Nani's injury | Fit | Nani: "What Carragher did was not football"
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
Love the picture at the bottom of that article of Rooney nailing Sagna 
It will be a gamble to play Nani but perhaps he is up for it and give us the cutting edge. Perhaps play both Nani and Valencia and terrorise them into conceding an early goal.
Lets wait and see how we line up tomorrow night.
Lets wait and see how we line up tomorrow night.
luisnani
It's great to be back in training with the team! Thank you all for the support during my injury.
It's great to be back in training with the team! Thank you all for the support during my injury.
Nani, Valencia and Giggs all fit now, wow!
Only Park left, then we have all our 4 best wingers back. When is Park ready?
Only Park left, then we have all our 4 best wingers back. When is Park ready?
Excellent. Looks like he's been given a much beefier pair of shin-pads.
The prospect of Nani + Valencia for the run-in is making me all giddy.
Everyone should wear them
Hopefully kevlar...but then again he's not up against Carragher, or Van Bommel..... yet
That Marseille CB that was diving around like a salmon in the last match seems just the sort to give Nani a few testing kicks to the shin. Hope those shin pads hold up.
Get the feck in.
Exciting times again, The Valencia - Nani combo again !!! Bring on Marsaille !
Does anyone know why they always wear training tops with random numbers on? Like if they're not going to bother wearing their own numbers then why have them printed on at all? Small thing, but never known.
Great news if he's back, just hope we wouldn't be rushing him back when the wound's not in the best shape, although I highly doubt we'd do that.
Great news if he's back, just hope we wouldn't be rushing him back when the wound's not in the best shape, although I highly doubt we'd do that.
They're not random as such, rather they are allocated to each player on a permanent /season basis, just as squad numbers are. I don't know why they are different to squad numbers though.
Oh really?? So Nani will always train with 3 for instance?
Fergie: Nani - "Good chance he'll be involved. He and Michael Carrick trained on Sunday. Both will be involved tomorrow." Valencia - it's great to have him back. The question is should I play him from the start. It's a fantastic bonus to have him back.
I could have sworn this was explained somewhere recently. I think it was something along the lines of giving them the lowest available number on the date they report back for training after the summer and after that it's just random/first come first served.
I might have dreamt that though. Which would be beyond pathetic.
Valencia - Nani partnership
Oh yes!!! Bring the rest of the season on!
---Valencia----Rooney------Nani-------
-------------Hernandez-------------
Pace. Pace. Pace.
-------------Hernandez-------------
Pace. Pace. Pace.
I wonder if Nani will still have that problem again of playing on the left wing. Hopefully it's gone now.Valencia - Nani partnership
What problem would that be exactly?
Oh lordy, that is dangerous.
That set-up has a CL win in it, definitely. If the midfield could just kick into gear, we really could have a special season.
-----------------VDS------------
--Rafa----Rio----Vidic------Evra
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--------Scholes-----Fletcher-------
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---Valencia----Rooney------Nani-------
-------------Hernandez-------------
--Rafa----Rio----Vidic------Evra
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--------Scholes-----Fletcher-------
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---Valencia----Rooney------Nani-------
-------------Hernandez-------------
So it was just a gash afteral... what did I tell you?
Nani, Hernandez, Anderson and Valencia will give us so much pace, trickery and strength.
Can't wait
Can't wait
I thought Anderson was a bag of tricks when we signed him, especially when he played in that forward left role ala Ronaldinho, but we really haven't seen that side of his game which is a shame because I feel he's got it in him.Nani, Hernandez, Anderson and Valencia will give us so much pace, trickery and strength.
Can't wait
If SAF says he'll be involved tomorrow then you know he is out. Though hope for once boss isn't fibbing.
Like I said in another post. You seem to have a very confused idea about what a gash actually is*.So it was just a gash afteral... what did I tell you?
what is it with you and cuts vs gashes? They're the same damn thing!
The only technical term you could used for different ways in which your skin has been split open would be to define something as a laceration or an incision. The former is when your skin tears, usually due to blunt trauma, the latter is when something very sharp slices you open.
When it comes to how long healing will take, lacerations are more likely to get infected but the type of wound doesn't matter so much as the length and depth of the wound, as well as where it is located.
What Nani had on his shin was most likely a laceration.
Whether the man on the street would call it a cut or a gash makes absolutely no difference. They're both laymans terms for the same thing.
*no, I'm not calling you a gayer.
oh man that would something to see.
I meant in unison. Nani is the tricks part, Anderson and Valencia the strength and all four have pace.
Looks great, doesn't it? Pace is the one thing I've always associated with good United teams. And that is as good as ever.
We have to go with that against Arsenal. With their high line that could be absolutely explosive.
Why would people want Fergie to drop the team top goalscorer?
Baffling
Baffling
It's not really that baffling if people want the team to play a certain way and the player they want to bring in scores as many goals or there or thereabouts when he plays. It isn't baffling at all, it's just contrary to your own opinion.
Pace is good if Scholes is playing. If it is Carrick and Fletcher, it will not be as effective.
You can have Messi, Ronaldo and Villa as a front 3 but if you left with Lassana Diarra, Carrick and Busquets in midfield, they are not going to be very effective even if they are great players. More creativity required from midfield.
It's a team I'd love to see against most teams, but on paper it should particularly suit against Arsenal. I think Hernandez would clean up with Valencia and Nani delivering balls in to him on a plate. The Valencia-Hernandez partnership could be particularly good.