Manchester United Banter Archive February 08 2013

08 Feb 2013 22:51:56
One day in the distant future I will sit by a roaring fire and wield fairy tales for my Grandchildren about the legend of 'The Crimsons'; A wealth of warriors. Sculpted, tasked and guided by a General amongst generals. United!

I will speak of failure and triumph. Tragedy that broke all but hope. Hope that borne an unbreakable willingness to rise from the ashes and never allow for envious eyes and detracting tongues to make light of the darkness in which they were conceived.

Conception of impossible dreams. The birth of Miracles.

I will laugh of silly men and women (myself included) who spent their time on forums; judging the worth of a warrior and the tactics of the General even in times of great success.

And laugh we all should.

Grave pessimism, incessant worry and just a serious head on cold shoulders does not inherently make you a fan.
And that's a fact!

BornInToIt

That makes no sense.

Mick

Mick, I'm going to be honest with you: I may have had one bottle of wine too many last night. Mick, I'm going to be honest with you: I may have had one bottle of wine too many last night. Spell check has taken away the last-- and only line-- of defense for the modern drunk

BornInToIt

Happens to the best o us mate, I find myself abusing scotch whenever i'm out of "wee chocolate bananas "

Mick

BornInToIt are you trying a bit too hard? Doggerel prose, reference to drink - are you our Dylan Thomas? More like Mickey Thomas! Dodgy in the extreme!!!!!
Steve

08 Feb 2013 20:10:38
any chance of jeff hendrick would add another option to a bad midfield he schoels like player who lies deep and sprays the passes around
Paddy The Irish Man

The first I really seen of him was the Ireland vs Poland game he seems ok and assisted hoolahans goal. I'd like to see more first. . Is he at derby

CAIN

08 Feb 2013 16:01:42
Phil jones will be available for the everton game. . Fergie not happy that the FA gave the info of his illness to the press. Got me thinking fergie was not happy when jones was dropped from the senior team an put wit the U21s then jones falls ill an can't play for them but now he is fine. . Fergie pullin a fast one me thinks.

CAIN

It's more of a case of SAF not wanting Everton to know if he will be playing or not. If Jones is fit he will be playing in the midfield. It's tactical and Moyes will now know that Jones is unlikely to play regardless of what SAF has said.

Sydney!

I was thinking the same lol. Also Jones is nice and fresh now for the Everton game.

Mad Hatter

No just a quick recovery, lol. Luckily, Carrick has had a speedy recovery too! Perhaps our medical staff have just upped their game? ;)

Gav

Im glad he is fit. He will play in midfield in the bernebau, in a similar system to the one we played at spurs imho.

Thanks to the no-name for keeping their opinion honest : )

DodgyBanter

My opinion is humble Dodgy: )

Lol!
Faredoos no-name, hopefully honestly humble! ;)

DodgyBanter

08 Feb 2013 13:31:41
mirko vucinic's agnet has claimed that manchester united are interested in signing the former roma striker

His agent has been playing this card for three season's now.

Sydney!

08 Feb 2013 09:03:41
So the FA have agreed a very watered down set of financial rules that don't seem to achieve much. As the figures they have set over a three year period will not affect many clubs especially with the next TV contracts due. What I do find interesting is that the clubs who want tighter restrictions are the clubs who are owned by Americans who don't want to put money into clubs they have bought them to take money out. And they are targeting clubs where the owner is putting money into the club and surrounding area. I AM KLOOT

Yet again I AM KLOOT turns the story around to have a pop at the glazers. The new regs are in place to stop clubs going into melt down i. e. Portsmouth. As we all now Utd are one of the healthiest run clubs in the premiership I. e. wage % v turnover and that with the club debt decreasing, and before you go ranting on that the American owners bought this on us, yes I agree but we have challenged if not won every season since they took over, the money is there but fergie has always been tight fisted only splashing out when he feels like it.
RED TONKA

Not really sure there was much of a point to that post kloot? Very much on the fence? Does that mean if you don't have a typical negative attitude towards it that you actually think it might be quite a good thing for our beloved united?

Bearing in mind we don't have to change anything to comply and our three biggest rivals (city, Chelsea, Liverpool) do does that mean its actually pretty good for us?

GDS

KLOOT - whenever anyone comes on here saying we should buy loads of players like City do, you tell them to s*d off and go support them.

Yet you come on saying you love their owners.

Very confusing.

|Luke Chadwick's Teeth|

Owners are allowed to plough as much as they want into the surrounding area. Those figures are excluded from the FFP calculations. The issue 99. 9% of clubs have (not just American owned clubs) is they are fed up with rich owners buying players which the club cannot afford and the rich owners bankrolling the losses.

Sydney!

You kind of contradicted yourself there mate, it's a bad thing that the rules aren't tighter yet it's also a bad thing that some owner's wanted them to be tighter?

Can't win with you sometimes! But hey, at least you managed to have a go at our owner's (for a change!)

Something of nothing IMO.

Gav

08 Feb 2013 07:39:12
In the summer, if we could snatch one of Wilshere, Oscar, Fabregas or Modric, it will be perfect. and perhaps Bale.

Why would Oscar and Wilshere leave their respective clubs? Fabregas doesn't have many seasons left in him, we need a long term midfielder who hasn't quite reached their prime yet. Modric had his chance and he chose the big money, would not want him at the club. Much more realistic names are Strootman, Lars Bender, Herrera or Eriksen. Bale would be fantastic in a United shirt, but the fact is Spurs would want a crazy amount of money for him! IMO he isn't worth anything more than 25 million, but they'd be asking for closer, if not more than, 40 million.

Andy!

Not that I think we should, or can, sign Fabregas, but since when does a 25 year old not have many seasons left? Now I know poor Cesc isn't the main man at Barca, like he was at Arsenal, but he plays regularly in one of the best teams on the planet. I don't know what the club was thinking bidding for Modric, at 27 I'm not sure how he summons the energy to get out of bed in the morning, let alone run around a football pitch.

Danny Pughnited

Fabregas is only 25 why wouldn't he have many seasons left in him?
johndenton

Would be estatic with James McCarthy and Luke Shaw in the summer. Highly unlikely but offer Spurs 20million and Nani for Bale to top it off.

I think spurs have shown over the last few years that they are a fairly ambitious club, Bale is their best player by far! why would they want to sell? In my opinion the only way he leaves is for ridiculous money and I think they'd laugh in your face if you offered them Nani and 20million. correct me if I'm wrong but his contract runs out in just over a year? I can't see him staying in the premier league unless he runs down his contract and goes for nothing! I would bite your hand off for 15 million

Pretty much all of them are unavailable. so

Gav

08 Feb 2013 03:37:21
I thought this was a united page, not a jack wilshere page! He will never be as good as scholes, end of.

"He will never be as good as scholes, end of. "

End of? He's only 21 years old, lol. I wouldn't say you've proved anything with that comment. But as you say, perhaps we should go back to the United based posts.

Gav