English Football Thread 2012/2013

[MasterBlaster76]

Mancini is such an average manager, end of story, can't touch Ferguson.

Quite so. An average manager with a load of money to spend - and yet he only won the league by two minutes, and is now seven points behind us.

Not to mention Lewandowski might as well join United in the summer, making Welbeck their fifth choice striker....

Do we really need another striker? Couldn't the Lewandowski money be better spent on Hummels or someone like that? He can play in defence and midfield from what I know.

He's better than Hernandez and Rooney isn't exactly the most consistent striker in the world. He's also different from the other 3 forwards at the club. He'll get his chances, when Hernandez stops scoring he'll be getting starts again. If there's one thing Fergie knows it's how to rotate his players.

also the Lewandowski rumours are surely bullshit made up by his agent. Would make no sense to sign him.

I can see Rooney dropping back into midfield on a permanent basis before too long. As for Hernandez, well he's the new Solskjaer as I've said before. Not always the best starter, but bring him off the bench and the other lot better watch out!

 

[thedon5]

If you get a CB it has to be Yanga-M'Biwa, not Hummels. Far cheaper, wants to go to Man Utd and can play in midfield and defence, plus as a full-back.

 

[Lee1981]

He's better than Hernandez

 

[Epic]

Quite the debut eh...

 

[Lee1981]

Demba Ba

That is all

 

[Auwais]

West Ham are hilarious. Their idea of football is so archaic I feel like I've aged half a century just trying to watch the game.

 

[ste_mc_efc]

not sure you can call it archaic seeing as it works, old-fashioned perhaps. But big sam was one of the first managers to put stock into prozone which is now essentially mandatory everywhere. he's not exactly a footballing dinosaur

 

[Auwais]

Imagine him as the Barca manager...

 

[ste_mc_efc]

He'd probably win trophies there.

 

[puddleduck]

Sam has always been a very modern manager. He's all about statistics. Very moneyballesque.

At Bolton he successfully converted them to a Premiership team and then slowly but surely introduced some flair. At West Ham he has done a good job in making sure they didn't spend too long out the Premiership and looks like keeping them there too.

If you want to see his quality as a manager. Just look at where his recent clubs have gone without him compared to with him. It doesn't make pretty reading

 

[Lee1981]

Anyone could win trophies their with that team

 

[Auwais]

It's not about trophies. It's about the football Barca would play under him, you dense sods.

 

[War]

skysports said united started with a 3-5-2 formation today something like:

de gea

smalling----vidic-----evans

rafael-----scholes--cleverley------buttner

----------------kagawa----------------

----------welbeck------hernandez---------

But the way smalling was bombing forward on the right, i wasn't really sure if this really was the case.

 

[War]

If you get a CB it has to be Yanga-M'Biwa, not Hummels. Far cheaper, wants to go to Man Utd and can play in midfield and defence, plus as a full-back.

As i always i honestly don't think United need anyone to be honest as things stand. SAF seems happy with the mix of youth (young english youth & a few others) and old heads at his disposal & i think the old legend is right.

 

[Auwais]

skysports said united started with a 3-5-2 formation today something like:

de gea

smalling----vidic-----evans

rafael-----scholes--cleverley------buttner

----------------kagawa----------------

----------welbeck------hernandez---------

But the way smalling was bombing forward on the right, i wasn't really sure if this really was the case.

Yeah, it was more like a 4-2-3-1 but without a permanent left winger, since Welbeck and Kagawa drifted infield, hence why Cleverley was in acres of space for the first goal.