Someone's having a real laugh - butthead?

[littletedwest]

yep, never mind bayern or any of the filthy rich clubs in the champions league his only ambition was to join the club that finished 7th in the premiership.

[Tj hooker]

Quite a few Mancs in work today taking a right load of shite about last night.

At the start of the season or just before top 4 was just a formality as in we finished 7th last season & have no European football, they are starting to wake up to the fact that they may not get top four after all, one of them called the squad dogshit I didn't disagree

[Kant]

Joel Glazer for manager before the end of the season

[manwiththestick]

A manc in work today was praising Phil Jones, that's all you need to know about today's Utd fan.

[Boss]

https://twitter.com/EdDzeko

[Clem H Fandango]

i said to my boss, his nephew and the production manager.....

 

At least you can concentrate on the league now.....and try to avoid relegation!

 

Never seen them look so pissed off. Priceless.

[Trumo]

It really does beggar belief that United managed to win the league in 2013 at a canter. They obviously don't have the exact same squad as back then having got rid of Ferdinand, Vidic, Evra and Nani (and maybe some others that I can't be arsed to recall), but not all those names were regulars that year either mainly due to lack of form and/or fitness. The likes of Smalling, Jones, Cleverley and Welbeck were regulars back then too. Despite van Persie's goals, you have to say that the 2013 title was won by a shit squad and helped along the way by the spinelessness and ineptitude of everybody else, from players to clubs to officials to the game's governing body in this country.

[magicrat]

A manc in work today was praising Phil Jones, that's all you need to know about today's Utd fan.

He's correctly identified their best player . 

[clangers]

We've been here before, didn't they have the same gloatfest when Mata signed in January? Top four was a certainty as I recall.

 

It's all very reminiscent of our decline, they're still at the but we're Manchester United stage.

 

The odd big vanity signing is all that's required......

[Tony Moanero]

It really does beggar belief that United managed to win the league in 2013 at a canter. They obviously don't have the exact same squad as back then having got rid of Ferdinand, Vidic, Evra and Nani (and maybe some others that I can't be arsed to recall), but not all those names were regulars that year either mainly due to lack of form and/or fitness. The likes of Smalling, Jones, Cleverley and Welbeck were regulars back then too. Despite van Persie's goals, you have to say that the 2013 title was won by a shit squad and helped along the way by the spinelessness and ineptitude of everybody else, from players to clubs to officials to the game's governing body in this country.

 

The won the league because Alex Ferguson was a superb manager.Deal with it.

[Boss]

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/396636/Blonde-wins-1-250-on-PP-bet-after-accidentally-backing-MK-Dons-to-win-4-0

[Dr Nowt]

The signing of Di Maria, unless used as a wingback which would be amusing, will likely result in £40M Juan Mata losing his place; their club record signing only 8 months ago.  If it doesn't, their team is going to be even more unbalanced, as sure, they'll be great with the ball when allowed to just have it unchallenged, and if the opposition don't attempt to score against them, but that's as realistic as them expecting to to buy Ronaldo, Bale and Fabregas last summer.

 

What would be great is for Van Gaal to be clipped just before summer 2015, so this whole process starts again and there's a 4th manager in 2 and a half years spending mega bucks from a negotiating position of weakness, likely with different ideas again on players to the other 3.  Now thats a transfer committee we can all get behind.

[Russ Atmosphere]

Perhaps they'll play Rooney wide in a 4231, that'll be fun.

[Dr Nowt]

He'll be wide irrespective of where they play him mate, the pug-faced ball of butter.

[Stickman]

While all this debacle is going on one man sits patiently waiting for a phone call.....

 

[Trumo]

redheart just quoted an article where it states that Van Gaal is using a 3-4-1-3 formation. Even with an extra body on the pitch they're still shite.

[Russ Atmosphere]

He'll be wide irrespective of where they play him mate, the pug-faced ball of butter.

...rolled around the barber's floor.

[Russ Atmosphere]

redheart just quoted an article where it states that Van Gaal is using a 3-4-1-3 formation. Even with an extra body on the pitch they're still shite.

Rush keeper.

[Trumo]

Rush keeper.

 

Odd choice. He'd just put the ball in the back of their net again and again.

[Dr Nowt]

Odd choice. He'd just put the ball in the back of their net again and again.

 

He could pioneer the use of defending from the front from the back.

[Reckoner]

So in 1991/92 season Liverpool's decline started and United were on the up, went the closest to winning it for years, ultimately finishing 2nd.

Liverpool's decline continued despite big money signings with the belief that we are Liverpool so that will be enough, and a manager ripping up the foundations of the previous decades of success.

And the following year Man U won the league.

 

Conclusion

 

We're gonna win the fucking league.

[redheart]

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/aug/28/transfer-rumours-alex-song-liverpool

 

When you enter Louis van Gaal’s office, the first thing you notice is the spartan decor. Nothing too fancy for him. Just a few pictures on the wall – one of the grandkids, one of him and the wife when they visited the world’s most photographed barn, one of the time he invented football – and a desk.

