The Official Manchester United Thread

[Kompressor]

are you aware of what the word significant means?

YES

WHICH IS WHY I AM LAUGHING AT YOU

Lol, mate, sit down make yourself a cup of tea and realise that no one on here has spoken about the cancer that's at the club more than me,

People like you only recently realised that there's a problem and feel to jest an make a whole heap if noise about it from 2009/2010 onwards, understand that I signed up to shareholders United in 2002 put more money into it in early 2005,

Just before and just after the takeover helped leaflet around OT to try and highlight what was about to happen,

So don't come on here and act like you can see something that I or anyone else can't already see,

Your eyes shifted into focus 5 years after mine did mate!

[Fighting Weight]

If Man U are so broke can someone explain to me how they spent £50 mil (approx.) in the summer and also bid for Sanchez (apparently)

The club is operating at a 'profit'

[Mame Biram Diouf]

are you aware of what the word significant means?

YES

WHICH IS WHY I AM LAUGHING AT YOU

Lol, mate, sit down make yourself a cup of tea and realise that no one on here has spoken about the cancer that's at the club more than me,

People like you only recently realised that there's a problem and feel to jest an make a whole heap if noise about it from 2009/2010 onwards, understand that I signed up to shareholders United in 2002 put more money into it in early 2005,

Just before and just after the takeover helped leaflet around OT to try and highlight what was about to happen,

So don't come on here and act like you can see something that I or anyone else can't already see,

Your eyes shifted into focus 5 years after mine did mate!

Straw camels back

I used to have shares in Man Utd too

So calm down plz

Cheerio

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Yeah I only noticed what is happening now? You basing this on me laughing at you thinking we are going to sign 3 significant players this summer?

Significant to me means Sniejder/Hazard/Gotze type signings not Jones/Young/De Howler

[Kompressor]

Whether you like it or not, the likes of Jones, Young and De howler are significant deals in terms of fee, wages and involvement in the first team. Lol

As opposed to the kid we just signed from city. - insignificant in the large scheme of things.

Out if interest, what happened with your shares when the takeover happened?

How many did you have,( moratory value)

[Benicio del Toney]

You have to laugh.

Bad times.

[JOHN DOE]

i remeber someone said on here that SAF is the only one thats keeping morrison at old traff

Ravel Morrison's misdemeanours heard on Manchester grapevine

Andy Mitten

Feb 1, 2012

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The majority of the coaching staff at Manchester United lost patience with Ravel Morrison, the hugely talented young attacking midfielder, a long time ago.

They persevered because their boss, Sir Alex Ferguson, insisted.

The senior players were exasperated with the 18 year old too. How could someone so talented, they wondered, be at fault so often? They had all made the necessary sacrifices to become a footballer and they had reached the top.

The rewards were there for Morrison to see every single day, the status, respect and accoutrements of wealth. It frustrated the players even more that someone with more natural talent than most of them appeared to be throwing it away in a series of mishaps, misdemeanours and more - far more - serious issues.

There is a strong grapevine in Manchester. It helps people in the city cut through the media image of footballers.

Mancunians want to know what someone is really like. They hear stories about Manchester City's Joe Hart, for example, being a good person, someone who has time for others. Ryan Giggs also, though tales about his private life have long been legend. It made many a Mancunian smirk when Giggs was hailed as a saint when everyone knew he wasn't.

Most players score quite well on the grapevine, ratings based on chance meetings in shops and clubs, on the words of friends and work colleagues, of little anecdotes which help piece together a profile. And by what you can see with your own eyes on a football pitch.

Not so Morrison. Almost every story - and there are many - concerns him being in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong people.

His influences appear to be gangster chic rather than Gary Neville. He comes across like he doesn't care, not about now nor the future. It is incredibly sad to see.

Some sympathy must be extended because he's endured a difficult upbringing, but so have many other footballers.

What sets them apart is that they are prepared to learn and listen to people like Ferguson, one of the best protectors and developers of youthful talent in football.

Morrison is not and Ferguson, his greatest ally, has finally lost patience.

Morrison is a Mancunian. United fans should be proud that a hometown boy has come through the ranks to become a full professional at the English champions.

The Old Trafford dressing room is full of characters from Brazil to Bulgaria, Spain to Serbia, yet there is a little knot of local talent led by Giggs and Paul Scholes which still dominates and sets the tone for what is right and what is not.

It was hoped that Morrison could be a local legend himself, but fans knew long ago that it wasn't a given and unlike most who don't make it at Old Trafford - and most emerging footballers don't make it - it was nothing to do with talent.

There is often talk of a 14 year old being the next Giggs or Scholes, but the reality is that most young professionals get released and drop down a division or two before starting their career proper. After the disappointment of leaving Old Trafford, they tend to be honest enough to acknowledge that they were not up to the standards of United's first team, but the education they had at the Carrington training ground put them in excellent standing for what lay ahead.

It is especially frustrating, then, when a player does have the talent and the right physical attributes and luck with injury to succeed but still manages to mess it up.

