I took this from a Liverpool site...so I admit there is a bias...but tell me your thoughts same way:
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I hope Citeh do break into the top 4. I think it will be either arsenal or.... united who drop out. I dont think we have much to worry about, but united are in transition at the moment. half of their squad needs rebuilding and they seem to struggle without ronaldo. Now theyve lost tevez as well and there is a general sense of foreboding around the club. their self proclaimed myth of being the biggest club in the world has been mocked by madrid and barca. they lost key players, and the old guard are finally past it. They have been rejected by a string of players and it looks like they are going to have to pay big money to rebuild the squad at a time when the transfer market is already so over inflated.
I also have a sneaking suspicion that many players in their side are overated, they may just get found out this season. If they get stuffed again the aura of invinsibility the press have given them will be gone, smaller teams may have the guts to take them on for a change and suddenly all those tight games which they somehow manage to scrape will turn into tiring defeats. We have seen them go through dips in form in the past, we have seen ronaldo come back into the side and give them the lift to get them out of it. but now he's gone and for the first time i have heard united fans come out and ask whether fergie is finally past it. if they hit a rough patch given the nerves already jangling [<- JANGLE!? (PM)] around old trafford those questions may turn into cries for resignation, fergie would be a lame duck manager.
if they lose champions league football even if it was only for one year all of a sudden their pile of debt will start to look like a mountain. I'd never write them off but suddenly there are some cracks appearing, and united fans are nervous. could this be the end of their 20year cycle of domination? There are a lot of big IF's but you never know, and i cant honestly remember ever having felt so supremely confident going into a new season.
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I hope Citeh do break into the top 4. I think it will be either arsenal or.... united who drop out. I dont think we have much to worry about, but united are in transition at the moment. half of their squad needs rebuilding and they seem to struggle without ronaldo. Now theyve lost tevez as well and there is a general sense of foreboding around the club. their self proclaimed myth of being the biggest club in the world has been mocked by madrid and barca. they lost key players, and the old guard are finally past it. They have been rejected by a string of players and it looks like they are going to have to pay big money to rebuild the squad at a time when the transfer market is already so over inflated.
I also have a sneaking suspicion that many players in their side are overated, they may just get found out this season. If they get stuffed again the aura of invinsibility the press have given them will be gone, smaller teams may have the guts to take them on for a change and suddenly all those tight games which they somehow manage to scrape will turn into tiring defeats. We have seen them go through dips in form in the past, we have seen ronaldo come back into the side and give them the lift to get them out of it. but now he's gone and for the first time i have heard united fans come out and ask whether fergie is finally past it. if they hit a rough patch given the nerves already jangling [<- JANGLE!? (PM)] around old trafford those questions may turn into cries for resignation, fergie would be a lame duck manager.
if they lose champions league football even if it was only for one year all of a sudden their pile of debt will start to look like a mountain. I'd never write them off but suddenly there are some cracks appearing, and united fans are nervous. could this be the end of their 20year cycle of domination? There are a lot of big IF's but you never know, and i cant honestly remember ever having felt so supremely confident going into a new season.
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