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Shame on Antonio Conte for not just setting up his team to lose and roll over for Liverpool to claim a straight forward win
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Another reminder tonight of just what an achievement it was Manchester United winning the treble in 98/99. Liverpool have wiped away all before them in the Premier League but crashed out of the FA Cup and now the Champs Lge within the space of eight days
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It’s January 15 and Manchester United are TWENTY FOUR points behind the Premier League leaders in a season they were expected to challenge for the title. They are, quite frankly, a disgrace
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Just watched Maguire's disallowed goal back again - it really is a superb header. His elevation and momentum takes him over Pieters and his eyes are fixed firmly on the ball. What else is he supposed to do? It's an absolute shocker of a decision the more you watch it
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How can Manchester United start a brand new season with Timothy Fosu-Mensah and Daniel James as their right flank? They're supposed to be moving forward. As pressing as the need for a right-sided forward is, though, how another centre-half has not been prioritised is staggering
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Would like to see Souness’ reaction had someone turned his back on him and ambled off for a moment while he was talking and then had a hand dismissively waved at him …
Micah Richards: "Kane's not turned up for training and we're calling him a saint, Pogba's never said he wanted to leave
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but he's getting abuse."
#mulive
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Six defeats in the past 14 Premier League games for
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Bruno Fernandes telling Guardiola to ssshh. Puts a finger to his lip to silence the City manager
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Maybe more will appreciate now why there were
#mufc
fans who campaigned so vocally against the Glazers’ takeover in 2005. And those now in a flap who allowed it to happen - well, you reap what you sow. Greed, exploitation & the death of ambition, that’s the Glazers’ legacy at OT
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Ten Hag on boos for Maguire in win over Melbourne on Tuesday: “If you perform, it slows down.”
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I genuinely think this government thought Marcus Rashford would slip away quietly
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Sir Jim Ratcliffe will bid for Manchester United after the Glazers formally put the club on the market, Telegraph Sport can reveal
#MUFC
(with
@Tom_Morgs
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Rashford is unplayable at the moment. Looks like a man possessed
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Gary Neville calls for Ed Woodward to be sacked as
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exec vice chairman. “If you don’t lose your job for essentially overseeing that investment, that wage bill, and putting that team out on the pitch then I have to say something is really wrong.”
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So
@MattHancock
in April you asked footballers to play their part. Marcus Rashford has raised £20m during the lockdown to help feed 3m vulnerable people every week. Now he’s asking you & your fellow MPs to play your part by extending the food voucher scheme during summer hols ...
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Marcel Sabitzer is due to fly to Manchester shortly as
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race to complete a loan deal from Bayern Munich before deadline
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Got a lot of time for this lad. He’s a player with plenty of ability and a really good mentality. A lot of that United team needs clearing out but not him. See a lot of Jordan Henderson in him. In the right hands, used properly, he’s a real asset
"Whatever goes on behind the scenes is completely irrelevant to me."
Scott McTominay reacts to Manchester United's 4-1 defeat to Manchester City 🔊
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So Old Trafford hasn’t made the final shortlist of stadiums for the UK and Ireland’s joint bid to host Euro 2028. An embarrassment for England’s biggest football club/biggest club ground and we all know who is to blame for that
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There's been a breakthrough in the impasse over agents' fees and personal terms where Sancho and United are concerned. Sancho keen to move to
#mufc
before Oct. 5. But United would still have to agree a fee with Dortmund and that's not straight forward
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United haven't bid £89m for Sancho and there's not been formal contact with Borussia Dortmund yet
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Mourinho was sent to the stands for momentarily stepping foot on the pitch v Southampton. Guardiola is 10 yards on it celebrating manically and the ref just has a quiet word. This isn't about Jose v Pep, it's about alarmingly inconsistent officiating. None of it makes sense
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I couldn’t disagree more strongly with this statement. The best feel they have to prove themselves every single game
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Whatever your opinions on Pogba/his situation with United, I’d argue that no matter who the player the nerve to start fluttering eyelashes at another club days after your team have been stuffed 6-1 at home really isn’t a good look
Paul Pogba says playing for Real Madrid 'would be a dream' opening door to Man Utd exit
@mcgrathmike
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Biggest spending clubs on transfer fees 2011-2020 according to Fifa report:
1. Manchester City
2. Chelsea
3. Barcelona
4. PSG
5. Real Madrid
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How to conduct a two minute post match TV interview by
@fredcaldeira
. Brilliant. The interviewer is Brazilian, the interviewee Norwegian and their English is better than mine
"Ronaldo, Ronaldinho e Pelé". O Haaland citou essas lendas como inspiração. Tá ruim? 😂 O craque do Manchester City também bateu um papo com o nosso repórter
@fredcaldeira
sobre o GOLAÇO na Champions e o reencontro com o Borussia.
