GOAT mode tonight. A joy to watch live. Made Pogba look like a cheap tramp.
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I also saw him pass the ball to the opposition a few times under no pressure. Squad player at best and should stay that way
He was outstanding tonight. I know who you are. Jog on.
Enjoy your night man. Fellaini will be a rotational player as he should be
He was fantastic today. Seriously, our best player in 2nd half, with Martial a close 2nd. Showed a lot of skill and a great passing range which was quite surprising. Won possession back constantly too. Well done to him.
Him and axel were the only good players in that second half. Martial and rashford at times as well
No you didn't. That literallly didn't happen. This place is so weird sometimes. People hate players so much they create fictional incidents to slag them off about.
I can't believe I'm going to say this......I think our best Midfield partnership includes Fellaini in it 
Matic
Fellaini........Pogba
Fellaini........Pogba
I can't believe I'm going to say this......I think our best Midfield partnership includes Fellaini in it
Matic
Fellaini........Pogba
Picking on pre-season form that is the best. Although Matic has only played 45 minutes against weak opposition and apparently isn't fully match fit.
He's much better in a 3 man midfield where he can just go crazy and run around chopping at trees with his axe like legs.
Let's be honest not many people come out of a 50/50 and win the ball against him, he always goes in fully blooded.
Yes he could be more skillful or have a better shot or passing skills, but he runs as hard as possible every game, you can never criticise him for being lazy/not trying.
Did really well to win the ball back quite a few times against Sampdoria, and I expect him to start against RM.
Let's be honest not many people come out of a 50/50 and win the ball against him, he always goes in fully blooded.
Yes he could be more skillful or have a better shot or passing skills, but he runs as hard as possible every game, you can never criticise him for being lazy/not trying.
Did really well to win the ball back quite a few times against Sampdoria, and I expect him to start against RM.
I was so happy to see him play that through pass to Martial. If he can have more viaration to his passing I would be happy to have him in my squad
I can't believe I'm going to say this......I think our best Midfield partnership includes Fellaini in it
Matic
Fellaini........Pogba
Nah, we still need a runner in it and hence Herrera is absolutely essential.
Did well YET AGAIN last night.
Never really understood the hatred on here for him - gives 100% every match and never, ever hides when it's not going right.
Blame Moyes for the shit we saw from him first season and which too many on here still associate him with.
Never really understood the hatred on here for him - gives 100% every match and never, ever hides when it's not going right.
Blame Moyes for the shit we saw from him first season and which too many on here still associate him with.
Nice to see some praise for him, used to be seen as the bastard of Moyes.
Glad we have him to be honest, good professional and sets a good example for our youngsters.
Has such unique strengths, that as long as he's not too key to our tactics, and isn't used in ridiculous roles like the deepest midfielder, he's very much worth keeping.
It'd have been pointless shipping him for £8-10m
It'd have been pointless shipping him for £8-10m
Lets not get carried away. Fellaini does not give good performances regularly. I agree that he is useful to us. And people who hate him are probably bitter. But people who criticize his clumsiness or his passing skills are not really wrong.
8-10m is a joke of a price to be honest.
At certain clubs he would be
Fellaini is a good player, people just don't see that because it was Moyes that bought him.
Yes it did. I have the game recorded. He also did the same at the Real Madrid game in Santa Clara and I was in attendance at the stadium. A few reds behind me were not amused either
An amazing squad player to have but it's when the manager starts treating him as some.saviour the problem starts. I admire his passion and attitude but he is best a squad player
I'm very fond of him. Stop being mean to the big galoot you buggers.
And I was in attendance at the game we're discussing. At which he played very well and did not do what you're accusing him of.
Spot on plus Moyes promised big names and didn't deliver so he became the scapegoat. If people took those blinkers off, they'd see he's been pretty decent over the last 18mths and outstanding so far preseason. People can deny him but the FA cup, he had big moments that contributed to his winning it and the same with winning the cup to get into the champs league.
Gonna surprise some people this season cause you might see him and Matic in the same side.
Its the annual Fellaini boom bust cycle. He has a good game and everyone wants him to be a starter. Then he has poor games, shows his limitations and everyone slags him off again. He is not a very good player and should not be a starter for a club that wants to win big things. However, he can be useful in particular games and proved that as well
A good pre-season aside, my dislike (not hatred, silly word to use) of Fellaini has nothing to do with Moyes being the one to bring him in, it's more because I don't think he's a very good footballer, comparatively speaking. Him being useful or contributing (etc.) doesn't really change that. As long as he's here I'd like him to continue contributing, obviously, and doing what he do do well - well - well. But I'd rather our midfield looked a little bit different is all.
