The Official Manchester United Thread

[Mame Biram Diouf]

Happy with that line up.

 

 

Jones and Giggs cm

 

Ok fergie

[Gambino]

I like Jones playing the CM role especially when he attacks. Giggs is another story, keeps having shockers.

[Lieutenant]

http://www1.skysports.com/football/live/match/300977/preview

sky sports didnt even know he was cup-tied

he played and scored v Stevenage I think it was

Match went to extra time

[i5_PRODUCER]

I like Jones playing the CM role especially when he attacks. Giggs is another story, keeps having shockers.

 

Cosign the Jones bit. when he goes on a run>>> 

 

I'm pleased with the line up inc giggs.

 

its just long when giggs is in a team that DONT inc kags/nani/clev/rooney

[darkman]

You can only like Jones in CM if you support the opposing team

[Gambino]

This could be a cracking match.

[Gambino]

lol Won't lie the Pool team look strong attacking wise. Kags & Nani are gonna boss though.

[Haze-e]

Lol. I'm not even watching this. Smh.

[Kompressor]

Kompressor what's the deal with Ferguson and Kidd, they don't speak do they?

No they fell out due to Brian Kidd being rude enough to want to embark on his own managerial career.

So despite a long and successful history with the club that includes scoring a goal for us in a European cup final on his 19th birthday not to mention his outstanding time as a number 2, he has been tactically ignored in terms of significance.

[Horatio Caine]

I like Jones playing the CM role especially when he attacks. Giggs is another story, keeps having shockers.

 

Cosign the Jones bit. when he goes on a run>>> 

 

I'm pleased with the line up inc giggs.

 

its just long when giggs is in a team that DONT inc kags/nani/clev/rooney

 

I like Jones playing the CM role especially when he attacks. Giggs is another story, keeps having shockers.

 

Cosign the Jones bit. when he goes on a run>>> 

 

I'm pleased with the line up inc giggs.

 

its just long when giggs is in a team that DONT inc kags/nani/clev/rooney

jones is horrible attackin

 

 

giggs needs to stop doin hollywood balls to hernandez

 

smalling and jones need a lot of work  when it comes to being comfortable on the ball,

[darkman]

Man U would be FUCKED without Rooney. You lot are mad

[Adotbiz]

Man U would be f*ckED without Rooney. You lot are mad

I agree 100%

[Gambino]

Easy to start saying that now really. He has pulled the thumb out this season after being denied his move, probably trying to put himself in the shop window for next summer. We're alright when RVP is in the team, Kagawa could play that role behind him rather than being put out on the wings which doesn't really work well for him.

[Gambino]

[The King]

José Mourinho is said to have broken down in tears at the news that David Moyes had been given the Manchester United job. The allegation is contained in a book by the respected Spanish journalist Diego Torres, who writes for El País.

In the book, Prepare to Lose: the Mourinho Era, Torres says the appointment "provoked an earthquake" and that Mourinho felt let down by Sir Alex Ferguson, who had recommended Moyes to the United board.

"Mourinho ... thought that Ferguson was, besides his ally, also his friend and godfather. He was convinced that they were tied by a relationship of genuine trust. He thought that his fabulous collection of titles constituted an 'endorsement' unreachable to any other contenders. When he knew that Ferguson had elected Moyes, the Everton coach, he was struck by a terrible disbelief. Moyes hadn't won absolutely anything!"

Torres said that Mourinho was on the phone constantly to his sports agency Gestifute. "Mourinho wouldn't stop calling them. His 'interlocutors' had heard him sob loudly and they were spreading the word. The most feared man in the company was crushed."

The book, whose account has been denied by Mourinho's adviser, goes on to describe the Portuguese spending a sleepless night in a hotel in Madrid, "the most unfortunate hours of Mourinho's phase as Real Madrid coach. He endured them between dozing and waking, glued to his mobile phone in search of clarifications, on the night of the 7th and the morning of the 8th of May, tucked into the Sheraton Mirasierra hotel." Moyes's appointment was made offical on 9 May.

