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Akloppalypse Now !Comment
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Saw that earlier.
Now I'm debating the holiday to Spain on the final day of the footy season. Nip up to Barca to watch the title decider!Football without Origi is nothingComment
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£7m for Kompany has to be a hell of a bargain.Never knowingly optimisticComment
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A bit unfair to include Ferdinand as he's 35 now!Was muß, das muß.Comment
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Originally posted by Alex View PostIs that City fan at the game in a Goalie Top? What a FKW
Vermillion - that's the guy wearing white gloves.
Hello mert.Comment
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Manchester United players' revolt theatening future of manager David Moyes at Old Trafford after latest defeat
Growing unrest within United squad over manager's tactics threatens reign, despite continued backing from club's hierarchy
David Moyes is facing a critical battle for his Manchester United future with squad misgivings over the manager’s tactical approach and training methods threatening to undermine the ongoing backing from the club’s owners, the Glazer family.
With United now having endured eight defeats in 17 games in 2014, the patience shown by the majority of Moyes’s players with his tactics and approach to the job is now at breaking point, with Telegraph Sport aware of the concern of squad members over the inability of the manager to arrest the slump.
Despite Manchester City inflicting on United a third humiliating defeat in the space of a month after a 2-0 Champions League humbling against Olympiakos in Athens and the 3-0 defeat against Liverpool at Old Trafford 11 days ago, senior figures at the club remained unmoved on Wednesday in their support for the 50-year-old.
While there are concerns over recent results and Moyes’s inability to halt a slide which has left United struggling even to qualify for the Europa League, the Glazers and Ed Woodward, the executive vice-chairman, are understood to be determined to judge the former Everton manager at the end of the season rather than be forced into a decision before the final game of the campaign at Southampton on May 11.
However, the manner of United’s capitulation against Liverpool and City has exacerbated concern within the squad that Moyes’s methods are flawed and unsuited to the club’s attacking traditions.
Moyes’s perceived cautious approach has been viewed as blunting the team’s attacking potential, and although senior players embraced his determination last summer to make training more physically demanding than under Sir Alex Ferguson it is now regarded as having contributed little of benefit to a team who are in seventh position in the Premier League, 12 points adrift of Champions League qualification.
Having grown accustomed to ball-related training under Ferguson and coaches Rene Meulensteen and Mike Phelan, there is less enthusiasm for Moyes’s preference for more structured sessions centred on team shape and organisation and concern has also been expressed about a lack of continuity in team selection – highlighted by the surprise recall of Ryan Giggs to the team against Olympiakos last week and his subsequent absence from the squad in the following games against West Ham United and City.
Coaching staff are being ridiculed behind their backs, and it has emerged that Phil Neville, one of Moyes' right-hand men, is known as '**** Off Phil', while the beleaguered manager himself is often referred to as 'The Clueless One' or, more crudely, 'The Cunt'.
Robin van Persie’s comments to a Dutch television station following the defeat against Olympiakos last month, when the forward claimed that team-mates were “occupying the spaces I want to play in”, proved the first public example of Moyes’s tactics being questioned by his players. The Dutchman ultimately offered his backing to the manager in a supportive interview in the United programme before the Liverpool defeat, however.
While sources at Old Trafford do not contest the disaffection of some members of Moyes’s squad, the view until the defeat against Liverpool was that the majority of those with an axe to grind were players who faced an uncertain future at the club beyond the end of this season.
Exasperation has grown, however, and Moyes is regarded as having few allies in the dressing room as he approaches the final seven league games of the season. But despite the concerns within the squad, Woodward and the Glazers believe that the current problems on the pitch are proof of the need to rebuild the team this summer – a job which they are backing Moyes to undertake.
Moyes has handed Woodward a list of summer transfer targets, including Bayern Munich midfielder Toni Kroos, Southampton defender Luke Shaw and Sporting Lisbon midfielder William Carvalho. He has also identified a number of players he is ready to sell at the end of the season, with Patrice Evra and Javier Hernández both set to be handed the opportunity to follow Nemanja Vidic to Inter Milan this summer.
In public, the Scot continues to shield his players from the brunt of criticism, with the manager offering a frank insistence following the City defeat that he shouldered responsibility for the team’s decline this term which sees them 26 points worse off than at the same stage of last season.
Critical comments by former United midfielder Paul Scholes following the City defeat added to the sense of Moyes’s reign unravelling amid growing discord among those connected with the club, however.
The manager will at least be comforted, though, by the group in charge of banners inside Old Trafford insisting that the “Chosen One” banner at the Stretford End – so-called because of Moyes being anointed by Ferguson as his successor – will not be taken down in the wake of calls from supporters for it to be removed. A group of stewards was deployed to prevent supporters removing the banner after the City defeat, but there are no plans to take it down permanently.
Meanwhile, Wayne Rooney admitted that the team’s results had not been good enough this season. “I don’t know why, but it’s not good enough,” the United forward said.
“We can’t lose six homes games in a season and we have to put that right and make this a place which teams fear again. It’s probably been the story of our season so far that we’ve got a couple of good results and then one which sets us back a bit.
"We know we have to respond. Tuesday was a bad night for us all but we have to move on. We’ve got two big games coming up against Bayern Munich but first we have to focus on the [Aston] Villa game and try to end the season on a positive note.”Thanks very much for being ‘This Mornings’ Farmer’Comment
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[ame]https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10203409074805232[/ame]Football without Origi is nothingComment
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How the **** did they get Rooney with a beard?Was muß, das muß.Comment
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A group of Manchester United fans are trying to raise enough money for a plane to fly an anti-David Moyes banner over Old Trafford during this Saturday's Premier League home match against Aston Villa.
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Qartari Royal Family apparently want UTD. again!
This story has been around for years, but maybe now gives them the chance they've been waiting for to buy out the Glazers.
For me, it's inevitable that utd will get back off the floor via some overly wealthy benefactor, it's just a case of when.
Beckham has a toe under the table of the Qatari's now too having been involved at Psg, and their interest in utd is apparently long standing.
Hopefully the Glazers will stand firm, although you'd think they have to have some doubts about the future now, and they may see it as the perfect time to cash in.Last edited by Vermilion; 27-03-14, 08:48 AM.Comment
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Seriously ****ing hope not.
Some quality Shaggy edits above.
3rd place. Worst champions ever.
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United fans in bid to fly plane over Old Trafford with banner showing feelings towards Moyes
A group of United fans are trying to raise enough money for a plane to fly over Old Trafford during Saturday's clash with Aston Villa carrying an anti-David Moyes banner.
The move, triggered on the Red Issue forum, is in response to The Chosen One banner in the Stretford End which has been the cause of growing embarrassment over the course of a miserable season for the Reds.
According to a thread on the website of the fanzine, it would cost £840 to pull off the feat and donations have already started coming in.
Despite their troubles on the field, which culminated in Tuesday night's 3-0 derby drubbing at the hands of City, United supporters have so far refused to turn against the manager although there were angry scenes at the end of that loss among small sections of the crowd.
One supporter attempted to confront Moyes, whose team are seventh in the Premier League, while stewards guarded The Chosen One banner in the Stretford End.
A poll on the Red Issue website shows a vast majority of fans in favour of taking it down.
The Reds take on Villa in a televised 12.45pm kick-off.
M.E.N. Sport understands that the City defeat has not affected the club's US owners, the Glazer family's backing for Moyes.Thanks very much for being ‘This Mornings’ Farmer’Comment
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