Here is the thing, if he was good and high quality ala Scholes, Rooney heck even Carrick who I wasn't sold on, but he was decent, I would be praising him.
Look, you listed some of the best players to wear the United shirt. You don't have to be that good to be considered a good footballer. I agree with you to a degree, I think, he gets praised a little too much. But you sound as if 100% of the praise is undeserved and that just feels odd. You can't deny that he is has a very good workrate and that he has great vision and can execute great passes in no time. It is hit and miss, not everything comes off but there is no point acting as if he has no qualities.
But he isn't, he really isn't that good, at least not at this point. He should be no where near wearing the armband.
See above and I don't know how those things are connected. I agree to the extent, that I don't think, he looks suited to the captain role. But there are reports from within the team, that he does a good job so it certainly isn't a surething. Also there are no real alternatives in our team.
However, this is not a championship team, so a slightly above avg player gets unlimited praise. Wrong approach. I will always be the voice of reason, you hit the game bud, he was invisible, again. 2-1 against Leicester, embarrassing. Where was the Captain to pull this one out, instead it was Maguire?
This is odd. Bruno wasn't visible in first half because Leicester made sure, that he was disconnected and couldn't receive passes. And it is especially odd, that you bring up Maguire in this context who also didn't have a great game but rather a decent-to-good performance that looks brighter due to the late goal, a moment in a game. The exact thing that you complained about when it was about Bruno (to a degree, rightfully so).
Don't get me wrong, post whatever you want, thats fine, I just want you to know that there isn't anybody in this thread who'd consider you a "voice of reason" based on your posts. Mate, I am a longtime Bruno critic, started before it was edgy to be - and even I think you are overdoing it. What you are doing is creating a new "bad reference" and now all his critics will be lumped together with things you say.
Maybe not so bad when he wore the armband? It drives me nuts when people misalign things. The fact is a good player on an horrible team is an avg player on a good team. Right now, as much as it hurts, we are a horrible team, bottom half, which makes Bruno an avg player in the grand scheme.
So the Galacticos were good but not galactic because they didn't have the biggest success in CL? Because this is your logic applied to the past. Again, I can see your point, when you listen to some fans talk about our players, you'd think, what a great team we must be, with this and that world class player, and this and that excellent young talent. Some of the praise is hollow, no doubt. But it is a team sport, no player will shine when the rest of the team is struggling. And we do struggle right now, which makes every player look even worse than they actually are. A voice of reason would say that Bruno can be a great player in the right team but that at United, he isn't in a great team, which on the one side has helped him to show his strength by having the freedom to collect his stats but on the other also shows a lot of his weaknesses when the team isn't able to balance out his reckless tendencies.
He's the next weakest link (in the bigger picture) now Marcus has gone.
I don't think, thats correct at all. That would only be the case when everything that is an issue right now, is connected to him. And thats not the case. We have big issues with the wingbacks, not Brunos fault. We have issues with mostly all attackers who simply don't score, also not just Brunos faults.
Such statements will only set you up for disappointment. We are a lot of years behind in terms of how to play a modern way of football, getting rid of Bruno won't rectify that in an instant. We have to plan the team of the future and he shouldn't be any kind of hindrance block in terms of what roles or profiles we look for but one player leaving isn't automatically making everybody else step up. Especially when the talent around him is at least as questionable than Brunos talent itself.
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