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Manchester United Season 2019 - 2020
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Manchester United vs Liverpool: Paul Pogba and David De Gea
ruled out of Premier League derby
The midfielder is still battling an ankle problem while the goalkeeper picked up an injury playing for Spain
Manchester United midfielder Paul Pogba has been ruled out of Sunday’s Premier League clash with Liverpool while goalkeeper David De Gea faces a scan and is a major injury doubt.
Pogba has been battling an ankle problem and United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer confirmed that the 26-year-old has suffered a setback in his recovery.
Solskjaer told Sky Sports: “Paul had an injury, he came back, he worked really hard. He came back and played a couple of games, maybe played through the pain barrier.
“He had a scan after the Arsenal game and maybe needed a few weeks’ rest in a boot so hopefully he won’t be too long, but he won’t make this game, no.”
De Gea was forced off in Spain’s Euro 2020 qualifier against Sweden on Tuesday night and Solskjaer admits he is also likely to miss the Liverpool clash at Old Trafford.
ruled out of Premier League derby
The midfielder is still battling an ankle problem while the goalkeeper picked up an injury playing for Spain
Manchester United midfielder Paul Pogba has been ruled out of Sunday’s Premier League clash with Liverpool while goalkeeper David De Gea faces a scan and is a major injury doubt.
Pogba has been battling an ankle problem and United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer confirmed that the 26-year-old has suffered a setback in his recovery.
Solskjaer told Sky Sports: “Paul had an injury, he came back, he worked really hard. He came back and played a couple of games, maybe played through the pain barrier.
“He had a scan after the Arsenal game and maybe needed a few weeks’ rest in a boot so hopefully he won’t be too long, but he won’t make this game, no.”
De Gea was forced off in Spain’s Euro 2020 qualifier against Sweden on Tuesday night and Solskjaer admits he is also likely to miss the Liverpool clash at Old Trafford.
I will let you all know my bet on this Manchester United vs Liverpool match this coming Sunday 
Odds pro Pool, no surprise for red devils languishing. And M Lawrenson's prediction no surprise either (being a scouser too)I will let you all know my bet on this Manchester United vs Liverpool match this coming Sunday
It is more than five years since Liverpool won at Old Trafford but will the Premier League leaders leave with three points on Sunday?
Manchester United are struggling for points and goals and BBC football expert Mark Lawrenson feels the top-of-the-table Merseysiders are heavy favourites.
"Liverpool are not always playing that well, but they are winning all the time, which is a great feeling," Lawrenson said.
"United, meanwhile, have got big problems. When they lost at Newcastle a couple of weeks ago, they were just a mess. They were like a dog's dinner."
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Nine in 10 Manchester United fans unhappy with the way club is run,
supporters group survey finds
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/footbal...-united-fans-unhappy-way-club-run-supporters/
Ed Woodward is Man Utd's executive vice-chairman CREDIT: AFP
More than 90 per cent of Manchester United fans are dissatisfied with the way the club is being run by the Glazer family and executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward according to a survey by the United Voice.
The survey was launched at the start of the season and was open until the end of September with more than 10,000 United supporters taking part. It is the largest survey of its kind carried out to assess the mood of the club’s increasingly disgruntled fan base.
The results are damning, with little confidence the club will return to its former glory under the current owners or management model.
Although there is still support for manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, 86 per cent of those who responded to the survey are unhappy with the team’s performances since Sir Alex Ferguson’s retirement in 2013, while more than two thirds expressed their dismay at both the lack of money spent on players in that period, as well as the way poor standard of recruitment under Woodward.
Worryingly for the Old Trafford hierarchy, the level of dissatisfaction is highest among younger supporters, with the vast majority of the 91 per cent who are angry about the way the club is bring run, aged 40 or under.
Man Utd fans have been making their feelings known publicly CREDIT: GETTY IMAGES
With Woodward so far resisting calls to appoint a director of football to oversee recruitment and all other areas of the football side of the business, less than 25 per cent of fans are confident the football operation will be led by someone qualified to do so.
And, with Old Trafford beginning to show signs of age and in desperate need of rejuvenation, less than 20 per cent of supporters believe the club will provide the investment needed to bring the stadium and other club infrastructure up to date.
However, there was some positive news buried within the avalanche of negative responses, as more than 72 per cent have some level of confidence that there is a clear vision and strategy in the running of the club, even if they do not necessarily agree it is the right direction to travel in.
