I've cut this guy an awful lot of slack but enough is enough now. £60 million and the lad was struggling to make simple passes, yes he got an assist but he needs to be doing so much more.
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Keep playing him in CM, he keeps producing with assist or goals. I don't think he was that bad yesterday, he tried Things, some worked and some didn't that's what you get for trying.
Nani had more impact on our team.
If only he didn't have such an annoying head.
If only he didn't have such an annoying head.
He was gash.
Seen him in a Real or Argentina shirt and looks fine to me? Despite what you pay people, they need times to settle. Not sure 6 months is enough in this league and with those players. It's not like he's got Ronaldo et al around him....
He doesn't seem to enjoy his time here at all. Which is a worry
He always looks like the only player capable of making something out of nothing and he regularly assists even when not in form.
He's brilliant. Genuinely the last player who deserves criticism on recent form.
He's brilliant. Genuinely the last player who deserves criticism on recent form.
Seeing as he was arguably the worst player on the pitch yesterday and is the most expensive player ever signed by any club in the Premier League, I have to say I find your last sentence baffling. Jonjo fecking Shelvey looked a better player yesterday. Which says it all.
No one bar Herrera in our front 6 looked good yesterday. RVP was easily the worst of the bunch.
He needs to do more, sure, but the criticism he gets is often over the top.
Yep, I hate it when players are instantly judged based on their price tags. He's playing in a new league, in an unsettled team- he needs time. Silva took a season to settle as well.
He wasn't our worst player yesterday, not even close. If arguments always revolve around price tags then arguments will never get anywhere. Of course he isn't worth 60m, but his performances on the pitch over the last few games, even if nowhere near his best, are better than the vast majority of our players.
As a team we're playing poorly but if we're singling out players for criticism then I find it ridiculous that Di Maria gets it when the defence is in pieces and Rooney and Van Persie have been anonymous for months.
Of course he needs time. We can still judge each game on its merits though. He was shite yesterday and has been shite a lot this season. Which is a problem for us. Had he settled as quickly as, say, Sanchez or Costa we'd be a lot better off right now.
That's not to say he won't ever be a good player for us.
I thought he was excellent in his last two games at Old Trafford. Couldn't be more different to the shit he served up in Swansea. Seems to be a poor traveller. Which is probably a big factor in the discrepancy between our home and away results.
The worst thing about the caf is the body language experts that come out of nowhere when we lose a game and criticize players for not looking bothered.
Yep he's been poor ever since he came back from injury. I still think he looks the only one out there capable of creating anything positive though.
This is what happens when you're forced to build a new team in one transfer window. Sanchez and Costa had the luxury of walking into well settled sides. We've thrown Di Maria into a struggling team with loads of new players and he has to shoulder the burden of being our only proper creative outlet. We're asking too much of him.
Or maybe he's new to the league and naturally gonna find it easier playing at home than away? When did we stop giving players new to the league at least a season to settle. 62m doesn't fast track that?
Read my posts. I accept he needs time to settle. I'm just discussing his performances, not drawing long-term conclusions about them.
Probably a fair point but again an exaggeration I think. He's been a little frustrating in some aways but still looks like the only player who can pick up the ball and cause damage, and assists on a regular basis.
I don't agree that he looks like someone who wants to leave. To me he just looks like the one genuinely world class player in the side, struggling to make his mark when everyone around him isn't remotely on the same wave length. Even if he did want to leave he's got 4 years on his contract so unless someone pumps up about 50m for him he can suck it up.
Gets bullied off the ball way to easily. He needs to understand that this is not LaLiga and you do not get freekick every time he gets knocked off the ball!
He's more frustrating than Nani imo.
His longballs/crosses are hopeful rather than effective and anything he tries other than the longballs dont tend to come off at the moment. When he first joined he was playing several throughballs a game on the ground, now its just the hopeful high balls.
His longballs/crosses are hopeful rather than effective and anything he tries other than the longballs dont tend to come off at the moment. When he first joined he was playing several throughballs a game on the ground, now its just the hopeful high balls.
