Tonight's football thread

[TheHeathens]

3 or 4 new players and you'll be champions? I can't see it. I agree you've got some class attacking players in Rooney, RVP, Kagawa, Mata and Januzaj. Can they all play in the same XI? Probably not and all the other players you list are somewhere between decent top half premier league players (e.g. Carrick and Fletcher) and expensive shite (e.g. Young and Fellaini). Apart from De Gea who's fantastic. I'd say your central mid-field and defence needs a total overhaul. Shaw would be a good start, but I'd go another 5 or 6 new faces on top of that to have a squad capable of challenging for the league.

Shaw
Hummels
Strootman
Fabregas

4 players and we'd be well up there. I don't know where this 5 or 6 players has come from. Wishful thinking on behalf of other clubs' fans?

Young, Nani, Cleverly, Fellaini to leave. Zaha & Powell to come back (Van Gaal will give them a chance) and the squad actually looks quite healthy.

People are writing off Utd because the players had a bad year last year, under a manager who didn't know what system to play and kept putting square pegs in round holes. Van Gaal will play to the squad's strengths and make the system fit the players at his disposal; many players who had bad seasons last year will come good IMO.