23 Aug 2021 02:10:05
Well to whomever that was worried. United are back!

1.) 23 Aug 2021
23 Aug 2021 05:39:39
Was never worried about them lot. As long as Ole is at the wheel, their car will never take the right turn. He will keep driving the car towards every possible dead end.

2.) 23 Aug 2021
23 Aug 2021 08:36:02
If Fernandes is taken out of that team they are at best, average. They are a collection of individuals rather than a team.

3.) 23 Aug 2021
23 Aug 2021 09:47:19
But a collection of individuals that getting results. A board that invests into the squad each window. Expect Haaland to go there. Pogba will play his best season to guarantee a free transfer and huge payday to Paris or Juve. To just disregard them is foolish. Three of last seasons top four are improving their squads and first 11s. Let’s not just assume we walk into the top four or title challenges because VVD is back. He’s awesome, but like you say take out Bruno and Utd aren’t much. What about us if VVD, Hendo or Salah get taken out? Well we saw last season, struggle is the answer.
Let’s see how we do against the CL champions next week and their £100m summer investments. Even though their squad was already good enough to win the CL.
Maybe you’re also the type to discount Leicester and Spurs as teams to step up?

4.) 23 Aug 2021
23 Aug 2021 10:05:38
Absolute nonsense. They have a bunch of decent players with a couple of exceptional ones - collectively they are absolutely a team who play for their manager, despite how tactically inept he is.

5.) 23 Aug 2021
23 Aug 2021 10:30:52
Bet you they don’t finish in the top 4 this year.

I think us, city, Chelsea, Leicester and Tottenham are / will be in a Tottenham’s case are ahead of them when Nuno sorts them out.

The only reason they finished second last year was because we had massive injuries in key areas and it took Tuchel a while to bed in at Chelsea. Their position last year was false in the sense that they were lucky that others underperformed / were very unlucky.

The only genuine quality player they have are Fernandes. They have players with potential but Ole does a great job keeping that under control.

My personal favourite is Maguire - if you ever have half an hour to spare you can watch him turn round.

6.) 23 Aug 2021
23 Aug 2021 10:49:24
That’s nonsense Grobs. Fabs plays instead of Hendo. VVD has been average so far Gomez and Konate are very good defenders. If Salah missed a few games the other front 3 would play. Forget Mane from last season that was just a blip.

7.) 23 Aug 2021
23 Aug 2021 10:59:13
As much amusement as I derived from the Southampton result, we're two games into the season and I think it's too early to derive season long form from what we've seen so far.

On paper United are short genuine quality in central midfield, no one is convinced by either of their goalies, there are still questions at CB despite Varane, and they are reliant on Fernandes staying fit and Pogba staying interested to have any incisiveness in the top third.

But Suarez dragged us to a title challenge in 13/ 14 despite the fact that Rodgers had massive gaps in his tactical ability and knowledge, had us unable to control games and defending like an Under 12 side, and didn't get the best out of at least half the players he had. Not out of the question Fernandes could paper over the big cracks at United in a similar way.

I think we're stronger than them, Man City are stronger and possibly Chelsea too, but the game doesn't always work in simple terms of who has the stronger squad.

8.) 23 Aug 2021
23 Aug 2021 11:41:23
Oh SomethingRed, it's definitely not too early! If they're struggling to control the midfield against Southampton then they're likely going to struggle against a few other teams as well and drop a fair more amount of points.

9.) 23 Aug 2021
23 Aug 2021 13:30:23
Why oh why are we even bothering to talk about them🤦‍♂️.

10.) 23 Aug 2021
23 Aug 2021 23:24:27
I would like to think that if we get into another defensive crisis that we wouldn't spend 2 months mucking around with midfielders playing at the back. That is a patch jobn you can do for 1 or 2 games, but is not sustainable as we saw.

I wouldn't be writing off manU so readily. it's just a draw. if they win next and we draw with chelsea then we're level. I get poking fun on a week to week basis but the leap to them having a deficiency as a club is a bit off for me.