Football Banter

(07-12-2013 15:13 )circles_o_o_o Wrote:  Oh dear

Moyes - How much time do they give him?

If they don't reach a cup final this season then I would say they will ask serious questions then!!

But instead on panicking and sacking a good manager it would be more prudent to do what we should have done in the summer and bring in two or three quality players, certainly a defensive minded midfielder and a top centre back. Vidic is injury prone and aging and Ferdinand is well past his sell by date. Smalling is not the answer for sure. Moyes is a good manager who it must be remembered has at the moment an inherited team. He has to have time to develop his own team. The United board know this as do most of the United 'faithful'. Sure the prawn sandwich brigade will be restless but every top team has it's share of fickle, fairweather fans.
The team has needed strengthening for three or four years and it's testament to Ferguson that he had the ability to get so much out of the squad. Something Moyes is probably incapable of. Not sure who else is at this level.
My concern, which I mentioned in the summer is the lack of enthusiasm from the chief executive to invest in the squad. If we do not invest either in January or in the summer then we risk being a step behind the other top teams for a considerable time.

they should stick with him (moyes), he didn't become a bad manager overnight. anyone in the world would have struggled withe the utd job. Ferguson saw the writing on the wall and got out on top.

He has the official seal of approval from Fergie, so the fans are in a sort of bind. Shocked to hear about Van Persie this morning - wonder if he kept his return ticket

he went there expecting to play under alex ferguson for a couple of years. he got his 1 winners medal, but now look whats happening! karma at work me thinks. i can say this mutch, he ain't welcome back at the emirates!

They'd be crazy to remove Moyes now. They've made their decision and now they've got to stick with it. He has to be given the money in the January window to get the quality signings he needs. But yes - I do also think that Ferguson sensed the good times were slowing down and he got out while he was still in charge of a winning side. Just have to wait and see about the RVP situation.

They need quality midfield players. I look at them this season and that's the area where it's breaking down - they're getting overrun. In times gone by it was never like that - they've historically had fearsome midfield players who could frighten the opponents before they even got on the pitch. That same fear factor isn't there anymore, teams are working out how to play them and RVP isn't the same force he was because of the lack of quality around him to supply his goals. Liverpool outlasted them, Chelsea and Arsenal should have beat them by a hatful. Man City blasted them off the park. And now Everton and Newcastle have rolled them over for the first time in 30 years and 40 years respectively. So they need to get that steel back in the middle of the park, attack minded and defensive minded midfielders are both needed.

Surely it's not going to be 3 losses on the bounce against Villa next week? That would be the lowest of the low.

FA Cup Third Round Draw

Drawn by ex Man Utd, Tottenham and England striker Teddy Sheringham and his son Charlie, who plays for AFC Wimbledon:-

Barnsley v Hartlepool United or Coventry City
Yeovil Town v Leyton Orient
Liverpool v Oldham Athletic or Mansfield Town
Nottingham Forest v West Ham United
Bristol City v Watford
Southend United v Millwall
Middlesbrough v Hull City
West Bromwich Albion v Crystal Palace
Kidderminster Harriers v Peterborough United
Doncaster Rovers v Stevenage
Stoke City v Leicester City
Southampton v Burnley
Newcastle United v Cardiff City
Rochdale v Leeds United
Wigan Athletic v Milton Keynes Dons
Charlton Athletic v Wrexham or Oxford United
Manchester United v Swansea City
Port Vale v Plymouth Argyle
Norwich City v Fulham
Aston Villa v Sheffield United
Macclesfield Town v Sheffield Wednesday
Sunderland v Carlisle United
Bolton Wanderers v Blackpool
Blackburn Rovers v Manchester City
Everton v Queens Park Rangers
Brighton & Hove Albion v Reading
Arsenal v Tottenham Hotspur
Birmingham City v Bristol Rovers or Crawley Town
Grimsby Town v Huddersfield Town
Ipswich Town v Preston North End
Derby County v Chelsea
AFC Bournemouth v Fleetwood Town or Burton Albion

Ties to be played weekend of 4th and 5th January 2014.

Not fancying our trip to Everton. Playing one of the in form PL teams in the Cup spells trouble. Two stand out ties for me;-
Man United & the NL London Derby tie. This might be AVB's only chance to seriously win domestic silverware this season aside from the Europa League. But even so I think Arsenal could be on course for another double.

So DJ campbell been arrested on suspicion of match fixing doubt if will be for when he is with us because hes hardly been on the pitch altough was his supsicious sending off against blackpool

also makes the blackpool sending off's in the last week seem highly suspicious as well

still early days for moyes and he should be given more time, but lets not forget time is no guarantee that things will get better and some managers do get the time but they still aren't good enough, man utd could still be a mid table side in two years time what do they do then, give him more time hoping that things might get better?