United Thread - 2022/23

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Since the World Cup break took place, we've had to play Liverpool at home, and Chelsea both home and away. You can chuck Leeds in as a very decent side as well for that matter.

United have had Burnley, Bournemouth, Wolves, Nottingham Forest and Charlton.

My hope for Saturday is that our harder fixtures recently stand us in good stead, a bit like iron sharpening iron. We've had games against good sides and come through with the wins in those games and have a right to be confident in a win at the swamp.

United have come up against bang average sides that don't carry anywhere near the same threat and handled them. Hopefully, their players realise quickly their form since the World Cup was achieved on the back of favourable fixtures. An early City goal should see to that.

Roll on Saturday... rag bastards.
 
Bluesince1979 said:
Zebra pants protests have gone quiet again.

Glazers teased them with suggestions they might sell, teams doing ok ish again and not a sniff of getting a game called off.

Biggest set of slapped arses in world football
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Last time I saw them, there were at least 2 Glazer Out banners above the players tunnel, not to mention the planned protests that have been circulating around social media - The 1958 or some such shite.
 
Sky transfer centre on in the background, they just piped up with “breaking news” , Weghorst has an agreement to join the Rags. I put it on hold and said to Mrs H “they’ll dress this up as a good deal”. They should have been pissing themselves laughing but the following came out from all three:

Brilliant in the air, 6ft 6 inches
Great touch for a big man
Most “pressures” from a player in the PL last year whatever that means
Scored 9 goals for Bestikas in the Turkish League
Rags only have one number 9, Martial in the squad, now they have two
Rags fans will love him
He’s only a stop gap, that despite all the above

What they failed to say was he scored 2 goals for Burnley

Joke signing.
 
tony adcock said:
Their player stats are always overstated anyway….

Scholes is a great example. Held as some demi god of a creative midfielder. But the truth is somewhat different.

Never more than 7 assists in a season in PL and total of 55 in PL history from 500 games.

To put it into context Crouch got 56 and Nobby Solano got 62 !
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My go to method for winding up rags is to state that Scholes is/was massively overrated. Guaranteed a reaction.
 
hammocity said:
Sky transfer centre on in the background, they just piped up with “breaking news” , Weghorst has an agreement to join the Rags. I put it on hold and said to Mrs H “they’ll dress this up as a good deal”. They should have been pissing themselves laughing but the following came out from all three:

Brilliant in the air, 6ft 6 inches
Great touch for a big man
Most “pressures” from a player in the PL last year whatever that means
Scored 9 goals for Bestikas in the Turkish League
Rags only have one number 9, Martial in the squad, now they have two
Rags fans will love him
He’s only a stop gap, that despite all the above

What they failed to say was he scored 2 goals for Burnley

Joke signing.
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He's an excellent signing for them, pack it in. Next you will be saying Fred or Maguire or Wan Bissaka or Ronaldo or Sancho or Bebe were joke signings.
 
The only downside to them signing Carthorst is it shows they are almost definitely going to be sold. Even the worlds worst owners would have made money available to replace Ronaldo as it would make CL more likely.
 
Blue back home said:
The only downside to them signing Carthorst is it shows they are almost definitely going to be sold. Even the worlds worst owners would have made money available to replace Ronaldo as it would make CL more likely.
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A different take is one supplied the other day by the usually biased Daily Telegraph. They stated the rags had, last season and this, blown their transfer budget out of the water and they simply had to refuse to allow new signings.
 
Stockton Heath Blue said:
Last time I saw them, there were at least 2 Glazer Out banners above the players tunnel, not to mention the planned protests that have been circulating around social media - The 1958 or some such shite.
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Let's be honest none of their " supporters " know what they want, other than getting back to the situation where they were " top dogs ", signed the best players from everybody else, and won almost everything on offer.

If they achieved that there would be no mention of money, owners etc that the spoiled cunts moan about continuously .

As transparent and pathetic as that.
 
alexmcity said:
Ten Hag is a much better manager than Solskjaer. But his style may be more convenient for Pep's City. He'll try to be more pragmatic this time around. If we score first, we can beat them by 3 goals again. If they score first or are still in the game come the last 20-30 minutes, everything is possible. This game won't decide much anyway. We are likely to win, though.
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Indeed. I think stylistically they’re tailor made for us, unless Ten Fags decides to completely change his system for this one, which I don’t see happening.

I’m not worried about them as a team, I just care about our players turning up on form. If they do, we beat them.

They’re on a decent run of form against mostly mediocre and poor sides. As long as we play near our best, we’ll show there’s still levels between us.
 
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