Picture: The Meaning Of Useless = Joleon Lescott

It is very difficult to play one match every month or so and all players need to have regular games to keep up their match fitness, that is why it surprises me that some of these players don't play more reserve team football or are they too good to do that.

I see the haters are out in force on the 'who overall deserved to win' poll.

We'v been over this one TF7, Veron, Kleberson, Djemba Djemba, Tosic, Bebe etc. etc. I mean how many times do we have to do this? Sigh!

And I can't believe you all forgot..........Poborsky

Now I know this might get the odd persons back up but we need to get behind our players more. Our songs are pretty rubbish and we are far too cynical. As soon as something bad happens in a game our whole contingent accept defeat. You could see it today at Notts County with 25 minutes left. There is too much riding on the players in my opinion. We are the 12th man but the lack of passion sometimes is woeful. Leicester at home in the last round was a disgraceful turnout and atmosphere and I wouldn't be surpised if its just as bad this time.

TheFamousTroll: Those transfers took place quite a number of years ago when transfers generally were lower. Still, United paid what are considered obscene amounts for Veron (the biggest flop of them all, 28mil in 2001!), Ferdinand (30mil in 2002!), Rooney (27mil in 2004!), even Anderson (17.5mil) and the mediocre Carrick (14mil). You spend equally as big, only difference being we did it in accelerated fashion to play catch-up, while you New Bitters would have us buy one expensive player each year for 11 years. Go back to Sadcafe, troll.

Correction Famous, Rooney WAS world class. PMSL.

The difference is that we have players on our books who were signed by several differnet managers, so if they are not in the current manager's plans, then they are excluded from the team and outsiders like Famous brand them flops. I don't think anyone can brand Given a flop, yet he has been benched virtually the entire season. So whereas we have signed players that have fallen foul of a new regime, the rags have signed players who were genuinely not good enough - and there is only one red-nosed alcoholic who can be blamed for that.

Rooney is more accomplished than ANY STRIKER you have! Prove me wrong....someone...? Any striker you have start for their national teams at age 17? FifPro World Young Player of the Year, Euro 2004 Team of the Tournament (17 yr old). Lets not forget the BBC, PFA, PWA, England's Best Player awards. He's having a bad year. It doesnt make him all of a sudden Corradi! Class is permanent. SAF has made mistakes in the transfer market but what manager doesn't? But I mean, with all these trophies we've been winning can you tell?

All the trophies you've been winning on borrowed money, ForeverUnited? Wait until the banks get fed up and finally want their cash back, then you'll be crying, because no one is going to bail you out.

Right TF7 let's go through our "flops", Robinho - scored 15 in his first season playing on the left wing, fell out of favour in his second season under new management and we got a decent return for him from Milan. I won't go into how that transfer made us so much revenue in shirt sales or raised the profile of the club worldwide earning us a serious amount of revenue. Adebayor - begun his career at City in blistering form scoring the vast majority of our goals early on last season this helping us step up to the next level, then fell out of favour under new management, his loan to Real could turn permanent in the summer seeing us get a decent return from him also, a bit premature to label him a flop, let's wait and see how much we get off Real eh? Milner has featuredin almost all of our games so far this season, granted he hasn't found the form he had last season but he's still very much in the manager's plans, bit premature tocall him a flop also. RSC, Jo and Lescott I've got nothing, bad transfers but like you've said every manager has them and it just so happens that it's not our existing manager that made them purchases. U***** have made just as many if not more bad investments on players through the years, some you win, some you lose but for a Utd fan to try take the ***** considering some of the stinkers Slur has brought in and paid through the nose for over the years is laughable.

So 32 mil and 25 mil for one good season which was ultimately followed by poor form, being left out of the team and causing disturbances in the squad isn't deemed a flop?

Ah Lescott and Rooney definetly rings a bell. As for Lescott, any Everton fan couldve predicted this, the reason why Lescott was so good for us was because of CONSISTENCY, played week in week out with the same back 4 and they become accustomed to each others game. Cheers for the 22mil lads, and our replacement Distin (5mil) been an absolutely terrific signing for us. Love how the city fans are trying to give the United lad grief, obviously they mustve done something right to win title after title, trophy after trophy. TF7 wouldnt worry to much, top of the league, no worries mate, as for rooney, when the Rooney-gate happened, someone tell me who was being linked to Rooney??

Oh, and another thing, of course we were linked to Shrek, we areCity afterall, it's a favourite pasttime of lazy journalists to link City to everybody and anybody.

Bluedub, please state that it was a successful attempt rather than just an attempt, don't take your 35-year of trophyless frustration out on those who have merely stated the facts.

Rob, it's a shame your manager wasn't smart enough to use some of the Lescott money to adress you're striker issue, just think if he did you might not be fighting relegation now.

Like you felt compelled to reply TF7?

Your calling our manager inept? LoL, loving that one, tell me which one had a little spat on the sidelines when he couldnt handle his to losing to Everton?? To say United had more flops than City is stupid lad, come on, understnad they are your rivals but you seriously believe that? You have had more flops in the past 2/3 yrs then united have period. there is a reason why Ferguson has won how many titles now? Pretty sure he didnt win them by signing flops no did he?

When did you become a manure fan Rob? And Famous - it's funny to watch you reeled in time after time after time - all those hooks in the mouth must be hurting by now eh?