The Manchester United thread 2006/2007 - featuring BBB leaving early

[Ollie1307]

So Ronaldo's broken hearts already then.

A player of his potential should NOT be sold. He's only bloody 20 and he's one of the most gifted players of this generation already.

A Rooney Ronaldo Rossi strike force in 3 or 4 years time will be fantastic. Man Utd please don't sell him, the EPL cannot sell it's better players, it's already inferior to La Liga as things stand now.

[Blaine]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by James07?:

Dear Bank of Scotland

Please sign some players for us and don't give the stadium a stupid name.

thanks </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Isn't it Royal Bank of Scotland?

If it is Bank of Scotland, I'll see what I can do.

[ACou2000]

I dont know about that being the ONLY reason we wont strengthen enough.. Fergie's been known to mis-spend before

[olipepper]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by JulesMUFC:

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by olipepper:

tbh looking at 2 CM's for this season, what player would you take aswell as a gattuso/vieira-esque ball winner? especially seeing as the likliness of an english pirlo-esque midfielder (carrick) having a 20m price tag?

are there other pirlo-esque options? </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Not partically a deep lying play maker but lets sign roman.

Veron anyone? </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

veron>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>fletcher

[Keyser]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Craig[EVE]:

I really think the bigger threat this year is Spurs, Liverpool for my liking still haven't strengthend with enough quality to carry it off for the entire season.

Still think Chelsea will take it tho </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Spurs are too lightweight. It'll be same top 4 this as last season. The positions 2-4 may change, though

[Razor Eddie]

Or Sky Sports, oc.

Who RI ?

[alilaw]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by alilaw:

Who's our number 8? I've only just tuned in... </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

I think it's Richardson with ridiculous hair on a second look...

[alilaw]

Can this thread have a name change now that stuff's happening?

[James07?]

Ryan, are you sure your mum has taken the season ticket?

(there’s an element of urban legend about the following story, but I’ll tell it anyway).

Sometime in the late 80s / early 90s the wife of one of my dad’s colleagues promised her son she’d get him a Villa season ticket. Summer came and went with no sign of the book. Anyways, come Christmas day he and his dad open their presents – to find she’d bought them both tickets in August and then decided to wrap them up and hand them over at Christmas

[ajw10]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Mika:

I believe so, depends how long he gets I guess... </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Hopefully he does. Although John O'Shea will probably score :**(

[Nick OGS20]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Ratinho:

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Nick OGS20:

As for Ratinho's rubbish about him not being very good - Chelsea and Cudicini aside, he's easily as good if not better than his equivalent at Arsenal (Almunia), Liverpool (Dudek) and Spurs (Cerny?) </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Yeah, they aren't very good either, thanks for proving. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Yeah, and bar Cudicini no top team's back-up keeper is up to much either. Keep going though if you like

[Mika]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by gonch19:

lucky you. i think its because last season i went with the nottingham branch and it was so much easier, so its opened my eyes somewhat. oh well, hopefully when i can afford it i'll move further north </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Ah...how much does it cost you? For us it's £12 for the coach and then the cost of the ticket.

[Gazz22]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by ACou2000:

Tevez + Rooney teaming up would open up some sort of 11th dimension tbh

They'd step onto the pitch and the ball would just shoot into the opposition net at the speed of light. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

OMG, with Veron, Scholes and Beckham in the same team we'll be invincible. We'll score every free-kick and teams won't be able to get the ball off us.

[ACou2000]

Nothing will top "THE TREBLE" DVD :*)

I could watch that over and over and get aroused more with every viewing

[ACou2000]

oh and I'm sure its already been covered but really how DID the Hammers do it?

I assume theres some deal for them to move on after a year to go to a club worth playing for?

[RedRob]

I think what must be the most frustrating thing for all of you lot is that a few weeks ago you saw ths coming, you predicted youd focus on Hargreaves, lose out on Senna because of it, and then end up with no-one. One thin i'm interested i though, who do you lay the blame at most - Ferguson or Gill? It's clear Ferguson knew you needed a destructive DM and yet Gill has completely failed to deliver on the number 1 or number 2 arget. Surely the Hargreaves stuff should have preceded any move for Senna?

[ACou2000]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Mika:

I'm going to keep updating the thread with Ruud news whether you like it or not tbf. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Good work.

I'm a Ruud fan til I die..

a Ruud fan til I die..

I know I am, I'm sure I am a Ruud fan til I die.

