Manchester United Banter Archive April 17 2012

 

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17 Apr 2012 21:38:11
Just watching the Bayern v Real game ,really been impressed by Tony Kroos, he's just what wer'e currently looking for, pitty he's out of our reach.
Martin Atkinson so far had a faultless display on the goal line and looking resplendent in his matching gloves. Due to him being in action tonight, does this rule him out of turning out for his beloved Chelsea tommorow?
Raffa

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17 Apr 2012 21:30:45
If we got the first 2 I'd be more than happy with that.

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17 Apr 2012 20:59:39
Best Manager: SAF

Best Player: Paul Scholes

Best Match: Liverpool 4-3 Newcastle

Best Goal: Le Tis vs Newcastle

Best Celebration: Ketsbaia (so mental it was hilarious)

Best Save: Schmeichel vs Liverpool

Team:
__________Schmeichel
Neville__Campbell__Vidic__Irwin
Ronaldo__Keane__Scholes__Giggs
_______Cantona__Shearer


An additional category:

Best Funny Moment: Oliver Bernard getting KO'd by Laurent Robert's clearance. Brilliant!!

Jono

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17 Apr 2012 20:19:49
Forget all about Gaitan , its now official, United have made a statement through MUTV, " Manchester United have never been and are not interested in Nicholas Gaitan ".

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17 Apr 2012 20:14:11
Higuen has scored 24 in 27 games this year, for a player who's hardly played thats a great goal record, don't understand why people slate him before his injury last year he was immense kept benzene to a bench spot, at 24 and for around 20 million united should sign him along with 3 midfielders and a left back and that would be my summer happy

Ins
Higueim

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17 Apr 2012 19:52:44
In all honesty, with these team of the EPL for the past 20 years we are being a little too pro-United. Most people hardly have any of the invincible Arsenal team who were arguably the best ever team in the EPL. For me, i'd have to go with:

______________Schmeichel
Neville____Campbell______Ferdinand____Cole
Ronaldo____Scholes______Viera______Giggs
___________Bergkamp___Henry

Ive gone for a very honest appraisal of what i think without keeping United too central in my mind. Up top Bergkamp and Henry were one of the greatest partnerships ever so they deserve to be there. Furthermore Campbell gets the nob over Vidic because he was an ever present, very rarely injured and was an absolute rock. Cole gets the nob over Irwin and Evra, both of which could of made it in there, but Cole was at one point the best in the world, superior to Evra in my eyes. Lastly i've put Viera in for Keane, Viera bossed every game and was a rock in the 'invincible' team and deserves representation even though his comments to the press are childish.

RedDevil19

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17 Apr 2012 19:47:36
Regarding the premiership team regardless of who I would choose I'd have to find space for Jay Jay Okocha (at least on the bench) as he was one of the most skilful and entertaining players I've seen in the premier league. He'd be my pick from a so called smaller club.

Supasub

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17 Apr 2012 19:15:46
I am amazed that the club have only just thought about making a singing section at OT. In away games all you can hear is the United fans. The stadium would sound much louder with 15k sitting in the singing section. Or two singing sections of 7k/8k at each end battling it out with each other. The problem is when playing away all go there to sing their hearts out, when they are at home they are spread out over the 75k. Two singing sections of 7k/8k or one section of 15k would be pretty deafening at times.

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17 Apr 2012 18:59:11
Premier League 20 years...

Game: United 4-3 City.
Goal: Bergkamp vs Newcastle
Celebration: Jimmy Bullard
Save: Craig Gordon

-----------Schmeichel
Nev-------Terry-----Vidic-----Cole
Ron---Scholes-----Le tis---Overmars
------Cantona-----Bergkamp.

Oh look, someone who hasn't got tinted specs on.

The Moon.

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17 Apr 2012 18:49:38
Top 10 players of the premier league... Who would you vote for?

______________ Games-Goals-Titles
Dennis Bergkamp___315---87-----3
Eric Cantona______143---64----4
Ryan Giggs________636--112---12
Thiery Henry______258--176----2
Roy Keane________336---33----7
Cristiano Ronaldo___196---84----3
Paul Scholes_______479--105---10
Alan Shearer_______441--260----1
Patrick Viera_______307---32----3
Gianfranco zola_____229---59----0

Manager of the premier league

David Moyes
Harry Redknapp
Jose Mourinho-----2 titles
Arsene Wenger----3 titles
SIR Alex Ferguson-12 titles

10 quality players and 5 top managers, Think they got it spot on with the 2 lists, I cant think of any other players or managers better or even close to them.

So who would you go for?

Dylan

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17 Apr 2012 18:03:24
twitpic.com/9a70u7

I fooking love him!

G.A.G.U.S

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17 Apr 2012 17:45:27
Just done my team of the EPL on the Premier league website.

