You don't become a shit player overnight. He's quality. He just needs more time to adapt and he'll set the PL alight.
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Blows my mind too.
Keep him ofcourse. You do not sell a player like him without giving him the best possible chance to shine. Play him either centrally or on the right.
He will NEVER set the PL alight, be honest with yourself..
So please tell me where would you play him where he's not already been played and proven to be shite?
The logic though.
CM ideally, we have the entire team designed to keep the ball. I dont see why having someone like him with the license to run with it or go for the killer balls is such a big problem. We keep the ball 70% of the game anyways, I'd rather we keep it 60% but take more risks.
If not, on the right in the role that Mata plays for us.
Fecking hell, you simply cannot judge him on this performance. His confidence is shot plus he comes on at a moment were we are going desperado because yet again we have been sucker punched, not an easy mission for anyone to turn around coming of the bench.
Did you not see his CM performances earlier in the season, then?
I slag players whom I believe that they are not good enough irrespective if they are homegrown or not. I probably slagged Ando more than anyone else and he's Brazilian.
But there again let us put the blame on someone who played just 30 minutes and protect the one who gave a weak foul which costed us the goal and failed to score an open goal.
If he doesn't win games for us in his cameos then he simply has to go, or something like that.
Did you not know? When judging di Maria's performance, the context does matter.
Left back?
We've been judging him on his performances dating back to November.
In the changing room.
Nobody is "putting the blame" on him. We're discussing his performance. Look at the title of the thread ffs.
Except Young, Rooney, Mata, Fellaini were abolsutely rubbish, today; and based on the last three performances, we wouldn't be any worse with di Maria starting.
You do realise that we haven't scored in 280 minutes, conceded 7 and lost three.
LvG has to take a bit of the blame here. He should've been playing AdM more consistently and giving him a few starts in recent weeks.
His confidence is shot and he looks clueless to what LVG wants him to do, it's a real square peg in round hole situation.
No doubt he will go somewhere else in the summer and then get back to his Madrid form.
No doubt he will go somewhere else in the summer and then get back to his Madrid form.
Yes, only winning the game for us would have been acceptable. Nothing less
Feck me, the idiocy in this thread...
It was a 2/10 performance from him really and yet he still, out of nowhere, came as close as anybody did to levelling the match for us. And that's why we will be patient with him.
Well last season in the las 6 months and from the moment Ancelotti played him as an hybrid CM-LM, he has played on the left, in a role not very free.
Di Maria isn't a central player and doesn't thrive in a free role, he played there for Mourinho and wasn't great. Di Maria is a wide player who sometimes will come inside.
He played centrally against weak teams, but against strong opposition and therefore the games that caught everyone eyes he played on the left, the CL final is a good example of that.
I'd ask you whether you've ever watched him play CM if you think he's as ineffective there as he's out on the left. There's a reason why neither his national team nor Real deployed him as a left winger with the job to ping crosses in on a regular basis.
Played his way out of the team with his primadonna play and careless attitude, which I said could happen when we signed him. Where's all the feckers gone that told me he was a guaranteed success when we signed him?
Right now his confidence is shot as a result of all this and his time on the bench. If we want him to get through it we need to just play him and let him get it out of his head. Unfortunately it's too late in the season with a lot at stake.
This is why I'd rarely touch a Madrid player or spend huge on one player.
Right now his confidence is shot as a result of all this and his time on the bench. If we want him to get through it we need to just play him and let him get it out of his head. Unfortunately it's too late in the season with a lot at stake.
This is why I'd rarely touch a Madrid player or spend huge on one player.
Well we certainly weren't any better in the 30 minutes he did play.
Absolutely, but making it seem like Di Maria is significantly better isn't going to help matters, Young played better than him today.
He's no where near the quality of player as mata ( who is played out of position in RM). As for CM who's he going to displace Herrera?
What's the opposite of strong on the ball?
I can't remember when was the last time we played well when Di Maria started. He's been such a bad signing for us.
But he'd have done a better job if we'd have given him 60 more minutes = Logic.
His role in the Real side when he played in the middle and kept going either wide to the left or straight ahead was absolutely different to what we ask of him. The best use of Di Maria isnt to have him stuck out wide looking to ping crosses in. He could do a job there but that's not what we've paid 60mil for.
Heh. You accuse me of not watching his performances for his national team. Ironic. Dig out some videos of his last few games for Argentina and pay attention to the position he plays, then get back to me.
I dont care about the title. Most of you are going to tough on a player who played just 30 minutes and nearly scored a goal. I wouldn't even blame it on the guy who made the foul either. If I had to blame someone Ill blame the one who players strikers in midfield, midfielders as strikers and defenders, wingers as fullbacks etc. We'll soon see DDG upfront. Actually no, we'll soon see him at Real by the look of it.
I just can't believe what I am seeing from this guy, I feel he has to stay just to be given another chance to show us that he really isn't this bad, it's almost laughable at time.
I do think though that he is best left out of the squad for the last games, he is clearly not an impact sub, and LvG refuses to start him, tbh I'd rather see Janujaz, or Pereria coming on in situations like today at the moment.
I do think though that he is best left out of the squad for the last games, he is clearly not an impact sub, and LvG refuses to start him, tbh I'd rather see Janujaz, or Pereria coming on in situations like today at the moment.
Problem is he's been pretty junk for quite a while now
Heh. Sure I will and then get back to you.
Yep, there's no difference between starting a game and joining it 60 mins in whilst already a goal down.
LVG is to blame, his bought in a players who he doesn't know what to do with!
Di Maria needs to start and shown confidence in not letting rot on the bench!
Di Maria needs to start and shown confidence in not letting rot on the bench!
You cannot seriously play him as CM as if and most certainly when he loses the ball the opposition have a straight run at our very fragile defence.
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