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I know you're wumming, but do you know what's REALLY small time? Furloughing your minimum wage back office staff whilst being defending Champions. I say 'defending', it wasn't really much of a defence, but you get the point....

 

They all had a top 4 shout at the start of the season as it was in their own hands. They will finish where they deserve to finish and if they aren't happy about it they should all look inward rather than at others.

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/jurgen-klopp-solskjaer-liverpool-manchester-united-b1846289.html
Jurgen Klopp:
“But it is not the fault of Ole and the players. My question to myself was: ‘would I have done the same? Yes’. You have to. You have to."

There you go @Fordy117 . Quit Bitchin ;-)

 

Europa League Conference will probably be on Quest or Eurosport

 

It is their own fans fault though

 

Thought you clearly said you were a Bradford city supporter obviously not

 

Leicester had been seriously on the slide. West Ham had a realistic chance of overtaking them if they can win their last three games against Brighton, West Brom and Southampton.
But United have fielded a team full of kids, reserves and has-beens and virtually handed a top four place to Leicester on a plate.
I accept they had to rotate some of the squad, given their fixtures, but this was way over the top. It's totally unfair on West Ham, Spurs, Liverpool and Everton, who all had a shout at a top four place before today.

 

Fergie would have done, and did, exactly the same. He once played a team with 7 defenders in an FA Cup tie a few days before a big CL game. The difference is, he won. There isn't a manager in the league who wouldn't have done exactly what Solskjaer did yesterday. Not one. Even Man City themselves fielded a massively changed side against Chelsea at the weekend, to protect their hand ahead of the CL final. No one has handed them anything, they've been by far and away the best side in the League. Solskjaers only obligation is to Man United; 3 games in 5 days, just before a European final? Of course they were going to make changes! And he's probably used it as an opportunity to reinforce to his bosses that the squad needs strengthening.

Sounds like sour grapes to me. You desperately needed your biggest rivals to dig you out of a hole, and they didn't. You need to be more focused on why Liverpool have put up such a piss poor defence of their title. Klopps been handed his arse by David Moyes FFS!

 

There were only 2 reasonably untested kids. The rest of that side had plenty of league and international experience.

Man City did literally the same thing when they played Chelsea at the weekend. 10 changes from the previous game, in a fixture that they could've clinched the title in. They lost. Did anyone moan about the integrity of the league on the basis of it 'gifting' 3 points to Chelsea, who're also competing for a top 4 spot? No. Because they'd earned the right to make those changes and protect their interests. And they didn't have the same need in terms of protecting players from injury on the basis of fixture congestion. Any team would have done the same last night. Any team. But other than sides who're bank rolled by entire states, no other team can make 10 changes without it having a detrimental effect. The blame lies with a League who imposed a fixture schedule of 3 games in 5 days immediately before a European final. What's a manager supposed to do in that scenario? Imagine the furore if few changes were made, players picked up injuries and they lose a final as a result. There'd be hell on, rightly so. I don't blame Solskjaer one bit. Just like I don't blame Pep one bit for keeping his cards covered and fielding a massively changed team at the weekend. As a manager you put your team and your interests front and centre of everything.

 

It was a thrown together team made up of kids, reserves and over the hill ex- first teamers. The chances of getting a coherent performance from that side was zilch. Man U effectively threw the game because they know their CL place is guaranteed.
I thought what Pep did against Chelsea was also wrong.
I accept that rotation has to happen. But it's a question of degree. Fielding an excessively weakened team in a league fixture is unfair to other clubs, in my view.
We'll have to agree to differ.

 

Adrian Durham in 'talking shite' shocker....

 

Just found this thread I have to congratulate you @fordy on suckering so many with your opening post .

 

To quote a certain poster on here "that was sh!te" once Cavani equalised I thought United would take control but a very poor game.

 

I agree - they are the biggest club in England bar none and definitely top 3 in the world. They deserve better than Ole and Woodward - latter already gone and I would be sacking Ole. He clearly isn't up to it.

If they aren't careful they could end up like AC Milan. A former giant.

 

How are they throwing it?