Jump to content

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

foobR

By foobR,
in Football Thread Vault

Recommended Posts

  • 2 weeks later...
  • Replies 51.1k
  • Created
  • Last Reply
JamieDay

JamieDay

Posted
Posted

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

Originally posted by JamieDay:

Rooney is fb but I hope Ronaldo dies in a glider accident. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Link to post
Share on other sites
Nick OGS20

Nick OGS20

Posted
Posted

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

Cheers.

I'm assuming that Campbell's progress has also had an impact. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Indeed. Blake's at a stage where reserve football does nothing to improve him and he'd only be blocking the progress of the likes of Campbell. Probably better he secures himself a relatively long-term deal somewhere (a three-year contract at Plymouth has been talked about) than keeps going out on various loan stints.

Link to post
Share on other sites
mark g

mark g

Posted
Posted

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

mark we know your comebacks are crappy anyway there's no need for an alias account </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

I need someone to make me look good.

I know there's Gregg, but he's not always around.

Link to post
Share on other sites
  • 2 weeks later...
markgood guy

markgood guy

Posted
Posted

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

"van Nistelrooy, Keane, Pires, Campbell and Bergkamp. Of players in that class, only Didi Hamann has left Anfield"

i haven't stopped laughing in hours. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

that's class thank you icon_biggrin.gif

Link to post
Share on other sites
  • 2 weeks later...
elmonzo

elmonzo

Posted
Posted

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

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

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v252/RcjukMankind/Phot-0081.jpg

bbb and mr murray-button mika

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v252/RcjukMankind/Phot-0080.jpg

warchest </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

If you look very closely in the first photo you can see

1.Grant from Eastenders

2.Solskjaer on the way to the ground

3.Charlie from Eastenders </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

icon_biggrin.gificon_biggrin.gificon_biggrin.gif

Link to post
Share on other sites
Razzler

Razzler

Posted
Posted

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Taz & The Devil:

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

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

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

just to be an argumentative ****, and also because it's true, fletch deserves an assist for the giggs goal tbh. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

you're just being argumentative. he did well to pressure spring but that wasn't an assist. He didn't even touch the ball. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

icon_biggrin.gif i actually thought he nudged it through when i first saw it as well icon_razz.gif i dont think so though </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

He doesnt get near the ball, Spring passes it back. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

I know icon_frown.gif when i first saw it though ... icon15.gif

Link to post
Share on other sites
Mika

Mika

Posted
Posted

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

And I'm speaking in regards to the Dutch national side post 98 </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Are you Dutch?

Link to post
Share on other sites
ACou2000

ACou2000

Posted
Posted

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Hero of the Day:

In the phone in tonight one of the callers asked if there would be any last day transfer activity. The presenter replied that 'there would be a nice suprise for man utd fans around tea time tomorrow'. Theres a thread on the RI board not too far down about it </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

haha such b*llocks icon_biggrin.gif

Link to post
Share on other sites
Nick OGS20

Nick OGS20

Posted
Posted

Don't get me wrong, if it materialises we seriously didn't make any attempt to sign Mascherano and we've just let him join West Ham, then Fergie can **** off unless he explicitly states his hands were tied.

Link to post
Share on other sites
ACou2000

ACou2000

Posted
Posted

alright bastards

I dont know why I started off supprting United. Before me nobody in my family really liked football let alone supported a team. So it was down to me to find the great great world of being a true fan.. and I chose my club at random when I was about 7. Guess who was the most obvious choice for someone that age in the early 90s?

Anyway I used to get the glory hunter stuff from mates at school but now a) we're sh*t and b) I've pointed out I go to about 10x more games than they do and I travel 100x further they acknowledge my brilliance

now **** off

Link to post
Share on other sites
  • 2 weeks later...
  • 1 month later...
  • 3 weeks later...
Saha

Saha

Posted
Posted

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

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

Did you bully him for being ginger & if not, why not? </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

I didn't actually, mainly because he was 3 years older than me and a lot bigger than me. icon_razz.gif </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

that's really not a good enough excuse for not crippling a ginger.