:*)

[mark g]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Terry Cheung:

Carrick was not good, but not as bad as some here have made out. Everybody's watching his passing, as that's supposed to be his strong point and it was really hit and miss. However, his positioning and defensive work like interceptions were sound. Scholes also looks comfortable playing with him, which is important, as he doesn't have all the onus on him to pass and control the game. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

I think defensively he was no better than adequate. That might be enough if his passing was good enough that we were keeping the ball a lot better, but i lost count of the number of times he gave it away. He still did his usual one or two great passes, and i think the ball to Rooney could quite easily have produced a goal if Rooney had been at his best, but his alround contribution just isn't up to scratch at the minute.

Long term, if his bread and butter passing game gets up to scratch, add that to a reasonable defensive contribution and a couple of chance creating long passes a game (the one part of his game that probably is up to scratch at the minute) and we couldhave ourselves a player.

And don't expect to see Fletcher ahead of him for a big game anytime soon. If Fergie is willing to say he was one of the better performers after a game like that, he's obviously trying to build his confidence, so i'm guessing more often than not he'll be picked on a 'not wanting to dent his confidence' basis.

[pjburrage]

Drogba as a player is decent, just don't like him.

[ACou2000]

yeah but Vidic has a finger rather than the full palm up.

straight to the point

tbh though I'd like to see him adopt some sort of superhero pose, hands on hips, motionless, staring into the distance, perhaps put a cape with a big 'V' on... until everyone piles onto him in celebration.

[Gazz22]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by ACou2000:

We have a fair few good players below our first XI now tbh </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Then why aren't they getting brought on instead of Silvestre and O'Shea?

[Mika]

Yeah I know, with all that brilliant service he was given.

[Razor Eddie]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by BBB:

yo old man Eddie, are you coming to the Chelsea game? </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

At the moment I have no idea.

There's obv. nothing on Viagragogo. You won't get one and all I've got from t'Bedford branch is "leave it with me" and "Do you want to come to our Xmas party ?"

Maybe it'll be down to the touts to provide ticketage, but that could prove prohibitively expensive. (Bought another car last weekend)

[James07?]

At Bolton there were 5 lads sharing the 2 seats next to me

[Asmodeus]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Nick OGS20:

There's no way he stays there. Awful decision to send him to that hellhole in the first place, and if we were really keen on him to go there, it should have been for the season with him able to play in all competitions. As it is, Newcastle cba with a player with potential who they'll have to give back in a couple of months, instead favouring Antoine f**king Sibierski.

If we sign a forward in January I assume he'll go out on loan somewhere else, hopefully somewhere more suitable. Even Antwerp would be better. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

The whole deal's a little weird if you ask me. I'm sure the only reason he was loaned there was due to some sort of informal agreement that he'd get games (or cover for Owen etc).

I'd imagine you've covered this topic many times in here already.

[Mika]

Kuszczak for Rooney please.

[gonch19]

larsson and solskjaer. such an old but awesome strikeforce.

europe's defenders must be quaking in their boots

[mark g]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by hairwad:

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by mark g:

That completely ignores the fact that while in theory anything can happen, and on occasion the better team loses, in general a team that a) gets their tactics right and b) plays better than the opposition does win. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Hallelujah!

So who won tonight? </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

This is worse than talking to Keyser. So the point we're trying to make is that by getting our tactics wrong, we were in far more danger of going out than if we'd got them right. And we got our tactics right eventually, but we only changed them as a reaction to going a goal down. Does it not worry you that we made exactly the same tactical errors as we did against Celtic, and that had the goal against us come earlier rather than later as it did in that game, we could and probably would have been out of the competition?

[BBB]

I hate you goon.

[gonch19]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Mika:

5th anniversary of Ruud's first hat-trick with us this week :*) </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

are you stan? or the dude from alan partridge?

aargh its a dead end...

[No Longer Bling]

as i am now leaving the office til wed i hope you all have a good christmas. except you pj.

[Weststandred]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Weststandred:

Just watched Premiership Years 95/96, champions and FA cup winners - Cantona. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

[Saha]

I could swear the channel seven news reader just pronounced scholes as 'sholls'

so so inept

[mark g]

The league is the priority. At the start of the season, if you said you can have one but only one trophy, that's what most people would have gone for. So to shift priorities in january with the minimum of a 4 point lead would be criminal, regardless of how optimistic/pessimistic you are.