For real? I'm not kidding and I haven't seen him live so I'm curious. It's sometimes hard to tell if posters are serious or not.
I was at the game and he was decent. His performance is being massively overstated in here, though.
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Agree with everything, especially the part in bold.
However, you will find people who strongly disagree with this as, "we have 10 other players on the pitch who would've stepped up"
He's been consistently good in 2017. In fact, I think he was among the best 3-5 performers in our team.
Christ, for every person that seems to underrate him on here, there's one that overrates him beyond belief.
Utter shite. Pogba and Valencia were the best players on the pitch. I have looked at literally 4 different sites and they have all rated Pogba as the better player and also, I suppose being at the match and all, it was obvious Pogba was better. Fellaini was decent enough but still pretty clumsy with his challenges. Posts like this are just going to provoke people into further criticising him and they're equally as bad as the so called 'hate' posts.
I don't hate Fellaini. Stuff like this is all well and good, but it doesn't change anything in reality...
...because this is absolutely true. All ok as bit part players, but these players are regulars.
Yeah thats what happens in Fellaini's threads sadly, Valencia was great for 90 mins the other night and there was only 4-5 new posts in his performance thread. Fellaini comes on and has a decent half and there's 2-3 new pages of people praising him to the stars and of course the inevitable discussion about how people who don't rate him only do so because of xyz.
People see posts criticizing him and then feel the need to overrate him to compensate and vice versa with others underrating him because of half the nonsense that people spout about him. If someone had never seen Fellaini play and just went off the Caf's performance threads, they would have no idea how good Fellaini actually is. Going off posts alone he could be anywhere from as average as Lee Cattermole to as good as peak Zidane.
Aye, spot on. It makes for little to no rational debate about him. The funniest thing is that both sides are actually convinced that they are totally in the right whereas the truth lies somewhere in the middle.
Same thing happened in the Rooney thread. It's haters v fans, the truth if often in between.
Nothing to do with Jose, people just can't accept the fact he hasn't been a great signing and he has played too often, he is either massively over rated or massively over criticised. Win a Few tackles he is motm or kick the all out play and he is an embarrassment.
Over four years he hasn't been good enough, he has had his ups and downs but he is a very limited player, always has been. Him and others get games because we have been a poor team.
There is a reason phrases like always tried his best, never gives up and does a job are used when referring to fellaini and others I mentioned, they aren't that good.
The top sides in Europe are full of players who have those qualities but it's taken for granted because of their ability, those are the kind of players we need more of.
I detest this word and all it stands for. Seriously, where the feck did it even originate from? Unless being used ironically, it's a horrible, childish word.
Anyhow, I can't agree with that at all. The so called 'haters' (ewww) are sometimes posters who have the audacity to question a performance of his or say that he's not as good as others like to make out. If that equates to hate, then feck me, the world has gone mad. Now don't get me wrong, there are a few that take things OTT and lambaste him as a League One player, but sure, there'll always be extremes.
Or this is an incredibly blinkered way of looking at those trophies and how they were won.
Fellaini was one of our best players in the final of the europa and scored one goal in the competition. He was a part of winning it but that part also included poor performances and being hauled off at half time against st ettiene.
It took a lot more than fellaini to win those trophies and it's bizarre people try to make so much of his contribution. Who knows if we wouldn't or wouldn't win them without him but we would have had 11 players on the pitch either way and it took bigger contributions from other players throughout those competitions.
Fellaini had 3 MOTM performances in Europa League. Two of those were arguably the most important matches, against Celta in the semis and Ajax in the final. But, of course, let's forget all of this because of a half time substitution against St Etienne.
As is always, the expectations for Fellaini are considerably lower than they are for our other first team midfielders. Even somebody like Pereira would be roundly criticised for merely winning a few balls and passing it to Martial.
That isn't to deduct from Fellaini's admittedly good performance the other night, moreso highlighting the bizarre way in which some posters use very rudimentary performances to further their agenda against the perceived Fellaini negativity.
These people are just as futile as those that relentlessly pretend as if he is some talentless circus clown. We've got one poster claiming he should be in the midfield three ahead of Herrera at the top of this page. Objectively watching them play football is all you need to know that this is staggeringly misguided.
Fellaini is a good player to have in and around the squad. However, I'd also argue that at no point during his time at United has he played to the best of his ability. Which will attract criticism, although that really says more about my own expectations for Fellaini, and how good I know he can be (based largely against his Everton form).
Some of you lot, in your efforts to protect, essentially insult Fellaini's actual ability by pretending as if shite can be polished. He has shit games. I know it and he knows it. So don't over-egg them into something considered better.
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