Sir Alex Ferguson has claimed that having months to reflect on the painful defeat in Rome against Barcelona will make United come back stronger this season.
“Adversity is always an important factor in developing and improving,” said Ferguson. “I have always reacted well to adversity over the years and whenever we lose a match I tell my players that the next game is the important one – the match we have to focus on. That has always been the case here at the club. When you lose the last game of the season you have two or three months to reflect on the disappointment. We have not enjoyed that. But we will cope – and we will bounce back.”
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Morning everyone. I returned home last night.
SAF is right. No more looking back. Hopefully, he will have also learned from his mistaked on that night and will be keen not to repeat them.
Fans havent enjoyed it either – no worries, we’ll put it right this year when we beat Real in the semi and Barca in the final. It’s also easier to accept when your beaten by the better side, which we were.
Never standing still, always striving for higher and higher standards. Thats the United way!
Fergie said in an interview that he knew exactly what went wrong in Rome but that he didn’t want to talk about it. It’ll be interesting to hear what he says when he decides to open up about it.
Morning costas .
Rome was disappointing for all of us. But hopefully we’ll bounce back . The team and SAF have learnt their lessons . And one thing that i really hope is that SAF will never play half fit or injured players in big games.
GOOD MORNING COSTA
AND EVERYONE ESE
i havent wrote morning to costas in a long time
anyway in the top 10 eric cantona quotes
number 8
“I’m proud of what i achieved there, but a life built on memories is not much of a life at all”. Which Gary Roberts believes perfectly encompasses United’s view on the club – proud of their past but looking to the future.
Hey GHTT. It has been a long time!
Nothing more we can do about that game. One thing i liked against Valencia was how much our attackers and wingers pressed the opposition’s defence. That’s something that should have been done in Rome more often. And it proves that you don’t need Tevez for that sort fo job. By the way, i saw a picture of him in yesterday’s Sun. Boy did he get fat!
good morning costas
the last time such a debacle happened 2 years ago at san siro we won the CL next year so it can be a blessing in disguise.:)
there will be abd games in every season but bouncing back is more imp
1.in 2007 arsenal did the double over us
2.in 2008 shitty did the double over us
3.in 2009 dippers did double over us
but the fact that matters is we won the league all three years.
and SAF has seen this many times and knows how to lift the team after such a disappointment
he’s ben having dinner with richie dunne
Hey AIG.
You are right GHTT. I am glad to see that above anything else he is a professional…
Costa I think we knew for a long time how professinol that man is,
there is that fantastic thing about manchester united you knock them down they come back stronger
but also when they finish strong
they always want to better them selves
from history making team retaining the milk cp which noone has done to
history making 4 in a row
history making 19
what final?? Dun want to ever have slight bit of that painfull memories of ROME..Players worth a couple of millions not showing up for the biggest match is just a disgraceful and platoon…But even so,was we look bak at the season it wasn’t a vintage season for united,it was like doin a job rather than winning in fashion style that really disappoint me..Nevertheless,SAF will need to bounce bak this season and hope he learn his lesson,that is never played a game where we throw arsenic to bonfire..Ps:Barcelona are still the team to beat..ROME rematch 2..
To be honest with you guys, i would gladly take just the 4rth straight league title without any other trophy. We have a golden new generation, but i don’t see them making winning the League Cup or the FA cup. And i see this year’s CL as a tall mountain. That’s why i think we should concentrate our efforts primarily on the Premier League. Of course, i don’t mean that we should give up on the other trophies.
costas
spot on mate.i too wud love a 19th title as the only trophy but it will be difficult than last 2 years to retain the league.maybe in a few years wen likes of evans,fabio,rafael,gibson,kiko and welbeck get experience to play in the Cl we can challenge for everything again like we did last 2 years.
However more often than not SAF gets his tactics right in europe(except Barca).look at porto,roma,barca(2008match),arsenal and other knockout game
i repeat what i said.we lost in rome bcoz we had no plan b.we came flying out of the blocks and had some good early chances.barca were struggling and scored the against the run of play.that clearly affected the players and we did not recover after that.had we started badly and lost a goal we wud have recovered for sure and come back.
Yep, i think that it’s difficult to see 2 or 3 trophies at OT next season. What we also have to do this year is work on our defender injury crisis. We are losing too many. I hope Rio handles things pretty well until Vida and Brown return. No news on Rafael unfortunately.
Good morning,all.
To be honest,Costa,I’m not exactly pessimistic,but my hopes go in this order:
1.Don’t get relegated.
2.Don’t finish below 10th.
3.Don’t finish below City.
4.Qualify for Europa League.
5.Top 4.
6.Win the FA Cup.
7.Win the League.
8.UCL Knockout stage.
9.UCL semis.
10.Win the Treble.
I know we can win the league(Hell,we can even win the Treble,in my opinion),and also think we’re going to(The League),but I keep my expectations as low as possible to prevent disappointment.
I would be highly disappointed if we ended the season trophyless,but over the moon if we won the league,because that would mean a record 4th in a row and us overhauling the dippers’ 18 titles.
Morning Costas, gotta hate, aig and boogeyman etc etc – I would be more than happy with the league but as Rio said yesterday we will be going for the lot again. Manchester United know no other way. They are winners simple as that!!
king eric
good morning mate.
ya.thats right. thats the mindset of the club that we go for all trophies and want to win all of them and that is how it should for a club like united but we will need new players to settle in well and the youngsters to mature even more.that may take time.
also the reason we have been winning the league is bcoz of the strength of the squad and the ability to get wins against the lesser teams even wen a few crucial players have been injured or rested.
in europe however we need some quality.ronaldo is gone so it may take some time before someone goes upa couple of gears and becomes the best player in the world.hope it happens this season but we have to be patient and trust the boss and nt get frustrated if we dont have a very sucessful season that we have got used to in the past couple of years.
The boss said similar things after we got stuffed in Milan in the 2007 Champions League semi’s. We all know what happened the very next year…
…believe!
I will be happy if we play good football and the players do the best as they can, and some youngsters fulfill the promise to be first team regulars.
If that is good enough to win some trophies then great! If not then it’s no problem, you can’t win things every year – lately we have been so spoilt with trophies its unreal!
Oh,and North Stand,where have you been?Not seen you on here in a long time,are you OK?