Manchester United Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2017

Bret Hart

Please don't **** it up now.

jayo26

Right it's too close to our game to be running around in glee We need to win today with spurs and city playing after us the group could be really bunched up and we could in fifth right behind pool.

Johner

M!Ck^ wrote: »

Phase one complete

Enjoy the lolz

I certainly am

Hope you put a few euro on it.

Rayne Wooney

To be fair that win was never in doubt

Jayop

Jayop wrote: »

Liverpool losing means nothing if we don't do our business.

100%

J. Marston

And BT go straight to Steven Gerrard for reaction. Delightful.

jayo26

Rayne Wooney wrote: »

I'd also like to take credit for that

jayo26 wrote: »

Easy win for pool here so much firepower I'd go 3 nil.

All my credit i was in there this morning

Quandary

jayo26 wrote: »

All my credit i was in there this morning

The power of a well timed reverse jinx cannot be overstated

wanderer100

With the fixtures this weekend, a win today for ourselves would make this a great weekend. Just gotta keep closing the gap to that top 4

Cantona's Collars

zerks wrote: »

Swansea have to get a big result at some stage,why not today.

I'm quoting my post from this morning.:p:p

Lord TSC

Man, that makes last week even more frustrating. Had we won, a win today would have put us above them. Ah well. A win today closes the gap, and is made better when you remember either Spurs or City (or both) will drop points today too.

Mitch Connor wrote: »

No Martial in the squad. Apparently heading off somewhere on a plane today. Hopefully (if true) it is just a personal trip back to France rather than anything transfer related - even if he isn't progressing as I would like him to.

There was a rumour this morning (think it was DiMarizo) saying we had made a bid for Carrasso of AT Madrid.

Honestly, I think Martial will be gone in the summer. Jose just doesn't seem to rate him, and Martial is doing very little to help himself either

jayo26

Lord TSC wrote: »

Honestly, I think Martial will be gone in the summer. Jose just doesn't seem to rate him, and Martial is doing very little to help himself either

I thought martial has picked up his form in the past month or so he has done pretty well. I think he has a great future with us.

adox

Stoke are a decent team so today's game is pretty tricky.

Delighted with the Liverpool result. I genuinely laughed.

Also don't agree that the result will mean nothing if we don't capitalise. Worst case scenario the status quo remains with Liverpool.

Just in so haven't looked at the team yet but believe Blind is in at CB which is definitely a concern.

jayo26

adox wrote: »

Stoke are a decent team so today's game is pretty tricky.

Delighted with the Liverpool result. I genuinely laughed.

Also don't agree that the result will mean nothing if we don't capitalise. Worst case scenario the status quo remains with Liverpool.

Just in so haven't looked at the team yet but believe Blind is in at CB which is definitely a concern.

No smalling and Jones in the team blind is left back

Johner

Johner wrote: »

Hope you put a few euro on it.

Swansea
Utd
Everton
Spurs

Accum

Lord TSC

jayo26 wrote: »

I thought martial has picked up his form in the past month or so he has done pretty well. I think he has a great future with us.

He had one stunning game, and a few good games.

Some good interneting done here today old chaps

adox

jayo26 wrote: »

No smalling and Jones in the team blind is left back

Grand thanks for that. The lesser of two evils then.

Hope against hope that Fellaini is the deepest of the three midfielders but fear it will be Herrera.


This could be a pititol day in the season for Utd. With the Spurs City game later a win today would be huge.

Still not feeling too confident though.

Quandary

Too many former Liverpool players against us today for us not to have some type of slip up.

adox

Oh dear.

Pogba may as well not be on the pitch. Shocking lack of effort from him so far.

GSPfan

A loss here today at Stoke wouldn't surprise me in the slightest. They are the definition of a team who play like their lives depend on it against us. Hopefully we get something out of this.

RobertKK

I always expected Stoke to score, hopefully we can level it up before half time.

Quandary

A turgid sluggish weak performance so far. If we dont drastically improve we'll get and deserve nothing from this game.

bangkok

adox wrote: »

Oh dear.

Pogba may as well not be on the pitch. Shocking lack of effort from him so far.

lol 20 mins in, he is doing fine

Minderbinder

Is Mata drunk? I think he needs replacing already. He set up one Stoke attack, scored their goal, and just stood out wide like a fool when it was obvious Mkhitaryan wanted to play him through.

On a more positive note that was a great delivery by Valencia for Ibra.

GSPfan

Mata ffs.

Headshot

what is it with us and in front of goals

J. Marston

Well after that miss, it might be one of those days.

Again.

Quandary

Herrera and Pogba don't seem to know where to be playing when Carrick isn't behind them.

StringerBell

We are ****ing unreal.

sky88

We are just so poor at finishing

madcabbage

Ah Mata! :mad:

adox

bangkok wrote: »

lol 20 mins in, he is doing fine

lol yourself.

20 minutes in. Not **** Sherlock. Of course I was commenting on the first 20minutes. :rolleyes:

GSPfan

Between Mata abandoning the right wing and Blind offering no help to Mkhitaryan on the other its too easy for Stoke to out man us on the wings.

adox

Christ that was a poor miss. We are getting bullied so far. Ball retention has been brutal.

GSPfan

I know the Zlatan love is strong with United fans but he misses a hell of a lot of chances.

StringerBell

Today may be the day I scream

TheDoctor

Looks like one of those days

Kerrydude1981

Holy Christ Mickey's shot is gone for the moon

Why are Utd even bothering challenging Crouch for the ball out around the middle,leave him off and then go in for the second ball.

Rayne Wooney

No urgency at all yet to get the equaliser

We'll leave that until the last 10 minutes?

bangkok

Rayne Wooney wrote: »

No urgency at all yet to get the equaliser

We'll leave that until the last 10 minutes?

they just had 2 good chances, mata and mkhitarayan. relax

Rayne Wooney

Rayne Wooney wrote: »

No urgency at all yet to get the equaliser

We'll leave that until the last 10 minutes?

That's not true

Finishing is the issue
The urgency is clear with all the chances

adox

Stoke starting to leave a few gaps now. Utd should get on the score sheet if they apply themselves properly.

Kerrydude1981

bangkok wrote: »

they just had 2 good chances, mata and mkhitarayan. relax

Ibra should have tested the keeper as well,instead he tried to pick out Mata and Stoke cleared it,

Utd have been the better team,noting to show for it so far

JaMarcusHustle

Blind shouldn't have been taking that. That was a right footer's free kick all day long.

madcabbage

Is there a hoodoo curse on Pogba? The man couldn't buy a goal!

BenK

Don't think United are actually playing too bad. Chance conversion rate is just so bad.

PhlegmyMoses

adox wrote: »

Stoke starting to leave a few gaps now. Utd should get on the score sheet if they apply themselves properly.

Stoke have a fair few players who look like they won't last the pace. Shaqiri, Adam, Arnautovic and Johnson all look they are carrying a bit too much timber for professional footballers.

JaMarcusHustle

madcabbage wrote:

Is there a hoodoo curse on Pogba? The man couldn't buy a goal!

If he could buy a good performance, that'd be a start after last week.

Quandary

Utd have gotten slightly better as the half wore on but still not good enough. The amount of missed chances is getting very annoying.