Manchester United Banter Archive February 16 2012

16 Feb 2012 22:45:48
DDG had a cracking game tonight, looked relaxed and confident

16 Feb 2012 21:11:20
If We Played All Season Like We Did In The Second Half We Would Never Be Beaten. Eriksen Looked The Only Decent Play For Ajax Tonight. Really Good To See Cleverley And Young Back Just Hope To God Valencia's Injury Isn't Serious

16 Feb 2012 20:50:46
Valencia is injured ! A hamstring injury that might put him out of action for up to a month . Bad news , very bad news ...in 2 weeks we have tottenham and valencia has been our best player by far . Fingers crossed, hope he will be back before ...
Mick

16 Feb 2012 20:13:07
Blair.
Anderson or eriksson! I take it you have chosen to forget wen anderson made gerrard look average. Gerrard was in his prime and Anderson was 19 and dominated him. Also as the song goes "he sh0ts on fabregas". He had some bad injuries but at 19 he was just as good a prospect as eriksson if not better. I can't think of another midfielder to make that impact at a top club at that age other than Wiltshire. You don't just lose the ability to outplay gerrard and fabregas overnight. With another good run in the side he will find his form like at the start of the season then we've got a real player on our hands.
Djay

16 Feb 2012 20:02:24
Great win for the boys tonight, we played better second half. Errikson, yea he looks a tricky player, I'd take him.... HERBIE

16 Feb 2012 19:58:25
lfc was right, he did say the score would be 2 nil........ To Ajax yeah?

JWalk

16 Feb 2012 19:55:53
Congratulations on your great victory away to a team that's 6TH, in the Dutch League. That should make up for your embarrassment and humiliation, of getting sent packing in the CL, at the group stages. lol

Blair Mayne YNWA JFT96

16 Feb 2012 19:49:30
I think our best team line up is:

----------------- De Gea

Jones/Rafael ---- Ferdinand ---- Vidic ---- Evra

Valencia ----- Cleverly ------ Anderson --- Young

--------- Hernandez/Welbeck ---- Rooney

If you take that as our best starting 11, then where do you think we could improve realistically?

Give yourself a £50 million budget which i think is what we will have in the summer, what do all you regulars/new posters want to see happen?

RedDevil19

16 Feb 2012 19:30:11
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16 Feb 2012 19:18:48
well well well well, what was that people were saying about young? Anyways, it doesn't matter, united 1nil up.

Millz

16 Feb 2012 18:48:58
Hernandez needs to learn to pass the ball!

16 Feb 2012 18:47:15
Shocking first half
Nani and young useless

16 Feb 2012 18:29:31
i have to say i do much prefer valencia on the right. You know what your gonna get with valencia. Good ball into the area. Nani could do anything. That unpredictability hampers the defence. Unfortunately it also hampers our players as they don't know what to expect either.

16 Feb 2012 18:14:06
Nani's having one of his slow sluggish starts,giving the ball away too much

16 Feb 2012 17:38:18
I'm liking the look of the lineup so i'm sedicting 3 nil to UTD... Lets av it.... HERBIE

16 Feb 2012 17:28:27
Cleverly may be the biggest sticking point in signing an offensive central midfielder like we all want - Eriksen for example, how would he fit into a 4-4-2 with Cleverly? I'm not convinced that he would even though i would like him too.

We will have to see tonight, if he sits and can tackle, then it'd be ok, i look forward to seeing how he does against Cleverly and Carrick who i think will control the game.

RedDevil19

16 Feb 2012 17:16:20
De Gea, Jones, Evans, Rio, Fabio, Nani, Carrick, Cleverley, Young, Rooney, Chicharito. Subs: Amos, Smalling, Park, Welbeck, Scholes Valencia, and Pogba.
jred

16 Feb 2012 17:04:45
Tonights team
Dgea,jones,rio,fabio,nani,crrick, clev,young,rooney,hernandez
onecut

16 Feb 2012 14:51:04
Took time out of my busy schedule, to reply to your childish posts, about us not being in the Europa League. Some of have actually replied 'at least we are in Europe' lol. May I remind you fools, you have the weekend off, you are out of the FA Cup all because we stuffed 2-1 at Anfield. Some of you really do have short memories.

Think about it (if you can) and get back to me.

Cheers

Blair Mayne YNWA JFT96

16 Feb 2012 13:39:07
Can we stop with the Ronaldo return stories please, it simply won't happen. I don't care if he wants to leave Madrid he won't be coming to us.

The Transfer fee for starters, lets say we do get £80 Million to spend in the summer I'm sure everybody at United would rather spend that money on bringing in several players both with potential and current playing ability instead of bringing in one player who in trust won't really solve the main issues, we need a forward but we're not desperate for one.

His wages are going to be around £280K? He certainly won't take a pay cut regardless of how much he's on or how much he loves United.

