Preseason Tour Game 4: Man Utd v Liverpool (ICC, Saturday 28th July 22:05 BST)

Actually despise Darmian. Easily the worst player the club has ever had.
 
Herrera was pretty awful, that lazy flick at Robertson for the pen was dumb.
 
The 'pool players can close down and man-handle ours when we are on the ball as our players' always play with their back to goal (á la LVG) … Liverpool's players only ever want to go forward so if we close them down we're blown up immediately!
 
Lemansky said:
I know it’s a friendly but why are we bouncing long balls from the keeper up the field and not playing our way out? Comical watching Sánchez against VVD in the air in the first half.
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That’s what I was saying earlier even in a preseason we have no courage to try and play our way out, it’s all backwards nonsense until GK launches a long ball forward.
 
sunama said:
Well, in terms of favourites, Jose showed that he was happy to play Ibrahimovic, Lukaku, Sanchez and Matic....no matter how good or bad they were playing.
Conversely, no matter how good some of our other players were playing, they'd get benched.
The same was true at Chelsea, when he kept playing Ivanovic, who was playing really badly.
Martial was a good example, of a player who was in good form, but he kept getting benched. Bear in mind that I am not a Martial fan and would happily see him sold this Summer (due to him wanting to leave our club).
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Aye. I wouldn't personally say it's a Jose issue. I feel like some managers just inherently stick as close to a starting 11 as possible for as many games as they can. As United fans I feel we were much more used to seeing more squad rotation. Which is ironic given Jose has talked about have two class players for each position, you'd think he'd do more of it.
 
Feck it, hope we get smashed by a few more so Woodward and Mourinho will pull their finger out and sign somebody.
 
nice finish. Should of been defended better but the defenders are knackered. You can see it. Fitness isnt at the right level yet.
 
Richter said:
So anyone excited about the Real match?
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Live in FL and have no desire to go to the game with the majority of players missing. Also the tickets are pricey to watch this dreadful football in 100 degree weather on a work night.
 
Pre-season or not, this is disgraceful. Only one team is actually playing football, and it isn’t United.
 
Mourinho is past it imo. Yeah he'll be able to set up a defense but I don't think he's got it in him to set up an attacking team.
 
Dreadful stuff really. I hope we magically turn into a decent when the other players come back.
 
I’m done. fecking terrible. I don’t even care it’s a meaningless friendly. feck this.
 
Preseason or not. Reserves or not. You don’t get hammered of these lot and get off with it lightly.
 
Chorley1974 said:
Herrera is a decent player, fit to wear the shirt in my opinion.
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We will never move forward with ‘decent’ players. Fair enough you need players to fill out your squad, but Herrera would get nowhere near any of the other top six clubs.
 
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