The Manchester United Thread

That tweet I posted about Depay earlier. The journo works for total voetball and he has said depay told him that he has spoke to Utd and talks went well. And that he has spoken to people at the clubs and it seems certain to happen in the summer. Sounds like a done deal to me :-)
 
bucky said: ↑
Isn't he the Dutch journalist who's supposed to be very reliable? @NL Max


City and Madrid being interested in Willems is surprising as well, I think.
Yep, that's him! The site he works for (Voetbal International) is 100% legit. They've been posting articles which say that Memphis' surroundings all seem to think he's coming. He is the dedicated PSV journalist so I think they got their information from him.
 
Article title originally said "dwarfs Giggs & Scholes" as you can see by the URL:

http://sport.bt.com/sport-football/...reer-dwarfs-giggs-and-scholes-S11363970483156

How much more indignity is Steven Gerrard expected to take? Of course there will be many in the game of football who cherish the British sporting tribalism which allows supporters to sing about his slip, and his stamp and the absence of titles. I, for one, don’t celebrate that partisanship as “part of the game". Gerrard has endured more than he ever expected.

He launched himself into an unthinkable challenge on Sunday because he had been launched into the cause of a Liverpool team which – as so often in this past decade – just could not do without him. That is a cross and a responsibility which the other legends of L4 who are up there alongside him such as Liverpool’s greatest of the great – Kenny Dalglish – just never had to bear.

When a 24-year-old Gerrard was agonising over whether to stay at Liverpool or leave for Chelsea, 11 long years ago, he opted for Anfield on the basis that the future looked promising. The club had bought Xabi Alonso at the time and Champions League football was a regular part of the landscape. But it has actually turned out to be a decade of wretched, never-ending transition for Liverpool, instead. Alonso left, Fernando Torres left, Luis Suarez arrived and left. And Gerrard was left behind, still carrying the club and the burden.

Consider this, when you weigh up all that Ryan Giggs achieved in his title laden years at Old Trafford and what Gerrard has been doing down the M62. When Giggs turned 35, in November 2008, Manchester United had moved on, re-tooled – to quote the vocabulary of their chief executive Ed Woodward - and the Welshman was just a very useful part of the fixtures and fittings. He played 15 league games in 2008-09, was a substitute almost as often, and was able to offer his best. Frank Lampard turned 35 in June last year, before a season in which he started 20 league games. When this season was only a third gone Gerrard – who is 35 in May - had already played 12 league games. December’s game against Stoke was only the second fixture he had not started, the League Cup aside. And he had always played the full 90 minutes.

It felt right that Brendan Rodgers began to use him less and I, for one, was much taken with his old team-mate Jamie Carragher’s notion of the new Gerrard manifestation we might be about to see. "Can you imagine the reaction inside Anfield with 30 minutes of a tight game remaining and [Gerrard] getting stripped for action?" he wrote in his Daily Mail column. "With space to exploit and energy to change the game, he could be a lethal weapon..." Carragher cited in that piece the impact that Giggs and Paul Scholes had made in their twilight years. But Gerrard did not find the same sunny uplands that those two found in their twilight years at Old Trafford. When the old enemy arrived on Sunday, Liverpool found themselves struggling again. Buckling. They sent their talisman him on to do a rescue job and, Gerrard being Gerrard, he will have believed that he had the powers to snap into the same tackles, tell opponents he was around. He didn’t.

Reaching great individual heights with a stellar team, as Giggs and Scholes did, is one thing. Reaching them with a side which so often been modest and moribund is something quite different. Supporters will chant and laugh and mock but Gerrard’s accomplishments are greater than those of Giggs and Scholes – whose names they laud.



Oh dear..... Worst thing I have ever read!!!!!!

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Theatreof Dreams said:
Article title originally said "dwarfs Giggs & Scholes" as you can see by the URL:

http://sport.bt.com/sport-football/...reer-dwarfs-giggs-and-scholes-S11363970483156
How much more indignity is Steven Gerrard expected to take? Of course there will be many in the game of football who cherish the British sporting tribalism which allows supporters to sing about his slip, and his stamp and the absence of titles. I, for one, don’t celebrate that partisanship as “part of the game". Gerrard has endured more than he ever expected.

He launched himself into an unthinkable challenge on Sunday because he had been launched into the cause of a Liverpool team which – as so often in this past decade – just could not do without him. That is a cross and a responsibility which the other legends of L4 who are up there alongside him such as Liverpool’s greatest of the great – Kenny Dalglish – just never had to bear.

