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I remember the conversation when we signed falcao with people questioning if we had the best attack in Europe on paper. Falcao was obviously a massive disappointment overall, but I’ll never forget watching his arrival on deadline day. All the talk of him going to city only for the narrative to then change and that he was instead arriving at Utd. What a moment. Probably the last deadline day I ever watched on sky sports too as that’s a dead beast.Not the most exciting but I was really excited when we had Falcao, Rooney, and RvP in the same team. If they were all on their peaks it would have been the stuff of legend. And they could play together too, they're not very similar in the terms of playstyle and would have complimented each other well.
They didn't win anything in that specific season though and I think they became mainstream with everybody watching them in the CL.They'd just won the league though so I'm not sure they count
They didn't win the big one, but wouldn't be true to say they 'didn't win anything'. They won the Olympic gold medal in 1952, it was more prestigious then than it is now. They also won a Central European Championship, which was a precursor to the Euros.Hungary's Magnificent Magyars of the 1950s.
Lost one game in seven years: The World Cup Final
Agree with this. Then matches were incredibleMan. United 11/12 aswell. Were involved in loads of high scoring games that season, 8-2 v Arsenal, 4-4 Everton, Bolton 5-0 etc and back to front it had more about it than the one that comfortably won the league the next season in Fergie's final year.
Biased of course, but they have to be up there.2013-2020 Belgium??
The 'You score 5 we score 4' mentality..Spurs is mid 90,s Ossie Ardilles played a load of forwards
Klinsmann, Dumitrescu, Anderton, Sheringham and Barmby
in fairness they were still shit but fun games to watch
Ballack, Lucio and a young Berba in that team.Bayer Neverkusen
I was going to mention them, saw a few games with my father. They were apparently advised they could miss the Blackburn game as they had multiple players out ill, but then the FA changed their minds and deducted 3 points, which sent them down. The worst part is they could have turned up with the kids, got hammered, not lost the 3 points and survived.Boro 96/97 deserve a thread on their own. Two cup finals but lost both and got relegated with all of Juninho (think he was voted best player in the league), Ravanelli who scored 30 goals and Emerson.
Anyone who moans about fixture congestion go on soccerbase and have a look at the schedule they had from the February up to the final day, was ridiculous although one of those games was self inflicted as they didn't turn up to Blackburn just before Xmas and had to then play it on the final Thursday of the season.
AmenThink the best team I’ve seen never to win major honours weee Ancelotti’s Parma in 96/97.
Their squad was absolutely ridiculous - Buffon, Cannavaro, Thuram, Sensini, Crippa, Zola, Dino Baggio, Ze Maria, Crespo, Chiesa, Brolin. The lost goes on. Basically a who’s who of Italia 90s football royalty. Think they sold Stoichkov shortly before or during that season too.
While it might seem from a United perspective like we just beat them every time we played around that time (and having just checked, we followed our league defeat to them in January 2007 with a run of 19 games in which the record was 13 wins, 4 draws, and 2 defeats, after which they beat us 2-1 in the FA Cup, in March 2015), Arsenal were still a dangerous side for a few seasons after Henry left, not just in 07/08. However, this was the period in which they developed their reputation as bottlers.07/08 Arsenal was a brilliant side imo.
Was all doom and gloom as Henry left that summer but Fabregas and Van Persie started to step up as leaders and Hleb was very good for 2/3 of that season, same for Rosicky before he inevitably got injured.
Reminded me of them last season as it started to fall away around March/April but they were a very good watch that season and a fantastic Man. United team that could've easily won the treble once more just about reeled them in.
They won the Spanish cup too if I recall correctlyRobson's Barça. They did won the CWC though, but even at the time it was considered a useless trophy.
Yes they did, my bad. In my opinion he was poorly sacked: Barça had a great starting 11 but the bench was very underwhelming. Injuries came and that's why they lost the title.They won the Spanish cup too if I recall correctly