In a statement, United Voice revealed they had already shared the results of the survey with Manchester United and had been in conversations with them as they continue to push for a more open dialogue between the club and its supporters.
“In early September we shared the emerging results of our survey with the club,” United Voice said in a statement. “In particular, supporters’ significant concerns regarding the management of transfers, restructuring of the football operation and commitment to ongoing major investment in the squad and the stadium.
“Through those channels there has been a clearer articulation of the vision, the ‘culture reset’ and the changes in the structure of the football operations relating to transfers to help to deliver it, as well as some acknowledgement of past mistakes, and commitments to improve communication with supporters… on balance we think the changes that have been put in place must be given some time to deliver.
“The owners and the club must then be held to account for the structural changes and appointments that have been made and will be judged by progress and results over the rest of this season and, in particular, by the outcome of the January transfer window. The manager has to be backed by both club and supporters to deliver with a strengthened squad.
“However, the underlying issue that concerns supporters most is the ownership structure of the club and the money that has been systematically removed both directly (through fees and dividends) and indirectly (through the earlier imposition and subsequent servicing of debt).
“Without those burdens, the long and painful decline of the team and our club would never have happened. Critically for the future, we have yet to see formal assurances on necessary funding to deliver the vision for either the playing squad or the stadium.”
supporters group survey finds
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/footbal...-united-fans-unhappy-way-club-run-supporters/
Ed Woodward is Man Utd's executive vice-chairman CREDIT: AFP
More than 90 per cent of Manchester United fans are dissatisfied with the way the club is being run by the Glazer family and executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward according to a survey by the United Voice.
The survey was launched at the start of the season and was open until the end of September with more than 10,000 United supporters taking part. It is the largest survey of its kind carried out to assess the mood of the club’s increasingly disgruntled fan base.
The results are damning, with little confidence the club will return to its former glory under the current owners or management model.
Although there is still support for manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, 86 per cent of those who responded to the survey are unhappy with the team’s performances since Sir Alex Ferguson’s retirement in 2013, while more than two thirds expressed their dismay at both the lack of money spent on players in that period, as well as the way poor standard of recruitment under Woodward.
Worryingly for the Old Trafford hierarchy, the level of dissatisfaction is highest among younger supporters, with the vast majority of the 91 per cent who are angry about the way the club is bring run, aged 40 or under.
Man Utd fans have been making their feelings known publicly CREDIT: GETTY IMAGES
With Woodward so far resisting calls to appoint a director of football to oversee recruitment and all other areas of the football side of the business, less than 25 per cent of fans are confident the football operation will be led by someone qualified to do so.
And, with Old Trafford beginning to show signs of age and in desperate need of rejuvenation, less than 20 per cent of supporters believe the club will provide the investment needed to bring the stadium and other club infrastructure up to date.
However, there was some positive news buried within the avalanche of negative responses, as more than 72 per cent have some level of confidence that there is a clear vision and strategy in the running of the club, even if they do not necessarily agree it is the right direction to travel in.
In a statement, United Voice revealed they had already shared the results of the survey with Manchester United and had been in conversations with them as they continue to push for a more open dialogue between the club and its supporters.
“In early September we shared the emerging results of our survey with the club,” United Voice said in a statement. “In particular, supporters’ significant concerns regarding the management of transfers, restructuring of the football operation and commitment to ongoing major investment in the squad and the stadium.
“Through those channels there has been a clearer articulation of the vision, the ‘culture reset’ and the changes in the structure of the football operations relating to transfers to help to deliver it, as well as some acknowledgement of past mistakes, and commitments to improve communication with supporters… on balance we think the changes that have been put in place must be given some time to deliver.
“The owners and the club must then be held to account for the structural changes and appointments that have been made and will be judged by progress and results over the rest of this season and, in particular, by the outcome of the January transfer window. The manager has to be backed by both club and supporters to deliver with a strengthened squad.
“However, the underlying issue that concerns supporters most is the ownership structure of the club and the money that has been systematically removed both directly (through fees and dividends) and indirectly (through the earlier imposition and subsequent servicing of debt).
“Without those burdens, the long and painful decline of the team and our club would never have happened. Critically for the future, we have yet to see formal assurances on necessary funding to deliver the vision for either the playing squad or the stadium.”