#CasaDaChampions
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He won't want the praise and will be the first to say it's very much a collective effort but Jordan Henderson has been absolutely central to coordinating all of this. Ask any players/people involved and they will all say the same thing. Well done that man
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Best of luck to Ashley Young at Inter. Served United with great professionalism for eight and a half years and proved himself most adaptable, playing in all manner of positions. Took a lot of unfair flak when he was plugging holes he shouldn't have had to. One of the good guys
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No Son, no Rodri. Find that perverse
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As per
@DuncanCastles
United have agreed personal terms with Bruno Fernandes. Deal happening down to the clubs agreeing fee etc. Solskjaer eager for a midfielder with McTominay & Pogba out and hoping Rashford injury not a big problem
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Ah, it’s that time of the year again
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So Avram Glazer looking to sell 5m Class A shares & net around $100m at a time when
#MUFC
’s income fell by a c5th last season & the Glazers still pocketed £18.5m in dividends. United confirm club would “not receive any proceeds” from any share sale. Another two fingers up to fans
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#MUFC
at Old Trafford since that opening day defeat to Brighton: WWLWDWWWWWWWWWWWWWDWW. Beaten Liverpool, Arsenal, Spurs, Man City and Barcelona in that time
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Jadon Sancho
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medical complete. Contract 5 years plus option of another 12 months. Doesn't sound like an official annoucement will come today as things stand
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insisting there’s no change to their position on Cristiano Ronaldo. Club say he has a year remaining on his contract and is not for sale
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For all the emotion around Solskjaer's exit for staff, if you're Carrick, Fletcher or McKenna right now you'll be rubbing your hands at the prospect of learning off Rangnick
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Ten Hag has handled the Ronaldo situation really well from the outset. His authority all the stronger now
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Bruno Fernandes has told Sporting he'd like to join
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this month if a deal can be struck between the clubs
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Rashford looks in real shape. Picture probably doesn’t quite do him justice. Big few months ahead for him
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Two bookings now Craig Pawson has neglected to make - Milner on Maguire and Thiago on Rashford. Clear as day yellows
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No Sancho and no proven right winger. No centre half and a 33yo veteran striker who hasn’t played for 7 months and who United just have to hope can get and stay fit. Desperate times at
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"United’s desperate scramble to sign a pedigree right winger has ended in defeat as manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was forced to settle for a last gasp deal for veteran striker Edinson Cavani on a chaotic deadline day."
@TelegraphDucker
&
@mcgrathmike
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have raised £232m in sales in 2022 & could hit £250m before the summer is out. Even if a £50m left back comes in, they’ll still be in line to make a net profit of £72m to £90m in the 2 windows this year. Few work the transfer market as well as them
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Nice nonchalant touch from Anthony Martial to pull David De Gea’s long pass out of the sky and then lay off for Fernandes to shoot
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When is football going to adequately deal with this sort of thing. It’s totally unacceptable. Having a grievance with a decision or whatever isn’t an excuse for behaving like this. Find it staggering that a bright, grown man at the top of his tree would feel the need to do this
Jurgen Klopp sprints to the fourth official in the midst of the Liverpool celebrations — then appears to pull his hamstring...
#LFC
|
#LIVTOT
🎬
@footballdaily
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Can’t work out if Manchester United’s Twitter feed is a Ronaldo aggregator site that also tweets United news or the club’s official Twitter account any more
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How the hell is this bloke 35. Never ceases to amaze me
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Scholes on De Gea for that third goal. "He bottles it. He's scared of getting himself hurt. As a goalkeeper make yourself as big as possible. He actually makes himself smaller. As an experienced goalkeeper, it's criminal."
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Mourinho signings as
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manager: Mkhitaryan (sold), Ibra (left), Bailly (frozen out), Lindelof (didn't make Cup final 18), Pogba (future v uncertain), Sanchez (playing like a drain), Lukaku (felt he could have done more to be fit for final), Matic (the one he's happy with)
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Football went into lockdown for months, affording United additional time to plan. This window has been open 10 weeks. Yet Solskjaer finds himself still waiting for the club to adequately back him while Chelsea, Lpool, City, Arsenal, Spurs & Everton have all retooled. Staggering
Solskjaer in unenviable position. Won’t criticise the club but now finds himself defending the strength of squad with four days until the close of the window only weeks after saying he needed more depth and having watched all his rivals strengthen
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David De Gea’s resurgence this season has been quite something. That was a world class performance from him last night and reminded you of the years he spent routinely bailing an average team out of trouble. Great to see him back in that form
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Decision to postpone PL/EFL games is daft enough but not as bad as the decision to cancel grassroots football. Kids have missed enough sport through Covid, it’s great weather but will soon turn & games will be cancelled & big missed opportunity for football at all levels to unite
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Sergio Romero’s wife has hit out at United and called for them to show him some respect. Wants to join Everton before the deadline
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Ighalo on
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move: “At 11pm in Shanghai, my agent called me to say that United want to do the deal so I woke up that night & started looking for a translator to go to the directors’ room and hit his door and all that. ‘United are coming for me, you have to make this happen’.”
