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Is this thread still getting bumps over was it a pass or shot! hehe

I was on the bus home tonight still loving the fact he is a United player...the summer has been unbelievable.

I was thinking he need to be on the ball as much as possible so the central midfield is the most advantageous position for Di Maria. That was kinda lost of me when he signed, i thought he would be an amazing attacking player who could also put a shift in!

But he is so blooming marvelous he can play in midfield and fix nearly every problem with the squad. :D

As for was it a pass or shot? who cares :devil:
 
If it's a pass - is di Maria really that good at passing?

If it's a shot - is di Maria really that shit at shooting?

To me, the first one seems more likely.
 
united_99 said:
Someone should ask his wife on Social media!
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I just snapchatted her a cock shot with 8 or 9 paragraphs of reasons why he should join United written down my shaft with a Sharpie.
 
I immediately thought it was a pass when I saw it, which amazed me how accurate it was. I don't believe it was a shot b/c if it was, he would've had to shank it very badly to miss the goal sideways. I've never seen Nani or Young miss a shot that badly but I'm expected to believe world class Di Maria did?
 
Utd7 said:
I immediately thought it was a pass when I saw it, which amazed me how accurate it was. I don't believe it was a shot b/c if it was, he would've had to shank it very badly to miss the goal sideways. I've never seen Nani or Young miss a shot that badly but I'm expected to believe world class Di Maria did?
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if there is one thing di maria isnt world class at, it is shooting. I have never seen Young or Nani trying to shoot from there, plus they normally go for the safe option and use a different shooting technique. I am pretty sure Nani had similar shots, where you would say he should at least hit the target. It happens to world class players too, believe it or not.
 
At the request of @George1976 (its creator) in the newbies the bones of a new song.

I haven't heard one for Di Maria yet...but think I'm on to something here. Rubbish original song by all accounts, so think it should be re-jigged especially as it's called 'No Limits' I think by techno pop band 2 Unlimited it's not 'No, No' etc as it's says in original it's..'Di Di, Di Di, Di Di...DI MARIA' !!
Repeat again, but changing 2nd verse DI MARIA for 'THERE'S NO LIMITS'..!?

For those of you too young to remember such a monster of pop:

 
jojojo said:
At the request of @George1976 (its creator) in the newbies the bones of a new song.

I haven't heard one for Di Maria yet...but think I'm on to something here. Rubbish original song by all accounts, so think it should be re-jigged especially as it's called 'No Limits' I think by techno pop band 2 Unlimited it's not 'No, No' etc as it's says in original it's..'Di Di, Di Di, Di Di...DI MARIA' !!
Repeat again, but changing 2nd verse DI MARIA for 'THERE'S NO LIMITS'..!?

For those of you too young to remember such a monster of pop:
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So basically a rip off of the Kolo/Yaya Toure chant then? :)
 
jojojo said:
At the request of @George1976 (its creator) in the newbies the bones of a new song.

I haven't heard one for Di Maria yet...but think I'm on to something here. Rubbish original song by all accounts, so think it should be re-jigged especially as it's called 'No Limits' I think by techno pop band 2 Unlimited it's not 'No, No' etc as it's says in original it's..'Di Di, Di Di, Di Di...DI MARIA' !!
Repeat again, but changing 2nd verse DI MARIA for 'THERE'S NO LIMITS'..!?

For those of you too young to remember such a monster of pop:
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Well @George1976, don't give up the day job.

If the day job is writing song lyrics, quit.

:D
 
Heartless brutes. :lol:

We need some songs that are easy to sing on repeat, songs everyone can sing. We've never really made up for the loss of the Ronaldo songs.

As for derivative, well sure, most football chants are. It's dog eat dog in this game.
 
jojojo said:
Heartless brutes. :lol:

We need some songs that are easy to sing on repeat, songs everyone can sing. We've never really made up for the loss of the Ronaldo songs.

As for derivative, well sure, most football chants are. It's dog eat dog in this game.
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I agree with that, just the idea of us singing 'di di di di di di' would make us sound like a bunch of window cleaners. I think the Falcao one (that we've pinched from Madrid) will replace the Viva Ronaldo one once everyone gets a hang of the tune.
 
Lol going through the Liverpool forums "Di Maria to United" thread, just so many beauties.


"He won't make a difference to their midfield"


"He is being bought to boost shirt sales"


"He is no better than Coutinho or Sterling at their best form last season"


"Will be another Veron"


"Seems like another Arsenal/Ozil transfer, to me. Struggled to get their real targets, then spent big money on an available player they don't really need to appease the fans."



"United have won several league titles with "pansy" central midfielders. Di Maria was actually ultra impressive last season playing as a #8 in a 4-3-3. It's definitely something I would experiment with if I was LVG.

