You're going to love our exotic trip to Newcastle, Claude.

Claudius wrote:

The only thing that I care about is getting some exotic teams. Especially big names we haven’t seen in the league since the 90s like a Wednesday, Forest or Rangers. Otherwise, don’t care about the draw. As useless as we have been in the league, the draw doesn’t seem to bother us much in the FA Cup. We just need to turn up and impale the motherfuckers

What? We faced Forest and Wednesday recent years, think we got knocked out.

Klaus wrote:

You're going to love our exotic trip to Newcastle, Claude.

Just happy that we have a predictably easy opponent there. Even Elneny can take them.
Don’t forget to wish him a happy birthday

Qwiss! wrote:

City had a load of easy draws last year then they met us and we beat them. Easy runs don't often translate into getting your name on the cup. If we want to win it we need to able for the likes of Soton and Wolves.

But you do agree that if the odds of beating Newcastle is X and the odds of beating Southampton is Y then the odds of beating both are X*Y? And if the odds of beating Shrewbury is Z and Z is a better value than Y then by extension you have a better chance of winning the cup by facing Shrewbury instead of Southampton. It's not about it automatically translating to winning it.

Big Willie wrote:

If you're a team who's whole season can get detailed because of a cup upset then you had no business thinking you could win anything in the first place Sicario.

You got to appreciate at that time winning a trophy was literally stopping the club from moving forward, it was nearly 9 years without one at that point. Hence why that defeat was bigger than it should have been.

10 days later

Rashford has really stepped up this season. Looks brilliant.

Mane is a dirty prick, isn't he? That should have been a red. He's going to break someone's leg one day. I've seen him lunge into challenges with studs showing for years.

Fair play to Soljskaer. This United team isn't just lucky.

Some degree of consistency and backing can really pay off.

That Fernandes has really taken them up a level , kind of player who wants to win and has the skills to make it happen.

I don't get it. So is OGS a good coach? It seems like he is.

AAStyle- wrote:

I don't get it. So is OGS a good coach? It seems like he is.

Think he’s learning so credit where credit is due.

His handling of big name players (Pogba) has been better than what we saw of Emery and Arteta so far must be said (Ozil).

Tactically I still think he’s weak/average.

Ole is still a clown, but he's got this group playing in way that works well enough for them. Still got knocked out of the CL group stages and even if they keep up their current pace they're going to end with an 80 point season, which was their last finish when he took over. It's only because expectations are so low that we think that's a great achievement for an £800m squad.

It seems to be a harder league now though. I don't think they'll win the league, but he's doing better now than I expected.

Until we start the downward spiral next weekend.

goon wrote:

Ole is still a clown, but he's got this group playing in way that works well enough for them. Still got knocked out of the CL group stages and even if they keep up their current pace they're going to end with an 80 point season, which was their last finish when he took over. It's only because expectations are so low that we think that's a great achievement for an £800m squad.

Yeah, the financial backing of that squad is quite something. I'm not glad that United are doing well, but I'm definitely happy that they don’t have a different manager.

Quincy Abeyie wrote:
goon wrote:

Ole is still a clown, but he's got this group playing in way that works well enough for them. Still got knocked out of the CL group stages and even if they keep up their current pace they're going to end with an 80 point season, which was their last finish when he took over. It's only because expectations are so low that we think that's a great achievement for an £800m squad.

Yeah, the financial backing of that squad is quite something.

Pretty much this. When the squad is good your team is usually good too. United have spent a decade and literal billions to brute force something that resembles a solution, and they've wasted incredible amounts of cash meanwhile. Whatever Solskjaer brings or doesn't bring pales in comparison to the consistent investment, which has been anything but clever on their part.

Brute force is such a perfect description of how their potential success will have been achieved.

OGS previous weakness is not winning against small teams. He always does well in big games. Now he have so many flat track bullies to penalty their way to win in small games.

Fernandes is really something else though. Ridiculously good player

He's the only difference between Y***ted being in and around our league table position and where they are now.