Mourinho, according to the book, was sure that Ferguson would call with an explanation but he heard nothing. He recalled reading comments from the United director Sir Bobby Charlton pouring scorn on the idea of him getting the job.

"He was tormented by the memory of an interview of Sir Bobby Charlton in the Guardian in December. His judgments gave him a big uncertainty. 'A United coach wouldn't do what he did to Tito Vilanova', stated Charlton, evoking the finger in the eye, when asked if he saw Mourinho as a successor for Ferguson. In regards to the admiration that Ferguson professed towards him, the veteran footballer implied that it was a fable: 'He doesn't like him that much'.

"In the morning he called Mendes so that he urgently got in touch with United. Until the end, he wanted his agent to pressure the English club as an attempt to block any operation. It was an act of desperation. They both knew that Mendes had put Mourinho in the market a year earlier."

The book says that "Mendes had already been told in the autumn of 2012 that Ferguson's first option was Pep Guardiola. He had been explained the reasons. In Gestifute, the message from a United executive rumbled like a drum: 'The problem is that when things don't work for Mou, he doesn't do club politics. He does José politics'."

Mourinho, the book says, "felt betrayed by Ferguson and feared that someone might stop taking him seriously. For years, the propaganda machine acting at his services had divulged the idea of a friendship that now was revealed as a fantasy image. To give coherence to the facts in the public light, Gestifute's advisers advised him to say that he already knew because Ferguson had called him to inform him.

"On the 9th of May, someone from Gestifute got in touch with Record newspaper to say that Ferguson offered his crown to Mourinho four months ago, but that he refused it because his wife preferred to live in London, and that was why he ended up choosing Chelsea. At the same time, Mourinho offered an interview to Sky in which he declared that Ferguson kept him in the loop about his decisions, but that he never made him the offer because he knew perfectly well that he wanted to coach Chelsea. The contradictions were not planned."

Mourinho went on to take up the offer of a second term at Chelsea from the owner Roman Abramovich. When he took up the job in June he claimed to have known of Ferguson's plans to stand down but said he was always intent on returning to Stamford Bridge.

"I knew that Ferguson was retiring many months ago," he said. "I would have turned down every job in the world – the Manchester United job, every one – for Chelsea."

Mourinho's adviser Eladio Parames has denied the book's account. "This story does not have any sense," he is quoted by the Portuguese newspaper O Jogo. "It is completely false, it has no head or tail."

[Kompressor]

No real surprise there then. The story going round is he made several unreturned phone calls to United and Fergie shortly after Fergie announced his decision to retire.

[Thizz]

Yeah Jose broke down into tears.

Laughable story from probably the biggest Mourinho hater in the world after Porchy.

Was there some interest probably.

But Moyes has been earmarked for time.

Do you really think it's coincidence that he ran his contract down and Fergie went in for hip surgery when he did knowing he would have a lot more free time to recuperate.

[Kompressor]

Dunno about him being in tears.

But I'd say it is laughable to suggest that he wasn't a little gutted not to be considered for the job.

Moyes was the obvious choice for a number of different reasons but Jose wanted the job and probably believed his "close relationship" with Fergie might've had him in a good position.

[Gambino]

Seen it in his face when they asked him about United, he was embarrassed and gutted that he didn't get that job. Had to try talking some smack about Chelsea being his only choice.

[Kompressor]

Will Keane got another 2 goals tonight. Wilson got the other. Finished 3-3

Beat Bury 4-2 in the Senior cup.

Rooney scored 2 for them.

[Agony]

 

Maybe Fergie was securing his legacy by appointing Moyes but maybe that's a bit too cynical.

[Agony]

 

Send him on loan to a league 1 team 

[Haze-e]

4.5%

Seriously?

Lolsmh.