What? We played really poor football for the most part last season.
Mata | Mourinho says it's just a Mata of time
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) and Jamie (@Vault Dweller) are here to talk about United's dreadful home defeat at the hands of Big Ange's Tottenham Hotspur. Should this have been the end of Ten Hag? How long does he actually have left? And does Nik finally want ETH out?!
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People are speaking as if this is a foregone conclusion, may I remind people of a certain Mikel, even when someone's on our website, it's not a given..
Unless I've missed something reliable..
Unless I've missed something reliable..
its true, too many threads last season about our poor passing and no pace...people forget we only won because city didnt strengthen properly
Everton were very good to watch last season at times. There were times when they went route one with Fellaini but people really have short memories when it comes to how they played.
The key ingredients to the current Everton setup were put together by Moyes. They were already playing decent enough football.
His voice would have gone so high pitched only dogs could understand a word he was saying without using Sky+.Sad cnut. Wonder what his reaction would have been had it been Liverpool signing Mata.
Then someone would have told him Mata was signing for Liverpool.
Mata needs a siesta before this happens lads...he's keeping it real
Like said previously, I somehow don't think Chelsea will be swooping in and snatching this one.
We won because we got 89 points even with dropping off after clinching the title. Only three of those points came against City.
"We only won because City didn't strengthen properly" - feck this shit. They probably won't get 89 points this season.
He's not wrong. They played some lovely stuff with Baines and Pienaar down the left whereas we often played shit on a stick ball.
Think Aaron Ramsey then, he was also announced on manutd.com.
Everton played the exact same football throughout Daves reign. Play wide, cross the ball. Every season. If you don't believe me, ask an Everton fan. Look at their forums. Same brand of football, same formation. It's probably why he got the job, as its the same brand of football Ferguson set the current team to play.
Let's hope Mata has an upto date TomTom then.
obviously not silly bollocks, but there is more than 1 club in the world..
Oh boy oh boy oh boy
Nothing on Dave yet.
It wouldn't surprise me if Mata took a helicopter to Carrington to sign a deal, whilst Woody takes a private jet to Paris to finalise the deal with PSG, thinking he's there.
Bollocks was just about to say that
Bollocks was just about to say that
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Not bothered at all. Nope. Not even a little bit. You're totally unbothered.
You're a picture of someone who is unbothered.
You mean exactly like Fergie football?
People have a very short and very selective memory
This has become a giant thread. Pretty impressive considering it consists of mostly one-hand typing.
Has Woodward found a way to feck this one up yet?
Nothing on national discovery yet.
He's halfway to Italy to seal the deal as we speak.
All those heatmaps kicking around this place show that we're far more one-dimensional in our approach and place even greater emphasis on wide play than during the last year of Fergie.
And people were rightly complaining about our style last season. Now it's even worse which is a remarkable feat in itself.
It's also Daves brand of football. I've already pointed out Ferguson played the same way (see 2 posts back). So no I don't have a selective memory.
It's being reported on Nickelodeon!
No wait, it's only Spongebob.
No wait, it's only Spongebob.
FAO Glaston, where were you for the first 3 months of the season?
Fancy checking E4 then? Can't get it on my phone.
My one hope is that Mata will signal a change in the way we play, and that we're stuck with his "pass it wide, cross it in" mentality at the moment because that's the only method we have the players for. Bringing Mata in might change that.
After watching last nights game, Mata got arrested trying to do a U turn on the M6.
It's quite interesting how a lot of people who were convinced that Ozil was a superfluous signing now don't see Mata as being similar.
For what it's worth, I think he's vital in ensuring you play a different style of football, but seemingly others are changing their tune.
For what it's worth, I think he's vital in ensuring you play a different style of football, but seemingly others are changing their tune.
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Not bothered at all. Nope. Not even a little bit. You're totally unbothered.
You're a picture of someone who is unbothered.
I've never seen anyone try to wum so hard, it's a bit sad really.
I think no one has said that yet, so here goes...
Mata > Ozil.
Mata > Ozil.
There was quite a lot of us that thought Ozil was a cracking signing for Arsenal.
Do you not see how our season has gone so far? I think people will be raving about anyone freaking person we sign right now let alone Mata. We are that shit.
He already used the three lawyers on the Coentrao deal.. This one might actually be happening...
Most people were unbelievably jealous when you signed Ozil tbf. Myself included.
Fantastic signing for the club. I could see Mata providing a real drive to get into the top four.
Not sure where we fit him in though with Rooney or RVP though. I think Rooney might well be leaving in the near future but while they are both United players we have the same problem as with Kagawa but with a better player.
Either way, looking forward to his debut and I hope we give him the number 7 as he is the first since Ronaldo to do it justice.
Not sure where we fit him in though with Rooney or RVP though. I think Rooney might well be leaving in the near future but while they are both United players we have the same problem as with Kagawa but with a better player.
Either way, looking forward to his debut and I hope we give him the number 7 as he is the first since Ronaldo to do it justice.
Had Rooney and RvP not been injured....
Probably because people didn't feel that Arsenal lacked creativity while it's obvious in case of United.
Do you think we should play in behind the striker though?
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