Official Match Thread. Man Utd V Man City. 430pm Sky. 10/12/2017

Originally Posted by Sandman

I see van Gaal has called out Mourinho's boring shithouse tactics, nice to hear from the big man tbh.

Shame his football was dire.

Defended Mourinho but, I cannot defend that yesterday. Rojo among others just hoofing it constantly. Their full backs constantly pushed up, could easily have been exposed!

Matic, and Lindelof to an extent, the only ones who seemed to put their foot on the ball at times yesterday

Originally Posted by andyroo

5 to 6 weeks according to the Beeb

yet again we find ourselves in the ridiculous situation where after all the money we've spent in the last 2 windows, we start a game of that magnitude with just two players on the pitch who were signed by our current manager - and one of them played like a donkey.

The thing for me that illustrated the gulf in between the two teams right now was the quality on the bench.

Lindelof, Jones, Mata, Zlatan, shaw, The Scottish Player

v

Danilo, Gundogan, Aguero, mangala, Bernado Silva, zinchenko

City have £175m worth of talent to call from off the bench and they didn't even need to call on their premier league all time top scorer.

Originally Posted by Clarkie

Shame his football was dire.

Defended Mourinho but, I cannot defend that yesterday. Rojo among others just hoofing it constantly. Their full backs constantly pushed up, could easily have been exposed!

Matic, and Lindelof to an extent, the only ones who seemed to put their foot on the ball at times yesterday

Both Mourinho signings...

Has the fraud left yet. Just £#%&! off back to London

Originally Posted by puressence

Has the fraud left yet. Just £#%&! off back to London

Who you referring to, Mourinho or Sparky?

Originally Posted by puressence

Has the fraud left yet. Just f*** off back to London

Can you elaborate on the fraud thing, you know he's won 2 European Cups with unfancied sides yes?

Originally Posted by Stickman

Can you elaborate on the fraud thing, you know he's won 2 European Cups with unfancied sides yes?

3 this season

Originally Posted by ScholesScoresGoals2

3 this season

Is he going to PSG?

Originally Posted by no fun

Is he going to PSG?

They aren't unfancied

Originally Posted by Kangared

Pep inherited Silva, KDB, Aguerro ,& Fernandinho. These are still City’s main players & Pep has brought in around 13 players. Buying Pogba, Magic & Lukaku is simply catching up to where City were before Pep arrived. We are doing well to be above Chelsea but are a long way behind City

No wonder we get over run in the middle

Originally Posted by believe

No wonder we get over run in the middle

Originally Posted by Kangared

Pep inherited Silva, KDB, Aguerro ,& Fernandinho. These are still City’s main players & Pep has brought in around 13 players. Buying Pogba, Magic & Lukaku is simply catching up to where City were before Pep arrived. We are doing well to be above Chelsea but are a long way behind City

Or not...

Weren't we already beating City in games under LVG?

Pogba and Matic are good signings. Not having one of them available was pretty galling. Matic has improved us, that we lost on Sunday was hardly down to him personally not being up to it.

But Lukaku isn't going to bridge the gap, that's just money down the toilet, and a hell of a lot of it.

Originally Posted by Ranier Wolfcastle

Weren't we already beating City in games under LVG?

We won a few, yes.

Apart from anything else, they have strengthened a fair bit since then though.