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Adnan Januzaj's Borussia Dortmund loan cancelled. Back at first-team squad.

http://www.manutd.com/en/News-And-Features/Football-News/2016/Jan/adnan-januzaj-returns-to-manchester-united-from-loan-spell-at-borussia-dortmund.aspx

lead

I was curious, is that correct English to have a period in representation of Man. United. Govvy (talk) 14:03, 15 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, the full stop indicates elision of letters, c.f. "St. Louis". – Pee Jay 19:21, 15 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Not, it's not: I've added a couple of refs to show the common usage per WP:RS.Haldraper (talk) 12:00, 6 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Haldraper can you and PeeJay2K3 please stop edit warring over lead, if this continues I will report you both. Govvy (talk) 13:02, 6 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

More to the point, Haldraper needs to stop making unnecessary edits claiming to be "tidying up" the lead. More often than not, either some useful info is removed or he changes the wording such that the meaning of a sentence is lost or significantly altered. This is not acceptable, especially in Featured Articles. I realise that Featured status does not mean an article is perfect, but these always feel like changes for change's sake. – Pee Jay 14:11, 6 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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87.27.34.130 (talk) 11:25, 19 December 2018 (UTC)
NO CARETAKER...[reply]

It's not clear what you want changed. Are you suggesting that Ole Solskjaer has not been appointed on a caretaker basis? – Pee Jay 11:41, 19 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 7 February 2019

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Can you replace https://web.archive.org/web/20160216070535/http://www.manutd.com/en/News-And-Features/Club-News/2016/Feb/nicky-butt-appointed-manchester-united-head-of-academy.aspx to https://www.manutd.com/en/news/detail/nicky-butt-appointed-manchester-united-head-of-academy as this was a broken link from an old site. 148.252.245.122 (talk) 15:12, 7 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Done Gulumeemee (talk) 02:53, 8 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Honours

Could someone add the achievements of the Reserve teams too. For example the FA Youth Cups and Manchester Cups. Even the classic Central League/Cup. Alicultivated (talk) 09:16, 28 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Are those competitions usually recorded among the honours of the first team? Somehow I doubt it. – Pee Jay 10:17, 28 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Alicultivated: The youth honours are listed on the youth academy page, as for friendly first team honours. They should all be listed on List of Manchester United F.C. records and statistics however that page is incomplete. Govvy (talk) 11:44, 28 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Ander Herrera & Antonio Valencia have been released by the club. They shouldn't be part of the first team squad anymore. 209.137.134.50 (talk) 21:12, 12 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]