Slojo

You don't get any bad language either, a lot of it is kid friendly, yeah it's crazy, besides the annoying sad music you could literally spend hours on it.

Best thing you can do DKW is go on youtube, it gives you step by step, easily the best platform for starting up. My little sister plays minecraft and that's what she always uses, basically thousands of accounts that offer you step by step tutorials.

The Premier League hasn't been competitive for the last 4 years if we are being honest. The last 4 teams to win it have walked the title with no real clinch. We've done it twice, Leicester went unchallenged, City have went unchallenged. Basically the Premier League has been crap.

What's crazy about this is how Messi is 2nd on the list, despite playing only 2 games against City under Pep... Crazy.

Is there anything you and the board don't agree on?

A month ago I wouldn't have agreed with you, but the more I'm looking at our performance and other teams playing with a back 4 I can't help but agree.

Arsenal have had utterly ridiculous hype since signing Mikhitaryan and Aubamayang, already on Sky and BBC there has been comparisons of Thierry Henry in Aubamayang and an article called "The Mikhitaryan effect" Yeah, the Manchester United reject who's suddenly world class. And they go ahead and lose like that hahahaha, I f**king love it. I can't stand Arsenal, I hope misery upon misery piles on them.

It's not that he's not strong enough, it's that he's used to going down rather than staying on his feet, that doesn't mean he can't adapt. I mean the guy is like 6'2/6'3, he's definitely strong enough for the league, it's not a situation with Pedro two seasons ago, and Pedro adapted fine in the end. I can't promise he will be a great player but I think we definitely have to be more patient with him, however, we could do with a good backup. I don't think Giroud is the answer but who knows.

That's a big step based off a big assumption. It's speculation at best that Morata isn't injured. And he's been here for about 7 months you can't really say he'll never be as good as Drogba, how was Drogba at 24 years of age? Regardless he's proven that he's a good footballer, he just needs to prove he's consistent and improve certain areas of his game. It's definitely doable.

Why are Real Madrid obsessed with getting Premier League goalkeepers that'll cost them over 100 million? Why not just bite the bullet like Barcelona did with Ter Stegan and Clissen and just sign a young promising goalkeeper, Donnarumma looks very promising. De Gea will definitely cost them roughly 150 million, and I would hate our board if we decided to sell Courtois for less than Pogba.

They're the masters of not being criticised for it, Rooney was one of the worst divers in the league for United, even worse than Drogba but he always escaped criticism when Drogba didn't. The pundits in this country are ridiculously biased. I'll never forget that moment when Martin Keown attempted to justify Wayne Rooney's dive in the F.A Cup a few years ago, nobody could outright say the England captain dived. Spurs players, particularly Kane, Dier & Alli have gotten away with murder over the years, how can we ever forget that night when Kane & Dier should have been sent off.

Poch will regret those words, we'll see if he's saying that when he's at the end of a ridiculous decision by a dive.

Well, he obviously has to say that when asked, but yet he's sulking constantly on the sidelines and telling him how hard his job is and the player he has aren't good enough.

Fabregas isn't reliable in a two-man pivot, look at the points we dropped when we only had him and Kante to play earlier in the season. He's literally one of the slowest players in the league. That's because you're giving Ampadu the benefit of the doubt more, youngsters get a lot less criticism as they're expected for less. If Ampadu put in the performances Danny Drinkwater has against Stoke at home and Liverpool away we would be hyping Ampadu up to be a world beater. DD won the league with Leceister playing majority of the games in central midfield, he's definitely a better player currently than Ampadu is, more experienced and well rounded.

Definitely A) However, youngsters are not reliable, you preferably need the experience to be reliable so you need someone to come in and still do a decent job. It's a lot of pressure on a youngster to cover an injured player, DD might still be a good signing for a cover player. However, I still think we overpaid for him. RLC still needs to prove himself, the issue was is that we didn't send him out on loan a lot earlier.

