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If he's smart he'd take the move.

He's got a contract for another two years here in the summer, but we'll be trying to hush him away. Milan will offer similar wages to us, and probably give him a 4 year deal. The slower pace of Italian football will suit him too, if he had more time on the ball he'd probably not look as much of a donkey.
 
I bet Milan fans are sitting refreshing their Fellaini thread in their transfer forum with trepidation as wistful memories of when they bought the elite of football play in their minds. :(
 
Italian football would suit him well. I really wanted him to succeed here but i didn't take into account his complete lack of football talent
 
Thing is Fellaini is not a bad option to have off the bench sometimes.
We are playing such awful football anyway that bring Felliani on and punting it up field to him at least offers us a chance of scoring.

His goal last season against Palace was the one that virtually secured us fourth place, and his goal against Brigge really took the pressure off in the second leg, he does have his uses.

Obviously if we have a replacement lined up and intend on playing in such a way that will score more goals then he can go, but in likely absence of that I'd keep him for now.
 
He was useful last season, but has been absolutely rank for a vast majority of this season. Teams have figured out how to play when we chuck him on and hopelessly launch balls, or when we play him in central midfield where his inability to tackle and lack of mobility are easily exploited. More fool Milan, I say.
 
C'est Moi Cantona said:
Thing is Fellaini is not a bad option to have off the bench sometimes.
We are playing such awful football anyway that bring Felliani on and punting it up field to him at least offers us a chance of scoring.

His goal last season against Palace was the one that virtually secured us fourth place, and his goal against Brigge really took the pressure off in the second leg, he does have his uses.

Obviously if we have a replacement lined up and intend on playing in such a way that will score more goals then he can go, but in likely absence of that I'd keep him for now.
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This is how i see him too. I mean I sell him every chance I get but ultimately we play one style of football now for 95% of the time. A player like him is useful. I dont see why he couldn't one day be useful as solsksjker.
 
Devil may care said:
I bet Milan fans are sitting refreshing their Fellaini thread in their transfer forum with trepidation as wistful memories of when they bought the elite of football play in their minds. :(
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can see us becoming the next milan if we don't get critical decisions right for the next several years.
 
Santiago_KinderBueno said:
This is how i see him too. I mean I sell him every chance I get but ultimately we play one style of football now for 95% of the time. A player like him is useful. I dont see why he couldn't one day be useful as solsksjker.
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Because Fellaini is not half as good as Ole. Some people need to brush up their memory about Ole's ability on the ball and his finishing and movement off the ball before making such silly comparisons.
 
NK86 said:
Because Fellaini is not half as good as Ole. Some people need to brush up their memory about Ole's ability on the ball and his finishing and movement off the ball before making such silly comparisons.
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Wtf. You think im comparing his ability to his? I know he isnt as good & i know he wont be as loved as Ole was.

Get off your high seat & realise Fellaini could come on a CL final score a last minute goal.

He is the only plan B player we have.
 
Santiago_KinderBueno said:
Wtf. You think im comparing his ability to his? I know he isnt as good & i know he wont be as loved as Ole was.

Get off your high seat & realise Fellaini could come on a CL final score a last minute goal.

He is the only plan B player we have.
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You said he could be as useful as Ole was for us, then say he is not as good as Ole. Make up your mind. Ole was not useful because we simply threw him at the end of games; he worked as a great sub because he was so good that he would walk into our starting 11 right now. Fellaini, apart from chest control, is as useless as they come for a plan B.
 
Sepukku said:
Anyone being intrested in him is a blessing. Getting 20m for him is even better. God i wish he'd leave.
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Milan are skint. They will probably want him on loan and with us paying most of his salary. That's what happens when a big club signs a Bolton type of player
 
Santiago_KinderBueno said:
Wtf. You think im comparing his ability to his? I know he isnt as good & i know he wont be as loved as Ole was.

Get off your high seat & realise Fellaini could come on a CL final score a last minute goal.

He is the only plan B player we have.
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If that's the case then sack the manager and bring in someone whose capable of spending 200m+ and come out with more than one plan because of it. Fellaini shouldn't even sniff the CL let alone play in a final
 
devilish said:
If that's the case then sack the manager and bring in someone whose capable of spending 200m+ and come out with more than one plan because of it. Fellaini shouldn't even sniff the CL let alone play in a final
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200 million doesn't buy you jack shit these days especially not a whole plan b.

Sack this sack that..Just any excuse & he didnt even buy fellaini.
 
Santiago_KinderBueno said:
Wtf. You think im comparing his ability to his? I know he isnt as good & i know he wont be as loved as Ole was.

Get off your high seat & realise Fellaini could come on a CL final score a last minute goal.

He is the only plan B player we have.
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How many goals did he score coming off bench for us? Not many I would guess.
 
Santiago_KinderBueno said:
200 million doesn't buy you jack shit these days especially not a whole plan b.

