Manchester United Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2018/2019 [Mod note 31-Aug-18]

Ninthlife

Newcastle and Jonjo Shelvey will have their annual outstanding gsmes now at the weekend

ShaneU

Would love to see Mata starting behind Lukaku with Fred and Pogba behind him. Matic has been a passenger all season

Martial needs to start.

Shaw was great. Bailly did well

Drumpot

How has nobody on tv spoken of Shaw? Did I watch a different game? He’s a diamond in that rough.

RobbingBandit

Pogba gets way too frustrated, when the ref blew the whistle just as Pogba was about to sprint off with the ball he did an epic Pele kick off the ball.

Adamocovic

nullzero wrote: »

Neither were brilliant, Pogba just looked less composed and over all off the pace. He won a couple of free kicks in positions where he should have carried the ball but looked happy enough to be taken down.
Matic seemed to be able to create a little more space for himself and hold the ball a bit better.

That's fair enough but just felt Matic was doing so in different situations and parts of the attack.

Pogba was providing glimpses of good link up play and passes, but as always it's a problem of consistency. To say he is absolutely terrible I don't agree with.

Don't think any player was brilliant but I'd have rated Pogba in the upper half more so than being the worse.

Thought Shaw looked good again, probably our best. He too had mistakes as well mind you.

0gac3yjefb5sv7

So I missed the game, did we give the fighting performance busting a gut to every ball or a pile of ****?

domrush

At the end of the day, the most important objective for this team now is to finish top 4.

From the view of the board, what other choices are there to achieve this apart from Mourinho? There's no outstanding candidate for the role, I think Jardim would be the man for the job but unlikely he would leave the team he built at Monaco mid season. I don't think Zidane would want another job with the same media focus as the Madrid job gets and arguably he's still a big risk if he did want it.

Realistically the team is going through a very poor run of form but from the boards perspective at the moment I would consider it less risky to give Mourinho more time after only 6 games than to hand the reins to Carrick or whomever to give their best shot. It's too early in the season to pull the trigger and hand to an interim manager, there needs to be a real long term candidate chosen and it doesn't look like there is one at the minute.

From an Arsenal fan.

nullzero

bangkok wrote: »

"Pogba was absolutely terrible tonight"

that is bullsh1t of the highest order, did you even look at the game?!

He was terrible by the standards of a top professional.

nullzero

ShaneU wrote: »

Would love to see Mata starting behind Lukaku with Fred and Pogba behind him. Matic has been a passenger all season

Martial needs to start.

Shaw was great. Bailly did well

Martial started on Saturday, just putting it out there...

Pheonix10

Pheonix10 wrote: »

So I missed the game, did we give the fighting performance busting a gut to every ball or a pile of ****?

Imo every tried, which was good to see

nullzero

Adamocovic wrote: »

That's fair enough but just felt Matic was doing so in different situations and parts of the attack.

Pogba was providing glimpses of good link up play and passes, but as always it's a problem of consistency. To say he is absolutely terrible I don't agree with.

Don't think any player was brilliant but I'd have rated Pogba in the upper half more so than being the worse.

Thought Shaw looked good again, probably our best. He too had mistakes as well mind you.

Pogba looks well off the pace, he hasn't been injured and hasn't been running himself into the ground. I felt for a player of his ability his performance tonight wasn't good enough.

bangkok

mourinho is done imo. just going though the motions. 1 sub tonight when they needed a spark. hopefully get a new manager after the newcastle game

allthedoyles

Don't think the team are playing for their manager

bangkok

"I'm surprised that he survived after Saturday" "I think he's embarrassing the club." Paul Scholes is pulling no punches tonight

Trigger

Shīt, boards is gonna explode...

Probably for the best

jayo26

10,016 boom.



Giggsy in

Lets get this to 20000

Wegner in

Adamocovic

Long live Phil Jones

Adamcp898

Ed luvz Mino 4eva 2k18

We're going to win a game, we're going to win a game

jayo26

Adamocovic wrote: »

Long live Phil Jones

Phone Jones career is like this thread...

You want it gone but it just keeps hanging in there to the bitter end.

dulux99

We need an overhaul. Every other top club in the world has a director of football, we should have one and leave the manager manage. It's too much for one man to do everything in this day and age. Football has moved on.

jayo26

dulux99 wrote: »

We need an overhaul. Every other top club in the world has a director of football, we should have one and leave the manager manage. It's too much for one man to do everything in this day and age. Football has moved on.

That's what we have unofficially!! Jose has **** all to do apart from manage the problem is our dof has no idea to lay out a plan for a football club to grow on the pitch with an identity.

bangkok

dulux99 wrote: »

We need an overhaul. Every other top club in the world has a director of football, we should have one and leave the manager manage. It's too much for one man to do everything in this day and age. Football has moved on.

