Manchester United were more or less written off when we sold Cristiano Ronaldo, given the great contribution he made to our team over the past few years. Similar things were said after Ruud van Nistelrooy was sold, when David Beckham joined Real Madrid, when Eric Cantona hung up his boots etc. It seems as though the media and rival fans just don’t learn.
Ahead of our 3-1 victory over Spurs, where we played with ten men for the last half an hour, this current bunch of players were described as ‘the worst United team in years’ by one journalist, something our manager finds highly amusing.
“Some guy at the weekend said this was the worst United team in years,” said Ferguson. “That was a beauty. Maybe it is. Maybe we’ll only win the league.”
Man Utd News 24/7
First comment!
ha ha ha ha ha.
Thats the standards we set.we are expected to win multiple trophies every year now.
Love it when people write us off. That makes winning even more sweeter and probably gives the players a little boost as well, they want to prove the critics wrong once again.
If winning the league and the champions league or at least making the finals is the minimum that we are meant to do, I’ll be thrilled with that!!
wrote us off last year………fuck ‘em!!
It is one of the weakest united teams in recent years but chelsea aside the rest of the lge doesn;t look any great shakes
if we can hang in there untill jan and hopefully essien drogbha and co fuck off to the african cup of nations we can nick the lge
I’d love to see us win win the cl but barca look a lot stronger than us especially in midfield
Revanth-Please don’t start with that “First” bullshit.No one is going to give you a prize.
On topic-It’s quite amusing how high our standards are.If we don’t win the European Cup,then that season is classified as a failure.
last year the media hailed liverpool for their best season in years
they won fuck all
untd won the lge , lge cup , reached the finals of the cl and the semi final of the fac cup
yet we got v little praise
That guy was Mark YSB Lawrenson. What a plonker.
@jimmybob.
Thats the point,we are expected to do well and win multiple trophies every season.Otherwise its crisis at Old Trafford.fergie is no longer special.People have to remember that he has won everything there is and is human.he can get it wrong ocassionally.But the media make big stories out of it .The dippers are used to not winning anything so if they come close anytime it is regarded as a great season.
he’s got a fantastic sense of humour, them press confererances at OT are always entertaining…
I agree with the article but the Beckham example isn’t a good one as it was years later that we recovered. I’m optimistic that we can win the league, but chelsea look like a strong contender as they have in the past. I don’t see how we can win in Europe without Ronaldo. It has been a better than usual and better than expected start to the season but it has been by no means brilliant in terms of how the team is playing. We should save the last laugh for the end of the season.
http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/opinion/columnists/mark-lawrenson/Manchester-United-will-go-to-Tottenham-racked-with-doubt-article152655.html?plckFindCommentKey=CommentKey:93be9575-3b6d-4bcf-9bd0-8062e8381e1e#CommentKey:93be9575-3b6d-4bcf-9bd0-8062e8381e1e
It completely feasable, and in my pinion probable, that we could lose the best player in the world and become a better team. Our entire system was based around Ronny, but now he’s gone we’re seeing a better rooney and berba already, nani is looking better than last year (although that wouldnt be too difficult!) Scholes look rejuvinated, really pulling the strings in midfield like the scholes of yester-year.
The whole team is playing better, we have more variety in our play, and we’re gonna have a great year!!
Fuck off Revanth
if somebody offered me the 19th right now and the final of the CL
im not sure id take it
things are hopefully coming together for us at the right time
were good enough, so lets get on with it!
Jimmy bob – Bollocks mate. It isn’t one of the weakest teams in years. We have such great depth now and all the young ones are a year older and a year more experienced. As someone else said (the sending off aside) Scholes has rolled back the years this season, Berba looks a different player, Rooney is the best on the planet, Fletch is the new Keano, Nani and Valencia . Hargreaves to come back. Not to mention the old master Giggs and the kids. Finally the best back four in Europe. We are NOT weak.
hahaha…you have to laugh when ppl make such dumb-ass comments about Utd when the season hasn´t even reached xmas.
Would the Rio/Vidic partnership be considered weaker?
