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For united the stupid and humiliating results just keep coming in an in.
The engine of the team, Roy Keane who i, (a united fan) believe is brilliant and we need him more than anyone else. Perhaps that Ireland world cup stunt was just a little too controversial. Nevertheless the cracks in our team are extremely big without him and to make things worse he is currently injured. As is David Beckham who is not good any more in my opinion, he was once a young, hungry, consistant crosser who had an eye for goal outside the area. Now that he is the England skipper, he is just an old veteran who puts in a couple of tackles once in a blue moon, he has now been reduced to diving and trying to chip the goal keeper all the time instead of smashing it. The good goals against west ham and deportivo, last season and the good goal against chelsea this season is only a shadow of what he can do game in game out. Another blunder i think was purchasing Rio ferdinand for £30million which I think is a complete waste of money. At first I was excited because he had an impressive performance in the world cup. Now he is just your average defender. We could of bought a good defender for 20million less, with the saved money going towards a decent striker maybe.John o'shea is just as good as Rio, maybe he is not as consistant, but he puts all his effort and determination in games, take the Chelsea game for instance. He outmuscled hasslebaink, and put a lot of good tackles in. He should start with Rio instead of Blanc. As if the defence was not bad enough, we have the an extremely bad goal keeper between the sticks. Fabian Barthez is a poor goalkeeper. He may be able to stop the odd penalty, but when it comes to everything else, he is pathetic. The blunders against henry last season were an insult. To lose such an important game to silly bread and butter goal keeping is humiliating. Even this season he has by no means been perfect, goaters first goal in the derby was gifted by Gary Neville maybe, but the finish was not hit hard and all barthez did was what he normally does: jumps in the air with his legs out. Moving away from the domestic league, United are quite impressive in europe, which is a suprise as we are performing poorly in the Premiership. We have had mostly easy teams, but the important part now is the form we show in the second phase. Juventus are extremely good but by no means unbeatable (just look at newcastle).
Deportivo is no excuse we beat them last time with no hastle with nowhere near a full squad. Basle are a determined and battling little side, but they should be no match for us if we play well (which we probably won't!)
Another good point about the Champions League is that it brings out the best of Juan Seba Veron. He has been our best player in Europe but he cannot prove his £28million cost in the Premiership. Veron tries to much to use fancy tricks and impossible passes. Look at everton. They have no World Superstars, but they have determination and work rate which is why they are sitting 3 points above us. Veron needs to put more tackles in and make some short easy passes.
Another problem that Manchester United have is the lack of squad depth. When you look at other Title contenders like Liverpool and Arsenal they have great talents on the bench. Liverpool have great players like Diouf, Baros, Cheyrou, kirkland and Traore all mostly on the bench. Arsenal have Cygan, Wiltord, Van Bronkhorst, Edu and Gilberto Silva. Compare these two impressive lists with Kalam Richardson, Phil Neville, Forlan, Fortune and Chadwick. There was a time when coming off a hard performance in the Champions League, United could put their legs up and play some benched players and still win 2 or 3 nil. Now I'm sick and tired of counting on Forlan to score a dying minute equaliser.
To be honest, I seriously think we will finish 5th or 6th. Everygame we play, we look worse and worse. Look at the back end of last season. We defeated Leeds and Chelsea away with some great performances. This season we could not get a goal against leeds even though we had bought their star defender Rio.
Recently I seen a program which reviewed the 98/99 treble winning season. Watching it made me think back to when we were so destructive and fearsome. Its hard to believe now that we were so good. Back then, a goal was a sure thing. Now they are few and far between, like big sighs of relief which take away some of the pressure. In 3 years we have gradually slipped down and down.
"Its Jermaine Defoe.....GOAL!" West Ham 1-1 Manchester United
"Giggs with the shot......SHERINGHAM!!" Bayern Munich 1-2 Manchester united
Why have we suddenly become worse, struggling to pick up points agaqinst teams that are not as good as us?
