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Oliver Kay wrote a decent article in the Times about United's transfer travails. Basically the willingness to invest is there as proven by the large outlays post Ferguson. It's just that United have very rarely been the destinaton of choice for the worlds finest established players, and it is...

Gone are the days of long term planning? They knew the task I had? He still does believe the fans were all behind him doesn't he? The future planning was always dependent on him showing he was up to the job, and he clearly wasn't right from the off. Sorry David, I'm not sure you even knew what...

Van Persie is the one key player who will be able to smoothly transmit the coach's instructions to the players on the pitch. He is respected (as far as I'm aware) and he is also very combative and leads from the front, something relevant to the coach's philosophy. Keane was Ferguson's...

Not even remotely concerned or bothered if true. Phil Neville got his chance due to Moyes, now Moyes is gone how can there be a place for him? United shouldn't be an old boys club....we need quality coaches and Van Gaal will have a team full them....plenty of experience. Woods had one season...

Being great in the big matches often defines a player though, and Zidane stepped up more often than not to decide them. He definitely didn't go missing at Juve, perhaps occasionally at Real where it was a basic requirement to be self indulgent. It's too much of a generalisation to suggest from...

Your revisionism of Zidane is not how I remember him. He pulled off more than the "odd moment of magic" in big games, he completely dictated them at his peak. Not many players who had the ability to do that. He could create, make space or score out of absolutely nothing, and his skills were just...

Agreed. It isn't really debatable to be honest. The thing is I don't really see Van Gaal rating Valencia either. He might convert him into an attacking full back but I can't see him starting him consistently.

Well a United winger needs to do more than run about and track back. That isn't giving 100% it's just a part of playing out wide. When he does take the game to the opposition he generally doesn't have the intelligence to make anything count. He's not the only player to have been in poor form...

I like your cold hard realism in this thread. Your concerns are more than legitimate as far as I'm concerned.

I don't see Van Gaal rating him in the slightest. His first touch is poor and he doesn't often play with his head up. I don't think he is a particularly clever player, similar to Valencia really. They more often than not take the easy or simply the wrong option. Or sometimes literally just belt...

100% in what way though? Because he runs about? Because he might track back? He certainly doesn't give 100% in terms of taking risks or taking the game to the opposition, things expected of a United winger. People criticise Young and Valencia because they have been pretty awful for well over...

If that is true in any way then he can get fecked quite frankly. He used Moyes' weakness to grab himself a fat new contract, but Van Gaal won't be manipulated and he knows it. Wayne Rooney is used to getting his own way with Manchester United. When he doesn't he turns into a bit of a mardy...

This sums up my concerns perfectly. I honestly feel United need freshening up with a different approach. Things have been stagnating for longer than David Moyes' tenure and good football has been sporadic. Giggs knows one way, the Ferguson way, and that isn't necessarily inducive to implementing...

Depends what's in my system man. But don't expect anything coherent.

I grew up watching the scousers lording it over us, but I only enjoy dumping on them from a position of power, of supremacy. That is what Liverpool fans forgot throughout their years in the wilderness, they became small time......I won't. This season it's been humbling. I had enough class back...