Dislike towards United players

Red Rash

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Maybe this is because I'm a United fan and recognise it more than I would at other clubs but it seems to me there are a lot of players the fanbase dislike. Part of this is related to poor performances of certain players but we also have players who have questionable personalities

Obvious reasons - Giggs, Greenwood
Punditry views - Scholes, Keane, Neville
Wanting to join / played for rivals - Tevez, Heinze, Ince, Owen
Perceived Underperformers - Weghorst, Maguire, McTominay, Pogba, Sancho

I'm probably missing quite a few more. Is the dislike to current or ex players proportionate to that of fans for other teams?
 
I think other clubs with pundits on TV feel the same about what most of their ex-players come out with.

I've seen multiple Liverpool fans slag Carragher off for not being biased enough towards them, when he's already as one-eyed as he thinks he can possibly get away with. :lol:
 
I think the legends are the important ones. Giggs and Greenwood are not really worth getting into, and the others are fairly self explanatory. Traitors are rarely seen in a great light by fans of any club and performance is performance. Perform poorly and you won't be liked no matter how much of a great guy you are.

I'm not sure what type of human being you have to be to dislike Keane. His punditry is golden and he's one of our proper legends.

I don't think Scholes is disliked either. Boring pundit, but I don't think that is ever going to touch upon what he did as a player. It's just a paid gig he's exploiting, who actually cares. More fool them for giving him the job.

Neville has a bit too much to say for himself at times. Some of his hypocrisy does make him slightly dislikeable. He's not consistent within his own views and actions and that's problematic to me from a likeability perspective. But still massively respect him as a player for getting the most out of himself.
 
Fred, Antony, Martial and DDG also have their fair share of 'haters' for perceived underperformance.

People are still claiming Maguire is a good defender but just not suited to the system while Martial and Antony are 'waste of space cnuts' if some are to be believed.
 
I don’t dislike anyone also not those who’ve done questionable things. I don’t know these people personally, it doesn’t affect me.
 
I think the better term would be "hating the fact that they play for us" rather than hating them.

I don't care about most of our current players to ever bother "hating" them. I quite like Martinez but he hasn't been here long. The rest are just different levels of 'meh'.

I used to feel something aching toward hatred with Pogba, Lingard, Cristiano... oh, Tevez after the "r.i.p Fergie" shtick.

Scholes and Keane are my two favorite players. The first is a shit pundit, and the second has his moments but isn't my cup of tea either.
I often want the two of them to shut the feck up if I watch them on TV, but I love them. Parents must feel this way all the time heh ;)
 
If they dont talk shit or behave like a shitter they wont be hated. And not all of them in that list are like that.
 
I will always hate the fanbase over the players that played for us.
 
I couldn't care less what the ex Utd pundits say. Always find it strange how so many expect them be Paddy Crerand and only say positive things about the club and players.

Not worth hating players, can get angry in the moment but outside of that, waste of energy.
 
Don't hate our players. Says more about the so called fans that does though
 
Red Rash said:
Maybe this is because I'm a United fan and recognise it more than I would at other clubs but it seems to me there are a lot of players the fanbase dislike. Part of this is related to poor performances of certain players but we also have players who have questionable personalities

Obvious reasons - Giggs, Greenwood
Punditry views - Scholes, Keane, Neville
Wanting to join / played for rivals - Tevez, Heinze, Ince, Owen
Perceived Underperformers - Weghorst, Maguire, McTominay, Pogba, Sancho

I'm probably missing quite a few more. Is the dislike to current or ex players proportionate to that of fans for other teams?
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It's proportional to other teams I'd say. I've seen plenty of stuff on (for instance) the endlessly entertaining Sunderland fans board RTG which is much the same as on here, if not worse because at least when we sign players they must have had/ shown SOME talent at whatever point and it's not always the case for Championship clubs of course.
 
Bebestation said:
I will always hate the fanbase over the players that played for us.
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Same for me, especially fan of players not club.

Case in point: Fan who would always bring down our other players (even in an unrelated thread) to big up the players they support, for example, you.
 
What United fans don’t like Scholes? Surely years of being one of our greatest and likeable ever players outweighs anything he has said since.

His punditry too is just man at the pub stuff, harmless. Not the best pundit ever but there’s no sign he wants anything but the best for the club.
 
KeanoMagicHat said:
What United fans don’t like Scholes? Surely years of being one of our greatest and likeable ever players outweighs anything he has said since.

His punditry too is just man at the pub stuff, harmless. Not the best pundit ever but there’s no sign he wants anything but the best for the club.
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He sucks toes galore so cancels it out.
 