Don't know about anyone else but I've had enough.
The engine of the team, Roy Keane who i, (a united fan) believe is brilliant and we need him more than anyone else. Perhaps that Ireland world cup stunt was just a little too controversial. Nevertheless the cracks in our team are extremely big without him and to make things worse he is currently injured. As is David Beckham who is not good any more in my opinion, he was once a young, hungry, consistant crosser who had an eye for goal outside the area. Now that he is the England skipper, he is just an old veteran who puts in a couple of tackles once in a blue moon, he has now been reduced to diving and trying to chip the goal keeper all the time instead of smashing it. The good goals against west ham and deportivo, last season and the good goal against chelsea this season is only a shadow of what he can do game in game out. Another blunder i think was purchasing Rio ferdinand for £30million which I think is a complete waste of money. At first I was excited because he had an impressive performance in the world cup. Now he is just your average defender. We could of bought a good defender for 20million less, with the saved money going towards a decent striker maybe.John o'shea is just as good as Rio, maybe he is not as consistant, but he puts all his effort and determination in games, take the Chelsea game for instance. He outmuscled hasslebaink, and put a lot of good tackles in. He should start with Rio instead of Blanc. As if the defence was not bad enough, we have the an extremely bad goal keeper between the sticks. Fabian Barthez is a poor goalkeeper. He may be able to stop the odd penalty, but when it comes to everything else, he is pathetic. The blunders against henry last season were an insult. To lose such an important game to silly bread and butter goal keeping is humiliating. Even this season he has by no means been perfect, goaters first goal in the derby was gifted by Gary Neville maybe, but the finish was not hit hard and all barthez did was what he normally does: jumps in the air with his legs out. Moving away from the domestic league, United are quite impressive in europe, which is a suprise as we are performing poorly in the Premiership. We have had mostly easy teams, but the important part now is the form we show in the second phase. Juventus are extremely good but by no means unbeatable (just look at newcastle).
Deportivo is no excuse we beat them last time with no hastle with nowhere near a full squad. Basle are a determined and battling little side, but they should be no match for us if we play well (which we probably won't!)
Another good point about the Champions League is that it brings out the best of Juan Seba Veron. He has been our best player in Europe but he cannot prove his £28million cost in the Premiership. Veron tries to much to use fancy tricks and impossible passes. Look at everton. They have no World Superstars, but they have determination and work rate which is why they are sitting 3 points above us. Veron needs to put more tackles in and make some short easy passes.
Another problem that Manchester United have is the lack of squad depth. When you look at other Title contenders like Liverpool and Arsenal they have great talents on the bench. Liverpool have great players like Diouf, Baros, Cheyrou, kirkland and Traore all mostly on the bench. Arsenal have Cygan, Wiltord, Van Bronkhorst, Edu and Gilberto Silva. Compare these two impressive lists with Kalam Richardson, Phil Neville, Forlan, Fortune and Chadwick. There was a time when coming off a hard performance in the Champions League, United could put their legs up and play some benched players and still win 2 or 3 nil. Now I'm sick and tired of counting on Forlan to score a dying minute equaliser.
To be honest, I seriously think we will finish 5th or 6th. Everygame we play, we look worse and worse. Look at the back end of last season. We defeated Leeds and Chelsea away with some great performances. This season we could not get a goal against leeds even though we had bought their star defender Rio.
Recently I seen a program which reviewed the 98/99 treble winning season. Watching it made me think back to when we were so destructive and fearsome. Its hard to believe now that we were so good. Back then, a goal was a sure thing. Now they are few and far between, like big sighs of relief which take away some of the pressure. In 3 years we have gradually slipped down and down.
"Its Jermaine Defoe.....GOAL!" West Ham 1-1 Manchester United
"Giggs with the shot......SHERINGHAM!!" Bayern Munich 1-2 Manchester united
Why have we suddenly become worse, struggling to pick up points agaqinst teams that are not as good as us?
Don't know about anyone else but I've had enough.