I'm reading the post you posted. I think it's hard to talk about performances without context, even sort term ones.
I remember Van Gaal explaining at the very beginning of the season why we are not playing with wingers. He explained it is because we do not have the quality of wingers like Robben or Di Maria. So we get Di Maria, we have Valencia, Young, Januzaj and he still chooses not to use wide players in their best positions. Its so frustrating. Di Maria picks the ball up on the halfway line and tries to beat oppositions entire squad, gets crowded out, does not make a pass and gets blown off the ball by the wind. I just don't think he is suited to play a midfield role in the PL. So far its been too physical for him. His best performances for me have been when he's darted down the wing or through the middle on a counter attack and most of the time he's created chances and scored goals himself.
Sorry, I may not have been clear. I meant that over the duration of a game, more often that not, he will produce a goal or assist. Not that most of the things he tries come off, as they quite clearly don't!
Take yesterday for example, he was generally acknowledged as being poor, yet he still produced an assist. Another poster alluded to the Switzerland game, where he was pants and still made the telling difference.
We all knew we overpaid for him.
However at the Moment he does not even look worth 30m. Not only his fault though.
He is offering almost nothing in games at the moment and it's very frustrating to watch, but the guy IS a world class player and he needs games and time. I'm convinced he will be better next season but for that to happen he needs to keep playing 90 minutes every week to adjust. There really isn't anyone you could say is better than him to take his place.
di Maria suits a fast paced counter attacking side.
We play a slow based possession style. If LvG had always planned to play this way, AdM was a daft signing.
We play a slow based possession style. If LvG had always planned to play this way, AdM was a daft signing.
Sadly, not a lot to disagree with there.
Medie recycling the same old story again shocker.
A lot of reasonable points made in that article, unfortunately.
Found myself nodding in agreement reading that, sadly.
Sensationalist article based on the belief that he doesnt care or want to be here. Wouldnt read much into it.
So his attitude is the problem, not that he's out of form?
or both?
People believe he doesnt care and media is carefully bringing that story out every few days to keep it alive.
or both?
People believe he doesnt care and media is carefully bringing that story out every few days to keep it alive.
Don't worry, I didn't, but there are few nodding apparently.
Nail on head. Look at when he joined and was on fire, he was flying on the counter attack with Rooney/RVP making runs off him and Herrera/Mata buzzing about as well.
BTW he still has to do a lot better, he is not even doing the basics right at times
He's a chance taker, that's how these players are, if their risky plays work they look like geniuses, if they don't they look like donkeys, better get used to it because he's going nowhere. These type of players are frustrating sometimes, but you need them to unlock tight games, even the last game, when he was poor he created 5 chances and had an assist.
Anyway, we need to take him off corner duty, he is so bad at it that he makes me miss Nani's corners.
Anyway, we need to take him off corner duty, he is so bad at it that he makes me miss Nani's corners.
Anyone can find a reason to support their argument. So, Di Maria hasn't set the world on fire in the EPL, hence he must not care, didn't want to come (not even for the money), sees United as a step down, be gone in the summer, cause of all United's lack of fluidity, add more as you see fit.
I thought on Saturday, particularly in the first half that United had clear instructions to give the ball to Di Maria. We did a lot of attacking on the left and he almost always went forward with pace as expected. It was obvious he had little help in that the forward line - even with Rooney up front, was largely static, no movement. Same could be said for Herrera when he got the ball. However, unlike Shaw, Paddy did not move forward and so Herrera hit a wall.
Though Di Maria has not hit the heights he did when he first came, I only worry about his support of the LB. I do believe it was him out of position that let JJS have the space to shoot for the winning goal. As for performance, I am shocked that the majority of his crosses, corners and shots are so poor.
Body language readers are lucky the caf experts don't have the time to stop posting and make great money. We have plenty of experts.
Mark Chapman (BBC presenter) was on the radio yesterday, he was at the Preston game and sat right next to the United bench. He said one thing that stood out was throughout numerous players were looking repeatedly towards the bench as if wanting some tactical instruction, Di Maria in particular was doing it a lot.
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