Manchester United Thread

[shokz]

Manchester United Football Club

No Flaming - I can have this thread closed/deleted in a flash.

Club News
Speculation
Discussion
Debate
Don't mind articles from Newspapers, aslong as its not from The Mirror or The Scum.


Manchester United Squad 2004/05

Manager
Sir Alex Ferguson

Goalkeepers
13 - Roy Carroll
14 - Tim Howard
17 - Ricardo Lopez Felipe (Ricardo)

Defenders
2 - Gary Neville
5 - Wes Brown
8 - Rio Ferdinad
22 - John O'Shea
27 - Mikaël Silvestre
? - Gabriel Iván Heinze

Midfielders
3 - Phillip Neville
7 - Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro (Cristiano Ronaldo)
11 - Ryan Giggs
15 - José Pereira Kléberson (Kléberson)
16 - Roy Keane (c)
18 - Paul Scholes
19 - Eric Djemba-Djemba
24 - Darren Fletcher
25 - Quinton Fortune
? - Liam Miller

Forwards
9 - Louis Saha
10 - Ruud van Nistelrooy
12 - David Bellion
20 - Ole Gunnar Solskjær
21 - Diego Forlán
? - Alan Smith


Will be updated when the latest squad list+numbers are out next month.

Manchester United Club Honours

League Championship 1908, 1911, 1952, 1956, 1957, 1965, 1967, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003

FA Cup 1909, 1948, 1963, 1977, 1983, 1985, 1990, 1994, 1996, 1999, 2004

Football League Cup 1992

European Cup 1968, 1999

European Cup Winners' Cup 1991

European Super Cup 1991

Intercontinental Cup 1999

FA Community Shield(formally the FA Charity Shield) 1908, 1911, 1952, 1956, 1957, 1965*, 1967*, 1977*, 1983, 1990*, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2003 (*as joint holders)

Transfers In 2004/05
Carlos Queiroz (Assistant Manager)http://www.manutd.com/news/fullstory.sps?iNewsid=66221&itype=466&icategoryid=123 from Real Madrid - Free
Valter di Salvo (Fitness Coach) from Real Madrid - Free
Alan Smith from Leeds United - £7,000,000
Gabriel Heinze from Paris Saint-Germain - £6,900,000
David Gray from Heart of Midlothian - £50,000
Gerard Piqué Bernabéu from FC Barcelona - Undisclosed
Giuseppe Rossi from AC Parma - Undisclosed
Liam Miller from Glasgow Celtic - Free

Transfers Out 2004/05
Walter Smith (Assistant Manager)http://www.manutd.com/news/fullstory.sps?iNewsid=64758&itype=466&icategoryid=0 - Free
Nicky Butt to Newcastle United - £2,500,000
Mark Lynch to Sunderland - Free
Ben Williams to Crewe Alexandra - Free
Neil Wood to Coventry City - Free
James Jowsey to Rushden & Diamonds - Free
Daniel Pugh to Leeds United - Exchange
Daniel Nardiello to Barnsley - Loan
Eddie Johnson to Coventry City - Loan
Michael Stewart to Heart of Midlothian - Loan

Upcoming Fixtures 2004/05
July 31 (a) v Corinthian Casuals (3pm) (Reserves)
July 31 (Giants Stadium, New York) v AC Milan
August 3 (Old Trafford) v PSV Eindhoven (9pm)
August 5 (Old Trafford) v Urawa Red Diamonds (9pm)
August 8 (Community Shield) v Arsenal

 

[ogsimon]

i was waiting for someone to make this thread im suprised knowone thought of it before

 

[Fernandez]

it was my suggestion, so sorry you guys, and thanks to ljungberg08,
but our man u rumour threads kinda clog up the space, if all due to credit, maybe we should create a sub-forum for these threads that have clubs with a huge population of its fans registered on SG,

 

[Frostwolf]

Of course, major developments and transfers would be better off placed in the main Soccer forum, because not everyone would want to trawl through 20-30+ pages looking for something.

The Lee Martin transfer is an example of what could be placed in an exclusive club thread.

 

[shokz]

I have my doubts about Rio Ferdinand being fit for Sunday, two days without training, unless he takes a late fitness test.

Early return to the first-team for Wes Brown is possible.

Oh, just in on Sky Sports News, Sir Alex has turned up at the Reebok Stadium, 1 of over 30 or more witnesses

 

[Payaah]

soccerbest must have deleted his post

 

[Fernandez]

i fear for us, especially if ferdy gets banned, fortune and djemba-djemba might be called up, and hopefully brown gets fit again would leave us with

G.Neville
Brown
Silvestre
O'Shea

as our first-choice defenders, if brown does not get fit, i reckon o'shea might be pushed into central and p.neville or our youngster pugh play as left-back

 

[soccerbest]

Originally posted by DIOUF11
soccerbest must have deleted his post

well since the rio topic was posted by shokz, no point in starting the same one, so I delete it.

 

[or what?]

good idea, hope it improves on the Arsenal thread which is too filled with links in my humble opinion and not enough discussion on the teams play and other things like that.

G'luck to Manchester on the Christmas break.

 

[shokz]

Originally posted by Fernandez
i fear for us, especially if ferdy gets banned, fortune and djemba-djemba might be called up, and hopefully brown gets fit again would leave us with

G.Neville
Brown
Silvestre
O'Shea

as our first-choice defenders, if brown does not get fit, i reckon o'shea might be pushed into central and p.neville or our youngster pugh play as left-back

We could use Fortune as Left-back, but we're going to lose him and Eric Djemba-Djemba to the African Nations Cup. :s

 

[soccerbest]

Originally posted by shokz
We could use Fortune as Left-back, but we're going to lose him and Eric Djemba-Djemba to the African Nations Cup. :s

Fortune has been omitted froim the African Nation Cup, he wasn't selected so he is available for us. Not sure about Eric, but I think he will be picked for Cameroon. We have enough depth to cope though.

 

[Fernandez]

why is fortune omitted? would love him if he stayed but he deserved to be called up

 

[shokz]

Originally posted by Fernandez
why is fortune omitted? would love him if he stayed but he deserved to be called up

From what I've read, he didn't even want to play for South Africa.

 

[soccerbest]

Here is the reason.

http://www.wldcup.com/news/2003Dec/20031211_21312_world_soccer.html

 

[or what?]

that is sad by Fortune, because he would have needed caps to get a work permit, but now he is established he does what he did.
That's his decision regardless, I hope he doesn't regret it

 

[ogsimon]

Originally posted by or what?
good idea, hope it improves on the Arsenal thread which is too filled with links in my humble opinion and not enough discussion on the teams play and other things like that.

G'luck to Manchester on the Christmas break.

i actually agree with you.

 

[Fernandez]

in relevance to our match against spurs,
this season, we have not won a match that kicked-off on 4.05pm english time on a sunday, hope that will all change,
festive period might not be easy

Everton home on boxing day
Boro away on 28th
Villa away (FA Cup)
Bolton away on 7th
Newcastle home on 10th

and Villa are our opponents on the last matchday of the season

and this, who started this rumours anyway?
Midfield Dynamo

 

[Glorious]

I want someone else other than manu to win the league!

 

[Hang0ne]

about the rio case i just saw this on the bbc page " And even if the verdict goes against his man, Thwaites will point to the relatively minor £2,000 fine imposed on Manchester City's Christian Negouai for a similar offence earlier in the year. "

can someone tell me why there is even a case when you have this as an example

 

[Fernandez]

maybe because, rio wasnt stuck in a traffic jam like Negouai or the FA is simply biased