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Angel Di Maria - PSG Player
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Di Maria is playing like he did at Man Utd, he tries many difficult passes. He's a risk taker and him succeeding at PSG will depend on whether Laurent Blanc encourages his style of football or not.
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I do not think Blanc has a choice in that regard.
Played poorly, missed a simple chance, created little. PSG had an off day, though (Cavani aside).
Caught the second half. AdM was playing just as he had for us in the second half of last season.
Blanc likes to have lots of possession but unlike LVG, he always encourages his creative players to do their thing. Di Maria will be fine. More than anything else, if his head is right so will his performances.
Actually watched the entire game for some reason.
Still doesn't look the player we were supposed to have got when we bought him. Does some nice things, but overall he was pretty poor. I suspect he will come good though.
Still doesn't look the player we were supposed to have got when we bought him. Does some nice things, but overall he was pretty poor. I suspect he will come good though.
I don't get where people get the idea that di Maria was restricted here. He tried a lot of shit and failed 90% of the time and was benched because he was playing shit.
Not restricted as in "don't take the initiative" but his style wasn't appreciated by LVG obviously. He kept changing the formation in order to (rightly) reduce ADM's wastefulness in midfield.
So his miss cost them the win - since they'd have been up 3-1 and ended up drawing 2-2 ... useless git.
I reckon he's finished at the absolute top level. He's always been a inconsistent player and only really had one world class season. He might occasionally hit the heights he reached in 12/13 but, to me, he's just another Nani. No idea why we (and PSG for that matter) paid that much for him.
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Ouch.
Looks like we were lucky we got as much as we did for him, still could come good though.
Pity it didn't work out and that he was a cnut, who doesn't love an exciting player?
Pity it didn't work out and that he was a cnut, who doesn't love an exciting player?
That is not a shocking miss. He hit it on target, on the ground, could easily have gone under the keeper but hit him and went wide. No big deal.
He was poor. PSG in the second half were pretty dire.
It's all part of the process. He needs time to adapt to the philosophy.
Wait, which season is this again?
Wait, which season is this again?
Highly reminiscent of his stats when playing for us.
"Finished.", "Glad hes gone".
Don't worry, he'll do some great things next week and there will be 7 pages of moaning about how we sold a worldy and what a crime it was.
Don't worry, he'll do some great things next week and there will be 7 pages of moaning about how we sold a worldy and what a crime it was.
Where did he play?
No there won't be. He did nothing to make me think he will come good in next season(s), and he was rightly sold. I’m delighted PSG paid so much money for him after such a shit season. The fee we paid was at least justified so I’m not that bothered.
No, we should of got more.
We paid 60m for him a year earlier, he didn't lose 15m value in one season.
He was not worth 60m in the first place.
He was worth 60m for us, but I have no problem with that as I’ve been watching a lot of him in his last season for Madrid. But it never looked like he was capable of being a star player for us.
Never in a million years I’d pay 45m for a player like Di Maria after such a shit season.
It was 2013-2014 where he was world class, but it does look like he's regressed since then.
Sometimes a player will hit a high in their career and can't sustain it. Seems like that happened to Di Maria and he was always inconsistent similar to Nani.
I think we did well getting that kind of money for him after his poor season at United.
But guys, he was man of the match in a champions league final!
Yeah I don't really care all that much about what we got back (which was enough), it was clear he was poorly managed and didn't want to play here under Van Gaal. More the fact that after a bad game the cafties are up and after the first good game he has the cafties will be down again. They're up and down more than a fiddlers wrist.
More than anything, it's Trapp's poor keeping which cost them tonight. Bordeaux were impressive, really deserved the draw.
We were lucky that these donkeys agreed to pay so much for him. Almost as lucky as Madrid were when we bought him.
Jesus are we getting the digs in after one bad game? Pah.
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He actually should have been worth much more after the excellent season at United and being a year older means nothing.
£45m was more than enough. We should have never paid £60m for him in the first place and it's not PSG problem that we did.
Now that's shocking, never ever have the football fans been like this.
I know, but we paid it. So to us that was his worth.
I don't understand this logic, because we overpaid now we must allow PSG to get a fair price ? Makes no sense, we could of used a player in return.
No, if we want to sell him then pretending that what we paid was fair and demanding the same from another club is beyond stupid. It would be like Chelsea turning down £20m for Torres now because they paid £50m or Liverpool demanding £35m from West Ham for Carroll when they sold him. Would that have made sense?
Did those sales take place after one season ?
He wasn't bad enough to have 15m slashed off his value imo, it's just confusing that the club was so willing to ensure a fair price in exchange for de gea yet let di maria go on a loss so easily. I'm not saying the price is shocking, but far from excellent. Some in this thread saying PSG were stupid to pay that money for him, that's a stretch. PSG are laughing are at the fact that they waited a year and got him fora reduced price.
Considering he wasn't replaced I think we should of at least pushed for a player in the deal, similar to how we conducted ourselves with de gea.
He was exactly bad enough to lose 25% of his value. He was terrible last season aside from the first 5-6 games and was a year older, as a player who relies on pace 27-year old is not young. I still cannot believe how people think that we should have got our money back or even make a profit on a player who was very bad here. When has it ever happened?
He was replaced with Depay.
No he wasn't. Long after we signed depay LVG said he wanted di maria to stay when the rumours of him leaving started to gain momentum, he also said that ADM was apart of his plans for this season, when he left louis once again spoke about our lack of pace on the wings and then the pedro saga began.
If anything it's more likely that pedro was his replacement.
Terrible ? He got the highest assists for our whole team, created the most chances ? Purely from a statistical standpoint there were things to justify a higher price. 44M for di maria may be a fair deal but it's not a good deal for utd, it is for psg though.
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