Manchester United 2015/2016

christmasborocooper wrote:It almost seems like showboating.. Like "look at us, we can still afford big names, we can still attract big names, even without CL football".. Seemingly not realising that they'll continue to be without that if they don't stop buying the wrong players for so much money.

Presumably the intention is to drop Rooney or RVP now though.. Maybe Mata too? Can't fit all this lot in. Definitely can't fit all 3 strikers in. They must see that RVP is finished and hope that Rooney isn't..

---------------Falcao--------------

-Mata - - - Rooney - - - Di Maria-

------Carrick----Herrera-----

Shaw----Rowrow--Jones---Rafael

I guess?

stinger wrote:Phil Neville's preferred Manchester United line up.

bluenine wrote:

stinger wrote:Phil Neville's preferred Manchester United line up.

To be fair, if you put Rojo as LCB, and move Blind into Carrick's position, that is not a bad team. Rooney can play a much better tenacious AM than Mata. More like:

Van Persie - Falcao
Rooney
Shaw - Di Maria - Blind - Valencia
Rojo - Jones - Smalling
De Gea

Could work. Will be very interesting to watch. When LvG gets his Strootman/Vidal and Hummels/Vlaar in January, this will be a complete team.

Jaime wrote:

Fey wrote:Whats with the Southampton avatar Kimmy, jls on them?

RedDevil wrote:

Jaime wrote:

You may laugh. But consider that smith used to be a striker and we converted him to a DM. We can do the same with Rooney.

Di Maria played as a cm for real last year so no problem there.

We will be back on top very soon .

The Chosen Glenn wrote:That's terrific banter.

Pras_tama wrote:
I don't rate Blind.

Rio wrote:Rio Ferdinand has hit out at David Moyes’s tactics as Manchester United manager, claiming some of them were “embarrassing”.

The former England and United defender has set out a string of criticisms of Moyes’s ill-fated reign at Old Trafford in his autobiography #2 sides.

Ferdinand said the players became confused about how Moyes wanted them to play.

“Moyes’s innovations mostly led to negativity and confusion,” he said in an extract from the book, which is being serialised in The Sun.

He added: “The biggest confusion was over how he wanted us to move the ball forward. Often he told us to play it long. Some players felt they kicked the ball long more than at any time in their career.

“Sometimes our main tactic was the long, high, diagonal cross. It was embarrassing. In one home game against Fulham we had 81 crosses! I was thinking, why are we doing this? Andy Carroll doesn’t play for us!

“The whole approach was alien. Other times Moyes wanted lots of passing. He’d say: 'Today I want us to have 600 passes in the game. Last week it was only 400’. Who cares? I’d rather score five goals from 10 passes.”

Ferdinand, who left United for Queens Park Rangers in the summer, said Moyes brought the “mentality of a small club” to Old Trafford. He revealed one of the first signs of future problems was when Moyes banned the players from their ritual of eating low-fat chips on the night before a game.

Ferdinand also disclosed his upset at being left out of the United side that played Bayern Munich in the Champions League.

He said Moyes took the players to a park to practice their set-pieces, which he said was "bizarre".

"It was amateurish," he said. "I mean, why not just send Bayern an email or a DVD"

And as they were standing in public, Moyes told Ferdinand he would not be playing as he wanted a bit more pace in defence.

"It killed me," Ferdinand said. "Inside I wanted to scream and grab him. I'm a team player, so I just had to bite my tongue and stand there. But it was probably the worst single moment I ever had at United.

"I'd never been dropped for a big game like that - and to drop that on me in front of everybody."