When a 24-year-old Gerrard was agonising over whether to stay at Liverpool or leave for Chelsea, 11 long years ago, he opted for Anfield on the basis that the future looked promising. The club had bought Xabi Alonso at the time and Champions League football was a regular part of the landscape. But it has actually turned out to be a decade of wretched, never-ending transition for Liverpool, instead. Alonso left, Fernando Torres left, Luis Suarez arrived and left. And Gerrard was left behind, still carrying the club and the burden.

Consider this, when you weigh up all that Ryan Giggs achieved in his title laden years at Old Trafford and what Gerrard has been doing down the M62. When Giggs turned 35, in November 2008, Manchester United had moved on, re-tooled – to quote the vocabulary of their chief executive Ed Woodward - and the Welshman was just a very useful part of the fixtures and fittings. He played 15 league games in 2008-09, was a substitute almost as often, and was able to offer his best. Frank Lampard turned 35 in June last year, before a season in which he started 20 league games. When this season was only a third gone Gerrard – who is 35 in May - had already played 12 league games. December’s game against Stoke was only the second fixture he had not started, the League Cup aside. And he had always played the full 90 minutes.

It felt right that Brendan Rodgers began to use him less and I, for one, was much taken with his old team-mate Jamie Carragher’s notion of the new Gerrard manifestation we might be about to see. "Can you imagine the reaction inside Anfield with 30 minutes of a tight game remaining and [Gerrard] getting stripped for action?" he wrote in his Daily Mail column. "With space to exploit and energy to change the game, he could be a lethal weapon..." Carragher cited in that piece the impact that Giggs and Paul Scholes had made in their twilight years. But Gerrard did not find the same sunny uplands that those two found in their twilight years at Old Trafford. When the old enemy arrived on Sunday, Liverpool found themselves struggling again. Buckling. They sent their talisman him on to do a rescue job and, Gerrard being Gerrard, he will have believed that he had the powers to snap into the same tackles, tell opponents he was around. He didn’t.

Reaching great individual heights with a stellar team, as Giggs and Scholes did, is one thing. Reaching them with a side which so often been modest and moribund is something quite different. Supporters will chant and laugh and mock but Gerrard’s accomplishments are greater than those of Giggs and Scholes – whose names they laud.



Oh dear..... Worst thing I have ever read!!!!!!

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biggest load of bullshit ever
 
Theatreof Dreams said:
That tweet I posted about Depay earlier. The journo works for total voetball and he has said depay told him that he has spoke to Utd and talks went well. And that he has spoken to people at the clubs and it seems certain to happen in the summer. Sounds like a done deal to me :-)
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its on twitter it must be true.
 
PA11111 said:
city are buying ronaldo and liverpool are signing falcao according to twitter
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Manchester United's interest in Memphis Depay is getting more serious and PSV have already opened up talks with potential replacements, according to reports emanating from Holland.
Voetbal International suggests the interest from Man United is now so strong that PSV have already opened talks with FC Twente for Jesus Corona as an alternative for Depay.

The 21-year-old has been heavily linked with a move to Man United more so than any other player since Louis van Gaal took over in the summer.
Depay himself helped speculation spread like by dropping some hints on social media about where his future lay
 
[h=1]PSV target Corona to replace Depay as Manchester United interest gets serious[/h]Posted by admin on March 23rd, 2015 10:48 PM | Eredivisie, Transfer News Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on delicious Share on digg Share on stumbleupon Share on reddit Share on email More Sharing Services


PSV Eindhoven have set their sights on Twente winger Jesus Corona as they search for a potential replacement for Memphis Depay this summer.

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Voetbal International are reporting that Manchester United’s interest in Memphis Depay is so serious that they have already began scouting out potential replacements, with opening talks already started with FC Twente for Mexican winger Jesus Corona
 
PA11111 said:
city are buying ronaldo and liverpool are signing falcao according to twitter
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WE ARE buying Pogba, Ronaldo, Bale, De Bryne, Roy of the Rovers, Billy the Fish, Johnny X, Soccer Dog, Hatch from Escape to Victory and Danny Ings!!

FEAR US!!
 
wkdsoul said:
WE ARE buying Pogba, Ronaldo, Bale, De Bryne, Roy of the Rovers, Billy the Fish, Johnny X, Soccer Dog, Hatch from Escape to Victory and Danny Ings!!

FEAR US!!
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Danny Ings?! God ****, we cannot miss on that one!
 
Theatreof Dreams said:
UtdReport.com@UtdReport Follow Louis van Gaal is pushing #mufc to sign Stefan de Vrij (Lazio). The club are preparing a €25m bid. [leggo]
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****** ridiculous, if true. Don't get him when he was valued at 8M, but go for him at 25M? Despite knowing about the player? And he wasn't all that good last year as well, iirc.. Just stupid rumours.
 
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