Topic: Harry Maguire considering his options thread

[SP]

The only thing that would concern me is their squad is much more able to cope with injuries than ours.

Because if their midfield is injured, the replacements are equally underwhelming?

[MJD-L4]

https://twitter.com/usmanshiga/status/1439608736528715782?s=19

They're sharing a really poorly photoshopped image of Ronaldo pointing to try and give him credit for De Gea's penalty save for some reason...

[palimpsest]

Because if their midfield is injured, the replacements are equally underwhelming?

 

[Peabee]

https://twitter.com/usmanshiga/status/1439608736528715782?s=19

They're sharing a really poorly photoshopped image of Ronaldo pointing to try and give him credit for De Gea's penalty save for some reason...

[Hazell]

https://twitter.com/usmanshiga/status/1439608736528715782?s=19

They're sharing a really poorly photoshopped image of Ronaldo pointing to try and give him credit for De Gea's penalty save for some reason...

Looks more like an homage to Alex Ferguson if anything.

[Kekule]

https://twitter.com/usmanshiga/status/1439608736528715782?s=19

They're sharing a really poorly photoshopped image of Ronaldo pointing to try and give him credit for De Gea's penalty save for some reason...

1) Ronaldo needs a physio as he’s clearly dislocated his shoulder there.

2) Noble has already started his run up. No goalkeeper in the history of the game is looking around at his own players looking for hints at that point.

The bloke who tweeted that is an idiot.

[Gray Hamster]

Ronaldo needs to stop diving before the foul !!   Utd fans thinking there’s some sort of conspiracy by taking snapshots of what appears to be a foul but are not seeing that Ronaldo is diving before any contact, hence he’s not getting the penalties.    Every decision on his penalties today was spot on (apart from him not getting booked for diving).  Utd fans need to wake up and pull their heads out of the sand

[redgriffin73]

https://twitter.com/usmanshiga/status/1439608736528715782?s=19

They're sharing a really poorly photoshopped image of Ronaldo pointing to try and give him credit for De Gea's penalty save for some reason...

Zoom in and he's got three arms

[OOS]

First time I’ve watched them this season, and only saw the second half, but saw absolutely nothing that should be even slightly concerning to us, City or Chelsea.

You have just got to beat whats infront of you, and count the points at the end of the season. They will be up there.

Was peak Barclays today, you just knew De Gea was saving it. His penalty record is shite, while Nobles is rather good...

[slaphead]

Looks more like an homage to Alex Ferguson if anything.

 

[DangerScouse]

They've conceded in every game so far this season?

Doesn't say much for the Maguire/Varane partnership which was being talked up in some quarters as the best in the league potentially. They won't be in the mix at the business end and their "away record" will be gone imminently.

[Morgana]

Lucky bastards. 

[DangerScouse]

Actually they beat Wolves 1-0 but I think they have something like 2 clean sheets in their last 14 league games. That's awful given how much money they've spent on their defense.

[MoSzizlak]

https://twitter.com/usmanshiga/status/1439608736528715782?s=19

They're sharing a really poorly photoshopped image of Ronaldo pointing to try and give him credit for De Gea's penalty save for some reason...

9 of their players on the edge of the box waiting to follow in the peno but only 3 from West Ham. Had the ref said it was last kick?

I laughed when i heard about the penaties they were denied, then i saw the how replays showed the complete opposite. He might have got the away with last one if he hadnt dived before the tackle made contact with him. I guess for Atkinson and VAR it was the boy that cried wolf by that stage.

[PaulF]

They've conceded in every game so far this season?

Doesn't say much for the Maguire/Varane partnership which was being talked up in some quarters as the best in the league potentially. They won't be in the mix at the business end and their "away record" will be gone imminently.

I can only assume they are coming to anfield soon? If we don't pick up more injuries were are going to anihlate them.

