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The media fuss over De Gea is ridiculous, he's played two games and already he's useless and should be ditched. Who'd be a goalkeeper these days.
A fond farewell to Fabregas. Nasri will get a much less fond farewell.
"Excuse me Miss, do you like pineapple?"
It might be a bit premature, but he definitely needs to pull himself towards himself. He might have the talent but he definitely needs to be more dominant in the area and improve his concentration (the fact that he let in the most goals from outside the box in La Liga suggests that this might not be too easy to solve). I don't understand why we spent 18 million quid for an unproved kid though. We have Lindegaard, who looked very solid in the games he played, and there are lots of experienced, capable goalkeepers (Shay Given for example) floating around.
Besides that, the lack of Sneidjer might not be too traumatic. I like the look of Cleverley and, for me, he feels to be more the player we needed to sign than Wesley. Sneidjer might be fantastic going forward, but I don't ever recall him having a great work-rate, especially defensively. Cleverley looks like he is always going to be making space to receive a pass, have clever touches and short passes and will cover the ground defensively.
Selling Wes Brown might have been silly. But Phil Jones looks like he was born in an United shirt and Ashley Young will hopefully get better as he becomes more confident in an United shirt and starts to run more at defenders (instead of cutting in and crossing to the defender's boot).
Wes was epic against Liverpool. And he was an epic right-back in the season we won the Champions League (and it was he that put in the cross that Ronaldo scored from to give us the lead in that match).
Anyway, Smalling looks good at right-back. And if injuries get that bad, Valencia and Fletcher have both played well enough there and I'm sure Jones can slot in too.
Boy, once Man City brought on Kun they looked SCARY good.
Take care all.
It's not difficult to look scary good against Swansea at home.
"Excuse me Miss, do you like pineapple?"
Two goals and one assist (and it was a damned skillful assist too) for Aguero in his first 30 minutes of English football. If they can convince his compatriot to stay, can you imagine a front three of Aguero, Tevez and Silva? That's the stuff nightmares are made of.
Also sorry Manus ...at least you got to see your boys with the official Premier League font on their backs. That's... something, right?
Swansea needn't worry, they'll probably pick up three points when they visit us next month.
"Excuse me Miss, do you like pineapple?"
Well, tit.
We were on top for the first 20 minutes! Vorm had a great game, Dobbie had a mare (what the hell was he doing with that shot from 25 yards on around 60 minutes? Sinclair was clean through), but we just didn't have the fitness to keep going in the end and it showed. Aguero's second goal was a belter. Don't think we deserved 4-0 though
Now, I'll see you guys later. I'm off to drain the emergency gin cabinet.
I have tickets for that!Swansea needn't worry, they'll probably pick up three points when they visit us next month.
there was a picture here
Hurl abuse at Nasri/Wenger* for me, will you?
*if they're still there.
Carlos who?
And us, to be honest.
I'm disappointed I didn't get to see the match, but I was listening to the BBC commentary and I wish I'd seen Aguero playing.
Also, roll on Saturday and our match with QPR. I'm fed up of waiting for our first game so I can moan about our lack of goalscorers/money with which to buy goalscorers/Neil Warnock/all of the above.
Not my words Carol, the words of Top Gear magazine.
It always seemed that Chelsea would inevitably get one of Torres or Aguero.
Penny for your thoughts, Roman? =]
Bow before the mighty Javoo!