grungy-gonads 54 Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 Really rather excited about what's going to happen. First press conference in a few hours. Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 This dude don't take no shit. Total control, very confident, aura... none of this deer caught in headlights shit of last year. Feels like a proper United manager already. Link to post Share on other sites
BagOfCrisps 24 Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 I fear he's going to be too good for my liking, but he will certainly be a character and make things interesting. Like you said gg, doesn't look the kind to take any crap from anyone. Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 Rodgers: Lots Of Players Want To Join... other clubs Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted July 21, 2014 Share Posted July 21, 2014 Bayern Munich. Cool. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted July 21, 2014 Share Posted July 21, 2014 That's an old one.....but I've seen it recently do the Facebook rounds Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted July 23, 2014 Author Share Posted July 23, 2014 Louis van Gaal can break world transfer record for Manchester United • Van Gaal chasing Hummels, Blind and Vermaelen • Ed Woodward gives green light to buy the best A cunning plan to keep the prices down! Link to post Share on other sites
NoFakie 45 Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 100m bid for Hulk coming up! Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted July 24, 2014 Share Posted July 24, 2014 United first game won 7-0. Opposition rubbish, but by all accounts a very fine display indeed. Even Young was decent apparently which is....kind of worrying! Herrera playing an absolute blinder of a debut. I'm really excited about what I'm hearing. (Well, all but the Young bit). Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted July 24, 2014 Share Posted July 24, 2014 Who were they playing GG? Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted July 24, 2014 Share Posted July 24, 2014 LA Galaxy Last year we would have perhaps ground out a scoreless draw. Or lost. And then Moyes say he was extremely pleased with the performance. Link to post Share on other sites
big-will 7 Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMd1GEzHMWo Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted July 27, 2014 Share Posted July 27, 2014 United won again but doesn't sound as nearly as good as previous game. Hopefully, van Gaal will have totally identified the deadwood now. Get chopping and shopping, dude. Link to post Share on other sites
Thundercat 60 Posted July 27, 2014 Share Posted July 27, 2014 Starting to get worried about Everton! Barry is still our only signing and we are going to need some help is we are going to be competitive in both PL and Europe. Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted July 27, 2014 Share Posted July 27, 2014 How about Fellalini or whatever he's called? Link to post Share on other sites
Thundercat 60 Posted July 27, 2014 Share Posted July 27, 2014 We'll take his afro but you can keep the player! Link to post Share on other sites
brit-gob 9 Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 Moyes was far too deferential, concerned from the outset about appearing at the home of Sir Alex Ferguson in jeans Monday 28 July 2014 The average Manchester United fan must wake up shaking his head, those vivid flashbacks of David Moyes, eyes on stalks, walking down the touchline towards the Stretford End after another home defeat, set against new impressions of a team banging in goals for fun and led by a man with a vision. Did last season really happen? Was the red diaspora dreaming? It is only pre-season, and the setting in North America is far removed from the intensity of the Premier League, yet the aura about the team is radically altered since the arrival of Louis van Gaal. This is not just about Van Gaal understanding the Manchester United message but about the club adjusting to him. This is the point that Moyes never realised. It was not enough to respect the traditions and heritage of a great club. It never is. History is made as well as inherited. The requirement is to make the thing your own, not to blend in. Moyes was far too deferential, concerned from the outset about appearing at the home of Sir Alex Ferguson in jeans. Had the call come to Van Gaal while he was out shopping with the missus he would have made Fergie come to him after, of course, letting the initial approach go to message until such a time as he was ready to take it. You wonder what Moyes makes of it all as he observes from a distance the panache and swagger Van Gaal brings to the job? All those laboured press conferences; the weary trier dug into some kind of mental bunker churning out defensive lines about the size of the job, the massive challenge of rebuilding the squad, of working hard to turn things around. He was in all respects a million miles wide of the mark. With every gesture, every utterance, every