yeah. we were lucky to get away with a point to be fair. im quite disappointed with the away form this season. we are dropping too many points away from home and that really concerns me in the bid for the title challenge.

probably signed by adidas start from this season?

oh well, Van Der Vaart performed brilliant for this starting season in Tottenham, just at a bargaining price for 8mil++

i likes Nike tho...

man. city come on 2nd place above us..

van der vaart. aiyoh why RM wanted to sell him to us at 16m but only 8m to spurs?

i liked the guy very much since his ajax day.. but i wonder will he performs as well as he is now with spurs if he was in MU? u know, at spurs, he is the star, all the moves and strategy are based around him..

i doubt he will enjoy the privillege in MU.

Not many think from this perspective, sadly ..

we are the team who depends heavily on good wingers. when our wingers had a great game, other players especially in the middle of the field would also enjoy the same good game.

last time we had Beckham and Ronaldo. during that period, most of our attacks and goals started from these 2 guys. Keane, Scholes, Carrick can bosses the middle of the field because opponents were focusing on our wingers a lot. Beckham with his long ball and crosses into the box, and Ronaldo with his maze run and thunderous shot could produce big things from nothing.

now as Valencia is injured, it's up to Nani to perform well. because most of our goals will come from wing play..

most of the goal did came from wings but the play,the moves, the pass came from the middle. our center midfielder who always been creating the chance for the likes of beck to cross and ronaldo to run forward. old days it was giggs on the run. scholes will be hard to replace.. after all this yrs he still the most creative player on our side.

for me van der vaart certainly quite a missed.. can dictate play, scores, very experience

where is obertan huh?just bought him and sumbat him in reserve team?

That last goal. I lol at Yorke(?) dodging the shot. Would've decapitated him if he failed to avoid the shot. Haha.

I don't know if he'll bring dynamism into our gameplay, but I sure as hell know that the team will be easy to press and easy to counter.

He's still not ready it seems. The plan is to keep him working on bulking up. He'll start when he's ready.

well we got a clean sheet(though the game is as exciting as watching the paint dry)

Google Shinji Kagawa la

he's a big star already(and he's like 5 month older than me) and it only cost 3 weeks of Rooney's paychecks

that's the real deal

VDV is a great player too,but not that bargain if you ask me.some people are right that VDV is better played in Tottenham(with their long passes and fast winger)

i think the reason why VDV is being left out of real madrid is because of the arrival of richard

this is all part of the conspiracy to bring in another dutch playmaker with treble medal. u hear it here 1st!

We've not done too badly comparing to seasons past, although my 'table' is slightly flawed since teams performance level vary each season so the results might not show the true strength of each team.


Anybody have some free time to do our first 7 games of each season(4-5 seasons)? the past few seasons..


Our performances haven't really been great, but looking at those, it's not too bad. Differences of 5 points or so. You win some, you lose some. The hard thing for us is catching Chelsea up. With the form they're in, they won't stop much for us to catch up. Our performances will definitely improve. We can and should play a lot better that what we've shown so far.

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Added on October 4, 2010, 7:50 pmMight take us until into Nov to pick up steam though..

Hopefully with Rio back it will calm things down at the back and we can build from there. I'd like to see Carrick-Scholes again. Need a solid base, and they could provide it, unless Carrick is still in his shell.

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Added on October 4, 2010, 8:25 pmAnd he plays out wide(not like a winger, more like a roaming AM who starts out wide) for Spurs. And we have the likes of Nani, Valencia, Park, Giggs, Cleverley, Obertan out wide. We will always play with two strikers. So the position left to play is in the middle. Nobody will use him in the middle when they play 442(which we do play a lot of the time). And thus that's one of the reason why we never bought any of his kind/type(Sneidjer is another one) unless they're comfortable playing there(middle of 442). Ando, forward/attacking midfielder before he joins us and now he plays more like a deep lying midfielder, battling for the ball and spraying passes from deep ala Carrick/Scholes/Fletcher.

He could really be useful for us in a 433/4231 setup though since we don't really have an option that could wow us from there right now. But then would he really be happy not being the absolute first choice since we play more than half our games with 442.

This post has been edited by Wan: Oct 4 2010, 08:25 PM

yes this is what i meant.

while it's true there's centre of midfielder that moves the ball, the architect of attack for MU is always the winger. last time it's either cross from Beckham, or dribbles into penalty box by Giggs and Ronaldo.. that's why some good attacking midfielder not really excel in MU if they cant change their gameplay. remember Veron?

when Rooney hit his top form last season, most of the goals were from header, which came mostly from crosses by Valencia..

Berba won the PFA player of the month award. 2 in a row for United in terms of personal achievements, but results wise we could have done a bit better as a whole team.

Yeah it's our attacking players(wingers, strikers) who slice open and do the damage while our midfielders play the supporting cast usually supplying them with the ammo and cover to to them from the outside. Ando could be the one to change that, but it may take a while. Gibson is another although right now all he does is shoot.

With Keane still there at the time where he still have a lot of influence in our play, and Scholes, plus us being new to the European way of playing(slow tempo, 451/433) meant we didn't utilise Veron properly. If Veron had come a bit later, then we might have. We played him out wide, in an AM position.. didn't suit him at all. He's like Carrick/Alonso type. Deep lying playmaker, but our team wasn't ready for that kind of guy maybe especially since he need someone next to him to do the defensive work.

We certainly could.We just need to sort out how we defend as a team. Liverpool goals came from their wingers coming into the middle from wide and having open space to pass/whatever which resulted in them getting a penalty and freekick and scoring from them.

Berba scoops fans' gong



http://www.manutd.com/default.sps?pagegid=...&newsid=6652689

Reds squad in rude health



http://www.manutd.com/default.sps?pagegid=...&newsid=6652681

Giggs - I'd love to boss Utd



http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11661_6425940,00.html

Van der Sar hails Rio return



http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11661_6426740,00.html

berba 2.0?

We were never really into signing him right? With Berba we told him to wait for a season, but he had already agreed to sign for Spurs that that time I think. And there was rumours we were in for him throughout his time at Spurs with Levy threatening to report us for 'tapping' him up.

hmm this conspiracy has been going around in italy before la heard his promised wasnt kept.

has begun a boring 2 weeks of no football.

an improvement perhaps??so far we record no losses yet after european nights.

This post has been edited by mhyug: Oct 5 2010, 02:19 AM