I doubt he'll be here next season
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You think Van Gaal will be happy to see the back of him? Someone would have to make a big offer for us to consider letting him go, surely.
I don't expect him to leave but if he did want out due to the robbery/not settling it would likely be to PSG and I'd expect us to recoup close to the entire fee in that scenario. Hopefully it all works out and he settles in and finds top form again. We'll see.
Would be a tragedy if he left, even though he has a bad spell, he is our only world class player in outfield. We would look out of ideas without him.
needs a performance - it's been a while
It's no surprise to me that as the weather has got colder, so has Di Maria's form. Wait until the weather heat's up, he will be on fire
Can't wait for him to tear it up in pre-season
I think it's likely that he'll want to go, but whether we'll let him go for an inevitable loss is another matter.
If he wants to leave in summer then so be it. I don't feel like he wants to be at United.
Can we return him and get Bale instead? I hope Woody kept his receipts.
He's happy to be here, some of you are talking nonsense. So a pro Madrid newspaper says a player that left regrets leaving. Yeah.
You all blab on about how difficult the PL is and how players won't survive in it, then bash a player who is new to the league for not wanting to be "here". Do people ever consider that it's his first season and he's getting used to the country, club, weather and new teammates? After Ferguson resigned, United fans are now showing themselves for what they truly are [not different from other club fans], it's easy to be composed and logical when things are rosy, now that things are a bit rough, the negativity here and among a section of our fans is worrying. Talks of replacing a manager who is 4th and in FA cup, Di Maria doesn't want to be here etc. It's all so knee-jerk these days.
Sanchez for instant has been struggling too.
Wanted Di Maria for a long time, but f he truly is not settled and wants to move on, then we need to make sure that we get close to what we paid for him in the summer. He just seems to be in a terrible state right now.
Must be true than.
Just a quick questions for all the body experts here, you think he doesnt want to be at United, based on what?
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That's never going to happen sadly, specially if we finish the season very badly in general and him performing like he currently does. If he leaves it'll be for half the price he cost more or less.
This was always going to happen (media wise) if he wasn't playing out of his skin.
I think he will be fine and will be here next season playing much better.
I think he will be fine and will be here next season playing much better.
It seems inconceivable to me. Unless Van Gaal loses patience with him.
I can't imagine Woodward would like it either. Would send out a very negative message.
A massive inferiority complex. But just cause people are paranoid doesn't mean they're wrong.
I dont mean they're wrong but they're basing it on absolutely nothing.
As for the first sentence bang on. From some of the posts you'd think we're some little low table club, not Manchester fu.king United.
Weather; looks disinterested; came from one of the few clubs more reputable than us (therefore demoted); came from a city undeniably vastly nicer to live in; surrounded my mediocrity; burgled; language.I dont mean they're wrong but they're basing it on absolutely nothing.
As for the first sentence bang on. From some of the posts you'd think we're some little low table club, not Manchester fu.king United.
It's speculation. But it is hardly based on nothing.
Other than burglary he's a professional. Language, learn the language and go on. City? Yeah Madrid is nicer but you're getting a nice salary to play in Manchester despite the fact its not so nice and sunny as Madrid.
Surrounded by mediocrity? Sure players are not that good as in Real but you could say that for most of the clubs in the world.
I just think it has been a media story blown out of proportions and now people believe it.
The way you people talk about Manchester is ridiculous. He's not living in a bedsit in Longsight ffs.
Yeah, I was there in the autumn and its a nice city. Madrid is nicer but as you said people talk about Manchester like its a worst place in the world.
I am in Sydney, a place that sees so many in the UK visit and want to live but I love being back in Manchester, I actually really like the city.
Well, if you want to argue it like that (which is a very reasonable thing to do) then he should be professional about the burglary too. Get a better security system, get a pitbull, get a night watchman, whatever, he has the money. In some ways for me this is actually the least relevant point. Burglaries happen everywhere and the bigger the discrepancy between what you have and what others have, the more likely it is to happen. This is just one of the prices you pay for being rich.
These are all things footballers on their salary should rise above. But that doesnt mean they will. There are plenty of depressed rich people out there. Should having millions in the bank make you feel better about living under a cold, grey blanket of Mancunian drizzle? If you look at it rationally it should but I suspect the money is quite irrelevant when you feel homesick for what you had. And the language thing, yes he can learn the language, he probably will learn the language, but it doesnt stop people feeling alienated before they have got round to doing it. He might feel lonely. More to the point, his wife might feel lonely. And an unhappy wife is a more serious problem than an unhappy self - and on that point I talk from personal experience.
