All posts tagged "Manchester United"

  • What next for Jose Mourinho?

    In the wake of Jose Mourinho’s sacking at Chelsea, the manager is at yet another crossroads in his career. Where might he venture next? Paris Saint-Germain Mourinho’s storied career has taken him all across Europe, first from...

    • Posted December 17, 2015
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  • Is Pep Guardiola destined to move to Manchester?

    Pep Guardiola joined Bayern Munich in 2013 with the object of improving on perfection. Yet after two-and-a-half of almost eerily mechanical diligence, two league titles, two Champions League semifinal appearances and a win rate even higher than...

    • Posted December 16, 2015
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  • MOTD: Bournemouth 2-1 Manchester United

    Bournemouth and Manchester United might be at opposite ends of the Premier League table yet their seasons have each been defined by backwards trajectories. The Cherries defeated United 2-1 at home today to cap off a delightful...

    • Posted December 12, 2015
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  • Van Gaal delivers the right message at the wrong time

    Louis Van Gaal is famously outspoken and gregarious at his press conferences. Jonathan Wilson once coined that he is adamant about many things, most of all that he is right; however, as United’s poor run of form...

    • Posted December 11, 2015
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  • MOTD: VfL Wolfsburg 3-2 Manchester United

    “Listen, I was in a squad that went into the Europe League,” says Rio Ferdinand. “It’s an embarrassment, you don’t want to come out of your house. When you walk around Manchester people are looking at you...

    • Posted December 8, 2015
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  • MOTD: Leicester City 1-1 Manchester United

    One picture tells a thousand words; or in today’s case, Oli Scarff’s shot illustrated the story of Leicester City’s 1-1 draw with Manchester United, which took The Observer 834 words to recount. On the left side of...

    • Posted November 28, 2015
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  • MOTD: Manchester United 0-0 PSV Eindhoven

    In the BT Sport studios in London, Rio Ferdinand, Paul Scholes, and Michael Owen watched as Manchester United fans lit alight Old Trafford with their cell phones in a fitting tribute to George Best on the tenth...

    • Posted November 25, 2015
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  • Rooney struggles to find home in Van Gaal’s system at Manchester United

    There was once a boy; a sixteen-year-old boy from Everton described as “the best young player has seen in the past 30 years” by a man quite adept at finding just those sort of players. This...

    • Posted November 14, 2015
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  • Can Lingard be Manchester United’s next homegrown success?

    In an increasingly monetized world of modern football, where transfer fees seemingly only go up and up, homegrown talent can be a very cost effective way of developing footballers. It’s an ethos that Manchester United take pride...

    • Posted November 7, 2015
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  • MOTD: Manchester United 1-0 CSKA Moscow

    It was the seventy-eighth minute of Manchester United’s Champions League meeting with CSKA Moscow and Seydou Doumbia was clean through on goal with a chance to win the game. David de Gea came up big with a...

    • Posted November 3, 2015
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