reflection, Van Gaal projects authority, a sense that he is in the right place. And while he is in situ it will be his place. So fences are going up around Carrington to keep out the wind. Pitches are being relaid to replicate the Old Trafford experience. Oh, and on the pitch wingers have gone. The crosses will still come in but not from the same bloke anchored to the touchline. You might recall the crazy 2-2 home draw to Fulham near the end of his wretched time in charge when Moyes, so glued to the historic United template of flying wide boys, instructed his team to cross the opposition into submission. The penalty areas resembled flight paths at nearby Ringway airport, balls coming in on routes so predictable they might have been ordered by air traffic control. Poor Moyes. He thought he was playing the United way, meeting a special demand, when all he was doing was revealing how much the environment was controlling him, never grasping the fundamental issue that he was supposed to be controlling it. Van Gaal is helped by the distance put between him and the reign of Ferguson. Nevertheless, you suspect he would not have been as insipid as his predecessor, who had no identity other than being Mr Not-Ferguson. This produced in the players an inevitable reaction, a state of anomie. They needed leading, cajoling, directing, managing, but Moyes brought no recognisable philosophy, no big idea, and no identifiable sense of what he stood for as a manager. His decade in charge of Everton conveyed a sense of half-decent husbandry but nothing like the statement required to command the respect and the attention of someone else’s millionaires. Another central point Moyes failed to grasp was the need to deliver immediately. He thought he had time. That six-year contract was seen as a licence to build in the manner of Ferguson 28 years ago. That world is long gone. United is not just the domestic juggernaut Ferguson resurrected, it is a global proposition that transcends the game. Ferguson’s principal objective was to knock Liverpool off their perch and establish English hegemony. The requirement now is to paint the world map red, to ensure little boys and girls on five continents reach for a United shirt ahead of the colours of Real Madrid, Barcelona, and Bayern Munich. Moyes’ next move is almost as fascinating as Van Gaal’s at United. The Old Trafford experience showed him to be not only a manager out of his depth but out of his time, a relic of old Glasgow and a culture of “football people” no longer relevant. This is not the game of Shankly, Busby and Stein, not even of Ferguson. The era of the empire builder is over. The empire is already here, United’s global position long established. The new man comes in and must keep the machine oiled. Even his work at Everton is being reconsidered, downgraded perhaps, in the light of the great Roberto Martinez project, which has raised the pulse rate at Goodison Park as well as expectation. The big challenge facing Moyes is not necessarily to take a new club forward, if there is one, but to reposition himself as a coach at one with the times. Link to post Share on other sites
NoFakie 45 Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 If Van Gaal is as no nonsense as they say, I wouldn't want to be Ed Woodward if they don't get some more players in! Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 I want 3 more signings. A signature central dude (hello Vidal), defence and whoever else we need to replace Young, (not very) Clever(ly) and other rubbish people. If Mr Woodward doesn't do that, he will definitely need to be is censed and apologise issue. Got to admit, I was a bit "eh?" when van Gaal was going on about needing 3-4 weeks to assess the current squad. Everyone in the world, apart from their mums and Moyes, know who the deadwood is. It's glaringly obvious. Link to post Share on other sites
sapporo 8 Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 Well, Wigan are off to a bad start...from 1 - 0 up, to losing 4 - 1, then the next game being cancelled!! Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 Fellaini-Napoli, there was a meeting for him. Napoli asked about the Manchester United midfielder. [Corriere dello Sport] They asked if he'll cost more than 100 quid. There's reports that he is on 100,000 a week. It fills me with some kind of rage. Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 Well, Wigan are off to a bad start...from 1 - 0 up, to losing 4 - 1, then the next game being cancelled!! Even so, it'll deffo be our year! Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 "Napoli in talks to end Fellaini's Old Trafford nightmare" No, just no, Telegraph, no. Here, I've fixed it for you "Napoli in talks to end Old Trafford's Fellaini nightmare" Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted August 1, 2014 Author Share Posted August 1, 2014 Liverpool NOT doing a Spurs. Honest! Still, season starts in about 3 weeks - exciting! Link to post Share on other sites
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