United entered the weekend top of the Premier League but had no reply to goals from Alexis Sánchez and Mesut Özil, which put the hosts 2-0 up within seven minutes. However, he only wants to quit Old Trafford for another Premier League club. “It’s wonderful”, he told Eurosport.
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“When a Benitez team has to attack, they throw everything into it. He is a manager that lives for football”. In the previous season, they boasted of wins over Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester City, with only Chelsea keeping them out among the teams in the top four. How many Porto players would interest Chelsea?
Manchester United is not used to losing to Arsene Wenger’s Arsenal.
Now Cruyff has added his criticism by claiming United don’t dominate games as they should be doing.
Manchester United boss Louis van Gaal is turning the screw on unwanted goalkeeper Victor Valdes. As though United had been undermined by a chaotic transfer strategy and by Van Gaal’s insistence on a particularly sterile form of possession football?
The timing for those United fans who saw Klopp as an ideal fit for the club could not have been worse.
With competition from the likes of Michael Carrick and Bastian Schweinsteiger, Schneiderlin says he can cope with reduced playing time in comparison to his spell with former club Southampton.
Memphis Depay has been given a dressing-down over his lifestyle by Ryan Giggs, writes Steve Bates in the Sunday People.
But statistics recently provided by Sportmatrix have now shown just how important possession-based-play is to the new-look United.
It is understood that Depay was dragged off at half-time against Arsenal for failing to track back and help out an overrun defence. Besiktas were linked in August, but the prospects of a move came to an end when they changed the terms of their contractual offer to him by slashing his wages.
The confident 21-year-old, a £25million summer signing from PSV Eindhoven, has anxious a few senior stars at Old Trafford with his flashy lifestyle.
As reported by FourFourTwo, the Frenchman said, that he was getting used to not playing all the matches under Louis van Gaal at Manchester United. “It was a hard situation but, after I spoke to Louis van Gaal, I said: “‘I am going to go to Manchester”‘.
As for Jose “the happy one” Mourinho, his rants usually work when his sides are winning, but when you start criticising your own players publicly so frequently, you’re only making a stick for others (including the same players) to beat you with.
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Eight games in and, with all due respect to Leicester, Everton and Tottenham, all the realistic challengers for the title have lost at least a quarter of their matches.
