The United players were celebrating after that game as if they had just drawn 2-2 with West Brom. 

The United players were celebrating after that game as if they had just drawn 2-2 with West Brom. 

 

https://streamable.com/afpa

 

Standard celebration after beating Liverpool.

Brownie points for Van Gaal, Utd are turd but these wins buy him time and makes it harder for thr board to sack him. haha

Decent (albeit short) introductory article from a few years ago about new Swansea head coach Francesco Guidolin:

 

http://www.football-italia.net/node/3261

The John Stones to Barcelona links have got to stop, He's good but as we've seen this year he's not actually all that.

Certainly doesnt look a £40M centre back this season.

The John Stones to Barcelona links have got to stop, He's good but as we've seen this year he's not actually all that.

Barca don't tend to do top class CB's.

Puyol still hasn't been replaced.

I can't see barca paying the 'homegrown premium' for stones, especially for more than laporte's buy our clause, who would be homegrown for them and arguably a bytes player.

Would the king 'family club' be willing to accept a lower fee from a foreign team to keep stones away from big bad chelsea? I doubt it, the modric saga went a similar way.

If things stay the way they are, we are only 4 points above relegation. Scary.

If things stay the way they are, we are only 4 points above relegation. Scary.

Yes but the whole midtable and below is pretty tight, if Watford win they go from 12th to 8th. If we go on a winning run we can shoot up the table rather quickly, we have to start to dominate games at some point but it's not working.

I think it could be do or die in the transfer window now, we have to spunk some money to get some players in just to light a fire under everyones arses.

Saw this posted on redcafe (Anthony Martial's transfer contract): http://sport24.lefigaro.fr/le-scan-sport/business/2016/01/18/27004-20160118ARTFIG00182-le-contrat-du-transfert-d-anthony-marital-devoile-au-grand-jour.php

 

Pretty interesting, never seen a transfer contract before, 50m euro basic with 30m add ons and Monaco get 50% of the profit on his transfer up to 100m euros.

 

I'd always heard they had to pay the addons only if he won the Ballon D'or from United fans, but it turns out only 10m of the 30 is based on if he makes the list of nominees. (which could happen if he has one good season at a high profile club like United)

 

The other 20m is based on him scoring 25 goals for United and making 25 international appearances which he should surely get, I think United will definitely pay at least the 70m out of 80m euro for him.

Edited January 18, 201610 yr by sonic90

Yes but the whole midtable and below is pretty tight, if Watford win they go from 12th to 8th. If we go on a winning run we can shoot up the table rather quickly, we have to start to dominate games at some point but it's not working.

I think it could be do or die in the transfer window now, we have to spunk some money to get some players in just to light a fire under everyones arses.

 

I just can't see us going on a winning run, we don't seem capable of it. At this point, i wouldn't be surprised if we don't get anymore than 10 wins in the league this season.

The John Stones to Barcelona links have got to stop, He's good but as we've seen this year he's not actually all that.

 

well they signed vermalen. lets be honest, with their attack and midfield, the defence doesn't need to be solid. 

I just can't see us going on a winning run, we don't seem capable of it. At this point, i wouldn't be surprised if we don't get anymore than 10 wins in the league this season.

It's still early days under Guus and he's giving all players like Matic/Pedro/Ivan a chance to screw up before dropping them, we just got to hope that he will do so in time unlike Jose who just kept picking his favourites.

At the moment there's still improvement, we're 'nearly' beating teams, but when Guus settles in fully and has his best 11 in mind, I think we can at least start beating teams we're meant to beat.

If it stays like this...

 

Optimist inside me says if we beat Arsenal and Watford we could go above Watford.

 

Pessimist says if we get 1 point from the next 2 games we could be in the thick of things (if not already!).

 

What a season :/

Another amusing Davis Squires cartoon.

 

http://www.theguardian.com/football/picture/2016/jan/19/david-squires-on-the-fascinating-weekend-of-football-fixtures-16-17-january

 

Hank Scorpio 

So it turns out our game against Swansea in April will be just a week off 18 years since our last encounter with Sig. Guidolin:

 

http://web.archive.org/web/20040616081505/http://www.uefa.com/Competitions/ECWC/AllTimeStatistics/season=1997/Round=737/match=54822/index.html

So it turns out our game against Swansea in April will be just a week off 18 years since our last encounter with Sig. Guidolin:

 

http://web.archive.org/web/20040616081505/http://www.uefa.com/Competitions/ECWC/AllTimeStatistics/season=1997/Round=737/match=54822/index.html

 

What a night that was. A brilliant goal by Mark Hughes. Had a great view of it from the MHU.

 

Edited January 19, 201610 yr by Boyne

Also I burst out laughing when I saw the headline 'Klose signs for Norwich' only to be disappointed (even if it is probably in reality a better signing):

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/35348350

One of my favourite goals Boyne.

Norwich have signed Steven Naismith.

 

It's always good when a new player already knows the manager

 

^ It seems they really liked each other. Naismith even closed his eyes, such a romantic moment.

found this quite humourous. 

 

http://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/Stoke-City-Lionel-Messi-8211-wet-Wednesday-night/story-28555772-detail/story.html

Mancini went on one heck of a rant after tonights game v Napoli, He claims the Napoli coach is a homophobe and racist who called him a 'poof' and a 'fa**ot' during tonights game when Mancini questioned the 4th official about the amount of stoppage time.

 

http://www.football-italia.net/78626/mancini-sarri-racist-and-homophobe

Just read what the Napoli coach said and he said its possible he may have used homophobic language but adrenaline trips you up and makes you do things. 

 

I bet Pogba and Allegri are getting the cubans out right now, If this drives any sort of media frenzy onto the Napoli coach you watch how they implode and hand Juve the title now.