Play him alongside technically superior players in midfield and he'd be fine. He would offer us something different from a squad point of view, and you need that variety in there.
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Aye, all he needs to do is pass it 5 yards to Carrick standing next to him. And then head anything that moves in the boxes.
We need someone to win the ball and give it to carrick don't we?
He'd be good (expensive) back up for Carrick but like a few others have said as long as he isn't our main signing/Carrick partner I wouldn't mind getting him.
What sixpence said
He has a £23.5m release clause that ends when Everton play their first game of the new season, if he were really around our top of the priority list we'd have signed him by now. The fact that we haven't means either we aren't really looking at him or that we have different players targeted first and will only move for Fellaini if they don't come.
Can you imagine the sale of wigs in the shop too? Glazernomics will be a part of this deal.
Oh god, red ones!
Why can't we get a player who isn't technically inferior to the rest of our players? With Vidic back and DDG improving we don't struggle aerially (Carrick wins his fair share of defensive headers)
He'd actually do alright for Arsenal helping out Lead-boots-Mertesacker when he can't jump 6"
He's technically inferior to Carrick clearly but I wouldn't say the likes of Jones, Cleverley and Anderson were on another level to Fellaini. He stuck that volley home pretty emphatically against us in the 4-4 for example.
I have a novel opinion, I think we will probably end up with just the hairy one.
I bet noone has thought of that one before.
Miguel Delaney's ESPN article from the 28th May is starting to look well sourced. He mentions Thiago (most realistic at the time), Fabregas and Fellani as Moyes' main targets for midfield. Strootman as a possibility.
http://espnfc.com/news/story/_/id/1462772/united-open-talks-sign-fabregas?cc=5739
I wouldn't mind signing Fellaini. Of course I'd still rather have a more technically gifted player but it would be good to have some height in the team.
I wouldn't mind Feliani but not at 22 million or whatever.
He'll prove people wrong.
He's a better player than Valencia when he signed for us, and I think he can still improve. That signing turned out well (before an inexplicable loss of form) and there's nothing to suggest Fellaini can't do even better.
He's a better player than Valencia when he signed for us, and I think he can still improve. That signing turned out well (before an inexplicable loss of form) and there's nothing to suggest Fellaini can't do even better.
I'm going to find some rope. Anyone know how to tie a noose, just in case we buy only Fellaini? I might need it...
This thread needs some more melodrama.
This thread needs some more melodrama.
He actually looks a far more technically accomplished player then I'd given him credit for. Good touch, can dribble, can spot and play a pass...maybe he would be a good addition?
I don't want Fellaini for anything over 0 million.
He is worth 22 million
Jones is a centre half really long term. I'm not going to have another moan about the midfield at this club, and I like Cleverley as a CM but if those 3 are the standard we're setting... I'd be disappointed. It's been too long now, we need top bracket players. Fellaini isn't anywhere near the level required imo, and never will be.
Not in the big games, but he'd be better than any of those three so that would mean the squad had improved and ultimately that's what everyone wants. However, if Moyes is thinking Fellaini is the answer alongside Carrick to crack Europe then he's severely mistaken.
I love all the justifications for signing this lump that you lot are coming up with. 'He's tall', 'he just has to give the ball to Carrick' etc. etc.
I'll fecking cry if we sign the useless lump of shite
You'll change your mind by the end of the season
It's ok. We love the justification you Arse fans have when Wenger buys shite and you lot celebrate coming 4th.
If Moyes wants him (where he has the pick of tens of good midfielder in the world), he must see something in Fellaini that I don't. But Moyes has worked with Fellaini, so he's better understanding about the hairy one than us (me).
I actually think Fellaini's better than Mikel and Barry, two of our rivals main DM. So, he surely is good enough for us for league title challenge.
I actually think Fellaini's better than Mikel and Barry, two of our rivals main DM. So, he surely is good enough for us for league title challenge.
Why is this fecking dollop back in the mix? I thought things had moved on from him and onto better targets.
I don't want that microphone headed feck anywhere near this club, but I'd probably cope with it if he arrived with Fabregas hanging out the back of him.
And the better targets either moved to Bayern or wanted to remain at Barcelona.
Like Fabregas and Thiago are the only two good CM's around. Buying Fellaini wont help us, I'd rather we just stuck with Cleverley, Anderson and Jones.
Christ, he's assured of a warm welcome by the look of it. 
Of course they're the club most closely linked with Fellaini so far this window, which damns us both
Ridiculous.
Why? Celverley is 24, Anderson is 25 and we aren't selling them so we might as well give them more opportunity than buy in a very expensive slice of mediocrity, nothing ridiculous about that, buying Fellaini would be ridiculous.
If you believe in our current midfield options that much I suppose it's admirable, if not slightly blind.
He could be our only midfield signing this summer which will be followed by endless moans and groans which will turn into 'Fellaini is as good as yaya toure' from all our fans once he scores the headed winner against man city next season while kicking lumps out of toure in the same game
The fact remains he'd improve our midfield, that says more about our midfield than him though.
It's not that I believe in them that much, it's that I don't see the point in displacing them with someone that is no better and will cost a price well above what he is worth.
Not including Carrick, who is Felliani not an improvement on...in the real world?
He's performed much more consistently than Anderson has the previous three years, and as for Cleverley, the jury is still out, especially in the big games. Fellaini's not world class, sure, but he'd certainly do a job and I'd definitely rather him partnering Carrick than Anderson or Cleverley against City. He's also a goal scoring midfielder, something we've lacked since a mid twenty year old Scholes.
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