Football

Di Maria hands in transfer request

Shaw £30m
Herrera £29m
Fellini £27.5m
Di Maria £60m

Rooney and RVP were £51m but they're decent value

Mata £38m

Celtic>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Serves them right.

£200MILLION pounds.
you'll still have Andy Goldstein moaning like an LA starlett on pornhub about their lack of spending.

Twat

They could have bought Fabregas and Sanchez for the same money they've just paid for Di Maria

I read somewhere a couple of days ago that Man Utd's problems were caused by the Glazers' underinvestment masked by Fergie's brilliance.

Find a new excuse!

Congrats to MK Dons for avoiding a cup upset.

Jesus! @ManU

Nice one, LVG. Great start - very enjoyable.

#moyesin

Shaw £30m
Herrera £29m
Fellaini £27.5m
Di Maria £60m

Rooney and RVP were £51m but they're decent value

Mata £38m

£15m Zaha
£16m Rojo

It is true about the brilliance of Fergie, though. How he did it with that midfield...

Manchester United boss Louis Van Gaal is weighing up a £20m move for Liverpool midfielder Joe Allen, 24.

is this the punchline to last nights joke
maybe lvg doesn't understand british football

Lukaku will learn a lot from him. Eto'o has years of experience to
hand over. @>>>>>> strike force that Chelsea should have had apart
from mourinho not fancying lukaku then not fancying eto'o...

Corny dear chap.

Lukaku is a decent striker but not at the level of Costa.

He asked to go on loan last season after screwing up in the Super Cup. He wanted time on the ball and knew he wasn't going to get it at Chelsea because he was not ready. He then decided he wanted to leave Chelsea and had his agent talk to various clubs. If he had been world class, one would have imagined his agent would have been talking to PSG and Real Madrid but he didn't. He spoke to Spurs and Everton; two decent sides but neither can promise Champions League football. In other words, he knew his limitations. He knew that with those limitations he would never be first choice striker at Chelsea.

Eto'o. Great player; past his best. Drogba is, for a good number of reasons a better choice than him.

Good luck to both of them but don't try and assert that this is a "mistake" by Mourinho or an example of his ego or whatever else comes to mind.

angel di maria didn't really want to go to united
wow thats the kind of statement you want from your british transfer record breaking signing the day he signs

wonder if he'll repeat that in the press conference

ManU's decision to focus on the League and FA Cup is an odd one. The League Cup was the one competition which gave them an opportunity to blood young players for the future. With only 40 games this season, instead of the regular 60 or 70, ManU will have precious little opportunity for rotation.

It also denies them the opportunity to sell tickets to irregular supporters. League Cup games at Old Trafford have, historically, been the ones filled with tourists. Tourists are needed by all clubs as a supporter who comes once will spend as much in the club shop as he does on his ticket. A season ticket holder will go there once a year if that.

20-30 fewer games is a significant reduction in ticket sales, in television money, in pies beer and hospitality and in merchandising.

It is odd Clive. The team sent out was a bit odd, to get tonked 4-0 by a league 1 club suggests something is wrong. looks at Jonny Evans again

There was no Rooney nor van Persie nor Mata but it wasn't devoid of talent. de Gea was in it. To be frank, a ManU reserve side ought to be capable of beating a League 1 side and ought to be sufficiently motivated to do it. To lose is one thing - all big teams slip up against "minnows" occcasionally - but to lose 4-0 points to a bigger problem

It's a throwback to the inexplicable 3-0 defeat to York at OT in 95 with a team including Beckham, Neville G, Pallister, Parker, Irwin, Sharpe, McClair, Giggs. This seems much more shambolic, though, and this bunch aren't going to end the season with a Double.

clives right
that man utd team isn't devoid of talent
they've got a couple of England players in the team ffs

Thank fuck for Manchester United. I never thought I'd say that. They have the ability to relieve the doom from any situation.
I think the phrase 'Do a United' will son enter common parlance as a 'Complete and utter fuck up in every single possible way'
It's so great

reminds me of a certain team lost in the wilderness but a few short years ago

Yep. You kick your enemies when they are down. Let's hope it gets worse and worse

You're right, they should. But, I think the point about confidence is key. It's also a very clear indication to LVG who has the balls to want to do something in a situation like this. Shinji got injured early.

David De Gea *
Marnick Vermijl
Jonny Evans *
Michael Keane
Reece James
Saidy Janko
Oliveira Anderson
Shinji Kagawa *
Nick Powell *
Danny Welbeck *
Javier Hernandez *
Adnan Januzaj (s 20') *
James Wilson (s 57')
Andreas Pereira (s 46') *

That's the team that played last night. I imagine, if the situation was replicated for Liverpool/ A N Other EPL team, the carpers on here would be trying to point out the team was "not full strength" etc etc.

However, there are enough starred players there to "do something". And not as Harry Redknapp (pbuh) famously said "just facking run around".

A couple of England players.. LOLZ.