I wonder how blunt he has been to Ed Woodward :inamood:

Rob Dawson twisting words. That's now what van Gaal said, nor how he said it.

Xabi Alonso: "Good luck to Di Maria, even if it is at Man Utd. We will never forget your assistance in Lisbon."

Di Maria:cheer2:.

We get Di Maria for 50 mil +, Liverpool get madman Balotelli for 16 mil.
Good luck Brendan :thumbs2:

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But @PhilJones4 added: "We need to keep working. We will evaluate the game tomorrow and we'll go again. We’ve got to keep improving." #mufc

A disappointed @PhilJones4 felt #mufc should have beaten Sunderland, saying: "We were dominant in possession but didn’t carve them open."

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On his own fitness, @Persie_Official added: "I feel fit and really good. I played my first hour and am looking forward to the next minutes.

@Persie_Official feels #mufc “lost two points”, adding: "We came here to win but were sloppy in possession and made it hard for ourselves."

RVP stinking up the joint once again time to bench and stick Wayne up top kill two birds with one stone. RVP is too slow and lacks movement too make this work and sticking Fatty up top stops him from taking up Mata's space every other minute ffs

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A British record £59.7m deal has been agreed between @ManUtd & Real Madrid for Angel Di Maria. More soon.

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United XI: De Gea, M Keane, Evans, Vermijl, James, Powell, Janko, Anderson, Hernandez, Kagawa, Welbeck #MUFClive

United subs vs MK Dons: Amos, McNair, Thorpe, A Pereira, Januzaj, Zaha, Wilson #MUFClive

United sign Angel Di Maria for record fee


Di Maria is now a Red!:):D:cool::cheer2::devil:.

So happy to see him sign for us.
Both Radio 5 & Talksport are slating us for signing him :sleep:
Let's prove the haters wrong :dance:

Oh dear that team backfired, we are a shambles and laughing stock and deservedly so.

We've been very sloppy like the last two matches, awful defensively and we lack any creative impetus and look like we've run out of ideas.

It's getting worse, but I have faith that LVG will eventually make it better. There are a lot of changes that need to be made!

Credit to MK Dons, they have played well and fair play, look like they wanted it more too.

LVG has a big task on his hands. This will take time & money.
I think LVG is now realising just how far behind we are now.
The likes of City & Chelsea will tear us apart.
The media will slate us but we are a great club in a huge transition.
I still think the future is bright. We should not panic.

Time to scrap 352. It worked fine in Pre Season, but as soon as it matters the players **** themselves playing that system. Our defenders just cant play a pass out of defense bar Blackett so when they are pressed they just give it straight back.

We don't even have the players, fit at least, to play any formation well enough really.

3-5-3 could work, in time, with better defenders. Right now if we go 4-3-3 it's Fletcher, Cleverley and probably Di Maria. Hardly miles better with the former two.

Our defenders are beyond awful.
Woodward needs to go shopping tomorrow with the Glazers chequebook.
Spend, spend, spend.
There are good players out there. It's damage control now.
This was just the league cup but in the PL we will get ripped apart.

4-1-2-1-2

Carrick

Herrera
Di Maria

Mata

Welbeck
Rooney/RVP

One day we will have the fitness to do that. One day.

The defence is still dodgy in terms of a lack of a top draw, experienced, defender and relying on Smalling, Jones and Evans to remain fit.

The 3-5-3 will be criticised heavily but, we're asking Vermijl to come in and make his debut in the formation... Keane playing in it competitively. I think it can work, with the right players. Whatever formation we play, the defence is still not good enough.

It was a really sad sight to watch tonight, Man Utd rarely ever played like that under Fergie, now it's becoming a common occurance and Van Gaal has started off worse than even Moyes at this time last season.

These are the things that Van Gaal needs to sort out if he wants to keep his job.

1. Stop playing a 3-5-2 formation, he hasn't got the players for it and it has never worked in the Premiership.

2. Buy a couple of Centre Midfielders as without Carrick that area of their team gets ripped apart like a strip of wind.

3. Sort the training regime out at the club as they have far too many injuries lately that no other team seems to suffer from quite so severely.

4. They need to buy a left back, a right back, and a centre half because the defenders are not good enough that are there at the minute.

5. Sell Welbeck and Hernandez as they're not good enough for Man Utd, and take a gamble on players such as Adebayor for Spurs, and Weimann for Aston Villa as super subs if Van Persie, or Rooney aren't playing very well.

Tell me point number 5 is you taking the piss or I'm cancelling my internet.

I do think that Welbeck and Hernandez are like chicken in headlights when they play for more than 15 minutes.

Welbeck wasn't even that bad tonight. He just had nothing played into him.

And Adebayor and Weimann are the answer? Adebayor as a super sub?

Lol. Welbeck is like the only senior player that played tonight that shouldn't be ****ed off to League 1 the next day. Not much he can do when he's running past guys with and without the ball, but is surrounded by pure ****e.

Weimann is ****ing awful LOL

They was just examples lol, but with Welbeck he really struggles quite a lot lately to do anything right.