Eh, I don't think we're picking up any more injuries than usual. It's the usual suspects like Kaboul and Sandro, plus unfortunate ones like the ankle injuries to Paulinho and Vertonghen. A few muscle strains have popped up after Christmas but that's happened to every team, it always does. We only have two players not in training and that's Lamela and Chiriches.
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Eh, I don't think we're picking up any more injuries than usual. It's the usual suspects like Kaboul and Sandro, plus unfortunate ones like the ankle injuries to Paulinho and Vertonghen. A few muscle strains have popped up after Christmas but that's happened to every team, it always does. We only have two players not in training and that's Lamela and Chiriches.
Broder Salsa
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and you rot your career away at Roma.
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Lambda Pie
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He made a similar first time pass in the match against Fulham... to Young :'(First time touches are for players that can't first time pass.
Sherwood has had a good start points wise. Why does he get so much shit from everyone?
Is the good start because of easy fixtures?
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Gave you a player that will only make it so much more frustrating that he got shit all around him, bought the new CDM boss of the league. You're welcome.
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lol received one of those Nigerian scam letters. Apparently I am entitled to $15m+ US because one of my relatives died in a plane crash, he was an engineer who saved all of that and had made no will prior to his death, I am the closest relative. The English is so bad, but it's so good lol.
Maybe its true.
It's uncanny how much he looks like Nikolaj Sonne.
Sherwood gets stick because he's English, been a manager for 2 months and rocks a gilet on the touchline. In terms of fixtures I wouldn't say they've been easy but they haven't been horrendous either, trips to Southampton and Old Trafford, home against Everton and City, we did well to get 9/12 from those tough fixtures.
I'm confident about tomorrow anyway, we have the best away record in the league and have only conceded 14 goals on the road. When you consider that 6 of those came in one game then that's pretty good. Aside from City and Liverpool
and West Ham
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Hahah...
Sheeeeeeit.
Forgot to mention, the fee to receive the money is half of the total lol.
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Wheelchair always likes to act the hard man, until someone strokes his leg and then he goes down like a sack of fucking crutches.
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Oh come on. :lol
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Ordered something from Sainsbury's Entertainment last night, but they cancelled the order this morning :/ Sent no reason why.
Because a lot of people see him as Harry mk. 2. He comes across as tactically naive at times, and makes strange subs (Defoe for Eriksen, when we were clinging on at the weekend was an emotional sub because it was his last WHL game), as well as his persistence with Bentaleb. We're pretty shoddy in the first half of games too (Palace, Everton, United, Southampton, City, Hull all dominated the opening 45 minutes of the game), but we've somehow only dropped points in two of those games.
He's still doing well despite all of this, so I can't really complain, and we've had a few tough fixtures in there too. We've dropped 7 points from the 9 games he's managed, and only City and Chelsea have taken more points than us since he took over. I really don't know how to feel to be honest.
If Andy Mitten is to be believed then United are set to get rid of/lose to retirement at least 8 players.
Rio, Vidic, Evra and probably Giggs will go, but that still leaves at least 4 players who United want gone. We may be in a situation where a few fan favourites will be shown the door. We may not even manage to shift out all these players either.
Rio, Vidic, Evra and probably Giggs will go, but that still leaves at least 4 players who United want gone. We may be in a situation where a few fan favourites will be shown the door. We may not even manage to shift out all these players either.
Buttner, Nani, Anderson (for good) and Chicha.
I think RVP may want out too.
Maybe. I can't see too many suitors paying the price we'll want and the wages he's on though.
Giggs will be our new manager when Moyes gets sacked in the summer.
We will then resume our dominance and return to the top of the table.
in the championship.
But if he is getting the results does it really matter how he is getting them?
I think he'll story, but I'm not so sure how happy he'll be in doing so.
Sadly, I think Buttner will stay. We've sold Fabio and Evra will leave in the summer. If we sell Buttner then we'll have no left backs. Can't take the risk of missing out on a target and being left with nobody to fill that position.
Cavani to Chelsea, RVP to PSG.
Rvp, rooney, De Gea, Giggs, Rafael, Cleverley, Nani and Ando.
René Meulensteen: "Shit."
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There is no way RVP, Rooney and DDG are leaving. No way. We don't need the money, we aren't forced to sell anyone unless they offer exorbitant amounts.
That's a bit of where my confusion comes from. If he's getting the points, I don't care. I'm just wary that teams will start to take real advantage of the way we're being set up. That midfield hasn't really commanded a game at all, so you get the feeling that if we keep ceding the middle of the park, we're gonna get found out sooner rather than later.
Excellent. Sleeper agent Holtby will do us another favour.
Our midfield never commands a game when Sandro isn't playing, we saw that early in the season when Dembele/Paulinho were the 2 CMs. At the moment our defense is doing an adequate job and Ade is doing the business at the other end, once Sandro and Townsend are ready to start games we will look vastly better.
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I am sure that Allegri would love to bring Rooney to Arsenal in the summer, hopefully the board will throw money at him.
Yeah absolutely. Sherwood's tactical naivety is overstated in the media I think, but there are times you look at how his team is set out and you think 'what the fuck is he doing?' Michael Cox's article on the Everton game was quite good, and highlighted that Spurs just had no definable shape. If Everton had a striker on the pitch, they would have won quite easily.
The better teams will punish that kind of thing.
Well DDG just signed a new deal (or is going to), Rooney's only destination seems to be Chelsea which we won't sell to and RVP I just know won't go anywhere, he's got the little boy guiding him.
We're going to lose Giggs, Nani, Hernandez, Anderson, Vidic, Evra and Rio.
Earlier in the season we had that whole pass the ball forever tactic that inflated our possession and frustrated opponents. It meant we were creatively devoid, but rarely over exposed in the middle.
Sure but that's the problem. Without Sandro we look too thin in the middle when we (rightly) try to impose ourselves on teams.
To be fair to Sherwood, his plan wasn't totally stupid, the players just didn't execute it in the first half, we let Everton play. Second half we got in their faces and they never even came close to scoring. It has been a constant problem the way we start sluggishly at home, we were lucky Palace didn't beat us the other day. We still have too many players who aren't used to the intensity of the PL and the pressure of playing for a big club.
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i agree, Spurs's players have no idea what's it like to play in a big club.
Sure. I wish Capoue could start playing the way he did at the start of the season though. I don't know if it's a confidence knock or what, but he was great at winning the ball back and recycling it before he got injured. Bentaleb for me just doesn't stand up to the strength of some other midfields. The sooner Sandro is back, the better, but I just don't like relying on a player who seems to be picking up injuries a bit more often than I remember.
How would you feel about him still being there next season?
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Depends. If we get 4th and he shows some tactical acumen then I'd be fine with it.
If he doesn't do either of those things then he will be replaced by Van Gaal. He has to earn it, like any interim manager.
I really hope this is true. Sure Fulham will be tired from Sheffield United and Man United, but if West Ham and Arsenal could play with a strike, why couldn't Fulham.
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