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Good game. Helped run the clock down plus we needed an extra pair of lega in the mid.

First thing first. Poor second half, good first half. Same old story where we dominate heavily for a spell but simply can't put the match tp bed and literally show the opposition a way back. Secondly, kudos to jose for reading the game BRILLIANTLY both timea. He tactically raped mancini the way we were set-up in the first half with torres n sxhurrle continously behind the gala defence. In thw second half he saw that we were getting over-run by gala in mid and put in mikel to brilliant effect. Cech- has to take his share of blame for the goal. It was barwly 3/4 yards off the goal line and aimply can't understand why he dint come for the ball. Poor dexision but a couple of good saves. 6/10 Azpi-Motm. Without a doubt. The only player who seemes to have turned up foe the 2nd half. Brilliant interceptions and the run foe the goal was just awesome. 10/10 JT- why dint he stay with his man??? Why? Simply can't understand that. He dwfinitwly expectes cech to come out after cech's initial movemwnt but to stand in no man's land lime that was very uncharacteriatic. A couple of Times, let thw gala attackwrs play behind him too. 6/10 GC- good game. Cant find a thing that he did qrong.solid performance. 8/10 Iva- average performance. Dint influemce the game much. Hia clearness led to the cornwr but don't think he should be blamed in any way. 7/10 Lamps- poor perdormance. So many poor first touches. Was just hopeless to watch. Simply not suited for such paced gane. 5/10 Rambo- closed the gala midfield down. Made up brilliantly for lamps lack of energy. Broke away a couole of times only to be let down by his decision making. 7/10 Willian -flop of the match for me. Hopeless to be honeat. Hazard was uni fluential but he dint give away the ball a 100 times. Poor decision making. Add to that thay he played a lot like hulk, just trying to take players on unneceasarrily and kept giving away the ball. Poor. 3/10 Hazafd- anitger one who simply dint turn up. I mean ehat the fuck was he doing in tbat countsr and why the fuck did he slow down. I will nevwr underatanf why he either dint take the man on or pass the ball to schurrle. 4/10 Schurrle- some really good runs. What I can't believe is that how many timea people just ignored him. Like hazard or torres right before his sub. Seemed like the man cuty momwnt when sxhurrle sxored but torres went for the goal. Linkes up well too. 7/10 Torrea- started the match brightly but simply tappered away. The no. Of Times he tried to take defenders on rather than make a simple pass was just frustrating. But no dpubt that he was betrer than etoo. 7/10 Subs- Mikel- jose decided to close the shop. Should probably have taken willian off instead of sxhurrle. As for mikel, he controlled the game well. Kwpt possession and rab the clock down. Good aolid pwrformance. 7/10 Etoo- invisible. Why yhe hell was HAZARD playing as a ST? Why was he on the wings and literally as deep as iva. Oscar -n/a All in all, a game of 2 halves. A poor performance but a good resukt. Got an away goal so not at all bad.

Woooohhhhh!!!!! That's a bloody curve balll from mou!!!!

We will play 4-3-3 imo. Oscar simply should not start as he has been dire in the previous months. The back 5 and the front 3 selext themselves. In mid, rambo would be certain to start, hopefully along with mikel as DM while luiz along with rambo and the front 3 can press the gala players high up the pitch.

We were no way as dire as united. Specially considetong the fact that we had a dreadul 2010-11 while the samr squad which was hardly any better than the previous season. Here we havr a united team that WALKED over in the PL. Literally walked over. How low they have fallen is embarassing. Absolutely embarassing.

Any news on luiz and mikel?

Just remove COSTA and put in MANDZUKIC and I think this is the best post ever.

Romeu deserves a shot ahead of chakobah.

Does not ANYONE here give CITY any chance? I think they have some hope. Very little but still some hope. Barca is extremely poot defensively. Sociedada xould have EASILY hit them for 5/6. City payed by undue and massive reapect in the first leg. Playing kolarov to track alves' run was an example of that. Now that they have nothing to lose and with a2-0 deficit hanging on theor head, city will go to camp nou all guns blazing. With aguero coming back, I can see them posing some problems to barca. A hope but a fool's hope. (Gandalf).

