We've successfully brought him down to our level.
7
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- Appearances
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- Goals
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- Assists
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- Yellow cards
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- Red cards
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Terrible performances off late..
He's been shit for a while now. I don't understand how/why.
Shadow of the player who was excellent for Madrid last season.
Definitely not what i expected after £60 million and demanding the #7 shirt.
Looks very uninterested of late. If another club comes for him in the summer he'd push for a move, I reckon. Not sure there would be many candidates for that price though.
He has been poor and I have to say it is all because of Van gaal and our management team. My fear that he will slowly assimilate to our style of football is coming to reality. Van gaal should have never tinkered with what was working early on in the season despite having static strikers.
This is a guy who looked a certain to depart when Bale came in but was determined to stick around and prove himself. He did so, became arguably their best performer and his reward was to be shipped out to a team in transition. I can see why he perhaps comes across as looking like he doesn't want to be here.
Fact is we have signed a bunch of players this summer. It's like when a club like City started off by buying all players on the market that were any good at all, stuff like Wayne Bridge. So it's hard to know if it's just the player himself or the miss match of players in the club. I think we won't be successful with all our signings, but Di Maria is definitely better than this.
Isn't this more of a negative than positive for us?
Counter attack in acres of space; takes him about 30 metres to fully get the ball under control, by which time he has to double back and pass to the full back.
Seconds later, pulls out of an 80-20 challenge in his own favour.
Seconds later, pulls out of an 80-20 challenge in his own favour.
Yes. My general thoughts is that we had our pants pulled down for this signing. We were desperate but as has shown we don't know how to get the best out of him. Plus that fee puts pressure on him to produce a goal or assist every game and that has brought a selfish attitude to that game.
All thanks to Jorge Mendes.
The comparison with Ozil can be made. Both at their best when other players taking the headlines.
Ozil seems to be getting his groove back
SHITE FREE KICK GET HIM OUT OF HERE!
sad to say it - but he is turning out to be one of the biggest flops of the season. Scary considering how he started
Has looked woeful today, very expensive buy at 59 million, not sure if he will ever hit the heights here.. 45 mil + Lucas moura and psg can have him.
Yep. Other players raising their game which takes the pressure off. Now with Sanchez and Cazorla, plus even with Welbeck he has like minded players to play with. He isn't a player to take a game by the scruff of the neck which he was unfairly criticized for last season.
He is not a 60MM player.. He is like how Ronaldo was with us when he was 18-19
It is Van gaal fault for turning him to this average player. I would not call him a flop because his performance is being affected by our management team.
sorry LvG - this is enough for me. I want you gone after the season.
I'm sorry, but he's a bit of a pussy.
I'm sick to death of seeing him back away from the ball.
Is there a worse corner taker in the league?
Someone please explain those corners to me?
Hope they kept the receipt
Torres level flop. Dreadful footballer. He had one good season at Madrid and they knew it and wanted to cash in, and we were so desperate to make a big signing we lapped that shit up.
Hope he's dropped for the next game.
Even if he doesn't deliver on the pitch, he's still fulfilled half his purpose - to be the marquee signing Woodward was desperate for.
If we can get our money back I'll put him on my back and carry him to Paris.
Would be nice if we tried to freshen things up next time. ADM and Falcao deserve to be dropped. Mata and Herrera to replace them.
He was amazing last season.
Dreadful footballer
He was good last season, yes. I said as much. He was mediocre for the two or three seasons before that. He played above his level for one season and we spunked a British record fee on him.
Careful mate, you'll hurt your knee.
He's fecking pathetic. Pussying out of challenges all game and his delivery most of the time is crap.
He gets the ball and he always does one of two things:
1. Runs really fast until he has enough room to send in a whipped but low cross that gets cleared by the first man.
2. Tries to dribble with it, realises there's too many people, stops, turns around and gets muscled off it which leads to an opposition counter attack.
He gets the ball and he always does one of two things:
1. Runs really fast until he has enough room to send in a whipped but low cross that gets cleared by the first man.
2. Tries to dribble with it, realises there's too many people, stops, turns around and gets muscled off it which leads to an opposition counter attack.
That was a genuinely woeful performance today. I haven't seen him play at that level for us until today (either I've been oblivious to it or he really did hit a real low).
He was genuinely up there with Ronaldo last season and he became available.
Having him and Falcao is like playing with 9 men at the moment. Maybe worse, as Di Maria seems determined to give the ball straight to the opposition to set them on counterattacks.
I'm shocked to be honest. Always thought he had more bottle than this.
I'm shocked to be honest. Always thought he had more bottle than this.
Not just back away. He was twiddling his thumbs so many times after he lost the ball. No vigor, no fight. Falcao may be poor but he is giving his absolute all. Di Maria seems to be cruising through.
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