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Rafa wanted to sign him from Cardiff but the board at the time wouldn't agree the fee.

Ramsey's got the ability IMO but I wonder whether he's too streaky to rely on.
 
Tremendous match. Auba MotM for me. Blood and guts up to the last minute.

Vertonghen red = wrong. Son penalty = wrong.
 
Mark Hughes - sad face, mild wheeze, soft voice - has been sacked. Hopefully that's the end of this joyless, aimless, pointless plank.
 
Mark Hughes - sad face, mild wheeze, soft voice - has been sacked. Hopefully that's the end of this joyless, aimless, pointless plank.

The urbane and windswept ex-Watford manager, Quique Sanchez Flores, is hot favourite to be their next manager, which suggests that he's already been tapped up and agreed to come in.
 
The urbane and windswept ex-Watford manager, Quique Sanchez Flores, is hot favourite to be their next manager, which suggests that he's already been tapped up and agreed to come in.

What happened to him at Watford? He did well initially, didn't he?
 
What happened to him at Watford? He did well initially, didn't he?

He did indeed, but they had a pretty horrible second half to the season, and I think there was some concern about his inability to do anything about it.

Did seem a little harsh, but then Watford's owners love sacking managers.
 
Mark Hughes - sad face, mild wheeze, soft voice - has been sacked. Hopefully that's the end of this joyless, aimless, pointless plank.

Ditto the tenure of that joyless, aimless, pointless club in the Premiership. I'll be sorry for Danny Ings, but I'll raise a glass or two if they go down.
 
Ditto the tenure of that joyless, aimless, pointless club in the Premiership. I'll be sorry for Danny Ings, but I'll raise a glass or two if they go down.

Joyless? Aimless? Pointless? Bit harsh.

They're no less those things than many other clubs, plus we do enjoy nicking all their best players. Our side would be far less effective without the lovely signings we made from them. I don't mind them at all.

Yeah, it was annoying with Les "I Yam A Big Genius" Reed quacking on about how clever they are, and their "football model" being in place and so effective that any manager could come and go - without any deletrious effect on performance - not to mention their laughable repeated statements about "not needing to sell any players anymore"

But he's been sacked aswell, so whatevs. They're harmless. Far more annoying and shit clubs around.
 
Fair comments, I suppose. My problem with them centres on their gross hypocrisy over the van Dijk saga (they were quite content to see a feeding frenzy erupt around him to begin with, and only got nasty with us in a vain attempt to keep others interested when their expectations were undercut by the player's determination to join LFC and only LFC) but arguably I should forgive and forget now that that appalling chiseller Reed has got the boot.
 
Hughes, though, really is aimless. I know there are players who don't really enjoy the game, but has there ever been a manager in the top flight who seems to find everything about his job so profoundly enervating and unpleasant as Hughes? He stands there on the touchline looking as if he's doing community service, he mumbles his way through interviews like someone recalling 9/11, and win, lose or draw he just shuffles off looking like his dog just died. He's surely got enough money by now to allow him to escape the game that casts such a shadow over his soul, but back he comes, time after time, like a battered wife back to her abuser. He's fecking weird.
 
Arsenal at Old Trafford on Wednesday will be juicy. I'm torn - from a league point of view if would be good for Arsenal to get knocked back down a peg or too as they are approaching our tails. However if they were to give United a drubbing it would continue the hilarity. I think for a rare occasion I want United to perform, but any result will be good for a different reason.
 
Arsenal at Old Trafford on Wednesday will be juicy. I'm torn - from a league point of view if would be good for Arsenal to get knocked back down a peg or too as they are approaching our tails. However if they were to give United a drubbing it would continue the hilarity. I think for a rare occasion I want United to perform, but any result will be good for a different reason.

I'm hoping for fighting, as per.
 
I bet the Southampton board breathed a sight of relief when Utd pulled back from being 2-0 down; there's no way they could have sacked Useless, this week, if they had held on for a win.
 
I bet the Southampton board breathed a sight of relief when Utd pulled back from being 2-0 down; there's no way they could have sacked Useless, this week, if they had held on for a win.

It would also have spoiled his "sacked twice in a calendar year" stat, which I'm sure he's very pleased with, because not even the most sacked managers of all time - Ranieri, McClaren, Paul Clement, Alan Pardew, Hodgson, Ramos, Allardyce et al - can all boast that achievement.

I don't think.
 
Arsenal at Old Trafford on Wednesday will be juicy. I'm torn - from a league point of view if would be good for Arsenal to get knocked back down a peg or too as they are approaching our tails. However if they were to give United a drubbing it would continue the hilarity. I think for a rare occasion I want United to perform, but any result will be good for a different reason.


I'm not torn. I'd like United to beat them. Not a confidence inspiring battering, but a turgid win of few opportunities for either side, notable only for the fact that it was a busy night for the stretcher bearers.
 
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