Having THE best left back in the world,having Rooney,the quality of Berba,Fletcher playing like a man possesed,not to mention the likes of Hargreaves an improving Anderson,Nani and the addition of Valencia.etc…
You would have thought that such ppl would know better or do they constantly need reminding Utd are not Arsenal we can and have done so in the past replaced players (in some cases legends!) and still competed and won trophies!!tis…tis…tis…
The problem this team could have is its reliance on Rooney… If Rooney gets injured we could be in trouble… On the whole our squad is still the strongest when you compare it to the rest of the league. I agree that Chelsea are our main rivals but Chelsea’s test will be in January when they loose Drogba, Essien, Mikel and Kalou to the African Nations.
United ave been written of since time memoriel, you wud think the jurno’s, pundits and even some of our own fans wud trust saf by now.
If you cant “see” us winning CL without Ronaldo, then just watch it. That’s what will happen. I’m positive about this.
Lawrenson’s a bitter jealous scouse cunt. Whenever he does his predictions on the BBC he always backs the vermin to get a result no matter who they play. Biased too. In fact both he and Philnoccio are total cunts.
we ain’t won nothing yet and don’t you think it’s little too early to start rubbing it in people’s noses – especially when the tricky fixtures are like a month ahead of us with away matches at liverpool and chelsea
‘Lawro’s Predictions’ are rubbish. Everytime any big game comes up he will bottle it an always go for a 1-1 draw. Infact that is the only ‘certainty’ about his predictions.
Number 19 here we come!!!!
Sequel to the Treble this season – you guys can thank me next May : )
aside from Lawro being an absolute twat, I think this actually is the worst United team in years – but let me qualify that statement
We have a lot of young players who on paper will never be recognised as the worlds best individually (well not at present anywhay), and we are yet to see what they can do as a team – in fairness, we won so many games last year with Ronaldo’s individual efforts, we can hardly say it was a team victory – sure the defense had an immense season, but that didn’t win us games, we would have drawn them at best.
I think this ‘team’ we have now though will only prove that scouse bastard and any other detractors wrong, and we will see many combined efforts this year like the one we saw on the weekend.
U-N-I-T-E-D United are the team for me, with a knick knack paddy whack give a dog a bone, why don’t city fuck off home!!
oh yeah – Fuck off Revanth.
King Eric
I think lawrencing said weaker not the worst. The worst united team or squad under Ferguson is still the 03/04 squad. But this current team is not the worst, 06/07 squad you could say is far weaker than the current one in terms of depth and age. If you look at that squad vds neville scholes giggs solkjaer larsson were in their 30s, players like vidic evra unknown quantities could they make it. The CM had only scholes fletcher carrick, and o shea was used in CM because of lack of depth in that area. there were massive complaints over carricks arrival. rooney and ronaldo had yet to show they could win a championship. Poor back up players like smith Richardson. The lack of depth in attack you take ronaldo rooney out of the team, it was an injury prone saha, smith was most of the time injured, solkjaer was coming to the end of his career. And we had to bring in Larsson because it was desperate in the striker department. But the current side still questions over CM, berbatov who is in and out of the team, still the wide areas are a concern. The difference is there is no real outstanding team so really united may retain the championship.
@Revanth: if you’re going to gloat about being first…at least say something of value you silly plonker!
Regarding the article. Take that you YSB!!! I think by now even the dippers know that every time that YSB opens his mouth, he ends up taking a shit on himself. Thanks for giving us all the ammo we’ll need to load up and blast you fools in the face come end of the season you twats!
United – We’ll never DIE!!!
ManUnitedChampions2008 – Good post mate. Like you say the 06/07 squad wasn’t as good as people think but how well did we play at times? Have to agree with you, last season at times we were awful.
Our real strength are depth in squad Which spurs learned too
Bring them all on
King Eric
06/07 in my eyes is the weakest championship winning team since the 96/97 squad. I had a 50 pound bet united would win the league in 2007 over the fact that united had finished brilliantly in the 05/06 season without a CM and ronaldos form in the world cup 2006 and chelsea signing the wrong players had me convinced. but what many did not expect is not only did scholes return in a full season but he put in a breath taking season that in my eyes was his best season, scholes in the 06/07 season was a genius that year it was the best footballing display from a player I have ever seen since ronaldinho cantona schmecheal and C ronaldo, also did many expect giggs solkjaer neville to also play so well that year but be such huge factors in our season. I will say this the only championship winning team in the last 3 seasons that I thought united were so powerful and great to watch that never run out of steam and never had a massive blip and we were truly a great side, was the 07/08 season that was the most complete squad and team since 99.
