The Barclays Premier League Thread 2014/2015

[Whisper]

Cleverley at wing back isn't the worst idea in the world. He at least as the energy to get up and down and I'd rather have him stuck out on the right than in the middle.

Looking forward to seeing Blackett and Herrera (and possibly Reece James) today. .. been impressed with all 3 in pre season.

[Noah]

A Knights Tale ends just as the game against Swansea starts.

Awesome timing.

[Gazz]

Cleverley at wing back isn't the worst idea in the world. He at least as the energy to get up and down and I'd rather have him stuck out on the right than in the middle.

Looking forward to seeing Blackett and Herrera (and possibly Reece James) today. .. been impressed with all 3 in pre season.

He can't defend and he can't dribble, beat a man or cross, so what's the point in him being a wingback?

He can run up and down. Yippee.

[TCO]

Cleverley at wing back isn't the worst idea in the world. He at least as the energy to get up and down and I'd rather have him stuck out on the right than in the middle.

Looking forward to seeing Blackett and Herrera (and possibly Reece James) today. .. been impressed with all 3 in pre season.

He can't defend and he can't dribble, beat a man or cross, so what's the point in him being a wingback?

He can run up and down. Yippee.

Pretty much this. He's useless and will have no positional sense to play there. Wingback isn't a position that anybody can pay just because they're fit. It's an incredible amount of responsibility, they're the teams' entire width.

[Sam]

You're all just jealous that you can't field a player of the quality of Tom Cleverley

[Nerf]

Aren't wingback positions supposed to be filled by attack minded full backs, opposed to shit wingers. I understand van Gaal's rationale for playing 3-5-2 to accomadate Mata, Rooney and RVP but surely it lives and dies by having capable wing backs? Looking at United's squad they have none other than Shaw and maybe Rafael who are both unproven.

I still expect them to win comfortably today though and do well this season, now that they have a manager who isn't comically out of his depth.

Honestly, I don't know why van Gaal doesn't just use the 4-4-2 Diamond we used last season. That way he doesn't have to field all three of his shit CBs at the same time and still cram those three up top on the same positions.

[Gazz]

You're all just jealous that you can't field a player of the quality of Tom Cleverley

I'm already on my way out as a football fan, if Newcastle signed Tom Cleverley, I'd be done.

[Whisper]

Cleverley at wing back isn't the worst idea in the world. He at least as the energy to get up and down and I'd rather have him stuck out on the right than in the middle.

Looking forward to seeing Blackett and Herrera (and possibly Reece James) today. .. been impressed with all 3 in pre season.

He can't defend and he can't dribble, beat a man or cross, so what's the point in him being a wingback?

He can run up and down. Yippee.

Pretty much this. He's useless and will have no positional sense to play there. Wingback isn't a position that anybody can pay just because they're fit. It's an incredible amount of responsibility, they're the teams' entire width.

You're right, I did say Tom Cleverley will excel at Wing Back

I believe my exact words were. "I'd rather have him stuck out there than in the middle".

Also, playing wing back isn't as hard as people make it out to be. We have a belief that it's some wonderfully specialised position that only a select few can play, largely because we rarely see them over here.

Anyway, we're all agreed Cleverley is shite.

inb4 TC23 hat trick...

[MJB]

MUFC: De Gea, Smalling, Jones, Blackett, Lingard, Young, Fletcher, Herrera, Mata, Rooney ©, Hernandez.

Subs: Amos, James, M.Keane, Fellaini, Kagawa, Nani, Januzaj.

The front five look good but the obvious concern is how the wing-backs get on in a competitive match.

[Baddar]

Man Utd team v Swansea: De Gea, Jones, Smalling, Blackett, Lingard, Fletcher, Herrera, Young, Mata, Rooney, Hernandez

Debuts for Blackett and Lingard. Fellaini, Kagawa, Nani and Januzaj on the bench.

[Ant]

Bit of a risk from LVG there.

[EddieG]

MJB gave us the full bench.. -1 for Baddar?

[Baddar]

His hand was forced by Ed, who's on a beach somewhere spending our "unlimited funds".

[MJB]

Nothing else he could do really. Without signing any defenders, this is all we have. Lingard is a bit of a surprise but it's no more of a risk than anyone else would have been (ie. Cleverley).

With Evans, Shaw, Rafael and Valencia all hopefully to come in at some point, it should get better. But even so, we really could do with another defender or two.

[stokeriño]

Didn't get up early enough to remove Barkley from my team.

[Gorka]

Swansea: Fabianski, Rangel, Amat, Williams, Taylor, Ki, Shelvey, Dyer, Sigurdsson, Routledge, Bony.

Subs: Tremmel, Bartley, Richards, Tiendalli, Montero, Sheehan, Gomis.

Oh, it's going to be good.

Edited August 16, 2014 by Gorka

[Baddar]

MJB gave us the full bench.. -1 for Baddar?

He edited the bench in. :/

Also, Keane will probably be gone by the end of the window, Amos will never be #1, and James won't play at all if we sign more defenders.

[Whisper]

Didn't get up early enough to remove Barkley from my team.

Removed him with minutes to spare and put in Coutinho.

Edited August 16, 2014 by Whisper in the Wind

[Gazz]

Dammit!

I knew there was a reason I turned on my PC.

[Jimmy]

I'm in for any manager trying to use the youth systems a bit more, hopefully Lingaard does well, but United lose