Man Utd Dominance about to end?

[darkstarexodus]

[quote author=Judge Jules link=topic=38295.msg1029643#msg1029643 date=1262960981]
I'd have thought a pharmacist could do better than that. 😉
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haha, Liverpool games are often what I recommend to patients for insomnia. Unfortunately, with the time difference, that means people are sleeping through the morning and afternoons.

 

[Avmenon]

[quote author=Carshaltonian link=topic=38295.msg1029891#msg1029891 date=1262975889]
[quote author=mark1975 link=topic=38295.msg1027702#msg1027702 date=1262770230]
It's all bollocks. United are and always will be (at least under Fergie) a massive force, even with a fairly average side they have the same footballing philosophy and it works everytime. Chelsea have come and shaken it up, but it hasn't stopped United winning the title a couple of times, and the same will go for City.

The main issue is for the likes of us who are on the fringe of things and proven to not be able to put up consistent, sustainable challenges for the title. The main competition now is on the fringe of the top four, with Villa, Spurs and City there or thereabouts and capable of beating anyone on their day. United will still be the ones in the hunt in April.
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Man U have been poor in most games this season and only really played well twice: Spurs away and Wigan at home. Their football has been predictable, lacking invention and one-dimensional. Heaven help them if Rooney gets injured. He may be over-rated but he's carrying them on his own most weeks.

Their squad has never been thinner either. Leaving aside "the new Cantona" £30m+ Berbatov, if Rooney's injured they've got...er...Danny Wellbeck. This lad will not only not make the England squad for the World Cup as Ferguson laughably said, he'll never make the grade at Premier League level. Vidic may be ponderous and slow but Brown and Evans in the middle of their back four are laughably poor.

They always get outplayed by teams that play good football and they will keep dropping points and will not challenge for the title and may well yet struggle to make 4th place.

Watch this space
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4th place?

Some on here might watch this space at the end of the season but I suspect you wont be.

 

[Y1]

[quote author=Y1 link=topic=38295.msg1028643#msg1028643 date=1262844908]
The only consolation I give myself is that even he cannot last forever... maybe another 10 years at most?

Meanwhile we eat the scraps off the table.
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/premier_league/manchester_united/article6985569.ece?openComment=true

Well, Alex is 68 now, even though he said he will not manage beyond 70, I think he will. He is healthy still. He may last well into his 80's, that means at least another 12 years!!!

 

[Mistadobalina]

Hes a bad piss head no way he will still be managimng in his 80's! He's barely keeping it together now. Id give him 3 more seasons.

 

[Pesam]

Regardless of what we Liverpool fans think what encourages me the most is that in the 19 years I've lived in manchester this is the first time that United fans themselves are asking the question about their dominance coming to an end. They talk about Wellbeck, Obertan, Park, Neville (now he's fucked), Hargreaves, Owen, Berbatov, Kuzsczak(sp)/Foster, Gibson, Scholes (now he's fucked), Nani, Tosic etc the same way we talk about Lucas, Insua, Degen, Dossena, Kuyt, etc.

Most United fans I know are convinced that they won't win anything this season - it warms my heart that they have been dragged down to our level (nearly).

 

[Y1]

[quote author=Pesam link=topic=38295.msg1032204#msg1032204 date=1263371325]
Regardless of what we Liverpool fans think what encourages me the most is that in the 19 years I've lived in manchester this is the first time that United fans themselves are asking the question about their dominance coming to an end. They talk about Wellbeck, Obertan, Park, Neville (now he's fucked), Hargreaves, Owen, Berbatov, Kuzsczak(sp)/Foster, Gibson, Scholes (now he's fucked), Nani, Tosic etc the same way we talk about Lucas, Insua, Degen, Dossena, Kuyt, etc.

Most United fans I know are convinced that they won't win anything this season - it warms my heart that they have been dragged down to our level (nearly).
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Ummm, they have not done too badly with that lot and with Alex at the helm. He somehow is the lynch-pin for Man U, holding them together and getting more out from the sum of that group of players.

 

[Judge Jules]

All of that is true, but managers as well as players reach their sell-by dates. Here's hoping.

 

[Y1]

JJ, we have been longing for it for so long that our necks have elongated somewhat!