So sell him then, he's too good for us.
Gary Neville
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So sell him then, he's too good for us.
Not long until he yearns for Madrid
He looked like a football player. Unlike Gary Neville who didn't look like a football manager at Valencia at all.
That is tragic. City haven't reinvented the wheel, they've just stacked a team with insane players and have a good coach. G Nev is supposedly a big United fan but then he apparently isn't aware the reason Mainoo looked good is he is competing with bloody McT, Amrabat and this season's John Smith's "'Ave it" version of Casemiro. That and he looks to also simply good a good player on the ball.
Just seems like just a great compliment to me?
How many times do you read on here comments from posters that none of our players would get into a Pep team?
The biggest compliment he can give is that he should be playing for City.
That's not what he said though? He said he looks like soemone who would fit in at this Man City team and who Pep would want. Didn't say he should be there?
It was a load of bollocks post.
Why didn't he say something like he looks like a player who wouldn't look out of place in one of SAF's great teams.
Now that's a proper compliment by a proper United fan.
Why does it matter? He's a pundit making modern day comparisons - generally it's better for an audience to talk about examples from the present, not over 10 years ago.
Mainoo himself probably won't even have strong memories of what a SAF great midfield would look like!
I give up, go support City and take one of our best young prospects with you. Take Garnacho too, whilst you're at it, he's clearly also too good for us.
Compare Neville's bollocks to Keane's comment:
“Good luck to the kid. He was outstanding. It’s a great start for him. Let’s hope he stays injury-free and gets a run of games for Man United because he looked a Man United type of player.
“Nice and brave, lots of courage. I loved watching him.”
https://www.football365.com/news/ke...-garnacho-by-bruno-fernandes-too-much-quality
“Good luck to the kid. He was outstanding. It’s a great start for him. Let’s hope he stays injury-free and gets a run of games for Man United because he looked a Man United type of player.
“Nice and brave, lots of courage. I loved watching him.”
https://www.football365.com/news/ke...-garnacho-by-bruno-fernandes-too-much-quality
When has City ever played with a 6 that even resembles Mainoo?
Type of guy that would tell his new GF that she’s just as pretty as his ex GF, who happened to be a model.
Completely bizarre isnt it, the complete nonsense that's written on this forum too
Its difficult to compare as Mainoo has only started 1 first team game so is surely impossible to answer that?
Neville has the answer.
Absolutely nothing wrong in what he said (and yes it's a compliment to Mainoo). But people on here will jump at everything he says. It is obvious for some time now that City's and our recruitment team target different type of players/midfielders (we are banging about a need to have more press resistent players so much on here that it became a meme).
He probably could have said "Barcelona player" as well. Because we sure as feck didn't sign a similiar type of midfielder for over a decade now. Tbf, we did try to sign De Jong and that's about it.
Exactly, so why the feck is Gary randomly bringing it up?!
It reads as if he’s a poster on here unnecessarily shitting on Utd during a Newcastle v Palace game thread
Is Mainoo just a 6? Think he's got potential to be way more then that. I mean you'd hope he could become a Rodri type player... If I'm allowed to say that!
It's bizarre really... Neville criticises our players, he gets shit for it... Neville praises our players, he get shit for it. Weirdest thread on the Caf strikes again.
Weird thing to say from Neville considering the reaction to Moyes’s infamous comment about aspiring to be like City.
It’s clear to me though that the qualities that Mainoo showed against Everton are exactly what ten Hag was wanting FdJ in the side for as soon as he came through the door.
It’s clear to me though that the qualities that Mainoo showed against Everton are exactly what ten Hag was wanting FdJ in the side for as soon as he came through the door.
Why? Because he said a team that won the treble last season wanted to sign Mainoo?
Moyes was our bleedin' manager, though. The equivalent would be Neville saying that about Mainoo if he was our manager, which he's not. He's a pundit who is going to talk about teams like City and how they have been outperforming United for over a decade.
