He needs to be benched for Liverpool game as it's madness to change a team that played so well. One of our best players and what an option from the bench.
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This is a bit off topic but part of SAF success was playing in form players and out of form players no matter how big their name was sat on the bench. I am hoping LVG steers clear from picking a player because of his name instead choosing him on form like Mata or Young over Di Maria.
Muppetry at its finest but the question I put to you all, would you be prepared to sell Di Maria to say PSG in the knowledge that we would sign either Ronaldo or Bale possibly even both?
Definitely not. We shouldn't be in the business of selling our best (or near best) players under any circumstances.
10000000 times yes.
Actually I'd even sell him for take a £10million loss on him and sell him for about £50million in the summer, if someone was willing to pay that of course.
Ronaldo/ronaldo and Bale for Di Maria? Really? Doesn't get easier, I love the guy but Ronaldo is the 2nd best player in the world. Wouldn't do a Bale for Di Maria swap though, Di Maria is way more talented.
Di Maria is better then Bale. This is just classic cow in another field syndrome.
Haha no he isn't. Bale is miles better and can impact a game more. Di Maria has never had a season like Bales last one for Tottenham.
Bale is surely a better winger than Di Maria? And a winger is what we really need. Plus as a Brit we wouldn't have the constant speculation about whether he can cope with the weather or our pesky British burglars. So yeah, I'd be tempted.
I really hope we do see the best of Di Maria here. Those early weeks when he looked really good seem a long time ago now.
I really hope we do see the best of Di Maria here. Those early weeks when he looked really good seem a long time ago now.
He's performing far worse in a much better side too. Even di Maria's fairly mixed season with spoaradic form has been better than Bale. Id have him 10 times out of 10 over Bale.
No he isn't. You have an incredible tendency to exaggerate.
Not bothered about Ronaldo, and don't see it happening at all. But 'yes' for Bale. I think he's better than Di Maria. He's more of a match-winner, is better suited to being the main man, proven as suited to this league.
Di Maria just does nothing for me, to be honest.
An in-form di Maria is still the team's best player and against a team like Liverpool, which is gonna put a lot more pressure on us than Tottenham, his pace and attacking ability could be vital.
Meh. Never found Bale particularly talented, it was more his pace, power and shooting from range that makes him a very good player. Everything else is a bit average from him IMO. I've never rated him as high as anyone else on here though so you won't find me being quick to praise him. Di maria has loads of talent on the other hand, he's just been inconsistent as hell.
It depends where they are played and what their role is. I think Di Maria was better last year but I do not think he has had a season like Bale did in 12/13 (I also consider Bales season last year to be better than all of Di Marias seasons for Madrid apart from 13/14). I think Bale is better on the wing (when on form, he has not being great this year) and makes more things happen by himself when playing there. Di Maria relies on his teammates more. Di Maria is more versatile however, Bale couldn't do as good a job as Di Maria did last season in midfield. Whoever is better or more talented between the two, there is certainly not a big difference in it. Although there seems to be a tendency to not rate quick and powerful players so highly these days.
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I'd prefer to have ADM to be honest. He just needs to find his best form again and the doubts will be gone
I am a little bit shocked that we really need to discuss about selling or benching the man who outshone Ronaldo and Messi at several occasions.
He + Rooney + DdG are our only players I would consider to be real worldclass and who would make it into more or less any team.
He + Rooney + DdG are our only players I would consider to be real worldclass and who would make it into more or less any team.
He has to start imo. Can hasn't been all that great at the back lately, and Markovic isn't all that as a RWB. Assuming it's either Markovic or Johnson on the right side, with Can being the right sided defender, we need AdM in there running at them.
I think he is struggling to settle especially with the lack of English. People like Herrera and Mata settled fast as they had great English. He doesn't talk English well, and I imagine his and LVG's instructions struggle to get across properly. If he works hard at it though I imagine once he settles he will be fantastic - that's if he wants too.
Young would be playing there. Di Maria would be against Sakho + Moreno.
We have numerous Spanish speaking players and coaches including Van Gaal himself. I very much doubt they leave him standing there like a lemon wondering what everyone is talking about.
Di Maria last season was significantly better than Bale ever was.
I really can't agree with that. Bale's last season in the EPL was unbelievable.
Didn't know LVG speaks spanish, surprising as his English can be a little unnatural. While yes we do have plenty of Spanish speakers, sometimes in a game if he want's to tell a team mate something it could be a problem. I can't see him being able to tell Rooney to track a runner etc.
Those kinds of messages can be easily conveyed using hand gestures, I cant see that being a problem.
I imagine Van Gaal's Spanish is even more faltering than his English but having coached at Barca he can probably make himself understood.
I imagine Van Gaal's Spanish is even more faltering than his English but having coached at Barca he can probably make himself understood.
"Significantly"? Really?
I don't think you can compare the two, as they were two different players playing for two completely different teams. But, if you had to...
Bale was the main man for a decent Tottenham team, and he almost carried them to the Champions League. I remember some the goals he scored that season, and they were either incredible strikes from range or a "Messi" type goal by dribble past the entire opposition defense. He actually tailed off, if I may say, towards the end of the season which may have contributed towards Tottenham missing out on the top 4. I'd say this was the season where Bale became a man, and was capped off by his move to Real Madrid.
di Maria, on the other hand, played for a team, alongside Bale, where he was no were near being the main man, and outshone him, in a season where Madrid won the coveted "La Decima". He was described by many as the "engine" that powered the team towards the Champions League final. Had di Maria not put in that performance in the final, then I'd say Gareth Bale's 2012/13 would edge di Maria's last season for Real. However, his man of match performance will always be remembered as the highlight of that game, and, that too, in a season where he scored 12 and assisted 24 in 44 starts for Madrid. That performance is why we paid £60m (MUFC tax included) and, also, why that year trumps Bale's 2012/13 season.
Whilst Bale's season initiated him for the big stage, di Maria's season was the performance of a life time on that very big stage.
I would say more 'the second half of his last season on EPL'. However, even then I don't think that he was one of the best players in the world, something that Di Maria clearly was last season.
Nail on head.
The Mail are running another Di Maria/Cavani swap story, that would be a contender for one of the worst deals we've done.
When you see a swap deal being proposed you know it's bollocks. How many times do they actually go through? Re: Cavani though, that would be a terrible bit of business, and doesn't solve any of our problems.
He was already giving it the "The future? Only God knows...." bullshit back in November.
If he doesn't want to be here, he can piss off.
If you're going to believe anything the Daily Mail writes, then give up now. They are the masters of spouting bullsh*t. I don't think I've ever seen that correctly predict a transfer.
Yeah once I saw it was the Daily Mail I didn't really care much.
Nobody "wants to play for PSG"
If there was a swap deal for our invested £60 fecking million I'd expect at least Veratti and Marquinhos!
Nobody "wants to play for PSG"
What worse is the "playing in the French league would please lots of players"...
The press always try and unsettle our players, it shifts papers. First we were going to shift DDG because he was shit and now we're going to lose him because he's fantastic, it'll be the same with ADM.
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