Compare Brazil NT situation to other countries is a bit off mark. Brazil NT appoints Brazillian coaches, and many times these coaches know more about the Brazillian league than Europe. They pick top super stars from Europe but could also have a knack of neglecting good players in underachieving, smaller teams. This hence the crave of Brazillians to move to glamorous European power house, even straight from Brazillian league taking big gamble on their development.
Jose Mourinho's press conference - Brighton(A) | 13:30 BST
- Thread starter Sandyman
- Start date
[QUOTE="AgentP, post: 22485845, member: 78035"[If Bailly doesn't play in the FA Cup final, it means he isn't first choice at the moment.[/QUOTE]
If Bailly does get to play in the league, after missing months through injury, there's no way he'll be selected for the final.
If Bailly does get to play in the league, after missing months through injury, there's no way he'll be selected for the final.
You seem to have missed my point. Which is that Smalling is not only playing - every week - for one of the biggest clubs in Europe, he's playing for one of the biggest clubs in the world. As I said, if the same is true of another Swedish defender then Lindelof could reasonably expect that they start ahead of him.
He's barely played the past month and French fans will tell you it is more likely he won't go than will.
Fekir, Coman and Lacazette were injured during the last lot of friendlies. With them back, Martial's the one whose place is most at risk.
Will save the club €10M if he doesn't go, I guess, as he's 7 caps away from us paying out the second clause in his contract and if his future is seen elsewhere we probably don't want to fulfill that.
If one insist on nitpicking then it's time to realize: Martial started against Bournemouth. Still have minutes here and there as sub. Bailly got dropped from even match day squad. This is the reason some hack found an idea to stick a knife in creating frozen out Bailly narrative
Last edited:
Maybe because Sanchez hasn't been breaking down with injuries all season?
Still injured isn't he? I'd say his position is most at risk.
He wasn't in the last squad so technically still Martial's place most at risk.
ha ha, touché.
I am not comparing Brazil NT to other NTs. I am just giving an example why it is not mandatory to be playing for the bigger clubs in Europe to play in NT and that is true for European teams as well. Especially countries like Sweden who are a level below european powerhouses. Sweden will hardly have squad with enough players that plays for biggest clubs in europe.
He was hardly the top3 this year. Potential wise, yes he's got it in him to be the best, but currently he's not even better than Smalling o Jones when they are fit. Not that I agree with his ommission, as I think we should work on him to reach his potential but maybe Jose wants to prove that Lindelof isn't as shit as we all think or found him a decent team for loan next season...
Fair points. I don't disagree anything here.
So Jones was not injured and it's just rotation work against Arsenal, right?
Sounds like that.
No he is not.. There is nothing that supports that claim. He is hit and miss most of the time,
Agree.. He is as hot and cold as a shower in Russia.
Jose talks in too much riddles sometimes.
Fingers crossed. Lukaku is almost always fit and hardly ever rested, which makes tomorrow a perfect opportunity to give Martial or Rashford a start.
Most likely to be Rashford up front.
Prefer Rashford as CF, Martial as LW and Sanchez as RW although he's not gonna pull his best performance. Want to see this three switch each other position, just like old days with Rooney-Ronaldo-Tevez.
Think he might play them both, but if he's deciding on one versus the other, Martial will start surely after a much better cameo last weekend.
Nah, people seeing things that aren't there. And I am not even his biggest fan but this jumping at everything he says is crazy
Both Coman and Fekir has hardly played as well, and I think they have played less than Martial in last 3/4 months and I guess Coman is still injured. Lacazette will take Ben Yeddar's position. And they usually take Thauvin but dont play him.
So right now I think the players that are at most risk of missing out, in order, is Coman>Thauvin>Martial.
There are a couple of questions that keep being asked in this thread, so rather than quote a random one I'll just make the responses here:
Question - Why is Jose talking about rotating Jones, Lindelof and Rojo in regards to the World Cup at the expense of Bailly, but not Martial and Rashford when Sanchez is in the same situation as Bailly?
Answer - He's obviously not going to deliberately weaken the team. It indicates that he likely considers Jones, Lindelof, Rojo and Bailly to be around the same level, so favouring the ones who may go to the World Cup won't really change the strength of the team (although if Rojo doesn't start getting games then he's probably at a lower ranking). Whereas obviously he feels that the team is stronger with Sanchez playing ahead of Martial and Rashford, so he does that. Meanwhile, the fact that Smalling simply plays every game and isn't being rotated indicates that Mourinho considers him his #1 central defender that he can trust to stay solid while his partners continually change.