That list is hilariously short. Where is Fred, AWB, Dalot, Lindelof, Bruno, DDG?
 
mu4c_20le said:
That list is hilariously short. Where is Fred, AWB, Dalot, Lindelof, Bruno, DDG?
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The idea wasn't to provide an exhaustive list of all the players disliked by the fans but more about if we have a higher number of disliked players compared to other clubs as it definitely feel like we do
 
Tevez redeemed himself when he said Scholes>Pirlo
 
I don't "hate" for example, Weghorst, Sancho or Martial. I don't know them personally, they might be fantastic human beings for all I know. I just don't think they're good enough players for Manchester United Football Club.

I don't really care what any ex player says as a pundit. With Roy Keane for example, you think I'm going to forget 12 years of blood, sweat and tears for the club just because he doesn't say how great we are all the time?! Anyway, we're not stupid. If we play shit, I don't want an ex United pundit saying we were "unlucky" just to try and stay sweet with the fans.
 
I don't have personal feelings against any of our players. Why would I?

The only possible exceptions are Greenwood and Giggs due to their treatments of women.

I just want shit players like Sancho gone. But it's the manager's decision as to whether they remain as employees here so if anything I'd have reason to dislike ETH for keeping them around.
 
I dislike De Gea purely due to his performances and a perceived cowardice that contributes towards his poor performances. It also doesn't help that the club have allowed this to continue for the last 5 years. However, he doesn't appear to have an irritating personality. Unlike Lingard.
 
Red Rash said:
Maybe this is because I'm a United fan and recognise it more than I would at other clubs but it seems to me there are a lot of players the fanbase dislike. Part of this is related to poor performances of certain players but we also have players who have questionable personalities

Obvious reasons - Giggs, Greenwood
Punditry views - Scholes, Keane, Neville
Wanting to join / played for rivals - Tevez, Heinze, Ince, Owen
Perceived Underperformers - Weghorst, Maguire, McTominay, Pogba, Sancho

I'm probably missing quite a few more. Is the dislike to current or ex players proportionate to that of fans for other teams?
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I'd say we have hardly any compared to most fanbases. Scholes, Keane and Neville aren't 'disliked'. People can disagree with some of the comments they make whilst working as paid pundits but they're all still United legends and United fans.

I also wouldn't say people dislike players like Sanch, McTominay and Weghorst...people don't rate them, but that's different. Maguire, maybe, because the media have whipped some of our dafter fans into a frenzy. Pogba, maybe, because he was disrespectful towards the club at times.

At the Aston Villa game at OT a fortnight ago, Ashley Young got a standing ovation and his name sung as he left the pitch. Despite him really being an average-at-best player for us, during a horrible period for the club.

Compare that with City fans who roundly booed Zinchenko and Gabriel Jesus when City played Arsenal recently....two players who have contributed loads to their cause and who left to join their former Assistant Manager because the club wanted to move them on....no class....
 
I've nothing against Greenwood or Giggs, I don't know the guys, I just like them as football players. It's their business what they did in their day to day life. I have 0 fecking interest in the morals of a football player, celebrity or anyone else I don't know personally.

But, I can't stand a few of them:
- Wes Brown
- Rashy
- Ince (jesus what a bell end)
- Neville
- Owen
 
theballisround said:
I've nothing against Greenwood or Giggs, I don't know the guys, I just like them as football players. It's their business what they did in their day to day life. I have 0 fecking interest in the morals of a football player, celebrity or anyone else I don't know personally.

But, I can't stand a few of them:
- Wes Brown
- Rashy
- Ince (jesus what a bell end)
- Neville
- Owen
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Too early in the week for me to make sense of this. No issue with Giggs or Greenwood but cannot stand Wes Brown?

What has Wes Brown ever done to warrant this?
 
Remember the geese said:
I dislike De Gea purely due to his performances and a perceived cowardice that contributes towards his poor performances. It also doesn't help that the club have allowed this to continue for the last 5 years. However, he doesn't appear to have an irritating personality. Unlike Lingard.
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Really? Even though he was our best player for years on end, you dislike him because he isn’t as good as he used to be?
 
Barring a clear nepotistic bias for Ole during his final days, I'm not sure what Neville has done to be disliked. His points are coherent and usually on the right side. He's been the only one who's publicly called out Glazers and overall his views are usually balanced. Even this season, he's correctly predicted the way the title race would go on.
 
Walter Sobchak said:
Too early in the week for me to make sense of this. No issue with Giggs or Greenwood but cannot stand Wes Brown?

