A blurry picture posted by Jose's wife in her twitter shows his tactics board.

Probably just the tour starting line ups and options. The front line Zlatan and Martial probably joining up later.
 
Varela is a fair shout as well.



I thought so too but then Fellaini and Smalling wouldn't be on it.
Sure they would. They will join up for the game in Sweden. That is all this is. The name is probably Varela he played in midfield vs Wigan but now hes off on loan so...
 
This is new lows. Even for Caf standards :lol:
 
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Could be Ander could be Rhonda. Definitely not Pogba.
4-letter name that ends in A. Wherever would we find a name like that.
 
Mata, Ander, Arda more likely. Surely that's not a "b" and pretty sure his wife won't be posting a pic with background having our players, especially if one is Pogba
 
It says Mata.

If you follow the contours of the image you can quite clearly see it is either M ? L/T A So MA?A can't be MALA it has to be Mata.

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You can quite clearly see the M on the left hand side.

Plus you wouldnt include a player who hasn't signed yet for a pre-season tour.
 
It says Mata.

If you follow the contours of the image you can quite clearly see it is either M ? L/T A So MA?A can't be MALA it has to be Mata.



You can quite clearly see the M on the left hand side.

Plus you wouldnt include a player who hasn't signed yet for a pre-season tour.
Can't comment on what it says, because I have no idea. But that isn't his depth chart for the China preseason tour. Martial is listed and he isn't even travelling with the team. Plus, he already stated the England players won't be participating.
 
Can't comment on what it says, because I have no idea. But that isn't his depth chart for the China preseason tour. Martial is listed and he isn't even travelling with the team. Plus, he already stated the England players won't be participating.

I've worked for a long time in the design industry before making a career change, very used to having to work at high magnifications to work with images removing defects and blemishes, my money is 99% on Mata.
 
I've worked for a long time in the design industry before making a career change, very used to having to work at high magnifications to work with images removing defects and blemishes, my money is 99% on Mata.
Then we should all be very disturbed and worried for Jose. Mata and Fellaini at #8? My word. Very unlike him.
 
Then we should all be very disturbed and worried for Jose. Mata and Fellaini at #8? My word. Very unlike him.

We don't know how his squad functions in that formation, for all we know they could pick the ball up from deep and link up with the right channel, it might be more fluid than "ok you are deep therefore you must stay back".
 
It says Mata.

If you follow the contours of the image you can quite clearly see it is either M ? L/T A So MA?A can't be MALA it has to be Mata.

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You can quite clearly see the M on the left hand side.

Plus you wouldnt include a player who hasn't signed yet for a pre-season tour.

You forgot the V on the left of your M.
 
We don't know how his squad functions in that formation, for all we know they could pick the ball up from deep and link up with the right channel, it might be more fluid than "ok you are deep therefore you must stay back".
According to that chart then, it would be a midfield of Carrick, Mata, and Rooney. Sounds terrible. I doubt Jose would ever do that. The person playing alongside Carrick needs to have the energy and to be more of a box to box midfielder, especially with Rooney playing farther forward. We've been through these experiments in the past with LVG and Moyes. Never again.
 
You forgot the V on the left of your M.

It's a different colour.

If you look at the zoomed out version (the official tweet) that V isn't on the actual board photo, that's been erased partially from a previous team sheet / diagram.

The red pen ink is the one which has Mata on, 2 different selections.

Alternatively they may be numbers, Fellaini has a 4 next to his name, Depay 20, Martial 21, etc.
 
Names on the board from top down:
De Gea, Romero, Smalling, Blind, Shaw, Rojo, Carrick, Mata, Fellaini, Rooney, Mata, Martial, Depay, Rashford, Zlatan.

You guys need eyes.
 
It's a different colour.

If you look at the zoomed out version (the official tweet) that V isn't on the actual board photo, that's been erased partially from a previous team sheet / diagram.

The red pen ink is the one which has Mata on, 2 different selections.

Alternatively they may be numbers, Fellaini has a 4 next to his name, Depay 20, Martial 21, etc.

It's not a diiferent color, I'm not talking about the darkish thing, but the left side of the V at the lef of the dark line. And it's not a T, you invented the horizontal bar, you added an "a" and ignored the "e" at its left too. Basically you wrote what you wanted.
 
It's not a diiferent color, I'm not talking about the darkish thing, but the left side of the V at the lef of the dark line. And it's not a T, you invented the horizontal bar, you added an "a" and ignored the "e" at its left too. Basically you wrote what you wanted.

I didn't invent a horizontal bar its there. Is your monitor not calibrated correctly?

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It's a four letter word, ending in TA and starting with M, if you can't see that buy a better monitor with higher PPI, calibrate it properly and read.
 
I didn't invent a horizontal bar its there. Is your monitor not calibrated correctly?

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It's a four letter word, ending in TA and starting with M, if you can't see that buy a better monitor with higher PPI, calibrate it properly and read.

:lol: You are taking it way too seriously Grissom. And you are still wrong.
 
:lol: You are taking it way too seriously Grissom. And you are still wrong.

Not really taking it seriously no, just baffles me how you can't distinguish red from black, and what a letter t looks like.
 
Not really taking it seriously no, just baffles me how you can't distinguish red from black, and what a letter t looks like.

We are not talking about the same mark, I see the black mark, but I also see the one on the left of that mark. And if you are right he wrote Mata differently at the #10 position.
 
I didn't invent a horizontal bar its there.

I can sort of see it, yes. But it's very weak if it's actually a horizontal bar. Looks more like an artifact: Compare it to what has to be artifacts "protruding" from the lower parts of both the lower case ls in "Fellaini". Not much of a difference, if any, in how they appear to the naked eye.

EDIT Per your interpretation above, you seem to think it reads "FeLLaini" - which is unlikely. It's not "LL" but "ll", which makes the "bars" something else.
 
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