Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Sun Aug 24, 2014 9:12 pm  

If i was involved with the club, i'd be asking serious questions of that deal. I suppose you could argue that £60+ million to Man Utd is a drop in the ocean, but loss of CL revenue, both tickets and the money for just participating, you'd have to imagine a small tightening of the belt. If Di Maria is signed for £64m, he would surely go down as one of the most overpriced deals in history.

Good to see 'Arry's new stint in the Prem is going so well

Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Mon Aug 25, 2014 4:43 pm  

Di Maria isn't worth the prices quoted that's for sure.

The player they should be trying to buy from Madrid is the young French lad at centre back (forgot his name) or Godin at Athletico.

The squad looks so lopsided in quality

Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Mon Aug 25, 2014 11:57 pm  

duke street 10 wrote:

Di Maria isn't worth the prices quoted that's for sure.

The player they should be trying to buy from Madrid is the young French lad at centre back (forgot his name) or Godin at Athletico.

The squad looks so lopsided in quality

Doesn't it just.

De Gea is already really solid, Van Persie, Rooney and Mata are all of unquestionable quality, Di Maria will only add to that. He had a superb year last season, when most expected him to be dropped because of Bale's arrival.

In between the two ends of the pitch? Ridiculously low on quality. It doesn't matter whether Van Gaal plays 2 or 3 centre backs, they've got no quality in the middle of the defense or midfield. Fullback/wing backs are also problem positions he has nothing in bar Luke Shaw who is very young.

I just don't get the Di Maria signing tactically. He was meant to be playing this 3-5-2 formation he used for Holland. But in that system you need wing backs like Baines/Coleman not out and out wingers like Di Maria who won't defend.

Priority for United has to be centre back and centre midfield? Yet he seems happy with Blackett, Jones and Smallling and is even talking about giving Smalling a big pay rise

Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Wed Aug 27, 2014 12:35 am  

Any other lower-league side smashing us 4-0 and I'd be congratulating them... But not MK Dons. Still a joke of a club, and the added 16k on their attendance tonight was hilarious. Where's that Dons apologist who came on here calling Man Utd 'Franchise FC'

Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Wed Aug 27, 2014 8:12 am  

100% Wire wrote:

Any other lower-league side smashing us 4-0 and I'd be congratulating them... But not MK Dons. Still a joke of a club, and the added 16k on their attendance tonight was hilarious. Where's that Dons apologist who came on here calling Man Utd 'Franchise FC'

That guy was a ****ing ****head.

I hate the relocation of clubs and think it shouldn't be allowed. But I don't blame MK Dons for it. IMO the fault lies with Sam Hamman and the FA. Sam Hamman wanted to move Wimbledon somewhere else because then he'd get more money for flogging the club. He wanted to move the club to Dublin but the Irish FA told them where to go. The English FA weren't bothered though and would have probably allowed it, which just shows what they are.

If Dublin were allowed in the PL then they'd have probably been a massive club, and it would have probably meant Rangers and Celtic joining up too.

Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Wed Aug 27, 2014 1:52 pm  

Crystal Palace are going down.

Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Wed Aug 27, 2014 3:31 pm  

Manchester United are a laughing stock at the moment

Regards

King james

Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Wed Aug 27, 2014 9:09 pm  

Hopefully this signing for United will end all the sanctimonious self righteous ''our success is pure because we didn't buy it......like chelsea'' that we've had to endure over the years.

Spent a ton in the last year on fellaini, mata and di maria and they are a real pile of sh*t. The latest signing makes no sense at all. It's like they thought ''hey we've kind of bombed in the last 18 months in the transfer market, who can we sign that makes a statement?''

Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Wed Aug 27, 2014 9:38 pm  

FlexWheeler wrote:

Hopefully this signing for United will end all the sanctimonious self righteous ''our success is pure because we didn't buy it......like chelsea'' that we've had to endure over the years.

Will it 8o11ocks.

They'll still claim purity because they've "earned" all their money through football.

But hopefully they won't be getting any success anyway with the ridiculous way they've been buying.

Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Thu Aug 28, 2014 8:58 am  

100% Wire wrote:

I'm just going off rumours, but I don't think anything is as funny as Falcao going to Liverpool

You might get Balotelli though

It will be interesting what role Balotelli is given at Liverpool. Whether he can form a partnership with Sturridge. I suspect they'll both want to play the same role.

Despite all of the off field craziness that surrounds Balotelli, the basic problem is that he has far too many stinkers. There aren't enough moments of magic to compensate for the days when he's totally ineffective or worse.

If Rodgers can convert the 3 out of 10 performances into 6 out of 10, he'll be a bargain. But nobody else has managed it.