The is difference that you don't have 106 and the most posts in those players threads, consistently picking on them and telling us how we need better. It is so obvious that you try as much as you can to pick on and bash Lingard everytime.
No I don't, and I already pointed out, 4-5 players that need to be upgraded with better for different reasons. The difference though, in Phil Jones/Young/Valencia/Matic cases, there are not many posters claiming them to be good enough every 15 games when they have a solid one. Most on here agree and are tired of Jones for example, Young and Valencia need replacing also, and that's the general opinion. With Lingard we have posters like you who after 10 months and mostly shit to average performances, as soon as he has a good game come here and preach how he is reliable and our best option. Like feck he is. He scored goals against Arsenal and Liverpool, yet he was among the worst performers. Scored a penalty and the 5th goal vs Cardif, and now he is our best option supposedly. Most on here agree he is a solid squad player, and that is that.
Despite how hard you try to downplay the trophies we've won with him, they are still trophies that can only be won by one team out of tens and hundreds in a full year. If it is so easy to win them, why didn't Liverpool etc win them then? If they are not really prioritizing or taking them seriously, when then did their players and fans look so dejected when they lost those finals back then? They could have done with a player like Lingard to bang in the winner.
I'm not downplaying the trophies, but I won't cling on mickey mouse cup wins while our rivals are miles ahead of us. We've won the trophies with him as part of the team, no one is downplaying his part, just some like you overrate it. He scored goals vs Crystal Palace and Southampton, should we excuse him for the next 10 years of shit performances?
Now we are getting at something, and I can't agree much with this. Why then do you bash him for us not having a better player than him? He's always played his part, and decent at that. He's being a breath of fresh air in the sense that whilst those supposedly talented players have faltered and underwhelmed, he has provided us with a good option while playing a vital and significant part in our little successes.
Who is bashing him? Why are you so peaky, he is no snowflake, and nobody is blaming him for anything, if anyone, I've said many times in the previous couple of months, It's on the guy who is playing him.
And we have better players, but for some reason Mourinho never managed to get the best of his attacking players. One of the reasons he lost his job that is.
He has also faltered and was underwhelming, he was just on the good side of Mourinho.
You said our rivals have been winning titles, when in reality, only four clubs have won the title in the last 14 years - one of them is us, and another is not exactly our rival.
Every club that wins the league is our rival. Taking it back 14 years, means nothing for the current state we are in. Our demise started in 2013, since then, we finished 7h, 4th, 5th, 6th, 2nd and currently we 6th. Nothing to cheer on in my book.
No, he was and is playing because we barely have a better option.
The same can be applied to Lingard. If we manage to get the best out of him, he'd be a much better player. It is no coincidence that he dropped a MOTM performance in his first game that is not under the manager that was apparently favouring him.
We do have a better option, as soon as Alexis is fit, he will be give a chance, or as soon as Lukaku is fit, we need to play him with Rashford and Martial.
Regarding Lingard, yes the same should be applied to Lingard and he is getting his chance, the thing is, more or less we now what we get with him, and what not. Martial, Rashford and Lukaku for example even though under a negative manager, showed glimpses of their talent and why so many rate them. With Alexis is the same, he has shown that he can be one of the best in the league, and should get his chance at the expense of Lingard.
