I think it’s just another off day. I’m a fair bit more confident he’ll come good after the preseason. I thought he was very poor and a bad fit last year, it’s up to the manager to get the best out of what he has. On paper we have a seriously good team, we just don’t seem to have a good style of play for whatever reason...
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This has absolutely nothing to do with a director of football.
For me it seems quite simple to me. Mata is the ‘right winger’ who never actually stays on the right. Why don’t we just put Sanchez there and have him play the same role to a much higher level while having Martial (who’s better than Mata) play on the left?
Maybe it’s not that simple
Long-term transfer strategy with regards to team building is absolutely somewhere a DoF would have oversight.
This. He had his best season for arsenal there, pep wanted him there, and he had a quality pre season playing centrally. Incredibly inconsistent out wide.
Has he actually taken on and beaten a man since getting here? Maybe that's an exaggeration but am hoping he rediscovers his old form.
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Just watched the full match again and maybe I was harsh on him when watching it live.
He did make 3 or 4 obvious errors, but he also did a lot of good things, and had more of a mixed game rather than an absolute stinker.
He made a couple of great chances for other players, had a couple of really good balls superbly intercepted by defenders, made some good runs back to intercept and win free kicks. He did actually help the team and contribute.
Most of the obvious errors all came in a short period of time though, and it's even more frustrating when you know they're one of the most talented players on the pitch.
It does look like he's slowed down a little, and I agree with some of the posters above that he may prosper more playing closer to Lukaku and coming in from the right. Worth trying and would leave that left hand side open to Rashford and Martial to fight for again.
He did make 3 or 4 obvious errors, but he also did a lot of good things, and had more of a mixed game rather than an absolute stinker.
He made a couple of great chances for other players, had a couple of really good balls superbly intercepted by defenders, made some good runs back to intercept and win free kicks. He did actually help the team and contribute.
Most of the obvious errors all came in a short period of time though, and it's even more frustrating when you know they're one of the most talented players on the pitch.
It does look like he's slowed down a little, and I agree with some of the posters above that he may prosper more playing closer to Lukaku and coming in from the right. Worth trying and would leave that left hand side open to Rashford and Martial to fight for again.
Weird. I was exactly going to post a similar thing.
Just watched the highlights video and he did create 2-3 very good chances for Lukaku and Mata second half. Not that "crap" at all tbh. The erratic passing needs to improve though, but it was a 6 or 6.5 performance I believe.
He created 3 good chances and gave away possession more than 20 times. You might argue that's normal for attackers because they try to make something happen.
But most of our forward ball go to Sanchez's feet, which means he basically killed most of our attacks. This is where the problem
But most of our forward ball go to Sanchez's feet, which means he basically killed most of our attacks. This is where the problem
He should improve his erratic passing or reduce it but he wasn't crap either imo. I think most of these lost balls was in the first half when we were really poor.
I think the only difference is that a dof would have gotten a rw. But Sanchez would probably be seen as a stop gap until Martial/Rashford fulfill their potential. Someone who would have transformed our attack to the level of our competitors but alas so far he has been shete.
Oh well, to me its beyond ridiculous that a player that is on such astronomical wages/status has to settle a year before being judged. Sanchez has played a long time in the Premier league, he is supposed to be on his prime age and so on. I think we are entitled to a little criticism here. We have a deal brother (quote incoming in two months)! We all obviously hope that he will be phenomenal!
Yeah I think that was said by Daniel Taylor from The Guardian. Pretty good source as I understand it is one of the most reputable newspapers around.
Vidic and Evra were a tad bit younger back then. Vidic came from another league, Red Star was it? So did Evra, Ogc nice if I remember correctly.
Daniel Taylor from Guardian not good enough? What are your sources then telling otherwise, that he is not on big wages? Its useless to bash my information without bringing forth something substantial regarding the matter.
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It's very annoying to have only 5 posts per day. This debate lingered on far too long.
Immediately way more irritated by him if this is true. I thought he was on a fair whack but not that much. Outrageous, especially considering he’s been way below par.
Pretty annoying to find out the 500k pw rubbish ended up being true. Means he even makes 540k when he plays midweek games. And he's supposed to get a pass for running around a lot? Let's be real we thought he would fire us to serious CL contenders when the transfer was happening if.
In addition this was probably the deal that gave the club a reality check. For all we know that mystery board member that regretted the signing was Woodward. He got fleeced
So far, he's among one of our worst signings, especially because of the astronomical salary he gets while giving average to shocking performance every match
Not surprised he's disrupting squad harmony at those wages. The signing keeps getting more and more annoying. Imagine us not signing a rw or lb this summer because of how expensive he's turning out to be?
