Manchester United Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2017

IamtheWalrus

J. Marston wrote: »

Pff, I'm already in "Anyone but Liverpool" mode.

Liverpool will not win a league.

TheDoc

TheDoc wrote: »

Unless this team really clicks into gear can't see them doing a 8-10 in streak which it needs to consider the title.

Considering how tight it will be dropped points against Burnley , Stoke and Watford is a pretty big deal and more will probably come.

Think our title credentials are dead in the water which is disappointing to say the least. But I simply cannot fathom anything short of top 4.

Would be totally unacceptable with that squad.

What do the club do in that situation though? Say Jose's United have a decent season, but just can't crack a competitive Top 4, do we then get rid of Jose and move onto the next manager?

deaddonkey15

stankratz wrote: »

What do the club do in that situation though? Say Jose's United have a decent season, but just can't crack a competitive Top 4, do we then get rid of Jose and move onto the next manager?

Sign Griezmann, and one or two proper defenders and try again next season.

Cantona's Collars

IamtheWalrus wrote: »

Liverpool will not win a league.

At least they are off top spot again.

Liam McPoyle

stankratz wrote: »

What do the club do in that situation though? Say Jose's United have a decent season, but just can't crack a competitive Top 4, do we then get rid of Jose and move onto the next manager?

Absolutely not.

Its been clear for the last 3 seasons a massive rebuild is needed so if we do fall outside of the top 4 then it would be utterly stupid to sack Jose and install someone else who essentially is starting from scratch.

Not getting top 4 would be very disappointing but after the last 3 years, I can swallow it.

What I'm seeing in the team at the moment is a return of desire.

The last few years when things weren't going our way we just let it happen.

We coasted through games in the main, with no impetus, no fcuking bottle.

That seems to be changing.

I've no doubt that Jose is to be credited with that.

We have probably created more scoring chances in the last 10 league games than we did in 20 last season.

We should have more points on the board but it is what it is, Jose cannot take the blame for lack of conversion.

He has only gotten it wrong once this season so far and that was the first half against City. Even then he corrected things at half time and we arguably deserved a draw.

Look at Mikhi.

Did he look like a player that was pissed off the other night?

He did in his hole.

He has been managed perfectly and if he continues on as he played Thursday night then the goals will come for him and for others. He's had injuries and fitness issues so rather than throw him back in at the deep end Jose has protected him and I believe we will see the benefits.

Phil Jones, the man that most fans had written off is back in the team and playing well. Again, he is being managed perfectly and considering the injuries that blighted him its unbelievable. People were fawning over Klopp with Sturridge and how he managed him back to fitness, no such praise for Jose though. Maybe if he tried a bit of gurning or broke a few pairs of glasses then he might get the respect he is due but it won't happen.

Personally I don't give a bollox. I started supporting United when the Scouse were top dog. I'm used to supporting a team that everyone hates. The fact of the matter is that people hate winners. United are winners, Jose is a winner and I've absolutely no doubt that under him, together, we will be winners again.

So unequivocally, he should be in the job for a minimum of two seasons.

Cantona's Collars

203 shots on goal so far,80 more than we had in the same amount of league games last season.Results haven't been what we wanted but at least the football is watchable again.

Kerrydude1981

Have to take advantage of Spurs loss today,close the gap on them

Time to give someone a hammering

jayo26

Saul T Nutzz wrote: »

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Great post i 100 percent agree from start to finish.

Cantona's Collars

Match thread to change the tone of the discussion here: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=101789032#post101789032

Lets smash them by 4 or 5.

brinty

Lads it's west Ham
I'd love a hammering but 1-0 gets you the same number of points. Win first then think about the goal difference

Cantona's Collars

NBCSN,Sportnet Ontario and BeIN HD are showing the game with English commentary.Everyone knows by now how to find them,;)

Trigger

Sports Bild are reporting that Basti is part of the Squad for tomorrow.

Headshot

ugh another painful day tomorrow finding a different method of watching the utd match.

I never get good ones.....

niallo27

Headshot wrote: »

ugh another painful day tomorrow finding a different method of watching the utd match.

I never get good ones.....

Get an android box and iptv service. Only a few quid a month but it's worth it for no hassle and streams are HD

niallo27

niallo27 wrote: »

Get an android box and iptv service. Only a few quid a month but it's worth it for no hassle and streams are HD

Works well but eats bandwidth

niallo27

M!Ck^ wrote: »

Works well but eats bandwidth

Most packages are unlimited anyway. If you only have it for the football your only talking a gig or two.

Liam McPoyle

niallo27 wrote: »

Get an android box and iptv service. Only a few quid a month but it's worth it for no hassle and streams are HD

I have a Dreambox.

It has a 3 pm kick off function for all PL games.

Works perfectly on Saturdays so I'm assuming it will work tomorrow too.

Have had enough faffing around with laptop streams.

deaddonkey15

Just use Mobdro.

IamtheWalrus

What ever happened to Julian Dicks I wonder.

racso1975

IamtheWalrus wrote: »

What ever happened to Julian Dicks I wonder.

First team coach with west ham. Just if you do Google don't put in Julian dickz by accident :pac:

jayo26

Wasn't he over the hammers ladies team for a while aswell or was that Ian dowie? Westham have had some iconic players over the years.

The_Kew_Tour

Good Golfer too

Never liked him or Wise at Chelsea.

Cantona's Collars

niallo27 wrote: »

Get an android box and iptv service. Only a few quid a month but it's worth it for no hassle and streams are HD

Thanks for reminding me,I must update my build on kodi. It's been neglected for the last while..... "Playing with boxes" as the missus calls it.

Mr.Crinklewood

zerks wrote: »

Thanks for reminding me,I must update my build on kodi. It's been neglected for the last while..... "Playing with boxes" as the missus calls it.