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For united the stupid and humiliating results just keep coming in an in.
The engine of the team, Roy Keane who i, (a united fan) believe is brilliant and we need him more than anyone else. Perhaps that Ireland world cup stunt was just a little too controversial. Nevertheless the cracks in our team are extremely big without him and to make things worse he is currently injured. As is David Beckham who is not good any more in my opinion, he was once a young, hungry, consistant crosser who had an eye for goal outside the area. Now that he is the England skipper, he is just an old veteran who puts in a couple of tackles once in a blue moon, he has now been reduced to diving and trying to chip the goal keeper all the time instead of smashing it. The good goals against west ham and deportivo, last season and the good goal against chelsea this season is only a shadow of what he can do game in game out. Another blunder i think was purchasing Rio ferdinand for £30million which I think is a complete waste of money. At first I was excited because he had an impressive performance in the world cup. Now he is just your average defender. We could of bought a good defender for 20million less, with the saved money going towards a decent striker maybe.John o'shea is just as good as Rio, maybe he is not as consistant, but he puts all his effort and determination in games, take the Chelsea game for instance. He outmuscled hasslebaink, and put a lot of good tackles in. He should start with Rio instead of Blanc. As if the defence was not bad enough, we have the an extremely bad goal keeper between the sticks. Fabian Barthez is a poor goalkeeper. He may be able to stop the odd penalty, but when it comes to everything else, he is pathetic. The blunders against henry last season were an insult. To lose such an important game to silly bread and butter goal keeping is humiliating. Even this season he has by no means been perfect, goaters first goal in the derby was gifted by Gary Neville maybe, but the finish was not hit hard and all barthez did was what he normally does: jumps in the air with his legs out. Moving away from the domestic league, United are quite impressive in europe, which is a suprise as we are performing poorly in the Premiership. We have had mostly easy teams, but the important part now is the form we show in the second phase. Juventus are extremely good but by no means unbeatable (just look at newcastle).
Deportivo is no excuse we beat them last time with no hastle with nowhere near a full squad. Basle are a determined and battling little side, but they should be no match for us if we play well (which we probably won't!)
Another good point about the Champions League is that it brings out the best of Juan Seba Veron. He has been our best player in Europe but he cannot prove his £28million cost in the Premiership. Veron tries to much to use fancy tricks and impossible passes. Look at everton. They have no World Superstars, but they have determination and work rate which is why they are sitting 3 points above us. Veron needs to put more tackles in and make some short easy passes.
Another problem that Manchester United have is the lack of squad depth. When you look at other Title contenders like Liverpool and Arsenal they have great talents on the bench. Liverpool have great players like Diouf, Baros, Cheyrou, kirkland and Traore all mostly on the bench. Arsenal have Cygan, Wiltord, Van Bronkhorst, Edu and Gilberto Silva. Compare these two impressive lists with Kalam Richardson, Phil Neville, Forlan, Fortune and Chadwick. There was a time when coming off a hard performance in the Champions League, United could put their legs up and play some benched players and still win 2 or 3 nil. Now I'm sick and tired of counting on Forlan to score a dying minute equaliser.
To be honest, I seriously think we will finish 5th or 6th. Everygame we play, we look worse and worse. Look at the back end of last season. We defeated Leeds and Chelsea away with some great performances. This season we could not get a goal against leeds even though we had bought their star defender Rio.
Recently I seen a program which reviewed the 98/99 treble winning season. Watching it made me think back to when we were so destructive and fearsome. Its hard to believe now that we were so good. Back then, a goal was a sure thing. Now they are few and far between, like big sighs of relief which take away some of the pressure. In 3 years we have gradually slipped down and down.
"Its Jermaine Defoe.....GOAL!" West Ham 1-1 Manchester United
"Giggs with the shot......SHERINGHAM!!" Bayern Munich 1-2 Manchester united
Why have we suddenly become worse, struggling to pick up points agaqinst teams that are not as good as us?
