Man Utd Thread:

[NAG1]

Vidic has played his last game for United. Don't like to see any player badly injured, but he wont be missed. United's season is fecked anyway.

Massive blow alright, but it would nearly almost guarantee that he will be a united player next season. No one will want to sign him until he has proven that he can come back from such an injury.

Serious work needing done in the January transfer window, only thing is Jones can play at centre back, so it will be interesting to see if AF goes into the market in any shape or form.

[Archie Mitchell]

http://www.football365.com/news/21554/7362981/Try-Not-To-Laugh...

May not be Thursday nights after all.

If this happens to either club, the attendance will be pretty poor. I was at a City European game last year which was an early kick off for TV and the atmosphere wasn't the same and affected the attendance too.

[Captain Obvious]

Vidic has played his last game for United. Don't like to see any player badly injured, but he wont be missed. United's season is fecked anyway.

Not sure if trolling or just clueless? every football follower across the globe knows the importance of Vidic to United & that injury he got could be his last game.

[ross4life]

Good point by Harry Redknapp http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11675/7364276/Harry-questions-Euro-format

"If you get knocked out you are out, surely. If you go into a competition and get beat, you are out of it. What are you doing coming back into another competition?

"If you get knocked out of the FA Cup we will all come back into the semi-finals of the Carling Cup or something."

[Geoff Tipps]

Good point by Harry Redknapp http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11675/7364276/Harry-questions-Euro-format

"If you get knocked out you are out, surely. If you go into a competition and get beat, you are out of it. What are you doing coming back into another competition?

"If you get knocked out of the FA Cup we will all come back into the semi-finals of the Carling Cup or something."

This rule has been in force for 5 or 6 years now. He should have shared this eureka moment with the world then and not now 

[screenexile]

As stated earlier in the week. This is a team in decline and losing their best defender will only make things worse. Utd have leaked goals this year at an alarming rate and this will make it worse. The "we come good in the 2nd half of the season" adage does not apply here. At this stage Utd usually get their big game players back and are peaking at the right time for a Champions League tilt. Without the momentum of the CL Utd will get caught by Spurs/Arsenal/Chelski/Liverpool and are in severe jeopardy of falling outside the coveted top 4 . . . that would be a very very happy day!

[EC Unique]

As usual screen you are talking through your hole. Utd have conceded 13 goals this season in the league. Nobody has conceded less.

[BennyCake]

Vidic has played his last game for United. Don't like to see any player badly injured, but he wont be missed. United's season is fecked anyway.

Not sure if trolling or just clueless? every football follower across the globe knows the importance of Vidic to United & that injury he got could be his last game.

I don't rate Vidic, never have done. Good in the air, but that's it. We've seen it time and time again, when he's up against a top forward (like the old Torres) he struggles badly. He's clumsy, reckless and careless. United are better off without him.

[Hoof Hearted]

Man Utd number 5:

( Sung to the tune of mambo number 5)...A little bit of chicos broken toes. A little bit of Fergies whiskey nose. A little bit of Evra crying race. A little bit of Giggys pixie face. A little bit of Vidic seeing red. A little bit of Rooneys baldy head. A little bit of Nani taking a dive, you can see them all on Channel Five!

[mountainboii]

Serious work needing done in the January transfer window, only thing is Jones can play at centre back, so it will be interesting to see if AF goes into the market in any shape or form.

Sort of hope things are left be. Not really much point pissing away a chunk of next summer's transfer budget in a panicked attempt at rescuing the league. Would perfer to see the season played out and things started again from the summer. If the league is lost then so be it, wouldn't be the first shite season United have had under Ferguson. Infact, the last time they were dumped out in the CL group stages they were able to bounce back with the next three league titles and a CL thrown into the middle of that. United are never down for long.

[seafoid]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2011/dec/08/manchester-united-champions-league-exit

The truth they do not want you to know at Old Trafford is that in the past five years United's net spend on transfers is a mere £56.9m. Or, to put it another way, less than Aston Villa, with £68.2m, Sunderland's £62.7m and Stoke City's £61.2m. Manchester City have spent £437.1m, Chelsea £144.9m, Liverpool £84m and Tottenham Hotspur £76m.

Then you go through the rest of the team and it becomes apparent there are other issues, too. Rio Ferdinand has been in decline for longer than he will want to remember. Patrice Evra has also lost form. Nemanja Vidic remains the best at what he does in the business but has now snapped his knee ligaments. At least Phil Jones and Chris Smalling have shown they are capable replacements but Jonny Evans is not even close to becoming the player that had been touted. Likewise, nobody should be particularly confident that Federico Macheda, Darron Gibson and Mame Biram Diouf will ever reach the necessary grade. Wayne Rooney, with nine goals in his first five league matches, has not added to that total since 18 September. Michael Owen has not started a league match since October last year. Dimitar Berbatov has somehow managed to win last season's Golden Boot while losing the trust of his manager. As for the Da Silva twins, their injuries don't come in threes but 33s.

Ferguson felt it necessary to issue a public apology after the Carling Cup quarter-final defeat against Crystal Palace last week, but what United's supporters would really like is an honest, detailed account about what is really happening behind the scenes, why the club have neglected the midfield issue and what happens next. But it will not happen. Ferguson, never slow to criticise previous regimes about not providing him with greater funds, will not have a bad word said against the Glazers and his press conferences have become such tense, joyless events that nobody should expect him to open up at Carrington on Friday morning.

There are rules in place – complex rules whereby difficult questions are not allowed and anybody who pushes the boundaries finds their invite revoked. Tancredi Palmeri, CNN's Italian correspondent, asked Ferguson in his pre-match conference in Basel on Tuesday whether, after leading 2-0, he had made any mistakes in the 3-3 draw against the Swiss side in September. Palmeri was shocked by the reaction, Ferguson staring at him like "ice" while "the press room broke into an 'ooooh'."

[muppet]

Man Utd number 5:

( Sung to the tune of mambo number 5)...A little bit of chicos broken toes. A little bit of Fergies whiskey nose. A little bit of Evra crying race. A little bit of Giggys pixie face. A little bit of Vidic seeing red. A little bit of Rooneys baldy head. A little bit of Nani taking a dive, you can see them all on Channel Five!

Who comes up with these things?

[Square Ball]

Johnny f**king Evans sratrs at full back

[The Worker]

Johnny f**king Evans sratrs at full back

would it not be a straight swap for vidic?

surprised de gea kept his place after that clanger

[Square Ball]

Johnny f**king Evans sratrs at full back

would it not be a straight swap for vidic?

surprised de gea kept his place after that clanger

it may be one defender for another but that were it ceases to be a straight swap, do not rate Evans and can not figure out how he manages to get on the team. Jones to full back would have been a better option in my eyes