I know it's a thing that people on the caf seem to do, but I'm genuinely quite surprised by the diminishing/history rewriting that's going on with Valencia today around this forum
Selling Fellaini was a mistake
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I know it's a thing that people on the caf seem to do, but I'm genuinely quite surprised by the diminishing/history rewriting that's going on with Valencia today around this forum
Our mediocrity started with his transfer and let us hope it ended with his sale.
Selling Fellaini was not a mistake. Not bringing another midfielder in to replace him was.
Agree. A midfielder should have been brought in for Fellaini in January. This could come back to haunt us with missing out on top 4.
The thing that I don't get is that we are doing well in terms of result and performances, in fact we are far better since Ole froze him out and sold him. So I don't really see where the idea of a mistake starts.
Couldn’t be looking at Fellaini now playing game after game because of injuries I’d take Pereira and Scott any day.
We are having our best run of form in nearly a decade and people think this thread makes sense.
So would I mate, but adding another experienced midfielder who could slot in when injuries occur would have been nice. I just hope that it doesn't do us harm. 10 games to go and we have to win the Majority of these games to get that Champions League spot without 2 of our best midfielders for 3/4 of these games.
It's quite straightforward, everything was going tickety-boo, then PSG got our number and we looked totally lost for ideas, at that time having Fellani available to come on and mix things up would've been better than what we had on the bench.
I think the thread is just a wind-up, but there's a lot of truth in it.
I think £50m Fred should be slotting in with ease. Whereas Jose used Fellaini instead. It’s a lot of money, surely there’s some value in him.
There is no truth in it, it's an opinion that ignores the years of abject football and total failure that the "Fellaini option" took part in. We lost against a pretty good team and a distinctly average player was unlikely to be THE answer.
Spot on.
Especially for a player who moved to China
Can you imagine how terrible he would look trying to play the kind of football we are playing now?
It would just be humiliating for him as he simply isnt good enough to do it, he has been shipped out for a reason, that reason being he has no place in this team going forward.
It would just be humiliating for him as he simply isnt good enough to do it, he has been shipped out for a reason, that reason being he has no place in this team going forward.
No, it wasn't.
This. He was never good enough for United.
Don't sit on the fence, do you agree or not ?
Isn't it obvious that I totally disagree with the idea that it was a mistake?
I would agree. Still one can appreciate him trying his best as a RB. For a stretch he was good there
Agree with this
I can't imagine what people think he'd be doing thats so great against that PSG midfield - he'd be chasing shadows. Or do they want him to come on so we can pump long balls to him? That tactic barely ever worked in years.
Nope the big mistake was swapping Miki for Sanchez..
Just reading the thread title is annoying. What is the point of this thread being active?
Or, alternatively, just keep him until the summer, then sell him and find a replacement. There was need to rush selling him in late January.
Unless they didnt think they were going to get thst kind of offer for him in the summer.
This was the first time in the five and half years he had been here a club had put a cash on the table offer for him, as such we had to take it.
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Can't believe a single fan misses him. Never was a United player and Ole did well to get him out ASAP.
Another reason why Ole needs to get the job. Kicks out the crap players, Valencia next
one thing that separates Ole from the last three managers is he knows how United should attempt to play. The fact that the other three saw him as a valuable player was a detriment to them and showed why they wouldn't have too much success here.
And this is why I trust him also in the summer transfer window
Made even funnier given Ole has only dropped points in three games since being here. But what we really obviously need is Fellaini to punt long balls at when we go behind... how about y'know we actually stick to our principals and try and play through a team using skill and quality rather than playing like fecking Stoke City of old.
it should help, yeah. Hopefully it does anyway!
Exactly!
Some had you thinking we wouldn't survive without him. That we couldn't mount comebacks without him. Even though hoofing it to him rarely worked and, prior to his signing, we coped without such a player for, well, our entire history as a club.
Ole did brilliantly to get rid as soon as.
Have you seen Belgium play over the last 7 or 8 years with Fellaini a key part of it, obviously not....
Every time I see this thread get bumped the shudder nearly breaks my neck.
Can imagine there were a few who had their pre-written posts on standby.
Can imagine there were a few who had their pre-written posts on standby.
Turns out we can grab late winners without resorting to hoofball and a 6.5ft weapon, who knew..
And they haven't won anything have they. Probably the biggest wasted 'golden' generation since the English. Fellaini is just not good enough for a club of our ambition.
He's so good that he ended up in China.
Buying him was the first mistake. Selling him in January was the second mistake. Fellaini has his uses when most other options don't work otherwise he would not be playing for Belgium.
I agree with others who say we should have kept him till summer, then get a replacement and sold him.
Fellaini in midfield was a disaster. Push him up into the opposite box and put high balls in and he creates problems for the opponent.
He may not score but in these situations he creates opportunities for other players.
I agree with others who say we should have kept him till summer, then get a replacement and sold him.
Fellaini in midfield was a disaster. Push him up into the opposite box and put high balls in and he creates problems for the opponent.
He may not score but in these situations he creates opportunities for other players.
Two mistakes make a right, ya know!
In all seriousness, selling Fellaini is hopefully the first step of our evolution. After Sir Alex, we had regressed in some aspects of the game, and this was a must move for our game to change. Don't get me wrong, Fella has his uses, he is a great plan B. But, first and foremost, we need to have a strong plan A, which should be line with modern tactics based on possession and pressing. We couldn't afford to keep going back to such a plan B like LVG and Jose kept doing, which in turn affected their plan A and ultimately brought their time here to an end. Now, we need our plan A to be strong enough against the top teams to not rely upon players like Fellaini, which I feel is starting to happen under Ole. Hope this makes sense.
That's the thing though, he wasn't a "great" plan B. Hoofing the ball to him barely ever worked.
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