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Looks pretty United bound, Carrick replacement I suppose. Gundogan for £20m is much more required for us than £40-50m on potential as it stands. Likely a good purchase for them eventually but we need quick fixes in midfield rather than future fixes.

You think problems would arise facing decent opposition with Fernando behind Yaya & Fernandinho? I'd argue that is simply our strongest defensive midfield available (Delph for Yaya perhaps); I believe it was the Sevilla away match (?) where we utilised this to great effect. Yes but those...

Like you said our wide areas are weak currently - so why bother forcing ourselves to play wide. I was suggesting that formation & saying we don't have to play with width - let the fullbacks stretch the play & provide some width, whilst having our main threat through the center with Yaya, KdB...

Well if we win every match remaining we 100% will be 3rd :-P It's definitely still in our hands, this seasons so unpredictable though, me writing results like that is probably going to be way off the real end outcome but hey.

No we play Arsenal on Sunday 8th May, they play Norwich on Saturday 7th & West Ham on Tuesday 10th as they'll be a match behind as they don't play this weekend.

Got to say I'm a little confused as to why this post is directed at me? The threads about playing 2 up top, I suggested a formation that I feel could work - you've ignored everything I've said & just suggested a couple of formations that we already play this season with nothing actually relevant...

Aha, they're more rubbish than us this season, they're by far the worst team in the top 6 & even their fans would accept that - they'll be performing miracles to win 6 matches in a row. I think Palace, Villa & Bournemouth should really be nailed on wins for them, but the other 3 are easily...

United: Palace (W), Leicester (D), Norwich (W), West Ham (D), Bournemouth (W) = 67 points. City: Stoke (W), Southampton (L), Arsenal (D), Swansea (W) = 68 points. Arsenal: WBA (W), Sunderland (D), Norwich (W), City (D), Villa (W) = 71 points. An ugly horrible scraped 4th place finish, no...

This summer gone: Toure, MDM, Kolarov, Bony Toure - been great & still prone to greatness but we can't rely on him anymore, time to move on. Demichelis - did his job last couple seasons, should've gone last summer - this one should be 100%. Kolarov - isn't good enough & never has been, his lack...

Would be interested in seeing a 4-1-2-1-2 or 4-4-2 diamond, whatever you prefer to call it. We were so ineffectual on the wings yesterday it was silly, we're forcing a CM to be a winger just to fit our formation.. If we have significant injury problems to the point that we're playing silly...

It will be Delph LW. Pellegrini used him there quite a bit this season, don't see him changing it.

Not really much choice with no Nasri, Sterling (risky to start him) or Silva - other than push Yaya forward & KdB left, but he's on form in the middle so guess that took priority. Also used Delph on left a fair bit already this season.

Yeah fair point, not sure we'd take then WITH Roma & Wolfsburg though. Barca with a couple of relatively more comfortable teams may not be too bad.

So it'll be Barca City Roma & Wolfsburg then. Or Bayern City CSKA & Maccabi.

Pedro had a buy out clause, no real haggling to be done with the club makes it much quicker.

Yep this, was such a relief to see our striker take down a long ball with good control, shield it from the opposition and lay it off to someone or get a free kick. How often can you say Dzeko did that? If he played as much as Dzeko did, he'd get as many goals whilst contributing much more in...

Needs to stick to first 11 and same formation, this is the type of match we'd be dropping points in last season so the focus needs to stay high. A lot of people expecting an easy win, but Watford are unbeaten with 2 clean sheets and pushed us hard last season in the cup - if we don't score in...

Sure I can see that, but I'm asking more will he stick to what's being successful with us currently i.e. playing very wide, trying to beat his man and get a cross in, or as I suspect would he be more of what Nasri is for us, try and come inside and play a one-two with someone and slows it all...

How much better than Nasri is KDB? Nasri clearly has more passing/finishing ability than Navas, and Sterling currently, yet we don't play him because he slows us down and makes us narrow compared to what Navas does. I've seen the KDB videos and obviously he looks class, and you don't post the...

He's a nice guy and done well to settle the club down, keep us out of the headlines for the wrong reasons etc.. But tactically? He's just not up there with the world class managers, he's far to stubborn (Wenger-esque) in his tactics and formations and we make the same mistakes game after game...