What has Wes Brown ever done to warrant this?
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It's my own opinion mate, I don't need to explain it to anyone. There are players you like and players you don't.
 
theballisround said:
It's my own opinion mate, I don't need to explain it to anyone. There are players you like and players you don't.
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It's quite a baffling opinion though, and it's a discussion board so expect to have people question it if you're gonna post it! Poor Rashy.
 
Bobade said:
It's quite a baffling opinion though, and it's a discussion board so expect to have people question it if you're gonna post it! Poor Rashy.
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People can discuss it, but not question it, what is this, 1940 all over again?

If you're a grown ass individual, it's 0% baffling. If you don't like Green should I say it's baffling when I like Blue? What the hell is that?
 
Red Rash said:
Maybe this is because I'm a United fan and recognise it more than I would at other clubs but it seems to me there are a lot of players the fanbase dislike. Part of this is related to poor performances of certain players but we also have players who have questionable personalities

Obvious reasons - Giggs, Greenwood
Punditry views - Scholes, Keane, Neville
Wanting to join / played for rivals - Tevez, Heinze, Ince, Owen
Perceived Underperformers - Weghorst, Maguire, McTominay, Pogba, Sancho

I'm probably missing quite a few more. Is the dislike to current or ex players proportionate to that of fans for other teams?
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Who is slagging off Weghorst?!
 
A lot of players that I don’t rate/haven’t rated - but I’ve never ‘hated/disliked’ any United player. Or pretty much any footballer at all, as that would be somewhat weird given you haven’t got a fecking clue about most of them.

I’ve been critical of Scott, Bruno, Axel many others in the past, but never about anything other than my perception on them as footballers. In my life I think Pogba is the most hated United player I’ve ever seen.
 
There's a difference between being an underperformer (Pogba, Sancho, Maguire, DDG) and being a bad player who should've never been signed (Weghorst) / a player whose qualities are questionable (Antony/McTominay).
I don't dislike players from the second group, not their fault really. The club made a decision to buy/keep them.
But the former group drives me crazy. Pogba was the first player I really didn't like in quite some time.
 
theballisround said:
People can discuss it, but not question it, what is this, 1940 all over again?

If you're a grown ass individual, it's 0% baffling. If you don't like Green should I say it's baffling when I like Blue? What the hell is that?
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Bit of an overreaction. Discussing your opinion/questioning your opinion, it's the same thing. No one is saying you shouldn't be allowed to state it.

I'm just a 'grown ass individual' who finds it a bit baffling that someone would not have an issue with Greenwood but would have an issue with Rashford or Wes Brown. I don't think that is particularly controversial.
 
Rockets Redglare said:
Really? Even though he was our best player for years on end, you dislike him because he isn’t as good as he used to be?
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For me, it's not about the fact that he isn't as good as he used to be. More that he isn't anywhere close to being good enough for us. A small drop off would be expected and forgivable, but not 5 years of this. The type of goals he gave away against Brentford and West Ham although frustrating, doesn't anger me as much as the general panic that he spreads to the heart of our defence that ends up permeating throughout the entire team. His refusal to dominate his 6 yard box, let alone 18 yard box. How his passive approach and fear of physical contact impacts our whole structure. The club have deemed this to be acceptable and whilst that is out of his control, it frustrates me as a fan.
 
theballisround said:
People can discuss it, but not question it, what is this, 1940 all over again?

If you're a grown ass individual, it's 0% baffling. If you don't like Green should I say it's baffling when I like Blue? What the hell is that?
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:lol:

"Why do you like a couple of perpetrators of domestic violence and not Wes Brown?"

"This is how Nazi Germany started!"
 
Only one ex-player really making my List, CR7. I developed a dislike for him when he pushed so hard to join Real Madrid. After he came back and had a pretty decent first season, I was actually warming to him again until, well we all know how it ended. Now he is pretty much the only United or ex-United player that I genuinely dislike with a passion.
 
wangyu said:
I don’t dislike anyone also not those who’ve done questionable things. I don’t know these people personally, it doesn’t affect me.
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Same here. Those players are getting paid to kick a football. They get paid a ridiculous amount of money so compensate for the public judging them and for the media catering for that. I am not expecting them to be great people out of thin air. Some are probably twats, some are very decent people, majority will sit inbetween. Just like everywhere else.
 
I think Neville as a pundit is annoying verging on dislikeable.
Wegworst is annoying as basically shouldnt be here and iits like playing with 10 men, but you cant blame him personally, as who would turn down a chance at Utd from where he come from?
Annoying is as strong as it gets. If a player moves there is obviously a problem and the fans dont always know whats going on, so no dislike there either. In fact I cant see why most players dont celebrate a goal against past teams, unless you supported the team you left. You are an employee they got rid off, or you left because something there wasnt right, or didnt suit.
 
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