Nah, more a sign of needs must. We're in a rebuilding phase, and not every signing is going to be top tier player. He's a good player who could do a job for us, wouldn't be a bad signing at all.
His all round gobshitedness, and Liverpool connection cloud people's opinions. He's a very good manager, the one manager from the British Isles who deserves to be managing a top team, imo. I'd rather see United play his football rather than Mourinho's, that's for sure.
It wasn't United's first successful period, we were already the biggest club in Britain thanks to our earlier success, all of which was achieved by Matt Busby without financial doping.
Also, every club in the premier league was in the "right place, at the right time" when TV rights, and...
Could it be 3-4-3?
.................Johnstone................
......Darmian....Jones......Shaw......
....................Carrick..................
.......Schneiderlin......Blind.............
.....................Mata....................
.....Young......Rooney...Memphis.....
Have you ever seen the documentary, cleveland 95? after I saw that, i thought it seemed like it would only have been a matter of time until he had built the Browns up in a similar way.
Remember that time Phil Jackson told Michael Jordan to step aside while Luc Longley took the game winning shot?... nope, me neither. Carroll is a gobshite. Well done to the Patriots though.
He's not stirring up controversy, he's written a biography. You can't skim over stuff like last season, it's part of his football career now, and he's right to go into detail about what a clusterfeck it was.
Obviously the papers are going to try and get the juiciest parts for the headlines...
I've got the makings of a very good team.
Marco van Basten, Denis Irwin, Dunga, Fritz Walter, Gunnar Gren, Guti, and Simao.
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