Di Maria - Blind - Herrera
Mata - RVP - Rooney

That might work."

Someone replying to previous quote: "That midfield will get run over. I pity the defenders that have to play behind them."


Then you can spot the exact moment he played a game for us :lol:


"I didn't want this thread to slip away quietly, unnoticed so I've brought it up again

A thread to ridicule United for buying a top quality, world class talent"


"Herrera is quality and I always hoped he would sign for us.
Blind is an upgrade on Fellaini,Cleverely etc. But noting to be worried about.
Di Maria is a world class player. Why did Real madrid get rid? Seriously they are nuts"


"Hate to say it but Di Maria looked a special talent yesterday, if he produces that week in week out added with our tendancy to throw in the odd shocker, United could actually be a threat to our top 4 hopes. That's the annoying thing about the Villa result, we needed to try maintain that cushion over them."


"Wish we had a world class player like Di Maria...i wouldn't give a toss if he can defend."


"Jesus this being the most active thread bothers me,its like a man united fan came in here to brag"


:D
 
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Yeah we need a proper fecking song for him, chanting "Argentina" can't be the best we have surely?
 
Theres no way it was a shot. Anyone who has ever played football in their life knows it was meant to be a cross. Doesn't make him any less a player because he is fantastic.
 
A very old friend came by today
and he was telling everyone around
About the greatest player in town
Di Maria's the name of Uniteds fame (?)



Best I can do - Sorry :lol:
 
How about this caftards:

Angel Di Maria,
He's gonna beat ya, he's gonna beat ya beat ya beat ya beat ya
Angel Di Maria,
He's gonna skin ya, he's gonna skin ya, skin ya, skin ya



Simple but catchy.
 
2-Unlimited - There's no limit:

Di Di, Di Di Di Di, Di Di Di Di, Di Di Di-MA-RIA!

Repeat getting faster and faster...
 
justboy68 said:
How about this caftards:

Angel Di Maria,
He's gonna beat ya, he's gonna beat ya beat ya beat ya beat ya
Angel Di Maria,
He's gonna skin ya, he's gonna skin ya, skin ya, skin ya



Simple but catchy.
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Pretty good actually. But, just doesn't feel like it would work at a game. The tune isn't Football chanty enough.
 
XdanielredX said:
Lol going through the Liverpool forums "Di Maria to United" thread, just so many beauties.


"He won't make a difference to their midfield"


"He is being bought to boost shirt sales"


"He is no better than Coutinho or Sterling at their best form last season"


"Will be another Veron"


"Seems like another Arsenal/Ozil transfer, to me. Struggled to get their real targets, then spent big money on an available player they don't really need to appease the fans."



"United have won several league titles with "pansy" central midfielders. Di Maria was actually ultra impressive last season playing as a #8 in a 4-3-3. It's definitely something I would experiment with if I was LVG.

Di Maria - Blind - Herrera
Mata - RVP - Rooney

That might work."

Someone replying to previous quote: "That midfield will get run over. I pity the defenders that have to play behind them."


Then you can spot the exact moment he played a game for us :lol:


"I didn't want this thread to slip away quietly, unnoticed so I've brought it up again

A thread to ridicule United for buying a top quality, world class talent"


"Herrera is quality and I always hoped he would sign for us.
Blind is an upgrade on Fellaini,Cleverely etc. But noting to be worried about.
Di Maria is a world class player. Why did Real madrid get rid? Seriously they are nuts"


"Hate to say it but Di Maria looked a special talent yesterday, if he produces that week in week out added with our tendancy to throw in the odd shocker, United could actually be a threat to our top 4 hopes. That's the annoying thing about the Villa result, we needed to try maintain that cushion over them."


"Wish we had a world class player like Di Maria...i wouldn't give a toss if he can defend."


"Jesus this being the most active thread bothers me,its like a man united fan came in here to brag"


:D
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Please tell me that Coutinho better than Di Maria quote is a wum :lol:
 
pseudo_canadian said:
Crazy. Because Angel Di Maria and Radamel Falcao would have been so inspired to play for David fecking Moyes.

Sure.
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I'm not saying that they would. But both were kind of on the move, and as always money talks.
Certainly Falcao was always moving somewhere due to his circumstances, and there weren't many other takers at the end of the window by the looks of it.

Assuming that for Moyes to be here we'd have needed Champions League football, then the situation wouldn't have been too dissimilar to the one that brought Mata here - a top player who doesn't have tons of options at their price. Convenient for the agents, the club and for everyone else.

I don't even think Di Maria would have chosen us above PSG if they stumped up the same cash, so him saying he chose us because of van Gaal is probably a bit untrue. Who else was there to choose exactly?
 
