Fellaini's best moments

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I will continue to find it bizarre that we let him go without getting any replacements. I hated that we didn't have a plan A under Mourinho, but there is no doubt that more often than not he was an effective plan B.

Here's hoping the youth academy gives us a replacement.
Most Club's Plan C is to push your CB upfront as an extra striker, Vidic did that once for us. Plan B is typically another striking option, and Long Ball inside the Box is really our Plan C. Exercising Plan C from the bench is an expensive option which you may or may not have the quota.

But otherwise great contribution from Fellaini.
 

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Erm do you know how to read?

Let me break it to you then

"I've been over the moon for the past 2 months or so" - which means I was happy since Ole was signed and prior to Fellaini leaving

"especially yesterday" - ie I found out that one of our top players signed a new contract + one of the worst players is leaving

You might not notice but one of the first things that our club legend, who won eight games of footy at a row did was selling Fellaini. That speaks volumes about how good the player is.
Martial didn’t sign a new contract yesterday.

I’ve read your post exactly how you meant it so sound. You were happy with United, but the happiest when we sold a player. A player who has scored important goals for us, was immense in a European final and never spoke badly about the club.

Since you’ve been posting I’ve seen you call Carrick - “carsick”. You called O’Shea ‘O’Shit’. You have insulted Berbatov and Fellaini. You had a notorious dislike for Neville and Charlton.

Look at this post about Giggs, Ferguson and Charlton FFS

“The only good thing about getting Giggs will be that if he also fails then the old guys will probably leave with him. It would be about time too. Considering SAF's and Charlton's age we will pretty soon start delivering adult nappies in the board room”

In one post you belittle Giggs, Ferguson and Charlton. The three biggest legends of our club.

Again you derive pleasure from seeing us getting rid of players. Apparently moreso than when we actually fecking win games.

Your attitude in this thread has just reminded me of how many cretins we have in our fan base. A fan who can’t even be thankful for the players who try their hardest. A fan who can’t resist having sly digs at players who have done everything they could to win trophies. A fan who has no romantic or strong feelings for the club, who won’t sit and watch a game because he needs to multitask, but a fan who thinks it’s ok to constantly hurl abuse and vitriol towards his own club.
 

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Martial didn’t sign a new contract yesterday.

I’ve read your post exactly how you meant it so sound. You were happy with United, but the happiest when we sold a player. A player who has scored important goals for us, was immense in a European final and never spoke badly about the club.

Since you’ve been posting I’ve seen you call Carrick - “carsick”. You called O’Shea ‘O’Shit’. You have insulted Berbatov and Fellaini. You had a notorious dislike for Neville and Charlton.

Look at this post about Giggs, Ferguson and Charlton FFS

“The only good thing about getting Giggs will be that if he also fails then the old guys will probably leave with him. It would be about time too. Considering SAF's and Charlton's age we will pretty soon start delivering adult nappies in the board room”

In one post you belittle Giggs, Ferguson and Charlton. The three biggest legends of our club.

Again you derive pleasure from seeing us getting rid of players. Apparently moreso than when we actually fecking win games.

Your attitude in this thread has just reminded me of how many cretins we have in our fan base. A fan who can’t even be thankful for the players who try their hardest. A fan who can’t resist having sly digs at players who have done everything they could to win trophies. A fan who has no romantic or strong feelings for the club, who won’t sit and watch a game because he needs to multitask, but a fan who thinks it’s ok to constantly hurl abuse and vitriol towards his own club.
We're heading to the right direction by playing like Manchester United should do and selling those who can't. Meanwhile our top players whom, up not long ago, were planning to leave are committing themselves to the club. For someone who only cares about Manchester United (not the players, not the board, not the coaching staff, not the former people who worked at the club) but Manchester United these are happy days.

I am not a top red like yourself and while I can respect people and I will always give praise when deserved, I won't shy away from criticising when I feel its due. I think United are the perfect money machine but is structurally weak on the football side of the board, that Berbatov was a luxury signing, that OShea was average (although compared to Fellaini he was Messi), that Neville is one of the most committed players we had during SAF's era but he's also an average pundit and a shit manager, that Giggs was a wonderful player but an average manager and a horrible human being that Sir Alex left a weak side.

