Ángel Di María | Transferred to PSG
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Oh Keane, I thought the guy said something positive about us for a change.
Have you seen the Rooney threads mate? He can put in a proper shift and get still get blamed for El Niño.
To be fair, Torres was proper shite towards the end. Although I'm not sure thats entirely Rooney's fault...
Either way it's what every man on here with balls think.
An old quote he used for a Sunderland player back in the day - still true though.
Why do latin players flop with United? Is this beacuse of managers or something else? I have a feeling that ADM will light it up with PSG.
He lacks the drive and bollocks of all 3 of those to ever make it in the PL.
Hard not to in that league.
I meant in CL.
He just needed another season to settle.
he'll set the french league alight because on his day he is one of the best players in the world.
Im edging towards feeling like this now, was gutted last week that he seemed to be leaving, but now as learning that he's a cnut well he can feck off then.
But Mata was mot wanted and had been benched for 6 months, yet we paid way OTT for him because we were desperate. Similarly Di Maria is desperately coveted by PSG and he was brilliant a season ago. So for me we should be looking to milk every cent out of PSG if we are not desperate to get shot of him.
I don't. There have been a very select few that "lit it up" since they left. Ronaldo, for certain. Pique did well - but comparing against Evra makes that dubious. Pogba might be one, but he wasn't first eleven for us. The vast majority of players that leave United have made me think either, "it was time", or "why did we buy them or keep them at all?" or "what in bloody hell were we thinking keeping him on the payroll for the past 3 seasons?" after seeing how they perform after leaving.
Is that why Keane quit the Villa job?
I think there is some element of bad luck involved, along with a lack of character on the part of those recruited, as well as bad judgment on United's part.
Heinze for example was a great player at first, but then got injured. He never seemed the same after, so I put that in the bad luck category (along with a bit of a weird character episode at the end when he tried to go to LFC of all places.) Tevez is another who was also quite good with us. His character was a bit flawed, but there was also the sense that SAF didn't rate him as highly as others. Personally, I wish we'd kept him, but his post-United behaviour somewhat vindicated SAF. The Da Silva twins both fall in the bad luck category for me, as injuries never really allowed them to kick on.
Di Maria falls squarely into the lack of character department. He was given every chance to succeed up until his idiotic red card, after which Van Gaal found a starting 11 that performed well and didn't really miss ADM. He strikes me as an utter gimp, and I for one, hopes Zlaten bullies the feck out of him at PSG. Anderson, although quite a character, lacked football character. I can't blame us for taking a chance on an exciting young talent (my favourite kind of transfer,) but he utterly failed to take on the challenge.
Veron was obviously a class player, but much like Berbatov, he falls into the bad judgment category, as he wasn't really a player that we needed at the time, and trying to accommodate him seemed to hurt the team's chemistry. Kleberson was also a case of bad judgment, as it appeared that SAF was swayed by his strong World Cup. Finally, Falcao was a roll of the dice, given his injury, so I'm not sure if it was bad judgment. Rather, a gamble that simply didn't work out.
Forlan is the real head-scratcher. He's since proved to be a player of real quality, and his sound character along with strong English means he should've been a success. For some reason, it just all went pear-shaped. Shit happens I guess.
As for Rojo, I'm quite optimistic about him, so we'll have to revisit him in a year or so.
Any I've forgotten?
What's this about Laurent Blanc? Anyone know the page number?
When @Cina edited the title he didn't put in the threadmark so got no idea.
It's a fake quote, not a clue what the comparison with Villa was about.
He said that he'd like it if PSG bought di Maria as they are looking for an attacker.
I know. It was a joke.
because most of the time we have used to the utmost those players, or they were really rubbish. AdM strikes me as the type who is not for this system, but can surely still retain his class
People should be gutted about him going as it didn't work out at all after such early promise, and he potentially could have been great. However, nobody should be gutted about how it will affect the team. Without him last season we were much, much better...and we could do without his body language and give the shirt to somebody who wants it. This guy wasn't cut out for the Premier League.
Surely?? That's bold. We'll see. I think he can go ahead and prove himself against the likes of St. Etienne and the rest of League Une. I won't regret it for a second. If he had the mentality, he'd have never left Madrid, much less shat the bed in England, before skipping off to France.
Gutted is a strong word. To be honest, he has a rat face like Suarez. I'm a bit glad I don't have to see it on the weekends ;-)
well he has shown his mentality at Madrid when Bale arrived, fought for a true place and recognition. just that Perez did not give a feck about that, that's all
and I'm not saying I regret that he is leaving, he's not for LvG style and we should take back as much as possible out of the investment
I also don't think there's much a difference between doing against the likes of St Ettienne vs Hull or QPR
My sincere apologies
Absolutely bang on. not going to do the whole "told you so thing" but this transfer always felt like a disaster from the first minute for me, and it only escalated as the season went on. I never had the same level of happiness that the rest of the Caf had about him and it never looked right seeing him in the no.7 shirt at united.
He had an undoubtedly brilliant season for madrid, nobody will deny that. But it was in a unique position not as a winger, facilitated by some absolutely memorizing attacking talent at madrid, and in a league where his body type and the style of play of his team was able to shine. The variables where never going to be the same at united to bring about that level of performance from him regularly, and we paid 60m pounds for essentially the "quite decent but inconsistent" winger he was at benfica and the seasons beforehand.
Basically his first action at the club was to talk about how he wanted to go to psg, which is a huge fecking red flag, for somebody supposed to be our champion signing and in some senses franchise player.
I just dont rate him as a player and his output in the team can be replicated with half the cost of his initial transfer. What a cluster feck the entire thing has been.
then why did he get the most assists for us last season, i mean you don't rate the player that got the most assists for you over a season ? Hella chances created as well ? Weird.
wasn't his best but Slagging of di maria doesn't work, he was already well proven before united and showed glimpses of it here. A few unfortunate things happened, the robbery and injuries for example acting like he's not a loss is again, a tad delusional.
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If anyone thinks he wont be a massive blow, then youre out of your mind. Hes not some chump from the second division of a foreign league. This guys literally been there, done that at the highest level. A second season, having settled, and this guy would have been brilliant for us. Its a shame that he doesnt want to stay, we wont regret it but its a huge blow.
It won't be a massive blow because he wasn't a regular starter last season, he couldn't get Young out of his way and we didn't rely on him like we did on DDG for example. It pretty much links up with the 'What happens if Di Maria leaves?' question. Answer is nothing. Funnily enough if we can wisely re-invest the money we'll get for him then we can profit from all this farce.
Probably will be the biggest waste of space since Chelsea broke EPL transfer record for Torres . In our defense, we'll get 65-70m euro back and the player is a pussy who doesn't want to prove doubter wrong after one bad season.
Yeah, I'm not sure why people have a hard time admitting this.
di maria leaving is a huge loss, if he was trash id gladly slag him off but id be lying to myself if I said so.
That family should move.
Young wasnt keeping him out of the team due to his brilliance in the attacking third. di Maria was inconsistent in his short cameos and we seemed to have developed some chemistry as a team.
The most probable replacement is a 28 y/p Pedro who, at his best, is a tier below what di Maria has shown. Dont get me wrong, he'd be a very decent buy but wouldnt bring to table what di Maria can.
And as for the what we missed when di Maria wasnt starting... creativity, maybe? Funnily, he got most assists whilst creating most chances. Yet we created less than a championship team, in QPR.
Good post , totally agree .
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