Don't know about anyone else but I've had enough.
The engine of the team, Roy Keane who i, (a united fan) believe is brilliant and we need him more than anyone else. Perhaps that Ireland world cup stunt was just a little too controversial. Nevertheless the cracks in our team are extremely big without him and to make things worse he is currently injured. As is David Beckham who is not good any more in my opinion, he was once a young, hungry, consistant crosser who had an eye for goal outside the area. Now that he is the England skipper, he is just an old veteran who puts in a couple of tackles once in a blue moon, he has now been reduced to diving and trying to chip the goal keeper all the time instead of smashing it. The good goals against west ham and deportivo, last season and the good goal against chelsea this season is only a shadow of what he can do game in game out. Another blunder i think was purchasing Rio ferdinand for £30million which I think is a complete waste of money. At first I was excited because he had an impressive performance in the world cup. Now he is just your average defender. We could of bought a good defender for 20million less, with the saved money going towards a decent striker maybe.John o'shea is just as good as Rio, maybe he is not as consistant, but he puts all his effort and determination in games, take the Chelsea game for instance. He outmuscled hasslebaink, and put a lot of good tackles in. He should start with Rio instead of Blanc. As if the defence was not bad enough, we have the an extremely bad goal keeper between the sticks. Fabian Barthez is a poor goalkeeper. He may be able to stop the odd penalty, but when it comes to everything else, he is pathetic. The blunders against henry last season were an insult. To lose such an important game to silly bread and butter goal keeping is humiliating. Even this season he has by no means been perfect, goaters first goal in the derby was gifted by Gary Neville maybe, but the finish was not hit hard and all barthez did was what he normally does: jumps in the air with his legs out. Moving away from the domestic league, United are quite impressive in europe, which is a suprise as we are performing poorly in the Premiership. We have had mostly easy teams, but the important part now is the form we show in the second phase. Juventus are extremely good but by no means unbeatable (just look at newcastle).
Deportivo is no excuse we beat them last time with no hastle with nowhere near a full squad. Basle are a determined and battling little side, but they should be no match for us if we play well (which we probably won't!)
Another good point about the Champions League is that it brings out the best of Juan Seba Veron. He has been our best player in Europe but he cannot prove his £28million cost in the Premiership. Veron tries to much to use fancy tricks and impossible passes. Look at everton. They have no World Superstars, but they have determination and work rate which is why they are sitting 3 points above us. Veron needs to put more tackles in and make some short easy passes.
Another problem that Manchester United have is the lack of squad depth. When you look at other Title contenders like Liverpool and Arsenal they have great talents on the bench. Liverpool have great players like Diouf, Baros, Cheyrou, kirkland and Traore all mostly on the bench. Arsenal have Cygan, Wiltord, Van Bronkhorst, Edu and Gilberto Silva. Compare these two impressive lists with Kalam Richardson, Phil Neville, Forlan, Fortune and Chadwick. There was a time when coming off a hard performance in the Champions League, United could put their legs up and play some benched players and still win 2 or 3 nil. Now I'm sick and tired of counting on Forlan to score a dying minute equaliser.
To be honest, I seriously think we will finish 5th or 6th. Everygame we play, we look worse and worse. Look at the back end of last season. We defeated Leeds and Chelsea away with some great performances. This season we could not get a goal against leeds even though we had bought their star defender Rio.
Recently I seen a program which reviewed the 98/99 treble winning season. Watching it made me think back to when we were so destructive and fearsome. Its hard to believe now that we were so good. Back then, a goal was a sure thing. Now they are few and far between, like big sighs of relief which take away some of the pressure. In 3 years we have gradually slipped down and down.
"Its Jermaine Defoe.....GOAL!" West Ham 1-1 Manchester United
"Giggs with the shot......SHERINGHAM!!" Bayern Munich 1-2 Manchester united
Why have we suddenly become worse, struggling to pick up points agaqinst teams that are not as good as us?
Don't know about anyone else but I've had enough.
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