Im red2
Prophet of Doom
You will find that out later.
If we payed 50m for Idrissa Gueye, it would be the same. Was watching him today and they play exactly the same. Which isnt bad, but its not great either. Tbf if you put Gueye in Ukraine he looks amazing so its hard to jusge
Why the feck can't we just buy players, slot them into the team and get results for money spent. How many more 50 mill aquisitions are we taking on board as "squad players" Can't we just admit we're shit on the transfer market!
If we payed 50m for Idrissa Gueye, it would be the same. Was watching him today and they play exactly the same. Which isnt bad, but its not great either. Tbf if you put Gueye in Ukraine he looks amazing so its hard to jusge
Jeez, some people need to calm down. Fred will start against Juve.
Not a clue - to stop City buying him?
I genuinely thought we had a plan for him, that he would slot into a three man midfield, dictating play next to Matic perhaps, with Pogba pushing forward. Instead he has been played further up the pitch in a 'headless chicken' (AKA Park, Lingard) sort of role. Seems perhaps more of competition for Lingard for a defensive right winger than a passing midfielder that I wanted.
Right now he is quite behind in the pecking order.
Makes no sense. Has to be given a game sometime, thats the whole point of easing him in, just because he played a few games still doesnt mean he's fully trusted. See Mkhitaryan
Nah SAF was a god. He would have known that Fred, Mkhitaryan, Bailly, Lindelof etc wouldn't have worked out. So he wouldn't have signed them.
Yeah, very true. Transfer fees are overrated, its the wage bill that is really important.Well, he didn't know that the likes of Obertan, Djemba x 2, Forlan, Veron (very expensive player), etc weren't going to make it, either.
Regardless of who the manager is, some signings work out. Some don't.
What I am against is signing these players on huge salaries, so in the event that they don't work out, we are stuck with them.
What we needed was a player who can dictate midfield. Pogba clearly doesn't have the footballing intelligence to be able to do it (though he certainly has the skill). Fred is just a classic protector/ destroyer CDM but without a third midfield player like Carrick in his prime or Pirlo at Juventus, Pogba is left exposed and Fred just doesn't cut it. If Matic had more range in his passing, we'd be golden...but alas pieces continue to be missing in our midfield.
Because he is stepping up from such an inferiour league. There are so many players that are considered stars in the PL now that did not have the best of starts either: Otamendi, Firmino and even fecking de Bruyne (on his return to the PL) are just a few. He needs this season and one more until we can judge him.
Jose did trust Miki. He eased him in, but in the 2nd season, despite playing him in every match, Miki played badly. Many fans on this forum were asking why Jose is repeatedly playing such a bad player. Soon after, Jose lost patience and gave up on him.
In the case of Fred, people need to understand that he is coming from a very very poor quality league.
He may have cost a lot, but he is a squad player. Unfortunately, in 2018, £50M is about the going rate for a decent player, of good age, with many years left on his contract.
If we payed 50m for Idrissa Gueye, it would be the same. Was watching him today and they play exactly the same. Which isnt bad, but its not great either. Tbf if you put Gueye in Ukraine he looks amazing so its hard to jusge
How can he settle into the team when we constantly change formation and starting XI. If Fred was worth investing that kind of money on, give him a run in the team. Same applies to Sanchez.
Gueye makes the most tackles in the league.
He's not like Fred.
Fred makes the 8th most tackles out of United players who have played more than once this season (9th if we include Darmian with 1 appearance)
Gueye makes over 4 times as many tackles as Fred and exactly twice as many interceptions. But half as many key passes compared to Fred.
So clearly they are very different players.
Mkhitaryan should’ve been left on the bench longer.He's one of Mourinho's usual signings who gets to sit on the bench all year until he fellates him in public or something. See Mkhitaryan in his first season.
I don’t remember that, was it in the MEN?He's one of Mourinho's usual signings who gets to sit on the bench all year until he fellates him in public or something. See Mkhitaryan in his first season.
It s early days for him, still doesn t speak English.