Just watching Cameroon - Chupo-moting gets a bad rap but is actually half-decent.

comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 1 minute ago
Ownership priorities does come into it. I personally would rather see United's new owners build sensibly rather than spend zillions to transform the team overnight. Partly because the latter would imply the kind of money-no-object ownership that we associate with petrodollar authoritarian regimes and/or capricious oligarchs. Partly because that wouldn't feel like earned success: I want us to claw our way back to the top through hard work, ETH's coaching gradually making us play better and better, through the recruitment operation being forced to up their game to deliver incredible ROI. That's not so much a principled stand. It's about the emotional pay-off. I remember feeling ambivalent about Van Persie as a United player, not because he was anything other than great, but because plucking him from Arsenal felt like deploying a cheat code. The satisfaction is far greater if we discover our own gems, coach the players we have grown and the players we have bought with the proceeds of our work, and everyone does their jobs well with the result that we get better and better on the pitch.

For those reasons, I hope we don't buy Harry Kane.
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I agree. This way of United operating os often called the 'United Way'. The 'emotional pay off' has always been most satisfying aspect for many Old Skool United supporters, like me anyway, (local matchgoing, patient for success, of an age to have seen as much thick as thin who feel we have 'a stake' in the club (and Im sure its the same with most other clubs up and down the country). Being a spoilt kid in a toffee shop kinda fan has never appealed to me although I can see how it works for other and probably mainly known nothing but Fergie, aged fans. And there is nothing wrong with that if it works. We all want to see us win stuff

comment by -bloodred- (U1222)
posted 11 minutes ago
Just watching Cameroon - Chupo-moting gets a bad rap but is actually half-decent.
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He wouldn't have played CL games with PSG and Bayern if he wasn't. I think the disrespect comes from the fact that he once played for a very 'functional' Stoke side. Even then, my main Stoke memory of Choupo-Moting was him scoring a brace against us, being very hard to play against, and being awarded Man of the Match.

comment by -bloodred- (U1222)
posted 19 minutes ago
Just watching Cameroon - Chupo-moting gets a bad rap but is actually half-decent.
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He’s 33 and in the best form of what’s been a pretty average career. Good luck to him but he shouldn’t even be a consideration for us.

comment by The Process (U20671)
posted 24 minutes ago
comment by -bloodred- (U1222)
posted 19 minutes ago
Just watching Cameroon - Chupo-moting gets a bad rap but is actually half-decent.
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He’s 33 and in the best form of what’s been a pretty average career. Good luck to him but he shouldn’t even be a consideration for us.
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Not sure anyone was seriously suggesting we buy him. That said, if we were talking about a short-term option because a long-term one isn't available in January (ignoring the question of whether Choupo-Moting is actually available or cheap) I don't see it as absurd. He's not in the best form of his career. He has been a very creditable Plan B striker for two of the best teams in Europe for the last four years. Scoring in the later stages of the CL. I'm not sure United fans are in a position to look down on him.

comment by The Process (U20671)
posted 57 minutes ago
comment by -bloodred- (U1222)
posted 19 minutes ago
Just watching Cameroon - Chupo-moting gets a bad rap but is actually half-decent.
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He’s 33 and in the best form of what’s been a pretty average career. Good luck to him but he shouldn’t even be a consideration for us.
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Well, he should if we're looking at a 6 month short-term deal, which we most likely will be in Jan. We're not exactly likely to be spoilt for choice

Bayern are going to extend his contract I think.

Goal for my main man Mohammed Kudus. He’s not playing up front today but a real poachers finish with the flicked header.

Im sure ETH has already identified the long-term CF that he requires and has notified the recruitment team already. (I dont think hes watching the WC games on TV and during every game changes his mind to the guy who just scored a goal for the underdog every day. United should pull out all the stops to deiver that player as soon as possible. Otherwise it will require a short term stopgap loan or signing Ighalo style until they get their man. Whatever happens in January, doing nothing will certainly mean no CL next season.

comment by -bloodred- (U1222)
posted 47 minutes ago
comment by The Process (U20671)
posted 57 minutes ago
comment by -bloodred- (U1222)
posted 19 minutes ago
Just watching Cameroon - Chupo-moting gets a bad rap but is actually half-decent.
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He’s 33 and in the best form of what’s been a pretty average career. Good luck to him but he shouldn’t even be a consideration for us.
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Well, he should if we're looking at a 6 month short-term deal, which we most likely will be in Jan. We're not exactly likely to be spoilt for choice
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Agreed but why would Bayern let their top scorer this season go on a 6 month deal?

comment by BerbaKing11 (U6256)
posted 40 minutes ago
Goal for my main man Mohammed Kudus. He’s not playing up front today but a real poachers finish with the flicked header.
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And another.

Are we all on board the Kudus hype train now?

It's all about Cho Gue-sung of the mighty Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors.

comment by BerbaKing11 (U6256)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by BerbaKing11 (U6256)
posted 40 minutes ago
Goal for my main man Mohammed Kudus. He’s not playing up front today but a real poachers finish with the flicked header.
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And another.

Are we all on board the Kudus hype train now?
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I'm on the Taremi hype train

Have to say that I watched Jonathan David again yesterday with keen interest and once again I thought he was really, really poor. He’s obviously been making waves with Lille but he’s looked a million miles off the pace in his two WC games. I think it’s only fair on the basis of two WC matches to write him off completely.

That S Korean guy who jussed scoed

I think it’s only fair on the basis of two WC matches to write him off completely.
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Agreed. I’ve gone off him now.

comment by Lisandro The King Martinez (U10026)
posted 10 minutes ago
I think it’s only fair on the basis of two WC matches to write him off completely.
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Agreed. I’ve gone off him now.
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What do you expect from a player who has only excelled in a farmer's league and the lumberjack conference?

I always wanted to be a lumberjack.

It's never too late, Clockwork. Chase the dream.

We nead r trees trimmin

There a hornet nest in one of em tho butt they shud b ded bye👋 now

Shurlee you meen a whorenit nessed?

comment by WeekendOffender (U22920)
posted 44 seconds ago
Shurlee you meen a whorenit nessed?
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Ugottit

A lapse in concentration their

comment by #4zA - Oje ne, Napule ‘ncoppa! (U22472)
posted 1 hour, 28 minutes ago
comment by WeekendOffender (U22920)
posted 44 seconds ago
Shurlee you meen a whorenit nessed?
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Ugottit

A lapse in concentration their
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👍

Lukaku!

comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 11 minutes ago
Lukaku!
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Looks big, strong...snatching at chances a bit today but getting into the right positions and that's encouraging. He'd do well in the prem.