People are very soft when it comes to our ex players for some reason. I'm not saying you are @Anustart89, but it's clear to see throughout this page alone.
Completely different, Moyes was managing the reigning champions which is why it was such an embarrassing small time comment.
I’m not saying it’s the same thing but it was obvious that a United legend invoking City in his praise of a youngster everyone’s excited about wouldn’t be popular, would it? Especially given his propensity to shit on United whenever he gets the chance.
We get a hard time from the media, and you’d think that at least pundits who represented us would have a kind eye towards the club and say positive things about the club in public at least without using the small positives at the club to belittle it relative to their city rivals. Do you think a pundit who used to be a Liverpool player would go on about Martial’s supposed reputation for diving if he had been a Liverpool player, as the replays of him being clearly fouled were coming in?
Now everyone watching Sky has been fed by Gary Neville that Martial has a reputation for diving (which is completely false anyway) which might affect another decision down the line by another ref say there watching and going “ah, if Gary Neville calls him a diver then I’ll keep an extra eye on him”.
The comment about Mainoo by itself is not horrible, but it follows a pattern where United fans feel he’s snidely shitting on the club at every opportunity, unlike other club legends, which clearly affects the general view of the club and the media reaction to incidents going for or against us in games.
Wasn’t he meant to feck off from punditry after 3 years??
He’s dreadful and needs to move onto something else.
He’s dreadful and needs to move onto something else.
Well said @Anustart89 compare Neville's comment with that of Keane, who rarely has anything good to say about United.
hes just highlighting the calibre of player at Citeh. Players with touch, technical ability, composure, decision making, ability to operate in tight spaces, confident to take the ball anywhere on the pitch…and you’d be a fool to deny that Citeh have that in bucket loads whilst we certainly don’t.
he’s hardly advocating to sell because we’re not good enough and what he does say…pains him…because citeh are levels above us.
we just need more Mainoo’s rather than McTs
Neville is spot on. The United-Everton match was also like watching a different sport after the City-Liverpool game. Agricultural, route one football. Horrendous, stone age stuff.
Now Everton were the main villains and we did play some decent football at times (first 5 minutes and most of second half) but Neville is spot on about Mainoo’s composure and quality on the ball looking out of place compared to the way we usually treat it like a hot potato. And the way City players look after the ball is the polar opposite to watching United so far this season.
Obviously, ETH surely wants us to be more careful in possession and Mainoo seems like a step in the right direction. But that doesn’t make Neville’s comment any less accurate.
Now Everton were the main villains and we did play some decent football at times (first 5 minutes and most of second half) but Neville is spot on about Mainoo’s composure and quality on the ball looking out of place compared to the way we usually treat it like a hot potato. And the way City players look after the ball is the polar opposite to watching United so far this season.
Obviously, ETH surely wants us to be more careful in possession and Mainoo seems like a step in the right direction. But that doesn’t make Neville’s comment any less accurate.
Better accept it. City are the standard. They are on the back of a treble and will likely win their fourth epl title in a row.
I think all he’s saying is that he’s good enough to play for City.
Imagine being genuinely angered by his comments on Mainoo 
Bizarre.
Bizarre.@Sassy Colin , you're being totally paranoid about that comment. Our midfield looks nothing like City's midfield. Agreed? Ours has been dysfunctional for years and has been our main cause of discontent as a fan base this season. City's is based around control, composure, good decision making, good technique. These are qualities displayed by Mainoo on Saturday. What Neville is saying is obvious. Your take is weird. Don't be weird, Colin.
Bunch of weird snowflakes in here. Honestly so insecure that a comment like this has them frothing at the mouth.
Go support City then, if you love them so much.
Either you’re a troll or you’re incredibly touchy. If you can’t accept that another team has a more functional midfield than us then maybe football isn’t the game for you.
Ha! Love it Col. That shut me up.
Give it a fecking rest.
City v Liverpool was a limp snooze fest. That wasn’t a good example to be fair
It was a weird example to take. Our game wasn't even particularly bad, our second half was in fact pretty good.