He needs match sharpness to get back, real match experience. Fitness wise I think he's alright.
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I'd start him against QPR just to get the crowd buzzing from the off. Doubt he will last more than an hour though but by then I hope we are in a commanding lead. Di Maria first game at OT also so it should be quite an occasion plus the debuts for Blind and Rojo and possibly a few injured players will be back.
Surely us fans wont be left disappointed again and LvG gets his first win of the season.
It will be great to hav someone that can 'hold the ball' up front.
The current bunch of forwards at a United haven't been interested in holding the ball up for a few seasons now.
Only another week to go...the wait is killing me!
The current bunch of forwards at a United haven't been interested in holding the ball up for a few seasons now.
Only another week to go...the wait is killing me!
What? Van Persie holds the ball up as well as anybody. Even Welbeck was capable of that when he played up front
This. I'm fully expecting to see a different United against QPR compared to what we've seen the past 3 weeks. I'm hoping they dominate the Sunday back pages the next day.
Of course we will.
If Rafael, Rojo, Blind, Falcao, Herrera and Shaw start, that's 6 new players in the starting 11. Exciting times!Its not me that's skeptical. Its the numerous people who doubted whether he'd be the same player he was prior to the injury.What's up with the short sleeves and gloves? Sunny, rainy, cloudy always wearing gloves.
Why would he not be? His surgery was back in January and he starting rehab back in February.
What??? RVP hasn't don't that for a few seasons now! if only i'd made that clear in my original post!
RVP is excellent and holding up the ball. It might not look like it as it's not your tall striker knocking them down for runners or bringing them down on his chest but when he receives the ball at his feet, his body positioning is excellent and brings players into the game as good as any striker. Again, it deosn't look like your typical target man but he is much better at holding the ball up than people give him credit for.What??? RVP hasn't don't that for a few seasons now! if only i'd made that clear in my original post!
Do you think it would be more sensible to let the new lads gel in with the squad and build up a style of football and then unleash them a few weeks later, or do we just let them get on with it. I think LVG will just put them all in in all honesty, but I just hope that we just get the result and build up some confidence right away.
I think the players are just so low on confidence and form we need to bring fresh players in. The likes of Shaw, Herrera, Blind, Di Maria and Falcao will be raring to go.
Its a risk to throw them all in and hope for the best, but its also a huge risk for us at the moment to continue with the likes of Fletcher, Valencia, Young etc who are continuing to underperform
Yep! that is true...but the point i was making was we haven't seen enough 'hold-up' play at United for a few seasons now. RVP did it in the title winning side 2 seasons ago!!! but since then it has been missing badly from the side.
I'm hoping Falcao can bring that back.
Is he better than Aguero?
Somehow I don't like the words United and project in one line, it's so plastic.
I agree that lately, he hasn't been on top of his game, especially this part of his game but I can't accept the argument of a 'few seasons'. I mean look at it, this season is 3 games in. There was last season under Moyes and before that Fergie's last season and RVP's first. I agree that last year he was below par but under Fergie, he was great and you have noted that, so really it's been a season and 3 games that he hasn't given us that. Not a 'few seasons'.
We pretty much are a project though, we simply haven't undergone a transition period like this before in our recent history.
Very few players in world footballer are better than a fit Sergio Aguero, the guy simply doesn't miss, Give him the ball 1v1 against a keeper from pretty much any angle and it will end up in the back of the net.
Falcao is a better player in the box for sure, but Aguero might be a little better outside it, both are deffo up their along with Suarez as the top 3 strikers in world football imo, they also have immense composure .
We'll find out soon enough. If you only look at historical stats, both have scored the same amount of goals (200), but Falcao has done it in 100 less matches.
Very tight but yes.
His dominance in the air has him shading it for me,everything else they are matched but have very different styles.
We all know Aguero fairly well at this stage,but wait till this league get a blast of our new vanBasten/van Nistelroy hybrid.
hehe gotta love the internet...i'm not gonna argue over what defines a 'few seasons'
I'm looking forward to seeing Falcao
the end! move on!Falcao's peak is higher than Aguero's peak for sure, Falcao was the best striker in the world for a quite long period. He has done well at Monaco, people who sometime watch the French Ligue can see that its a very lowscoring league.
Aguero is a quality player but he hasn't been any better than Rooney or RVP in the last couple of years in my opinion. The question for me is will Falcao be as prolific in this league as he has been in Spain and France?
It's a none scoring league, the defenders are fast and powerful. And the teams play negative football with real brilliance. Only Ibrahimovic and Drogba bossed this league with ease.
Even Drogba didnt boss it, his highest amount of goals was 19.
Surely, you're only saying that because of Aguero's injury problems? Had he stayed fit and played consistently I think only RVP could match him.
He's easily been better than Rooney in fairness.
Can we please put off our glasses? This is just ridiculous. Rooney hasnt been really good for the past 2 seasons, and its so obvious that he has declined. Cant remember the last time he even went past a defender.
I think he will start on the bench. Given the whole 'nervousness after the injury' line I reckon we will ease him in. (I will unashamedly admit that I already have the 'lolololololo' chant stuck in my head!)
Since he arrived at Man City, Aguero has scored 54 goals in the league. Rooney has scored 57. NThe both got 17 goals last season. You'd swear Rooney was no better than Heskey reading this forum.
Got tickets for the QPR game so excited to see his debut. Hopefully we'll see Shaw, Rojo, Blind, Herrera, Falcao and Di Maria along with Rafael who has been a big loss recently.
This! I hate it! Stop calling it a project ffs!
You need to exclude penalties from any goal scoring comparisons.
I'm not big on stats but isn't his minutes to goal ratio the best of all scorers in the PL? He does seem to be injured a lot so that sounds like a great goal return.
And being injured a lot is a good thing?
...Erm what?
No, I don't agree.
A goal every 115 mins I believe.
No he is clearly saying that his goalscoring record is very impressive considering he is quiet injury prone.
Anyone suggesting that Rooney is even on par with Aguero needs their head checked. There is however an argument that RVP is at Aguero's level. Rooney on the other hand? No. Just no.
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