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Season Average Rating
- Appearances
- 17
- Clean sheets
- 9
- Goals
- 0
- Assists
- 0
- Yellow cards
- 1
Yup. Pretty sure Ferguson wanted to keep him, but let him go when Pique asked to go home to Barcelona.
Well, he's officially charged now....
I assume he's remaining phlegmatic.
It's disgusting everywhere, not just in England. I just hope that racist abuse is a bit lower. But seeing possible punishment for Evans...
Not great timing by Evans considering the nature of the offence and probable ban if he was already playing for his future at the club. It will be interesting to see what public comments, if any, LVG and the club make - close ranks or condemn it?
LvG after the match and in today's press conference, said he believed Evans and considers the matter as closed.
Cisse has apologised where as Evans hasn't and has denied it. The guy is a complete tool, hope the club get rid of him at the end of the season. This incident has certainly given us more of a reason to if his pathetic performances haven't.
Just a reminder, this is pretty much evans at his peak now, he wont be getting much better. Especially with his injury record. I dont think people are exaggerating when they're not too bothered with him being banned.
Honestly, he seems like a genuinely nice guy. But United quality CB? No way. And there's plenty of players in our squad right now who I'd say the same about. I'd rather start moulding a fresh young CB in our defence or have a solid experienced quality veteran back there though. 6-10 games for spitting considering some of the other spitting incident bans is just silly though. You're right, if it was a more important player, I'd be more bothered by it.
Honestly, he seems like a genuinely nice guy. But United quality CB? No way. And there's plenty of players in our squad right now who I'd say the same about. I'd rather start moulding a fresh young CB in our defence or have a solid experienced quality veteran back there though. 6-10 games for spitting considering some of the other spitting incident bans is just silly though. You're right, if it was a more important player, I'd be more bothered by it.
Cisse clearly spat straight towards Evans, there was nothing he could deny. Evans could legitimately just have been spitting on the floor, its very hard, make that impossible, to know if Evans meant to spit at Cisse or not.
I would imagine he will be found guilty though, on the basis of probability.
Spitting at someone is equally insulting as spitting on someone. He's an idiot for doing it.
It's a shame he got a lengthy ban. Was slowly showing signs of getting back to his old self.
In which case it's a good job he's got a 6 game ban, because "slowly getting back to his old self" is usually around the time he suffers a catastrophic drop in performance or gets injured for 3 months.
At least this way, when he gets back from suspension he will still be in the "slowly getting getting back to his old self" phase of the Evans performance trajectory.
Too bad as the last two matches were probably his best this season.
Did anyone else think he looked really scared when cisse stood up?
Did anyone else think he looked really scared when cisse stood up?
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If Smalling, Jones and Rojo stay fit I don't think its a huge loss.
Shame for him though.
Shame for him though.
Damn. Was hoping Evans and Smalling could build up to something, based on recent 2 games. Hopefully McNair will take the spot.
on the bright side, he can start his summer holiday now
Idiot, not good enough for United so his loss should be our gain (unless we've another list of injuries)
To be expected, was pretty blatantly a spit. Not sure why he denied it when he looked right at him and spit. Not like he can't control it. Was in good form but I wouldn't want him playing against Arsenal or in any of the tough games coming up anyways.
It's probably been his worst season since starting with the first team. Lots of people are writing him off but I think he might use the ban period to address his game and contemplate his future. I am not sure his days are numbered just yet.
United ready to sell with Spurs and Arsenal interested according to this.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/s...-manchester-uniteds-jonny-evans-31050730.html
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/s...-manchester-uniteds-jonny-evans-31050730.html
Since Christmas
Without Evans - Played 6, clean sheets 1, W2 D 2 L2
With Evans - Played 9, clean sheets 6, W7 D2 L0
Without Evans - Played 6, clean sheets 1, W2 D 2 L2
With Evans - Played 9, clean sheets 6, W7 D2 L0
He's got Spurs written all over him I reckon.
Whole season...
With Evans 13* games, 6 goals allowed
Without Evans 16* games, 20 goals allowed
*one is Leicester game
And he was undeniably crap in a bunch of his opening games too. He's gradually improved in recent weeks and been an important factor in our recently improved defensive performances. And people are actually happy he's missing for 6 games?! Weirdos.
You could really thank De Gea for most of the clean sheets instead of spinning it again to 'Jonny's class' because it's really getting boring, now.
I'm still waiting for a whole season worthy of Man United from him without being covered by some real characters of defense.
In case you forgot this is how a first team standard in this club looks like.
Why not demand it again ? Is it that much to ask ?
I'm still waiting for a whole season worthy of Man United from him without being covered by some real characters of defense.
In case you forgot this is how a first team standard in this club looks like.
Why not demand it again ? Is it that much to ask ?
At least he's in the NI squad so he should get match practice there.
It was just two games
Spurs are too good for Evans.
Bullshit.
Its true. Sunderland is more his speed. Jonny Evans fitness record won't be good enough for a top 6 team. Wait a minute, there's always Arsenal, they are used to that sort of thing.
go away. if you can't see that Evans is better than Sunderland you need to stop watching football
i bet you were one of the people who used to say that Fletcher was no better than mid-table Championship prior to his peak
In case you forgot this is how a first team standard in this club looks like.
Why not demand it again ? Is it that much to ask ?
I hope you're patient, because you'll be waiting a while to see a defence like that again. In the meantime, better get used to Smalling, Rojo, Jones and Evans
You're right about the Fletcher part. I absolutely didn't rate him. The hype he got from 03-06 was OTT and Fergie was to blame, just like he's to blame for Evans and Jones ridiculus appraisals. Fletcher became a genuine key player for United. Evans will never justify all the early praise he got from Fergie and the fans. Also, Fergie's prediction that he'd be captain one day and lead the team (probably like Terry leads Chelsea) will never come to fruition. First senior player to be sold this summer most likely.
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If he plays like he did against Newcastle then he is good enough for most in the league, but it's whether he can reach that level consistently.
It's not a matter of patience but a matter of football standards. We splashed huge cash on Rio back in a day and it was a spot on investment after getting rid of Stam. It was a proper response to our trouble in that formation, rather than getting used to playing Brown with O'Shea as the main CB pair.
Getting used to Evans has to be absolute nightmare coming true for such club as United. There are defenders that could substantially upgrade us and we both know Evans has stopped developing from some time.
Spot on. The funny thing too is that even Brown and O'Shea were better players than Evans, so we've really gone backwards if Evans is what we consider acceptable United standard these days.
He represented Premier League level that day indeed but then again should we ignore that his season is already over and it's not even because of the injury record ?
After such break from first team football he'll be without match rhythm, he basically will start from zero again while rest of the team will have to eat grass to get us back in the Champions League.
We simply can't rely on him.
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Brown and Sheasy had their moments of comedy at times but I can recall few class acts from them even on Champions League stage.
Brown's pass exchange with Scholes and then surgical cross to Ronnie in Moscow with his weaker foot was definitely one of them. O'Shea embarrassing Figo, other time playing as goalkeeper and the other time scoring a winner at Anfield... They had their moments. Can't deny that.