Jump to content
IGNORED

The old Man Utd Thread

ThePixelbarks

By ThePixelbarks
in Sport

 Share

Recommended Posts

spork

spork

Posted
Posted

Apparently Martial drove away from the stadium. Might be because his girlfriend has gone into labour although no one seems to know just yet. 

 

Shame there aren't more of the youngsters in the squad today. 

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Liamness

Liamness

Posted
Posted

Would've been nice to see some youngsters given a run out today, given nothing is really at stake. Blind and Darmien may not be at the club much longer. Bench is quite experienced too. Playing Young is also wierd unless Mourinho has suddenly decided he trusts Shaw enough to play in a cup final. Looking at who's out, here's my guess for the team on Saturday:

  

            Sanchez      Lukaku

                  Pogba          

             Matic      Herrera

Young                                Valencia
       Jones     Smalling   Lindelof

                  De Gea

 

Playing a back three over the last few games could all be a ruse, I suppose. Personally think a 4-3-3 with Smalling out and Lingard in would be better.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Liamness

Liamness

Posted
Posted

Well, guess that's going on MOTD first then. Don't think there's going to be any cause for them to do that thing where they switch from match to match.

 

As I haven't seen it discussed in here, yesterday the club announced that Rui Faria (Mourinho's extremely long-serving assistant manager) will be leaving at the end of the season. Club are saying it's to spend more time with his family, but seems as likely to me that he wants to make the step up. Certainly has the experience. Might be good for Mourinho to bring in some fresh ideas; you could definitely say that Fergie benefitted from having new asisstants come in, particularly Steve McClaren and Carlos Quieroz. You get the sense that Mourinho has had a cloud following him ever since his time at Real Madrid, and maybe keeping the same people around him has not helped with that.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Liamness

Liamness

Posted
Posted

Yeah while I'm very happy for ex-players to be involved in the coaching set up and in the running of the club (would love one or two more in the boardroom, or in executive roles, just so it isn't purely people thinking about how to get the maximum sponsorship income from the global potato snack industry) they shouldn't be fast tracked over people who are, you know, actually qualified. If they want a big job like assistant manager, they should have to interview for it like anyone else.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
5R7

5R7

Posted
Posted

To be fair we need to replace young and valencia, they are both 33 next year... Or ya know, play Shaw!

 

To today then, what do we reckon, sit off like we did against sevilla and lose, or attack like against City and win!?... Or both?

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Liamness

Liamness

Posted
Posted

We do need new fullbacks, and we will likely pay through the ear for them. Mourinho's "striker money for fullbacks" criticism of City will appear even more hypocritical than it did at the time. It might be the case though that we sign someone who can slot in immediately at left back, but sign someone at right back who is younger who could gradually take the load off Valencia.

 

Chelsea's surrender to Newcastle was miserable,  their morale is clearly low, and we're going into the game with much more momentum. So we should take the game to them, surely.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Nicky

Nicky

Posted
Posted

everyone and their dog expects us to sit back and counter. i'd love to shock chelsea and fucking go at it at 100% from the off to give them something to think about for the first 15minutes then be a bit more cautious for the rest of the half then do the usual "turn up for the 2nd half" routine

Link to comment
Share on other sites
feltmonkey

feltmonkey

Posted
Posted

I don't know that we are going into the game with more momentum.  We've been abject for a month, scraping a win against Arsenal reserves, losing to Brighton, drawing 0-0 with West Ham, and beating Watford 1-0 in a glorified testimonial.  Meanwhile, before the Newcastle match Chelsea have been in very good form, wining five on the trot then drawing with Huddersfield in a game where only sheer bad luck prevented them from winning comfortably.  Both teams are Jekyl and Hyde, it's a difficult game to predict.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Guest
This topic is now closed to further replies.
 Share
Go to topic listing

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.
×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

We have placed cookies on your device to help make this website better. You can adjust your cookie settings, otherwise we'll assume you're okay to continue. Use of this website is subject to our Privacy Policy, Terms of Use, and Guidelines.

  I accept