Link to post
Share on other sites
ACou2000

ACou2000

Posted
Posted

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

Exactly Mika. If the world doesn't open up and swallow us all whole, consider it a good result. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Stop aiming so high ffs

Link to post
Share on other sites
gonch19

gonch19

Posted
Posted

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

I'm the umm opposite icon_biggrin.gif

are you going to join us tomorrow </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

not sure, think im heading into town before the game if we get there early enough. walked past you guys a few weeks back actually, saw an unhappy looking man with a beard

Link to post
Share on other sites
alilaw

alilaw

Posted
Posted

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Watch Vidic in training, and he'll batter Louis Saha </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

He's made of glass as it is. A Vidic 'battering' will surely shatter him into a million pieces.

Link to post
Share on other sites
  • 2 weeks later...
pjburrage

pjburrage

Posted
Posted

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Manchester United assistant Carlos Quieroz has emerged as the number one choice to become the USA's coach. (The Sun) </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Come on the Sun getting at least one story correct, and it being this one.

Link to post
Share on other sites
Terry Cheung

Terry Cheung

Posted
Posted

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

Rio had a few unconvincing moments and should have prevented the cross.

He also got brushed off far too easily by Zamora when he had that shot which VDS saved. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

While i thought he should have been stronger, i also felt he was fouled. If he'd done to Zamora what Zamora did to him, it would have been a free kick and a red card for a professional foul. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

I'm not sure. It was an excellent hand-off which you see all the time in top level rugby.

Did you notice that Rio and the other players didn't really appeal for a foul?

Link to post
Share on other sites
  • 3 weeks later...
JulesMUFC

JulesMUFC

Posted
Posted

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Sir Alex Ferguson's brilliance famously knocked Liverpool off their perch. Now his incompetence is doing the same to Manchester United. How did it come to this, wonders Rob Smyth

It was John Cleese, in Clockwise, who said: "I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand." Manchester United fans would beg to differ. Usually, the best thing about pre-season is the hope: reality's incisors have yet to pierce the gums of optimism, and fans can live off the balmy, often barmy belief that this is their year. For supporters of most of the other 91 English clubs, that's the mood right now. For United fans? Forget it. After three seasons of papering over the cracks, it seems most United fans are awaiting the moment that the fault lines tracing a veiny path across Old Trafford are exposed.

Almost everything about the club reeks of disarray. Owned by the Glazers, who push buttons from a remote hideaway like Dr Evil; run by a manager who shreds his legacy at every turn; almost exclusively represented by the inadequate (Darren Fletcher and Kieran Richardson) and the odious (Rio Ferdinand); unable to close a deal for West Brom's reserve keeper, never mind the new Roy Keane. The signing of Michael Carrick, a Pirlo when a Gattuso was needed, is a band aid for a bullet wound, and a ludicrously expensive one at that.

If anything, it's a surprise that United have bought anyone at all. This summer, they have been like a pathetic drunk lumbering across a dancefloor at 1.45am, trying to get off with everything that moves. No matter how many people they move in for - and if reports are to be believed, United have made offers for dozens of players - nobody wants to go near them. And the one person who surely would, Damien Duff, was allowed to slip into the arms of Newcastle for less than United paid for Patrice Evra. You couldn't make it up. You don't have to.

United finished second last season, but that said more about the deficiency of the Premiership than their own. Arsenal will not have a four-month blind spot this season, while all evidence suggests that Liverpool's gradient will continue on its upward trajectory. With Tottenham getting stronger, even with the loss of Carrick, it is entirely conceivable that, if they start slowly, United could finish fifth; in today's environment, that would be disastrous.

The problems are so obvious, so fundamental, as to be beggar belief that they have not been addressed. Just as the glory years of 1992 to 2001 will only fully be appreciated in 20 years' time, so will Ferguson's subsequent failure. It is particularly bewildering that a man who once exerted such an unyielding grip on every single aspect of the club that he had to be virtually coerced into delegating has let things slip to this extent. Take the Cristiano Ronaldo situation: Ferguson said recently that he had not even spoken to Ronaldo since the World Cup, a staggering dereliction of duty that is in total contrast to the us-against-the-world protection that he gave to David Beckham - and for which, for a time, he was so thrillingly rewarded - in 1998.