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Manchester United wanted Mauricio Pochettino before Ole took the wheel
– now they should go and get him
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s impressive start at Old Trafford ended United’s chase of the Spurs manager, but now Pochettino is available and would fit the club’s desire for a young and energetic team
https://www.independent.co.uk/sport...-ole-gunnar-solskjaer-tottenham-a9210251.html
In an alternative reality, Mauricio Pochettino might already be the Manchester United manager.
The sliding doors moment was Ed Woodward’s impulsive decision to appoint Ole Gunnar Solskjaer on a permanent basis in March. Woodward could have waited until the summer to see how things panned out, but Solskjaer had won 12 of his 13 league games since taking interim charge following the sacking of Jose Mourinho, joy was sweeping through Old Trafford with Ole at the wheel, and United’s executive vice-chairman decided along with the board that a three-year contract was “richly deserved”.
Solskjaer’s honeymoon period not only proved deceptive as United’s form quickly collapsed, but it scuppered Woodward’s planned summer move for Pochettino. There is no guarantee the Argentine would have accepted an approach from Old Trafford, nor that Daniel Levy would have sanctioned his departure, but we know Pochettino was ready to walk away from Tottenham had they won the Champions League final and he knew that his enchanting powers over the Spurs players were fading.
So should Woodward knock down Pochettino’s door now he has been sacked by Tottenham? He is a good fit, with a track record of overperforming in charge of a young team who play an entertaining, energetic and fearless style. He knows how to build a title challenge in the Premier League and how to take major scalps in the Champions League. And somehow he feels right – he carries that slight maniacal edge that all great managers have, someone who wouldn’t be intimidated by the high walls of Old Trafford, and it seems easy to imagine him scowling over the rim of that red-brick dugout.
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One caution would be his record against the two managers that, ultimately, he would be judged against. Pochettino has come up against Pep Guardiola and Jurgen Klopp 29 times in all, winning only four of those games. But that comes with the caveat that his net spend at Spurs over his five years was infinitesimal compared to those managers, while Spurs’ wage budget was only about 60 per cent of that at City and Liverpool. At United he would be able to compete on a more even financial footing, and the theory at least is that he could redress the balance.
There is also the doubt around whether Pochettino is a fading power. Just as Mourinho’s once-supreme talents have waned with the passage of time, there is a concern that Pochettino might too be losing his touch. But his departure from Espanyol seven years ago came in similar circumstances, reaching what felt like the natural end of a cycle rather than the discovery of some hidden weakness, and Klopp and Guardiola themselves have endured similar moments at Borussia Dortmund and Barcelona respectively. This feels more of a blip than a serious downturn and the sense is that Pochettino has plenty more to give.
From Pochettino’s perspective, there are a couple of alternatives. Bayern Munich are the most obvious choice given the post is vacant and currently being marshalled by interim head coach Hans-Dieter Flick, but Bayern are thought to be keen on Erik ten Hag, the man who took Ajax to the Champions League semi-finals last year and who worked in Munich previously as Guardiola’s assistant. Then there’s Paris Saint-Germain, who are dominating Ligue 1 under Thomas Tuchel and going well in the Champions League, but despite their eight-point gap at the top of the French table they have conspired to lose three league games already this season and the hierarchy remain unconvinced by the German. Pochettino, incidentally, spent two years playing at PSG.
Mauricio Pochettino on the sideline at Old Trafford last season (Getty Images)
Much rests with Pochettino. After five years demanding intensity and emotion from his players and staff, things finally went stale and the 47-year-old may decide that he needs time to recharge his batteries. But then United are in no great rush either: the top four is almost out of sight given the clear disparity so far this season between the leading quartet and the rest, while Spurs themselves could resurge into the picture under Jose Mourinho and Arsenal are still chasing. It all means United’s league season may be beyond saving by a rushed change, and if Solskjaer’s appointment taught Woodward anything it’s that patience is a virtue.
The noises from United remain wholly positive in their backing of Solskjaer, but there can be no denying that he is falling short of expectations when he signed that three-year deal. Dismal recent league defeats by West Ham, Newcastle and Bournemouth were not good enough. Woodward originally wanted Pochettino in the summer before a change of plan, and now he has the chance to get his man.
