Southampton v Manchester United 12:30pm Official Match Thread

Originally Posted by Coracao

I am not interested in how many points we could have had. We could have gone a couple down against Chelsea and ended up getting beat too. Could is the talk of losers.

If you are confident of Utd finishing above Spurs you should probably go and smack a decent wedge on at the bookies.

We arguably have a worse squad than last year.

Don’t think it’s arguable at all tbh.

Originally Posted by Dasilvatwins

Ifs and buts. The fact is we arnt 5 points better off. If it was so easy to be 5 points better off the club would be 5 points better off

Yeah, but it’s reason not to wet the bed.

Originally Posted by Coracao

We arguably have a worse squad than last year.

How?

We’d all have wanted to sign a few more players, but I don’t see how it’s worse. We’ve replaced sanchez and lukaku with a couple of young players. One of whom has already been more productive than Sanchez. We’re weak in midfield, but we were last season too.

Originally Posted by Jammy Dodger

How?

I am wasting my time if I have to explain it tbh.

Originally Posted by Jammy Dodger

How?

Are you £#%&!ing serious?

Originally Posted by Sparky***

Are you £#%&!ing serious?

Yes.

Originally Posted by Jammy Dodger

Yeah, but it’s reason not to wet the bed.



How?

We’d all have wanted to sign a few more players, but I don’t see how it’s worse. We’ve replaced sanchez and lukaku with a couple of young players. We’re weak in midfield, but we were last season too.

Nobody is wetting the bed. Just calling it how it is. Say something bad about the team and ole and instantly youre bed wetting...

Originally Posted by Dasilvatwins

Nobody is wetting the bed. Just calling it how it is. Say something bad about the team and ole and instantly youre bed wetting...

Pointing out results is now apparently 'bed wetting'.

Looking at the league table is 'bed wetting'.

Originally Posted by Dasilvatwins

Nobody is wetting the bed. Just calling it how it is. Say something bad about the team and ole and instantly youre bed wetting...

There’s plenty wetting the bed, as there always is.

Originally Posted by Sparky***

Pointing out results is now apparently 'bed wetting'.

Looking at the league table is 'bed wetting'.

Don’t recall saying that. Whinging after every dropped point like it’s the end of the world is bed wetting.

Originally Posted by Neo

Oh, he knew exactly what he was doing, have no doubt about that.

He's got a marketing team that will have spent the last few weeks breathing down his neck about the growing toxicity of his brand.

The stats about his assists and goals have been splashed all over social media, comments on his Instagram have been locked, and even the staged charity branded clobber giveaways at pub league clubs haven't dampened the abuse.

They will have old him that he needs goals to save the brand. Hence why when he gets on the pitch he's taking pot shots from 35 yards despite having teammates in acres of space. He's a goblin @#%&! who has always used the club to enrich himself and his crew. That performance today was nothing but unsurprising.

Precisely.

Greedy @#%&! had one thing on his mind: himself.

Dropping him takes the edge off the 2 points lost. And I'd swap top 6 for a 15th place finish and him gone forever.

He's a snide little £#%&!ing @#%&!.

Originally Posted by Jammy Dodger

There’s plenty wetting the bed, as there always is.



Don’t recall saying that. Whinging after every dropped point like it’s the end of the world is bed wetting.

What about our steady decline?

Originally Posted by red in cumbria

Two missed penalties, that's all really.

You dont know that. Wolves could have equalised. As could have palace.

United can concede goals as " easily" as those penalties could have been scored

Time wasting in the first half, how far we have fallen

Originally Posted by Jammy Dodger

There’s plenty wetting the bed, as there always is.



Don’t recall saying that. Whinging after every dropped point like it’s the end of the world is bed wetting.

At this point youre on a WUM.

Saying bad things about the team when they dropped points to palace , southampton and wolves is now whinging.

Wait till man city , the scousers and tottenham play against us. Its almost as if youre blinded to see that we have to get bettee ten fold against opposition that is already 100 times better than the last 3 teams we have played

I laughed in pre season at people who thought we’d finish outside the top six. Just watching Leicester now and they’ve much more chance than we have.

Originally Posted by Dasilvatwins

You dont know that. Wolves could have equalised. As could have palace.

United can concede goals as " easily" as those penalties could have been scored

We don't "know" anything, of course.

But we are now a young team that, typically for such things, relies a lot on confidence and momentum.

Score those, and it is *likely* that we win both.

Originally Posted by believe

I laughed in pre season at people who thought we’d finish outside the top six. Just watching Leicester now and they’ve much more chance than we have.

At finishing outside the top six? That's good news

Originally Posted by red in cumbria

We don't "know" anything, of course.

But we are now a young team that, typically for such things, relies a lot on confidence and momentum.

Score those, and it is *likely* that we win both.

But we didnt. We would have if we were good enough.

If terry scored his penalty in 2008 we wouldnt be champions. Using hypothetical situations to show the potential/ how a good a team is a weak argument for the team

Originally Posted by Jethro

At finishing outside the top six? That's good news

I read it back and was going to edit. Glad you’re enjoying the season mate, hope it works out well for you.

Originally Posted by Dasilvatwins

But we didnt. We would have if we were good enough.

If terry scored his penalty in 2008 we wouldnt be champions. Using hypothetical situations to show the potential/ how a good a team is a weak argument for the team

Correct, and that just shows the difference between winning and not winning often isn't that great.

Which is my point, we could easily have double our actual number of points now.

And that at least *is* a difference between now and the close of last season, when we lost to the likes of Cardiff at home without a fight.

Originally Posted by Tiberian

Midfield continues to be the great issue with this team but Lindelöf being so soft isn't helping. Matic had to come on to sit in front of him because he is so physically mediocre for a CB. Can't blame Smalling for him anymore.

Ole has clearly made a choice with his rendering of the squad to take the hits that will come but commit to try and build a style of play less reliant on functional types like Lukaku, Fellaini and co. There will be days when we could have used them but Ole is all in on a proper rebuild, makes it necessary to rethink expectations for the season.

Spot on.