Read that in the mirror today and couldnt help but laugh. We’ve beaten the two clubs who are on top form . if we beat City next week , i doubt we can be stopped by anyone . Roll on number 19
Didn’t his partner in crime once say ” you will never win anything with kids”
Now they have got this new sponsorship deal they are saying they can compete with us in the transfer market. Although they have been competing with us and outspending us since the day Rafa arrived.
Bottom of the page from the overall fees paid for players since 04 my fellow mancunians, londoners, singaporians or where you guys are from. Our blood is red end of the day.
http://transferleague.co.uk/
As has been stated, last year’s “team” was really CR-centric, built around his genius at the smash-and-grab and a distinctly tight defensive scheme. This year’s version is going to have to be more of a “team”, with Rooney playing the leading man – and play a more open style.
The key number to keep in view is 68 – that’s the number of goals scored with the best player in the world. My guess is that this year’s key number is more likely to be significantly higher.
Another factor is that this year’s version is not yet finalized – LittleMikey has been largely kept under wraps and who knows which players will be bought in January or which ones will come good – like Nani, Anderson, Macheda, and Welbeck – when given the opportunity to do so.
Finally, it appears that the maturation of Fletcherinho and the “arrival” of Anderson will more than compensate for the decline in Carrick’s game. But what about the re-appearance of Owen Hargreaves ? His return will turn the so-called “weakest midfield” into the best !
Brett1985 – It wasnt just because Beckham left, its because we had players like Djemba Djemba, Klebersen, Miller, Bellion, Carroll, Howard, Richardson, Fortune, a fading Keane, Fletcher (not the Fletcher we know today), and Ronaldo who wasnt anywhere near as good as he would become.
Our squad depth was poor, our keepers were poor. Only in the last 3-4 years have we finally got a great squad.
I actually want people to write us off, I enjoy it! Seeing the looks on everyones faces when we win will be priceless
the 11
foster
neville evans vidic evra
anderson scholes carrick
valencia rooney nani
where in the hell is fletcher. has fergie learned to never leave fletcher out and berbatov doe snot start, what the hell is up with fergie does he even trust berbatov.
The match played some 6 hours ago was a real disgrace. Novices would have played a lot better and won handsomely. Rooney was offside all the time and ought to have been taken out much earlier with Carrick and Neville. Not that the others played any better. The victory against Besiktas was undeserved. Rooney also behaved like a true brat when he was replaced. Any England player should desist from such acts of stupidity. Carrick should be sold!
@Ted Pere Challi
Do you live in the real world? Are you fickle?
Do you really beleive that your team can win every game?..>
Disgrave indeed. Your level of support is a disgrace! Your mindless dribble is a disgrace!
The important things about Away games at group stages is not to loose them… Grind the results out!
Every team that plays in the group stages have games like this.. The great teams grind the result like we did!
Carrick sold!……Maybe your unaware but the Transfer Window is closed!!!
Worst United Team in years?
Holy Christ!
If i were to compare the United team with Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal & Man City….. For me there wouldnt be too many ahead of us if any!…..
Our team & Squad is as capable as any other in the Premiership!
@manutdchampions2008
Squad Rotation Matey!!!
Fletch cant play every game!!!!
We have a big game on Sunday which we need a fully fresh fletch for!!
Sorry King Eric (think we should have kept that for the law man but there we go) our squad is weaker than last year imo.
Hargreaves is still injured, ronaldo has gone and so has the argie alan smith.
Whose come in? owen (jury out) obertan (still not fit) valencia (yes looks a good player) but are we stronger imo no.
Plus giggs and scholes are a year older, the side that won the title 2 years ago had the likes of saha and tevez to come off the bench plus larson and rooney up front.
The side that won the trebele had the likes of ole teddy and blomqvist (sp) on the bench.
I don;t see them game breakers on the bench now.
Anyhow I didn;t say we were weak just weaker than we have been in the past and baring the dark days of dejmba djemba miller and bellend bellion I think this is the weakest team we have had for years.
I hope it’s strong enough to win trophies and your right and im wrong but look at this squad to 1999 and tell me who is the better side
Charlton, Law, stiles and best…bring it on !
then again i am an old git