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2014-15 Performances

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5.7 Season Average Rating
Appearances
32
Goals
4
Assists
13
Yellow cards
3
Red cards
1
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If it was actually an option and we received a £60 million bid from PSG i'd bite their hand off. Get someone in who's passionate about playing for the badge.
 
If you didn't know what he had done last year for Madrid - and you thought we had bought him for £500k from Dagenham - you could believe it on tonights performance.
One good cross all night, plus a sending off - even if the sending off was somewhat understandable.
How a £60m player cannot go down the wing and cross with his right foot is facking incredible. LVG has facked him.
 
The Purley King said:
If you didn't know what he had done last year for Madrid - and you thought we had bought him for £500k from Dagenham - you could believe it on tonights performance.
One good cross all night, plus a sending off - even if the sending off was somewhat understandable.
How a £60m player cannot go down the wing and cross with his right foot is facking incredible. LVG has facked him.
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Hes left footed....
 
I am not even mad at him. I can't be as I have already wasted all my energy by being mad at LvG's negativity, his subs and above all him playing Fellaini ahead of much more gifted players.
I'd still much rather watch Di Maria than Fellaini who really wouldn't be playing for any other top team, especially not as a plan A.
 
he was actually having a decent game until the red card incident - probably his best game all year in fact
 
dxadel said:
PSG are also looking to rebuild and get rid of the deadwood in their team, i don't think they would want him tbh, but the french ligue might suit him - we won't get more than £30m though
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I reckon PSG would easily give us at least £45 million for him still if Woody and LVG decide that they want to cash in. Reputations aren't lost that quickly unless players look absolutely physically past it. Di Maria is still a very good player going through a very rough patch, and I'm sure he is still considered a world class player on the continent.
 
justboy68 said:
I reckon PSG would easily give us at least £45 million for him still if Woody and LVG decide that they want to cash in. Reputations aren't lost that quickly unless players look absolutely physically past it. Di Maria is still a very good player going through a very rough patch, and I'm sure he is still considered a world class player on the continent.
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I don't think PSG would waste £45 million on Di Maria
 
Was ok in the first half. Nothing special, though. Apart from the assist, he was easily dispossessed again, and fecked us over when he got sent off.
 
dxadel said:
I don't think PSG would waste £45 million on Di Maria
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It is PSG we're talking about here. Plus who's to say it would even be a waste, he might hit the ground running there and play up to the standards he set in his last season at Real which made us buy him for absurd money in the first place.
 
Massive overreactions on her as per the norm.

Sell Di Maria, Sack LVG. Give me strength.
 
dxadel said:
I don't think PSG would waste £45 million on Di Maria
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Yeah I reckon they would, not that I want him gone at this point, but if he can't settle down and get himself sorted pretty soon then it might be the best thing for him.

It boggles the mind to think we are paying a guy to play for another team in Portugal who could probably have done twice the job Di Maria has this season.
 
septic said:
Massive overreactions on her as per the norm.

Sell Di Maria, Sack LVG. Give me strength.
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Yes, it's not like real unhappiness at Di Maria's form and LvG's management have been simmering for a while or anything, is it? It must all be knee-jerkism.
 
Pogue Mahone said:
No way. Not even close. Has had maybe two or three really good games this season. Tonight was not one of them. And that's before the stupid red card.
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He was definitely good in the first half. Not brilliant, but he was hitting in some very nice crosses and of course one of them got him an assist. Faded out in the second half admittedly, and then had his stupid incident.
 
Rozay said:
I surely don't need to remind you what they did in the market last summer?
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Luiz offers a whole lot more than Di Maria to a team, he is a utility player - he should be nowhere near a £50m price tag though, and having wasted that much on one player and with the FFP rules and all i don't think they would waste £45m on a one footed winger
 
dxadel said:
We should probably be celebrating a second successive season without silverware
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It's difficult to win stuff. There are better teams than us right now. Selling Di Maria after not even one season is just a ludicrous idea.
 