Who the feck sanctioned such a wage? Jose was probably throwing a strop and needed appeasing is my guess.
Who the feck sanctioned such a wage? Jose was probably throwing a strop and needed appeasing is my guess.
Potentially Alexis could end up costing Jose his job!
The first half of last season we were fairly entertained and the fans enjoyed the martial / rashford rivalry.
Sanchez gets brought in, immediately placed on the left and subsequently blunts both, but especially martial’s Development.
He played well against city but apart from that, I think he has been consistently rubbish and as a team we have defo been worse when he has been in it.
He is turning into an expensive mistake and worse than that, because he is so expensive, he has to play at the expense of Tony, who I personally feel is one of the only players we have who could turn world class. He is certainly one of the only players (with rashford) who can beat a man with pace.
He isn’t fast enough anymore and he has ruined our balance. He needs to be dropped or moved to the right, but is Jose going to make that call??
Appreciate this is sounding dramatic after 1 game, but I fear we have dumped Rooney and created the same problem with Sanchez.
The first half of last season we were fairly entertained and the fans enjoyed the martial / rashford rivalry.
Sanchez gets brought in, immediately placed on the left and subsequently blunts both, but especially martial’s Development.
He played well against city but apart from that, I think he has been consistently rubbish and as a team we have defo been worse when he has been in it.
He is turning into an expensive mistake and worse than that, because he is so expensive, he has to play at the expense of Tony, who I personally feel is one of the only players we have who could turn world class. He is certainly one of the only players (with rashford) who can beat a man with pace.
He isn’t fast enough anymore and he has ruined our balance. He needs to be dropped or moved to the right, but is Jose going to make that call??
Appreciate this is sounding dramatic after 1 game, but I fear we have dumped Rooney and created the same problem with Sanchez.
beating the records that he set at arsenal with goal scoring etc
I get where you are coming from and I still believe Sanchez deserves a run of games until October to fully gauge whether he's past it or not. It won't be a problem to drop Alexis like it was with Rooney for a while but it will be difficult to offload him, maybe an Italian team will be willing to take him on reduced wages.
If he is really on 500k+ per week, then this is probably one of the reasons why he always play. Mourinho can't afford to let this signing fail. I agree with the above poster, Alexis could end up costing Jose his job.
Interesting things statistics, you can play really poorly and they try and tell you the opposite.
He is always trying the risky forward pass, I appreciate that. United need risk takers in the team, as too many have been playing it safe for years. Mata won't give the ball away ever, but that is because he isn't taking risks and constantly passing the ball safe/backwards. These risky/penetrative passes means he will give the ball away more, but he will also create alot more. He should of had an assist with Lukaku for example. There is times when the team is under pressure that he needs to retain the ball better though and the occasional safe ball is wise depending on the situation.
Hi performance would've been judged good if Mata and Lukaku had converted their chances.
The ball to Lukaku was simple, and in no way the kind of risky, penetrative passes you are referring to. Playing difficult, high-risk high-reward passes is great only if the player can succeed in doing so. He has displayed the ability to pull off said passes, the issue on Friday was that too many of his passes - both speculative and safe - were executed very poorly.
Why? It doesn’t impact at all on Sanchez’s contribution.
While true, if converted he could have something to show in the assist column which is far more significant. Nothing he could do about it though.
He was piss poor though.
For most of the second half he gave the ball away every time he tried to pass to a United player and he couldn't go past anyone.
Think people need to see he's being judged by world class standards. Same as Pogba last season. Messing up numerous easy passes while creating 2 or 3 amazing chances can get Martial and Rashford MotM ratings but not the likes of Sanchez and Pogba
and apparently you didnt watch the game.
And can someone explain the two "chances" he created that occurred 40 plus yards from goal? Really confused by the arrow that is from middle of the field to out wide being that great of a "chance created"The other long distance one is similar in that unless he is springing someone in on goal i don't quite think that was a great chance created. Watching the game he reminded me a lot of mkhi. So much wasted possession, overall crap play, still could have had 2 or so assists. That wasn't good enough from mkhi, and certainly not good enough for someone of sanchez's quality.
He was piss poor
slipping a simple pass to Lukaku doesn't justify how wasteful he was in the game
He needs to improve immediately
Leicester was his best performance so far. Loads of mistakes, but real full on 90 minute endeavour, and some of his crossfields came off. On the downside the spat with Pogba was a bit random plus he really is quite ratty.
People said the same about Mkhitaryan, who at least had a decent start to his career here...
Yeah because some stats totally change his actual performance
I agree that Sanchez had a sub par game last weekend but the whole commentary that he's slipping and hasn't created anything for us is just nonsense.
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