Nani | Contract & Transfer talk
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I really want to see him perform like this in the champion's league. There is nothing Robben and Di Maria can do that Nani cannot match. I don't care how much ridicule I get for re-iterating this but if Nani continues like this domestically and in the CL he will show everyone he can be a top 5 world player.
I don´t think he will become that. But he´s too good for our league. His decision making has been flawless today and he has even been defending
Seems to be finding form again which is great for him, hopefully he keeps it up throughout the season. It'll be great for Sporting if he can.
That's why I think he has to prove himself in the CL. Trouble is he will always be double teamed/ marked.I don´t think he will become that. But he´s too good for our league. His decision making has been flawless today and he has even been defending
Didn't he have a massive smash in a Lambo back in Portugal a few years back?
Yeah maybe it was.
Must have been some time ago then, because I remember being worried!
Yeah maybe it was.
Must have been some time ago then, because I remember being worried!
That was probably Ronaldo.
Nah, that was in the airport tunnel.
I was thinking of Anderson... and it shows how long ago it was that they bothered to include the tautology that he appeared lifeless.
Surprise surprise he is performing well when he gets some consistent gametime and a bit of trust put in him.
Next will come the barrage of complaints of "why couldn't he play like that at United?" when he was given very sporadic inconsistent gametime over the last 3 or so years.
I have similar expectations of Kagawa, Welbeck and Hernandez - for all that we harp on about squad rotation, I think all of these players have the ability to be top players and simply weren't given fair chances at United.
Next will come the barrage of complaints of "why couldn't he play like that at United?" when he was given very sporadic inconsistent gametime over the last 3 or so years.
I have similar expectations of Kagawa, Welbeck and Hernandez - for all that we harp on about squad rotation, I think all of these players have the ability to be top players and simply weren't given fair chances at United.
Tbf I know exactly why he couldn't play like that for United. He wasn't really good enough. Obviously he's going to look better now that he's taken a step down in level but that doesn't suddenly mean he's a top player.
7 years was fair chance. He has to stay fit- something he didn't do with us for a few Years . At United if you are off-form you have to be even a little useful in some other capacity, (Valencia at RB, We beck-who we wanted to keep-as a winger , Rooney as a CM). LvG tried Nani as a forward and it didn't work -apart from wide or upfront (and that was before Falcao) there is no place for him with us trying to play 3 strikers.
The Portuguese league is not a top one, so once he stays fit he will do well as an attacker but it doesn't mean it will translate if he comes bark. I do hope if he stays fit all year LVG will consider him in the Summer, but I feel since before Moyes that Nani had already checked out of Manchester mentally.
That was hard.
In my opinion no matter how he does in Portugal, he won’t be our player next season. I don’t think he can save his career with us.
IMO it’s time to move on.
IMO it’s time to move on.
He did have fitness issues but that's really not the whole story. I've said it before a few times, I think Ferguson was really harsh on him and really underused him in favour of Valencia. He wasn't always injured, he was often fit and couldn't get a game even if Valencia was in poor form. On the whole Valencia was given so much more time than Nani, much more than he often deserved.
Then why was he consistently our best player between 2010 and 2012? Since then it's just been injuries and a luck of trust shown in him so he couldn't prove himself.
I'd love for him to come back and become an important player for us. He's always been one of my favourites on form.
Seems to have gotten his hunger back for the game. He seemed to have just gone through the motions when he was playing at United over the last 2 years. Even during the tour of the U.S, he just drifted through the game. Happy that he is playing well, but i just think his career is over at United.
Looking good so far against Porto tonight.
Completely agree. No matter how he does and whether it's drastic improvement or not, I don't see any level of performance salvaging his career here and quite frankly I don't want it too.
Even if he has an excellent season, it could be attributed to a fresh challenge, fresh motivation and an added incentive to impress and improve. It's no certainty that he should translate the same form were he to return to the United squad next season.
I almost want us to seek out of principle. We've held on to deadwood and players who haven't contributed consistently for far too long with Nani and Anderson a few examples. The latter is approaching a testimonial for Christ Sake! We need to be more ruthless with players who aren't cutting it.
Good post. Completely agree.
How that shower of shite Valencia got games ahead of a fit Nani is beyond me.
Nani has either been terrible, or injured for us for ages now.
Valencia's decline is a shame, seemed to coincide with him getting the number 7 shirt, coincidence, or just couldn't handle it.
That was bad...Smooth
But Criminal
How did he fare so far with them?
This because we've held on too long to players who just aren't good enough or are never fit enough to play a meaningful role for us. The best he can do for us is ro perform well enough for some Russian team to pay a reasonable fee for him and salvage some of the money we have invested in him and his like.
Returning to form,which is really fecking annoying.
Id love to know what he did to get frozen out of the team.
Heard he is doing well. Apparently, this is what SAF has to say on Nani:
Plenty of the players have the talent to do well at big clubs. The question is whether they can turn it on with any consistency. He's no more of a talent than Ben Arfa (for example) but there's a reason he's at the likes of Newcastle and Hull.
Shame he never kicked on and became a really top drawer player, but it isn't happening now. Hopefully we can get a decent fee for him when he's movedon.
Yeah. What's disappointing is that he did have his good seasons where he was amongst our best players.
He never kicked on from his form circa '09 - '12. I felt he was really starting to look like a top talent but injuries amongst other things have really stagnated him. I think he's done here and no matter how well he does on loan, he will have no future with us.
He had all the talent to really make it here and it's unfortunate that he couldn't put the whole package together.
He had all the talent to really make it here and it's unfortunate that he couldn't put the whole package together.
I still hold out hope (perhaps naively) that he still has a future at the club. If he does well and regains his confidence I'd bring him back and get rid of Valencia and Young.
Good deal for Sporting, getting a talented player and not even paying any of his wages.
I didn't realise that they weren't contributing towards his wages.
Either way, good deal for both Nani and Sporting. He gets to put himself in the shop window and they get a talented, if erratic, player that will no doubt excel in a significantly weaker league.
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