Manchester United Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2017

GSPfan

That jersey is sweet. The collar and buttons reminds me of an old Newcastle one from the David Ginola days.

Cantona's Collars

Ron Jeremy sitting just behind the Southampton dugout.:)

bangkok

Pogba's injury was actually a blessing in disguise. Didnt play today and wont be going away on international duty. A few days off in the sun will do him good and he will come back stronger for the final push of the season, same with Zlatan

Robson99

bangkok wrote: »

Pogba's injury was actually a blessing in disguise. Didnt play today and wont be going away on international duty. A few days off in the sun will do him good and he will come back stronger for the final push of the season, same with Zlatan

In othes words Pogba has been pretty poor for the last while and the break will do him good

GSPfan

bangkok wrote: »

Pogba's injury was actually a blessing in disguise. Didnt play today and wont be going away on international duty. A few days off in the sun will do him good and he will come back stronger for the final push of the season, same with Zlatan

So you are saying he will be fresh as a daisy for the West Brom game? So no fatigue excuse if he plays bad?

bangkok

GSPfan wrote: »

So you are saying he will be fresh as a daisy for the West Brom game? So no fatigue excuse if he plays bad?

well thats if hes back for it, they said he will be out for 3 weeks

jayo26

Just put a fiver on Liverpool to win at 4/1 ohhhh God I really hope they don't slip up now.

20 Times 20 Times

xtal191 wrote: »

Another pic of the new jersey

Hope this is it because just bought it on Aliexpress

yabadabado

beno619 wrote: »

I don't get the obsession with selling players.

I don't see any of our centre halfs leaving it's great to have the options we do.

Its hardly an obsession ,players move to/from clubs all the time.

I fully expect a CB to be bought in the summer,will all our current CB's be happy fighting it out for 3 choice?

Nalz

Just looking at our fixtures plus the current table. Would be really good for us if Palace and Swansea start picking up points now... As we play them towards the end of the season.

Do not need games Vs City, Arsenal and Spurs along with two teams battling it for safety.

bucketybuck

yabadabado wrote: »

Its hardly an obsession ,players move to/from clubs all the time.

I fully expect a CB to be bought in the summer,will all our current CB's be happy fighting it out for 3 choice?

I don't see why a new CB coming in is a given to be honest

Not only are we well stocked with young defenders all approaching their prime, there is also the question of who we get that is better than what we have? I'm not seeing all that much quality out there that would meaningfully improve us, especially considering our current bunch are one of the meanest defences in the league.

And what about this new defensive midfielder that is going to improve Pogba's game? Surely that same defensive midfielder will also make a huge difference to our backline, giving it a protection that it currently doesn't have? Does that midfielder negate the need to buy a new CB?

And don't forget one other thing, Jose has already bought his CB target, he already got reinforcements there, so considering the problems elsewhere on the field you might think CB isn't really a priority. We need full backs, midfielders, wingers and strikers, so why spend money replacing perfectly adequate center backs?

No, I wouldn't place money on a new CB's coming in the summer at all.

RobertKK

Be nice if the City/Liverpool game could be over now.

NoviGlitzko

Lucas Hood wrote: »

Should defo go with 7 at the back next game.
Valencia Bailly Smalling Jones Rojo Blind Young.
6 just isn't enough.

It works for Chelsea. :pac:

v3ttel

xtal191 wrote: »

Another pic of the new jersey

I normally love Addidas jerseys because they normally don't have the stupid looking polo shirt necks. Buttons have no place on a jersey imo.

GSPfan

v3ttel wrote: »

Buttons have no place on a jersey imo.

That's the most random thing to have such a definitive opinion on.

How do you feel about laces in their place instead? We've done that before.

beno619

bucketybuck wrote: »

I don't see why a new CB coming in is a given to be honest

No, I wouldn't place money on a new CB's coming in the summer at all.

Exactly. It's the lowest priority.

When you look at the money Arsenal spent on someone average like Mustafi we should be counting our blessings we're so well stocked.

Headshot

That's grand for us.

We'll take that

Mars Bar

Excellent result!

The_Kew_Tour

jayo26

Great weekend

RobertKK

Good weekend.
Chelsea and Spurs look the safest for top 3/2.
So all the other rivals dropping points was a great weekend.
Gained:
3 on Arsenal
2 on both Liverpool and City.