I also believe that we need to develop the football side of the club as its clear that two 70 year old + catering for that part of the club all by themselves is not good enough. If you analyse what happened as late it kinds of vindicated what I said although I did got some things wrong (ex supporting us signing Mourinho)

Yes I derive pleasure from getting rid of the deadwood especially when it gets past their expiry date, I am able to multitask and while I love the club I don't get romantic or have strong feelings towards a squad made up of 23 men. I have a wife to be romantic to and a daughter whom I have very strong feelings for. Although I accept that other people may have different tastes and I hope your strong romantic feelings will one day be reciprocated.

So now that I have been discussed for long enough can we return to subject? Are you angry that you opened a thread about a very average player and most aren't backing you up? Let me stress on this.
You might not notice but one of the first things that our club legend, who won eight games of footy at a row did was selling Fellaini. That speaks volumes about how good the player is.

 
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I just looked through all his goals for United, at least 50% of them were assisted by a lobbed cutback cross to the far post by Young :lol:
 

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Had to double check who'd started this thread. The guy who was anti mourinho from the off, despite on paper being a fine appointment and a decent first couple of seasons.

Then championing a player we all knew should never have come here and did phenomally well to stay so long.

I always supported him when he played. I quite liked having a hard man in there at times and some aerial threat.
Probably not enough at a united level team though.
 

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Best moment for me has to be when he was sold to a Chinese club for £10m. Such a highlight.
 

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Had to double check who'd started this thread. The guy who was anti mourinho from the off, despite on paper being a fine appointment and a decent first couple of seasons.

Then championing a player we all knew should never have come here and did phenomally well to stay so long.

I always supported him when he played. I quite liked having a hard man in there at times and some aerial threat.
Probably not enough at a united level team though.
Tbf wumms was spot on regards mou. Kudos on that
 

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Martial didn’t sign a new contract yesterday.

I’ve read your post exactly how you meant it so sound. You were happy with United, but the happiest when we sold a player. A player who has scored important goals for us, was immense in a European final and never spoke badly about the club.

Since you’ve been posting I’ve seen you call Carrick - “carsick”. You called O’Shea ‘O’Shit’. You have insulted Berbatov and Fellaini. You had a notorious dislike for Neville and Charlton.

Look at this post about Giggs, Ferguson and Charlton FFS

“The only good thing about getting Giggs will be that if he also fails then the old guys will probably leave with him. It would be about time too. Considering SAF's and Charlton's age we will pretty soon start delivering adult nappies in the board room”

In one post you belittle Giggs, Ferguson and Charlton. The three biggest legends of our club.

Again you derive pleasure from seeing us getting rid of players. Apparently moreso than when we actually fecking win games.

Your attitude in this thread has just reminded me of how many cretins we have in our fan base. A fan who can’t even be thankful for the players who try their hardest. A fan who can’t resist having sly digs at players who have done everything they could to win trophies. A fan who has no romantic or strong feelings for the club, who won’t sit and watch a game because he needs to multitask, but a fan who thinks it’s ok to constantly hurl abuse and vitriol towards his own club.
Good post. The first thought I had when reading devilish' contrary dementor-post was "How low can you actually go?"
 

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Probably this, we've some absolute scrotes "supporting" our club.

He was booed by our own supporters moments before this goal. Shut them the hell up pretty quickly.

 

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Martial didn’t sign a new contract yesterday.

I’ve read your post exactly how you meant it so sound. You were happy with United, but the happiest when we sold a player. A player who has scored important goals for us, was immense in a European final and never spoke badly about the club.

Since you’ve been posting I’ve seen you call Carrick - “carsick”. You called O’Shea ‘O’Shit’. You have insulted Berbatov and Fellaini. You had a notorious dislike for Neville and Charlton.

Look at this post about Giggs, Ferguson and Charlton FFS

“The only good thing about getting Giggs will be that if he also fails then the old guys will probably leave with him. It would be about time too. Considering SAF's and Charlton's age we will pretty soon start delivering adult nappies in the board room”

In one post you belittle Giggs, Ferguson and Charlton. The three biggest legends of our club.

Again you derive pleasure from seeing us getting rid of players. Apparently moreso than when we actually fecking win games.

