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jeff_goldblum

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If Anderson can get Scholes to smile for a camera than he must be an invaluable addition to the dressing room in terms of morale
 

RyanGoggs

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To be fair Twitter is pretty poor. It normally only ends badly and gives very little insight into a persons life. The fact footballers continually get themselves into trouble through it really doesn't do footballers any favours in terms of how intellectual they appear
 

Lynk

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Interesting hearing Fergie talking about United players on Twitter at today's presser.

"I don't understand it, what's the point of it?"

"Our rules are quite clear. The players are not allowed to talk about Manchester United"
I was hoping they'd pan to Van Persie. :lol:
 

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Interesting hearing Fergie talking about United players on Twitter at today's presser.

"I don't understand it, what's the point of it?"

"Our rules are quite clear. The players are not allowed to talk about Manchester United"
I'm not sure he's been told not to follow all the ITK's to be fair.
 

Lynk

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Anyone think Fergie has scared Van Persie off twitter? :lol:
 

Lynk

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This club is a fecking joke when it comes to injuries.
 

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Oh dear. First game of the season and we're already down to bare bones at the back.

EDIT: Which in turn has a detrimental effect on midfield seeing as Carrick will have to play there.
 

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Carrick's not been playing nearly well enough in pre-season to be starting in midfield.
Yeah but we've nobody else in midfield for his position, unless we want to play Cleverley or Anderson there and abandon this whole 'defending' malarkey.
 

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Amazing how our center back injuries all line up at the same time, ridiculous. Carrick it is then.
 

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Yeah but we've nobody else in midfield for his position, unless we want to play Cleverley or Anderson there and abandon this whole 'defending' malarkey.
Again, nonsense. Cleverley, Anderson and Scholes are all central midfielders who can all do what Carrick does. They might not be as good as him at certain aspects of the role but they make up for it in others. This idea that we have to play Carrick in every single game or conceded a shit-load of goals is just retarded. All the more so when it's barely a couple of weeks back that the mighty Barcelona failed to score against a midfield which didn't feature Michael Carrick.
 

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Our makeshift defense playing against Fellaini scares me. Especially after what happened in April.
 

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Interesting to see people interpret that tweet as 'I'm injured'. I very mch doubt that it is anything to do with an injury. Why would Ferdinand bother to announce it in that way?
 

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Again, nonsense. Cleverley, Anderson and Scholes are all central midfielders who can all do what Carrick does. They might not be as good as him at certain aspects of the role but they make up for it in others. This idea that we have to play Carrick in every single game or conceded a shit-load of goals is just retarded. All the more so when it's barely a couple of weeks back that the mighty Barcelona failed to score against a midfield which didn't feature Michael Carrick.
Ah come on, it was a pre-season friendly. Anyway, the main issue is that we'll be using him in central defense with nobody as defensively strong as him in front of that defense. I don't think Cleverley and Anderson are even half as good at him in that role, if you think that's "nonsense", fine.
 

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This obsession with our midfield is getting tedious.

Last year we were very unfortunate with injuries in that part of the pitch with Fletcher, Anderson and Cleverley all out for nearly the season. We now have a couple of them back and hopefully Fletcher might return. We have also added a class player in Kagawa.
 

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Well actually this is more to do with defense than midfield, because we're having to use a midfielder there. It's annoying how injury ridden it always is.
 

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Well actually this is more to do with defense than midfield, because we're having to use a midfielder there. It's annoying how injury ridden it always is.
We just have to cope with all eventualities. It's exactly the reason why we have a big squad.

Change your mindset and start enjoying games.
 

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Well that's just nonsense. What games do you think he played particularly badly in midfield?
He's looked a bit off the pace every game he's played, either in midfield or defence. In fact, thinking about it, he's been like this every season since we signed him...apart from the season we signed him, when he got injured instead. He seems to take slightly longer than others to fully kick into gear.

I'd have been expecting Cleverley and Scholes, or maybe Anderson. Obviously would rather Rio in defence than a midfielder, but it could be worse...at least we wont have an in form Carrick in defence while a defender and a winger play in midfield.
 

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He's looked a bit off the pace every game he's played, either in midfield or defence. In fact, thinking about it, he's been like this every season since we signed him...apart from the season we signed him, when he got injured instead. He seems to take slightly longer than others to fully kick into gear.

I'd have been expecting Cleverley and Scholes, or maybe Anderson. Obviously would rather Rio in defence than a midfielder, but it could be worse...at least we wont have an in form Carrick in defence while a defender and a winger play in midfield.
Didn't he only play one or two games in midfield? Very early on? All our more recent games - when you'd expect him to be less rusty - were out of position. You can't really judge him on his performances in central defence. His most recent run out in his preferred position was for England, when he was excellent.

It's a fair point that he's usually a slow starter but he's certainly not been playing so badly this pre-season that he doesn't deserve his place in the team.

Anyway, I'd have no worries at all about Anderson, Cleverley and Scholes in midfield. Even swap Kagawa for Scholes and I think we'll be fine. If we only play two CMs I'd be a little bit wary but that's how I'd feel regardless of who's available. It's a tricky fixture for the season opener.
 

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We just have to cope with all eventualities. It's exactly the reason why we have a big squad.

Change your mindset and start enjoying games.
:confused: I always enjoy games, if I didn't I wouldn't bother. That's a weird thing to say.
 

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Yeah but we've nobody else in midfield for his position, unless we want to play Cleverley or Anderson there and abandon this whole 'defending' malarkey.
Suits me. The defending marlarkey is quite boring when you've got Nani, Valencia, Rooney and Van Persie on the pitch, and the other team has a giant walking mop.
 

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Suits me. The defending marlarkey is quite boring when you've got Nani, Valencia, Rooney and Van Persie on the pitch, and the other team has a giant walking mop.
Depends on whether the walking mop is playing or not I guess. I doubt RVP will start, which probably means Nani, Rooney, Shinji and Valencia, not half bad if we can get service to them, which we should be able to do if Cleverley is on the pitch, and possibly Scholes.
 

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Didn't he only play one or two games in midfield? Very early on? All our more recent games - when you'd expect him to be less rusty - were out of position. You can't really judge him on his performances in central defence. His most recent run out in his preferred position was for England, when he was excellent.

It's a fair point that he's usually a slow starter but he's certainly not been playing so badly this pre-season that he doesn't deserve his place in the team.

Anyway, I'd have no worries at all about Anderson, Cleverley and Scholes in midfield. Even swap Kagawa for Scholes and I think we'll be fine. If we only play two CMs I'd be a little bit wary but that's how I'd feel regardless of who's available. It's a tricky fixture for the season opener.
The thing is, Cleverley, Scholes, Kagawa and even Anderson have all looked sharp in midfield, Carrick hasn't. Even if it's not his fault Fergie usually sticks in the people who he knows are ready for the first few games. Carrick didn't look up to speed at centreback either to me. His passing was too slow and nowhere near as good as it can be.

I hope we go two in midfield or at least take the game to them rather than sit off. I'm bored with being bored by United. Everton are also traditionally slow starters
 

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Wait a minute, Carrick was shite pre-season? I must have been watching different games then, or was too busy remembering that pre-season isn't about the performance, it's about getting match-fit, the performance is a bonus. Also, you seem to be forgetting that he actually did a very good job of keeping back Barca when he was played out of position.

I hope the usual Carrick bashing doesn't happen again this season, he's clearly our best midfielder (If Scholes could play more games then he would be, there's no doubting the class) and is the first name on the team sheet for me.