The Manchester United Thread

Being facetious with the above transfer, but if United stay with 3/4 of the top into the jan window, i'd be very surprised if they don't go shopping if Rooney isn't firing.

Better today, and chances were good, but composure, composure, composure, composure. You need to have players capable of taking the half chances. they are more numerous than clean cut ones. It's the half chances that win you titles
 
Mike. said:
The point where LVG buys Cavani in january....
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Cavani is a strange one. I don't see him purely as a striker. He does seem to come from the wing position a lot into the middle. I would rather United keep Martial as a striker and bring someone similar, a winger who's willing to come inside without the ball and help Martial.

Thing is, teams are double - or even triple marking boy by now. And he still gets his chances. Reduce the pressure from him, get someone who's a goal scoring threat from the wing and start ******* HERRERA since he has nose for a goal. Or at least he gets into advanced positions and occupy one ******* body which leaves more space for the other attackers to do something.
 
Legend Incredimaria said:
It's one game...he had an awful game at Saint's mary last season but he bounced back
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Lets hope so. Jones is unreliable, Rojo is out, as is Shaw. United needs another defender and if he can't do that, well then, ****. Simple as. Oh, and Valencia is out too.
 
And another thing...the fans

Pls, stop booing the team...i could understand why they did in the PSV game and perhaps the leicester game but not this one...

We're not real madrid.
 
Legend Incredimaria said:
And another thing...the fans

Pls, stop booing the team...i could understand why they did in the PSV game and perhaps the leicester game but not this one...

We're not real madrid.
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Having just watched the highlights, I can more than understand the frustration. 21 total shots. ONE on target. At home. To a West Ham side who hit the woodwork twice and could well of won it. Now highlights don't tell the whole story of course, and some of Utd's play outside the final end product looked good. As did West Ham's in what looked a very entertaining goalless draw. But that lack of quality and composure in front of goal doesn't lie.

How Van Gaal can be surprised at the paying fans reaction, which has been an accumulation of performances (not results. But the paying public aren't often fooled just because the latter is happening); would be as big a frustration as anything to me as a Utd fan. Shrugs.
 
Scouseinthehouse said:
Having just watched the highlights, I can more than understand the frustration. 21 total shots. ONE on target. At home. To a West Ham side who hit the woodwork twice and could well of won it. Now highlights don't tell the whole story of course, and some of Utd's play outside the final end product looked good. As did West Ham's in what looked a very entertaining goalless draw. But that lack of quality and composure in front of goal doesn't lie.

How Van Gaal can be surprised at the paying fans reaction, which has been an accumulation of performances (not results. But the paying public aren't often fooled just because the latter is happening); would be as big a frustration as anything to me as a Utd fan. Shrugs.
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Nah, United were quite easily the better side. But you cant waste chances like we did today.
 
Scouseinthehouse said:
Having just watched the highlights, I can more than understand the frustration. 21 total shots. ONE on target. At home. To a West Ham side who hit the woodwork twice and could well of won it. Now highlights don't tell the whole story of course, and some of Utd's play outside the final end product looked good. As did West Ham's in what looked a very entertaining goalless draw. But that lack of quality and composure in front of goal doesn't lie.

How Van Gaal can be surprised at the paying fans reaction, which has been an accumulation of performances (not results. But the paying public aren't often fooled just because the latter is happening); would be as big a frustration as anything to me as a Utd fan. Shrugs.
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Some days you just cant score. Fans should know this by now. We had those types of games under Ferguson. Nothing new

I guess its just frustration from the whole drawing a few games, which I understand. We played really well today I thought, apart from the finishing.
 
Scouseinthehouse said:
Having just watched the highlights, I can more than understand the frustration. 21 total shots. ONE on target. At home. To a West Ham side who hit the woodwork twice and could well of won it. Now highlights don't tell the whole story of course, and some of Utd's play outside the final end product looked good. As did West Ham's in what looked a very entertaining goalless draw. But that lack of quality and composure in front of goal doesn't lie.

How Van Gaal can be surprised at the paying fans reaction, which has been an accumulation of performances (not results. But the paying public aren't often fooled just because the latter is happening); would be as big a frustration as anything to me as a Utd fan. Shrugs.
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Only thing i can pin down on van gaal is starting fellaini.

Other than that, it wasn't his fault. He can't finish the chances for the players...
 
The booing was embarrasing. It was a fun, entertaining game, played with plenty of speed and open football.

OT is turning into Bernabeu.
 
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Tyton said:
The booking was embarrasing. It was a fun, entertaining game, played with plenty of speed and open football.

OT is turning into Bernabeu.
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It's what i keep on saying...

I would lose it if i start seeing white handkerchiefs
 
Legend Incredimaria said:
And another thing...the fans

Pls, stop booing the team...i could understand why they did in the PSV game and perhaps the leicester game but not this one...

We're not real madrid.
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While it is not nice for the team to hear your own fans booing, they have paid a lot of money to watch the team they love play against West Ham (who are in good form but the haven't shaken of the title of being a "lower" prem team as of yet). One shot on target out of the (at least) 15+ shots would have anyone booing.
 
Bujakaa said:
As a football fan it gets depressive already. Dont want to get all the hate, but it even seems to get worse than City...
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Don't be absurd. He cleaned like 3 squads worth of players off the wage list.
 
Well, i may as well watch the wolfsburg match as it will be our last champions league game this season
 
As a life long United fan, I do agree with those United supporters booing United, but we must trust LVG and wait and see what he's trying build. So many football pundits have said in past that every new manager of club just starting out must build from back with solid defence. And we have certainly improved from last season in that area and not just relying David de Gea to bail us out of situation.
I can't understand LVG's tactics because my memory of him managing Barcelona, Bayern or even Ajax he didn't seem that his tactics were that defensive. Also I'm little disappoint that the board have distance themselves from rumours about Pep Guardiola joining United, I think he would be perfect to take over from Louis van Gaal project and take us to next level playing modern football (as great as Sir Alex was he did play old fashioned style football eg 4-4-2 English style). Mind you it would nice to see Ryan Giggs get a proper chance at the job and bring back the class of '92 again for backroom staff, but I don't he's ready for it yet. If I was choosing a new manager to replace LVG, I would look at Michael Laudrup (thinking outside the box), who looks to play with wingers and plays attacking style football. But also always rated Mark Hughes as a manager (one of our own), but don't think he would be given chance as he has managed City. Or even Gary Neville if he does a good job at Valencia.
 
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Just got back in and only find out Liverpool lost 2-0 away at Newcastle. After this weekend fixtures the United result doesn't look as bad now, at least we didn't lose.
 
It was a good game with poor finishing. If you're booing that, you're an idiot. You're a bigger fool if you go to a football game looking for guaranteed entertainment.
 
Mike. said:
It was a good game with poor finishing. If you're booing that, you're an idiot. You're a bigger fool if you go to a football game looking for guaranteed entertainment.
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There is no way booing was for just this game. It was accumulated frustration. We all want to be in an ideal world but when the team fails to score in 50% of the games then Van Gaal is just lucky that booing started game or 2 back. At any other club it would have started lot sooner.
 
Mike. said:
..... You're a bigger fool if you go to a football game looking for guaranteed entertainment.
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There's no 'guarantee' of course. But if you don't want to be entertained, what's the point of being a fan? I get the games become more and more results orientated. But it always was the release at the end of the working week. And it's not much of one if you're bored shitless.

The least we should expect is to be entertained IMHO. Even more so at today's scandalous prices.
 
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