___________Schmeichel

Neville____Ferdy____Vidic____Irwin

Ronaldo__Scholes__Keane(c)__Giggsy

________Thierry____Cantona

There has been no better partnerships than Vidic & Ferdinand and Scholes & Keane so was pretty easy IMO. Obviously the majority would be United players simply due to the dominance of the club over the twenty years. In a 4-3-3 I would put Gerrard in the midfield, but there is no space for him in a 4-4-2.

Sydney!

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17 Apr 2012 17:30:55
Who did everyone vote for in the 20 seasons awards?

Best match: Utd 4-3 City
Best goal: Rooney vs City
Best celebration: Temuri Ketsbaia
Best save: Schmeichel vs Newcastle
Team:
________Schmeichel
Neville__Vidic__Campbell__Irwin
Ronaldo__Scholes__Keane__Giggs
_______Cantona__Henry

G.A.G.U.S

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17 Apr 2012 16:49:36
i don't think it is giatan we are after i think it is javi garcia, he is the sort of player we need, and if we got him we would only need a top striker and a left back.

personally i think we should go for, cissokho, garcia and higuain and line up like this:

________degea________
rafa__ferdy__vidic__cisso
______ando__garcia____
valencia__Rooney___nani
_________Higuain______

maybe swutch anderson with cleverley/scholes or carrick.

JK92

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17 Apr 2012 16:43:28
Not a rumour, just my preferences. In the summer I'd love to see this happen.

In:

Rodriguez 23m
Martinez 30m
Cissokho 9m
Clyne nominal
Kovacic nominal
E. Torres 1m

Out:

Berbatov 7m
Evra 7m
Park 3m
Kuszczak free
Owen free
Macheda 3m
De laet 1m
Bebe 1m
Other youngsters 1m

This would be a net spend of £40m. Would sooner see rodriguez than hazard but would be happy with either. The fact that he's left footed and seems to have a better attitudes means he edges it for me. For me, no one compares to Martinez that we could get. Modric would be good but clearly offers no steal in the middle the Martinez does. We need to replace Evra to improve but can't see it happening with fabio going out on loan. Hopefully pogba, fryers and welbeck will sign new deals too! Can't see an established striker coming in, especially if rodriguez comes in to play behind Rooney.

Anyway, like I said not rumours just my opinion. Let me know what you reckon lads.

Fred

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17 Apr 2012 15:50:01
Its clear that most people's preference for a holding midfield player is Javi Martinez.However, as an alternative what are everyone's thoughts about Ever Banega? Still young, nice passer of the ball and experience in a top league and in the Champions League. I believe he'd be a quality holding midfielder and allow Pogba/Scholes/Cleverley to link the attack and allow for someone like Hazard to come in and play behind Rooney.

Adz

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17 Apr 2012 15:50:01
Its clear that most people's preference for a holding midfield player is Javi Martinez.However, as an alternative what are everyone's thoughts about Ever Banega? Still young, nice passer of the ball and experience in a top league and in the Champions League. I believe he'd be a quality holding midfielder and allow Pogba/Scholes/Cleverley to link the attack and allow for someone like Hazard to come in and play behind Rooney.

Adz

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17 Apr 2012 14:56:56
I think we will have at least 4 players in the prems 20 year team; Giggs, Scholes, Ronaldo and Neville.

Ferdinand, Rooney, Cantona and Beckham are all possible maybes.

Anon

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17 Apr 2012 14:06:38
I was often criticized because I don't think Gaitan is exceptional enough to spend more than 20mil for him!
People even say that he is more consistent than Nani, OMG.

In my OWN opinion a winger or CAM must be good on assisting the forwarders or team mates when really matters and be a good Last Player and I don't really see this on him, lets see:

2011/2012
Competition Games Goals Assist
Liga Sagres 21 3 0
UCL 10 0 5

Total 31 3 5

2010/2011
Liga Sagres 26 7 2
UCL 5 0 0

Total 31 7 2
Grand Total 62 10 7

Nani just PL games for one season
26 7 8

Is him really more consistent than Nani as many said!? If we buy him, he may be marvelous as Hernandez first season but he also may be just another player!

I'm not the coach, so I hope wherever the Player we get, can help the team to reach the Top in Europe.

????

FellowUnited

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17 Apr 2012 11:50:52
reserves were awesome last night, will keane could be the next michael owen, great goalscorer. petrucci played well again, his flick for keanes first was amazing.
some great players in there, its just a matter of finding the right place and time to integrate them into the first team squad.
we dont need a new striker we've got ritchie de leat, the guy is rapid. At times it reminded me of robben.

aaallj5

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17 Apr 2012 10:20:16
We have 5 players of the 10 nominations for best player in the last 20 years of the premier league. Arsenal have 3 players nominated Chelsea 1 and Newcastle 1 but none for Liverpool which says all you need to know.