Once upon a time Ferguson could play 'who blinks first' with fate and win every time, his iron will shaping his destiny exactly as he wanted. Now he is reduced to uttering garbage like "it's like having a new signing" of Paul Scholes, Ole Solskjaer, Gabriel Heinze and Alan Smith, the irrational if-I-say-it-enough-it-might-happen gibberish you'd associate with a serial loser like Kevin Keegan. These days, the man they call The Hairdryer is full of nothing but hot air.

Ferguson's squad, once so taut, is a baggy mess of has-beens, never-will-bes and Liam Miller. The simple repetition of 4-4-2, of Giggs, Scholes, Keane, Beckham, Cole and Yorke, has given way to myriad tactical and personnel changes, to a ruinous obsession with utility players and tinkering. It's a truly appalling fact that, with Ruud van Nistelrooy gone, none of United's outfield players have played in only one position at the club. A nadir was reached in the FA Cup game at Wolves last season, when nearly £60m of defensive and attacking talent (Ferdinand and Wayne Rooney) was used in the centre of midfield.

It is an increasingly inescapable conclusion that, unwittingly or otherwise, Ferguson is winding down, a prizefighter who no longer has the stomach or the wit for an admittedly enormous challenge which, once upon a time, he would have fervently inhaled. Like he did with Liverpool. Ferguson's almost maniacal yearning to "knock Liverpool off their ****ing perch" was arguably the single most important factor in United's 1990s renaissance. It makes it all the more vicious an irony that, 10 years later, he should knock United off the perch he had made for them through increasingly rank mismanagement.

Indeed, it must irk him beyond belief that United are making exactly the same mistakes that Liverpool did: lack of pheromones in the transfer market; laughable, fall-back signings at suspicious and ridiculous prices; deluded ramblings ("we are as good as Chelsea, no question") - and, worst of all, a dressing-room where playing the field seems as important as playing the game. Liverpool's Spice Boys were bad, but they have nothing on Merk Berks like Ferdinand, Richardson and Wes Brown.

Ferguson has taken this end-of-an-empire template and, incredibly, managed to develop it: he's added a sprawling, outsized squad chock-full of obscenely well-paid deadwood; insultingly obvious spin that a two-year-old could see through (the Van Nistelrooy saga); economy with the truth (Ferguson ridiculed a journalist for saying that Paul Scholes had been scouting for United; a few days later Scholes confirmed the story); a coaching set-up that had Wayne Rooney playing wide for a season and turned Ronaldo from the world's most thrilling off-the-wall talent into a run-of-the-mill winger.

Ferguson, an essentially honourable man, is partly suffering because of the impossibly high standards he set, and he carries the fatigued incomprehension of a man who is out of time. When he cites his favourite United team it is not the Treble-winners of 1999, but the Double-winners of 1994: Schmeichel, Bruce, Pallister, Ince, Keane, Hughes, Cantona, Robson - a team that dripped masculinity, who bonded over blockbusting Saturday-night sessions, who embodied the old-school values to which Ferguson can relate. Real men. The gentrification generation - sarong-wearing, pink champagne-swigging metrosexuals - are entirely beyond his comprehension. He could handle one, David Beckham, for a time before eventually giving up on him. Now he has a pack of them, for whom the hairdryer means only one thing - a trip to Toni & Guy. It is a different world. Ferguson probably doesn't even know what 'merk' means.

