Good man! Hopefully he can make an appearance in the final two games of the season.
Andreas Pereira | 2014/15 Performances
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I'll be surprised if he goes out on loan. Image one of the reasons he signed was that he would be more involved with the first team.
Yeah, I'm always split on these decision to be honest. At the beginning of this season, after we signed AdM, I thought Januzaj should go out on loan as well.
I guess I have it fixed in my head that the 18-21 age is key for development. i.e. if you're not guaranteed minutes, it's best getting minutes in a different league etc. But I guess there's a ton of development happening by just being around the first team as well.
Guess we'll see.
Mitten said he would go on loan abroad while Lvg wanted him to go in England iirc.
A lot of rumours about him going on loan next season. PSV seems like a good place to go, if they give him a enough playing time that is.
Not too worried about whether he goes on loan or not. I think at that age they can afford a season of limited chances, as long as it doesn't stretch to more than a season. For example, I don't think this season will have done Januzaj any harm, but next season it's much more important that he either plays fairly regularly or goes on loan.
Consider that we offloaded Anderson and Fletcher this season, and Cleverley looks likely to go this summer too. Even with one likely incoming central midfielder (Gundogan, if the rumours are anything to go by), there's a good deal of room for a young CM in our squad. I'm hoping Pearson will also be around next season too, pressing his case to be Carrick's successor, unless a Premier League loan spell presents itself. That would leave us with CM options looking like this:
Carrick
Blind
Pearson
Gundogan
Herrera
Pereira
Which seems about right to me.
Consider that we offloaded Anderson and Fletcher this season, and Cleverley looks likely to go this summer too. Even with one likely incoming central midfielder (Gundogan, if the rumours are anything to go by), there's a good deal of room for a young CM in our squad. I'm hoping Pearson will also be around next season too, pressing his case to be Carrick's successor, unless a Premier League loan spell presents itself. That would leave us with CM options looking like this:
Carrick
Blind
Pearson
Gundogan
Herrera
Pereira
Which seems about right to me.
He's already met up with the Brazil under 20's for the world cup so wont be available
Going abroad screwed up Macheda. It doesn't mean that would happen to Pereira but I would prefer to see him loaned out to an English club.
Sounds about right until you realise we also have Fellani.
From the clip he reminds me a little of Kaka
Wonder why he aint playing today for the U21's ?
away on International duty i think
Ahh ok, thanks
More like a Jack Wilshere type, but less influential, his form has been really, really inconsistent over the last couple years in the reserves, but he certainly has the talent burried in there though thats for sure, just needs to put it all together..
I'm still not sure where he'd play for us longterm, I dont think he'll be good enough to get a consistent run in our side as a no.10, where Joyce mostly played him.
Will be interesting to see where LvG puts him, I would say he's more a no.8.
Seems a tad harsh. Do you rate Wilshere highly?
Yea, Wilshere's a good player, just been unlucky with injuries, he's not.. 100% a Wilshere type clone either, it's kinda hard to compare him to someone already in the game, I mention Wilshere in the sense of similarities, can run with the ball, pick out a good pass, great technique, but puts himself about despite being a *technical player*, and can play no.8 or 10.
He's clearly very talented, but I just cant see him breaking into the team and being impressive enough, and consistent minute to minute to stay there as a no.10 for us, not at this point anyway.
Hope that makes sense, it almost did in my head.
He's been anything but this season. Will walk the player of the season voting and rightly so.
First half of the year he was still fairly inconsistent for me, not in total games as a whole, but minute to minute, if that makes sense could do amazing bits and pieces as always, then be eratic with his short passing the next, second half the season I'd be inclined to agree with you but in full honesty I havent caught as many of the reserve games the last few months than I usually sit down for.
What position do you see him playing for us if he steps up next season?
I could seem him playing a very similar role to the one Herrera fulfils. Like Herrera he has plenty of energy to get about the park, is a good passer, and is a goal threat. I certainly don't think he is at his best as a #10 as he can struggle to influence games from there.
Just realised he will be playing an hour south of Sydney at the end of the month. Will have to take the trip down to have a watch. Will be good to see him in action.
But LVG has rightly clocked that he's not really a central midfielder in any normal sense of the word, which is why I didn't include him. I was thinking exclusively of people who could play the Herrera or Carrick roles.
Are you talking about a midfield 3 or midfield 2?If it's the former then Fellani is definitely a part of it.If it's the latter then having 6 players is overkilled.
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If we played without Fellaini, it's a genuine 433. With him, it's not really. Sometimes he's in those central areas, but as soon as we're on the attack he pushes right up into the box to look for aerial balls etc and plays much more like a forward. So that's why I don't include him on that list.
Imagine a holy trinity consisting of Januzaj on the left, Wilson as striker and Pereira on the right. Would be amazing if they could get a chance in the League Cup to play together and see how they handle it in a competitive match.
33 pages and the guy has played like 5 minutes in the first team all season.
Might be a reason for that, have you watched him play much?
I don't get your point.
If you've watched him play in the U21's then you'll know why there's 33 pages on him.
Oh, but he still can't get minutes in the first team. Januzaj & Wilson look awesome in the reserves too, btw.
Hence their threads are 98 and 56 pages long, respectively.
Another CM didn't get many minutes in the first team either. Anyway the guy is a good talent, and thats why people are talking about him, including LVG.
That's great, but my original point was that we have over 1,300 posts on someone who has barely played in the first team.
Edit: tbf, it seems about par looking at the other player's performance threads.
away with Brazil u20s so maybe we won't get to see him at all now in the "almost dead rubber" games.
Bumped into him last night. I was wearing a United jacket standing at a set of traffic lights and heard a guy say Manchester and smile, after a second glance, it clicked who it was. Was a nice enough guy and was surprised he was happy to chat a little.
Going to see him play tomorrow when they play Portugal in a friendly. Will be good to see him play live.
Going to see him play tomorrow when they play Portugal in a friendly. Will be good to see him play live.
That's bloody brilliant. I pictured him as you would a little kid who doesn't know how to speak English but knows Manchester United so just keeps saying Manchester and smiling.It was a little like that
but his English was fine for basic conversation.It was a little like that
He is apperantly quite the linguistic genious, being fluent in flemish, portugeese, french, english and spanish.
Just home from watching Brazil v Portugal 20s. Pereira played the first half, everything Brazil did went through him. Such a good performance was disappointed to see him taken off but it was only a friendly.
Brilliant!
All I can picture is the little Greek kid in the Inbetweeners Movie pointing at Jay's shorts shouting "MANCHESTER".... you didnt throw non-swimmer Pereira into a swimming pool did you?
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