[Nick OGS20]

pessimism is good. excessive pessimism is silly

[alilaw]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Mika:

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Weststandred:

you got this Mika?

</div></BLOCKQUOTE>

I was tempted </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

How about this?

[Young Jimlad]

Looking at that again we look so completely lost at sea when the ball comes in.

The ball was damn-near perfect for Henry but if it had dropped a bit deeper for Baptista we'd have been just as screwed.

I understand why people are saying Vidic but he's got Adebayor to deal with, Gary is miles away from van Persie if it hits the back post, Rooney and Carrick (I think its him) have left Baptista on his own if it goes deep as I state above, and Henry is there, ghosting in behind Rio because he's positioned himself much too far away from him in anticipation of a near post cross that never came. Too much attention paid to whats in front of him and not enough behind. He's with him at the edge of the 18 yrd box but then he steps forward and leaves Vidic overloaded.

I'm not saying that the cross didn't make it, but the way it was delivered capitalised on the poor positioning of our team as it came in.

[Pickles]

Who's the sub behind the goal doing the gay little dance? Makes me laugh every time I see it

[mrgrapefruits]

Ok just looked at match tickets on Man Utd website and got reminded of our rather brillianty scheduled friendly on 13 of March against a Europe 11. Does anyone else feel this has the potential to ruin our whole season.

If Ronaldo or anyone for that matter were to get injured in this game, it'd be utter madness. And considering the upcoming schedule the last thing needed is a friendly.

I expect nothing less than a second eleven.

Tues 27/2 Reading Away FA Cup

Sat 03/02 Liverpool Away PL

Wed 07/02 Lille Home CL

Sat 10/02 ??Boro?? Away FA Cup

Tues 13/3 Euro XI Home Friendly

Sat 17/3 Bolton Home PL

Utter madness set of fixturs coming up

[alilaw]

Anyone else find it mildly depressing that the only members of our first team to have been 'groomed' through the youth team and reserves are just the remaining members of the class of 92?

Even if you expand it to our overall squad, you only add in Brown, O'Shea and Richardson

[Confused Clarity]

Park reminds me a lot of Jordi in terms of his commitment and work ethic. Espcially in terms of giving 100% and never letting us down.

[symons99]

Man Utd Vs Bayern

AC Milan Vs Liverpool

PSV Vs Chelsea

Roma Vs Valencia

Thats what I reckon, would take anyone except the english sides.

[Scatter]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by ACou2000:

actually 'do one' is a phrase that should be used far more often </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

whs. i found myself laugh at it far more than i probably should have...

as for 'the question'... i really want the title back. i really don't want the scousers to win #6...

if you said right now that liverpool winning the ecl would guarantee us doing a domestic double, i should bite your hand off to take it. i'm just not 100% sure that i would...

[player_65]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by ACou2000:

ps. Glazers to turn up on the OT pitch final day now? </div></BLOCKQUOTE>If nothing else it'd give an accurate (and in all likelihood disheartening) view of the matchgoing support's view of them, as I'd guess the cheers would outnumber the booing

[Weststandred]

I cannot wait for Sunday and then going to Wembley.

MON the double!

Nice shirts btw Nick/BBB.

[mark g]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Francis Cole:

Wealthest clubs in the world has ALWAYS been done on the profit a club makes the past year. In which case #1 and #2 is always you/Real Madrid.

No one, has ever ever ever in these "top 10 club wealthest clubs in the world" lists taken into account how much debt or how much money a club has in it's bank accounts.

Quit making out every media outlet in the world is out to get </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Quit making excuses for every piece of poor journalism.

if the article in question was a top 10 list as you say, then fair enough, rightly or wrongly it is always done that way, although given the nature of football it's a meaningless stat, as the only one that counts is spending power for transfers and wages.

If, as i suspect, it was a throwaway line within an article, it's nonsense, because it creates a wholely false impression about our spending power in the transfer market. That's what gets people annoyed, it's nothing to do with thinking the media have any sort of hidden agenda.

[the_cote_kid]

Warp factor Giddy

[nistelrooy_uk_10]

From the mirror today:

Manchester United are set to offer a contract to irish wonderkid Shay Brady, tipped to be the next Wayne Rooney. The 16-year old is already in the first team at St Patrick's in the Irish League, and United are prepared to sign him on a £5,000-a-week deal in January when he is 17.

Also says that Liverpool are after him too.

anyone seen or heard of him?

[ericcantona7]

and of course I was devestated when Eric left.

[gonch19]

last day of the thread