United Thread 2015/16
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yeah whatever !!
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Quote 'I already look forward to another manager coming in and releasing the shackles'.This is the post about an 'aggressive pressing game' - with a picture of a goal kick! I fucking love this guy's logic.
This picture summed up most of this game for me. You could throw a net over all 20 outfield players. It was a lot like this in the Spurs game too. Both teams playing an aggressive pressing game, squeezing the life out of the match and leaving no space to play any football. That is the direction modern football has been going in for a long while now and we did need to replace Sir Alex with someone like van Gaal to modernise our football because as much as people dislike van Gaal, you can't possibly deny that this is a mile away from how we played under Sir Alex.
Whether that's a good thing or not is another debate entirely but to call him a fraud as some people have is just silly IMO. We're a very well coached team, far more so than we have been in a long time. There are a lot of other areas to management than coaching and of course Sir Alex far exceeded van Gaal in many areas but this is something that Sir Alex never could do. I expect we'll overperform in Europe because of that to the same degree that we underperformed under Sir Alex.
I don't expect to win a title under van Gaal but I won't see him as a failure if we don't. He's laying the foundations just as he did at other clubs and it's impossible not to see that in the way we play. The way we play is painfully structured and devoid of creativity and flair so I already look forward to another manager coming in and releasing the shackles, but that doesn't take away from the fact that playing and being coached in this way is improving some fundamental qualities in our team that needed to be addressed.
We played stone age football under Moyes partly because he's a traditional British manager but also partly because they were conditioned to play that way under Sir Alex. We shouldn't lose sight of that.
Please inform this pleb that any manager coming in will get rid of half that team... then its back to square 1.. and tbh, are the Glazers gonna get rid of a manger so far entrusted with £250 million ??
They have failing Malls to maintain.
gordondaviesmoustache
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Thanks, mate.
What's funny about that article is that it suggests that the 99 questions were aimed at united as an institution. Their wording may have reflected that, to some extent, but the intent behind them certainly wasn't. There was one, singular target, and as far as I'm aware, the questions remain unanswered.
Neville Kneville
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After losing 6 of the previous ten games (players figured season was over after Barca & title over in Jan) City have won every game since. Rags poked the hornets nest.
I'm glad Milner is at Liverpool, as they had become embarrassing rag fodder & only raised it v City last season. Milner may help change the attitude there & at least knock a couple more points off the rags' haul.
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Hahahahahaha! Thank you BBC!
Who ever they buy now will just look like a panic buy. I know its hard when its this funny, but we should just try and ignore what's going on in Stretford. They are not serious competitors, long may it continue. Let them have their also ran derby after the break. In the next few months they will be linked to every top manager and player, to try and keep the deluded on side. Wont be long before those green and yellow scarf's are held aloft by some very angry cockneys. How do you think they will get on in Europe? could be a car crash.
It's a given, Woy is the biggest rag cock gobbler going
Prestwich_Blue
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Maybe I'll ask David Gill a few of them when I see him a week on Wednesday,
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