We will have to agree to disagree. I seriously don't think that costa is THAT good. Also I would rather have mandzukic tgan costa. Bamford will get a PL loan but I think we can't expect more than that. Infact LUKAKU scired 17 with WBA and even now has more goaks than any of our current 3 but people just a page or 2 behind were saying that he shoukd be sold. Plus I am not saying that we shoukd not buy a atriker. We have to n we will. But if we can offload torres, ba, moses, marin, kakuta, mikel, bertrand, plus not give an extension to lamps n cole, we have enough funds to buy a st, cm and shaw.

The point is that no striker is available. Or rather none of the world class ones (lewa, zla, falcao, cavani). Mandzukic won't cost much since bayern would be willing to sell him. Costa is 32mil but don't know if worth it and good enough to lead the line. If we can xompensate it with soneone like kroos then I won't mind at all.Plus chalobah is too idealistic. Also romeu would get a look in instaed of chalobah

If mikel rumors are true then it will be interesting to see what are options in mid will be. Matic- rambo are certain. To an extent even mvg. Will tge 4th one be a new CM or an extension to lamps

15mil max. Rvp is a MEGA cunt and that cuntishness coupked with his desire to pkay CL football plus actually win a thing or 2 in his career might make it very plausible.

Dint know that it was just a ONE - LEGGED affair. We play schalke in the quarter finals. If ww beat schalke (against whom we did a double in the grouo atages wuth a 2-0 and a 1-0 win), ww qiol be playing the winner of arsenal vs barca.

You can't judge him from that match. Zenit were playing tgeir first pro matcg after 2 months. Players would be rusty, not match fit infact not even physically upto it.

I hope this united situation makes people see exactky what an ACHIEVEMENT it was to win 3 trophies in the last 2 years. 2011-12and 2012-13 were our worst years under roman. The squad was in transition and a disarray. Managers kept coming n goin. It was simply the players that kept us where we were. JT, LAMPS, CECH, COLE, DD, MATA. They were all so essential n important.

oh!!! Dint know that.

are u sure dude? That is PL. Where u already know that u r going to face that team Atleast twice in a season. Hence clubs keep the most obcious clause that rhe player should not play against the paeent club. Plus now in PL its actually a rule that the player can't play ehich was not the case some years ago. http://www.espn.co.uk/football/sport/story/264105.html But there is no such provision overall.

glorofied friendly or not,,, it is still a professional match. Unless wd added a clausr this year saying that he can't play against us, doubt if we can make them or not make them.

Why? What did carricl say?

I actually feel sorry for them. Reduced from the most arrogant binch to a bunch of crying, hysterical crying, and mumbling binch. Just found 2 United fans actually arguing if avb is the right choice or should giggs takr over

doubt that. If I remember correctly, he did play against is in the super cup

I massively disagree on the first part. The point of a foeum is to get to know a lot of things u can't. For eg - look at tge baker thread. Just cane to know that he scored an awesome brace. Or u can taje this yhread as an example. Go back a couple of pages where I asked what exactky was going on and why this thread was so alive.. hence a lot of times it is important to go where u feel u dobt belong.No one here is adding the taxes. But dude since when can u give a 10mil donation to neymar foundation. Plus when are not bonuses added to the fee? Lukaku was bought for 10mil initially +8 mil om bonuses. But since lukaku has barely played for us, I doubt those 8mil could be added but still tge geberal consensus is tgat he came for 18mil. I don't really know what the stand on sign on bonuses is. Hence u can't say all those add ons shouks be neglected. Dint know your stand on this. Infact for the last 2 posts u said something totally opposite so tgats why I thought otherwise.

ok dude. Only u ever know what u talk about. By tge way I would love to know what I don't know that I am talking about.

Dint say the tax was added to the transfer fee EVER. Please read all these posts again. Just read somewhere last night that in reality the fee in all would be much over 100mil euros. Hence the questoon. As for the transfer fee, it is 57 mil but a 10mil signing on bonus, 3 mil to agent and anither 10 to sone foundation plus sone blah blah blah. Technically it might not be his transfer fee but that is where it ends TechnicalitY. Barca had a case against them which tends to TAX FRAUD. They settled to gice the diacussed money. U think that's fine. If by chance it was chelaea instead of varca, the media would have ripped into us and lirerally shredded us to pieces. No club anywhere in the world would hace settled for this if they were not guilty. That is what I am saying. Somehow you think a few millions mean more to varca than their image and character. That is just so one sided way to look at this thing. Plus simply don't understand the barca being "victimized" theries that are running about here. Bye