Which former United player do you dislike the most?

Tevez. I'll never forget tuning into Sky Sports News in the summer of 09 to see him being greeted by City fans singing "Carlos Tevez is a blue, he hates munichs". Classless player who signed for a classless club (who were proper shit back then).

But in terms of when they were contracted to United, I disliked Fellaini more than any other player.
 
EverReddy said:
they fall into 2 categories for me - the cnuts and the exasperating players. In the first group:
ince
di maria
heinze (though liked him as a player)
pogba (karma can be satisfying)
sanchez

In the second, in recent years:
lingard
cleverley
sancho
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Why Ckeverley ? An honest, hard-working midfielder who really wasn't good enough but always did his best.
 
Jeffthered said:
Anthony Martial. His sense of ego is something else. The guy has been offloaded by his national team, and every club he has played for.

And he does not give a hoot about any of it.
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Once again, I'll have to ask you: how do you know this?
 
Tevez definitely. Very good player for the team and a fan favourite to the star player of our city rivals. A huge catalyst in the rise of City compounded by that photo after their title win in 2012. It’s still a sore one to this day and it’s doubly saddening that even after all this time he still associates himself with City even though his biggest triumphs of his career were in a United shirt.
 
Has to be that little Argentinian rat Di Maria that went to PSG and gloated like crazy upon his winning return.

Hate the sight of him and Tevez, must be an Argentinian thing
 
lysglimt said:
Why Ckeverley ? An honest, hard-working midfielder who really wasn't good enough but always did his best.
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Because he was exasperating; as you say not good enough. Nothing against him as a person (unlike the names in top list) but was so frustrating when he was playing regularly for us.
 
Ronaldo
Tevez
Heinze
Pogba
Sancho
Greenwood
Morrison
Di Maria
Lukaku

In no particular order except Ronaldo a clear number 1.
 
Tevez by a light year. Doesn’t even come close. That sign he was so happy to hold above his head is the single most obnoxious gesture by a former player.

The rest are pretty much “meh” in comparison. And I can’t single out the likes of Di Maria and the rest of the annoying post-SAF signings, we were a circus, and any respectable circus has its clowns.
 
Ronaldo. Pompous, preening, selfish primadona. Distespected the club. Fantastic goalscorer, overrated by fanboys in other aspects of his play, underrated by his haters in those same aspects.

Giggs: a hypocrite. Dispecable human being.
 
Ronaldo - Narcissm personified. Never gave a shit about the club and then proceeded to take a shit all over the club when his fragile ego couldn't handle being a bench player.

Lingard - for a period of time one of the most overrated footballers I can recall playing for Utd. Coupled with him behaving like a juvenile cretin throughout his time here; exemplified by that West Ham bus incident. Embarrassing he racked up so many appearances at this club.
 
Rio.
Invited cameras into his house for a documentary while his kids were grieving their recently deceased mam, and seems a bit of a narcissistic idiot.

Neville.
Just an idiot who doesn't realise he is one and seems to have to have a strong opinion on every subject regardless of actual knowledge.

Both great players and legends of the club and I don't care what players are like outside of the green rectangle but it's hard to ignore these two as they seem to be everywhere and the more I see of them the more I think I wouldn't be a fan of them as people
 
Always amazes me how personally people seem to take Giggs’ wrongdoing with regards his brother, and to group him with others such as Ronaldo and Greenwood, who have been accused of rape/attempted rape is just insane.

I also think that what Yorke has done re: his son is worse.

But I will admit that Giggs was my favourite player so maybe that plays a part in my apathy towards his affair.
 
Gabriel Djemba-Bebe said:
Tevez. I'll never forget tuning into Sky Sports News in the summer of 09 to see him being greeted by City fans singing "Carlos Tevez is a blue, he hates munichs". Classless player who signed for a classless club (who were proper shit back then).

