He's a poor footballer and I would be really happy if there was truth in this but I doubt that there is. Unfortunately.
Fellaini | Mou: "It's easier for Galatasaray to get me than Marouane. He is too important to me."
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We don't just want to replace him with another shit sack. We need to replace him with quality, which is hard to get.
Has that tactic really worked? I thought the opposite.
Anyway, we now have Lukaku and rumours are Ibra will also be back to do that job.
We already have replacements. McTom and Pereira. Blind is also a better footballer who can slot into midfield.
Not unlimited but I can understand why some are worried. We still havent managed to acquire the DM Mourinho wanted at the beginning of the transfer window so selling Fellaini would leave us with a second midfielder to get when as far as we know we struggling to get just one.
I like a lot about Fellaini (pretty much everything aside from his actual football ability)
United need to be ruthless though. Letting players like him and Blind stick around as first teamers is a big indication into why we're always around 5th place.
United need to be ruthless though. Letting players like him and Blind stick around as first teamers is a big indication into why we're always around 5th place.
There's absolutely nothing in this. Jose loves Fellaini and we can see this by how much he's playing in the friendlies as well as how glowingly he speaks about him. More chance of selling Herrera......
Maybe he funds Dendoncker.
<< Fellani out
Dendoncker in >>
That would be a good start but It would have to follow another midfielder, Matic maybe?
Blind and Fellaini would be bang on squad players if United had bona fide starting XI players, but they don't. Especially when United go to 3 midfielders in a match, they are short another quality midfielder to line up with Herrera and Pogba, unless you want that to be Pereira, which still isn't optimal. United also haven't figured out their optimal style that equates to goals and solid defense.
Phil Neville, O'Shea, Anderson, Darron Gibson, Cleverley all played and stayed because they embraced their roles of playing for the team while the likes of world class teammates did the heavy lifting. You need these types of players in your squad because they are happily invovled and will do the disciplined work and allow the likes of Giggs, Ronaldo, peak Rooney, Beckham, Keane, Scholes, RVN, RVP, Rio, Vida, Evra, etc, etc, etc do what they do.
Wishing Fellaini would stay just so it'd piss people off, rather than actually bringing in a higher quality midfielder says a lot about you.All those squad players you mentioned bought into fergusons style. Fellaini on the pitch leads naturally to long balls and a direct physical style. That is not his fault. As stated earlier it is the fault of Moyes and Woodward in 2013. He is and was never a united player.
Gonna take this to the correct thread as the transfer thread has been spammed enough with this.
This guy in the above quote seems to think its down to Fellaini.
And in regards to the bolded part of your post, you mention investment of poor players, lets go through a few names of these so called poor players.
Mata, Herrara, Di Maria, Falcao, Zlatan, and Pogba.
Now i admit they didn't all go to plan but none of them are poor players.
SAF made plenty of poor signings in his time but more often than not we won the league. If he would of signed Fellaini we would of won the league with him in the side.
I have sort of lost track of the point i want to make, i just don't get all the hate he gets people make out as if every lost point is his fault, im too lazy to check the facts but i would bet good money that he has won us more points than he has lost us.
And for all the stick he got off the fans after giving away that penalty to everton (which i was giving him shit over at the time) to come back after that and grit his teeth and fight for the badge, that's what i like about him. He deserves more respect in my opinion.
This guy in the above quote seems to think its down to Fellaini.
And in regards to the bolded part of your post, you mention investment of poor players, lets go through a few names of these so called poor players.
Mata, Herrara, Di Maria, Falcao, Zlatan, and Pogba.
Now i admit they didn't all go to plan but none of them are poor players.
SAF made plenty of poor signings in his time but more often than not we won the league. If he would of signed Fellaini we would of won the league with him in the side.
I have sort of lost track of the point i want to make, i just don't get all the hate he gets people make out as if every lost point is his fault, im too lazy to check the facts but i would bet good money that he has won us more points than he has lost us.
And for all the stick he got off the fans after giving away that penalty to everton (which i was giving him shit over at the time) to come back after that and grit his teeth and fight for the badge, that's what i like about him. He deserves more respect in my opinion.
Pretty sure most of his goals are headers
People are going way overboard with 'Mourinho loves Fellaini'. In the league he gave him about the same number of minutes last season as Rooney who he has just booted out on a free. He was basically competing with Carrick for that 3rd spot in the games when we played 4-3-3. Even if we keep him his time will be cut a lot anyway as we are still trying to sign another midfielder plus integrate Pereira into the squad.
Agree completely. United haven't been able to field a team and a system that can cope without a direct style of play against a Liverpool or Spurs. For those types of matches, Fellaini can be used when needed. But he's stuck around for this long so he's obviously doing something right with LVG and now Jose.
Not getting my hopes up until it's confirmed he's gone.
Mediocrity is fashionable these days, don't you know?
I would hate to see him go, great guy who loves playing for the club and does a very useful job for us.
Our semifinal specialist
He's holding us back because he is starting games and not being used as a last resort.
I guarantee you the fans who want to see the likes of Fellaini sticking around will be the first to start whining if we're hovering around 5th/6th again this season.
With him gone who will the caf use to scape goat?
I'm not saying that I'm happy about that tactic. Just saying that's his only real use. He should not be starting games for us if we are trying to progress.
Lingard. Silly question.
Right, so it is his fault that he starts those games? And it is his fault that he is holding us back because managers keep playing him ahead of other people. Why didn't you say, I get it now.
They'll usually be right.
Not sure how reliable it is but seen a couple of articles on Facebook saying he's signed a five year deal with galatasary and it'll be announced shortly.
Jesse obviously.
Only way he's leaving is if we're buying Matic after all.. Basically the same player with different hair.
Hope so. I have no desire for him to leave and thinks he plays a cruciao role in the sqaud.
But Matic doesn't have a world class chest
Probably the next worst player in the squad, or the one that most frequently lets the team down; although that isn't really making someone a scape-goat; it's more holding players accountable to the standards of the club.
True enough... Fellaini's chest control is superior.
He's not as bad as some believe him to be but he shouldn't be going into a fifth season as a United player. He was a silly panic buy who's proven himself occasionally useful, occasionally a liability, and it's time to move on.
Using their first name shows how great of a supporter you are.Jesse
Do you know him personally?
£10m offer on the table according to Pilib de Brun with Matic joining in the next couple of days.
If that is the case, I think he might go.
If that is the case, I think he might go.
For me, Blind is a different kind of average. Ponderous where Fellaini is static. Both way off getting in other top 4/6 sides so why should they get in ours?
Darmian, Blind, Lingard, Smalling....you see the problem.
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