Man Utd Thread:

[under the bar]

United's set piece defending is atrocious at present.

[Captain Obvious]

2-0 Burnley! a great strike from a free kick.

[GJL]

Wheels are coming off! 

[Cunny Funt]

Two bad goals given away and it took Burnley until the 3rd minute of injury time to produce their 3 attempt on target. 2-0 lead with just 30% possession. Some outstanding defending to stop Ibrahimovic,Rashford from scoring.

[seafoid]

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/dec/24/club-by-club-fans-verdict-premier-league-2017-18

Manchester United

Against West Brom we started with seven players from the Sir Alex era, despite having spent over £600m since his farewell. There's only so long we can say we are still in transition. I'm confident José will get it right. He has successfully repaired the spine of the side – a process that has delayed the surgery needed elsewhere. We need a huge clearout at the end of the season. 7/10

Manchester City

It's been amazing. Flying in the league, and near faultless form in the Champions League too, with five wins from five before a meaningless dead rubber, including a crucial win away in Naples against one of Europe's finest sides. We've broken countless records already and I'm sure there are more to come. What a time it is to be a City fan. 10/10

[Captain Obvious]

1-2 now but should be 2-2 as I don't know how Lingard missed that other chance

[Captain Obvious]

2-2 it finished. Was Manchester United offensive v Burnley defence for all of that 2nd half. More bad points dropped by Joses men while Burnley have got a number of impressive results on the road this season now namely 1-1 v Tottenham, 1-1 v Liverpool and 3-2 win against Chelsea.

[StGallsGAA]

While a point won when trailing in injury time is always a good result, 2 points from 2 games that would have been expected to return 6 is just not good enough.    Well done Lingard,  the rest need to take a good look at themselves.   Set-piece defending is simply atrocious and that has to be laid firmly at Jose's door.   If Lukaku can't defend, don't put him in there ffs and let him be the outlet.

[magpie seanie]

Pogba's return has made a huge difference!

It's about time people took the blinkers off. This mess has to end. Mourinho out.

[Syferus]

Pogba's return has made a huge difference!

It's about time people took the blinkers off. This mess has to end. Mourinho out.

Second place to the best team the EPL has ever seen is hardly a mess.

[Cunny Funt]

Pogba was anonymous. Substitutes worked as Mkhitaryan,Lingard led the comeback. Burnley i don't think created a single chance from open play all game and in the 2nd half their possession was just 22%. Burnley were also lucky they didn't see a red card or two in that game.

Not alot has changed with that result. League was out of reach before the game, still ahead of Chelsea,Tottenham,Liverpool and Arsenal. A 2nd or 3rd place finish would be a big improvement from the last 4 seasons.

[seafoid]

Man City might be heading into a Fergie decade. That will hurt down the Stretford End.

[Syferus]

Man City might be heading into a Fergie decade. That will hurt down the Stretford End.

So many of your posts read like something that has been auto-generated from two or three keywords.

[Over the Bar]

Man City might be heading into a Fergie decade. That will hurt down the Stretford End.

Citi are heading into an era where arab owners with simply bottomless wealth can buy clubs like Citi and PSG and manipulate fair-play rules to buy whoever they want and pay whatever wages are required to get them to come to the club. The  Qataris tried to buy United from the Glazers before buying PSG and personally I am glad it didn't happen.  As bad as the Glazers are viewed, at least the money buying players is coming from the club's legitimate revenue streams and not from oil wealth off the back of human rights abuses in the Gulf. 

[mouview]

Man City might be heading into a Fergie decade. That will hurt down the Stretford End.

Citi are heading into an era where arab owners with simply bottomless wealth can buy clubs like Citi and PSG and manipulate fair-play rules to buy whoever they want and pay whatever wages are required to get them to come to the club. The  Qataris tried to buy United from the Glazers before buying PSG and personally I am glad it didn't happen.  As bad as the Glazers are viewed, at least the money buying players is coming from the club's legitimate revenue streams and not from oil wealth off the back of human rights abuses in the Gulf.

Surely only a matter of time before middle east money makes the Glazers an offer they won't refuse.