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He’s a smarter player in general. And link up play is crucial is it not? Mctominay runs around like an headless chicken and has no positional awareness.What does VdB have other than off-ball movement and link-up play?
McTominay offers more, it's just controversial to state it right now because we are in a crisis.
I’d never blame the player. Just ridiculous how the club keep ending up in these situationsI think most people would do that if they were in his shoes. He's reportedly earning around €7m p.a. right? Even if he shows great performances there they'd probably offer him around half of that.
I wish he had, to be honest. Nothing wrong with collecting his contractually agreed paychecks, but he'd be off our books by now if he had shown a little more ambition during his time here.Good luck to him. He’s actually a decent guy. Didn’t kick up a fuss despite never starting. Just got on with it. Deserves to be playing somewhere else
But in all honesty the squad has been shambolically managed since Donny's arrival. Ole, Ralf and now Erik...when did our star shine brightly during the tenure of any of those managers apart from Ole's first three months? Never. We've been poor in attack during all three managers, all the while the squad was screaming for both a natural scorer and a creator in tight spaces. We had the natural scorer in Ronaldo but rightly let him go but we never did solve the creator in tight spaces problem. One might say Bruno but Bruno is a long ball merchant, a pretty good one actually, but he misplaces too many passes. Clubs wise to our weakness as a squad play a low block and hit us on the counter (or wait for set pieces) knowing that Bruno is completely ineffective against low block sides, but it's against low block sides where Donny does his best work. Yet there was no chance that Ole, Ralf or Erik was going to field Donny over Bruno for a variety of good reasons, but preferring Bruno has resulted in no recognizable pattern of play -- it's Hollywood ball match after match, and it when it comes off it's a thing of beauty but no one can argue that we've been beautiful to watch on a consistent basis since we brought in Bruno. I'm not a Bruno hater, but as long as we rely on Bruno instead of a more disciplined pass and move attacking midfielder we're going to top out at 4th or 5th in the PL.I wish he had, to be honest. Nothing wrong with collecting his contractually agreed paychecks, but he'd be off our books by now if he had shown a little more ambition during his time here.
Maybe but might not have been, we may just of had another moaning player in the dressing room. Took us forever to get rid of some of the more vocal and deadwood players. Plus it’s not a good attitude so won’t attract many teams.I wish he had, to be honest. Nothing wrong with collecting his contractually agreed paychecks, but he'd be off our books by now if he had shown a little more ambition during his time here.
A Donny amongst the pigeons?
my bad, passcell.I wish we'd bought Jason Mount instead of Mason Mount, probably would have featured more.
Surely close to the end of his contract. Bet we end up selling for around 10 million.Fully expect him to flop in the Bundesleague and he returns 'rejuvenated' ready to rebuild his United career next season (sadly).
Edwin conned Ed.Let’s change that narrative; he never conned anyone. He played football and we bought him
I’m not saying it was Donny’s fault, I replied to someone who was saying Donny conned usEdwin conned Ed.
Hardly Donny’s fault was it?
Him joining us back in next summer would be like new signings for us.Fully expect him to flop in the Bundesleague and he returns 'rejuvenated' ready to rebuild his United career next season (sadly).
Also, our most important player plays in exactly his position and is always available. How was it ever going to work?He was never going to work here. He worked at Ajax as a no.10 who was basically allowed to ghost around until he got into the final third for a goal or key pass. He had Ziyech (creative wide player), de Jong (ball carrying), and Tadic (creative false 9) all who were clearly far too good for the Dutch league doing the heavy lifting. Donny just had to run around and sometimes be in the right spot for a pass.
How a player like that was going to add anything of significant value to the players we had and still have... Still got no idea. I see our latest midfield permanent signing going down a similar route, whenever he does get fit.
Maybe one day we'll stop buying players in a vacuum and have some regard for tactical implementation.
Exactly!I’m not saying it was Donny’s fault, I replied to someone who was saying Donny conned us
Sorry, misunderstoodExactly!
Edit: apologies if I gave that impression.
Aye probablyHe will be released