Sports The Football Discussion Thread!

Good to see you went Limey-chan. It sounds like you had fun too. :)

Di Maria is a very questionable move in my opinion especially for the price that has been agreed. Like you say they could clearly do with players in other positions, especially centre back and centre mid. I think they might be banking on Fellaini doing the job he should never be told to do (holding midfielder when he was clearly better as an offensive player) and I suspect they think having Di Maria will let them play Mata centrally more often which he is more effective at. The second reason I can understand because otherwise Mata is effectively a £40m Valencia/Ashley Young/other bad United winger, but to pay £59m to avoid that is odd. Add in the shirt sales of Di Maria though and it explains it to an extent.

If they have £10-15m to throw on a centre back after that then it will be fine in my opinion, but otherwise it will definitely be criticised come the end of the season should they perform poorly. This might slow Januzaj's development down a little too which would be concerning.

At the very least (and it really would be a small thing if they fail again) it means United have another bit of star quality even if they do finish 7th again.

He has played a box to box sort of role for both Madrid and his international side, until they're fully sorted I suppose there always is that option. He's probably better than a lot of their options in the middle right now. They are in desperate need of some physical presence in the middle still.

Going to ruin our winning run tonight. I can feel it.

Well it's looking positive for your lot so far.

Man United on the other hand...

Ended up 3 - 1 but didn't really deserve it. Josh Murphy handles on the line saving a goal and then minutes later he scores a 'goal of the month contender'.

van Laal.

Seeing Man United losing to MK Dons is laughable. It just goes to show that only the might of Alex Ferguson actually made the team a force to be reckoned with. Now.... it's even more funny to see them losing. XD

EDIT: MK Dons go 4-0 up.... IM IN TEARS FROM LAUGHING SO MUCH XD

I LOVE MANCHESTER UNITED.

THEY HAVE MADE ME FEEL SO MUCH BETTER AFTER YESTERDAY.

Manchester City are now my least favourite team OF ALL TIME however.

#moyesin

Not sure why anybody would really hate City. Much scummier money teams about.

coughQPRcoughCardiffcough

*clears throat* Ahem so anyway yeah that was comically bad for United. At least Anderson is probably down to his last few games for them though.

Weeaboo Name said:

#moyesin

Not sure why anybody would really hate City. Much scummier money teams about.

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still bitter about Monday and last year. </3 United haven't done anything particularly unkind to us that would damage our title hopes recently. And as long as they continue that...

Few sources saying that Vadis Odjidja is in Norwich for his medical this morning. Also supposedly in for Juve defender Frederik Sorensen and Falkirk starlet Conor McGrandles. Considering Ryan Bennett is sidelined for a couple of months and we have already taken Falkirk's manager and best coach these sound reasonable. Don't really know anything about these players though.

Edit - Falkirk player in. Some much needed AMC cover and maybe long term Wessi replacement. Apparently some people rate him higher than that kid that went off to Lisbon from Dundee.

https://twitter.com/NorwichCityFC/status/504684060883812353

Well if he's really better than Gauld then that's quite the acquisition.

Rooney England captain, Colback in the England squad. While most people will be jumping off a tall building after reading those two things, I'm happy with both. It's a shame Hodgson had to ruin it all by calling Colback a 'ginger Pirlo' though.

The Leeds ride never gets boring.

I'm sure Cellino said he'd wait it out before sacking him after trying to sack him the first time. Either way this was inevitable. I'm just sad they managed to rob three points from us while they were this bad.

Vadis finally signs. €3m rising to €5m with addons apparently.

Now that means either Surman or Tettey will probably leave in the next few days. Please don't be Tettey.

So United are still looking for a win after a 0-0 draw against Burnley.

Burnley played well. What a start for United.

I am completely shocked to see Man City lose 1-0 at home to Stoke and looking forward to seeing the team I support tomorrow Aston Villa.

Anyone watching the Everton vs Chelsea thats on now 2-1 at half time, Chelsea's 2nd goal was offside in my opinion

EDIT: WHAT A GAME ended 6-3, 13 mins of unbelievable football when the game went from 2-1 to 5-3

Another horrible week in the FPL so far. I expected Stoke to concede a few so I kept Begovic and Bardsley on the bench. {D:}

Into the last day and a half of the transfer window. Worried.

Weeaboo Name said:

Into the last day and a half of the transfer window. Worried.

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I just hope we can keep a hold of Vlaar we really need him now our defense seems to be solid so far
1-0 up against Hull right now also with a Agbonlahor goal :O