Blue Star Error posted:

According to the Daily Star Man U are paying Falcao £346k a week and I for one believe them

ultrabindu posted:

Still less than Januzaj.

Hardflip posted:

England forward Danny Welbeck injured in training and unlikely to be risked against Norway on Wednesday

Lot 49 posted:

RvP has joined up with the Dutch national team and said that he's totally fine and the rumours about him needing surgery are nonsense.

So United signing Falcao makes even less sense than before.

Brony Car posted:

Van Gaal is a very good manager so I suspect we'll sadly have way less to laugh about around March.

Gigi Galli posted:

This poo poo is getting old, stop ruining a funny joke

tbp posted:

I don't think the problem with Manchester United is necessarily the manager. Even Moyes underwhelmed extraordinarily, and LvG is too. It's got everything to do with the huge fear of Alex Ferguson leaving and the next manager not being as good, and the inability to bounce back from that fear. The structure is rotten.

Ninpo posted:

Liverpool fan talking about a huge sense of entitlement

Gigi Galli posted:

This is the worst nickname, nobody can use it any more.

Strawman posted:

Pogba

The Big Taff Man posted:

When you look at United its easy to see some real problems because not only did possibly one of the greatest managers of all time leave, but the structure of the club was changed the moment Alex Ferguson left. It wasnt just him leaving, you also had David Gill the Chief Executive, also left the club at around the same time as Fergie and so two of the most powerful men in the football club were gone. Replacing the most successful Premier League manager of all time was a guy who hadnt won a single trophy, and replacing David Gill was a man whose main experience was in the commercial and sponsorship field.

One of the major issues I was fed during my time as an ITK was that it wasnt just a new manager coming in that was an issue tho - it was also that Fergie was part of the club, had a finger in every pie - but with no real standard way of running things. I was told it was akin to coming into an office and being passed the last persons filing system but having no clue as to how their filing system worked. Moyes was constantly walking into errors off the pitch that he hadnt expected because rather than being a manager as he had at Everton he was now having to deal with a lot of aspects of different parts of running the club.

Moyes issues with the club on the pitch are well documented but having watched the matches last season there were a few things that were obvious. At Everton he dealt with a relatively much smaller squad, essentially around 18 players that kept the same rough side week in week out. At United he couldnt do this. The sheer number of games needed a larger squad and needed rotation. You look at Moyes early matches and the same team pretty much played in them, even when people were coming back from injury. Tactically he also seemed to make strange decisions, especially regarding subs. I can scarecly remember a single time that a Moyes substitution changed a game, (aside from him bringing on Fabio who then got sent off in the FA Cup and we spun out of that). I do think Moyes will do well at a smaller club again but its going to be difficult to recover from the battering he took because his reputation is in tatters. He simply wasnt cut out for the job, but I do think anyone would have struggled. Mourinho is the one who often gets touted, but he never had a chance. I was told Bobby Charlton who is a massive influence behind the scenes absolutely hates Mourinho.

On the chief exec side its really exciting that Woodwards work gained us a Official Paint Partner, an Official Tyre provider, and saw Mr Potato become the official snack of Man United. But he's clearly out of his depth in the role, and his work seems to have seen us fail on many transfers. Moyes himself recently admitted in an interview that during his period as a manager they went in for Bale, Ronaldo and Fabregas, and failed on all 3. My sources say Woodward seems determined to treat transfers as if they were sponsorship deals, which leads to long drawn out negotiations which havent ended up positive for United. Ive also been told that the Fellaini deal, which was Moyes only deal in his first window was only pushed through because Moyes himself got involved. Its interesting too that even the business done this summer has greatly been influenced by Moyes - Herrera and Shaw were both put in place largely in January, and Falcao is someone who was put on Uniteds radar by Moyes too.

Gigi Galli posted:

This joke started as funny and now has predictably been run in to the ground. No more "pooshited" in serious threads, you can thank Earthy Ape Unit for ruining everyone's fun.

Lord of Garbagemen posted:

TelekineticBear! posted:

Bayern have produced a load of top quality players consistently im confused at any suggestion that they havent

ephex posted:

Badstuber, Alaba, Kroos, Mueller, Gaudino, Scholl

ephex posted:

So? Hitler was Austrian as well.

TelekineticBear! posted:

What would have happened if Moyes had been allowed to spend all the crazy amounts Van Gaal has, or was he allowed to and just hosed everything up?

thompson posted:

Is Falcao even match fit?

E: pooshited

Brendan Rodgers posted:

Can someone become the new gifman already it's been so long.

Eau de MacGowan posted:

id get a vasectomy too if someone paid me £16mil tbh

Brendan Rodgers posted:

If more Welbz apologists compare him to Sturridge we should have a challenge thread.

Gigi Galli posted:

Guys if you want to post about weekend activities you can always come post in PWM. We're all friendly, I swear.

FullLeatherJacket posted:

There used to be a lot of top footballers named Tony and now there aren't

Makes you think

Shrapnig posted:

Goddamn that's a bad post.

Bobby Digital posted:

In the US, but I'm pretty sure my girlfriend ordered me an Arsenal keeper kit with my name for my birthday.

I think I'll be too embarrassed to wear it. Maybe I'll frame it? I have no idea.

Loving Africa Chaps posted:

Loads of people have names on the back of their shirts. If people ITT actually went to a match they might know that.

corn in the fridge posted:

i share a surname with a prominent English footballer and every now and again i feel like getting this name on a shirt but for the team i support and not for the team he plays for but at the time of posting i have not done this

Brony Car posted:

Rodgers says that Emre Can is out for 6 weeks with an ankle injury and Joe Allen has knee issues. This has not been a good international break.

Ninpo posted:

I like it when you go on one.

quote:

Falcao, formerly of Porto, Atletico Madrid and Monaco, will cross swords with opposite number Austin, previously of Kintbury Rangers and Hungerford Town.

Eau de MacGowan posted:

remember the last time falcao went up against a bunch of poo poo cloggers

his knee sure does