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Manchester United Thread

Our build-up play is very impressive this season.Every pundit in Europe are saying that United are playing the best brand of football lately.I fully agree with Matherto that yesterday's game was an example of which we would lose,if it was last season.We can grind out results these days,with aplomb too.Great two goals from El Roon...he badly needs it to boost his confidence.I wonder if that miss will haunt Cristiano as I think it would make it to the "Worst Miss of the Season" video compilations...hahaha.
 
Some of the football played yesterday was Brazilian style. Rooney and Ronaldo (bar his miss) played outstanding. I know hes done it before and its probably got a fancy name but that cross where he moves his right foot round the back of the standing left was brilliant. Rooneys back heel that found Giggs was good too
 
This is what he said last week.

''I'm hoping it leads to a transfer offer," said Adu, who's in Florida this week training with the U.S. Under-20 national team. "If I go in January I wouldn't be able to play [in England] until my 18th birthday [on June 2, 2007]. Those are the rules. But hopefully this leads to an offer in January or in the summer transfer window next year. That would be awesome."

Adu told me that Sir Alex's comments had raised his expectations for the trip. "I hope I can show flashes of the kind of player I can become," said Adu, a left-footer who played most of the season on the right side of D.C. United's midfield. "I know I've got a ways to go. This would really be a test for me so I can gauge where I am by training with these guys. At D.C. United I haven't gotten much time at my natural position, which is attacking midfield. Hopefully that's the position I'll play when I'm training over there."

While D.C. United officials have expressed their support while downplaying Adu's visit to Man United as merely training and not a trial, Adu clearly has different ideas. When asked if his proper development requires him to be in Europe, Adu didn't mince words.

"Yes, I think so," he said. "MLS has been awesome. I've enjoyed my time with D.C. United and I've really grown as a professional, but to see a huge change in my abilities I need to go to Europe. That's where all the best players in the world play ... I would love to go to Europe as soon as possible. Then again, I have a contract to honor with MLS, so we'd have to work that out."

MLS officials have said publicly that they support Adu's sojourn to Manchester and consider him one of the top prospects in U.S. history, but privately some are bewildered by talk of a move in the near-term to Man U. "How does Freddy justify that he's not good enough to play for D.C. United full-time and now he wants to play for Manchester United?" asked one MLS exec. (me: huh? he started every game but one or two, do mls execs even watch the game? or are they stuck on two years ago?)

Adu's response: "Am I good enough to play right now for Manchester United? I don't know. That's what I'm going to find out."

If Man United or another European club were to purchase his contract, Adu says, it's possible he could follow a similar loan path. "One of the big clubs could sign me and loan me to a Dutch or French or Belgian club for a season or two and then I could come back," Adu says. "I want to be in a situation where I'm playing, and I want to learn faster, because I don't respond too well to being brought along slowly."

Adu remains frustrated over being pulled by D.C. United coach Peter Nowak in the 65th minute of United's season-ending 1-0 loss to New England in the MLS Eastern Conference final. Adu was enjoying his best game in weeks and was one of D.C.'s top attacking threats. After his removal he was clearly distraught on the sideline.

"I wasn't happy being out of the game, but what are you going to do?" Adu says. "You try to find out why. You've just got to respect what your coaches do. It was a horrible feeling that I hope I never have again."

If Adu sounds like an eager (perhaps over-eager) teenager, well, that's because he is. But you can't deny his enthusiasm over his upcoming trip. "To go to one of the world's biggest clubs and get a chance to train is an honor and a privilege," he says. "Wayne Rooney and Cristiano Ronaldo are two of my favorite players, and getting the chance to train with them would be unbelievable."

"Even if I play well, that doesn't necessarily mean they'll sign me," Adu says. "This is a chance for me to see what English football is all about and see what it takes to get to that level. We'll see what happens ... I'm not happy with the way things ended this season, but the grass isn't always greener on the other side, so you've got to be careful.
 
Sky Sports News said today that Adu starts training today for 2 week

Yeah he started training today and it all went well according to Glazer. he got his first sack on Giggs after only 10 minutes on the practise field:

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HAHAHAHA!!!! There we go lads, nice to see ye can have a sense a humour, you can afford to sitting pretty atop the Premiership.
 
well that was interesting, we completely played them off the park, and then we lost. It was seriously deja-vu as soon as the referee's whistle blew for the free kick (which wasn't a free kick). Why did they let Saha take the penalty as well? why not Rooney?
 
