Recent content by redflair

  1. Paul Pogba | 2017/18 Performances

    I think he's a having a decent World Cup so far despite the commentators going quiet whenever he makes a nice pass or plays a decent through ball. He's made the difference a couple of times - and that sort of understated simplicty is exactly what we'd like to see next season at United instead...
  2. Loris Karius appreciation thread

    Maybe he also had concussion when he let the ball slip through his hands at Anfield after Kolarov's speculative shot in the semi-final against Roma. That was a Bale trial run for the final. It was 0-0 and the ball hit the bar. But then Liverpool went on the rampage and all was forgotten. We...
  3. Marko Arnautovic

    I've got a feeling in the Pellegrini regime, Marko might not be quite the striker he's looking for to take the Hammers into the promised land. Hence his agent, stirring pots already. If you actually have a look at Arnautovic's career, he always appears to have more to say than actual...
  4. Fabinho | Al-Ittihad player

    This is the last player we needed to sign. He's a solid player who will help Liverpool massively when their attacking transitions break down and help calm a slightly excitable team which is prone to conceding goals in batches. We did not need Fabinho because we have too many defensive-minded...
  5. Smalling or Jones. Who should leave his summer? [Poll added]

    After Smalling's solid display in the Cup final, this is a pretty idiotic thread. Our most consistent defender for the last three or four years should be sold? He'll be back, starting games for us in the next Premier League season. If that's beside Toby,or someone else who knows - but he isn't...
  6. Talisca | Scores hat trick on debut

    We know you're all in your post-FA Cup meltdown phase, but the state of this thread is depressing. Anderson Talisca had always impressed me whenever I've seen him and I think for the prices being bandied around, he'd be a bargain for us - and I've got no doubt he could also be a future star...
  7. Alexis Sánchez | 2017/18 Performances

    No, the sentences are not complimentary because he did not connect them when he was commentating on the match. You've just done that for him, which is very nice of you, but I think you're being a bit too kind to G Nev in this particular case.
  8. Alexis Sánchez | 2017/18 Performances

    Gary Neville's 'Box of Contradictions' moment on commentary at the London Stadium on Thursday. 'United's midfielders simply don't pass the ball forward quick enough to the front man, it's all side to side etc...' Next moment. 'Alexis Sanchez isn't holding his position upfront, he keeps...
  9. Antonio Valencia | 2017/18 Performances

    So many of you feel we need to replace the full-backs to add some attacking verve to our play - but it isn't going to happen. A left back, maybe - but Jose simply won't want to disrupt, what he thinks is a decent defensive unit, so drastically before a crucial season. I just don't think he's...
  10. Jose Mourinho | 2017/18 Assessments | Poll Added

    My worry is that he's not really been able to get the best out of some of the attacking players he already has - and that any new signings - will find his safe, sterile and cautious appraoch to games even more bewildering. I hope I'm wrong - but some of the players we already have - must have...
  11. Matic - Debut season review

    Immensely talented but also immensely dozy. Some incredible passing giveaways that should make a schoolboy blush, under no pressure whatsoever. That said, a solid season. Stablisation and low-key interceptions that are key to Mourinho's 'turnover' strategy, which is still a work-in progress...
  12. Arsene Wenger’s next move

    It's funny because I mentioned this before while engaging with an Arsenal fan - and he got in a right tizzy about it. They want him to disappear out of England, that's for sure. Just because Wenger said he's sentimental about Arsenal and wouldn't want to manage another club, doesn't mean to say...
  13. RB, LB, CB, CM, RW, Fellaini, Darmian, Blind, Martial, Pogba

    Look I know most of you think we might buy two shiny new full-backs in the summer, but I don't just don't see it with Mourinho. He's unlikely to alter the back four so radically as I think he'll want to keep most of the unit secure for the start of the season so he can keep some sense of...
  14. 3rd Season Curse: What are your expectations for next season?

    Pogba and Matic are his men and going forward, you can't say that many of us are convinced that with, the third or fourth man in midfield (whoever he buys), we're going to have enough tempo, nous, sharpness and cunning to feed our front players relentlessly so that they can have enough chances...
  15. Post match vs Arsenal

    What are you on about? Make a serious point about Sanchez, as I've just done, then post your flimsy reply.