The Manchester United Thread

Use to like ray wilkins as pundit but after writing us off tomorrow night have changed my opinion stupid crome dome:@
 
Ronaldo said:
"To play for City not United? I'm not going to do that. Why? Because my heart's in Manchester United, that's why.


"I can say it would be very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very difficult to play at Manchester City. Very difficult because of Manchester United."


"I am a player of Real Madrid and I'm happy here, my family is happy and everything is going well for me here. The future? I don't know - only God knows the future.


"I can't say I'm never going back to Man United, but I can say I'm good here and I want to be here.


"Let's leave it at that and see what God gives me in the future, but I repeat I am happy here at Madrid."
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Cristiano Ronaldo rules out Manchester City move as his heart belongs to United | Manchester United Fixtures, News, Transfers | Sky Sports Football


Viva Ronaldo..
 
Real Madrid were such a classy club back in 50s and 60s. Even today they are tbh. All the help they offered during Munich air crash was nothing but incredible.


This warmth between Bernabeu and Busby grew out of mutual respect for each other’s teams, and led to some remarkable displays of generosity and charity when United were at their lowest. It grew out of the European Cup semi-final of April 1957, which Madrid won 5-3 on aggregate but were held to a stirring 2-2 draw in the second leg at Old Trafford.


Bernabeu was so impressed by the spirit and quality of United’s young side that he offered Busby a job. The Scot, though, was desperate to win in Europe with United, and said no.


Ten months later, United’s young team was devastated by tragedy. An air crash in Munich, 55 years ago last week, killed eight players, three staff and 10 others. They had just won a European Cup quarter-final. The dream of Busby’s side conquering Europe looked over.


United lost their semi-final to Milan three months after the crash but Milan were beaten 3-2 by Real Madrid in the final. Bernabeu, dedicated the win to his fallen friends from Manchester and even offered United the trophy, though it was turned down.
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This was nothing. They followed this with


If that offer was purely symbolic there were material pledges too, most significantly the offer to loan United the world’s finest footballer, Alfredo di Stefano, “the Blond Arrow”, for the 1958-59 season. “Bernabeu went to see Di Stefano about this,” Ludden said. “He was willing to go until the end of the season, United paying half his wages and Madrid the other half. But the Football Association blocked it as he would be taking the place of a potential British player.”
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Yes. They were ready to loan Di Stefano to ManUtd to help us. :proud:


How Real Madrid helped to rebuild Manchester United after Munich air disaster - European - Football - The Independent


Great read tbh, shows how classy clubs were back then.
 
haha nice! i bet rvp to scored first but owell game on! :) i bet on score to be 1-1. could be 2-2 goals already!
 
id love to see the stats on ronaldo's freekicks at united and real. i just seem to always see him hit the wall! :) youtubed his freekicks just to see he can score freekicks lol ive witnessed him hitting the wall more often personally but i dont watch all utd or real games to be fair. that away goal may be crucial
 
Good half i reckon not sure about kagawa would maybe replace him with clevers or valencia and put roo were kagawa playing, would be same shape just give rafa more cover on that side not having best game atm imo.
 
craig curtis said:
Good half i reckon not sure about kagawa would maybe replace him with clevers or valencia and put roo were kagawa playing, would be same shape just give rafa more cover on that side not having best game atm imo.
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Can see Rafael coming off for Cleverley. We need to get hold of the ball in midfield more, but I'm surprised we didn't start Valencia for his defensive abilities. Clearly SAF wanted Kagawa to run in behind but we haven't had enough possession to get it up there.
 
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