You are right that anywhere he went would be a step down, he was probably reconciled to that. But come on. Stop for a second and look at us. Im sure he was hoping for and expecting better than this, no?
That's all true. I just mean that as I said it has been a blown up, probably made up story.
Maybe its not made up but I dont like those kind of 'he probably wishes he'd be back at madrid stuff'. People downgrade their own club like that. Sure he expected better probably but its not that bad. We're in a reconstruction phase sort of and he should get his act together and perform. Him and all of the other players.
You said it yourself, inferiority complex. I think United fans shouldnt feel that, we're one of the biggest clubs in the world ffs despite the fact we're in a bad patch right now.
All the stuff you wrote, its true, who knows whats happening. If its that bad he just doesnt feel right at us we should maybe let him go. But lets not downgrade our club while we're at it. I dont mean your posts by all this in particular bu the general mood.
I think people underestimate the effect that weather can have on your mood. On the very rare occasion Ireland has a couple of consecutive dry, sunny weeks I feel on top of the fecking world but when it's relentlessly grey and wet it's a real effort not to feel pissed off all the time. And that's speaking as someone who was reared here. If you've lived all your life in sunnier climes, it must be incredibly hard adjusting to the manc gloom.
Isn't there some club in Russia - which is funded by oil billions - that has loads of Brazilian players on its books and ended up housing them in a massive dome full of UV light bulbs? I'm sure I read that somewhere.
Anzhi maybe?
I heard they train in Moscow and go to Mahackala or whatever the place is called on game days. Not that the weather in Moscow is so much better.
The upside of it is the euphoria you feel when things turn. Surely there are few places in the world where spring is so celebrated as it is here in the UK. The more depressing winter is, the more uplifting its retreat. Give him a couple more weeks and he'll probably be walking on air, walking around the place grinning like an idiot, beside himself with joy and playing like a kid with his friends on the streets of Rosario.
Could be them. As well as loads of UV lights, they apparently have an indoor beach. They put up the players and all their family and friends, with free food and drink for everyone. All sounds a bit mental but if it works, it works.
You jest but I wouldn't be surprised at all if there's evidence to support a theory that continental/hispanic footballers play their best football at the beginning and end of each PL season. As well as the shitty weather, the short days must take a lot of getting used to.
Yup. Spring is just around the corner.
What Pogue said, its true. Right now its cloudy and grey outside and I feel like shit just because of it.
Luckily here you get a lot of sunny days though, not to mention the coast.A true word said in jest. I agree.
The old cliche about a cold Wednesday night in Stoke didnt come from nothing.
Does make you wonder if the club should take these factors into account in their recruitment strategy. We should have broken the bank to sign that Odegaard kid.
As I've always said. Living anywhere with the money top footballers earn will be amazing. Deep down Di maria might have wanted to stay at Madrid but I'm sure he is relishing his time at United. Where he lives in Alderley edge is beautiful. It is one of the most luxurious villages in England. His house will be incredible and he wont be going out getting leathered every night will he? His children will be in a top school and he will spend most his time with his family at home. He isnt a 24 year old single Ronaldo who wants a lavish lifestyle. There is a heavy latin influence at the club now and alot of established players who join the club mention how the size of the club never fails to surprise them. I think this season just needs to hurry up. We need to secure the CL spot and hopefully the FA cup and then next year we will be all a more confident bunch. Stories like this only come about when we are at our lowest. Don't believe them.
We should build an acclimitisation camp in Patagonia where they can get used to being cold and living with short days. Keep them there for 4 weeks, start them off with a diet of fresh fish, tapas and whatever else feels familiar, but gradually introduce chip barms and lancashire hotpot washed down with a warm pint of ale, until they are ready to live in Manchester full time.
Di Maria did want to leave Madrid. He had a poor relationship with Perez, didn't feel important and knew he could get a lot more money elsewhere. They also wrote to him a day before the World Cup final asking him not to play, when he was doing everything possible to get fit for it, which he didn't appreciate. So those Spanish reports about him regretting leaving sounds like nonsense just like the ones saying that De Gea and LvG aren't on speaking terms.
He probably expected to go to PSG but he's with us now and getting paid handsomely. As long we return to the CL he'll be fine am sure.
He probably expected to go to PSG but he's with us now and getting paid handsomely. As long we return to the CL he'll be fine am sure.
Very true, he started very well but has tailed off in recent games, there's a settling in period in the league that people always chose to ignore.
So maybe Falcao is actually still a great footballer but is just cold and depressed.
We never were different from other fans, to be honest. Many just liked to think we were. The response to this period isn't all that surprising.
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