Another window goes by and still no world class midfielder. I really though that this would be the window. I just its just the way things will always be.
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) and Jamie (@Vault Dweller) are here to talk about United's dreadful home defeat at the hands of Big Ange's Tottenham Hotspur. Should this have been the end of Ten Hag? How long does he actually have left? And does Nik finally want ETH out?!
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Another window goes by and still no world class midfielder. I really though that this would be the window. I just its just the way things will always be.
Press has obviously been briefed.
We've spent £150+ million so it feels wrong to be disappointed but the defence is still a shambles and the midfield isn't much better.
Yes I am clearly more knowledgeable when they claim the guy is a left back when he has spent all of last season playing as a defensive midfielder. I know clearly more about De Eredivisie than them and Ajax when it is clear they have not spent time watching much of our league, perfectly understandable. Like you, they have seen him played as a left back in the World Cup and wrongly decided that is his position.
Now stop digging yourself a deeper hole because you read some throw away comments from uninformed journalists/pundits on twitter and acted the expert.
Sometimes there's no point trying to explain.
Neville and Scholes know feck all about Blind though. Just because they used to be players doesn't mean they know more then people who actually watch him every week.
This would be my guess also (and I expect he is guessing). The only other signing might be if Lindegaard were allowed to leave, as I can't see Amos being enough to back-up DDG, and Johnstone is still pretty young.
Absurd statement.
Rojo is a center back who can also play left back. He played as a center back for Sporting Lisbon. Blind is a defensive midfielder who can play at left back or center back as a utility player, but last season he was played as a defensive midfielder and really broke through.
Not to worry, mate, it's like I earn a living soliciting concurrance on an internet forum. I know we could have, should have gotten better players than the ones we have gotten bar Di Maria but the thing is that these players all play in roles where we aren't very strong and are all an upgrade on the shower of shit we have endured over the last week. The other thing is don't expect a quick fix to the rot that had sat in at Carrington, some of these players will take ages to move on whilst the likes of Herrera, Blind and Rojo could take months to settle but what we now have is a spine which can be solid immediately and grow into a formidable outfit with time and additions, Rome was not built in a day.
Yey?
Absurd? To say that just because they are ex players doesn't mean that they know everything about everyone? Come on. You can't seriously think that they followed the Eredivisie at all to know where they play, because they clearly didn't if they think left back is Blind's main position. Their extent on knowing about Blind will be if they potentially played against him, or saw him for Ajax against City in the champions league a few years ago, or the world cup. As it is with most people who don't watch the Dutch Eredivisie.
Just because they were professional footballers doesn't make them experts on everyone else. In fact most footballers are awful as pundits.
Why?
I'd expect that aswell.
Can we get a Kickstarter going?
I'm actually sure Scholes admitted today to not knowing much about him.
Very good poacher, comes on at 80th min and scores the winner.
That is what you get Juve, feckin greedy cnuts. We give them Evra and Pogba on a free and they can't let Vidal come because of £5m off valuation. Then they have the cheeck of wanting Hernandez on loan.
You know nothing about what professional players know or don't know. Are you their close friend?
If we don't get Vidal or Carvalho. I still think Schneiderlin would be a good signing
Source? Sounds like bull.
Ok sure I don't know what they would know. It's a pretty safe bet to say that Paul Scholes and Gary Neville focus on the premier league, maybe watch stuff like Madrid, Barca or Bayern now and then. The dutch league though? Come on. There's a chance they might have seen him more then just the world cup or in some random Champions league game, but it's unlikely I'd say.
Apparently Scholes said during the game that he didn't know much about him too so there you go. And when Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher were talking about him on Monday Night Football last week, they were saying stuff about him based on the way Van Gaal used him at the World cup, nothing about how he played for Ajax.
I highly doubt we are haggling over £5 million if they are wiling to sell one of the best midfielders in the world.
Your assuming again.
Read my edit. Scholes apparently said on BT sport today he didn't know much about him and Neville on MNF when talking about him last week only talked about how Van Gaal used him. Ok sure it's an assumption, but do you really think they know much about him? Really? More then somebody who follows the dutch league? No way IMO. If they said he's a left back then they are wrong and show they don't know anything about him. Because he's not. Just like Rojo was only a left back for Argentina.
Just like I am 100% sure I know more about Bosnian players like Pjanic then they do.
How much do you watch Eredivisie, how much of Blind you saw in action?
Do you know that Rojo is actually a CB?
So forget Scholes and Neville how much do you know?
That tweet definitely did come from his account. Maybe he was hacked but seen journos and others saying that they saw the tweet on their timeline.
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I know someone who knows him very well, van Gaal. That should be enough, he definitely knows him better than Scholes and Neville
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I know someone who knows him very well, van Gaal. That should be enough, he definitely knows him better than Scholes and Neville
Is it wrong that I've watched that about 20 times to try and convince myself that's what he was doing?
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