 

On the right of the desk lies a Manchester United mouse mat, right beside which there is a Manchester United pencil case filled with the Manchester United 24-piece colour pencil tube set and the Manchester United ultimate stationery set. Beside this, lies a big red panic button which has been replaced three times since Van Gaal took over and which sets off an almighty klaxon when pressed, forcing Ed Woodward to leg it to Van Gaal’s side at once. Once there, Ed wipes the sweat and panic from his brow, gets on one knee and asks Van Gaal, what can he do to keep him happy.

 

Previously, Van Gaal asked for simple things like a single pillow of Shredded Wheat, some steamed toast, a dodo egg and to have his office rotated so the window faces the hills. This time, however, he wants something bigger and bolder. He wants William Carvalho from Sporting Lisbon and he wants him now.

 

Ed will take Louis by one hand, run his fingers through the Dutchman’s hair with the other and in soothing tones reassure him that Carvalho will be his. But once outside the office the sweat will start dripping down his face again for Ed knows that he is not the only man willing to sign a cheque for £23.8m and that other rivals for Carvalho can offer the Portuguese international European football, not least Arsenal. In other Manchester United transfer news, Tom Cleverley, Danny Welbeck, Shinji Kagawa and Anderson will be told they have as much as chance of making it at the club as the Mill does of landing a small role in a Broadway musical.

[Section_31]

I don't think people can really compare our decline with theirs. We'd always had great managers thanks to the genius of Shanks's bootroom philosophy.

 

This ensured that just as no player was irreplaceable, no manager was either. This was in keeping with Shanks's socialist outlook of everything being a team effort, rather than Ferguson's champagne socialism masquerading as pure self interested narcissism.

 

Those who came through the bootroom all shared the same trait, humility. Things went wrong when we appointed someone who didn't have that quality. Souness's arrogance served him well on the pitch but poorly off it.

 

But what had kept us great though was an ethos, when it came to infrastructure and money, a dozen clubs could have been in our shoes, they just never had the bootroom, they never had Shanks and a line of great managers.

 

What kept the mancs great, in addition to Ferguson's undoubted ability, was the sheer nature of the club as a brand and an economic powerhouse. To have allowed everything to slide is incredible really.

 

Ferguson knew what made him successful would also make things difficult when he left, his stamp was everywhere and he would leave a massive vacuum. His arrogance and controlling nature meant he could never have had a boottoom culture, it's why all of his former coaches and most of his former senior players can't stand him.

 

He tried belatedly one last time to copy the Liverpool model by creating his own Bootroom, appointing a man in his image, now he's got Giggs next to LVG. But it's too late.

 

When it comes to Liverpool and the mancs, Shanks/Paisley and Ferguson, it's like watching an autistic pianist performing Mozart. Their replication is near to pitch perfect, but they'll never feel the music.

[El Dangerous]

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/aug/28/transfer-rumours-alex-song-liverpool

 

When you enter Louis van Gaal’s office, the first thing you notice is the spartan decor. Nothing too fancy for him. Just a few pictures on the wall – one of the grandkids, one of him and the wife when they visited the world’s most photographed barn, one of the time he invented football – and a desk.

 

On the right of the desk lies a Manchester United mouse mat, right beside which there is a Manchester United pencil case filled with the Manchester United 24-piece colour pencil tube set and the Manchester United ultimate stationery set. Beside this, lies a big red panic button which has been replaced three times since Van Gaal took over and which sets off an almighty klaxon when pressed, forcing Ed Woodward to leg it to Van Gaal’s side at once. Once there, Ed wipes the sweat and panic from his brow, gets on one knee and asks Van Gaal, what can he do to keep him happy.

 

Previously, Van Gaal asked for simple things like a single pillow of Shredded Wheat, some steamed toast, a dodo egg and to have his office rotated so the window faces the hills. This time, however, he wants something bigger and bolder. He wants William Carvalho from Sporting Lisbon and he wants him now.

 

Ed will take Louis by one hand, run his fingers through the Dutchman’s hair with the other and in soothing tones reassure him that Carvalho will be his. But once outside the office the sweat will start dripping down his face again for Ed knows that he is not the only man willing to sign a cheque for £23.8m and that other rivals for Carvalho can offer the Portuguese international European football, not least Arsenal. In other Manchester United transfer news, Tom Cleverley, Danny Welbeck, Shinji Kagawa and Anderson will be told they have as much as chance of making it at the club as the Mill does of landing a small role in a Broadway musical.

Of coarse the entire article is tongue in cheek, and we all know who's tongue is in who's cheek! Epic Bantz!~ Guardian.

[an tha]

Villa and Man Utd have agreed a fee of 8m for Tom Cleverly, Man Utd will pay it in instalments.