The Manchester United Thread

In any title chase, it's been first about where you are in the new year, and then end of feb.
 
I'm on board with the opinion of any win now being decisive for the remainder of the season in October. I have NEVER bought into when there's so many other factors to take into consideration. Injuries, number of cup tournaments to play, weather causing a backlog of games-there are simply too many variables to list. And of course there's the absurd results you get when a team much further down the table shocks a much stronger team. Then there's the small matter of transfer windows.

So the way I see it a win for either side right now benefits player/fan morale nothing more. It's only key further down the road. This is the Premier League after all when a club of any size can take out the giants when the giants are not on their game.
 
ajt09 said:
I'm on board with the opinion of any win now being decisive for the remainder of the season in October. I have NEVER bought into when there's so many other factors to take into consideration. Injuries, number of cup tournaments to play, weather causing a backlog of games-there are simply too many variables to list. And of course there's the absurd results you get when a team much further down the table shocks a much stronger team. Then there's the small matter of transfer windows.

So the way I see it a win for either side right now benefits player/fan morale nothing more. It's only key further down the road. This is the Premier League after all when a club of any size can take out the giants when the giants are not on their game.
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Exactly If it was so decisive, LVG would have won two titles. He didn't because picked up so few of the 78 points outside that.
 
Mike. said:
Exactly If it was so decisive, LVG would have won two titles. He didn't because picked up so few of the 78 points outside that.
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I think Mancini or Pelle ended up with a terrible record against the teams that finished in the top 4.

You really know who is in the running once the window opens at Jan or thereabouts, everyone has played everyone once, had a fixture pile up and you can really see where the strength in squad depth/form is.
 
wkdsoul said:
I think Mancini or Pelle ended up with a terrible record against the teams that finished in the top 4.

You really know who is in the running once the window opens at Jan or thereabouts, everyone has played everyone once, had a fixture pile up and you can really see where the strength in squad depth/form is.
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Think it was mancini. It just doesn't mean that much
 
Anthony said:
Paul Scholes really needs to shut the f**k up now.
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If you're going by the Daily Mail article, which is my guess, then the headlines are provocative. There was very little in what he said. He called this a "settling-in period" for United and said "it is going to take a bit of time for them to knit together" which he's right, we're slowly getting better game by game, and he did not say he is going to bet on Liverpool like one of the misleading sub titles suggests (what? the media misleading? no way) he said "If you were betting, you would be betting on Liverpool" - which is a fair statement as a pundit, giving his honest unbiased insight for the neutral. At the end of the day, he's trying to earn a living at this, I wouldn't hold a grudge against him for that.
 

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Scouseinthehouse said:
Completely disagree.

Aside from every point over a season being decisive by definition, games between the top sides are often the deciding factor to final placings and can be the all important difference between finishing 1st through 4th, or 5th/ 6th.

If you're involved in the top 4/ title hunt, you win that mini league of games between the big 4-6 clubs, there's every chance you're finishing above the rest of them.
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We won the little 'mini league' last season by a mile. We beat Leicester home and away, gained 2 points against Spurs and got 4 against City but we decided to throw away our season by failing to beat mid-table teams like Swansea, Man United, West Ham, Crystal Palace and the bus parker Allardyce.
 
damola3 said:
We won the little 'mini league' last season by a mile. We beat Leicester home and away, gained 2 points against Spurs and got 4 against City but we decided to throw away our season by failing to beat mid-table teams like Swansea, Man United, West Ham, Crystal Palace and the bus parker Allardyce.
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Since when is 5th (on goal difference may I add too) "mid-table"?
 
So the inevitable surprise sprung by Mourinho is Ashley Young, interesting.
 
RhQQ said:
So the inevitable surprise sprung by Mourinho is Ashley Young, interesting.
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Thats the only one I got wrong. Think he's only playing as Martial got injured in training yesterday. Young will be doing a good job helping Blind against Mane.
 
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