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Football Thread 2014/15 |OT2| Wake Me Up, Yaya Sanogo

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GorillaJu

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Sterling, Ibe, Markovic

Pace.

I do hope that Coutinho being out of the game was more of a one off. Southampton do probably have the best two holding midfielders in the league. And playing both Gerrard and Lucas behind him left a large gap for him to play off. Hopefully Can not playing was just so he can watch and get use to the pace of our league.

I felt like by having Henderson out on the right, we missed his link up through the middle. Although I was surprised that Coutinho didn't really drop deep to look for the ball.

Coutinho gets marked out of games quite a bit. When teams set up to stifle us, he tends to suffer most.
 

LTWheels

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Coutinho gets marked out of games quite a bit. When teams set up to stifle us, he tends to suffer most.

Yeah. I think that Sterling and Coutinho need to periodically switch positions to try and confuse the defence and to find defence.

I really felt with Henderson as wide right, we missed him linking up through the centre with Coutinho. If he's making runs through the middle, both of the holding midfielders can't just sit on Coutinho.
 

Yurt

il capo silenzioso
Well, actually ... it looks like his post-surgery recovery is going very well indeed. Could be ready for the seconda di campionato vs. Udinese. Fingers crossed, 'cause you know Marry is gonna sign Luisao, Vlaar or some other reject.
I don't think Luisao is going to happen since their president threatened to report us to FIFA publicly LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

I hope he does though, so they can throw Marry in Guantanamo or something

can you imagine? He'd be fucking awful in prison

Shawshank-Redemption-small.gif


"I'll give you this pack of cigarettes with an option to co-own the lighter"

"Okay Marry, how about you give me all of it, or I'm gonna co-own your ass in the showers"
 

Salazar

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Graeme Bailey ‏@GraemeBailey 30m
Despite Rojo's apology - Man Utd still confident of getting him. Hearing Anderson as well as Nani has been offered on loan as part of deal.

jQdeOpL.gif


This is a lot of effort to expend for a maybe-decent-but-erratic defender.

Malaga away is sexy.

 

Zabojnik

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There must be something fundamentally wrong with Woodward. That's the only explanation. Like he greets everybody, sits everybody down and then proceeds to shit on the negotiating table. Something.
 

Ushojax

Should probably not trust the 7-11 security cameras quite so much
Graeme Bailey ‏@GraemeBailey 30m
Despite Rojo's apology - Man Utd still confident of getting him. Hearing Anderson as well as Nani has been offered on loan as part of deal.

jQdeOpL.gif


This is a lot of effort to expend for a maybe-decent-but-erratic defender.

Levy is creaming himself right now over that £4m for Dier.
 

Gambit

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been out of the loop for a while and am catching up on footy and gaming news. Just saw the gamescom FIFA trailer proclaiming "next gen goalkeepers".

I am sorry, EA, how can you not prominently feature THE real-life, world-cup-winning, next-gen goal-keeper that is Manuel Neuer???
 

Bold One

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One of our fans approached Vidal at a Montecarlo casino yesterday. "Will you stay at Juve?" "Yes, yes, I'm staying."

That's it, then.



Search your heart, you know it to be true. You'll get someone better anyway. Rodgers will see to it.
United went cold on vidal over a week ago so no surprise there
 

pulga

Banned
I don't think Luisao is going to happen since their president threatened to report us to FIFA publicly LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

I hope he does though, so they can throw Marry in Guantanamo or something

can you imagine? He'd be fucking awful in prison

Shawshank-Redemption-small.gif


"I'll give you this pack of cigarettes with an option to co-own the lighter"

"Okay Marry, how about you give me all of it, or I'm gonna co-own your ass in the showers"

pls

There must be something fundamentally wrong with Woodward. That's the only explanation. Like he greets everybody, sits everybody down and then proceeds to shit on the negotiating table. Something.

PLS

You guys are killing me waaay to early in the morning lololol
 

Yurt

il capo silenzioso

Team Batman? tsk tsk. Stephan with his "I'm humoring you, mortals" face.

Somehow I missed this, LOOOOOOOOOOL.

that's alright no one reads my drivel anymore. I've spent ages uploading like FOUR gifs last night for Bla and he didn't even bother responding

fucking Bayern fans man. Should've sandwiched an average Chinese girl in there somewhere to get his attention
 

Ushojax

Should probably not trust the 7-11 security cameras quite so much
Looks like we will have one more go at getting Schneiderlin, £17m apparently. Any more than that is not worth doing when we have Capoue, Bentaleb, Sandro, etc.

Did he play well yesterday?
 

Wilbur

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The way Kagawa and now Mata get away with non-performance after non-performance, with the entirety of the blame placed at the feet of their teammates, is bizarre to me.

What a shit post. Numerous people in here have said Mata was shit. Numerous papers have said the same. What a SHIT post.
 

L1NETT

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Looks like we will have one more go at getting Schneiderlin, £17m apparently. Any more than that is not worth doing when we have Capoue, Bentaleb, Sandro, etc.

Did he play well yesterday?

Looked a yard or two off the pace but kinda to be expected
 

GorillaJu

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Looks like we will have one more go at getting Schneiderlin, £17m apparently. Any more than that is not worth doing when we have Capoue, Bentaleb, Sandro, etc.

Did he play well yesterday?

He went from bad to good then back to bad again. He had a few good efforts on goal.
 

Wilbur

Banned
Kagawa is like fucking Teflon in terms of avoiding criticism from United fans

It's a little harder with Kagawa because he hasn't been given chances in his favoured position to show anything. I've said a bunch of times though that excuse can only go so far and he has to start being made accountable.

I think part of it is that we know we're responsible for some of his poor form. We've repeatedly used him to do a job he can't do, and haven't given him the time to do something we know he can. Doesn't mean when he's poor he won't get criticised.
 

L1NETT

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Every club has players whose backs the fans love to get on. Further up the ladder tends to be the big name and big money signings, that comes with the territory. Get used to it

More important is the mental attitude of these players. Ramsey clearly has enough brain cells to deal with it. (as does Jason Kennedy for us; had a great start to the season)

Some players the fans attach themselves (in most cases for us it's either really technically gifted players, players who put an absolute shift it or homegrown players) and won't give hard time too.

Way of the world. Moaning about fans not giving enough stick to players is right odd.
 

Wilbur

Banned
It pisses me off when it comes to Rooney though, who the media fail to criticise EVER. Gerrard gets the same treatment.

Fans though, fuck it. They're not impartial. They're biased. It happens.
 

Yurt

il capo silenzioso
Kagawa is United's Isla, in every way imaginable.

Sell him and move on. Goodbye and thanks for the fish


Edit: and Rooney is United's Del Piero, pls accept it as well.
 

Walshy

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Are United fans really planning a protest against the Glazers at the next home game vs. QPR?

Seen it on Twitter, not sure if it's genuine or not.
 

Arnie

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On to the next one. I've missed this. The relentless accumulation of points in threes. Imagine if we roll into the Etihad and do a job. Imagine.

Looking forward to the match tonight. Chelsea have it easy to kick things off and I fully expect them to capitalise. Not getting completely murdered would be a good result for Burnley.
 
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