Everywhere, principles are being sacrificed. In years gone by Ferdinand - who for all his irrefutable ability is the type of character whose presence in a United shirt symbolises everything that has gone wrong with the club - would've been out the door faster than Paul Ince could say 'big-time Charlie', but now Ferguson can't afford to lose his only world-class defender. In years gone by he wouldn't have considered signing someone like Patrick Vieira, on grounds of age or character, but now he is left looking for someone, anyone, to appease the fans. In years gone by he would never have given a game to someone like John O'Shea, whose sole use is to put the podge in a hodgepodge midfield. In years gone by, he would never have sanctioned the mediocre football that, except for a few giddy weeks in the spring of 2003, United have played ever since Carlos Queiroz arrived in 2002 masquerading gobbledygook as continental sophistication.

And the thing is, it is only going to get worse: Liverpool, Arsenal and Tottenham have all made shrewd, cheap signings and are on an upward trajectory. United are going the other way: they are hugely dependent on Ferdinand and Rooney, but no amount of Carling Cup medals is going to sate their ambition. Then there is the Glazer factor, the full, inevitable horror of which is only just beginning to emerge. United fans think this season is going to be bad. It hasn't even started. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

just to show what an abu twat Rob Smyth is

Link to post
Share on other sites
  • 3 weeks later...
Keyser

Keyser

Posted
Posted

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

Do you want a baby bath? icon_biggrin.gif WINK

PS: Did you ever pop that thing in the post, you hero you? </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

no, but I have it on standby ready to go. You still want?

Link to post
Share on other sites
  • 2 weeks later...
  • 1 month later...
  • 3 weeks later...
  • 3 weeks later...
Nick OGS20

Nick OGS20

Posted
Posted

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

whilst this will be one of our greatest triumphs, this will be the least enjoyable. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

dunno if this was serious or not, but why?

Link to post
Share on other sites
Red_Comet

Red_Comet

Posted
Posted

We regain the Premier League

After winning Citeh

After winning Citeh

After winning Citeh

We regain the Premier League

After Chelsea drew Arse

After Chelsea drew Arse

Ryan Giggs, Ryan Giggs walking down the wing

Ryan Giggs, Ryan Giggs, still can do much things

Feared by the Blues

Loved by the Reds

Ryan Giggs,

Ryan Giggs,

Ryan Giggggggs

O'Shea is pish lucky

He wears a lucky hat

And when he saw the rebound

He said I fancy that

Normally he would just miss

but this time he puts it in

And everyone's is all happy

That O'Shea is not so *****

Link to post
Share on other sites
  • 2 weeks later...
XanDaMan

XanDaMan

Posted
Posted

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Manchester United will have to rethink their plan to approach Sporting Lisbon about Nani and Atletico Madrid have been priced out of the market after the player penned a new contract with the Portuguese club.

Weeks of speculation have surrounded the gifted 20-year-old with both The Red Devils and Los Colchoneros said to be monitoring his situation as the end of the season approached.

Sporting have moved quickly to ensure that they do not lose out on their prodigy and have thrashed out a new deal that will see his basic salary and bonuses increase.

More importantly, however, is the fact the player, whose full name is Luis Carlos Almeida da Cunha, has seen his buy-out clause rise to €30m (£20million).

That figure has ensured that Atletico are no longer in the running and may deter Manchester United into making a concrete approach this summer.

The new deal signed by Nani is a six-year contract that will keep him at the club until 2013, unless one of the continent's most affluent clubs matches his buy-out clause.

United were reported to be close to finalising a deal earlier this month for around €25m (£17million), but will have to raise their offer to clinch any deal.

Nani has made no secret that he would fancy teaming up again with Cristiano Ronaldo, who also came through the Sporting youth system.

Sir Alex Ferguson is keen to capture the left-winger as he views him as the successor to Ryan Giggs in The Red Devils' side. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Source

Now what. I'm not believing we would pay 17mil either...

Link to post
Share on other sites
  • 2 weeks later...
James07?

James07?

Posted
Posted

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

was anyone anything more than hopeful in the san siro, given our dire european away record (even this season) and our less than convincing home performance? </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Indeed, but I think most of us thought we'd at least give it a go and come out fighting rather than the blast from the past performance that we got.

Link to post
Share on other sites
  • 2 weeks later...

Archived

This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.

Go to topic listing

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.
×
×
  • Create New...