Manchester United Banter Archive February 06 2015

06 Feb 2015 18:50:41
Today we are mourning the passing of young men and few old ones too, but I would like to just mention my boy turns 1 on the 28th and without the thoughts and well wishes from u fabulous bunch across the boards I don't know if we would of had the strength to make it through those awful 6-7 weeks.

Thanks guys.

CTR

{Ed007's Note - It's great to hear that mate, we hope you and the family have a great day when it comes.}

06 Feb 2015 21:20:48
Nice one, Chris. Hope everything's good with the wee man.

06 Feb 2015 23:11:42
Wow that time has flown, I hope he is well and you are managing to get plenty of sleep. Hope to see him at old Trafford soon!

Great to hear that Ctr.

06 Feb 2015 16:41:54
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06 Feb 2015 18:35:24
Done mate.

I have just completed it there pal. May i be blunt and ask as to what or why your doing this for.

RDF

06 Feb 2015 15:04:44
I just a very bad muscle tear in foot playing football and have had a sleepness night with a lot of pain.
Kudos to all the players who get massive injuries and recover back to play again. Sometimes they even move on stretchers for months.
I can't imagine the pains they go through.

06 Feb 2015 16:07:26
I am sorry to spoil the sanctity of the moment for you but they get paid friggin millions to get fit and come back. They have an army of people to take care of them.


I would much rather appreciate a coal miner who broke his foot but came back to work because he has to take care of his family.

I have had so many I have lost count and it is not that bad mate. I have torn both calfs in the last 8 months and both grade 3 tear with one case the soleus Muscle being detached from the achilles heel. Still went to work the next day and dragged my leg around:)

Try a ruptured disk and then we can debate it. Worst injury of all of them.

06 Feb 2015 13:51:38
Great news and potentially an important signing.

McNair has just signed a new deal which I am delighted about. We all would of said that he was miles from the first team 6 months ago, but it is amazing to see what first team exposure can do.

Sign Pereira .

Ben Pearson who i have never seen play seems to be also getting rave reviews. I wonder if he is good enough to make the first team.

Listening to LVG looks like rafael's days are also numbered and might see him moved on this summer.

06 Feb 2015 11:31:08
Throwing a different view point out there about Herrera.

What I am putting forward for discussion is that Herrera is exactly the type of player that LVG needs and will be a key player for us. BUT, this will only happen AFTER his legal case has finished.

Could it be that LVG see's Herrera as being somewhat distracted at the moment? For example, he is due in Court just 11 hours after the Newcastle game (not sure of the exact time). If I was due in Court I don't think I could properly concentrate, guilty or not guilty.

LVG demands 100% focus from his players and 100% effort. Whilst Herrera will be putting the effort in, could his focus have been somewhat averted by events outside of the football pitch?

On the face of it this makes sense. However the fact that whenever he does play even if for a few minutes he looks top class, twice the player Rooney is in midfield for example.

He had one bad game after breaking his rib, that is it.

So I don't believe this is the reason, but if it is then it's stupid. Most people when going through troubling times need to focus on something, typically working hard helps so he should be played irrespective. He should only be dropped if his form suffers, which it hasn't.

From what I've read he hasn't been charged with any thing he is just going to give evidence.

06 Feb 2015 13:34:10
I think, as said below that the strangest thing about it all is that Herrera appears to fit into the way that LVG likes to play and whenever he has played he adds something that nobody else in our midfield does. As Shappy said below if they had fallen out he would have been frozen out all together and not on the bench, and the court case thing just seems strange as well. Maybe it is just tactical and LVG thinks he doesn't quite fit in, or that he would have to leave out an important player.

I think it was Danny who said below that as LVG hasn't come out and said anything that suggests they have fallen out, but I see that the other way round, LVG isn't scared to tell the press when he has fallen out with people or he feels somebody isn't pulling their weight so no news suggests it is something else, maybe something more trivial, but maybe we will never know.

I think LVG always finds someone who annoys him. Sorry if that sounds harsh but he seems to have done it everywhere else he has been.

Undoubtedly a massive problem for Herrera is Rooney or Van Persie which ever angle you look at it from.

At the start of the season LVG basically said RVP, Rooney and Falcao all need to play. And in a diamond, he wants to play RVP and Falcao up top and fit Rooney in, and Di Maria and find some 'balance'.