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Manchester United Thread [2011/2012]

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adedawson

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we need to play this game Euro style, 4-5-1. Carrick, Jones and Giggs in the middle with Valencia and Nani on the wings. Hopefully raf can play at rb.

-----------De Gea-----------
Rafael Ferdinand Smalling Evra
--------Carrick Jones--------
-Valencia ---Giggs -----Nani-
-----------Rooney----------

best team we could field at this time, flaky but could work. Just that problem in CM and defence still :(.
 
Pogba4Now

Pogba4Now

Team Captain
Is Smalling gonna be back in the next game? I prefer Rafael at RB more than anyone else. Even Fabio is as good as him. I dont understand why Fergie is not using them. Playing Jones, Smalling and Valencia out of position is not doing them any good.
 
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RockShow

Youth Team
In all honesty we made it very easy for the newcastle midfield. we did not spread the play once in the entire game. we would push a wing, get closed out, try to push it again when play should have been switched, then lose the ball. newcastle had very little running to do. giggs had a howler and carrick wasnt much help.

we also really missed vidic against to very good holding center forwards, ferdinand was never the physical type of defender and had real issues all game dealing with NU's 2 center forwards. jones being a 19 year old did himself proud, regardless of the OG.

all in all it was a sad showing. we played the way NU needed us to play.
 
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Help?

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We got ****ed and exposed no other way to put it. And Carrick is ****. Oh he is great against bottom half, but top half...
 
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clash

Senior Squad
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adedawson

Senior Squad
VdS, Neville, Scholes, Brown, O'Shea, Hargreaves, Fletcher. I cant stop thinking about how we have lost all these players, a massive wealth of experience, we need more replacements.

O'Shea and brown in particular would of been very useful.
 
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adedawson

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"No changes, no injuries on Wednesday, same squad for Sunday. Smalling still has nasty bout of tonsillitis, expect him back in training on Monday. Evans still has calf injury."

"Anything can happen in these games, cup games, derby games but City have the home draw so it's their advantage."

On transfers: "What can you get in January? The players we'd like we can't get. If the alternative is to sign a 2nd-rate player, we don't want to do that. our injuries have led to fans wanting us to sign someone, but I don't want to sign a player who won't get a game when everyone's fit because he's not good enough."

On Lampard: "Do you really think Chelsea would sell to United in January? there's no foundation in that. Chelsea want to do something in the second half of the season so they want to keep their best players."

On title race: "I can't see anyone outside top 3 winning the league. Very easy to write Spurs off but in my mind they're playing the best football in the country at the moment."

On African Cup of Nations: "Kolo toure hasn't played much, so it's really only one player City will miss - and I think Yaya might stil be available on Sunday, I don't know. I don't think ACN has a big impact on clubs, I think history shows that."
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Great... no Smalling and no transfers... O Joy. I can feel and hammering on the horizon.

guess that means jones will be at the back then were gonna have a million wingers on the field lol, I bet we have nani, valencia, giggs, park, Carrick. O god I just had a horrible thought, it maybe Valencia at RB with Gibson in the middle!

Unless he dumps rooney in CM and has a striker up front.

Maybe they should give Pogba & Morrison a shot. Be some nice experience.
 
Arnau

Arnau

NGR LVR
It's all over the internet that Martin Ferguson were syping Isaac Cuenca. Stay away from him, not enough wingers in the squad?!
 
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Haarithan

Reserve Team
Haha indeed. :tongue:

 
yoyo913

yoyo913

Team Captain
http://www.goal.com/en/news/9/engla...ed-insist-wayne-rooney-is-not-for-sale-amidst

Rooney moved to deny the story on Twitter, writing: "The Independent are talking absolute rubbish. My future is with Manchester United - the club and I are totally committed to each other.

"The manager and I have no issues and anyone who says different doesn't know what they are talking about."

Before the newspaper report has been published, United have acted quickly to dismiss the speculation and insist their player is not on his way out of the club. They released a joint statement alongside Rooney's managerial group on their official website.
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ShiftyPowers

ShiftyPowers

Make America Great Again
Rafa Honigstein gave a breakdown of how these things usually work, basically someone in the front office tells everything to a reporter "off the record", which doesn't mean "don't write about it", but rather means "don't quote me!" The Newspaper runs with the story. The club denies the story to save face with the player and fans. The Newspaper sucks it up and takes the abuse to maintain access to future stories.
 
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Sir Calumn

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Erm........ didnt we have pretty much exactly the same rumours last year....... resulting in a ****, **** run of form for Rooney for several weeks?
 
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Sir Calumn

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If Rooney ever went to City, that would be a complete shift in Manchester power which would last for years and years....

EDIT: If that shift hasnt happened already.
 
yoyo913

yoyo913

Team Captain
Sir Sir_Didier_Drogba;3163164 said:
If Rooney ever went to City, that would be a complete shift in Manchester power which would last for years and years....
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Yeah exactly. If they keep him they can still allude to having their United mystique. If he goes and a replacement comes it will just be a team of some good players with some average ones. I bet no one was expecting this in 08. I think the team with Rooney and Ronaldo was really great.

edit: However they are United and I think they will have a momentous up-rise again either next season or sometime after that.
 
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Sir Calumn

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Yeah, it was perhaps the best team in the world at that time, despite what Barcelona fans say.

Losing Ronaldo was a huge blow in exactly the way you say Rooney would be, not just in the losing of a great player but in the loss of prestige, the shift in footballing power. I guess with Scholes gone and Giggs past it, Rooney is now the last Manchester United 'galactico'.....
 
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