GSPfan

How that game ended 1-1 I'll never know. Haven't seen so many sitters missed since Pogba against Bournemouth!

Liam McPoyle

Have to be happy with that.

Bret Hart

Excellent weekend of results for us. Top 4 is in our own hands now,as we head into the home stretch.

bucketybuck

Four points behind Liverpool with 2 games in hand.

Considering we ****ed up so many key opportunities to move up places this season we are blessed to still be in with a chance. Lets hope our form picks up again and we actually do it.

Liam McPoyle

It would be the greatest troll of all time if we won the EL and got 4th aswell, displacing the scouse.

In reality its highly unlikely and EL is probably the best chance to get CL next year but still, a man can dream.

niallo27

bucketybuck wrote: »

Four points behind Liverpool with 2 games in hand.

Considering we ****ed up so many key opportunities to move up places this season we are blessed to still be in with a chance. Lets hope our form picks up again and we actually do it.

Still have have to play 5 of the top 7 though. It was handy set of fixtures for utd last 2 months they really should be higher up the table.

sReq | uTeK

Just looking at 1st of April games.

Liverpool v Everton is the early kick off
We are at home to a West brom team who have been on a good run.

April the 2nd

Arsenal v City


OH **** yea this could be good

Jayop

We've West Brom at home next while all our rivals have really tough games. Liverpool have the derby against a resurgent Everton, spurs are away to Burnley who don't loss much at home and city play arsenal.

Another win next week and we improve our position regardless. I'd prefer arsenal to win that one and drag city back into the scrap. Don't know if they'd have the bottle down the straight.

Jayop

**** you sReq

dubmick

Pool won't have Coutinho or Firmino for the Merseyside derby. Both on international duty.

sReq | uTeK

niallo27 wrote: »

Still have have to play 5 of the top 7 though. It was handy set of fixtures for utd last 2 months they really should be higher up the table.

Handy set of fixtures for Liverpool when they went from title contended to 5th in 2 months and failed to win a game.

xtal191

Pool will hammer Everton

Jayop

xtal191 wrote: »

Pool will hammer Everton

I don't think so.

niallo27

niallo27 wrote: »

Still have have to play 5 of the top 7 though. It was handy set of fixtures for utd last 2 months they really should be higher up the table.

That has been talked about daily in this thread the last while. Those league draws have affected the overall mood in here lately despite United winning the EFL and advancing to the QF of the Europa recently. All of what you say there is no news to this thread at all.

Thankfully though, where we were picking up a point (granted we should have been picking up 3) in those frustrating draws, other teams like Liverpool and Arsenal were generating memes weekly because they were picking up no points against relegation candidates. We should be higher up the table in one sense, but we should be dead and buried and well out of the race in another sense.

Considering Liverpool's run after the international break with most of their games coming up against non-Top 6 teams, I'd be more worried about your own run of matches than ours.

Jayop

March is a decent month for us fixture wise. Chelsea is taught but apart from that they're all winnable.

RobertKK

Watching Sky Sports.
Redknapp saying United will not make top 4 along with Arsenal.
Quinn disagreed saying United will have something to say about that.
Souness agreed with Redknapp.

Dream would be United to finish top 3, United win the Europa, and Leicester managed by Shakespeare to deliver a Shakespearean tragedy by winning the CL to whoever ends up 4th..

yabadabado

RobertKK wrote: »

Watching Sky Sports.
Redknapp saying United will not make top 4 along with Arsenal.
Quinn disagreed saying United will have something to say about that.
Souness agreed with Redknapp.

Dream would be United to finish top 3, United win the Europa, and Leicester managed by Shakespeare to deliver a Shakespearean tragedy by winning the CL to whoever ends up 4th..

Your first mistake was listening to anything Redknapp,that lad is stealing a living on TV.

FatherTed

Handy dandy table for you....Let me know if I have anything wrong...

Spurs Man City Liverpool Man Utd Arsenal
Apr 1/2 Burnley A Arsenal A Everton H WBA H Man City H
Apr 4/5 Swansea A Chelsea A B'mouth H Everton H WHam H
Apr 8/9/10 Watford H Hull H Stoke A S'land A CPalace A
Apr 15/16/17 B'mouth H S'ampton A WBA A Chelsea H Boro A
Apr 22 CPalace H Burnley A
Apr 29/30 Arsenal H Boro A Watford A Swansea H Spurs A
May 6 WHam A CPalace H S'ampton H Arsenal A Man Utd H
May 13 Man Utd H Leicester H WHam H Spurs A Stoke A
May 21 Hull A Watford A Boro H CPalace H Everton H

TBD Leicester A WBA H Man City A S'land H
TBD C Palace A Man Utd H S'ampton A S'ampton A
TBD Leicester H

jayo26

I'm just unable to do the same maths that pool fans are doing?? They saying it's entirely in there hands but I just don't see it unless teams around them drop points? I need beer.