But in terms of when they were contracted to United, I disliked Fellaini more than any other player.
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What a fecking disgusting group of people. Honestly. I remember on YouTube back in the 2010s where you had people creating YouTube accounts simply to mock the victims of the Munich air disaster with names like “8 scum pigs” or “8 Munich bastards”. Absolutely sickening.
Dearg hÉireann said:
Has to be that little Argentinian rat Di Maria that went to PSG and gloated like crazy upon his winning return.

Hate the sight of him and Tevez, must be an Argentinian thing
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We haven’t had much luck with Argentine players. Di María and Tévez are cnuts, and Heinze was a bit of a prick as well. Verón and Rojo didn’t work out amazingly (although not awfully). Thankfully Garnacho seems to be bucking the trend, and of course Martínez is a great player (although has become injury prone).
 
Is there anyone who's posted in this thread that actually goes to United games regularly?
 
EverReddy said:
Because he was exasperating; as you say not good enough. Nothing against him as a person (unlike the names in top list) but was so frustrating when he was playing regularly for us.
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Yes but we have had tens of players like him what was so special about Cleverley ? Well anyway - I will never dislike a player for not being good enough as long as he does his best - I much more dislike a player who is good but doesn't try 100%
 
jimmyb2000 said:
Is there anyone who's posted in this thread that actually goes to United games regularly?
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Yes - but maybe part of the problem is that many of the players who are despised today, had everything going for them. Like Ince, Heinze, Tevez - they were playing for a team that was fighting for the title every year - and still did what they did.
 
Unpopular opinion. Roy Keane. As a former sportsman i simply cannot accept the fact that someone causes injury to an another player intentionally whatever happened before.
 
Before 2013, just Heinze and Tevez really.

After 2013 it's at least Pogba, Lukaku, Di Maria, Sanchez, Zaha.
 
Alexis Sanchez, he went from being a top player to a disgrace and had the guts to blame the club for his poor performance.
 
Richardson - always seemed an idiot and the odd one out when here.

Henderson. Head up his arse and the source of so many leaks

The other more known ones I can accept. They actually won things. Pogba was a shitshow though. It was like having Raiola at the club really.
 
Tomtattoo said:
Unpopular opinion. Roy Keane. As a former sportsman i simply cannot accept the fact that someone causes injury to an another player intentionally whatever happened before.
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You kind of right. But he could kick my mother I'd still couldn't really hold a grudge against him.
 
youngrell said:
Always amazes me how personally people seem to take Giggs’ wrongdoing with regards his brother, and to group him with others such as Ronaldo and Greenwood, who have been accused of rape/attempted rape is just insane.

I also think that what Yorke has done re: his son is worse.

But I will admit that Giggs was my favourite player so maybe that plays a part in my apathy towards his affair.
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This isn't the only potential issue with Giggs. He has been accused (and taken to court) for domestic abuse. The case has been dropped so he's innocent in the eyes of the law but the practice of such cases is usually a bit more complicated, sadly.
 
harms said:
This isn't the only potential issue with Giggs. He has been accused (and taken to court) for domestic abuse. The case has been dropped so he's innocent in the eyes of the law but the practice of such cases is usually a bit more complicated, sadly.
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Yeah, well aware of that, but in my experience they are more concerned with the affair. The hatred was well in motion before the recent court case.
 
I’m surprised so many people are choosing Ronaldo.

Whilst I agree his second spell tarnished his legacy, he was sensational in his first spell. We all knew he wanted to play for RM, and he gave us some brilliant, entertaining years and good coin when he left. For me, that anverages out his second spell.

Di Maria gets my vote. He never wanted to leave RM, and looked for the first excuse to force an exit from United. Continues to bad mouth the club to this day.
 
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jimmyb2000 said:
Is there anyone who's posted in this thread that actually goes to United games regularly?
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You could say that about most of the threads. We're a global club after all.

But don't take the match day fans as the barometer always. They'd probably still be clapping Moyesie on in league 1.
 
youngrell said:
Yeah, well aware of that, but in my experience they are more concerned with the affair. The hatred was well in motion before the recent court case.
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Also a bit weird given how other players affairs are overlooked and how rampant infidelity is in society. Can't think of anyone from my social group or work group who hasn't been cheated on, cheated, or both.