Shappy

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17 Apr 2012 10:18:51
So at this moment in time we are aware of some definite inevitable outs. We know that our 25 man squad will not consist of Kuszczak, Fabio or Berbatov next season. I also think Park will leave due to him not playing much in the second half of the season. Players like Kiko, De Laet, Norwood, King, Brown, Wootton IMO will be sold to balance the books. I think Owen will leave this summer, he needs to play more often and our manager cannot offer him that. I am still unsure about Evra, perhaps jred was correct and he may stay until Fabio is ready? So what else will happen? IMO Evra & Fryers will not be enough for the LB position, Fryers is miles from being ready and Evra is Evra so we are almost certain to bring in a LB or someone who can cover at LB. I think the Clyne deal looks like it's a done deal although not confirmed. Ed001 said Clyne can fill in at LB, but never seen him play there. Would he be enough or will we buy a ready made LB? We have certainly been looking so I think we will sign a LB as well as Clyne. I think Gaitan is looking like a real target and although nothing is agreed we know there is interest and we know that Fabio is going to Benfica on loan, so things are looking all too familiar here. So I think things look like this at the moment:

Certain outs: Berbatov, Kuszczak, Fabio (loan)

Almost certain outs: Brown, Wootton, King, Kiko, De Laet, Owen & Park.

Possible outs: Evra, Pogba, Ferdinand.

Possible ins: Gaitan, Clyne & LB?

Sydney!

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17 Apr 2012 10:11:22
all tho looking like winning title again, need to buy big in summer, giggs, scholes coming to end of career, ferdinand getting slower and evans and jones not good enough.

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17 Apr 2012 09:59:16
Congratulations to the Reserves winning the reserve league last night, after overcoming a 3-0 deficit after 40 mins to win 6-3. Well done lads.

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17 Apr 2012 06:58:50
I cant believe we have signed gaitan like..hes not good enough at all..if united keep going like this and letting top class players like hazard slip we are going to end up worse off nxt season then we did this season its a joke..2 good games all season and saf decides to sign him after scouting hazard for 3 or 4 years..have the eds anything to say about this?

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17 Apr 2012 06:43:00
How can people write gaitan off before seeing him play for us. If the rumours turn out to be true I'm sure that we have done some serious scouting on him which can't be said for some of you lot ( I'm sure some pillock on here will say he watches Portuguese football ) I've only seen him in champs league as have you lot and yes he hasn't showed brilliance but he also hasn't been poor. Although he wouldn't of been my 1st choice I don't think we should write him off already.

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17 Apr 2012 05:09:03
Off on me honeymoon chaps, hopefully we'll have won number 20 by the tIme I get back!
Just don't leave the council house empty handed !

DodgyBanter

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17 Apr 2012 02:08:00
Does nobody think that fabio ( if he does that is ) goes to benfica on loan be a good thing ?? They're a decent side 1 n 2 why is everyone keep on saying oooo the gaitan deals in the bag. Might not be could be looking at others at benfica. Just my opinion.

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17 Apr 2012 01:51:24
I dont know about anyone else but united need at least 3-4 players in the summer!

LB- we all know that evras performances this year havnt been up to standard he's lacking the ability to control the ball, always seems to be 2 yards away from the ball and his crosses have been poor aswell, although he is a good left back he lacks competition I for one would like to see BAINES he's good when going forward, good crosser, excellent set piece taker and quick, and overall a decent defender would be cheap aswell for around 8 million!

CM - if it wernt for Scholes I don't think we would be in the position we are now, the way hes controlled games his opening up of play when teams have been defending deep, carrick is too defensive always passes back and lacks creativity, giggs just isn't consistent and can't play with carrick, cleverly I have doubts about maybe he needs games but can you really see him being a world class midfielder? Anderson has been her for what 5-6 years and still hasn't really proven himself, and pigs well will he or won't he, another situation that needs resolving! In terms of players coming in, first choice MODRIC but for what price? 50 million is well overpriced for a player that is class but I would except united to only pay around 28-30 million, then there's tiote he's a box to box heavy tackler like Keano, yeah his passing is average but under a better manager and playing with better players it's only
Going to get better, and another that's going to pop up again is SNIDJER, he messed fergie around last year so weather fergie will go in again is doubtful but at around 15 million would be perfect!, rumours about gaitain signing tbh he's overated an over priced plus who has he actually played against to prove him self the Portuguese LEAUGE is nothing like the prem, plus we've had bad experiences with argentinians ie veron, heinze, kettle neck! Ild prefer hazard if we were going to pay 25-30 million on a player!

ST - we all know Rooney isn't a striker he drops to deep to help the midfield out, but if we had a decent midfield Rooney could lead the attack as the main striker! ild like to see higuien

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