Was looking much better tonight. Ok, maybe he could of filled in for Valencia on the first goal, but I don't really have any defensive expectations from him. Cross for the goal was perfect. Shame that he went on to cost us the chance to at least force a replay. Hardly giving us value for money but I'm sure it'll come.
 
dxadel said:
Luiz offers a whole lot more than Di Maria to a team, he is a utility player - he should be nowhere near a £50m price tag though, and having wasted that much on one player and with the FFP rules and all i don't think they would waste £45m on a one footed winger
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Hopefully not, which is why they will offer us Matuidi or Marquinos and some cash (wishful thinking of course).
 
Goes from bad to worse, even when i didnt think it was possible. Still expecting him to turn it round but does he have the mentality? Think he works better with a star player taking the lime light off him.
 
For an attacking player of his price-tag, he doesn't nearly threaten the goal enough either. He is clumsy and nervous when in shooting positions, thus more likely to score the odd brilliant goal as opposed to be a regular scorer. Oh if only we had gotten Sanchez and Arsenal had gotten him instead!
 
Count Orduck said:
Yes, it's not like real unhappiness at Di Maria's form and LvG's management have been simmering for a while or anything, is it? It must all be knee-jerkism.
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Let it continue to simmer then. No one has any patience anymore. It's this sense of entitlement that gets me.

We can be disappointed in Di Maria's diving or whatever, but seriously proposing to sell him after not even one season? That is knee jerk.
 
Van gaal's poor man management is not helping his case. He was bound to snap like that sooner or later
 
septic said:
It's difficult to win stuff. There are better teams than us right now. Selling Di Maria after not even one season is just a ludicrous idea.
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He doesn't look like he will be here much longer, so why not shop for possible buyers now - we would probably get half of the money we spent right now, i'm not against him staying .... i just wouldn't want a scenario where he would spend 5 years in the team based on his reputation and not present performance
 
Personally I didnt think he was having a good game even before he was sent off. He did put in a couple of good crosses when he got the ball onto his left foot, that much is true, but he was very one dimensional, sloppy in possession and left Valencia isolated on several occasions.
 
He's like a skinny little boy playing in the big boy's team.

He needs to bulk up and man up, or else he will never be able to replicate his La Liga form in the Premier League.
 
rednev said:
He's like a skinny little boy playing in the big boy's team.

He needs to bulk up and man up, or else he will never be able to replicate his La Liga form in the Premier League.
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He def doesn't need to bulk up.
 
Walrus said:
Personally I didnt think he was having a good game even before he was sent off. He did put in a couple of good crosses when he got the ball onto his left foot, that much is true, but he was very one dimensional, sloppy in possession and left Valencia isolated on several occasions.
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I think he was involved in all but one of our goal scoring opportunities in the first half.
He wasn't brilliant, but he was decent. I agree with regards to the defensive duties though.
 
He needs to get his fecking head in gear and realise you can't take as much out of the ball as he does. The amount of times he just blindly sprints into an opposition player is pretty staggering for someone supposed to be a top footballer.
 
The first goal was on him, zero awareness.

The dive was shameful, and the red card was fully deserved, it's a shame because i had a feeling he's going to bounce back after that beautiful assist, but he's a moron and i hope the club fines him for that.
 
As good as he's managed to play for us in a while. Was responsible for most of our attacks, and got an assist. Very stupid to get sent off, but an improvement I think.
 
Thing is, we might not even have a choice about selling him - I think he might be pretty committed to leaving. He hasn't settled, his family are terrified and hate England after being burgled, his form is crap, he's getting loads of stick, and he feels victimised by referees.
 
You just know whether it's when he finishes, or if he does move on sooner than expected, he'll be asked that age-old question "when was your least enjoyable time in football?" and his response will be Manchester United. His worst manager - Van Gaal. I think the latter will be the case for a lot of these players. They don't seem enthused at all.
 
I don't know what's up with him.

When he first joined he was like a mile ahead of his teammates. Now he seems to be playing more like Valencia and Young. Never seems to take players on too.
 
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