Mrs Crinklewood keeps giving off with all my cables over the place.

But surprised that today's match isn't on live on Sky or BT!

Lord TSC

zorro2566 wrote: »

But surprised that today's match isn't on live on Sky or BT!

My understanding is the Europa League is to blame. Sky and BT get their match allocations before the Europa League bounces matches to the ****y Sunday slots, and once the matches get bounced, they've already got their schedule locked down.

newballsplease

Rumours that Carrick is out with a slight injury.
Bastian Schweinstieger on bench

hufpc8w3adnk65

newballsplease wrote: »

Rumours that Carrick is out with a slight injury.
Bastian Schweinstieger on bench

Hopefully all the stuff between him and Jose was to light a fire under him.. him and carrick alternating matchs would be ideal!

Lord TSC

newballsplease wrote: »

Rumours that Carrick is out with a slight injury.
Bastian Schweinstieger on bench

Jaysus.

Out of interest, would there be none of the youth players that could get the bench spot ahead of him? Not been keeping up with the academy much.

hufpc8w3adnk65

Lord TSC wrote: »

Jaysus.

Out of interest, would there be none of the youth players that could get the bench spot ahead of him? Not been keeping up with the academy much.

Of course there would. Jose is so stubborn that if Bastian was still banished he'd name anyone on the bench infront of him

sReq | uTeK

Bastion to get the winner today. 4-3

jayo26

Lord TSC wrote: »

Jaysus.

Out of interest, would there be none of the youth players that could get the bench spot ahead of him? Not been keeping up with the academy much.

Yep tfm is a cdm naturally.

sReq | uTeK

sReq | uTeK wrote: »

Bastion to get the winner today. 4-3

He will be our Toure!

Trigger

He is the closest player we have got to Carrick position and discipline wise and if Jose wants to keep the 4141, he would be ideal to come in instead of him. Even if he starts Herrera, Schweinsteiger is ideal for coming on for the last 20 mins and seeing out the match.

Toobz

Headshot wrote: »

ugh another painful day tomorrow finding a different method of watching the utd match.

I never get good ones.....

I can help with that, gimme a pm and I'll talk you through a good method as I'm not sure stream talk is allowed? If it is I'll post here.

RobertKK

Antoine Griezmann has said when he leaves Atletico he wants to play in the Premier League.

It is like he is trying to let the Atletico fans down easily by dropping so many hints.
He wears the number 7 because of Beckham. Would be great to have a proper number 7 again.

Flint Fredstone

RobertKK wrote: »

Antoine Griezmann has said when he leaves Atletico he wants to play in the Premier League.

It is like he is trying to let the Atletico fans down easily by dropping so many hints.
He wears the number 7 because of Beckham. Would be great to have a proper number 7 again.

It's an awful pity Di Maria didn't become available under Jose instead of Louis.

jayo26

RobertKK wrote: »

Antoine Griezmann has said when he leaves Atletico he wants to play in the Premier League.

It is like he is trying to let the Atletico fans down easily by dropping so many hints.
He wears the number 7 because of Beckham. Would be great to have a proper number 7 again.

He also said he would like to play in the same team as his best mate so he can't shout any louder for united to come get him.

Id love to have him because he is a genuine united fan it would be such a nice change.

IamtheWalrus

RobertKK wrote: »

Antoine Griezmann has said when he leaves Atletico he wants to play in the Premier League.

It is like he is trying to let the Atletico fans down easily by dropping so many hints.
He wears the number 7 because of Beckham. Would be great to have a proper number 7 again.

Would he choose Utd over, say Barca, if it's known he's available?

xtal191

https://twitter.com/hirstclass/status/802855831238803456

jayo26

IamtheWalrus wrote: »

Would he choose Utd over, say Barca, if it's known he's available?

I actually think he would apart from anything else they aint much room for him in the barca lineup.

Sand

IamtheWalrus wrote: »

Would he choose Utd over, say Barca, if it's known he's available?

If Utd offer more money, then like Pogba he will choose Utd over any club.

hufpc8w3adnk65

Sand wrote: »

If Utd offer more money, then like Pogba he will choose Utd over any club.

Are you saying Pogba only came back for the money?

ArmaniJeanss

Lord TSC wrote: »

My understanding is the Europa League is to blame. Sky and BT get their match allocations before the Europa League bounces matches to the ****y Sunday slots, and once the matches get bounced, they've already got their schedule locked down.

That doesn't really make any sense - it was known since last May (when MUFC qualified for the Europa group stage) that they would have these 6 fixtures moved away from Saturday as Europa is always Thursday. This was long long before Sky/BT picked their games.

I think it just wasn't selected (despite being probably the 3rd maybe even 2nd most attractive fixture of weekend).

Probably just as simple as Sky/BT are only allowed show so many games of one team (16 I think) and they believe there are 16 better MUFC fixtures through the season to show.

xtal191

xtal191 wrote: »

https://twitter.com/hirstclass/status/802855831238803456

bucketybuck

xtal191 wrote: »

https://twitter.com/hirstclass/status/802855831238803456

I would be shocked if he started today, never expected him to be named in the first place.

bucketybuck

bucketybuck wrote: »

I would be shocked if he started today, never expected him to be named in the first place.

Interested to know why so?

newballsplease

M!Ck^ wrote: »

Interested to know why so?

I can't speak for him, but to start 2 games in a row in space of a few days after months out would be asking a bit much wouldn't it?

Rayne Wooney

He was always going to be eased back in after so long out, he'll get half an hour today surely. More if somebody else doesn't perform

Backstreet Moyes

Any chance of Greizman in Jan probably not.

Was thinking they are well behind in the league but they are still in Champions league.