Sack this sack that..Just any excuse & he didnt even buy fellaini.
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I agree however it should at least give a club a plan b. LvG could have achieved that by simply retaining nani (inconsistent player but who always had that unpredictably in his locker), adm and Chica. Instead LvG let them go cause they didn't fit in his philosophy. Fellaini would have left too if napoli offer in the summer wasn't so shit. LvG wanted every player ton abide to his philosophy. He can't complain I'd the team is one dimensional
 
Santiago_KinderBueno said:
He can be used both defensively and aggressively. I wouldn't be sad to see him leave but we really should be papering over the cracks in our squad rather than creating more - no matter how minor.
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He is too slow and lacks the positioning to play DM and he lacks creativity and technique to play AM. However I think this shouldn't be the argument at all. We've got a very limited player and whose on great salary. There's no way we will be able to get him off our hands without practically gifting him for free (loan with maybe the right for the loanee club to buy at a minimum fee which would be next to nothing + we must foot much of his salary). Under such circumstances I bet that Nolan erm Fellaini is here to stay
 
devilish said:
Milan are skint. They will probably want him on loan and with us paying most of his salary. That's what happens when a big club signs a Bolton type of player
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It's just as I feared. We've arrived at a point where we can't even give Fellaini away for free.
 
Santiago_KinderBueno said:
Wtf. You think im comparing his ability to his? I know he isnt as good & i know he wont be as loved as Ole was.

Get off your high seat & realise Fellaini could come on a CL final score a last minute goal.

He is the only plan B player we have.
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Has he even scored coming off the bench?

If anything his best contributions come when he starts.
 
It would be ridiculous to sell him now unless we have significant reinforcements coming in.

It's not his fault he's used as one of our main attacking plans. He should be nothing more than a squad player, it's first team quality we need and that won't be aided by culling our squad players.
 
if we have to be brave enough one day to play a style of football that doesn't include fellaini, then so be it. it says where we are when we have to keep this guy at the club. he isn't even good at plan B, cant jump and any challenge he makes ends up in a foul
 
He's utterly shite in the air for his height. He is actually 28 million pounds of chest control, thats it.
 
NotoriousISSY said:
Has he even scored coming off the bench?

If anything his best contributions come when he starts.
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He did against Brugge early this season. Possibly against West Brom I think last season was it? When he came on at half time.
 
I hope he is sold just so that I can stop reading pathetic and embarrassing comments in this thread and the match threads most weeks.
 
Hed Zitin said:
Let's get rid of our only forward option off the bench...

Wait until the summer. The squad depth mess LVG has made can be sorted properly then.
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Fellaini offers nothing on, or off the bench, other than making the rest of the team panic and hoof long balls up to his stupid afro.
His alleged aerial threat is a bigger myth than Atlantis. He's simply not good in the air, he's not good on the ground, he's slow, he has no footballing brain, he's dirty & cynical in all the wrong ways. I long for the day he's shipped off to some lower league obscurity, because that's where he's destined for. Anyone who thinks a top level team will be in for this lanky clown is off their nut!
 
Walrus said:
I hope he is sold just so that I can stop reading pathetic and embarrassing comments in this thread and the match threads most weeks.
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:lol: I hope you're learning Italian in preparation for blindly defending him on Milan forums.
 
Joemo said:
:lol: I hope you're learning Italian in preparation for blindly defending him on Milan forums.
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The only blindness here is the blind and irrational levels of hatred for Fellaini on this place.
 
Red Dreams said:
Fellani was a very good player for us last season. He is not suddenly shit. van Gaal has used him very poorly.
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I agree, he has not been used well at all this season

That isnt a pop at Lvg as it was Van Gaal who found a way to use him brilliantly last season and not just a last resort route 1 mechanism.

He has a very good engine on him, and wins back position well. Those skills arent being utilized at all this season.
 
K2K said:
I agree, he has not been used well at all this season

That isnt a pop at Lvg as it was Van Gaal who found a way to use him brilliantly last season and not just a last resort route 1 mechanism.

He has a very good engine on him, and wins back position well. Those skills arent being utilized at all this season.
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van Gaal had the entire team playing well for a good part of last season. I honestly thought we would run away with the title this season.

I don't want to start another van Gaal rant. But I am scratching my head about what has happened so far this season......:confused:
 
Red Dreams said:
van Gaal had the entire team playing well for a good part of last season. I honestly thought we would run away with the title this season.

I don't want to start another van Gaal rant. But I am scratching my head about what has happened so far this season......:confused:
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We simply changed the wrong things and didnt improve on what we were doing well.

And perhaps we needed someone else to push us to that next level.

As for Fellaini, he should simply not be played in a midfield 2. All our midfielders work better in a 3,
 
K2K said:
We simply changed the wrong things and didnt improve on what we were doing well.

And perhaps we needed someone else to push us to that next level.

As for Fellaini, he should simply not be played in a midfield 2. All our midfielders work better in a 3,
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agree. The only way our midfield can work in a 'two set up' is if we ever find another Roy Keane. Though Herrera may be about 80% of Scholes, there is no one who is anywhere near as good as Keane.
 
Was funny to hear Jim Beglin during the 0-0 Chelsea game suggesting the option of Fellaini coming on and making a nuisance of himself.
 
Man Utd 1:0 Sheffield Utd
I hate watching him in midfield, it's just not his thing.
 
I thought he was pretty good in the first half. Won the ball back well, and made a very important header from that corner right at the near post.

I cheered that nutmeg in the first half more than I cheered the goal.
 
I feel sorry whenever anyone has to partner him in central midfield. We're always crap when it happens.
 
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