– now they should go and get him
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s impressive start at Old Trafford ended United’s chase of the Spurs manager, but now Pochettino is available and would fit the club’s desire for a young and energetic team
https://www.independent.co.uk/sport...-ole-gunnar-solskjaer-tottenham-a9210251.html
In an alternative reality, Mauricio Pochettino might already be the Manchester United manager.
The sliding doors moment was Ed Woodward’s impulsive decision to appoint Ole Gunnar Solskjaer on a permanent basis in March. Woodward could have waited until the summer to see how things panned out, but Solskjaer had won 12 of his 13 league games since taking interim charge following the sacking of Jose Mourinho, joy was sweeping through Old Trafford with Ole at the wheel, and United’s executive vice-chairman decided along with the board that a three-year contract was “richly deserved”.
Solskjaer’s honeymoon period not only proved deceptive as United’s form quickly collapsed, but it scuppered Woodward’s planned summer move for Pochettino. There is no guarantee the Argentine would have accepted an approach from Old Trafford, nor that Daniel Levy would have sanctioned his departure, but we know Pochettino was ready to walk away from Tottenham had they won the Champions League final and he knew that his enchanting powers over the Spurs players were fading.
So should Woodward knock down Pochettino’s door now he has been sacked by Tottenham? He is a good fit, with a track record of overperforming in charge of a young team who play an entertaining, energetic and fearless style. He knows how to build a title challenge in the Premier League and how to take major scalps in the Champions League. And somehow he feels right – he carries that slight maniacal edge that all great managers have, someone who wouldn’t be intimidated by the high walls of Old Trafford, and it seems easy to imagine him scowling over the rim of that red-brick dugout.
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One caution would be his record against the two managers that, ultimately, he would be judged against. Pochettino has come up against Pep Guardiola and Jurgen Klopp 29 times in all, winning only four of those games. But that comes with the caveat that his net spend at Spurs over his five years was infinitesimal compared to those managers, while Spurs’ wage budget was only about 60 per cent of that at City and Liverpool. At United he would be able to compete on a more even financial footing, and the theory at least is that he could redress the balance.
There is also the doubt around whether Pochettino is a fading power. Just as Mourinho’s once-supreme talents have waned with the passage of time, there is a concern that Pochettino might too be losing his touch. But his departure from Espanyol seven years ago came in similar circumstances, reaching what felt like the natural end of a cycle rather than the discovery of some hidden weakness, and Klopp and Guardiola themselves have endured similar moments at Borussia Dortmund and Barcelona respectively. This feels more of a blip than a serious downturn and the sense is that Pochettino has plenty more to give.
From Pochettino’s perspective, there are a couple of alternatives. Bayern Munich are the most obvious choice given the post is vacant and currently being marshalled by interim head coach Hans-Dieter Flick, but Bayern are thought to be keen on Erik ten Hag, the man who took Ajax to the Champions League semi-finals last year and who worked in Munich previously as Guardiola’s assistant. Then there’s Paris Saint-Germain, who are dominating Ligue 1 under Thomas Tuchel and going well in the Champions League, but despite their eight-point gap at the top of the French table they have conspired to lose three league games already this season and the hierarchy remain unconvinced by the German. Pochettino, incidentally, spent two years playing at PSG.
Mauricio Pochettino on the sideline at Old Trafford last season (Getty Images)
Much rests with Pochettino. After five years demanding intensity and emotion from his players and staff, things finally went stale and the 47-year-old may decide that he needs time to recharge his batteries. But then United are in no great rush either: the top four is almost out of sight given the clear disparity so far this season between the leading quartet and the rest, while Spurs themselves could resurge into the picture under Jose Mourinho and Arsenal are still chasing. It all means United’s league season may be beyond saving by a rushed change, and if Solskjaer’s appointment taught Woodward anything it’s that patience is a virtue.
The noises from United remain wholly positive in their backing of Solskjaer, but there can be no denying that he is falling short of expectations when he signed that three-year deal. Dismal recent league defeats by West Ham, Newcastle and Bournemouth were not good enough. Woodward originally wanted Pochettino in the summer before a change of plan, and now he has the chance to get his man.
How did leicester go 2nd? Without mahrez!
厉害国 is also into your so-called 'BE shit' game... except like the rest of the country, it is of an inferior quality.
Wow... 21 points behind Liverpool who have TWO games in hand!
The title is Liverpool to lose. It’s a scrap for fourth now.
