Cant help but think the red card might actually be for the Adidas campaign, i mean it started with Diego Costa, Adidas are trying to create rebels to sell their products.
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Cant help but think the red card might actually be for the Adidas campaign, i mean it started with Diego Costa, Adidas are trying to create rebels to sell their products.
To be honest, I'm not too bothered about the lack of tracking back (though it would be nice to see some effort). If there's one player in the team who should be justifying being a luxury player who doesn't track back, it's Di Maria.
The problem for me is entirely how awful he is going forwards. He can still put a decent delivery (which makes me even more baffled as to why Rooney takes every free kick and corner, when he could be in the box looking for goals), but I am genuinely shocked by how bad he is at running at defenders. I honestly don't think he beat a man once last night, loses the ball every single time. Even Valencia looks more likely to come out of a challenge with the ball.
The only unknown when you see ADM approaching an opposition player with the ball is whether he'll chose that moment to do one of his spectacular dives and feign injury, or if he won't be bothered to on that occasion.
The problem for me is entirely how awful he is going forwards. He can still put a decent delivery (which makes me even more baffled as to why Rooney takes every free kick and corner, when he could be in the box looking for goals), but I am genuinely shocked by how bad he is at running at defenders. I honestly don't think he beat a man once last night, loses the ball every single time. Even Valencia looks more likely to come out of a challenge with the ball.
The only unknown when you see ADM approaching an opposition player with the ball is whether he'll chose that moment to do one of his spectacular dives and feign injury, or if he won't be bothered to on that occasion.
And some posters LVG ruined him and turned him into a pub player.
If he's not good going forward then its not cause of the system. He's just out of form.
He was beating players for fun early in the season. When your form is poor, things don't happen for you. He was starting to take players on a bit again, but hes obv lost some confidence there.
how many games he'll get?
Seriously? Silly me for thinking the Newbies section was off the wall shtupid.
I'm pretty sure burglary thing is causing some portion of his bad form, I suppose his wife must be pretty terrified and that'd reflect on him as well.
See it in few threads, yeah.
Two yellows = one match.
His wife hates Manchester, the burglary was the icing on the cake. If I took my missus from Madrid to Manchester and the same things happened to me my missus would be right on my case. So he's getting shit at home, he's struggling at work, he's in a bad place at the moment. You can see it in him.
Unfortunately I think it was a bad move for him and a bad move for us. Shame, but I can see him gone this summer.
Unfortunately I think it was a bad move for him and a bad move for us. Shame, but I can see him gone this summer.
I don't mind if he goes tomorrow if we get what we paid for him. There are many players suitable for EPL at his position.
We'd most likely get half.
some of the reactions here are so ridiculously over the top.Retard, wanker, should apologise for shaming the club etc, caf hysteria in full overdrive.
Retard, wanker, should apologise for shaming the club etc, caf hysteria in full overdrive.
I don't think my comments belong in the same category as people calling him a retard or a wanker.
If you think diving isn't something worthy of being embarrassed about fine. I disagree.
only from PSG
I'd agree with that. Though it could be to do with other aspects of our club - coaching / fitness etc.
We've signed quite a few players for quite a lot of money over the last year and a half, and very few have managed to live up to anything like their ability, which is worrying.
Pretty much all our players have dived before. I didn't see the yellow card incident as a dive either. Welbeck did the exact same thing in the box earlier but he's English so it doesn't diunt as a dive of course. But that's besides the point. I do agree yours is the least over the top one.
Well that sure as hell won't happen.
How do we know that his missus hates Manchester?
Agreed on the Welbeck dive. I've said as much elsewhere. I've also said the same about our other players in the past.
There was a stage last year I would've like to see Young out of the club for it.
It's one of the shittest things about the game but everyone seems content to complain about it but do nothing to fix it.
I was at the game last night and one thing I noticed that I doubt was picked up on TV, was his regular tantrums every time someone didn't pass to him. And I mean very regular.
It's good to see a player keen to get on the ball, but this was like watching a child having his sweets taken off him. It was even when his team mates chose to play to the opposite full back instead of Valencia. That'd set him off again holding his hands up as if to say do you not know who I am?!
I honestly have no agenda against di Maria and have every hope he hits form here, but I really didn't like the tantrums that I saw last night.
It's good to see a player keen to get on the ball, but this was like watching a child having his sweets taken off him. It was even when his team mates chose to play to the opposite full back instead of Valencia. That'd set him off again holding his hands up as if to say do you not know who I am?!
I honestly have no agenda against di Maria and have every hope he hits form here, but I really didn't like the tantrums that I saw last night.
I seem to be in the minority that is amazed that he'll get away with a 1match when putting hands on the ref. We should count ourselves lucky really.
