27 Sep 07
oh dear Man U went out of the Carling cup last night!!! i dont care what people say about it it is still a trophey and if a Man U fan says to me that its only a mickey mouse cup its bull. they would have loved to go through last night but got beaten by the better side!
27 Sep 07
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More to the point, it was a loss at home to a championship side and now they're out of the competition. The following all played - Kuszczak, Brown 45 min, Carrick 34 min, Pique, Nani, O'Shea, Eagles, Dong, Anderson. All of which Coventry would be delighted to have on their books.
Looks like Utd will have to keep buying big as the Beckham, Scholes, Nevilles & Butt year at the academy was a blip in an otherwise unproductive set up.
27 Sep 07
Originally posted by Angry BoyThere's only one side in the country that can play their kids and still win at a stroll.... Man Utd seem to be 2nd best on a number of fronts at the moment... Including their Pie's!!!!! he he
More to the point, it was a loss at home to a championship side and now they're out of the competition. The following all played - Kuszczak, Brown 45 min, Carrick 34 min, Pique, Nani, O'Shea, Eagles, Dong, Anderson. All of which Coventry would be delighted to have on their books.
Looks like Utd will have to keep buying big as the Beckham, Scholes, Nevilles & Butt year at the academy was a blip in an otherwise unproductive set up.
27 Sep 07
Originally posted by silly mctallWheres Rooney Was Once a Blue or whateverhisname is now😵😵😵
oh dear Man U went out of the Carling cup last night!!! i dont care what people say about it it is still a trophey and if a Man U fan says to me that its only a mickey mouse cup its bull. they would have loved to go through last night but got beaten by the better side!
27 Sep 07
Originally posted by rhbThread 77840
http://www.timeforchess.com/board/showthread.php?threadid=77840&page=1
30 Sep 07
Originally posted by spurs73Sitting quite nicely in 2nd place in the league, 5 wins in a row.
Wheres Rooney Was Once a Blue or whateverhisname is now😵😵😵
Got some difficut games out of the way:-
- Birmingham away
- Everton away
- Man City away
- Chelsea home
- Porstmouth away
Had some of easy games too, pity we couldn't score against Reading:-
- Sunderland home
- Tottenham home
- Reading home
5 points clear of Chelsea, got Arsenal on 3rd November.
We'll probably go top after that game.
Premiership looks like it could be a done deal already, even after our worse start in 16 years.
Thank god we got to play Spurs early, we needed a real easy game to get our confidence back.
30 Sep 07
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Originally posted by Angry Boyblip?
More to the point, it was a loss at home to a championship side and now they're out of the competition. The following all played - Kuszczak, Brown 45 min, Carrick 34 min, Pique, Nani, O'Shea, Eagles, Dong, Anderson. All of which Coventry would be delighted to have on their books.
Looks like Utd will have to keep buying big as the Beckham, Scholes, Nevilles & Butt year at the academy was a blip in an otherwise unproductive set up.
What about:-
-Brown
-O'Shea
-Ben Foster, oh yes him
-Flecher
-Richardson sold for about 6m
-Rossi sold for about 7m
We have Pique, Eagles and Evans breaking through from the reserve team.
We have regulally sold on players for 2m+ from the youth team:-
- Greening, Wallwork, Healy, Higginbottom, Chadwick
So thats AFTER the Beckham, Scholes, Giggs, Butt, Neville(s) era.....
How does that compare to Liverpool?
They had Owen, Gerrard, Carra (lol) era
That was followed by, erm.......
50+ signings by Rafa alone and only maybe 2 or 3 of them any good
-Vonorin seems quite good
-Torres seems very good, have a feeling though he may be one of those players that doesn't score for 4 games then puts 2 past Derby or scores 3 in the Carling Cup
The rest of Rafa's buys don't make the grade, you won't ever win the Premiership with players like Kuyt, Alonso and Crouch
And you have a long list of players that were bought for a lot and sold on for little:-
I think the Manchester United buy/sell/youth policy is working just fine.
To summerize:
- Premier League Champions for the ninth time
- Christiano Ronaldo
- Wayne 'Wazza' Rooney, a scouse legend
Enough said.
30 Sep 07
Originally posted by Rooney Once a BlueWhat about them? Foster aside not one of them would get a game at Chelsea, Arsenal or Liverpool.
blip?
What about:-
-Brown
-O'Shea
-Ben Foster, oh yes him
-Flecher
-Richardson sold for about 6m
-Rossi sold for about 7m
.
O'Shea? Hahahahahahaaaaa ... You're a funny guy alright!
30 Sep 07
Originally posted by Angry BoyI'm comparing our second crop of youth team players that have made it into the main squad.
What about them? Foster aside not one of them would get a game at Chelsea, Arsenal or Liverpool.
O'Shea? Hahahahahahaaaaa ... You're a funny guy alright!
Brown, o'Shea, Fletcher, Foster, Richardson, Rossi
All very valuable squad players, all internationals.
In addition like I said we continually sell 1 or 2 players a year for anything from 1 to 5 million from the youth team.
In particular Brown has done a great job while Neville has been out for half a year.
And like you said Foster looks like true class.
Our system has continued to produce, your post claimed it had not.
What has Liverpools youth system produced in recent times?
You seem to ridicule Manchester Uniteds youth development program.
It appears to me to be working well.
How about your own teams, what has Liverpools produced in recent times?
All I know about Liverpools youth program is that you've just fired some foreign trainer who was supposed to be quite good.
In addition to our sucessful youth program.
Manchester United also buy potenital like Ronaldo age 18 and turn them into some of the best players in the world.
Answer the question, what youth players have Liverpool developed over the last 5 or 6 years?
01 Oct 07
Originally posted by Rooney Once a BlueI would have to disagree with you there, Kuyt and Crouch are very good squad players, Alonso one of the best midfielders in the Premier League.
-Torres seems very good, have a feeling though he may be one of those players that doesn't score for 4 games then puts 2 past Derby or scores 3 in the Carling Cup
The rest of Rafa's buys don't make the grade, you won't ever win the Premiership with players like Kuyt, Alonso and Crouch
Torres is excellent but they did pay 27million for him!
p.s. Im a southern Man U fan and hate Liverpool. Just wait for Rooney to catch fire (...and he will) 😉
01 Oct 07
Originally posted by Rooney Once a Bluealonso?
The rest of Rafa's buys don't make the grade, you won't ever win the Premiership with players like
Alonso
he would walk into any team in the prem.
hhmmm carrick or alonso?
want to talk about over rated players in the prem?
first one on the list - wayne rooney
3 decent game in euro 04 and a screamer against arsenal and he's better than pele.
01 Oct 07
Originally posted by trevor33Wayne Rooney is definitely not overrated.
alonso?
he would walk into any team in the prem.
hhmmm carrick or alonso?
want to talk about over rated players in the prem?
first one on the list - wayne rooney
3 decent game in euro 04 and a screamer against arsenal and he's better than pele.
He has played a lot more than 4 good games and I have never heard of him being compared to Pele.