The Manchester United Thread

The Dutchman spent a total of 18 years with Ajax and after work with the Serbian FA as well, will now start his fresh journey with Manchester United.


De Regt has a history of working with some of the Netherlands’ finest talents, including Gregory van der Wiel, Rafael van der Vaart, Wesley Sneijder, Nigel de Jong, Johnny Heitinga and Jan Vertonghen.
 
Gonna be more news in the coming days apparently about the youth restructure etc. Also heard today we have signed 5 new academy players from Switzerland and Holland. Things moving fast he sounds of things.
 
YES! More Dutch influence. Let Van Gaal completely take over everything!

This get's our seal of approval. ;).
 
The Dutch must be doing something right in scouting department, if they consistently produce more talent than most countries 4x times their size.
 
Is that scouting or development?

Imo, recently the scouting has been terrible in the Eredivisie.
 
lxl Ra lxl said:
Is that scouting or development?

Imo, recently the scouting has been terrible in the Eredivisie.
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Both. The scouting in general has been poor, and not just us, but the entire classic top 4 over last 4-5 years
 
Bujakaa said:
Manchester United fans plan £71 Midtjylland ticket protest - BBC Sport

FC Midtjylland trying to make fast money, but this is just disrespectful and silly.
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Scandalous disgrace. This **** LONG needs to stop. We had similar with Sion. They charged Bordeaux and Kazan less than half of the 50 odd quid they charged us the last group game. And for a completely dead game at that. You used to have put a fixed set of prices into UEFA the start the season but that's all gone out of the window now. Madrid are another set of twats. That was £70 plus last year. But then when the likes of Arsenal rape opposition European fans blind they feel justified.

And to top it off, Midtjylland is in the **** end of Denmark and an absolute ***** to get to. Really feel for anyone that's travelled out there.
 
Oh, watched most of the Benfica game last night for this Renato Sanchez kid we're both heavily interested in.

They had him playing as one of the two holding mids who was the one with the license to support in more of a box to box role at times. Big and strong for his age. Kept everything nice and simple. Intelligent in his positional play. Decent but nothing like the exorbitant fee being banded around. But that was just one game.
 
Scouseinthehouse said:
Oh, watched most of the Benfica game last night for this Renato Sanchez kid we're both heavily interested in.

They had him playing as one of the two holding mids who was the one with the license to support in more of a box to box role at times. Big and strong for his age. Kept everything nice and simple. Intelligent in his positional play. Decent but nothing like the exorbitant fee being banded around. But that was just one game.
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Yeah, plus as the guy is a perfect Lukaku look-alike, MANUMAD mate would be over the moon. :D
 
Well if nothing else this game tomorrow is going to expose how brutally **** we are if we can't beat a team convincingly who last played on December 10th.
 
For all the moaning about our academy, we are top of the U21 league with game in hand.

Also average age of the squad that played last game was just 18.6 years. That's as good as being eligible for U18 but playing against U21.

Our defence was Fosu Mensah, Williams, Poole, Riley. 3 out of 4 defenders are eligible for U18 team.

Only positive thing about this season is our youngsters getting so many chances. Media can go about the shiny new toys and grounds for youth players but if they don't get chances for first team then it's all just waste of money and time.
 
TRAVELLING SQUAD TO FACE FC MIDTJYLLAND

De Gea, Romero, Love, McNair, Smalling, Blind, Poole, Riley, Carrick, Herrera, Schneiderlin, Lingard, Pereira, Weir, Mata, Memphis, Martial, Keane.
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Interesting lineup, no Rooney, no Bojack Crossman. I'm guessing he will give a few youngsters a chance after all.
 
Tyton said:
Interesting lineup, no Rooney, no Bojack Crossman. I'm guessing he will give a few youngsters a chance after all.
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Deservedly so. Keane is in red hot form for U21s (yeah way too lower standard) deserves a shot imo. Also Weir, Riley have impressed big time for U21s.

Poole is an interesting option. Started only 2 games for United as he got clearance only in Jan. He played in league 2 as a 16 year old.

Edit: This is something I will miss big time if Jose become ManUtd manager. Always exciting to see youngsters making their way to the first team.
 
sunilvk7 said:
Edit: This is something I will miss big time if Jose become ManUtd manager. Always exciting to see youngsters making their way to the first team.
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Yeah, people ***** about Van Gaal going into season with thin squad, but he does this on purpose so there are opportunities to youngsters.
 
Tyton said:
Yeah, people ***** about Van Gaal going into season with thin squad, but he does this on purpose so there are opportunities to youngsters.
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Exactly. I was explaining same thing in other forum but few are thick as pig **** to understand that. Once they turn against manager then everything is seen in negative light even though manager himself confirmed the reason for smaller squad many times.
 
Theatreof Dreams said:
Gonna be more news in the coming days apparently about the youth restructure etc. Also heard today we have signed 5 new academy players from Switzerland and Holland. Things moving fast he sounds of things.
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any more info on these signings?
 
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