I mean, by all reports Rio was shagging around while his wife was dying from cancer, no-one cares.
 
Tomtattoo said:
Unpopular opinion. Roy Keane. As a former sportsman i simply cannot accept the fact that someone causes injury to an another player intentionally whatever happened before.
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What about Rooney? He's admitted to that. " “I always wore the old plastic studs with the metal tip and for that game I changed into big, long metal ones, the maximum length you could have because I wanted to try to hurt someone, to try to injure someone,”

It's very, very common in football for players to go into a game with the intention of hurting an opponent.
 
Jeffthered said:
Anthony Martial. His sense of ego is something else. The guy has been offloaded by his national team, and every club he has played for.

And he does not give a hoot about any of it.
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I find takes like this interesting. How do you know what he thinks? Plus is problems are injuries more than anything else.
 
Ronaldo. Shat on the legacy he had at this club, embarrassed us and himself with his behaviour. What a mistake bringing him back was.
 
We have a lot of former players in the media so there is a lot to dislike, the more you see people the more you have to dislike.

Giggs is probably number 1, but I don't like Rooney as a person, Neville is very disingenuous and political, Ole can't take accountability, throws people under the bus and comes off like a weasel. I'm sure Ole isn't a bad dude as no one has anything bad to say about his character, it's just how he comes across to me. But then again, you have to question someone's authenticity when no one has anything bad to say about you.

To switch things to make them more positive. I really like Valencia, Keane, Vidic, Schweinsteiger, and Nani seems like a fun dude. I like Ronaldo, he did not shit on the legacy of the club like some of the cool-aid drinkers have suggested, he just held the club to a standard and highlighted the club couldn't stand up to any sort of elite level like we claim it does. Some people coddle things they love to protect them and their image of them, and others criticise them because they want to make them better.

If we're going to add a cringe category then it's Rio, Foster and Evra.
 
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Why Evra?
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Frank Grimes said:
That's a mental one, he's bordering on legend status.:lol:

Must be a wind up.
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Waynne said:
No white text? :nervous:
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The guy is a moronic twat, playing for a certain football team doesn’t mean I have to like someone.

I’ve had the pleasure of meeting him professionally a few times and he’s exactly the type of idiot I always assumed him to be.

Whether it’s the disgraceful way he cheated on his wife and ditched his family, his homophobic comments, or his general moronic childishness to cry as a pundit or the weird chicken video or the chicken in his boots. The whining about leaving United, his general shit performances at the end of his time here.

The list can go on and on. But really, his general man child behaviour is just frankly rather dislikable.

Louis Saha on the other hand, is a total gentleman professionally.
 
Barthez
Mark Hughes
Sheringham
Tevez
Ronaldo
Pogba
Di Maria
Lingard
Hopefully Sancho soon
 
harms said:
This isn't the only potential issue with Giggs. He has been accused (and taken to court) for domestic abuse. The case has been dropped so he's innocent in the eyes of the law but the practice of such cases is usually a bit more complicated, sadly.
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Greenwood we have voice recording, Ronaldo was compensation for his false allegations, but Giggs is more about his actions, and his defence is disturbing.

"Look at what these other guys did" isn't a good argument and is a questionable way to look at these things. His character should be looked at. Giggs as a whole seems like an asshole when you listen to stories about him along with the way he treated his prisoner.
 
limerickcitykid said:
The guy is a moronic twat, playing for a certain football team doesn’t mean I have to like someone.

I’ve had the pleasure of meeting him professionally a few times and he’s exactly the type of idiot I always assumed him to be.

Whether it’s the disgraceful way he cheated on his wife and ditched his family, his homophobic comments, or his general moronic childishness to cry as a pundit or the weird chicken video or the chicken in his boots. The whining about leaving United, his general shit performances at the end of his time here.

The list can go on and on. But really, his general man child behaviour is just frankly rather dislikable.

Louis Saha on the other hand, is a total gentleman professionally.
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Chicken in his boots?
 
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