Peace.

It was fine to bench him for two-three games, to give him a boost. But ever since this drop, I believe it has gone like before, i.e. he plays too many minutes...

To start Kalou could be a good idea, actually. What do you think the reaction of the players benched to let Kalou start ?

Oh yeah that's true, Torres showed up X times how a lot motivated he was.

... Sometimes I wonder how Lampard and Sturridge have managed to score 11 goals ? Did the the ball went in the net by the hand of God ? And by the way, I didn't mean I wanted our strikers to score like Hernandez. I just stated two facts, our strikers don't score while Chicharito does. So the point of my post was to say there was no point in critisize his quality or profile, since he fulfils his task.

He isn't the best defender in the world, far from that, but he would be the link (or the stopgap) between Terry and Bruma/Kalas/Chalobah. It would be an handy buy.

Guess who will play at left back

Okay. You mentioned four players who can be labeled as players for the long term. United have six of those. Okay, until there, there isn't too much difference. But, United have - at least - three very good (world class for one of them) players in their prime, in Rooney, Nani and Young. Now, mentione me how many of those player we have ? Zero. And this is precisely this kind of player who enable the transition to be made, this is them who link the old guard with the youngs coming up. A transition does not mean to go from a point A to a point C, it means to go from a point A to a point C through a point B. We miss this link, we just have a team composed of players in their 30', and we throw into the mix some young ones. This ain't a transition.

He may be an awfull footballer, but he actually does is job, in other words, he scores goal. Can Torres, Drogba, Kalou and Anelka claim the same thing ?

His performance is tonight

And our current strikers can't finish the few service they get...

We ain't in a transition, United are : - A 21 years-old promising goal keeper. - Playing in their defense two future very good defenders (of 22 years-old and 19 years). - Are introducing Cleverley (22 years-old) in the first team. - Playing Welbeck (20) and Hernandez (23). And that on the other hand, you also have players like Rooney (26), Nani (25) and Young (26) who are in their prime. Just compare with us, and you'll see that we ain't in transition.

The thing is that we haven't the right attitude with him. We keep him here, but we don't give him any playing time, both with the first team (where he had to play against Genk for fuck sake, I still can't put it behind me...) and with the reserve team (he doesn't even play in the few games). And in the other hand, when a coach tells openly he would like to give Josh a six month loan deal, our manager gets furious. And all this with in mind that we do not have a world class midfield...

I have nothing against this chatbox, but someone really needs to turn it off during the game. It gets away all the people of the topic.

Especially the defense. It is never twice the same... Excepted Cole lol.

Yes. Just as he was better with Ancelotti's style than AVB's.

Yeah Rodrigues*.

Kakuta Mark II ?

Will we buy Johnson and Adam in january ?

This summer we have chosen to believe that Malouda, Kalou Anelka and Bosingwa would lead us to the glory, and we have chosen to stick with them. That was an error, because that impedes us to make a transition season, and because with such players, it is difficult to reach the spots for CL qualification. Now, we have what we deserve.

We didn't do our job in the summer. Here the result.

Awfull. But this was to be expected. ps : someone should close the chatbox. Nobody post here.

Fuckin Adam, inbred.

Ohhh, Platini's there... You know there will be some cheating today.

You still have time to get drunk ! Happy Bosingwa isn't playing. André has finaly opened his eyes on the portuguese. I am also happy Torres doesn't start. Will be interesting to see how Drogba plays, and how he will be bothered. Let's demolish those inbreeds !

Congratulations.