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The way people go on you'd think Carrick was Scholes or Lampard. He's more Nicky Butt and Gareth Barry than he is those two. I wouldn't touch him with a bargepole at 34, nee chance.

Well that says a lot about how much he ignored their gaping hole in midfield for years. He played Park, Carrick and a 38 year-old Giggs at CM in a CL final FFS. Carrick is nowt special and would be the archetypal Man Utd gravytrain arsehole who steps out of the comfort zone and realises his body can't keep up in a shit team.

Nowt in it really. It's laughable how overrated Carrick is.

Nicky Butt was a better player than Carrick and we signed him at 29 and he was fucking garbage. O'Shea. Brown. Neville. Keane. Ferdinand. Park. Silvestre. Smith. Could go on and on. Never sign old Man Utd cunts, rule #1 of football.

Nah, fuck him, old shite prick.

Fuck Carrick and all old Man Utd shite

0-13 last time they played, UEFA record

Dead @ Man Utd selling their only 2 world class players in Di Maria and De Gea

:lol:

Atletico look really strong going into next season

Thats Madjer, the Portuguese beach footballer not the Algerian from the 80s

He's not the kind of player I like, but he's still one of our best players. Only a lunatic would disagree.

Agree I'd start him from the off

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/jul/15/fabrizio-miccoli-birkirkara-west-ham-europa-league-malta

this was not what the internet was invented for

The winner of this one will have to play the U.S. (winner in 2013) in a one-off match to decide who heads to the Confed Cup in 2017. Nicely dodged. Yes Baba, this is the one where both teams (and not just the USA) sent their good team

Yaaaaas howay the Reggae Boyz

I think he'd be brilliant as the star of a team, like he is for the national side.

ffs

I agree on De Jong a bit, he seems very static and too upright for a #10. Not to write him off as he needs to get back up to speed but I'm not sure.

I'm pretty sure he's on the verge of joining Schalke as soon as Perisic goes the other way.

I'm surprised we're popular in Lerwick. I watched the WBA game in an empty main pub there with 3 other NUFC fans. Although maybe that was a lot.

“I went to visit (Borussia) Monchengladbach’s facilities. I had a good interview with their management, and the coach tried to sell it to me but the club could not pay what Anderlecht requested. “Atlético have also made a offer, but it was refused for the same reasons.” That to me, doesn't say "Newcastle was my first choice", it says "I would of signed for BMG, but they can't afford me" It doesn't say "I would have signed for BMG" at all. In fact, it says nothing of note whatsoever. For all we know, if all 3 clubs had matched the asking price he still may have chosen us as we're in the Premier League (which earlier in the article he says is his dream). Even if they were his first choice, so fuck of course he'd be inclined to go with CL clubs primarily.

He started 10 games last season. Wins against Gillingham, Palace, Man City, Liverpool, Villa, West Brom; a draw against Burnley and then defeats to Liverpool, Spurs and Man Utd during the Carver shitstorm Fact is in our good run of last season, where we more or less ensured we'd stay up and got to a cup quarter final, he was a key player in the midfield. This was his first run in the team after 18 months of loans in 2 different countries. Why you'd judge him on anything he did 3 years ago as a 19 year old is anybody's guess.

Precisely, Abeid could have played alongside Satka for example and would have been a much better fit. Can people just stop with this ridiculous Mehdi Abeid love-in? If he played alongside Satka at CB he would have been exposed in an unnatural position and done no better than Ferguson. Then you'd be like "Oh well if he played in his natural position he would have been one of the best players on the pitch and the back 4 would have been better with him covering it". As it was he played in his favoured CM role and looked absolutely lost and shocking as he has done every time I've seen him play apart from those 2 months when he looked good. Even Gouffran looked better than him for christs sake and I'm not even fucking exaggerating. When are people going to see all he had was just a short spell of decency? McClaren won't play him, let alone start him because the reality is he's not good enough. Those '2 months where he looked good' are all we've seen of him since he came back from 18 months of loans, and they were better than anything we've seen from Colback or Anita in there time at the club. So stop talking shite.