Not at all worried about him.
Hopefully starts against Chelsea as well because RVP and Mata were both a lot worse.
Hopefully starts against Chelsea as well because RVP and Mata were both a lot worse.
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This inverted wingers malarckey is a crock of shite to be honest. It might work in Europe but not necessarily against wba when they are up a goal and have two players double teaming our left footed winger on the right flank.
Janujaz's best performances have always come on the left wing where he is able to beat a defender and put in a cross. That was the crux of our attack last season and why he rose to fame.
Today he lost the ball under minimal pressure on several occasions and I cant recall a single time when he was able to get the better of lescott or their fullback.
From October till January he was very good (ofcourse some bad matches in between), after that, Moyes wanted to protect him and he got less minutes.
He was off the pace and not very good. I am not surprised though, it was his first full senior game in a long time.
So much hate for Adnan nowadays, see the love affair is over with most people on here..
His best performances came on the left wing more so than the right wing because he simply played many more matches there. He had some really good games on the right wing. Whether you like it or not, he's not a traditional winger. He's an attacking midfielder who likes to go inside. Put him on the left and the only good thing it does is it makes it easier for him to cross. Put him on the right and it opens up his shooting, protection of the ball, and passing.
People have short memories and if Adnan isn't performing at his best he will receive a lot of harsh criticism especially when United don't get 3 points. Even in this match he wasn't as bad as people are making out and I'm sure a touch video will reflect this. His only problem was that he slowed things down, but he's always been that way. People really need to rewatch some of his performances last season to remind them how good he was. Of course they aren't all on youtube though.
Clearly you haven't watched Valencia for the last two years if you think that.
Based on their respective performances tonight he deserves to start ahead of Mata on Sunday. He had a poor game overall but still showed some glimpses of his talent. Mata on the other hand had an absolute shocker. He literally did nothing positive.
This thread... 
Some feckers need to stop posting for 24hrs or so after a bad game.
Some feckers need to stop posting for 24hrs or so after a bad game.Ridiculous knee jerk reactions everywhere.This thread...
No way was RVP worse than Januzaj.
He was for most the match until the last 20 minutes or so.
Yup I agree. Definitely not his best performance but he hasn't played much so that was to be expected. Still only 19, we'll have to be patient. Mata and RVP were worse though, shocking performance by them.
He was mostly absent. No excuses. At this level you can't expect a free run of matches and expect to keep starting (unless you are RVP). He looked like he lacked the confidence to be taking players on. Was quite sad to watch actually.
This thread...
Apparently he is actually overrated and wasn't that good last season afterall!
I feel like I'm back in the newbies reading some of these posts.Just the Yin to the Yang I think.
In response to those saying he should play ahead of everyone and the team should be changed to fit him in.
The reality is, he is still a kid, developing. His games should be chosen carefully, and he needs to take his chance to impress.
And we still have the luxury to play RVP and Mata every game to get them on form?
Why can't people see the more obvious connection that a player who hasn't started any senior competitive game for 3-4 months is gonna take times to get back to his best?
For me, his best games have been when hes played on the left for us. Using width and putting in crosses hes had goals /assists. Cant remember any games where hes been on the right where hes done well for us.
I've been calling for him to get a start but sadly he was very poor tonight, no confidence on the ball and a lack of pace off the mark when it came to him. He was level with Mata and RvP in the useless stakes.
I know you're one of these slightly strange characters who seems to prefer U-21/U-18 football to the real thing but if you really can't see the rationale behind a manager being more willing to let established top class players play their way into form than kids who might one day be top class, then this will be a short discussion.
fair enough. The problem is the not the expectations put on him, it's the negative backlash that tends to occur once he doesn't meet said expectations. he's a young player who will have bad games, its too early for sweeping judgement.
Well maybe until the manager does the same with a certain Dutchman....
Direct rarely goes missing attempts to make things happening. It didn't happen for him tonight but Mata looked lost, he doesn't get involved he just get stats while doing little over 90 minutes not my kind of player.
Agree. Neither RVP or Adnan did anything to deserve a start against Chelsea.
I think he showed immaturity. Tried to do too much on his own to try and break in to the first team and became kind of isolated. I felt rafael didnt support him well either the way shaw did di maria
Honestly if anything he was too timid and wanted to just pass the ball off too often. Didn't try to run at the defenders or make things happen on his own as much as he usually does, and that's his strength.
So, as good as Sterling is he?
I think his head may be a bit all over the place. He's gone from being on top of the world and a guaranteed starter to being sidelined very quickly. He's also had the Belgium situation, and again, I don't think he knows completely where he stands there.
I think some overdid it with him, and it's time to just sit back and watch.
I think some overdid it with him, and it's time to just sit back and watch.
I don't think Januzaj is ready for the first team. Mata has proved he is class. Januzaj has not yet.
Would have liked to have seen him switch to the left when Young came on for Di Maria.
He is a young lad. Nobody should expect great performances, if he only starts once a month....Trust him and use him as regular starter or loan him out. Yes, he´ll have a couple of bad games, but if thats not acceptable, the club doesnt even need to buy young player in the first place.
Talents dont just turn into worldbeater. They need to play.
Talents dont just turn into worldbeater. They need to play.
This. Playing inverted wingers seemed a little redundant when we had Fellaini and Falcao in the box who are both great headers of a ball and I've always thought Adnan looked more comfortable coming from the left anyway.
Well just because I posted more on the youth section doesn't mean that I don't watch first team football mate...
The problem here is footballer isn't top class just because they used to be top class.If LVG really stand by his words by "giving fair opportunities" to everyone than RVP and Mata have been given far more chances but they have been disappointing in most of them so far and that's the only thing that should be counted.If we go by your logic than they must be impressed in training so we're having a real problem here with players perform better in training than the real match.I have no problem with playing them in the first place but they should be dropped now considering they're not "young player" to be allowed that luxury.
Januzaj hasn't been given the same opportunity and while he has been poor this game he has shown enough talent and promise in the last few seasons to be given other chances.I think the expectation about Januzaj has been so high that every time he didn't perform suddenly he became a new Macheda or something to our fans.The same thing has been said about every freaking youngsters we played this season apart from McNair because he hasn't "yet" to make a real mistake but it's just a sooner or later thing.Youngsters need to play and make mistakes to reach their potential.That's the same for every football club not just Man United.People rave about Pogba everyday but he has made countless of mistakes and drifted out of games too much at youth level for examples.I have no doubt if he had stayed we would have heard countless criticisms on the following seasons considering he had many flaws on his games at that times.
And that's the way you manage young player's development, not throw them into some isolated island after every poor game in which the whole team has been poor.If LVG listened to Redcafe he would have shipped off the whole team to MLS.
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I'd still suck him off.
A lot of posters in here need to realize this. And the fact that he's 19 years old.
To be honest...he's not even close I don't think. If someone offered a straight swap I'd bite their hand off. Hopefully he does develop into a good player though because the potential is there, but yeah at the moment Sterling is miles better.
He's got as much potential. Do you not realize it was his first start since last season for us, and there was nobody in the team who actually played well anyways? He's just started his second season and has played less then half as many games as Sterling has at a professional level. Give him a fecking chance, he showed how brilliant he was last year and how much potential he has.
Ronaldo would have been gone half way through his first season if it was up to some of you lot ffs.
This, ffs.
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