Sassy Colin
Death or the gladioli!
Is Shaw fit yet?
We don’t actually need VDB hat trick - hat tricks are needed from players who are going to be our top scorers (and those are obviously Martial, Greenwood and Bruno)A Beek hat trick
He recovered over a week ago, almost in time for the Villa game. Chances are he'll make the starting eleven tonight.Nobody knows.
Covid-19 can affect lung capacity even after it's gone. For the average guy in the street, operating at 90% efficiency won't make any difference to the way they live their lives. But for a top athlete, it's could be equivalent to temporarily ageing by 5 or 6 years.
Or not. Again, we have no idea how well Pogba is doing beyond the fact he's recovered.
I know a relatively healthy twenty-something girl who recovered weeks ago but still gets out of breath walking up a flight of stairs. No idea if she can play in a midfield two.
No.So is Ole going to do a Mourinho and play McTominay on the right wing just to prove a point?
Bit harsh. He's done very well there last season. The kid is young so give him some slack. He's answered every question and was in great form early in the season when Shaw clearly was not. In fact, if you go back through his performance thread, you'll find a large majority asking for him to start over Shaw every week.I just hope we never see B-Williams play LBack ever again!
When is he not?Team news. Phil Jones is injured. Seriously, wtf.
Wow you’re a cockI just hope we never see B-Williams play LBack ever again!
No way? Last week he was back in training. Seriously, he cost club millions every year. Guy should just be a man and retire. Like some players did when they saw that they can't play football on high levelTeam news. Phil Jones is injured. Seriously, wtf.
Do you ever expect anything different?Team news. Phil Jones is injured. Seriously, wtf.
Can't we terminate his contract? Bit of a joke now.Team news. Phil Jones is injured. Seriously, wtf.
Do you always speak about yourself in the 3rd person?It looks like your brain can't process information properly thus when an poster says "hope BW doesnt play LB for us again" for you it means that poster meant "he cant play RB" either....well that is not what that poster 'said'. Read it again. That poster only talked about LEFTBACK. Get him a left foot then. Cheers mate!
It's as if Ole thinks we're waiting with bated breath to hear that he's fit and it's the news we've been waiting to hear.Do you ever expect anything different?
Everyone except for Henderson hopes for a clean sheetIm hoping for a clean sheet.
Hopefully.He recovered over a week ago, almost in time for the Villa game. Chances are he'll make the starting eleven tonight.
It may still be (one of) Matic or Fred instead of Pogba or VDB. Also, I wouldn’t be surprised to see Lingard instead of James on the benchHoping for a good comfortable win today. Really looking forward to seeing Van De Beek play for the first time too.
Starting XI
De Gea
Wan-Bissaka
Lindelof
Maguire
Shaw
Van De Beek
Pogba
Greenwood
Fernandes
Rashford
Martial
subs:
Henderson
Bailly
Williams
Matic
Fred
James
Ighalo
Score Prediction:
Manchester United 3-1 Crystal Palace
As in January 2018 when United went on to finish the season in 2nd. Or the start of 2018/19 season where Uniteds form took a nosedive and Jose was sacked before Christmas?Getting early 2018 vibes with us.
That one.As in January 2018 when United went on to finish the season in 2nd. Or the start of 2018/19 season where Uniteds form took a nosedive and Jose was sacked before Christmas?
As a 42 year old, I've seen the lot from United. Every single year I look forward to the first game of the season with renewed optimism. For the first time ever, not this year. I genuinely feel that Ole has been stitched up by the board/owners lack of any ambition. We over achieved last year; and with our rivals spending, (and our lack of), we're going to be in for a terrible year imo. We were already on our arse towards the end of last season. Added with the fact that this season is a compressed one, AND, with us competing in the Champions league, we just won't have the legs - as our squad players are clearly pretty fecking awful and cannot be relied upon as proven many times.I think this is the first time in all my years as a united fan where I truly feel apathetic towards a match because its becoming so clear we are looking stuck for a long time with owners who have no ambition to see the club to become the best in a footballing sense and is content with scrapping for a champions league spot every year to keep sponsors happy and pick up champions league money and a majority of fans ain't bothered about it aside from some moaning on twitter.
De Gea on the rightSo is Ole going to do a Mourinho and play McTominay on the right wing just to prove a point?
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He loves a generic statement does our Ole.Tweet
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Doesn't have much choice. He can't exactly say that the board has fecked him over by not adding barely anyone to the team, (when it was clearly needed), and as such, we're going to struggle.He loves a generic statement does our Ole.
Bang on!Can’t wait for real football to replace fantasy football. Hate all the transfer muppets turning football into a soap.
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I know, but I’m talking about the summer of 2006. Nobody expected us to be as good as we were that season. I remember the pre season previews predicting it may be the season United dropped to 4th (which was unthinkable under Fergie)
“Carrick isn’t good enough” “they’ve not replaced Van Nistelrooy” “Rooney & Ronaldo hate each other” “has Fergie lost his touch”
All of the above was a taking point going into 06-07. Nobody expected us to win or even challenge for the league.
I wasn't referring to lack of incoming transfers up to this point, rather the way he conducts his press conferences in general.Doesn't have much choice. He can't exactly say that the board has fecked him over by not adding barely anyone to the team, (when it was clearly needed), and as such, we're going to struggle.
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