Hopefully Martial's good performance off the bench against Arsenal will see him push into the team. Especially with Lukaku also now out, he may get a chance to cement his place again.
Question - Why does it seem Southgate won't take Smalling?
Answer - The reasons to this decision have been talked about (Smalling's lack of ability on the ball), and although I don't agree with them I will say it's fair for the manager to choose to make that stand for his starting line-up. If you want to attempt to play to that style then the other defenders may suit it better. However, it is absolutely ridiculous not to take him at all, as there will be games where that plan won't work simply because the other teams are better (particularly in the midfield area which is the most important to that style of play), and in those games you may end up needing the best pure defenders that you have. And Smalling is far ahead of the rest of the options in that regard.
Question - Why is Jose talking about rotating Jones, Lindelof and Rojo in regards to the World Cup at the expense of Bailly, but not Martial and Rashford when Sanchez is in the same situation as Bailly?
Answer - He's obviously not going to deliberately weaken the team. It indicates that he likely considers Jones, Lindelof, Rojo and Bailly to be around the same level, so favouring the ones who may go to the World Cup won't really change the strength of the team (although if Rojo doesn't start getting games then he's probably at a lower ranking). Whereas obviously he feels that the team is stronger with Sanchez playing ahead of Martial and Rashford, so he does that. Meanwhile, the fact that Smalling simply plays every game and isn't being rotated indicates that Mourinho considers him his #1 central defender that he can trust to stay solid while his partners continually change.
Hopefully Martial's good performance off the bench against Arsenal will see him push into the team. Especially with Lukaku also now out, he may get a chance to cement his place again.
Question - Why does it seem Southgate won't take Smalling?
Answer - The reasons to this decision have been talked about (Smalling's lack of ability on the ball), and although I don't agree with them I will say it's fair for the manager to choose to make that stand for his starting line-up. If you want to attempt to play to that style then the other defenders may suit it better. However, it is absolutely ridiculous not to take him at all, as there will be games where that plan won't work simply because the other teams are better (particularly in the midfield area which is the most important to that style of play), and in those games you may end up needing the best pure defenders that you have. And Smalling is far ahead of the rest of the options in that regard.
Wait, when did this happen? Because it certainly hasn't been this season. Sure Bailly has had a handful of great games, but he's had just as many shockers as well. Over the course of the season it's debatable if he's been better than Lindelof, let alone Smalling and Jones who have been far better than him.
Just because he has the potential to be our best defender doesn't mean that he is our best defender.
Why isn't Jose Mourinho on the plane to Brighton?
He said he wanted to keep players like Depay and Schneiderlin as well.
So Bailiey's starting on Friday then
For people moaning about Sanchez playing despite not being in the world cup, maybe Jose just wants him to link up with the team more, so that he's settled next season?
Some people here are fit to write articles for the likes of Sun and Daily mail, judging by the amount of shite they come up with based on feck all.
Some people here are fit to write articles for the likes of Sun and Daily mail, judging by the amount of shite they come up with based on feck all.
Why is everybody so paranoid. Has to be one of the weirder aspects of supporting United at the moment. Paranoid and delusional fans who don't trust the manager.
Mourinho totally ruined Martial.
If He leaves, We'll lose a world class potential. If He stays, He'll play half-hearted next season because of his shitty relationship with Jose.
Heck, if England fail to win the world cup it will also be Mourinho's fault for helping Mike Smalling because He can't defend anything other than Harry Kane.
Migraine incoming... actually it might as well be a Vertigo at this point. Worst manager ever.
dont bite
If He leaves, We'll lose a world class potential. If He stays, He'll play half-hearted next season because of his shitty relationship with Jose.
Heck, if England fail to win the world cup it will also be Mourinho's fault for helping Mike Smalling because He can't defend anything other than Harry Kane.
Migraine incoming... actually it might as well be a Vertigo at this point. Worst manager ever.
dont bite
Yeah, if it were for the league games I'd get it but it seems strange to prioritize selection from the semi final based on that. Pretty sure there must be more to it.
Then just say he’s not 100% fit. Nobody would question that.
Pep would probably win the World cup with Manchester United.