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This is a call to arms for all United fans. DO NOT BUY INTO THE HYSTERIA...Don't believe the hype. The performances are infinitely better than they have been for the 3 previous seasons. I know the results are so inconsistent right now, but do not turn on Mourinho or United as a whole, despite the inevitable media storm to come!

It's driving me insane too guys, but we will rise again

We wanna do some content around FIFA 17, what sort of stuff would you like to see us do? Is there anyone you want to see play against each other? Any FIFA YouTubers we should try and play? Let us know...

The problem doesn't just end with dropping Rooney. The same goes with the formation, 4-2-3-1 or 4-3-3 matters little if you're picking the wrong combination of players as Jose is. Rooney has been a terrific servant for the club and I do use the term servant lightly but he and Fellani, regardless of a few good performances, limit the full capabilities of the squad we have at our disposal. Starting at the back and De Gea, Tony V, and Luke Shaw pretty much pick themselves. However the center back partnership needs to be picked as a partnership. Blind has a great football brain and a below standard performance from him in the derby doesn't merit him being dropped especially considering that he was outstanding in 50+ games last season. He works well with either Baily or Smalling and should be picked with either player. Same issues with the midfield. If Jose insists on playing 4-2-3-1 then perhaps a combination of Schneiderlin and Herrera as a cm duo is best with Pogba playing up as a no 8 but not quite a no 10. Schneiderlin can offer cover at the back if Blind does venture forward carrying the ball from defense. Herrera is energy and box to box. He can play the neat give and go with the likes of Pogba, and or Zlatan or Mkhitaryan, on the right who offers something different. With Mkhitaryan cutting in or better yet drifting out wide for a cross at the by line, he draws full backs away from the middle where Herrera and Pogba can work their way into. Pogba likes to also drift to the left where he can sometimes look to accomplish the very same thing on the left. Zlatan in that way can drop deep to play the short pass or hold on to the ball and what that means is that Martial can make his runs into the box or drift out wide as well. That movement and chemistry of the front 5 if you like can cause enough teams problems even if one or two of the players are having an off day. You throw a Hollywood ball in from Blind at the back into the chaos and you have a pretty good chance of scoring a good few from a variety of options rather than having footballers like Rooney, Fellani, and Young just doing a job on a team. Leave those B grade tactics for difficult trip to Stoke or if you want to put Fellani on someone like Caroll. Either way the wrong combination of players is what's hurting us most.

Adam always complains that the score of the starting XI competition isn't fair because Howson is on it more. So I went and calculated who had the best average score per appearance on the Previews:

1. Andy Tate: 8.333 (25/3)

2. John: 8.2 (41/5)

3. Ben Speech: 8 (8/1)

4. Rachael: 8 (8/1)

5. Howson (Without deduction): 7.666 (46/6)

6. Adam: 7.4 (37/5)

7. Muhammad: 7 (14/2)

8. Howson (With deduction): 6.833 (41/6)

9. Dave: 6.2 (31/5)

10. Joshi: 4 (4/1)

11. Harvz: 4 (4/1)

This was made after the Blackburn Preview but before the Line ups were announced, so obviously I couldn't count the Blackburn predictions. I might update this after every Team news is released.

I can't put into words how I felt/feel about Eric. I was having my 9th birthday party at Old Trafford the day he signed. It was in the museum and half of the tour was out of bounds due to the press conference and the signing on the pitch, it was literally happening the same time. By way of compensation the club gave my Dad the shirt that Eric posed with on the pitch. Cantona, no number. I wish I still had that.

I took my Eric the King flag to Iraq and Afghanistan. It came on every single lads holiday I ever went on. pic - https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/1929951_23132845927_1361_n.jpg?oh=0dab426a966875cb53e67b1a9df7b04e&oe=58377FB1

I've just found this video on YouTube. If you're too young to remember him, then this sums up why he's revered so much. I think to the lads of my generation he represents all that was good about 90s football. The re-emergence of United as a dominant force. It was all him. He's absolutely magic. Fuck me do we miss someone like this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bapwQJwPG4

Some might say i'm nuts suggesting this but i think its a realistic signing who would offer us INSANE PACE + SKILLS + DIRECTNESS but hes overlooked for bayern by ancelotti who prefers the youngster Kimmich & Muller/robben/ribery/coman over him.

I've been watching bayern games for a while and notice hes used as a sub often around 70-80mins most games and with an offer of a spot in our first team i don't think he'd turn it down.

I think we could pick him up for £35-£40m considering bayern only paid €30m in 2015, also add more potential to this bayern have signed ribery/robben to contract extentions recently so our financial power and global appeal could make this happen.

Do you think costa would fix our RW problem? if not who can?

Have to start?

Would him playing there require blind at CB to compensate for having a destroyer in the midfield? And any other points you'd like to discuss.

What is your all-time Manchester United starting lineup?

Was just wondering what your thoughts were in regards to Juan Mata's contract extension? It seems to me that UTD are not interested in changing their failed old ways.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Howson/comments/c1s4bc/lineup_prediction_what_do_you_think/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x

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We came to this game knowing that Chelsea, Liverpool, Spurs and Arsenal all dropped points. The fact that we played like that shows that the players didn't take it seriously, if they could just take their football more seriously than their stupid dancing videos online it would be great. I dont get how we lost that game, im speechless. Martial should have played idk why wasnt he played and dont even say we played well cuz we didnt create enough chances probably 2 or 3 clear cut chances which we couldnt finish. Ibra was shambolic, yes he scores goals but with the amount of chances he gets he should be having over 20 goals now, we need another striker and i do feel martial up top will be better than ibra up top but we all know mourinho will never let that happen. As for top 4 i do think its probably gone. Yes we are only 5 points off second but with europa coming back and all the cups i know we will drop points again, this game was a must win and we didnt win, so for me the only way that we are getting to the UCL next season is by winning the Europa league, we have to put all our eggs into one basket now. Mourinho should decide PL or Europa league. Thats all i have to say.