That's actually solid humour at this hour. Well done.Some guy on the United twatter said whoever wins gets Di Maria, lol.
They can have him, we should sign Tia Maria instead, or something like that..I'm tired.
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Gotta love it when a new signing clicks so well, and immerses himself in the clubs philosophy.
I hope Ibra shows up Blind for what he is today. Not a centre back. That way we can stop playing this pointless 'playing players out of position' shite again and stick the players that actually play there instead.
Disappointed as well to see him part of the B squad during pre-season.
The persistence with Blind at CB is confusing, there wasn't a massive effort to play with a LCB last season. And Mike was surely our best CB last year, it seems Jones has usurped him? Or maybe Jones-Blind complement each others strengths.
what a fantastic looking team.
With Schneirderlin, Herrera, Smalling and Januzaj in reserve, it looks so balanced.
We are just one world class centre back away from having a starting XI good enough to challenge the very best in world football.
Still believe LvG is testing his options while he has time, and we will see Smalling start the 1st match...
Players aren't born with set positions you know. Blind has great positioning so he could make a good centre back. People complain about his lack of height, but that never stopped Cannavaro, Puyol, Mascherano or Danny Blind being top class centre backs.
Still don't think that a Rooney, mata, depay, young front four is anywhere near the elite of Europe, especially with mata at RW and Depay at cam. If we keep Di Maria then maybe there's potential, but at the minute it's looking like we are well behind even arsenal.
Is there no "home" game before the season starts?
Scirea, Moore, Baresi and Beckenbauer too.
Feck sake, please don't be true.
I want to see...
Carrick
Herrera Schweinsteiger
Januzaj Rooney Memphis
Herrera Schweinsteiger
Januzaj Rooney Memphis
Nah, apparently adidas would have liked a game before the season to showcase the new kits but LVG preferred an extra week of just training.
For some reason I thought we had Valencia or some Spanish club once we were back … or was that last year?
That's a damn good looking lineup.
That was either last year or the year before.
Carrick is better than Blind at everything. Better positioning, better at reading the game and better at defending but even he isn't a great centre back. He's even taller! Smalling is our best defender. There is literally no reason why he shouldn't start.
I just hope we don't carry on these stupid experiments into the new season like we did last year (albeit some of it last season was down to injuries). Just when I think I'm warming to Van Gaal, he does stupid shit like dropping Smalling for Blind and benching possibly our best midfielder.
Cheers
time-warp here (3am - no sleep) brain playing tricksYeah Valencia was last year and Sevilla (for Rio's testimonial) the year before. We ended up losing the latter 3:1... good times.Cheers
I couldn't agree more.
I was really hoping to see Adnan or Pereira get a start with the senior filled team, I'm also not keen on Schweinsteiger and Carrick in midfield together, too one paced and similar.
Can anyone tell me how many minutes we have until kick-off?
30 minutes
31ish … if you read this now
this is our last match before tottenham, right? Why still starting with Blind in defense?
Thank you friends.
Blind will get eaten alive by Harry Kane if he plays at CB for the opening match.
Rojo has passport problems
Then I guess we should buy him in the next 10 days as I doubt we'll have a new CB by then.Blind will get eaten alive by Harry Kane if he plays at CB for the opening match.
Because he will start against Spurs...
What's Evans and Smalling's problems?
With Young in it??
Blind is better at passing than any of our centre backs, maybe distribution is the reason. The slow way we play means the centre backs have the ball a lot, so they have to be very comfortable on the ball.
There's a reason.
Just to clarify, I'm not for it, but it can be justified if you try hard enough.
Evans could very possibly be off, I have a feeling that he'll play Smalling alongside Blind for Spurs but needs him alongside Paddy when he makes changes for stability. Be very surprised if Jones is above Smalling in the pecking order
The midfield of Carrick and Schweinsteiger
Bang goes that theory … LvG's talking about players playing 90 with only 3 changes on MUTV right now
Is Morgan really injured? If so...
welcome to manchester united... :/
welcome to manchester united... :/
Carrick - Schweinsteiger might suffer from the same issues that Bayern had with Basti - Alonso.
Still waiting for the day we see the midfield three of Herrera - Basti - Schneiderlin
Still waiting for the day we see the midfield three of Herrera - Basti - Schneiderlin
Come on Schweinsteiger!!!