Manchester United Banter Archive August 24 2011

24 Aug 2011 23:36:10
lets get real, weve had a good start to the season, but lets not get carried away. if we want to win the leauge again fine we have the quality already so we dont buy anyone else , however if we want to compete and win the champions leauge then without doubt we have to buy a quality and creative midfield player. ie same as barcalonas inesta and xavi. IMO snedier is this player and we have to buy... hes also a great free kick specialist ... what do you think ED

24 Aug 2011 23:01:15
This is hilarious... Kids on here, you haven't a clue do you. Sir Alex has been in charge for 25 years has he ever put us wrong?

We have won the premier league 4 out of the past 5 seasons (going down by a point in the one we failed to get) Lets be honest we dont have to spend any more money to more than likely win the premier league again this season, while I do agree it will take a lot of luck to win the champions league.

Of course I would love to see an effective cm come in, but at the end of the day the yanks are ruining that department on the spending side of things, but, thats life at the moment, and to be fair we have been quite successful under their reign (I solely credit this to SAF and super team efforts)

So I guess what I'm trying to say is, can everyone on here stop moaning and forget about all this speculation of whether players are coming in or not... who cares, all that matters is that we get behind the team and SAF, we the fans are that illusive 12th player One Love, one UNITED...

Simon
RED

24 Aug 2011 18:30:20
Further to my post timed at 16:02, I would like to say that I agree with most of the replies. Of the players mentioned I'd like to see Manchester United attempt to buy for the CM position, Wesley Sneijder is my least favourite. He has peaked and will have no real resale value. He would however bring masses of experience to the younger midfielders at United. Gotze is an amazing young player with a World Cup behind him, Nasri is a quality young player and Hazard has just been voted France's player of the year, and won their League.
They are all young and could mature and improve the United squad for many seasons.
Bringing in a world class player can sometimes backfire as one of the replies stated....Veron..however this happens to many teams, but its a chance worth taking.
Remember a certain Ronaldo..we took a chance with him, and look what he gave us.
Where will our creativity come from if Anderson or Cleverley get injured?
I truly hope history can repeat itself and we have another team full of budding Beckham's, Scholes's, Giggsy's....

24 Aug 2011 17:40:01
First things first, top 2nd half performance on mon night. Phil jones looks like vidic mark 2
What really impressed me was rooneys performance. He led from the front and was talking to wellbeck, cleverly and young all through the game. Even with the game won he was hungry for more (given nani a mouthfull for a crap pass.) I said it to all my mates, put money on wazza bein top scorer this year. He's had a pre-season this year and is happy with his new haircut
I think its generally accepted that we need a cm. Just to give us a bit more quality in the middle, even though I think anderson will have a big season. Iv already sung the praises of scweinsteiger but it aint going to happen now he's cup ties. I'm pissed off with hearing/reading about sneijder. No one really knows wahts going on with him so let's stop speculating and wait for the final statement.
Now the question is, do we go for quality or potential? As good as goetze is, he is still potential. Could go either way of ronaldo or veron and I think we all know that. We need a player who is ready now. Someone who could give us that bit of presence in the middle. Apart from scweinsteiger that man is de rossi. He makes people nervous on their first touch and that's what we need. Someone willing to sit in midfield and say on you go lads to our brilliant attackers.
Anyway ramble over, I'm going bookies to whack a tenner on 4-1 on sunday. Lol

Jamesmack8

24 Aug 2011 16:47:00
Did any1 forgot about Pogba? What is going on with him?

24 Aug 2011 16:06:23
Good luck to s**tty keeping all their players happy especially with Nasri now and also getting inside the FFP rules.

24 Aug 2011 15:13:32
As an avid LFC fan and no doubt many on here will testify an avid 'detester' of United, i will make the following comments.

Having watched United on Monday i noticed several things. I make these comments not as a wind up but as an objective observer.

Firstly Young and Jones were signings that LFC were in or but ultimately lost out to. Fair enough no issues there and would i like them in our squad? Of course i rate both highly. Both were excellent on Monday. Young, though, still has a habit of disappearing in games and at the moment he is running on a fresh 'lets please SAF'. It reamins to be seen whether he keeps this high energy tempo up to his game. Jones, looks an outstanding player.

The one thing i did notice was the energy levles of United which were far higher than they have been over the last two/three years. Whether this is done to keen, energetic footballers like Cleverely etc i don't know, but i noticed a bit more about United than normal.

However your goalkeeper is shocking. Spurs fell, or rather VDV, into the trap of shooting from anywhere which meant they sacrificed hitting the target and therefore letting De Gea off the hook. In the last five mins he showed what a liability he currently is. He has no presence, looks like a boy in VDS's clothing and is a big weakness. Will he get better? Probably but how much? VDS is/was a massive gap to plug and only one Pepe Reina could improve on VDS.

Finally, nice to see you still have the officials on your side as rooneys goal was offside in the build up.

But all in all, i think you'll be a credible challenger to to LFC this year. Cannot praise you more than that and you should be pleased coming second to an outstanding LFC side this year.

Sir Bob the Red

24 Aug 2011 12:18:44
man utd got the best young denfender in england - phil jones, lpool get recently voted best young denfender in the world- sebastian coates, and he cost less than half of what jones cost- nice one...........lfc

24 Aug 2011 09:52:08
Toby has done an alan hansen don't win anything with kids. we will win everything iMo not out of arrogance but because I always think we can win I think we can beat barca this year the young energy in the team that will make us able to compete carrick, giggs CL. Final looked old and tired these youngsters gonna make big difference we are already playing a lot better quality football than last season and the longer they play together the better they will get

24 Aug 2011 01:48:15
After missing out on nasri I really hope there's some truth behind the goetze rumours as he looks like a class prospect.....if we are lookin for someone who would bring more experience I'd prefer if we bid for either of mouthino or gourcuff rather than sneijder

Red Jay

24 Aug 2011 01:30:51
eager to hear what nasri has to say after the move to city...did united even bid for him?

24 Aug 2011 00:47:28
Apparently there is a lot of noise coming out of Germany that United will get Goetze sooner or later. I would love for this to be true as he will be just as good as Sneijder, and will cost half the price with wages etc. Does anyone have any solid news? A few German reporters, newspapers are reporting we have written to BVB and a bid will soon follow. Please don't say the usual it is possible etc. I am just looking for some solid news, as I can genuinely see us pulling this one off, as this is what Fergie is known for, he takes quality players, and makes them into stars, and he operates under the radar. Surely if we got Goetze, it is how Fergie operates in the window? I am asking anyone, Ed's, Sydney? Seems realistic to me, but I am just a knowledgeable fan.