United supported the teenager through his court appearances for the serious charge of witness intimidation. Fans supported him, without much thought for the victim of his crime. They wanted him to come good and saw glimpses in an FA Youth Cup-winning side last season and in three first-team appearances from the bench in the Carling Cup.

Morrison might yet fulfil his immense talent, but it is likely to be at the United of West Ham rather than Manchester.

Many hope he proves the doubters wrong, but they won't be surprised if he doesn't

http://www.thenational.ae/sport/football/ravel-morrisons-misdemeanours-heard-on-manchester-grapevine

[Kompressor]

tbh, i'm a little surprised they persevered with him for so long.

This isn't a 13 year old kid getting into the odd scrape at school.

The notion that patience was wearing thin, then certain dissagreements during the contract talks broke the camels back isn't really hard to believe,

Anyone remember his tweet just after he was lefft on the bench for a reserve game couple months ago, something about not being able to wait till the end of the season,

Just a sad state of affairs all round tbh,

[Hernandez Balcazar]

pogba needs to feature in nearly every game fror the rest of the season

immense talent

[FANTA]

Pogba has been ready since the start of the season

SAF should have played all of them in the Carling Cup instead of 'rotating' average senior players in order to keep them happy and give them a game. That being said i'm glad he's finally been given his chance, even though its more to do with spite because of Rav leaving

on the subject of Rav, SAF said this after tonights game;

"He is better out of Manchester and it was an easy decision to let him go...Sam will look after him in London"

[Benicio del Toney]

SAF shoulda played these yute man earlier.

Nothing like seeing a kid make his debut and do well.

Also nothing like seeing a massive potential never make his debut.

Coulda been avoided and easily.

[anelka]

lool Utd fans talking about Poggy when they are joint top, like he wudda saved u against Basel in the champions league or at anfield last week in the cup..He had his chance and blew it when it mattered against Palace and was told to chill rightly so, about he needed 2be brought in earlier lool top FM/Fifa heads

As for Ravel, i wanted to see him fulfil his potential at Utd, im upset he left, but its the right decision, u cant have him running a muck yet getting rewarded with a contract, sets a bad precedent for the other young lads coming through

[Colin Turnover]

Still raging atm.

[Mame Biram Diouf]

Norwood >> Coventry

Wooton >> Nott Forest

Both loans till end of the season

[Agony]

[Mame Biram Diouf]

Sir Alex Ferguson remains confident that highly-rated midfielder Paul Pogba will pen a contract extension at Manchester United.

He says Pogba, who was handed his Premier League debut in Tuesday's 2-0 victory over Stoke, has indicated that he would like to stay and it is now just a matter of putting the relevant paperwork in place.

Ferguson, who saw Ravel Morrison head for West Ham on deadline day after failing to agree an extension to his deal with the Red Devils, said: "Pogba did very well.

"The boy has great talent and tremendous physique for an 18-year-old. You can't believe it.

"We are negotiating his contract at the moment. It is a bit complicated at the moment because he has changed his agent a couple of times.

"But the boy wants to stay, that is obvious. Hopefully we can get it done soon."

[Mame Biram Diouf]

Stop it

Anyone can look good in a youtube video

If Man City thought he was that good enough he would have stayed, especially would not have come to use

He is like their 3rd or 4th reserve CB

Any up and coming Senderos

[Agony]

Stop what?

I just posted the vid in here so some people can get a first look at him cause me personally I've never heard of him or seen him until now and I'm sure I'm not the only one.

At least wait until someone starts gassing him up and calling him the next this and that before you start getting emotional.

[Mame Biram Diouf]

There is nothing to look at

We signed a reserve from our rivals reserve team

Will be sold to FC Zurich in a couple years for an undisclosed fee

Most people had not heard of him for a good reason

[n/a]

aint it time for a name change fella

[Kompressor]

His rage Jesting has taken his mind away from the fact that his name sake has been sent packing

[Young £]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsyy0fIU9vQ

[The King]

Sky Sports understands Manchester United starlet Ezekiel Fryers is stalling over a new deal at Old Trafford.

The 19-year-old is out of contract at the end of the season and as yet fresh terms have yet to be agreed.

The news has alerted a host of clubs to Fryers' possible availability in the summer if he fails to agree a new contract.

Fryers has come through the ranks at United and made his full debut in the first-team in the Carling Cup win over Leeds earlier this season.

The versatile defender has gone on to make five further appearances this term and he is highly-regarded within the corridors of Old Trafford.

United are keen to tie down Fryers to a new deal, but the defender is thought to have snubbed their initial offer as he holds out for a better contract.

Talented defender Fryers, 19, is coming to the end of his current deal and could be snatched away in the summer for a small fee, with Tottenham leading the list of interested teams.

[Guest M12]

United are on a joke ting. Why are they not offering these guys respectable contracts.

Arsenal/Toney will be all over this. Young mixed race left back. Fack!

[Kompressor]

i was shocked when it was Fyrers who got the nod out of all the young players, but when given the chance he's looked good,

if he's thought of so highly then why the hell is him being given an extension seeming like some last minute thing?

[The King]

Fryers will go the same way as Simpson.