Southampton vs Manchester United (11.05.2014)

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He was very clearly onside, despite what the co-ommentator says on the replay.
 
"The squad is fine, we just needed a new manager" crowd were hysterical with vindication after the Norwich game. Well, the last couple of games have shown the real situation. We need a vast squad rebuild.

Who said that? Even Giggs admitted that we need a good number of new players in. Our coaching staff would do better then Fletcher and Kagawa at the moment.
 
Mike dean is a horrible scouse bastard .
 
This shaw bloke doesn't look half bad. Haven't watched him before, but wouldn't mind if we did spend the money on him so far
 
Everybody is in holiday/world cup mode, ain't nobody got time for this match. Shame, would have liked us to have a go.
 
Another strong candidate for worst showing of the season.
 
Our play has been extremely disjointed.

If rumors are correct and we are getting Shaw in the summer we might just have our left defense sorted for the next 12-15 years.
 
Watching City: the ball just sticks to their players.
When Silva, Nasri, Toure, even Milner have it, they don't get shrugged off it easily. It's firmly in their possession.
Too many of our players do: On the pitch today Kagawa, Welbeck, Mata to some extent; the ball doesn't stick when they have it.

Van Persie and Januzaj are about the only two who when they have the ball, you can look away from the screen, knowing that when you look back they wont have lost it or failed to pass it off.
And the less said about or centre midfielders the better, really.

I've always been of the opinion that it's a severe lack of proper footballers here. And half of the technical players we do have are complete lightweights.
Which is why I never blamed Moyes fully. There's not a manager on earth who can make this side win in style without a couple of midfielders at least.
 
No, actually most of the Moyes-out brigade kept repeating that we've ended 11 points off last season and this squad is all champions and that's Moyes that's single-handedly destroying our club, so no. 'Squad is fine, would be competing for title', etc.

The squad is not bad enough to be languishing in mid table. When you have a mediocre manager in Moyes and a man (Giggs) who hasn't even obtained all his UEFA badges coaching you, this is what can happen. We need better players everybody knows this, but we shouldn't be where we are in the table with the players we have. Mata, Januzaj, Kagawa and RvP should be sufficient to at least take a game to an opponent but you can see that the very basics of half decent football are non existent on the pitch. We need a good manager first of all.
 
Keep in mind there is nothing to play for from this game. Yes, we'd love to see scintillating footy but it was never going to happen. Avoiding injury is at the top of everyone's mind.

maybe somebody should tell llalana and shaw?
 
I really hope the new manager gets rid of some of these jokers. What they've produced this year is disgraceful.
 
Januzaj has had a 2 on 1 almost every time. It's simple to defend against a winger when he has virtually zero offensive support from his fullback. Shaw has played well, though.
 
Well of course you're one of the "squad is fine" crowd.
I just hope to feck that LVG has more sense.
Didnt say that, i think like most we need at least 3-4 good players (1 LB, 2 CMF and 1 winger) to get us back to the top. But a lot of our players arent rubbish just been mis-managed this season. Everyone talks about how we need wholesale changes but i dont think the underperformers will be this bad next season under a more experienced manager
 
Really poor performance. Very fitting considering the season we have had. No cohesion, no pressure on the ball, trying to counter but moving the ball like treacle from our own final third to Southampton's. Its terrible. I do wonder what tactical work, if any, we went through before this game.
 
Januzaj doesn't have the pace down the right. Put Young or Valencia there. Get Carrick on for Kagawa. We'll look better immediately.
 
Not sure why we are playing Vidic, Ferdinand, Evra and Fletcher. They are not going to be part of the new managers plans. We should be showcasing our potential so the new manager can at least have something to review during the season break.
 
Bring on scholes and nicky butt. Kagawa and Mata are does not appear to be central midfielders. However, in all honesty, I blame our wank footballing philosophy.
 
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