It actually reminds me of Isco at Valencia although he was younger at the time. He clearly had the talent to be able to help the first team but was only playing in cup games. Then Getafe came into money and having not had a particularly positive time at Valencia, he was keen to go. At Getafe he developed into the player Madrid wanted.
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Yes, I remember reading about him being one of the players who sided with Pogba during the public rift with Mourinho. Pity, he was doing well for me at the start of the season. Only Pogba is more technically adept than he is in that midfield.
Remember when the a large section of the forum wrote him off for daring to go on loan last season?
Probably needs to move should he want to play the amount of football he needs to be playing.
Probably needs to move should he want to play the amount of football he needs to be playing.
This kid seriously isn't an improvement over Herrera or Matic? Jose is absolutely blind if he continues with those two while keeping Pereira out of the squad, never mind the first 11.
Wasting his career. Mou is never going to give him a chance, because he is never going to move on from his physicality fetish.
Guardiola, a far better manager than Mourinho, would've played Pereira today and not the three donkeys without a shred of technical ability we saw out there against City.
Yep - He's press resistant and can pick out passes but yet he doesn't even make the bench
It doesn't take a genius to realize that replacing Pogba, your most creative player, with Fellaini who's on the complete opposite end of the spectrum, was not going to turn out well. Fellaini wasn't bad today, but when he's paired with Matic and Herrera, what exactly are you expecting as a manager? Just cowardly tactics from Jose as usual.
It doesn't take a genius to realize that replacing Pogba, your most creative player, with Fellaini who's on the complete opposite end of the spectrum, was not going to turn out well. Fellaini wasn't bad today, but when he's paired with Matic and Herrera, what exactly are you expecting as a manager?
Pogba has a fitness issue that's why he didn't play.
Would he feck.
I rate this lad very highly, but it seems as though he will never get a chance at OT while José is still there.
You actually think that, picking purely from our current options, Pereira wouldn't be one of Guardiola's choices? Of course he would be. He's easily the most Pep-like midfielder we have. Certainly ahead of Matic and Fellaini.
Not that we should make choices based on how Guardiola would line us up.
No, I think that Pep would have signed £447m worth of midfield talent and Pereira would have left for better opportunities.
There has been nothing in Guardiolas career since Barca to suggest he'd have given Pereira a chance.
He's extremely overrated out of desperation by our fans to see something new. Good and talented player, no one is saying otherwise but anyone who think he would have been the difference today is really up for a shock. Don't put massive expectations for a player to not get surprised that he's not at the level you dreamed of him to be.
Exactly this.
Doubt it. Guardiola would have bought 3 classy CM's though. Even Foden who looks incredible can barely get a sniff, Sancho left because of lack of opportunities.
Agreed, but the post you replied to was talking about who he would have played in this particular game based on the current squad. In which case Pereira would certainly be his choice until he got around to signing a dozen other players.
Im just saying its likely he'd play him in that game with the options available. One game scenario. He's more his type than the other three.
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I guess so, yeah. I suppose he'd start Fred as well for that matter, probably closer to that level.
Perhaps. We've seen, however, that Pep has not trusted academy players for most of his managerial career so the idea that he'd swoop in and favour an academy player he'd never seen before in a hypothetical one game scenario is, at best, implausible. I suspect, were he given longer at the club, he'd ruthlessly turf out players who didn't suit him and replace them with expensive imports, as we saw at City which, again, makes it implausible that Pereira would have started today in whatever hypothetical scenario makes Pep out manager.
He's more technically adept than the three that started today. In his first few games this season you could clearly see he provided us something we've been missing. He was very positive, playing the ball forward at almost every chance and passing between the lines effectively as ive mentioned already. Matic has been a trainwreck all season and Fellaini shouldn't be starting games for United, he should remain in his role as a plan B player. Im not saying its a sure thing Pereira would've made a difference today but I bet he'd have offered more than the BS we were treated to in midfield.
Indeed
He wouldn't have been any worse than what the rest of our midfield served up, but probably would've provided some of the delightful folk on here a scapegoat just like the Brighton game, even though the whole team played like shit then too!
What games ? He played 1.5 game against Leicester and Brighton, we won the first and got mugged in second. Good player but we need perspective so that when he plays we don't get surprised he's not meeting the ridiculous expectations we're putting for him.
This is exactly similar to Chong discussions after this Juve match. Desperation and thinking "he won't be worse than this and this" is the only reason we're talking about him playing or not.
He wasn't going to make any difference to the midfield and the outcome of the match so if you're depressed due to thinking this then rest assured.
I said after the Brighton game we wouldn’t see him again. For his own sack, just leave.. he might actually selected for Brazil again.
Its not ridiculous to say he's a better passer and more technically sound than Herrera, McTominay, fecking Fellaini and Matic. He's not getting any chances.
He should just leave. Not getting a fair chance at all. Matic can play shocking for weeks and weeks with no threat of losing his position. Why not give some mimutes to Periera to see if he can win a place in the team?
He is a better passer and dribbler than anyone in our midfield, bar Pogba. But Jose only needs Pogba, the rest is there to defend and keep it tight in theory, even if every pass and attack goes through like a swiss cheese.. Matic is just there and does nothing, it is worse than playing with 10 men. Pereira couldnt do any worse than the current lot.
The longer he's out,the more overrated he becomes.
People that are saying he's becoming overrated are missing the point. He's obviously not at a level to transform our side yet, but him being offered as much time as the like's of Matic would suggest that Mourinho is actually trying to adapt to the modern game, where drive and technicality gets you to the top. Pereira has both those things. The principle behind Mourinho selecting 3 slow, limited centre midfielders over the likes of more technically gifted players like Fred and Pereira, against the best side in the league, is madness. Us getting destroyed in the midfield battle today was probably one of the most predictable things that's ever happened in football.
He's a technical midfielder who can pick a pass going forward and cope well when pressed.
He's what we needed today, in midfield. Not two lumbering giants too slow to move the ball.
Its frustrating hes not had a look in recently.
Id like to see what a Pogba- Pereira - Herrera midfield would look like.
Folks seem to have gotten the idea that unless a midfield contains a 6 ft 5 player it will be overrun.
Which aspect of his play is overrated?
I mentioned Isco at Valencia yesterday. I'm starting to think the same thing is going to happen now. He'll get fed up not getting games and sign for someone else, where he'll be a revelation.
Speaking of Isco.. we should pounce and sign him.
To bench him?
I can't see it. He hardly lit the place up at Valencia. Think he'll be a good player for that level of club but we'd never regret letting him go.
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