Pre-season

August 5th v Valerenga

anybody know of any others?

thats all that is announced that i can see usually organised a lot earlier than this

seems a bit odd. is this capable hands not being able to arrange anything?

surely the gimps wont be happy that we aren't whoring the brand around valuable markets?

Originally Posted by Sloane

August 5th v Valerenga

anybody know of any others?

thats all that is announced that i can see usually organised a lot earlier than this

seems a bit odd. is this capable hands not being able to arrange anything?

surely the gimps wont be happy that we aren't whoring the brand around valuable markets?

It's the olympics int it ? £#%&!ing everything up, final is on the 11th August

FC are playing away at exeter......Should be a decent trip

probably waiting until we sign this jap

Originally Posted by Ginners

probably waiting until we sign this jap

19 days in 21 days lined up around asia the minute he puts pen to paper. 18 million return on shirt sales. value.

Very very odd stuff, supposedly 2 games in china, 2 in south Africa and the friendly in Oslo.

With people resting after Euros and then people away on olympics duty we could well be seeing the ressie/youth teamers involved.

I remember the absolute mess our team was during the 2004 Olympics, we had to go to Chelsea with our biggest axis of evil group all starting(miller, djemba, oshea, brown, fortune, smith, etc)

edit;

Chelsea: Cech, Paulo Ferreira, Gallas, Terry, Bridge, Geremi, Makelele, Lampard, Smertin, Drogba, Gudjohnsen. Subs: Cudicini, Mutu, Kezman, Parker, Ricardo Carvalho.

Man Utd: Howard, Silvestre, Gary Neville, Keane, Fortune, Miller, O'Shea, Djemba-Djemba, Giggs, Scholes, Smith. Subs: Ricardo, Phil Neville, Bellion, Richardson, Forlan.

Referee: G Poll (Hertfordshire)

Looking past what a holocaust our team was that day ...you forget how much shite Mourinho signed at Chelsea don't you?

not being involved in the charity shield will do us wonders next season.

Originally Posted by JakeB

Looking past what a holocaust our team was that day ...you forget how much shite Mourinho signed at Chelsea don't you?

(our) Bench was an absolute joke as well.

Originally Posted by JakeB

Looking past what a holocaust our team was that day ...you forget how much shite Mourinho signed at Chelsea don't you?

Excluding the fact that most of them were bought prior to his arrival.

Ferreira, Droggles and the Portuguese centre half whose name escapes me were his main 3 (& Thiago)

Originally Posted by believe

not being involved in the charity shield will do us wonders next season.

out of all the trophies already

Originally Posted by Mr_Ed

Excluding the fact that most of them were bought prior to his arrival.

Ferreira, Droggles and the Portuguese centre half whose name escapes me were his main 3 (& Thiago)

I wasn't referring to just that line up, seeing the likes of Kezman reminded me how dodgy a lot of his signings in general were.

Kezman, Jarosik, Tiago, Sahar, Del Horno, Pizzaro, Sidwell, Boulahrouz. Awful

And you could argue that most of the important players he had during his time were already there. Lampard, Terry, Robben, Cech, Makelele, Cole. Only decent signings he made were Ashley Cole and Michael Essien imo. Perhaps Ballack too, although he seemed a shadow of the player in Bundesliga.

Originally Posted by saffers

Very very odd stuff, supposedly 2 games in china, 2 in south Africa and the friendly in Oslo.

With people resting after Euros and then people away on olympics duty we could well be seeing the ressie/youth teamers involved.

I remember the absolute mess our team was during the 2004 Olympics, we had to go to Chelsea with our biggest axis of evil group all starting(miller, djemba, oshea, brown, fortune, smith, etc)

edit;

Chelsea: Cech, Paulo Ferreira, Gallas, Terry, Bridge, Geremi, Makelele, Lampard, Smertin, Drogba, Gudjohnsen. Subs: Cudicini, Mutu, Kezman, Parker, Ricardo Carvalho.

Man Utd: Howard, Silvestre, Gary Neville, Keane, Fortune, Miller, O'Shea, Djemba-Djemba, Giggs, Scholes, Smith. Subs: Ricardo, Phil Neville, Bellion, Richardson, Forlan.

Referee: G Poll (Hertfordshire)

Are the reserves or youth teams touring? They were supposed to be sending a team down to Witton but it's up in the air now. don't see why they can't still send the kids unless they are away?

Think it was in UWS I read that we haven't announced a tour yet because it will be a shadow squad due to Euros and Olympics so we can't really sell a tour of Asia as the 'first team'. Couple of games in China then possibly a game in Portugal and Spain I think it said. Sure it said we have offers from Barca and Madrid too.

Originally Posted by saffers

(our) Bench was an absolute joke as well.

Chelski were still quite lucky to win that game, though

Originally Posted by MUFC One Love

Think it was in UWS I read that we haven't announced a tour yet because it will be a shadow squad due to Euros and Olympics so we can't really sell a tour of Asia as the 'first team'. Couple of games in China then possibly a game in Portugal and Spain I think it said. Sure it said we have offers from Barca and Madrid too.

Get our arses handed out to us early in Europe.

Originally Posted by saffers

(our) Bench was an absolute joke as well.

Diego Forlan? Topscorer in a World Cup not good enough to get in ahead of Smith.

Originally Posted by Time For Heroes

Diego Forlan? Topscorer in a World Cup not good enough to get in ahead of Smith.

I might be remembering this wrong but I think when he finally did come on, he was shunted out to the wing and Giggs was moved up front to support Smith.

Wasn't this just before Forlan was sold? Tbh I thought he'd gone by then.

Originally Posted by JakeB

Wasn't this just before Forlan was sold? Tbh I thought he'd gone by then.

Yep, it was one of his very last games for us (or was it actually his final one??)