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dannyrhinos89 said:
I'd sort of like to see the team we would be lining up with now had Moyes stayed, we certainly wouldn't have Di Maria or Falcao but I wonder who else would've come.
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I could see something like;
Januzaj - Carvalho - CM? - Mata
Rooney - Cavani

Those are the only two I think we could've really gotten that he/we were really interested in at the time.
 
So far it's looking like van Gaal will use him as a left midfielder who can offer width rather than as a winger. Makes sense as it takes the best advantage of his abilities. He and Herrera have great engines so putting them in box to box roles works.
 
Will be interesting to see whether or not he can step up his defensive game. He runs a lot but has incredibly poor statistics at actually being the one to win the ball back - which puts an incredible pressure on Herrera, Blind and the defenders to do it instead.

Last year for Real he had the same statistics(Interceptions and Tackles) as Mata and Nani usually have, who are heavily criticized for their defensive work.

Would be the icing on the cake if he actually improved this, considering we already have Mata and our forwards who don't do too much in the defense.
 
Did you actually watch him for Madrid last season? His defensive work was fantastic hence one of the reasons he was in the team.
 
Bojan11 said:
Did you actually watch him for Madrid last season? His defensive work was fantastic hence one of the reasons he was in the team.
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His work-rate is undoubted, like I said he runs a lot and he does it well. But he rarely actually wins the ball back himself, so the pressure is on others to use ADM's hounding/press to win the ball back.

Last year like I said his interception/tackles statistics were the same as Nani/Mata which isn't impressive for a central midfielder. It isn't a necessity to win the ball back yourself to be good defensively, look at Khedira who also has poor statistics in that regard but is good defensively, but it requires the players around you to win the ball back.

Fellaini who is also incredibly criticized for never imposing himself defensively had two times better interceptions/tackles last season than Di Maria.

Like I said, it doesn't mean that Di Maria is worse defensively than Nani, Mata and Fellaini - it just means exactly what it means - that he extremely rarely wins the ball back himself for a central midfielder.
 
Annahnomoss said:
His work-rate is undoubted, like I said he runs a lot and he does it well. But he rarely actually wins the ball back himself, so the pressure is on others to use ADM's hounding/press to win the ball back.

Last year like I said his interception/tackles statistics were the same as Nani/Mata which isn't impressive for a central midfielder. It isn't a necessity to win the ball back yourself to be good defensively, look at Khedira who also has poor statistics in that regard but is good defensively, but it requires the players around you to win the ball back.

Fellaini who is also incredibly criticized for never imposing himself defensively had two times better interceptions/tackles last season than Di Maria.

Like I said, it doesn't mean that Di Maria is worse defensively than Nani, Mata and Fellaini - it just means exactly what it means - that he extremely rarely wins the ball back himself for a central midfielder.
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The likes of Welbeck didn't win a lot of balls back but he put a lot of pressure on the defenders and GK which ended up with them making a mistake and giving up possession. The defensive part of a game is not just winning the ball back. The likes of Carrick are excellent at intercepting passes but je rarely harasses opponents. That is what we have genuinely missed in our midfield. The likes of di Maria, Herrera and Blind will bring that bite and energy back into our midfield which will enable us to press team more and get more mistakes out of them. It does not matter who ultimately wins the ball back as long as di Maria is actually contributing in that part of our play.
 
DWelbz19 said:
I could see something like;
Januzaj - Carvalho - CM? - Mata
Rooney - Cavani

Those are the only two I think we could've really gotten that he/we were really interested in at the time.
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That's the interesting bit. We were linked with Carvalho, Kroos and Fabregas - but not really Herrera, since last season's fiasco.

Then we ended up signing Herrera - with LvG's "permission" but by all accounts, the Shaw and Herrera deal was wrapped up before LvG "sanctioned" it etc.

So was the Herrera deal always on the cards? Or did someone like, say, Giggs advise Woodward to pay that little extra for his release clause? (Moyes was willing to pay above 20m for him iirc).
 
XdanielredX said:
Then you can spot the exact moment he played a game for us :lol:


"I didn't want this thread to slip away quietly, unnoticed so I've brought it up again

A thread to ridicule United for buying a top quality, world class talent"


"Herrera is quality and I always hoped he would sign for us.
Blind is an upgrade on Fellaini,Cleverely etc. But noting to be worried about.
Di Maria is a world class player. Why did Real madrid get rid? Seriously they are nuts"


"Hate to say it but Di Maria looked a special talent yesterday, if he produces that week in week out added with our tendancy to throw in the odd shocker, United could actually be a threat to our top 4 hopes. That's the annoying thing about the Villa result, we needed to try maintain that cushion over them."


"Wish we had a world class player like Di Maria...i wouldn't give a toss if he can defend."


"Jesus this being the most active thread bothers me,its like a man united fan came in here to brag"


:D
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Some absolute beauties in there :lol:
 
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