Topic: Harry Maguire considering his options thread

[jillcwhomever]

Sky hyping up utd's front 3 by highlighting they have scored more than our front 3. I do think the stats they're reporting is misleading. I

Of course they are, also United's defence is far from the finished product. The only competition they've won so far is the one for earning the most penalties.

[reddebs]

55 points with 6 to play?  I can see their logic about being back. 

If they win all 6 that gives them 73 points for the season which isn't far off the number they won most of their titles with.

Pity it takes another 20 or so to win it these days [emoji16]

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[royhendo]

16 pens v 5 pens.

Salah and Mané both targeted by media as divers.

Haha!

[Lycan]

This is how the Utd fans must have felt when media used to hype up Fowler, Gerrard, Owen, Carra, Collymore, Suarez, Torres etc...While their team just carried on mopping up the trophies.

[Samie]

This is how the Utd fans must have felt when media used to hype up Fowler, Gerrard, Owen, Carra, Collymore, Suarez, Torres etc...While their team just carried on mopping up the trophies.

Have you been in a coma for the last 25 years? They've always been the media darlings especially in the Sky era.

[Henry Gale]

Sky hyping up utd's front 3 by highlighting they have scored more than our front 3. I do think the stats they're reporting is misleading. I

Is that accurate?

[Brain Potter]

Quite often we’d get giddy on the back of a promising run, often towards the end of a season, leading to optimism which ended up misplaced because at the end of the day we weren’t really good enough. That’s this United team.

[Lycan]

So true.

https://twitter.com/ScousePara75/status/1279727514261299200

[Gaz75]

it's all good as far as I'm concerned, it means woodward and ole will be staying at the wheel for a bit longer  and they are happy despite being 30 points behind us.

[killer-heels]

So we've scored 70, they've scored 56, we've conceded 25, they've conceded 33, our GD is 45 and their is 23, we're on 86pts they are on 55 and they are better than us?

Who said they were better than us?

[deano2727]

It will end in tears by October.

[Son of Spion]

Have you been in a coma for the last 25 years? They've always been the media darlings especially in the Sky era.

The 70s and 80s were laughable in that regard too. Liverpool cleaning up at home and abroad, yet all the media went on about was the irritating little cup side called Man United, how 'great' they were and what they were going to do next season now they just signed 'the best in the world'. 

They've always had the best tea lady. Best cat. Best everything actually. All 'best in the world.' 

I do love it when the media have to hype that lot up as we pick up the prizes. It's the resumption of normal service. Long may it continue.

[Alisson Wonderland]

I've had messages from people who dont even like United saying that they'll be challenging next season.  I've just replied saying it's only 34 points they need to make up!

Its amazing what battering relegation fodder can do to your reputation. I think they'll be nearer us next season but definitely not near enough to challenge for the title. Their defence is far too poor

[ScouserAtHeart]

If only they'd had the chance to spend 130 million to improve their defence

[RedSince86]

Who said they were better than us?

Twitterati.

It's been hilarious reading their shite the last couple of weeks, Goldbridge is the worst.

[KevLFC]

Is that accurate?

If you count all the games played, then yes and it includes alot of poor sides in the cups

[PoetryInMotion]

This is how the Utd fans must have felt when media used to hype up Fowler, Gerrard, Owen, Carra, Collymore, Suarez, Torres etc...While their team just carried on mopping up the trophies.

The difference is that most of those players were brilliant. This United team has a couple of good players, and a few inconsistent players on form now and that's it.

[Stockholm Syndrome]

Who said they were better than us?

A lot of the media if you consider the context; front 3 challenging ours, "sexy" football from them, world class partnership of Fernandes and Pogba, most promising youngsters in England, swagger back, etc.

They are certainly building it so that you'll have a fair share of pundits predicting they will win the league next year

[DG]

They are certainly building it so that you'll have a fair share of pundits predicting they will win the league next year

I'd be surprised if even one pundit predicts them at the top of the table.

Being at my most generous, I suppose you could make a case for them being reminiscent of us in the spring of 2013. We signed Sturridge and Coutinho, and things were looking up. We had our faults, but still did very well in 2013/14. But none of the teams we challenged back then were anywhere near the quality of our team today. They'll probably do better next year than this year, possibly by some margin, but by and large they are doing the same mistake we used to do every year. They look at everything that's gone against them in terms of injuries/luck/circumstances, and think that next year nothing in the world will go against them. It just never works out that way.

[xbugawugax]

haven't you heard. They have already won the Post covid break EPL trophy. Wonder when is their trophy presentation.

wankfest is truly nauseating. But they do look pretty good so far with all the penalties awarded to them but not others.

[The Gulleysucker]

...They've always been the media darlings especially in the Sky era.

I did some work at Sky HQ in Hounslow the other year, it's a pretty vast complex, but in the outer core building that I was in many of the walls seemed to have quite a few large pictures of various Man Utd players in action, yet strangely no other teams.

These weren't put up by employees but it seems by the organisation.

I can't help but think a lot of this continued media fascination and the constant positive spin of them by Sky can probably be traced back to when they (and Murdoch) tried to get ownership of Utd back in 1999 as it would certainly seem that some at the top still love them above all others.

[Red Beret]

Sharing for no other reason than I found it. 

[4pool]

34 points.....

[El Lobo]

Sharing for no other reason than I found it. 

There are some absolutely tremendous old gifs like this, and many feature Phil Jones

[Red_Rich]

They go on and on about how much better than us City really are, and then talk about how they're convinced that not only are they going to catch up with us, current champions, but also the team they're claiming are even better.

