just watched class of 92, very good watch
I've got a bad feeling about the Norwich match, praying we don't come out of it with any injuries too.
Anyone else picked up on the fact Adnan's got 4 yellows, with Valencia missing he's probably nailed on to start but can we risk him being suspended for the Spurs game...
He will be fine
imo
Would play him and tell him if he dives and gets booked then sit out in reverses for a while
Get rid of cleverly
Bring pogba back
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Get rid of cleverlyBring pogba back
Heard its a done deal. Why didn't someone think of it earlier.
:rollseyes:
The 'new signings'
David Moyes has always spoken of his desire to keep the tradition of giving opportunities to young players going strong at Manchester United.
He stated a desire to ‘introduce young players and look to the Academy to see what we can bring through from the youth’, something he has followed through so far with Adnan Januzaj and now a few others.
Charni Ekangamene was given squad No. 43 and a spot on the bus ahead of United’s trip to Aston Villa on 15 December but the latest beneficiaries of Moyes’ policy are Joe Rothwell and Larnell Cole, who travelled with the squad for the game against Norwich.
Cole, who already has a first team squad number (34), is a young midfielder can play anywhere across the middle of the park but predominantly plays on the right for the Under-21s. He was an integral part of the squad that won last season’s Premier League title as he scored crucial goals, including a hat-trick in the semi-final against Liverpool and a brace in the final against Tottenham. He was also part of England’s squad for the Under-20 World Cup during the summer.
Joe Rothwell is another great midfield prospect. He had an injury plagued season with the Under-18s last year but has come back this season showing impressive form in both the Under-19 Youth League campaign and at Under-21 level. It’s this form which is not only catching the eyes of the supporters but also of the coaches. The 18-year-old also may have worked his way into contention for a spot in Noel Blake’s Under-19 squad for the European Championships in the summer.
It’s great that Moyes is not only keeping an eye on the youngsters when they play in our youth teams and away on loan but also lets them know that they’re in his plans by including them in the travelling squads for first team games.
I love that. But.
From wanting 2 midfielders and Baines to getting just Fellani to then clearly needing a couple players.....
I'm now certain he misunderstood when he was told there was no budget.
That being said if given the opportunity and if he can keep fit Cole will make a real go of his first team chance, I like Charni, but I don't think he has all of what it takes.
There are a few more in that reserve team that can make the step up, which is great and exciting but also says a lot about the strengths of the squad as the reserve players we're talking about aren't Pogba or Ravel level.
dirty strike
Ffs can we get rid of cleverly and Evans
Wat kinda p*ssy spine is this
Is that any worse than the defenders who pull, push and kick him?
Matt d*ckinson Chief Sports Correspondent The Times Last updated at 12:01AM, January 2 2014
Like a man with a blanket too small to cover his head and toes, David Moyes needed Wayne Rooney to lead his attack yesterday, and his midfield. Oh, and, if he could, cover the defence as well in the last, desperate half-hour.
Trying to play the Cantona, Scholes and Keane roles — sometimes all at the same time — always was going to stretch United’s star player to breaking point, and the England striker seemed dangerously close to snapping after the final whistle when he berated Howard Webb, the referee.
Rooney had already been booked for almost rugby tackling Mousa Dembélé a foul of pure frustration and fatigue.
“If I could rest him, I would,” Moyes (left) said, adding that Rooney was carrying a groin injury.
Yet Rooney had the very opposite of a restful afternoon, his team’s best and most overworked player who was guilty of trying to do too much.
This is how it is at United just now where there is such a thin spread of top quality that Rooney feels the need to do every job.
He started as a No 10, immediately dropped deep, and was officially moved back after an hour when he became United’s best midfield player.
Yet his deeper role meant that just when United needed goals to recover from a 2-0 deficit at home, their most likely source, their one top-class striker, was trying to initiate moves as well as finish them off.
With Rooney trying to run the game from deep, the attacking burden fell almost entirely on Adnan Januzaj, an 18-year-old in his first season expected to save one of the world’s biggest clubs from worsening angst.
And so another defeat shook United to their core in these uncertain times. Losing the title, which now looks inevitable, is perhaps the least of their worries.
Far more dangerous are the dents in their aura, the lack of conviction. “Winners,” Moyes calls the squad he inherited but, as Sir Alex Ferguson always told his players, past triumphs count for nothing.
What hurts Moyes as he strives for credibility and trust among United fans is that the worst of their problems are at home.
As Tim Sherwood, the Tottenham Hotspur manager, pointed out with glee, United are “there for the taking” at Old Trafford, because a limited attack is too easily held at bay and a defence without great pace, and with Nemanja Vidic and Patrice Evra turning old in front of our eyes, is vulnerable to any half-decent counter-attack.
Make that four losses at Old Trafford in the Premier League. Throw in draws against Chelsea and Southampton and that is 14 points out of 30 at the ground where opponents once feared to tread but now fancy their chances.
United can dominate possession — at one point in the first half they had almost 70 per cent of the stuff — but they hardly created a chance for an hour with Antonio Valencia plugging away diligently but predictably on one wing, Januzaj too wide to carry a goal threat and Danny Welbeck too languid and casual until that late, fraught rally.
Spurs defended efficiently, then struck with pace. Simple.
Moyes has tried to liberate his players in recent weeks, to encourage a higher press. Yesterday he tried to be bold. The finishing XI must have been the most cavalier of his career with Rooney and Shinji Kagawa in central midfield, Valencia at right back and Ashley Young, Javier Hernández, Welbeck and Januzaj across the front. Yet this was a reactive move. Daring only came with desperation at Old Trafford.
There could be some sympathy for a manager under immense pressure who was certain that Hugo Lloris’s reckless late challenge on Ashley Young merited a penalty for United.
It did. Yet one decision cannot mask United’s problems, and nor can Rooney trying to play three positions at once.
At this rate, he will finish the season exhausted. He will also have doubts about his future if United have finished outside the top four.
With the World Cup looming, Roy Hodgson, the England manager, will be just thrilled about that.
i give up
That's not a dive?
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That's not a dive?
That's a different game, played Spurs yesterday
I see.
2nd most booked player in Prem for diving in only 14 games.
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I've got a bad feeling about the Norwich match, praying we don't come out of it with any injuries too.
Anyone else picked up on the fact Adnan's got 4 yellows, with Valencia missing he's probably nailed on to start but can we risk him being suspended for the Spurs game...
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