[Macphisto80]

Just seen their highlights on MoTD. Ronaldo should have been yellowed for being a dirty cheating c*nt. West Ham denied a stone wall. They must have pinched themselves getting 3 points there. Hope they thanked Moysie for his footballing genius in the tunnel. Who the fuck brings on a player to take a pen in the 90th minute having not even touched a ball. Dickhead.

[RedSince86]

That Pogba dive was pathetic.

Nowhere near being touched and did the most shameless shitty dive you'll see this season, was comically bad.

Cheating muppets.

[Macphisto80]

That Pogba dive was pathetic.

Nowhere near being touched and did the most shameless shitty dive you'll see this season, was comically bad.

Cheating muppets.

They're being told to do it. Has to be. I thought City were bad for it with Graelish and Sterling, but these c*nts top the lot.

[stockdam]

Could have been 3 or 4 penalties in the game. I’m not sure what the ref saw in the first disallowed penalty (for West Ham).

Who on earth brings on a person to take a penalty……….gifted United the 3 points.

[Macphisto80]

Bissaka's one was mind boggling. Hack from behind. Get nothing of the ball. Doesn't even need VAR for that shit. Atrocious.

[Only Me]

Could have been 3 or 4 penalties in the game. I’m not sure what the ref saw in the first disallowed penalty (for West Ham).

Who on earth brings on a person to take a penalty……….gifted United the 3 points.

Southgate does.

Equally shite manager as Moyes 😂

[Morgana]

Just seen their highlights on MoTD. Ronaldo should have been yellowed for being a dirty cheating c*nt. West Ham denied a stone wall. They must have pinched themselves getting 3 points there. Hope they thanked Moysie for his footballing genius in the tunnel. Who the fuck brings on a player to take a pen in the 90th minute having not even touched a ball. Dickhead.

This. If you don't give Soucek a penalty after the Wan Bissaka mugging, you can't possibly given any of the Ronaldo ones. Besides, Ronaldo was so clearly chucking himself to the ground that even if he was fouled (or the defender "got nothing of the ball" as the commentator claims), you can't give him a penalty...Too much theatrics involved there.

Then Gollum is so stupid...It's like he's learned nothing from Southgate bringing on Sancho and Rashford to take penalties cold in the Euro final. You've got club and media darling Declan Rice with the ball in his hand, warm and ready. Why not let him take the penalty? Fucks sake, what baffling stupidity.

[B0151?]

Southgate does.

Equally shite manager as Moyes 😂

Tbf Klopp did it too although it was just the Charity Shield.

Went wrong for us then too and people criticized it though

[Red_Rich]

Ronaldo diving all over the place .... Shearer and Dublin - "Stone wall pens".

[latortuga]

Utd's come back wins away from home have become a real habit, but not a good habit. 

To me it signifies that this Utd team need a set back to motivate them and probably OGS needs to be forced to take risks which at the outset of games he isn't willing to take.  Which begs the question, would OGS be a better manager if he was less conservative in the way he sets his teams up at the start of games?  I think the answer is a definite yes.  Of course he'd still be an average manager, but if he could overcome this I think he could be better.   

[latortuga]

This. If you don't give Soucek a penalty after the Wan Bissaka mugging, you can't possibly given any of the Ronaldo ones. Besides, Ronaldo was so clearly chucking himself to the ground that even if he was fouled (or the defender "got nothing of the ball" as the commentator claims), you can't give him a penalty...Too much theatrics involved there.

Then Gollum is so stupid...It's like he's learned nothing from Southgate bringing on Sancho and Rashford to take penalties cold in the Euro final. You've got club and media darling Declan Rice with the ball in his hand, warm and ready. Why not let him take the penalty? Fucks sake, what baffling stupidity.

Italian referees would have paid at least one of those pens for sure. 

[Sangria]

Utd's come back wins away from home have become a real habit, but not a good habit. 

To me it signifies that this Utd team need a set back to motivate them and probably OGS needs to be forced to take risks which at the outset of games he isn't willing to take.  Which begs the question, would OGS be a better manager if he was less conservative in the way he sets his teams up at the start of games?  I think the answer is a definite yes.  Of course he'd still be an average manager, but if he could overcome this I think he could be better.   

