14 May 2014 10:08:22
I was struggling to sleep last night and started thinking of the "if only's" of our team. In particular if only Fabio & Anderson had turned out ok they would be perfect for our LB & BBM, and that then spiralled into other players that failed to meet expectations whether my own or the medias, so here are a few categories that may be interesting and my choices - you can go on and on here believe me. Feel free to add your own categories because I bet you will find yourself changing yours after you hear a few ideas from other people:

Current Utd Who Hasn't Turned Out how you hoped - Rooney

If Only For Our Problems Now - Anderson as a BBM

Archive Utd Player - Lee Sharpe (When I was a kid I thought he was amazing and he just never got to where I thought he would).

Archive Other - Paul Gascoigne

Media Humble Pie (Over Hyped) - Joe Cole

Kaizer Soze (Everywhere in the media then puff they vanish) - Ariel Ortega, the next Maradona apparently

Future Flop - Barkley

Personal Fave You Watched And Faded - Stephen Ireland, at City he looked awesome and I always watch him closely when he plays, just didn't develop how I hoped.

Maybe some of the older guys will have some Utd players pre 90's that they remember a major fuss being made over and nothing happened.

1.) 14 May 2014
Barkley will be far from a flop Beast lad.

2.) 14 May 2014
BBM - Is that box to box midfielder? Or Beef burger meal?

3.) 14 May 2014
But then again you think Mata is a flop so I am not surprised by your opinion.

4.) 14 May 2014
Big Busty Mature?

5.) 14 May 2014
Must be box to box midfielder, Ando goes for chicken royale with cheese.

6.) 14 May 2014
Big Beautiful Man?

7.) 14 May 2014
I was expecting some type of announcement today from the club regarding our new manager.

For me, this needs to be done and dusted, and would have been if we had already agreed a deal with LVG, which we obviously haven't.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if LVG ends up at Spurs because of our procrastinating chief executive.

Without sounding like a negative nelly, I am slightly concerned. We should be moving full steam ahead and not pratting about, which got us in the crap we ended up in last season.
Once the WC starts, it becomes so difficult to get deals done. We can't afford to wait until after the WC to sign players'; this is why it is so important that we get a manager sorted this week before the players' we're interested in get into world cup mode.

8.) 14 May 2014
Sam, do you think we would have dropped our interest in Carvalho and bid for Martins Indi if LvG wasn't going to be manager?

9.) 14 May 2014
First off, sorry to the OP. I meant to create my own post on the subject, and not change the direction of your post.

Syd, I think the club should have learnt it's lesson by now. We should just go and sign the players' who the previous manager had worked on signing, which included Carvalho. The guy is immense IMO, and would improve our CM immensely.

I am not sure what is going on ATM. I

10.) 14 May 2014
Sam, last week I said I believed it will be announced tomorrow (Thursday). I still think we will hear something tomorrow.

11.) 14 May 2014
I hope so mate. We fans' have shown a lot of patience with the club this past year. We deserve some good news.