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Courtois can only blame himself.

Ozil? No thanks.

He's come a long way since Fulham and the red card in the derby was actually the making of him as he really stepped it up after that. Like I said he's far from perfect and I understand why some wouldn't rate him. But when you look around the league at the standard of defenders, it's simply far...

Rooney is finished and I don't expect anything from him, but yeah it's the perfect time for the likes of Martial and Rashford to take their chance. Not a Jones fan but I rate Smalling defensively, it's just because of his awkwardness on the ball he gets a lot of stick IMO. We should be alright...

Mata has that knack of creating a chance or scoring a goal even if he is not in the game. Smalling is not perfect but he is a reliable stopper who does the basics of defending well. Jones is a permacrock.

Disagree, for example Gascoigne went to Spurs, Shearer went to Blackburn, Ramsey went to Arsenal etc. Its very different in the Bundesliga where it's even been said that they buy players they don't particularly want just to keep their rivals weak.

Not to the extent Bayern does.

Probably wouldn't be so many links to high profile players around the world if we could cherry pick talent in our own league like Bayern...

Er, no. http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/european/did-marca-photoshop-the-big-house-to-add-more-real-madrid-fans-against-manchester-united-9646285.html

Can't reply to everyone because basically I'll just be repeating myself but I think this is a decent read:

I see what you're saying but he's always been toxic and controversial. It's just then he was new and fresh, blew everyone everyone away with an instant impact and had that youthful charm.

Yeah currently but he started off the season talking about wanting to win the league and he has repeatedly said that he doesn't want to play in the Europa League. So it's not like he's tried to lower expectations and am sure next season he'll talk about aiming to win the league again.

Last season at Chelsea was disastrous really but over the course of his career it surely has to be viewed as an anomaly.

Well he did that at Chelsea to prevent another big loss and thus risk the team losing confidence which we don't need with so many big games coming up. The team stayed together and defended well after everyone's favourite ref Oliver sent off Herrera. The FA Cup this season was simply the least...

I'm not justifying anything because ultimately I want to see United win, you generally need to attack and outscore opponents to do that. Mourinho tends to win a lot so I don't think it's accurate to make out that his MO is to park the bus and desperately survive as if he's in a relegation battle...

For the last 15 minutes in anticipation of them bringing on Gestede next to Negredo and going direct. And it worked because they created virtually nothing, with the goal they scored coming from a Smalling mistake. Also got to factor in how it was our third game in six days and fatigue has been...

What I find pretentious is this constant talk about manager philosophies and how idealistic a lot of the football world has become, whereas being pragmatic at times is almost sneered at. For example I didn't understand Guardiola's post-match comments or tactics in the Monaco game last week...

Thanks! International break will be a bore now.

We've played some good stuff this year but haven't converted our chances. Each to their own but after Van Gaal an quite immune to this pretentious nonsense about how the game should be played.