They really are a strange bunch.

[Son of Spion]

They go on and on about how much better than us City really are, and then talk about how they're convinced that not only are they going to catch up with us, current champions, but also the team they're claiming are even better.

They really are a strange bunch.

Remember when they always insisted that the table never lies?

Now it seems the table speaks with forked tongue. 

[Red_Rich]

Remember when they always insisted that the table never lies?

Now it seems the table speaks with forked tongue. 

Yep.

9 defeats for them now.  Definitely better team than us though, definitely.

[Garlicbread]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Olx2rHMcr8c I happened to run into this on Youtube and it's funny how much Sky wanked off them during this period. Sky darlings.

[kloppagetime]

Found this cracker of a post on the caf   

"Hopefully next season when its between us and City for the league they throw away as many points and lose as many games as this season."

What's happening to Liverpool are we going to become liquidated and not exist anymore   

Their current form reminds me of us in the back end of 2010/11 season when we had just signed Suarez and everyone was playing on a wave momentum, I remember thinking at time were definitely gonna challenge for the league next season and then we ended up finishing in 8th place in that next season with our lowest points total in the 3 points per game era.

[Crimson]

Found this cracker of a post on the caf   

"Hopefully next season when its between us and City for the league they throw away as many points and lose as many games as this season."

What's happening to Liverpool are we going to become liquidated and not exist anymore   

Don't worry. He's talking about the 4th Place trophy 

[kloppagetime]

Don't worry. He's talking about the 4th Place trophy 

I love it though, all my life my mates who support United have been mocking me for the same thing and now they are doing it themselves when they are saying next season will be their year despite being miles behind us it's just brilliant 

The thing is those United fans that weren't convinced with how we played yesterday and think they are better than us, they need to remember that's how champions win games they grind out results despite being off-colour they used to do the very same thing under whisky nose. I always used to say United look shit we play better football than them all the while they were miles miles clear of us like we are of them right now.

[Riquende]

The three most common Utd fan comments, 19/20:

"The league is truly terrible this season, it must be for them lot to be so far ahead. There's no quality in midtable and all the big clubs are in transition, you can't really gauge how good anyone really is."

"Their title win should have an asterisk, we're playing with different rules now so anything happening in these last 8-9 games won't really be indicative of a team's actual level."

"We're tearing it up! Next year will be our year!"

So give their excellent run-in an asterisk - new rules, half the teams are still mentally on holiday and nobody (except us) has shown any quality this season anyway.

[Billy The Kid]

Not a hope they get anywhere near us or City next season

Best case scenario for them is 70 to 75 points, which should be enough to see them secure top four

But a title challenge? They're deluded if they think that's a possibility

Mind you, I think most of their match going fans recognise they're nowhere near us

It's more their twitter brigade (of which they have millions) who generally come out with that kind of shite

[gerrardisgod]

Three year deal for Matic 

They all wanted him out before Christmas

[Gaz75]

Not a hope they get anywhere near us or City next season

Best case scenario for them is 70 to 75 points, which should be enough to see them secure top four

But a title challenge? They're deluded if they think that's a possibility

Mind you, I think most of their match going fans recognise they're nowhere near us

It's more their twitter brigade (of which they have millions) who generally come out with that kind of shite

Where the hell is andy tate?

[El Lobo]

Three year deal for Matic 

They all wanted him out before Christmas

I’ve got a Manc mate who’s been getting extremely giddy recently. Had a chat on whatsapp yesterday and went through both squads and he went very quiet when he realised the core of our squad is still young and our players in their prime have still got a good 3/4 years left (at least) at the top level.

[killer-heels]

I want to win the league again next season but i wont lie i want us to give these lot and Everton the shoeing they deserve at their grounds.

[Cracking Left Foot]

Had a Zoom catch-up with some mates  on Saturday (and how 2020 does that sound?) and one of them is really worried about the Mancs. Reckons they'll be real contenders next season and Ole is the new Ferguson. I laughed, a lot.

As I said to him, they've improved but they're basically a cup team, and there's no way they'll be challenging us and City for a few years. They're basically us under Roy Evans but playing worse football.

[Crosby Nick]

As ever there’s probably over reaction on all sides (especially there’s).

First and foremost their manager is shite. Thankfully. They’re not as good as they think they are and comparisons to our front three etc are way over the top. They’ve also had a fairly easy run of fixtures since lock down.

However more by luck than judgement they seem to have stumbled on a system that works ok for them. And finally they’ve been able to phase out some who are clearly not at the level required (Lingard, James, Pereira). So they have a decent base to build from and will probably throw money at things in the summer.

It’s fair to admit all that while also saying that as lying as we don’t drop off a cliff (and why should we) then we should still be finishing comfortably above them next season. We’re built to get 90 plus points and we’ve done it twice in a row. We know how to do it.

Even despite their improvements their ceiling currently looks 75-80. Fair to say we won’t finish around 40 points ahead of them next year but they’re getting way too giddy if they think they’re suddenly going to be challenging.

[Mark Walters]

Geezus, they've given 31 year old, slower-than-a-snail Matic a 3 year contract.  Admittedly, he's the best they have to shield Pogba and Fernandes in terms of raw ability but anyone in a No.10 role with a bit of pace can bypass him in a second, or a savvy team can just play around him (because, let's face it, he's not going to get much help from either of the aforementioned 2).