This season Man United are struggling in 7th place and Robin Van Persie is reportedly unhappy.
Last
season Man United were not great either and we still could not manage a win (loss and a draw).
This season man United played around 30 cup games and 38 league games, so plenty of matches for everyone, plenty of rest ahead of the world cup, lots of youngsters gaining experience and an opportunity for a Coach or assistant manager to take charge of one of the squads.
Last
season Man United were indebted to David De Gea as a last line of defence, the Spanish keeper frequently putting in Man of the Match displays to make up for the club's shaky back - line.
In the 2014/15
season Man United spent 150 million pounds on players, nearly double what Arsenal spent.
Not exact matches
So firstly Shearer is convinced that his Newcastle side will manage to do the business at Villa Park even though his Toon Army side has only won two games on the their travels this
season and regardless of Martin O'Neill's recent poor form the midlands club have only lost three times at home this
season and have managed to avoid defeat against Liverpool,
Man United and Arsenal in the process.
But if Sky Sports are right about our big centre forward Olivier Giroud being preferred to the
Man United forward Anthony Martial then there will be a few more raised eyebrows, especially after Giroud suffered his longest ever barren spell for us last
season and only got back among the goals very recently.
Arteta is certainly very talented, despite getting on in years, and will be hoping to get chance to impress Arsene Wenger before the
season ends, but with the dogfight Arsenal are in with
Man City and
Man United for second place means that he is unlikely to be risked at the moment as the club has a whole host of talent in midfield right now.
As a matter of fact Morgan had a very underwhelming
season at
Man United, and if Arsenal had bought him he would not have made any difference.
Chelsea started the
season well and quickly built up a 10 point gap over a misfiring Arsenal side, but as tiredness and attacking injuries set in towards the end, Jose Mourinho used his park - the - bus tactics to gain points from
Man United and also Arsenal.
But while the second half of the
season saw the Gunners win away against
Man City and Manchester
United, it also saw us struggle to beat lesser teams like Newcastle, QPR and Burnley.
Arsenal conceded 36 goals last
season, 1 more than
Man United and Tottenham, hence by your logic those teams also need to strengthen at the back, and have not done anything worth talking about so far.
Perhaps Welbeck is just grateful that Giroud's time out this this
season allowed the former
Man United striker the chance to play in his preferred centre forward position.
Giroud starts as main striker Giroud loses form Giroud benched for Walcott / Welbeck Walcott / Welbeck lose form Giroud comes back with a bang and scores a hattrick against Norwich
Season ends
Man United crowned champions!
Jose Mourinho and
Man United had their own bubble burst by Stoke City for one, and that could be a massive turning point in the new EPL
season.
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Man United should be announcing the arrival of the Special One into the coaching deck, Jose Mourinho carries with him special distinctions for that extra oomph over the upcoming
season.
As a result of his stunning displays in goal, the 24 - year - old has attracted the interest of Spanish giants Real Madrid, and with the
Man United keeper's contract set to expire at the end of next
season, Los Blancos have been rumoured to be planning on making an offer this summer.
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Your last paragraph implies that
Man United, Chelsea,
Man City, Leicester, and even Tottenham will not win the league this
season because their CBs are no better than Kos, Per, and Gab.
They can also take heart from the fact that despite losing against Tottenham, Chelsea, Manchester
United, Liverpool and
Man City this
season, only one of those defeats was by more than one goal, the 4 - 2 loss to Liverpool.
As revealed in an Arsenal.com report, the Arsenal vice / captain and central defender Per Mertesacker is adamant that the Gunners will head to Old Trafford on Sunday feeling great about things and confident of coming away with a second win of the
season over
Man United.
The less said about Simone Zaza's stint at West Ham
United the better, while even though Wayne Rooney established himself as
Man Utd's all - time record goalscorer this
season, the end is surely near for the veteran in terms of his spell at Old Trafford as he has struggled to hold down a regular spot in Mourinho's side.
Man United have been finding it difficult to control games from midfield this
season, and the addition of Strootman could mean that they will no longer have to play striker Wayne Rooney in the middle of the park, which has subsequently hamstrung the club captain's effectiveness in the final third.
Manchester
United's
season looked to have passed its low point with a few important results for Jose Mourinho's
men.
The goal gave West Ham
United a 2 - 1 lead with a win giving them a double against
Man City for the first time since the 1962 - 63
season.
Even more disheartening is that during the 3 or so
seasons when
Man United was garbage, we only managed to beat them once in the League, while they kept on the recent tradition of beating us every
season
The rumours this morning were that
Man United have given him a deadline to make up his mind, but I think it is Wenger that has given him two days to either accept Mourinho's offer, or stay until the end of the
season and move to City.
Alexis Sanchez has struggled since his January switch from Arsenal and a more natural wide -
man could be needed to improve
United's goal threat next
season, as they've been found wanting in that department this term, particularly in the big games.
With
Man United's win over Norwich ensuring that Arsenal still need points from our final two games to secure a Champions League place for next
season, the manager must get his team selection and tactics right and with more options than usual he has a tough job on his hands, but one of those choices for me has to be Santi Cazorla in the box to box role.
United are having a fine
season and are one of a couple of teams currently hanging to the coattails of Celtic at the top of the table, with a 3 - 2 win over relegation threatened Ross County maintaining the Tangerines» position at the weekend after the leaders beat ten
man Motherwell by a goal to nil at Fir Park.
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Man United are keen to get something for the young midfielder and they know that come the end of the
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Last
season Giroud scored quite a lot of goals but didn't really score any of note against big teams, this
season, he's scored against City, Everton, Liverpool and
Man U and they've all been important ones, apart from the
United one.
PSG had also been pursuing di Maria but by all accounts the World Cup star was more interested by
Man United's approach and will hand the club the chance of completing the «Marquee» signing that helps to erase the memory of last
season's disastrous seventh place finish.
@bazooka I bet you would let someone invest big money so we could win the UCL and the EPL, football is changing just look at
Man United signing Di Maria with no CL football this
season.
Wenger's
men, however, have to guard against any naivety that they have exhibited on a fair few occasions this
season, when they have over-attacked and committed too many
men forward while trailing at home to Manchester
United in the league and in the first leg of this champions league tie.
Henrikh Mkhitaryan, our new signing that won the Europa League with
Man United last
season, agrees with that sentiment.
Last year was Jose Mourinho's first
season at
Man United and he started by winning the League Cup, but when he saw the Top Four teams pulling away from the Red Devils in the League he put all his energy and resources into winning the Europa League as well to get a wild card entry into the Champions League.
As we enter the crucial run in to the end of the
season, which is the time that we traditionally up our game to reach the Champions League positions, we also have another big advantage in that all of the five teams above us are still in the Champions League and
Man United, City, Tottenham and Chelsea are also still in the FA Cup, and are set to face some very tough games in the coming weeks, or maybe months if they do well.
United's shock home defeat to West Brom meant they could no longer mathematically catch up with City in their final few games, giving Pep Guardiola's
men the trophy after a superb
season.
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Man United have done this
season thanks to David De Gea.
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United man experienced something of an average debut
season following his big - money move in the summer of 2014, making only 16 league appearances, but Luke Shaw had shown a real upturn in form this
season prior to his long - term injury.
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Man City at the top of the Premier League after the Citizens» 5 - 1 win against Leicester, so a win here would be absolutely vital in keeping their slim title hopes alive for this
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