Manchester United Banter Archive February 09 2018

09 Feb 2018 20:04:36
Question for Eds/ Posters, what was the reason why Van Gaal had our team playing so brilliant against the top teams most games? Had a fantastic record vs top 6 in his two seasons here, now we just look toothless against these teams!

09 Feb 2018 23:30:51
Which games did we play brilliant in Scholes, results were ok but performances were very rarely decent in my mind? I can only remember 3-4 games that I came away thinking 'we played well today' during his entire reign.

In my view Jose has shown far too much respect to the better teams and has been even more negative than LVG for the most part. Sometimes it works, but often it hasn't. LVG played the same way against every team, try and keep possession and side-side being better than forward passing. Jose is happy to concede possession, it's just that better teams punish you more than weaker teams and it's harder to retain the ball playing Jose's 'Hoof ball' against better opposition.

That's why I think we have struggled against the better teams. We do better against the weaker teams now because allowing them the ball means that when we turn it over there is a slight chance they are out of shape, rarely happened with LVG as we never moved forward quickly.

Both ways of playing are negative and boring, but Jose is slightly better at breaking down opponents because we forfeit the ball - football is worse though, rare we string more than a few incisive passes together and we go long far too much. Jose is predictable now too often and good managers can exploit that.

10 Feb 2018 01:30:36
Brilliant in terms of getting the result vs the top teams (worded wrong in original post), not neccesarily the performances, beat the scousers in every single one of his league games, 4-2 win over city and beat them at the Etihad, convincingly beat Arsenal and Spurs on more than one occassion.

09 Feb 2018 16:22:38
Despite our rising wage bill and the large amount being paid to Sanchez, which will in part be offset by Mhkitaryan's actual and Zlatan's imminent departure, it seems the total wage bill is still well below 50% of total sales/ revenues. The amount of revenue after deducting wages is more than £300m, which is more than the total revenue of all but 4 premier league teams. Most teams would be delighted with that. If Jose is truly intending to bring in only 2 or 3 new players in the summer then the healthy financial state we seem to be in seems set to continue - as long as we make top 3 or 4.

09 Feb 2018 16:29:02
Add other potential departures on top too. Carrick will be retiring so can be added with Zlatan. Fellaini and Blind also likely to go. And I can see Smalling departing. All those would soak up 2-3 new arrivals.

09 Feb 2018 19:38:21
Please don’t forget about darmian going🙏.

09 Feb 2018 10:55:26
{Eds Note - if you missed it, Shappy wrote and article entitled Players that would complete Manchester United's team

09 Feb 2018 21:53:29
Great post shappy

If we signed Veratti ( PSG need to sell to balance the books ), Jorginho and Kimmich then I for one would be very very happy. Thus also made sweeter with all the prospect of developing players in Chong, Gomes, TFM etc etc then we will soon be playing a youthful squad and no more OAPs.

09 Feb 2018 05:24:38
{Ed's Note - Tris Burke has posted a new article entitled, Review Of The Day 9th February 2018

09 Feb 2018 08:52:55
Great review Ed.
Agree that dumb of Allardyce to allow Hoolahan to go on loan. I think Allardyce will be negative for Everton and Everton will not improve. If anything I feel some of their good players might end up leaving the club.
Bellamy talking negative about Evra in West Ham? He should look into the mirror 🤣🤣. What has he won compared to Evra? At least West Ham still wants Evra for some reason. Who would want Bellamy? Used to be good but take note “used to”. He is a sad case.
rom Citeh👍. Pep only know how to criticize other player but not his own. What a blind and dumb baldy.
Porch getting under people’s skin talking about Rochdale pitch. Just shut up and go play. Setting up his excuse in case Spurs loses the game?
Thanks Ed for read. 🙏.

09 Feb 2018 08:53:42
Good stuff Tris 👍👍👏.

{Ed001's Note - to be fair to Bellamy he was just saying Evra's legs have gone like his did and he had to face retirement. I agree with him, Evra has been awful for years. Bellers retired a while ago mate, but he was much better than you are giving him credit for and he had the sense to retire when his legs went rather than carrying on for 3 more years and abusing his own teams fans when they pointed out he was stealing a wage.}

09 Feb 2018 09:25:09
Ok accepted 😉 with thanks.

{Ed001's Note - Evra is more interested in social media than football sadly. Cheers mate.}