Fully expect him to say something along these lines. He was very professional when he was forced out from Madrid. Don't see his stance changing, under these circumstances.
Getting awful RAWKish on here.
Waiting for the videos of kit burnings
How so?
van Gaal made it pretty clear he wasn't the star man and just another part of the team.
The mentally weak suggestions are overstated. He doesn't want to be here, van Gaal doesn't want him here, and there's a team willing to bail him out of his "prison". Everything he's done in his career would suggest he is far from mentally weak.
BBC sport reporting this interview from ADM
If I were a PSG fan, I'd think he could do better than that. Very Important? To help them through the quarter final barrier? Eh?
Compare to Scheweinsteiger - Q: you have achieved everything, what's your challenge? R: To win trophies.
Of course the manager is going to say something like that - he's hardly going to single him out/heap the pressure on him is he? But ultiamtely, you spend that much on a player, and there's that much fan-fare surrounding him, then obviously there is massive expectation surrounding him, and obviously the fans/club are going to expect huge things from him.
He doesn't want to be here, because he can't hack it here. Do you think if he had set the league alight and scored 20 goals last season he'd want to leave?
I'm not just referring to what van Gaal says, but what he does, too.
di Maria played in his "favoured" position for four games in the entire season, he spent a considerable amount of time on the bench, and was utilised in several different positions throughout the season. Hardly "star man" treatment.
As for the last part, he's never going to score 20 goals and I don't think he ever has. However, speaking in terms of stats, he's contribution per minute wasn't bad. This is a guy who's been a success in the best league in the world, in Europe and on the world stage, I'm sure he feels like he could have succeeded here, but he just doesn't want to.
I'm not sure if you're saying my post was childish or it was a result of the childishness already posted, but it's Human nature for the narrative to change as it has. Previously, he was a weaselly little fecker, but he was our weaselly little fecker. We focused on his positives and ignored his obvious weaselly flaws, now the roles are rightfully reversed with the forum unhappy with his weaselly little ways before/during/upon leaving the club.
He was deemed not good enough for us (so much so we were willing to lose our record signing, after a season, for a huge loss) so he can't then justifiably be used as an example of why another club is so much better than us when they sign him.
The weaselly little fecker.
Jesus. Are we still going at it?
He was benched because he was beyond shite. The fact that Van Gaal name checked Di Maria before we were even linked with him and the fact it took a red card to dinally drop him suggests Van Gaal rated him very highly.
I also love how Bastian said there's only one club he would have left Bayern for, and it wasn't just transfer speak. I think he genuinely meant it.
I also love how Bastian said there's only one club he would have left Bayern for, and it wasn't just transfer speak. I think he genuinely meant it.
Jesus. Are we still going at it?
He was benched because he was beyond shite. The fact that Van Gaal name checked Di Maria before we were even linked with him and the fact it took a red card to dinally drop him suggests Van Gaal rated him very highly.
You dont think if Barcelona went all out for him instead of us he would turn them down?
I would be careful about confusing creativity and work rate on the pitch with constitution when you've hit a personal rough patch.[...]People are saying he's mentally weak, but watching his performances with Madrid and Argentina in previous seasons he never showed any signs of this, works his socks off, willing to play in numerous positions, determined and willing to try and make things happen all the time.[...]
You dont think if Barcelona went all out for him instead of us he would turn them down?
That tweet? Looks like a photoshop to me.Confirmed a PSG player apparently.
Is that the official club statement?
Add to that the fact that he couldn't even get in our side for the last six months of the season.
Put an add on Rawk.Waiting for di Maria's Paris house to be burgled.
Those darn 'body language experts'...
People are irritated because we signed the most expensive player in the history of the PL and he blatantly couldn't wait to get the hell out of dodge. Seriously, is it really that hard to understand why people bear him some ill will?
People take it as a personal insult when a player leaves. I don't get it, well I get it but I don't agree with it. Let him move on with his life, he obviously didn't enjoy it in Manchester. I hope he does well at PSG and I hope we are a better team without him. No player is bigger than United
Because I feel cheated. It’s like he decided after a few months when things started getting messy that he doesn’t want to be here and it turned him into shit player, so that he can move to his beloved Paris. I don’t hold a grudge against our former players but I dislike Di Maria a lot right now.Why is everyone getting so personal about it? in the grand scheme of things he has been honest and left because his heart's not in it, better then having a struggling player who's not there 100% for another year.
People leave their jobs for variety of reasons all the time, people are also entitled to change jobs/companies as they wish, if it's a family/personal reason he quit then i have no problem with that whatsoever.