of bursts of pace from Rooney tonight where he was surprisingly fast. He showed good pace in the build up to the 3rd goal.

I never said I blocked you. I said I had enough of you in that other thread. You've still a fair bit of work to do if you want to make my ignore list. There's only 2 people on it. It's quite the exclusive club.

Trigger

Nice to see both Mata and Rooney calling for the press in the run up to the 3rd goal.. something we haven't seen from players on the pitch in a long time.

Jayop

Flint Fredstone wrote: »

I never said I blocked you. I said I had enough of you in that other thread. You've still a fair bit of work to do if you want to make my ignore list. There's only 2 people on it. It's quite the exclusive club.

Pick me!!!! :pac:

jayo26

astradave wrote: »

Nice to see both Mata and Rooney calling for the press in the run up to the 3rd goal.. something we haven't seen from players on the pitch in a long time.

They are learning from ander.

I hate the phrase the press tho it's in the same league as lvg and his process. I never heard so much about a press until the Liverpool players started running 13k a game now it seems to be the in thing to do and if you don't do it your been negative.

Polo_Mint

Darmian was pretty bad tonight.

deaddonkey15

PhlegmyMoses wrote: »

Really? I thought he had a good game but it is abundantly clear that he doesn't back himself even over 5 yards anymore, let alone 20. There was a momens second half where he did a nice flick on the turn in the box and tried to get around his man but it just harmlessly trickled to the keeper. He knows what he wants to do but struggles to execute because he has lost that yard.

All that being said, there should be no doubt after tonight that Rooneys best position is up top. Hasn't looked as involved and assured in his game plan in a long time.

Most of the bits of pace that stuck out to me were off the ball runs, which obviously aren't going to be very memorable. He seemed hungrier to me this evening and I definitely think the speed is still there, maybe not quite the acceleration he used to have, but he's still quicker than people give him credit for in my opinion.

Flint Fredstone

Jayop wrote: »

Pick me!!!! :pac:

I'd never block you Jayop.

How Soon Is Now

deaddonkey15 wrote: »

I thought you had me blocked? No, I wasn't sitting on my sky remote. I thought there was plenty of bursts of pace from Rooney tonight where he was surprisingly fast. He showed good pace in the build up to the 3rd goal.

You should change your username to the black sheep at this stage!

skinny90

Polo_Mint wrote: »

Darmian was pretty bad tonight.

As was Memphis..these are games he should be coming on to make a point. He just doesn't show the willingness to do well

Jayop

jayo26 wrote: »

They are learning from ander.

I hate the phrase the press tho it's in the same league as lvg and his process. I never heard so much about a press until the Liverpool players started running 13k a game now it seems to be the in thing to do and if you don't do it your been negative.

Ah bollocks, the press has always been a thing as long as I remember watching football. The difference between what Liverpool do and what the traditional press is that Liverpool seem to press all the time whereas the tradition was to press on a certain trigger.

#schooled

Polo_Mint

skinny90 wrote: »

As was Memphis..these are games he should be coming on to make a point. He just doesn't show the willingness to do well

Instead of coming on I would say he should be starting games like this.

Get into the flow of the game from the start.

How Soon Is Now

Polo_Mint wrote: »

Instead of coming on I would say he should be starting games like this.

Get into the flow of the game from the start.

Exactly there's a few players in squad who need the game time yet games like today no where to be seen.