I'd agree with that.
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I said this a few weeks ago, I still believe it, but if we manage to pull it off, it definitely won't be pretty to watch. I predict plenty of De Gea heroics and lumping it to Fellaini.
Our form has been up and down since that Villa draw. We really need to go on a run from now to the Liverpool game and get some momentum back before going into that game and then into a very tough April.
The Leicester game?
If so I agree, that game had everything except a win for us, but these things happen. It's the way we should be playing football and one freak result shouldn't change that.
Yeah, and I suspect it was the game that may have prompted him to rethink his philosophy.
The entire Caf, myself included, has been moaning about the quality of our football for years now. I don't think many people would disagree with him here.
I loved the Leicester game. We got undone by a combination of utterly abysmal refereeing and mental softness: the first penalty was one of the most ridiculous decisions I've ever seen on a football pitch but we shouldn't have collapsed at 3-2 up against a team we carved open at will all afternoon. For that one, I think we can blame the players, it's not LvG who told them to fold and suddenly forget the basics of football.
It all seemed to change after that, our displays went from free flowing to defensive.
I suppose, but you still get some on here who say we are playing well at the moment.
I would expect the majority to agree tbh. We've been horrible to watch for at least three seasons.
Evans, really? I think he is clearly the worst CB we currently have (not including Blackett etc.)
If you had said this 2 years ago I would of agreed but I think he has gone backwards beyond belief this season.
In regards to form, yes Evans is struggling and no doubt we need to invest but in terms of the overall player, I prefer to see Evans there. Yes he makes errors, like any player but Jones just causes more problems for himself and the team than he solves.
With Evans, his passing his good, shocking against Burnley but he has the right intent when passing but with Jones, he will see a player in space or room to play a ball and he will then see Mata surrounded by 3 players and he will decide to dink a ball into him, at no point does it seem any thought process happens with Jones.
And in regards to defending, I feel Evans reads the game far better, Jones is always playing catch up for the same reason as I just mentioned, his brain just doesn't compute anything quick enough.
At the moment though, I accept anyone's opinion on having Jones over Evans though, not for me though.
Jones loves his long balls into the striker. Within the first 30 seconds against Burnley, he tried his first one. What goes on in his head? It's not like we have pacy strikers who will run behind the opposition defense, then why waste possession with a stupid long ball.
That is probably the most infuriating part of Jones game and he's been doing it since he joined the club. Gets the ball looks up and pumps it up the channel half the time he's in possession.
Been waiting 3 years for someone, anyone at the club to tell him he doesn't play for Blackburn any more. The odd punt up field is fine but not every second time you have the ball it's just wasting possession and inviting pressure.
If Falcao is starting and Rooney is in midfield then Fellaini must be played in number 10 to provide some power and hold up play. He'll provide more support for Falcao whereas RvP will keep moving around to receive the ball to feet and play for himself. That said Fellaini should be in midfield and Rooney up front, and Falcao doesn't deserve starts but it's Van Gaal after all 
EDIT: If he does play Rooney up front with Falcao (the most logical call) then that should be the final evaluation of Falcao. If he fails still with a more rounded player in support than there is no chance of him staying.
EDIT: If he does play Rooney up front with Falcao (the most logical call) then that should be the final evaluation of Falcao. If he fails still with a more rounded player in support than there is no chance of him staying.
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If you think judging people is bad, then are you judging people that judges people? If you despise people that judges, then when come full circle you actually become the person you despised?
Dont mind me, carry on...
When did I begun to despise anyone, and at what point did I said that it was bad to judge ?
I think the D is missing a galvanizing figure, seemingly what Vidic used to be and what Terry is to Chelsea. These players are usually CBs. Talent wise we have enough I agree.
Rio Ferdinand was overrated on the ball and underrated defensively.
Agreed.
Had a feeling you'd post it in here too.
Agreed.It all started to head downhill because Mike Phelan left.
Di Maria has basically been either a waste, or wasted on us, for large parts of this season.
That's fact rather than unpopular opinion I'd say.
People are also expecting an awful lot from him, he's playing in a defensive side and he's contributed to that side. I don't believe it's him as a player that's failing but more to do with the system.
A season in the Championship would do Utd no harm.
Elaborate please.
I am a superfan, so I would like to see United on Championship just because it would get rid of the spoilt glory hunters
Our youth program seems more successful at populating other Prem sides with starting players than it does the current United side.
Tis true
You want us to get relegated because you're a super fan? Right.
That's not unpopular that's a fact, a fact explainable by the fact that United is a top team which means that not all players are good enough for United, but these players are still good enough for other PL clubs.
He was sarcastic, I think and hope.
It would certainly call into question whether youth players are a viable way of supplying the starting XI which would be a massive departure from the class of 92 method.
I already said it, the class of 92 was a stroke of luck, you can only count on your youth system for providing squad players, which allow you to concentrate your resources on top players.
I want us to be demoted to League Two to get rid of the gloryhunters that demand Championship football like yourself.
Barcelona, Ajax, Soton say hi.
That stupid FA 90 minute rule had a part to play in that. Didn't they bin it recently?
As you know Dutch football has a very different mentality when it comes to youth player.If McNair came through at Ajax and did what he did he would be called a future star.In England you need to grow your football quickly or people will write you off.
That is true for basically every club.
But not every club sends as many first team players into the rest of the league.
Err...
Can never get rid mate, even with your suggested solution. Let's say United hypothetically gets relegated, it won't last for long and the club will bounce back again bringing in a new evolved breed of glory-hunters on-board. Success inevitably breeds mass following and adulation. Unless you want United to be turn into a mediocre non-factor like Aston Villa just to spite them. In which case I must say you have to introspect your own sense of support and a rather twisted set of priorities.
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