Jeppers7
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There’s a hell of a lot of positive regard surrounding Bruno, which emanates from perhaps many factors. I want to consider a few, and what the general consensus would be now…If for the lack of
1. His first six months of form.
He was sensational probably 3 games out of 5 and rarely had a bad game and even if he did he might get a goal or assist. His performances were largely great and so were his numbers in that time. The end of that period is now 3.5 years ago and in that time his form has been awful most of the time, with a couple of spells of good form here and there each season, followed by more poor performances. His numbers are nothing special and the team has got worse and worse the longer he’s been here.
2. Petulance
While Bruno gets a lot of positive regard for what is seen as work-rate, often this will be the result of his own frustrations and cause a lack of team shape, or cause him to sprint 60 yards to foul somebody on the edge of our box. Whilst it might look good to some of his staunchest ‘fans’ it isn’t a positive when the other team actually scores from the free kick. Whilst when he isn’t being petulant he will often let players next to him run off him leading to crucial goals against (West Ham, Gothenburg to name just 2 recently)
3. Statman Dave
While his performances and output (goals&assists) have both diminished massively in the last 3.5 years, there’s always the next Statman Dave post to tell us he created six chances v Bournemouth that no one can actually recall, or that he’s created more chances in the league than anyone even though as a team we rarely create good chances. XG XA win you pretty much what Bruno has won, not a lot. While great performances won the likes of Roy Keane and United lots of trophies.
4. Guy in the street appeal
Having seen the stick that ‘stars’ at united have had in the past such as Giggs, Becks, Ronaldo and flamboyant characters like Pogba and Lingard….What if Bruno was extremely good looking. Or what if he had a fancy haircut and diamond earrings etc? Given the same performances over the last 3 years then I’d wager the regard would be different.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen somebody play so regularly poorly for such a long time and be held in such a positive regard by so many fans, media and pundits.
1. His first six months of form.
He was sensational probably 3 games out of 5 and rarely had a bad game and even if he did he might get a goal or assist. His performances were largely great and so were his numbers in that time. The end of that period is now 3.5 years ago and in that time his form has been awful most of the time, with a couple of spells of good form here and there each season, followed by more poor performances. His numbers are nothing special and the team has got worse and worse the longer he’s been here.
2. Petulance
While Bruno gets a lot of positive regard for what is seen as work-rate, often this will be the result of his own frustrations and cause a lack of team shape, or cause him to sprint 60 yards to foul somebody on the edge of our box. Whilst it might look good to some of his staunchest ‘fans’ it isn’t a positive when the other team actually scores from the free kick. Whilst when he isn’t being petulant he will often let players next to him run off him leading to crucial goals against (West Ham, Gothenburg to name just 2 recently)
3. Statman Dave
While his performances and output (goals&assists) have both diminished massively in the last 3.5 years, there’s always the next Statman Dave post to tell us he created six chances v Bournemouth that no one can actually recall, or that he’s created more chances in the league than anyone even though as a team we rarely create good chances. XG XA win you pretty much what Bruno has won, not a lot. While great performances won the likes of Roy Keane and United lots of trophies.
4. Guy in the street appeal
Having seen the stick that ‘stars’ at united have had in the past such as Giggs, Becks, Ronaldo and flamboyant characters like Pogba and Lingard….What if Bruno was extremely good looking. Or what if he had a fancy haircut and diamond earrings etc? Given the same performances over the last 3 years then I’d wager the regard would be different.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen somebody play so regularly poorly for such a long time and be held in such a positive regard by so many fans, media and pundits.
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