OhForAGreavsie

And we've got him signed up for four more years.

What a brilliant, brilliant stat.

Keep 'em coming. We need to know the rest of the rules.

Right side of a three man back line is his best position.

YYAYYYY!!!

Correct. Keown said in commentary, about five minutes game time ago, that Frank would have been the happier manager at that stage. He was wrong. Nil - nil despite Chelsea having the better of the play, and United having big hitters they plan to introduce was advantage Solskjaer.

That's one of the reasons that Solskjaer's comments were very well crafted. They seduced the officials and motivated his players.

What I think really looks on is Azpi to Marcos at the far post. We need to work opportunities for that to happen.

Hallelujah, sing it loud and sing it proud.

The way I look at it, Wednesday is now a free hit. Even if we get nothing at Anfield, we'd still achieve a top four spot by matching Leicester's result against ManU. Wolves are a very good side who must not, and will not, be underestimated but that's a reasonable proposition for a side with top four ambitions. This is especially so when you consider that United will need to avoid defeat against Leicester to ensure their own qualification.

No one questions the value of a CL place but I reject, utterly and completely reject, the idea that this makes today's game less important. We give everything we have today, and we give everything on Wednesday. You can't pick and choose the games you win. Just because you prioritise one game over another, does not mean results are going to play ball and fall the way you want them to. Klopp rested players against us in round 5 because he wanted to prioritise upcoming CL games. Who will they be playing when the CL resumes?

To be fair, given the three results this term, it'd be odd if they lacked confidence against us.

Most important is that we win today. If Leicester loose that's just a bonus.

Sod Wednesday, We are going to need him at some point today. As for RLC & CHO, I am very, very happy that Frank is picking the team not you.

No it won't. People have got to get off this defeatist kick. If we fail to make the CL it'll be because we have not been good enough, not because we tried to win a football match three days earlier.

Even then, with the decision to go three at the back, it's a choice between Willian and Pulli. In that situation, I can see Willian getting the nod for his greater defensive work rate.

I don't think you understand him.

The club's position is that it was punished for operating in exactly the same way as many other clubs who were not punished. This is still being considered because the FA has appealed against their sanction and, if that is overturned, then there is no way CAS could avoid also overturning Chelsea's. The upshot of all of this is that Chelsea do not believe they did anything wrong, the FA do not believe Chelsea did anything wrong, and the CAS decision on our appeal went so decidedly in our favour that maybe they don't really think Chelsea did anything wrong either. If we believed all along that we operated within the rules, then there would have been nothing to blame Michael Emenalo for.

Yep. It's taken Arteta a while to decide which pegs go in which places but he's beginning to shape a good side there. A side that won't fear us if we should win our semi-final.

And yet they are favourites to claim one of the remaining Champions League places whereas we, despite rotating significantly, have looked a pathetic side at times. This has become received wisdom but is it supported statistically? I haven't seen such evidence. Anecdotally at least, the relative form of Chelsea and United argues against this idea. Instead we see that the better team has the better of the play in most games, and, more often than not, the side which enjoys the better of the play wins the match. Needless to say I don't care what Solskjaer does, but I want Frank to go with his top team. There's room for debate about what that means, but for me it must include Willian, Giroud and Pulli.

Hope the job is as well paid as it sounds it ought to be.

Virtually all of my posts need to be edited so they are readable and say something close to what I meant them to. The first attempts are often just ludicrous.

Gook luck to the lad. I think he's a good 'un.

Ah, yes. This would make more sense. 25% less than the base level, which for Europa League participation, rather than 25% more than the base level for CL. Amounts to an enormous bonus for CL qualification. It makes the numbers add up for United and also rescues the maths of the reporter, which would then be correct if only he had described it the right way round. You've got this right I think. Thanks.

I would bet good money that you'd have done exactly that! I make it £93,750 but, either way, that goes beyond almost in my book. Using the fifty-week year which typically features in football salary conversion, that's well over £300,000pa. At this scale that's too wide a discrepancy for almost. Based on ManU's last reported annual wage bill, a 25% increase would cost them an extra £98m. Liverpool earned less than £75m for winning last season's CL, while we collected just under £18.6m for our Europa League triumph. The difference between those amounts, just more than £56.4m, cannot justify such huge wage bill inflation. Even when additional incomes are calculated, United would do better entering the Europa league and avoid having to pay that huge additional wage cost. All of this assumes United win the CL. A very optimistic assumption for them to make. The argument in the article makes no sense to me.