RedDevilCanuck
Quite dreamy - blue eyes, blond hair, tanned skin
We'd still be in Europe.
We are going to sign him back on a free?Selling Fred was like selling Evans
We did that either way. He doesn’t have the energy or dynamism of Fred. Sofiyan is gassed after an hour!Fred isn't good enough to be a starter, and if that's what he wanted then fair enough. But if he was happy to be a squad player, then we downgraded with Amrabat.
He wasn't good enough like many others but he wasn't garbage by any stretch of the imaginationFred was garbage, and should have been sold 2 years ago.
Buying Antony 85 million and snubbing elanga/diallo last season and then selling elanga for like 20 million
Selling fred for 10 million and then buying mount for 60 million and 10 million for amrabat on loan.
Letting de gea go and then shelling out 45 million for butterfingers.
So much money down wasted that has actually made us worse and unlike in the past when a manager would inherit such flops, this is all on ten hag and I didn't even bring up hojlund transfer fee and him being injured half of the time and ten hag snubbing ronaldo as a starter and to think we all thought ronaldo was a big reason why we were struggling in attack and roll on 12 months and we are easily as bad without him supposedly stifling our attack
He wasn't good enough like many others but he wasn't garbage by any stretch of the imagination
Yes, 100%
1. We got peanuts for him anyway. So it would have been better to keep him. letting him walk on a free.
2. We should have focused on selling Mctominay and getting a proper replacement for Casimiro and Eriksen who are a liability. Would planned for life without or beyond Casimiro, Eriksen and Mctominay.
We ended up selling Fred, out all the midfielders wasn't showing his age, or signs that he has lost his legs - Eriksen & Casemiro are finished/washed. Fred was still operating at a high/good level - Not saying his performaces were perfect but, never looked at Fred and thought he can't run or get about anymore. Eriksen & Casemiro were showing those signs last year. Weird that we were so keen to bin off Fred for hardly any money. When we had decent received offers for Mctominay.
Mainoo has been fantastic for us, I think we should use Hannibal more too. Eriksen Mctominay are not good enough midfielders. ETH needs to set-up without them, also Antony. Build his midfield around Mainoo, at least until the reason of the season, because I doubt he is getting money to spend after wasting so much on Mount and Antony.
I think its become clear to everyone that ETH is a tactical mastermind, but he is out of his depth when it comes to buying players for the premier league.
He will win a game with certain combination and then go back to the combination which didn't work for last 20 games hoping it works.Yes tactical mastermind who started his tenure with Mctominay and Eriksen in midfield, realized it didn’t work, panicked and bought Casemiro and then went back to McTominay and Eriksen when needing to win a game, two years later as if he had learned nothing after two years in the job.
Give it time. He'll be back on a free in 5-6 years.Classic example of a player's reputation going up when we are doing shite without him.
Selling Fred was no mistake. Keeping McTom was a mistake.
Neither were ever good enough for Utd.
This is absolutely right, people thinking we should have kept Fred because we're shite, are off the mark. He was poor overall in his time here bar the odd couple games a season. Had we bought a competent replacement and someone who could have started games for us on a regular basis we'd all be pleased.Wasnt good enough and selling was the correct thing, signing Mount and not a replacement for Fred was the clubs downfall.
Yes tactical mastermind who started his tenure with Mctominay and Eriksen in midfield, realized it didn’t work, panicked and bought Casemiro
No, we didn't sell Fred just to keep McTominay. Just being abusive here.We sold Fred to keep the sack of shite named Scott McTominay... WHAT THE F.UCK?!
Fred was never the actual detriment to us regularly challenging for trophies. Anyone saying that just disliked him and had an agenda.Mistake or not, many on here were convinced he was the problem and couldnt wait for him to leave....hes left and nothing has changed.
Not sure why the thread is still going, maybe its a reminder that scapegoating or polarising the issues to individual players isnt it.
Onana is the new 'Fred'.....
Irony being the player is actually playing well without us. So maybe we were the problem.Classic example of a player's reputation going up when we are doing shite without him.
I totally disliked him and had an agenda against him. at times he was the worst standard of footballer to ever be a regular for us. initially I couldn't believe how poor he was but gave that the whole 'he was 50M he'll come good belief ' and he had a likeable personality. but this started changing for me when the smiling fred was smiling from the countless times he lost possession, it actually got unbelievable. only possession stats he had were safe balls back to maguire etc. in the end I couldn't stand his constant hand up apologies every game or actually laughing at himself at times. he should never in this world have earned any money from united let alone the 16M or whatever it was. fans that have believed he was good enough have fallen terribly in their beliefs of what a utd midfielder standards are. So happy he's gone. and doing OK in Turkey doesn't make him Roy keane eitherFred was never the actual detriment to us regularly challenging for trophies. Anyone saying that just disliked him and had an agenda.