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2014-15 Performances

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5.7 Season Average Rating
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32
Goals
4
Assists
13
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Mali_Zeus said:
Some of the fans here. :lol:

He just came back from injury and some of you are on about not being convinced by him,that he wont adapt to the PL, Manchester and cold weather, he wont succeed. And not only that, he hasnt bought into us to... :rolleyes: Based on what?

How quickly some fans turn against their own players and to make it worse after he just came back..

Lets sell this useless greedy bastard in the summer.
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Fair or not, he'll always be criticized the most just based on his price tag. If you spend a large sum on a player, you expect him to produce accordingly. Prior to his injury, he was not performing well so most of us expect him to return to the player he was in his first few games with us.
 
Wade3 said:
Fair or not, he'll always be criticized the most just based on his price tag. If you spend a large sum on a player, you expect him to produce accordingly. Prior to his injury, he was not performing well so most of us expect him to return to the player he was in his first few games with us.
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Fair enough but its a matter of opinion what should he do and offer for a certain price tag. People shouldnt judge players on price tags but that's just my opinion.

I just think its ridiculous to slag him like this after he just came back from injury. People go to extremes, from worshiping him to writing about him not adapting to PL ever and all that based on nothing really.
 
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First game back in a while and looked a bit rusty, which is nothing out of the ordinary.
 
i think he looked ok... lively at least.

But that position behind the strikers doesn't suit him at all. He needs space to run to, and he needs to be part of the creation of our game linking up from deep and moving up.

Rooney playing in midfield instead of him (or any other midfielder) is so annoying.
 
We've missed him. He comes on and goes completely against the whole team's morale. He takes risks and shots, something that the whole team wouldn't do today. I hope his confidence and play style doesn't change in his time here
 
on the wing he is too predictable and up against full backs seems a lot slower. Again i have to repeat what most people say, but play him through the middle in a 3 man midfield and he will shine.
 
Pogue Mahone said:
I'm just not 100% convinced by him.

Not as this megastar talent, a notch below Ronaldo and Messi. Which is where the hype (and the fee) would put him. Not from what I've seen at United anyway.

Quick, direct, decent left foot and an eye for a pass but he seems quite easy to defend against. Not seen anything we didn't get from Nani on a good day and his good days don't look like they're any more frequent than Nani's good days.

Probably being overly negative and it was only a cameo today. Hopefully onwards and upwards from here.
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He was MOTM against the best defensive side in the world last season when it mattered the most. He's got clear deficiencies and is not worth the fee, but I don't particularly care considering we shit gold up our arses.
 
Get him back on the left of a three man midfield with some one who can dribble in front of him in a front 3 (Bale would be nice) and the guy is top drawer as teams struggle to double up on him in this position.
 
Even though the best football of his career so far has come in the middle, if he is used on the wing he will still be very productive even if he does not put in great performances over the 90 on a consistent basis. At Madrid when he was playing on the right there were plenty of games where he was average or poor by constantly losing the ball and making bad decisions but he still ended up with a goal or an assist. If the wing is where Van Gaal is going to keep using him then he will still be very effective and have great output, despite being a bit frustrating from time to time. I hope he can stay fit now and get a run of games and show what he can do.
 
izec said:
on the wing he is too predictable and up against full backs seems a lot slower. Again i have to repeat what most people say, but play him through the middle in a 3 man midfield and he will shine.
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Well, fullbacks are generally faster than central midfielders, so it is no wonder that he appears slower on the wing. That said, I think Nani is faster than Di Maria. Di Maria is amazing at carrying the ball through the middle of the park because he is very fast, but more importantly, he is exceptionally agile whilst carrying the ball. In many ways, he is like Ryan Giggs in CM with the legs of a younger Giggs.
 
He still made some of a threat over 20 odd minutes after coming back from an injury than all of our other players did through a whole 90. He's got that sense of urgency about him that few of our other players have, that they don't seem to attack the goal as often as they should. When Di Maria sees the goal in sight, you can tell he has the motive to attack it himself more often than not, or if he can't see an opening then he will look for an opening to let someone else in. We have been piss poor in attacking the goal in our past 5 games, and Di Maria coming on must have had more shots on goal than any other player in the time that he was on. I don't care that they were poor shots; the fact of the matter was that he made the effort to test the goalie rather than us losing the ball through weak possession around the box, which we have done so often around the box recently.
 
