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Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Can Manchester United Ever Win Again? #ManUtd #Losers


Most of us are probably wary by now of the number of posts and articles that have been published lambasting David Moyes and Manchester United this season. Even the jokes and mock Facebook movies are starting to wear thin.


Unfortunately, Moyes' men have definitely provided fuel to the fire and certainly 21 years of hurt from non Manchester United fans is finally coming out - and how!

For those born after 21 April 1993, the day Steve Bruce scored that double against Sheffield Wednesday to seal Manchester United's first title in years and kick off an era of dominance that appears to be now at an end, this will be quite a new and unnerving experience seeing their side that was once a proud winning machine be so tame and puny.


The game against Olympiakos - probably Manchester United's worst ever performance in Europe - has been analysed, dissected to death and the bad points from that game have already been made clear - and they're pretty much the same as they have been before.

David Moyes must clear the team this summer of the dead wood and players like Tom Cleverley, Javier Hernandez, Jonny Evans and Ashley Young will probably be sent away to join the likes of Nemanja Vidic, Rio Ferdinand, Patrice Evra and possibly the effervescent Ryan Giggs who Moyes might entice to join Phil Neville as one of his assistants.

Tom Cleverley and Michael Carrick were horrifically exposed by an average Olympiakos side
This Manchester United team certainly has some world class players, i.e. Rooney, van Persie, Kagawa, Mata, Fellaini, along with some solid young players like Chris Smalling and Phil Jones but the rest of the team has either been very average - Cleverley, Hernandez, etc. - or is past their prime (Giggs, Carrick, Ferdinand, Evra) and that has been the big problem for Manchester United this season.

This is the team that Manchester United need to have to get back at least into the Champions League - forget more attacking signings as Manchester United do actually have enough of those. It's midfield and defence that Moyes and the Glazers will have to prioritize for now.

OUT - Javier Hernandez, Michael Carrick, Darren Fletcher, Ryan Giggs, Tom Cleverley, Nani, Patrice Evra, Rio Ferdinand, Nemanja Vidic, Ashley Young, Jonny Evans, Anderson

GOALKEEPERS -
David de Gea
Andreas Lindegaard
Ben Amos

Manchester United need to chase a new replacement for Patrice Evra - could Coentrao be the one?
DEFENDERS -
Alex Buttner
Fabio Coentrao (from Real Madrid)
Chris Smalling
Phil Jones
Jan Vertonghen (from Tottenham - he wants out of Spurs)
Rafael
Guillermo Varela



MIDFIELDERS -
Marouane Fellaini
Shinji Kagawa
Antonio Valencia
Ander Herrera (from Athletic Bilbao)
Juan Mata
Nick Powell
Adnan Januzaj
Wilfred Zaha

FORWARDS -
Wayne Rooney
Robin van Persie
Danny Welbeck
Angelo Henriquez

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