Manchester United Banter Archive October 26 2011

26 Oct 2011 23:01:52
The result on the weekend was abit of a wake up call for our players but i think the biggest thing that should come from it is that Sir Alex needs a strong Lieutenant at his side and not a yes man like Mike Phelan, sure he's a club man but i don't think he offers much in the way of tactically awareness or motivational skills that Sir Alex himself doesn't possess. We need someone who can offer us a differant way of thinking and isn't afraid to talk about it with Sir Alex.

For me the person i'd love to see join as Sir Alex's number 2 would be Micheal Laudrup, a man who has great managerial skill, who sets his teams up to play good attacking football, a man who was one of the best midfielders in the world and who could pass his knowledge onto our midfielders though training and disscussion. Think how it could help our current crop of young midfielders. Sometimes a fresh face amoung the staff and a few new training techniques can be as effective as a new player. And lets face it we can't sign anyone until January at the earliest, and we need something to change now. Laudrup has left his post as manager of Mallorca so is avalible now, and in a few years time he would be perfectly placed to seemlessly move up to manager when Sir Alex steps down having had a few years to adjust himself to Manchester United.

What do you guys think?

Shappy {Ed001's Note - excellent idea, Laudrup is a big Liverpool fan - it would be great for banter! ;o)}

26 Oct 2011 22:00:22
To keep the squad balanced i'd go with just the one signing, Sneijder. World Cup winner, cl winner, played for all the worlds top teams apart from us. Having a rough time with the Inter fans but still has so much to offer and is in his peak years. Woth him here we could even see Anderson step it up, id get rid of Gibson and keep everyone else for now, but use Pogba in that anchor man position {Ed001's Note - when did Sneijder win a World Cup?}

26 Oct 2011 20:57:58
I believe Coates made an absoloute howler to gift Stoke the lead, so much for been better than Phil Jones eh lfc fans. Best to post it on here, there's more of you on our site.

26 Oct 2011 18:15:22
anyone seen sotiris ninis and ioannis fetfatzidis just watched a you tube video of the pair two rising stars of european football, i know its you tube and il might get the my granny could look good on you tube and play in a half decent league has the ed heard of them and what do you think! ninis and martinez would be two players who could add a lot couldnt be any worse than andersson carrick and gibson those two with clevers ravel pogba and fletcher as the wise head could be well set creativity and solidity{ also ed fletcher seems to be getting criticsied suffered with a very bad virus lost a lot of weight not played much football and people getting on his back unfairly i believe cjwales82

26 Oct 2011 16:39:42
At 22 I think xavi was playing for barce and Spain so cleves has a bit off catching up to do but I think the comparisons are because he has a similar game
I think the steve g lampard type midfielder is out of fashion now Xavi and Barcelona have set a new trend
jred

26 Oct 2011 14:03:18
hello all, im a canadian moving to the northwest of england for six months. just wanted advise on the best way to go about purchasing tickets to old trafford. i wouldnt care at all which game it was, i just want to watch a game there if possible. thanks in advance for the information.

the canadian donkey

26 Oct 2011 11:44:30
I was very impressed last night by everybody with the exception of Park.

Without getting carried away Ravel and Pogba were very good, and you could see that Morrison was dying to get on the scoresheet.

Berbatov as I've been saying for the past year and a bit is a very good footballer with an unfair label of being lazy as he does a lot of off the ball running, well now he's started doing it on the ball. he was my MoTM.

I still wasn't overly impressed with Vidic, I wouldn't start him against Everton but I'd have him on the bench and give him 30 minutes or so.

All in all it was a good game, Good to see Cleverley playing again, but we've got to remember it was Aldershot.

The Moon.

26 Oct 2011 11:13:46
Is anyone else both gutted and annoyed that we missed the boat with silva? Heard a lot about a proposed interest from Fergie, was it true or speculation? Cos it seemed as soon as there was reported interest from utd city came in for him (surprise surprise!) balotelli, aguero, toure were on our radar! Its very fickle of me if i say they only go for players united are interested in as they are simply going for the best, i guess im more bothered by the fact that fergie hasnt busted a gut to sign any of them, its fair to say they are right up there with the worlds best!

Very apptly named safwetrust87

26 Oct 2011 10:17:10
One thing I like about Clevs is his direct approach, last night for our 1st goal, he played a ball straight through the middle of the defenders. The rest of our midfield would have played backwards or out wide and slowed down play. He injects a big of urgency into our game.

DB-Red

26 Oct 2011 00:03:04
Ed001 - Why are people struggling to understand that Sneijder's wage demands were the issue in the summer? Why can't they believe that City & Chelsea also wouldn't agree to pay him his extortionate wage demands? The fact that Sneijder & Moratti have said that unofficial talks took place and broke down, isn't that enough? No club would meet his demands, that is why he is still playing for Inter.

Sydney! {Ed001's Note - people never like hearing anything that doesn't agree with what they want to hear.}


Exactly opposite Ed I wanted proof of the "fact" that it ws wages that broke it down. Im not naieve enough to just rule anything out including WS being greedy but who here knows the exact facts of what was discussed and what numbers were put forward by both camps? answer= nobody.

You can have all the inside info you want to back up whatever you say online but I believe my own eyes and as I said when I see someone who would know admit it then I will believe that but until then I can think what I want and I dont believe that the sole reason was he wouldn't budge on massive wage demands.

Syd you can call for your editorial backing all you want but they cant convince me any more than you or your friends can.

Simple thing was we needed a midfielder or 2 and if you are to believe we have properly tried for Mods, Nasri, WS this summer the board, management and all involved have to be questioned that if they are serious about a signing there is no excuse that a club our size should just be doing with what we have when we all can see that what we have is not good enough.

+ Syd the youth played well tonight certainly not amazing. The one major positive is how well Fryers has fit into the first team. With him, Blackett and twins we might not need another LB after all.

Jono