A fantastic player for sure but I can't help but think that we've paid over the odds for players like him and Mata who were both deemed surplus to requirements by teams we aim to be beating.

To think that a lot of fans last season were thinking that us getting £20-30M for Rooney would be good business.

Regardless of all the new signings we've made this season our most important players are still Rooney, Carrick and DDG.

The bigger problem is that there are four massive players in key positions whom we've lost in the last 2-3 years and still, IMO, haven't replaced:

Ferdinand
Vidic
Giggs
Scholes

I don't really see many players in the world right now who can adequately replace what these four (in their prime) did for us.
 
ManUArfa said:
A fantastic player for sure but I can't help but think that we've paid over the odds for players like him and Mata who were both deemed surplus to requirements by teams we aim to be beating.

To think that a lot of fans last season were thinking that us getting £20-30M for Rooney would be good business.

Regardless of all the new signings we've made this season our most important players are still Rooney, Carrick and DDG.

The bigger problem is that there are four massive players in key positions whom we've lost in the last 2-3 years and still, IMO, haven't replaced:

Ferdinand
Vidic
Giggs
Scholes

I don't really see many players in the world right now who can adequately replace what these four (in their prime) did for us.
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Who Madrid deem surplus to requirements depends entirely on the whim of a chairman who runs the club like a teenager plays Football Manager. There is a list of players discarded by them who have gone on to establish themselves as world class.

Also Di Maria is probably as close as you will get to a modern version of Giggs...
 
ManUArfa said:
Ferdinand
Vidic
Giggs
Scholes

I don't really see many players in the world right now who can adequately replace what these four (in their prime) did for us.
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Ferdinand -- Varane
Vidic -- Kompany
Giggs -- Bale
Scholes -- Verratti

Of course, there's no chance in hell of signing any of them.
 
ManUArfa said:
A fantastic player for sure but I can't help but think that we've paid over the odds for players like him and Mata who were both deemed surplus to requirements by teams we aim to be beating.

To think that a lot of fans last season were thinking that us getting £20-30M for Rooney would be good business.

Regardless of all the new signings we've made this season our most important players are still Rooney, Carrick and DDG.

The bigger problem is that there are four massive players in key positions whom we've lost in the last 2-3 years and still, IMO, haven't replaced:

Ferdinand
Vidic
Giggs
Scholes

I don't really see many players in the world right now who can adequately replace what these four (in their prime) did for us.
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Mata, I agree. Di Maria on the other hand was in the top 3 for Madrids best players last season (Ronaldo, Modric and Di Maria easily ahead of everyone else), and their best player in the champions league final and many other big games. He wouldn't have been surplus to requirements if he didn't have a bit of a contract problem and James Rodriguez didn't score 6 goals in the world cup which made Perez want to splash the cash even though Di Maria is a better player. Was definitely top 10, arguably top 5 players in the world last season. So yeah, he wasn't surplus to requirements, he was a very key player for what is the best team in the world, and that's why we needed to pay so much.
Also, we aim to get to Real Madrids level eventually, but it will be very hard because I can't see us matching a forward line like they have with Ronaldo and co.

And as Stringer said, Di Maria is probably as close as it gets to a Giggs when he was in his prime. Great at running with the ball, excellent crosser of the ball, incredibly quick, can play in the middle or out wide, left footed and has a great eye for a pass. He's easily up there with Rooney and De Gea as our most important players (Blind is a like for like replacement for Carrick), as without him we become very pedestrian, though we can still get results. Just give him a few games to get back up to speed and in his proper position and he'll show how important he can be for us.
 
I don't like his shooting selection. Tries the impossible too often and has been lucky that once or twice they've actually turned into assists. Good to see him back though.
 
Unfortunately he has been playing like the old Di Maria for Real instead of the last season Di Maria for Real for quite some time now. I hope he finds again what made him so strong last season or else we have bought a very expensive Nani.
 
Its amazing how quickly people forget and the narrative changes. In his first month here, people were talking about us being a one man team, being over reliant on him, wondering how we'd cope if we got injured. I also seem to remember a few saying he was to good for us.

A couple of sub par performances, and an injury later, and he's rubbish. Genuinely amazing.
 
Sam said:
Its amazing how quickly people forget and the narrative changes. In his first month here, people were talking about us being a one man team, being over reliant on him, wondering how we'd cope if we got injured. I also seem to remember a few saying he was to good for us.

