People still seem not to understand why we are poor at times. Lingard isn't good enough for Villa or Norwich. Look at the talent we saw in the Norwich attack today and look at their average contribution. Lingard would be on the bench in those squads and they are bottom of the league level. This is what happens when clubs don't use loans to assess talent. Lingard on his very best form could have played for Brighton, but the form did not last long enough, yet at United we expect him to come in and produce against opposition above his level. For a player like Lingard, it is equivalent to asking Shelvey to perform against Man City. People need to start looking at what is in front of them. If a player can't control touches, constantly seems off the pace, can never do anything meaningful and chooses the safe option when posed with attacking spaces against these teams due to fear of losing the ball he's poor. It's the level of performance usually seen by players from newly promoted clubs when playing top teams in the league. People just find it difficult to dissociate him from the club.
The same thing goes for both Mata and Pereira. Mata's age and the level of speed he plays at at the moment suggests to me that his legs are at an MLS level. He has never produced sufficiently at United, particularly from the flanks, and now doesn't even have the legs to make his centrality effective in anyway. Periera is another obvious one. Mourinho didn't play because he saw this, but people saw his background and style of play and forced a chance to be give to him despite what evidence showed us. He was not a regular starter for either Grenada or Valencia. On whoscored his average rating for those clubs were below 7, which suggests a low level of performance, even against teams that were of his club's quality. People seem to think players simply perform poorly in loan spells due to the clubs, but if a side with average players spotted a good player that even for a short period of time could contribute for them and with the high stakes of it, they would play those players regardless of bias. United fans always blame coaches for not giving these undeserving young players a chance, but the truth is, not many players have the quality to feature for everton or stoke, talk less of united. It's time people started assessing our youngsters without the rose tinted glasses then we wouldnt be talking about Lingard's , Cleverley's and Pereira's.
The same thing goes for both Mata and Pereira. Mata's age and the level of speed he plays at at the moment suggests to me that his legs are at an MLS level. He has never produced sufficiently at United, particularly from the flanks, and now doesn't even have the legs to make his centrality effective in anyway. Periera is another obvious one. Mourinho didn't play because he saw this, but people saw his background and style of play and forced a chance to be give to him despite what evidence showed us. He was not a regular starter for either Grenada or Valencia. On whoscored his average rating for those clubs were below 7, which suggests a low level of performance, even against teams that were of his club's quality. People seem to think players simply perform poorly in loan spells due to the clubs, but if a side with average players spotted a good player that even for a short period of time could contribute for them and with the high stakes of it, they would play those players regardless of bias. United fans always blame coaches for not giving these undeserving young players a chance, but the truth is, not many players have the quality to feature for everton or stoke, talk less of united. It's time people started assessing our youngsters without the rose tinted glasses then we wouldnt be talking about Lingard's , Cleverley's and Pereira's.