Mind you I'm not 100 percent confident united will make top four unless some players pick up form drastically but similar to that they are delighted they have all the top teams out of the way but they have been dirt against the bottom teams.

We need to come back after International break with major momentum behind us and players up for the challenge I do believe jose will get performance out of them in the big games.

Trigger

Im taking the credit for today lads, missed all the football and just got back to the results..

delighted

niallo27

jayo26 wrote: »

I'm just unable to do the same maths that pool fans are doing?? They saying it's entirely in there hands but I just don't see it unless teams around them drop points? I need beer.

Mind you I'm not 100 percent confident united will make top four unless some players pick up form drastically but similar to that they are delighted they have all the top teams out of the way but they have been dirt against the bottom teams.

We need to come back after International break with major momentum behind us and players up for the challenge I do believe jose will get performance out of them in the big games.

Well If utd win it's means they are taking points of spurs or city. It is in Liverpool hands realistically you can't argue that. 6 of the last 9 games are at home.

TitianGerm

jayo26 wrote: »

I'm just unable to do the same maths that pool fans are doing?? They saying it's entirely in there hands but I just don't see it unless teams around them drop points? I need beer.

Mind you I'm not 100 percent confident united will make top four unless some players pick up form drastically but similar to that they are delighted they have all the top teams out of the way but they have been dirt against the bottom teams.

We need to come back after International break with major momentum behind us and players up for the challenge I do believe jose will get performance out of them in the big games.

Haven't had a look yet but we only play teams below us and United, Chelsea, Spurs, Arsenal and City all have a few games between themselves.

So if Liverpool win all their games the others can't because they play each other and points will be dropped.

I assume that's where they are coming from?

jayo26

niallo27 wrote: »

Well If utd win it's means they are taking points of spurs or city. It is in Liverpool hands realistically you can't argue that. 6 of the last 9 games are at home.

Yeh fair enough but to be really pedantic city are ahead of ye with a game in hand so that scratches that one out and ye have no real hope of catching spurs either.

I dont think it puts us favourite for top four we have a horrendous set of fixtures remaining due to European football but it is definitely far from straight forward for Liverpool even arsenal are level on points with ye if they win two games in hand.

niallo27

jayo26 wrote: »

Yeh fair enough but to be really pedantic city are ahead of ye with a game in hand so that scratches that one out and ye have no real hope of catching spurs either.

I dont think it puts us favourite for top four we have a horrendous set of fixtures remaining due to European football but it is definitely far from straight forward for Liverpool even arsenal are level on points with ye if they win two games in hand.

No liverpool fans are saying it's straight forward. Believe me. If they are they are lying to you.

GSPfan

It's easier focusing the mind on beating Anderlecht as a route to the Champions League. The Premier league is just too dodgey to try make sense of what will happen.

jayo26

niallo27 wrote: »

No liverpool fans are saying it's straight forward. Believe me. If they are they are lying to you.

Im jut glad all have something to fight for makes it more fun.

niallo27

jayo26 wrote: »

Im jut glad all have something to fight for makes it more fun.

You know it's going sickening if utd go ahead on the 2nd last or last round of games.

Korat

At this moment CL qualification is in the hands of Chelsea, Spurs, City and Utd. Anyone else is relying on one of them to drop points.

How Liverpool and Arsenal have lost control of their destiny is beyond me because Utd have been pretty meh in 2017 so far.

jayo26

niallo27 wrote: »

You know it's going sickening if utd go ahead on the 2nd last or last round of games.

Yep and it could possibly happen.. Said it here a few weeks ago with the way our fixtures are we could realistically be a few points off 3rd or 4th at the end of April but have games in hand.

Im sure we would love it and really enjoy it but we need to pick up the performances big time for it to happen. I think we are looking at dropping maybe 10 to 12 points on our run in so if ye drop another 6 to 8 points we will pip ye.

What do you think points wise it will take?