And when Ake played at the end of last season after we won the league he was poor, made plenty of mistakes and couldn't cope with the opposition, I believe it was Watford actually. Ake has always had talent, but he's never proven himself to be a top top player. A team like Arsenal & Barcelona would have given him more chances to develop, but that's at a greater cost. He's no doubt a talented player but is he top 6 material at the moment? I don't think so. He certainly might have potential but that'll take time and years of experience. Christensen has been given his chance at 21 and he's proven to be fantastic, that's the difference between players like Ake & Christensen, Christensen is already a top 6 level player, could get into every side bar Cities in the Premier League. Ake on the other hand still has quite a way to go and he might never get there.

Spot on there. The fundamental outlier is that we haven't upgraded on Matic. We didn't need to replace Matic, we needed an upgrade, he and Gary Cahill were the weak links in the team last season. Bringing in RLC would have been better than buying Bakayoko, but would it have been an upgrade on Matic? I don't think so. That's a big responsibility on him, as talented as RLC is I haven't seen enough of his defensive side to know that he's capable of being a central midfielder here in a two-man midfield. We should have gone in the market for a proven player and spent the funds, even if they're 27-29. We signed Bakayoko instead and that's turned out to be horrible. The thing is if you look at the earlier posts on this thread many people weren't convinced on Bakayoko, I remember watching him last season and being underwhelmed by his performances. So why the board who thoroughly scouted him thought he was an upgrade on Matic I have no idea. I'm not mad at Bakayoko, I'm sure the lad is doing his best, but whoever is responsible for scouting him and bringing him in needs sacking or a drastic change of position.

But does the man want to be here Nibs? Truly do you think he does? That for me is the biggest issue.

Pogba was talented but nobody expected him to be that good. I wouldn't say SAF was being an idiot, it was more pride on his part, you either get in line or you're gone, no matter who you are. Like he did with Stam and all the others who tried to undermine the gaffer. Look at Pogba now, he's dancing and dabbing in the changing rooms on video while his team is nearly 20 points behind the league leaders.

This is what I also don't understand, didn't he recently say that we shouldn't have signed too many players, we only needed to get 3-4 world class players? I'm very sure in the summer he was crying about squad depth. I mean sure he probably doesn't have full control of transfers, but we've signed all of our wingbacks from the Serie A, I cannot subscribe to the idea that Conte has no or little say in the transfer dealings. Obsessed with tall strikers, going after Serie A players? And you think Conte has no say? Okay then. And welcome back Davey, please stop going away for so long.

Beautiful post.

I don't think the Matic sale has come back to haunt us, only bias United fans are coming out with that tripe. He's not a good enough player, the only issue was we replaced him with worse players.

Yeah, that's a fair point, although we did sign Salah & De Bruyne, Pogba was youth for United. Much more often than not youth players leave and go elsewhere.

Well, that's stating the obvious, but success would genuinely come from those who make more good signings than bad ones and we haven't been doing that as of late, that's why we will continue to slump. What Conte did last season was fantastic, but the man who got it all right last season is getting it all wrong this season. And football is fickle, it's competitive, you move on. You don't win the Champions League and forever remain the Champions of Europe, someone else wins it next year, you have to keep winning it to prove you're the best. We can't rely on past glories when the present isn't showing any promise, I certainly understand the concept of backing the manager through bad times, we should have done that with Mourinho. But we aren't going to do it here, we may as well get a replacement sorted as quick as we can, or just simply delay the inevitable and do more damage to our top 4 chances.

Only on paper you could justify it, but if you watched us this year you would know something isn't right. These are big signs of two years ago when we finished 10th in the league, we are without a doubt the weakest team in the top 6 at the moment. That shouldn't be the case but it is, our transfers look more grim than usual for the past few years, not many positives to take on. I'm also a huge Morata fan and have faith in him but recent events have been unacceptable, you need to rely on strikers more than anyone. Who here genuinely believes we can finish in the top 6 if we keep playing like we currently are? I don't think you'll have one person agreeing with you and I don't think many people are confident we are going to return these performances around until something changes. It's the culture of the club at the moment, Conte is a victim of it as much as he's at fault for many things.