A couple of sub par performances, and an injury later, and he's rubbish. Genuinely amazing.
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It really is astonishing...

Give it a bit of time and I am sure he'll be at his best. We are by far more threatening with him than without, we just lack balance at the minute.

I think he is trying to be the star man a bit too much. He needs to get into his groove, which was never scoring loads of screamers, but rather being amazingly effective when running with the ball and then assisting.

He'll be fine.
 
30mins after an injury layoff and he gets criticised for setting the world alight. Incredible.

Going forwards as well, if we want to see him as the 60mil man we bought, we play him where he became the 60mil man, in CM. If we play him out wide, we'l never see the best of him and all this moaning about not performing like a 60mil player will continue but would make no sense as he wasnt a 60mil player on the wings even at Real.

Let him get fit first. When he does, play him at fecking CM and see the best of him.
 
The only issue I have with him is his constant speculative efforts from distance. Perhaps someone will correct me but I don't remember him doing the same at Madrid. I also understand since he had Ronaldo and Bale in the same team so it didn't perhaps necessitate for him to go for goals. But we also have some very good finishers. Maybe he thinks he is the biggest player here and can do things like that. He was never a prolific goal-scorer. He should try and set up assists for our strikers. There were times yesterday when he could have played one of Falcao or RvP in but he instead went for tame shots from 20-22 yards out. Made feck all sense since he kept repeating it.
 
Hojoon said:
He was MOTM against the best defensive side in the world last season when it mattered the most. He's got clear deficiencies and is not worth the fee, but I don't particularly care considering we shit gold up our arses.
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That's a flawed logic. At some point even our resources are depleted and all we're left with is a roster full of overpaid players who still won't get the job done. Arsenal picked up Sanchez for a little more than half of di Maria's price and he seems to be performing just as well.
 
So much knee-jerking and i can't help but let it get to me. He has been out awhile ffs, don't expect him to come in the side second half and havoc everyone and everything.
And he just isn't that good out wide nevermind in a wing-back position, play him in CM and he is world-class, we will all see that when gets to start there again and all this moaning will be over.

We should all look at things in a bigger perspective than one sub performance.
 
Sam said:
Its amazing how quickly people forget and the narrative changes. In his first month here, people were talking about us being a one man team, being over reliant on him, wondering how we'd cope if we got injured. I also seem to remember a few saying he was to good for us.

A couple of sub par performances, and an injury later, and he's rubbish. Genuinely amazing.
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It is amazing, isn't it?
I'm baffled how some of our fans quickly turned against him...

He wasnt that good apparently, he's not worth the price tag, he probably wont adapt to the PL and Manchester, he's not that special. Amount of kneejerking in this thread is just fascinanting.

From the posts about him not knowing why the hell he ever came to us to this ridiculous stuff..
 
I don't think anybody's turning against him or knee-jerking. People realise what his qualities are and that he showed a very good start for us, but also that he's had injuries that have set him back. However, he's not been as effective out wide as we'd have hoped and it's ironic that many players who people were saying we should sell last season are the ones who are performing for us right now: Rooney, Fellaini, Young, Carrick, Valencia.
 
Will Singh said:
Luckily your not our manager then, did you see RVP's form up until recently, I'm sure you was saying the same thing but luckily for us we have a experienced manager in charge who knows how to man manage his players, other wise we would be starting with 3 players, De Gea in Goal Carrick in midfield and Rooney up top!!!
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No, concerning Van Persie I was saying something completely different. The difference with Van Persie is that in poor form he keeps thinking, looking for the right choices, not trying to force himself into form with an impossible shot.

Probably Van Gaal's strongest point is that he gives players do's and don'ts and if they stick to that they can within that margin be as creative as they want without causing problems. Di Maria is either not obeying them or has been given to big a margin for his own poor decision making. Benching him might be an incentive to become a player in a teamsport again by making decisions that benefit the team performance.
 
I have no doubts about Di Maria. He came off the bench yesterday after watching us create hardly anything and he's ready to prove himself again after an injury so he was probably trying too hard hence why he was shooting a lot. I'm sure he will start the game against Newcastle on boxing day and he'll hopefully show why we paid so much for him. So far his season has been good, three goals and six assists is great but I do feel this lad has got a lot more to show.
 
This is beyond ridiculous. Have we had more injuries in training than in games? An obvious area that requires reconsideration by LvG.
 
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