NAKAMURA!

saha play until the wistle fool! :lol:
utd survival in the CL comes down to the benfica match...in OT ;)

Looking forward to rattle utd's net on sunday.
 
FUCK OFF SAHA
HAHA!! :lmao: Poor bastard. Was a blinding penalty save though.

Kudos to United on the performance as a whole. I've just mentioned in the Celtic thread that, after watching Chelsea v Barcelona the other week, I was wondering why I was watching football any more, dive after dive, no skill involved at any point in the game. Tonight though, it was a fantastic game, the passing and the movement was absolutely brilliant, and it was a fucking relief to see that real football is still alive.
 
Shocking stuff. The only good to come out of this is that SAF will buy a striker in January. Saha was ineffective, but he had no other options. Couldn't believe Saha didn't play to the whistle when he was through on goal, and the penalty...always knew it wasn't going in.

Where was the foul on Jarosik? Sigh. Has Nakamura scored everytime against us in competitive fixtures? WTF did Van der Sar not watch his own poor position from the last Nakamura free kcik? So clearly going for top right corner, where's our 6'6" keeper? Sigh

Gutted, as we'll more than likely go out AGAIN after being in prime position in the group stages.
 
One of them games... again.
We shouldn't be in this position and the Benfica game is now vital. From an unassailable position after 3 games, we now might not qualify.
I think a new striker is needed and not a kid either. Rossi might have been ready but he's hardly played. What a useless loan deal that was. He would probably have played for us more.
 
Has Nakamura scored everytime against us in competitive fixtures? WTF did Van der Sar not watch his own poor position from the last Nakamura free kcik? So clearly going for top right

hmmm can u really blame Van der Sar? i mean, watching the replay... that was a beautiful beautiful free kick... that was the very far corner, errr in Van der Sar's position anyways... it was awesome...
 
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I agree it was a great free kick, but a left footed player from that angle is always going to go top corner. It was almost identical to how VDS was beaten last time the two teams met, so you woulda thought he might learn and take a step towards the post.

If Saha had scored would have been a fair result I think. But now we'll have to see what the boys are made of in two weeks. At least its at home, so hopefully Benfica will be forced to play football, unlike last year when due to crowd *influence* they managed to dive around and 'earn' free kicks for the last 60 minutes of the match. Here's hoping for a decent ref!
 
At least its at home, so hopefully Benfica will be forced to play football, unlike last year when due to crowd *influence* they managed to dive around and 'earn' free kicks for the last 60 minutes of the match. Here's hoping for a decent ref!
Hopefully it's the ref who took charge of Celtic's UEFA Cup final against Porto a few years ago, he was great.:)
 
After the celtic game,it makes me wonder what makes a great team.We go to Parkhead,played very well and yet lose to a stunning freekick.Lyon go to The Bernabeu and led 2 nil at the break! With that in mind,Real then equalised,bringing the game back level after 90 minutes.How are we not able to achieve those type of results again.Have we lost the ability to win our away games comfortably? It makes me wonder if we are really good enough this season.We are surely better than last season looking at the league table but is it a case of a drop in standards? Hmmmm....
 
Where are all the Saha lovers now? :roll:


Still here mate!;) i think it's unfair to blame Saha all the greats players missed penalty even RvN Yesterday missed an important one.At least Saha had the balls to take it.
just see G.Nevill "knew saha would miss it"so why he didn't tell to someone else to take it?
 
After the celtic game,it makes me wonder what makes a great team.We go to Parkhead,played very well and yet lose to a stunning freekick.Lyon go to The Bernabeu and led 2 nil at the break! With that in mind,Real then equalised,bringing the game back level after 90 minutes.How are we not able to achieve those type of results again.Have we lost the ability to win our away games comfortably? It makes me wonder if we are really good enough this season.We are surely better than last season looking at the league table but is it a case of a drop in standards? Hmmmm....

We don't really have any options to change a game when it is not going right anymore. We used to be able to bring on an international striker or two but the subs bench looks weak these days.
 
Congrats to Celtic but seriously we outplayed em and at the least deserved a draw. Personally i thought we overplayed the ball too much and should have been alot more direct in our approach as Ronaldo showed who was by far and away the best player again.
What annoys me though is Carrick. All he seems to do is pass the ball a very short distance to either the left or the right rather than attempt something creative.
 
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