Arena "The Beautiful Game" - The Official JCC Football (Soccer) Thread.

Lots of rumours about United trying to get Cavani. He's a good player for sure, but is he someone United need?
The front line isn't really the issue, the supporting midfield and defence is.

 

2-1 for Benfica, unfair result but I'm not going to complain. I don't see us going through, Juventus is just a class better.

 

Ramires banned for 4 games. Good. Never rated him as a player (goal against Barcelona aside of course), and he has a very very dirty streak. Sooner we get rid, the better.

 

epic

Bent - 3
Berbatov - 4

Schurrle - 7

 

you've got it in the bag, surely. Bent has been attrocious. and hardly plays.

Berbatov did score a classic for Monaco the other day though.

hopefully Schurrle gets a hattrick this weekend.

 

RIP Vilanova.

 

RIP, I heard his condition turned worse but it just came so sudden.

 

Horrible news.


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Sad news indeed.

Ferguson now seems to be backing Giggs to be full time United manager. I'm starting to think the old guy is losing it a bit. Giggs has a lot of experience as a player but you can't just throw a guy with no management experience into a top job. That's worse than giving the job to a manager without experience in Europe or of winning silverware.
Giggs should be assistant under a top manager first & then be long term United boss.

 

you can't just throw a guy with no management experience into a top job??






Guardiola questions this statement

 

He was manager of Barcelona B for a year first.

 

Fair do's but one year with a none entity team isn't going to give you that much more experience than Giggs already has.


I'm not saying Giggs should get it, it'll probably go to Van Gaal with Giggs as assistant but it's not unheard of for a manager of "minimal" experience to step up and do well.

 

Monk has done OK with Swansea, but that's a different prospect to United with far lower expectations. Moyes as an experienced manager couldn't hack it there, just because Giggs has won stuff as a player doesn't mean he can either.
Also he strikes me as a relatively mild-mannered guy and that isn't always a good thing. Moyes was too nice, Giggs might have a similar problem (although he knows the players better and they all like him). Keane would be a good backroom guy to have because he will lose his temper at people and sometimes you need to put the fear of God into players as Ferguson did.


LOL @ Southampton fans singing "we don't need Jay Rodriguez, we've got your back four" after Everton score two own goals.

 

it was well crafted, no disagreement from me

 

Giggs as permanent manager would be a dream come true. Please let it happen.

 

He's apparently bringing back "the United way" whatever exactly that is. I never get this thing that a team has to play a certain way, a team has to do whatever it can to win. Moyes got criticised for being too defensive and cautious, and OK that mostly failed anyway. But Mourinho has generally always been that way, as is the case with Chelsea much of the time (parking the bus is a craft they have mastered better than most). If that kind of tactic wins you the Champions League and/or a league championship surely that is what matters?
Look at Arsenal, they have stuck rigidly to the beautiful passing game philosophy for years under Wenger and what do they have to show for it in the last decade? Fans aren't happy and not winning stuff, I bet they would take highly defensive "negative" football every season if it meant they won the league (or any trophy for that matter).

 

WTF Everton? Don't you want Champions League?

 

So the new manager of United to take them forward has picked about the most regressive Ferguson-esque team possible, with 3 of a back four that won't likely even be around next season and Cleverley in midfield. Both of the signings Moyes made aren't featuring (one on the bench and one not even selected) and not one single young player on the bench.

Same old United from the last few seasons, which was the problem in the first place.

 

yeah, it's a bad line up. Kagawa stupidly out to the wide again, Rooney still crapping it up as the 10, Valencia being as predictable as ever, the midfield sucking, and a creaky, ancient defense with only one player who will be there next season.

Giggs talked about Kagawa being selected because he scored a hattrick last season against Norwich. he started that game as the 10.

the sooner Van Gaal gets to OT the better.

 

Moyes at least had the right idea when he played Rooney up front with Mata & Kagawa operating behind. Those two seemed to have a good understanding, why not stick with that?

Well, aside from the fact they want to stick two fingers up at the previous manager.

 

well, we get the penalty. scrappy ol' thing. not sure why the defender wasn't red carded though, it looked like he was the last man?

 

Odd that no card was given. Looked a stonewall penalty to me

 

Mata makes a big difference, obviously.

It would be nice if Kagawa got a goal, has he even scored all season?