In terms of mad minutes, that was right up there last night
hand on the ref or not he got 2 yellow cards so that's that.
For me there's a difference between diving and going down the easily. Di maria did the former. It's the way he's been brought up playing the game with a low pain threshold, like Nani. It's not a big deal in Spain i don't think. And I don't have issues with it. Referees don't seem to give anything when players stand their ground either. Inwouldnt expect that from the morons who red premier league games anyway. Then you have the proper diving like what Januzaj did yesterday. That's terribel imo.
In an ideal world both wouldn't happen but the former is commonplace now. Most arsenal players would have gone to ground as well. Welbeck already proved he would.
I personally feel a but for di Maria because it came across as differential treatment towards him as he fixed into one of the stereotypical boxes the ref drew up in his head. If rooney or welbeck had gone down in the same situation they would have either gottten a foul for it or not gotten a foul but not gotten booked and singled out as a cheat. Of course he was really silly grabbing he ref (well it was a grab or sorts I guess) but I don't think the whole incident is as black and white as a lot of people are treating and going ape shit in this thread as a result.
He was never the player we needed for our squad imo. Obviously he is immensely talented, but the whole thing feels like it was a statement and he was the best marquee player available at the time.
playing as the attacking midfielder in a 3, he has shown he has all the promise to live up to his price tag with the right players around him, however we didn't need a 60m investment into that area of the pitch, we had just spent 37m on juan mata the january before and 30m on hererra this summer, both players who could quite easily make that position their own. we needed a proper world class no.8 and a pacey wide forward/winger. players who will make up the "spine" of the side for the foreseeable future. As pretty much everyone has stated di maria out wide is an absolute waste and has never really dominated in that position.
man oh man i wish we took sanchez.
playing as the attacking midfielder in a 3, he has shown he has all the promise to live up to his price tag with the right players around him, however we didn't need a 60m investment into that area of the pitch, we had just spent 37m on juan mata the january before and 30m on hererra this summer, both players who could quite easily make that position their own. we needed a proper world class no.8 and a pacey wide forward/winger. players who will make up the "spine" of the side for the foreseeable future. As pretty much everyone has stated di maria out wide is an absolute waste and has never really dominated in that position.
man oh man i wish we took sanchez.
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Come on. It was a blatant dive. I'm not even that bothered about the dive tbh. Grabbing the ref afterwards was fecking braindead though.
It sure was. Sadly, players do lose the plot and their sense of perspective sometimes.
Well then you'll understand why people are angry about the most expensive player in the history of English football losing the plot/sense of perspective in our biggest game of the season so far.
It's an unusual enough thing to do anyway. Can't think of when another player last got booked for grabbing a ref. To do it at that moment, in that game, (immediately after being booked for a blatant dive) was very hard to take.
I've made exactly your argument in the past. Funnily enough, for Januzaj on this board somewhere I think.
I didn't think Di Maria was as innocent as you did tonight though. I thought it was a deliberate and as bad as Januzaj's, who probably was fouled, if several yards earlier.
If it was Suarez or Sterling that went down like that, we'd be mocking Liverpool fans for it and slamming those who condoned it.
Things like this don't happen when refs do their job properly. He Should have made it worthwhile and punched him.
Not sure when a player got booked for it, I remember Hart on Oliver earlier this season got nothing (and was labelled a pussy by a lot of people for letting hart get away with it) and then there was the Sterling on Webb last year where he got away with it I think. No idea what goes through players' heads when they do it though.
I agree with you. Embarassing stuff and it smacks of desperation to boot. I don't mind us getting beaten but it's how we get beat and the tactics we resort to that get my goat and I'd happily see cheats shipped out.
Interesting. I think the suspicion is growing that all this is a bit too much like hard work for him.
Would not mind it one bit if he was sold in the summer. He might be one of the best players around but i would rather have a team full of players like Fellaini and Evans who might no be the best but at least tries their best when they are given a chance.
Sterling did it to Webb. He just let it go.
Sometimes, the ref using a bit of common sense wont go amiss but unfortunately, the way Di Maria made contact, it was never going to be let off.
Ohh, the body language posts again.
Sterling was a silly boy too. Although I don't think he did it immediately after he'd been booked for something else.
Nope, iirc it was for a foul Sterling wanted which was not given. Neither could have had any complains about being booked but the ref using a cooler head like Webb did would be good to see.
We had two players do daft things yestwrday - Valencia and di Maria. Shit happens sadly in football. I hope they both become stronger due to it. But I'm not going to single out one of them out because he happens to be a top player WE paid huge money for.
I don't put a terrible back pass in the same category as grabbing the referee. The former is a badly executed skill, the latter is just completely brainless.
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