We need mourinho out of the club

thegreengoblin

'We don't have the technical quality to build from the back.'

Mourinho in his press conference. And whose fault is that? He's had ample opportunity to sort that out if he wanted to.

So if we do get a new manager in do they get money in January

adox

Deleted User wrote: »

So if we do get a new manager in do they get money in January

I’d be very doubtful Jose will be gone before then.
This is Man Utd.

Kirby

This team needs a right back and a central midfielder. Don't need another 200 million to fix this, just two players and a new manager.

Jose is picking the wrong team. The wrong formation and the wrong players. He needs to go at this stage. He isn't going to turn it around.

patmac

beakerjoe wrote: »

God this is a boring match.

Watching Utd this season has been a choir. Im watching out of duty more than actually enjoying it. Its a sad state of affairs.

You can sing it, it’s just getting annoying now, the Alexis pass/cross that went out for a throw was one of several wtf moments this season. I dislike Mourinho but him getting paid €500k per week and to produce that, Christ he should be run out of the club.
I was 13 when United last got relegated and it was tough and the club was a real mess then but with the right man in charge I.e. the Doc we bounced back, Jose is not the man to do that.

adox

adox wrote: »

I’d be very doubtful Jose will be gone before then.
This is Man Utd.

Maybe im getting caught up in the hype but it really feels like thevend is near

Kirby

Kirby wrote: »

This team needs a right back and a central midfielder. Don't need another 200 million to fix this, just two players and a new manager.

Jose is picking the wrong team. The wrong formation and the wrong players. He needs to go at this stage. He isn't going to turn it around.

What formation you thinking we need a right side attacking player if we playing 4 at the back

uncleoswald

thegreengoblin wrote: »

'We don't have the technical quality to build from the back.'

Mourinho in his press conference. And whose fault is that? He's had ample opportunity to sort that out if he wanted to.

Everyone else's apparently.

kstand

If a player sums up the Mourinho era, this season and last, it’s Matic. 40m worth of over-rated ordinary rubbish. No coincidence that he was the one wheeled out to a press conference after West Ham. Same again tonight.

Spideog Rua

Something something biased moderation

Trigger

How is boards still running, everything we have been told is a lie.. long live superthreads.. overthrow the mods.. take back the forum!

Make Boards great again

Robson99

Kirby wrote: »

This team needs a right back and a central midfielder. Don't need another 200 million to fix this, just two players and a new manager.

Jose is picking the wrong team. The wrong formation and the wrong players. He needs to go at this stage. He isn't going to turn it around.

Replace Valencia with Dalot, Fellani with Hererra and Matic with Fred and at least there might be some purpose to our play
Matic is really offering nothing in the middle of the park

bucketybuck

Kirby wrote: »

This team needs a right back and a central midfielder. Don't need another 200 million to fix this, just two players and a new manager.

Jose is picking the wrong team. The wrong formation and the wrong players. He needs to go at this stage. He isn't going to turn it around.

That might be true if Jose hadn't picked pretty much every possible combination of players at this stage. The deckchairs in that sinking squad have been rearranged more times than the sides of a rubix cube.

Would I be incorrect in saying that United's performances have deteriorated markedly since the point last season when Jose gave into the cries for three in midfield, and regularly started playing three in midfield? As opposed to just Matic and Pogba there?

Robson99

kstand wrote: »

If a player sums up the Mourinho era, this season and last, it’s Matic. 40m worth of over-rated ordinary rubbish. No coincidence that he was the one wheeled out to a press conference after West Ham. Same again tonight.

Totally agree with this

adox

Deleted User wrote: »

Maybe im getting caught up in the hype but it really feels like thevend is near

Oh it is but there’s no modern club that can drag this out like Utd.

The ramifications for the board when he does go will be or at least should be quite big. I’m sure Woodward is hesitant to go back to the Glazers and tell them he has sacked his third manager in 6 years.

Trigger

bucketybuck wrote: »

That might be true if Jose hadn't picked pretty much every possible combination of players at this stage. The deckchairs in that sinking squad have been rearranged more times than the sides of a rubix cube.

Would I be incorrect in saying that United's performances have deteriorated markedly since the point last season when Jose gave into the cries for three in midfield, and regularly started playing three in midfield? As opposed to just Matic and Pogba there?

That's actually a great point that will he lost to the end of this thread.. be sure to post it again in the new one as it's a proper topic to debate..

Turtwig

Fck! Fck! Fck! Threads's reached capactity! It's gonna explode. The hamsters! Shttt! Somebody get them out of there!

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