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United “sit in” protest against the Glazers has been ongoing for 19 minutes now. “We want Glazers out” and “Sell United and f*** home” chanted on repeat. A good few thousand present
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have no interest in Bayern's Corentin Tolisso. The 187th midfielder they've been linked with this year and the latest example of the club's name being used to drum up interest in a player
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#MUFC
in advanced talks over new contract for Alejandro Garnacho.
Confidence it will be wrapped up soon. Interesting the club have been eager to strike the right balance between rewarding player’s rise & avoiding repeat of Januzaj situation
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EXCL. Sir Jim Ratcliffe wants
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to create the “Wembley of the North” under bold plans for a spectacular new Old Trafford home.
Could seek to lobby government for funds amid “Levelling Up” pledges given potential scale/nature of project
This & more:
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The problem for
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now is Solskjaer’s good work is being unravelled and the club are heading back to where they were when he took over, minus the toxicity: players going backwards, confidence shattered and a team spiralling with no trust in the manager
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EXCL
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prepared to listen to offers for majority of 1st team squad bar rising stars like Mainoo/Garnacho/Hojlund. Ready to adopt ultra flexible approach to window. Won’t actively look to sell likes of Rashford but will give real considerable to offers
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Raphael Varane is due to travel to Manchester today after visa was approved. He's likely to face five days quarantine with some hope of the medical and transfer being formally completed by Wednesday next week
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Best performance I’ve seen from
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for a good while and just didn’t see it coming. Not sure how you can run just 95km one week then almost 114km the next but they’ve set the bar there and the challenge now is to maintain it. Looked far better without Maguire and Ronaldo
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Indications are Sancho fee is £72.9m with no add ons on top of that. He’ll have a medical with
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after the Euros. Story on
@TeleFootball
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United results following/on same day as a Chelsea setback in PL this year: Lost, Lost, Lost, Drew, Drew. They’ve really struggled to capitalise on their rivals dropping points. Tomorrow against an in form Southampton a real test of their mettle then. Opportunity knocks
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#MUFC
have agreed an eye watering £73m deal for Rasmus Hojlund. £64m upfront with further £8m in add ons. Atalanta were asking for €90m/United have ended up paying €85m for a striker who has played fewer than 90 senior games & scored 9 goals in Serie A last season. 5+1 contract
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‘Listen, Pep ain’t interested, so would ya kindly p*** off …’
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Just catching up with United from last night as wasn’t doing the game. That performance from Andy Carroll was a disgrace
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Europa League games tonight, including LASK-United, still on as thing stands
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Beyond me how
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can be fined €14,000 (£11,910) for the ‘improper’ behaviour of their players during the Champions League 0-0 draw with Atletico Madrid at the Wanda yet Atletico get off Scott free. What an utter joke from Uefa’s CEDB
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#MUFC
’s protracted pursuit of Frenkie de Jong being held up by money owed to player in deferred wages/bonuses by Barca. Antony fears he could be priced out of OT move. Lisandro Martinez the greater focus for United with Ajax at moment
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In many ways, the fact the Glazer family felt unable to attend the funeral of the most iconic player in the history of the football club they own said more than any protest ever could
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Not a surprise to see Solskjaer appoint a set piece coach given
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troubles defending free kicks and corners over past two seasons. If Eric Ramsey works out it might end up being one of the more important moves United make this summer
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Be interesting to know what 13, 14, 15, 16 year old academy kids think when they see Solskjaer bringing on the likes of Greenwood (17) and Chong (19) in a game like that last night with United still needing another goal to progress. Kids know they will get a chance at
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Rangnick: "You need to be aware what kind of football you really want to play. A little bit of pressing? Come on, what is a little bit of pressing? A little bit of pressing is like a little bit of pregnant. Either you are pregnant or not? Either you want to play pressing or not?"
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Talking about Manchester United is like pushing food around a plate. It’s the same things being said on repeat year after year. Amazing you can spend that amount of money and never go anywhere. The dysfunction is remarkable
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Michael Carrick has decided to step down as first team coach and leave the club immediately, United have just announced
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Rangnick being given access to United’s training sessions from an array of different camera angles so he can familiarise himself with the players & work before he arrives in bid to hit ground running. Bringing small number of staff with him. Lars Kornetka could be one of those
#MUFC
confident of finalising a deal for Rangnick before Sunday’s game at Chelsea. United waiting on Home Office re: work permit application. As such, he won’t be in the dug out v Chelsea. It’s close now
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