Destroy and rebuild

I believe we've taken too much to heart the media hype that we should be winning the CL, PL & FA Cup every ****ing year! Contrast that with the media view on Utd who have been ‘in transition’ for 2 seasons now. It appears to have resulted in the paralysis we’ve seen in not refreshing the team with 1 or 2 genuine 1st teamers every year.

Having now got to the top table by winning 2 PLs, FA Cup and League Cup in 4 seasons and establishing ourselves as perennial contenders, I believe it’s time to consolidate.

A few 1st teamer tweaks in the summer and the season after next for a period of transition in order to aim for no more than consolidating our Top 4 position (anything more is a bonus). This also begins our first 5-6 year rolling cycle of build / transition / exploit as far as our squad is concerned. That way we can stay within our means (2nd highest revenue in PL/6th highest in Europe!) while balancing emerging youth players with experienced transfer targets and retaining a solid core of players comfortable on the ball who have drive, energy and passion!

With our revenues, we’ll be Top 4 every season and genuine title contenders 3 to 4 years in every 5 or 6.

"None of our goals really came from 'exceptional play'."

Fellanis was, included a back heel and the cross was perfect , Young knew where to put it although Hart maybe could have got a better touch to it.

I think most of our goals came from the fact we outnumbered Man City and got into great areas. Man City defence didn't know whether to stick or twist. We attacked them to much so they caved in especially 2nd half.

We were architects of our own demise for me yesterday.

It was more LVG philosophy teams can't get out against us. Its like as if we are all in a line outnumbering teams all over the pitch. They did an analysis of Liverpool game and they said Liverpool could not get out there own half as man utd were outnumbering Liverpool with triangles and ball to Fellaini worked well

Tottenham game to 1st half was amazing as well. The irony is we beat 3 teams who like to press Tottenham Liverpool Man City and we outpressed them into mistakes.

Remember the barcelona games were they just compress the pitch into a small section and its like a carousel. Its hard to get out of as you going round and round chasing the ball.

Utd pressed us very high and instead of trusting ourselves and passing calmly and short to our midfielders to play our normal game, we thumped every ball high and long. Hart did this almost every time and so did our defenders. Not surprisingly, given the height differential of Aguero versus Jones/Smalling we also failed to pick up the second ball.

comment by gratedbean (U4885)
posted 7 hours, 2 minutes ago
It was offside though
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Be gracious! If it was offside it was by a shoe lace. Don't even think the City players contested it. The truth of the matter is that United showed City up, especially as the game went on. I still believe that City has a bunch of "tired" legs out there, especially on defense.

The mata one?