That's reaching. We'd like to have that kind of habit.

[Kekule]

Where’s the outrage against Ronaldo, Pogba et al for “insulting Jimmy Greaves and the game he loved” by diving all over the place.

Or is that sort of vitriol only reserved for the likes of Mohamed Salah?  Can’t think what it is about Mohamed Salah that would cause British pundits and journalists to single him out for that kind of abuse.

[Crimson]

Bissaka's one was mind boggling. Hack from behind. Get nothing of the ball. Doesn't even need VAR for that shit. Atrocious.

The ref had already blown for offside I think. Then again, didn't United get a pen last year after the final whistle?

[Indomitable_Carp]

Where’s the outrage against Ronaldo, Pogba et al for “insulting Jimmy Greaves and the game he loved” by diving all over the place.

Or is that sort of vitriol only reserved for the likes of Mohamed Salah?  Can’t think what it is about Mohamed Salah that would cause British pundits and journalists to single him out for that kind of abuse.

Did they really say that about Salah?!! Mental if so 

[Kekule]

Did they really say that about Salah?!! Mental if so 

After Salah got kicked in the penalty area against West Ham last year and a penalty was awarded loads of people decided he dived (this a few weeks after the Robertson and Welbeck incident which was a “stonewaller” according to the same people).  It was a few days after Nobby Stiles passed away and a couple of people in the media decided that Mo had been massively disrespectful to him by allowing himself to be kicked.

[Mister Flip Flop]

Ronaldo diving all over the place .... Shearer and Dublin - "Stone wall pens".

They must be on drugs. Ronaldo's diving was unreal yesterday.

[thejbs]

It was one person in the media that accused Salah of dishonouring Stiles - Tony Cascarino writing in the times. Other papers carried the story knowing that it would be great for clicks.

Here’s one of Tony’s latest to give an idea of the insight and intelligence we’re dealing with:

[slaphead]

The double standards in football are off the scale when it comes to the subject of diving. Utd's amount of diving has been clear for a while now. Rashford admitted it, Pogba openly encouraged Luke Shaw to dive and was visibly pissed off that he didn't, Fernandes is yelping every week now Ronaldo is throwing himself down all over the shop. I was out a walk yesterday listened to the first half and the amount of times the commentator said about the ball going into the box and a Utd player going to ground was ridiculous.

[stockdam]

The ref had already blown for offside I think. Then again, didn't United get a pen last year after the final whistle?

The ball would have gone to the player who was fouled and not the one offside.

I think the ref invented a new rule. It’s ok to foul a player and prevent him getting the ball if the ball ends up with another player who is offside.

It was as clear a penalty as it gets and ranks with the over-turned Walker red card and penalty on Saturday in the category of “bizarre refereeing decisions”.

[BigCDump]

So the death by a thousand paper cuts continues for Utd. Just like us in the 90s. Ole yet again shows zero capability but his team literally scrapes a 'hard fought' win. The fans think they're mixing with the big boys at the top of the table, all else is forgiven.

Cue midweek, they get embarrassed in the CL or, very likely, an angry West Ham and get knocked out of the cup. Little bit of confusion among the clueless fanbase. Another paper cut.

[Barneylfc∗]

Ronaldo diving all over the place .... Shearer and Dublin - "Stone wall pens".

Guaranteed penalties for them next week then

[jepovic]

At some point, diving becomes counterproductive. If players go into every duel looking for a free kick, they will lose most of them. And all that focus wasted on the referee, it cant be good.

[RedForeverTT]

They must be on drugs. Ronaldo's diving was unreal yesterday.

Disgraceful. I didn’t see the match but watching MOTD last night he was hoping that one of his dives would get him a penalty. The referee need to sort that out and tell him it is not acceptable.

[Dr_Evil]

re Ronaldo: there used to be a great autocorrect here, amending 'Ronaldo' to 'He who fannies about and dives around'. Would be lovely to see its return.