Plus he's now got a child to think about, is his son settled in Spain? what about his girlfriend?

I think he'll stay in Spain for the next 2 or 3 years before then moving to Italy for a couple of years and playing out his final few years back in Portugal.

but if we are talking transfer targets, I think we all recognize that we need a LWB, CM/CDM and possibly a left footed LW.

Well, Evra is going nowhere, whether we want him too or not so it's unlikely we'll actually purchase another LWB/LB unless it's going to be youth which I also doubt considering we've got Fabio, Fryers and Blackett all looking to be in that side in the next few years.

I personally think we'll go for a Box2Box/CDM, my personal preference would be Mascherano but that's not going to happen, My guess would be either Rodwell or an older more experienced CDM maybe someone like Veloso (although not actually him, I haven't seen him play for a couple of years). I don't think we'll go for someone too young though simply because of the competition between Pogba, Jones, Tunners, etc. for the box2box/CDM roles.

If we are going for the CAM/Dictator role then obviously Gotze and Eriksen are the front runners, personally i would prefer Eriksen. Although there are players who are slightly cheaper with similar ability Gaitan, Kagawa, etc. I think Gaitan will be our number 1 target simply because of the lack of competition for his signature, his lower price and because he'd be willing to join, my problem with him however is that I've got a feeling he'll turn out like Anderson.

The Left footed, Left winger problem, well, I have no evidence to support this but I think we got Young because we couldn't get Bale, the same way we got Tevez because we couldn't get Berbatov in that year. Now, If Redknapp takes the spurs job and somebody like Lambert takes over at Spurs instead of someone like Mourinho then I think we'll get Bale and possibly sell Young on in the following season or keep him as a back up.

If not Bale then well I'm not too sure who else we would go for as a left footed player. Pedro is right footed but has a sensational left foot so he may be worth looking at, although he has played in 29 of the 38? games for Barcelona this season (Mainly as a sub?), so with the form of sanchez and Adriano as well as Villa moving to the left and Messi through the center and at times having Iniesta play there he may feel like he needs to move on? If so then I think he's certainly worth looking at.

there's also Podolski But i think he's better suited to playing up top as an inside forward instead of as an out and out Left footed winger.

Bale would be top of my list, then Pedro and then Podolski although Bale is the only one who I believe is realistic.

Out of all the players mentioned I would rather have Eriksen, Rodwell and Bale instead of having Ronaldo back.

That's just my opinion anyway.

The Moon.

16 Feb 2012 13:27:26
Someone further down made the point that we don't have anyone to replace Rooney apart from maybe giggs when he's not playing. Iv'e seen Welbeck drop deeper now and again but he's not really that type of player. I think the most important position that needs looking at is Rooney's. We need someone who can play instead of him or with him (because we're lacking something when he's missing , more than anyone else). Long term someone else maybe need to come in, but maybe Petrucci is one player who can fill a role there but more like season after next (with some games to establish him before). On a more positive note is it me or I seem to have seen in the last few games little glimpses of maybe another great side being built from back to front?
I'm glad people are laying evan's etc because maybe they don't see them as first 11 starters but those type of players brought through are invaluble squad players that make a great squad. It's why in the past SAF reluctantly let go of Butt, P. Nev, Pique, Rossi and so on as someone who grows with you has more of an affiliation with the club. Not just bringing in anyone to maybe start or sit on the bench.
As soon as we get rid of players like Brown, O'shea etc at a young age is when we will get problems. That's why for arguments sake i can see Diouf definately leaving but say Macheda imo staying long term. SAF said in the transfer window that we have 3 or 4 long term targets. Who might they be? I will only hazard a guess that they can't be any older than 23/24 max. but I would'nt like to say who. Any one of Adryan, Kovacic, Alcantara, Martinez could be in those few I reckon.

Supasub

16 Feb 2012 12:53:42
I'm pretty happy with the players that we have been linked with today. I would also like to say that, whilst i mention alot of players daily, i do it to create discussions which i find interesting. I want us to get the right player, not just anyone, talking about them helps us all to formulate good ideas of what we actually want.

Delighted to see that the Gotze rumours are resurfacing, what a player he would be for us. Forget Eriksen or anyone else, if we got him he'd be excellent as he is so versatile and has so much talent.

RedDevil19

16 Feb 2012 12:06:09
Ed001 Would hate to be doing the old firm sites, I am a Celtic lad thanks to my old man and have been to paradise more times than I can count and some of the things I have heard are sickening.
Again you guys/girls do a great job and we all apreciate the effort you put in listening to our BS.

Paso {Ed001's Note - most of the editors won't touch them, it has opened my eyes that's for sure!}

16 Feb 2012 11:10:25
the only player united need to bring back in the summer.........RONALDO!!!