I feel LVG doesnt really like Shaw that much.
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Watching Shaw warming up, he looks very out of shape. I know big build, but he looks like he has to train a lot to keep the weight off.
Our current set-up will leave us too open against the stronger teams
Rooney's day is numbered. You hear it first
Was the Ronaldo money always there?
IMO Pereira is a bigger talent than Januzaj.
Hardly unpopular. Think it's quite obvious that we need to be more compact in big games and that will probably be Mata dropping out for another CM and Rooney and Di Maria playing wide.
I reckon we could easily just swap Mata for Carrick and have Carrick holding with Blind/Herrera either side and Di Maria at the tip. I think though that as we get more used to the system we will get naturally better defensively as players will understand better when to push up etc. Plus it's been a while since teams have really need to fear us, if Di Maria keeps going as he is then even the big teams will be wary of our threat on the counter which will help us cope defensively if they're not so willing to be as attacking.
I think this might be too unpopular even for this thread but I really dont want us to sign Ronaldo. Its nothing to do with him having left us and given his best years to a team I despise. Or any resentment about the manner of him leaving (in retrospect his conduct was exemplary). Its just the salary he would be demanding (I appreciate the 500K a week figure is probably nonsense but it would be a huge salary I presume, considerably more than we pay the likes of Rooney and RVP) for a player past his peak... I cant muster any enthusiasm about it. If he loves us so much he could come back without bending us over the kitchen table to do it, and if he did come back for a mere mortal's salary Id be on board. But everyone says he will be at the top for another four years or so, I am not so sure. He'll probably be very good in four years but not that good.
At the end of the day if he did come back Im sure he would prove me wrong and be fantastic and Id happily eat my words. It just feels if we signed Ronaldo we'd either be doing it for sentimental reasons (prodigal son returns) or commercial reasons (look at us, (second)BPITW comes to United, sponsors happy, let's sell some shirts). Its just all a bit too Van Gaalacticos for me. Id rather we were identifying the next Ronaldo. Id rather we helped turn Januzaj (or some other young prospect) into a player Madrid were fawning over, rather than dreaming about the past which is gone and wont ever come back.
At the end of the day if he did come back Im sure he would prove me wrong and be fantastic and Id happily eat my words. It just feels if we signed Ronaldo we'd either be doing it for sentimental reasons (prodigal son returns) or commercial reasons (look at us, (second)BPITW comes to United, sponsors happy, let's sell some shirts). Its just all a bit too Van Gaalacticos for me. Id rather we were identifying the next Ronaldo. Id rather we helped turn Januzaj (or some other young prospect) into a player Madrid were fawning over, rather than dreaming about the past which is gone and wont ever come back.
Out of curiosity, why do you think that ?
I am the same. I also just think, when LvG goes, our next manager would be (in this scenario) left with a 34 year old RvP, a 33 year old Ronaldo and a 32 year old Rooney. It just doesn't seem like the long-term, youth revolving style that van Gaal has.
LvG isn't the biggest fan of Shaw or Carrick and doesn't rate Rafael
I don't think our need for a international class CB will be as apparent come January, when our defence has a regular midfield and stability, Jones/Smalling, Evans & Rojo will hold it down.
Januzaj won't thrive here, but will be thrown on, so as not to accuse LVG of ignoring youth
I don't think our need for a international class CB will be as apparent come January, when our defence has a regular midfield and stability, Jones/Smalling, Evans & Rojo will hold it down.
Januzaj won't thrive here, but will be thrown on, so as not to accuse LVG of ignoring youth
Luke Shaw ate Michael Carrick upon arrival
I'm not too sure you know who LVG is.
Herrera's performance against QPR has been hugely overrated and has put undue expectation on him.
100% sure I do, he favours youth I understand, but for a few attacking positions, 3 or 4, I can'#t see Januzaj getting that many minutes..
I can also see Januzaj struggling to get into the starting eleven but there's no way LVG is just going to play him just to prove a point.
Are you shaw of that?
That isn't an unpopular opinion, it's just a total guess.
An educated guess Id say.
A poorly educated guess, in view of LvG's comments on Carrick in pre-season.
How can you say he doesn't rate Rafael when he has been injured all season? First time he's fit and he plays him.
Januzaj is fine. He's Di Maria and Mata's backup.
And on Shaw recently.
I disagree with his comment about Carrick and have no idea about Rafael but to me there is evidence he isnt mad about Shaw.
Signing Rojo and Blind? Or the comments about his fitness?
I'm not sure either situation necessarily means he doesn't rate Shaw.
Didn't he heavily defend Shaw, and have quite a go at Hodgson, in a recent press conference? He's also talked up Carrick a good few times.
We now have the strongest first 11 in the league when all our players are fit.
He did indeed. In quite impromptu fashion as well.
Shaw is still a teenager and his talent and application isn't in any question at all, unlike Zaha for example. He will get his chance sooner or later.
They don't. Signing a left footed CB was always on his agenda, he has spoke countless times about how he likes the balance of a left footer and a right footer as his CB's. Blind is also a holding midfielder whose best performances have come from DM. They can provide competition but once Shaw is back to match fitness he'll be our LB, I'm pretty sure. He also, as somebody mentioned defended him against Hodgson comments. I think when he did say what he said about Shaw, he didn't expect it to be picked up on as much. There was huge kerfuffle over a pretty throwaway comment. In my eyes, at least.
My own (possibly) unpopular opinion: If one of our strikers starts hitting their peak goalscoring form, we'll finish 2nd, at least.
Both, and no its not conclusive proof, but it is evidence, of which there is precious little at this stage. Within a few weeks we might have more evidence on the other side to counterbalance it, but at this stage the only things we have seen are negative.
For all his loadzamoney spending this summer, I just can't see him signing off on that kind of fee for a teenager unless he rates him very highly indeed.
Chelsea do.
Jones and Smalling are too injury prone and haven't progressed as most had envisaged, to be seen as long term options for us. Jones is also very overrated around here.
Chelsea are ridiculously solid across the park and are a classic Mourinho machine by the looks of it but I'm not sure that individually they are number 1. That could be what he meant. Of course the team matters most.
Fletcher would flourish in the system we are currently playing, supported by Herrera and Di Maria, and could still put in a performance similar to that of Blind's at the weekend. He's getting a rough ride on the Caf at the moment.
I did mean that. We seem to be moving towards Blind-Herrera-Di Maria midfield trio which is a brilliant three to have and would compete against their midfield 3 easily and may even better them and our attack is as good as theirs and with our players settling in I would say we will have a more potent and diverse attack than them. Their defense is obviously more solid but come to think of it, we have conceded less than them in our opening 4 league fixtures so even that is not as clear cut as it may seem.
It might not really be that much of an unpopular opinion but Sterling is the most exciting English talent since teenage Rooney, and possibly the best young talent in Europe. I'm gutted he plays for the scouse considering he grew up a United fan.
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