Your attitude in this thread has just reminded me of how many cretins we have in our fan base. A fan who can’t even be thankful for the players who try their hardest. A fan who can’t resist having sly digs at players who have done everything they could to win trophies. A fan who has no romantic or strong feelings for the club, who won’t sit and watch a game because he needs to multitask, but a fan who thinks it’s ok to constantly hurl abuse and vitriol towards his own club.
You're the sort of person who is more concerned with looking like a "proper" supporter, and belittling others, than you are about what is actually best for United. So it's difficult to take you seriously. You wanted David Moyes to be given more time; not because he was good for United, but so you could tell everyone that you were a great supporter. Everything you say revolves around being a good/bad supporter, that's all you seem to care about. You rarely talk about what is good for United and the clubs future, or show any interest in seeing us improve as a team, which is weird considering you constantly remind us of how you love the club more than the rest of us.
 

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Great post. Unfortunately most here are posts with videos of his fouls and some lazy jokes about him leaving.
Bit of an exaggeration mate there were about 4-6 negative posts in the 100 posts before yours.
 

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Well get out of a thread that is thanking him for his good work for Man United and use the ample forum threads to criticise him then.
To be fair mate you seem to have did as much or more than anyone else to generate negative posts in reply to yours and derail your own thread.
 

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If he wasn’t linked to the moyes era and loved by Mourinho I think he would have been appreciated a bit more.

He was never going to be a scholes. But in the right moment he could turn a match and give us the momentum we need at the end of a match.

Probably for the best he’s moved on now but we will miss his aerial presence in certain matches.
 

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My best memories of him are from spring 2015. Everyone remembers how good Carrick, Herrera and Juan were during that period but forget that fellaini was crucial too. We used him to avoid city and Liverpools press, he would control the ball with his chest and lay it off to our forwards. I remember in the city game Toure who was still an attacking force was sent to mark the big fella thus rendering Toure useless in an attacking sense
 

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Nah, we're just more than one person on this forum who are a bit tired of chronic pedantic posts. Surely you can do better than these uncalled for negative posts.
Weird i always thought you were the same person
 

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Seems to have been hugely popular with the other players. Lots of nice messages on social media.
 

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Impact player coming of the bench either to try and nick a goal with his height or stick him deep in midfield trying to preserve a one goal lead.I used to cringe when i seen his name in the starting line up. Far too static and slow for the modern game,nearly always played the safe sideways or backwards pass,saying that I wish him well a good professional,never ironed any dirty washing in public and pulled us out of the shit once or twice.
 
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He always worked hard for the team, one of the few who really did it the last time under Mourinho. A very sympathetic person, not for the opponents and his critics of course, but for us others. He deserves to be appreciated for what he has contributed to the club. Good luck in China!
 

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I really enjoyed hearing that he was heading to China
 

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First of all, I feel like I shouldn’t need to clarify this, but can we please keep ANY negative comments out of this thread. There’s lots of the forum for that.


Here's an old thread I did that I just enjoyed going back through.
https://www.redcafe.net/threads/rafaels-best-moments.407537/

I would like to do this for a few players who leave us. Just thinking of how they helped us.

I always liked this goal. It summed up our Marouane. It was surprisingly technical, but just looked awkward.


Fellaini made 106 full appearances, was a sub 71 times and scored 22 goals for United over his career here. He made more league appearances for the club than Rafael, Paul Ince and Berbatov. He is roughly twenty league appearances behind Evans and Park. He scored more Premier League goals for the club than Forlan, Bruce, O'Shea and is currently level with Herrera and Smalling.

What are your fondest memories?
That was his first goal for us. He also changed the game when came on at half time. Think it was the same game where for some reason LVG played Herrera despite him havin broken ribs, then dropped him for months because he played like someone with broken ribs.

Fellaini was a good player when we used him properly and I find it a bit weird him going to China. There'd have been PL clubs interested. My favourite moment was when he was booed as he came on in pre-season, then scored a winner in the last minute.

To bo fair to the tree man, he did have a knack of cropping up with goals at crucial times. Or failing that, he'd at least liven up the game by trying to get sent off.
 

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That was his first goal for us. He also changed the game when came on at half time. Think it was the same game where for some reason LVG played Herrera despite him havin broken ribs, then dropped him for months because he played like someone with broken ribs.

Fellaini was a good player when we used him properly and I find it a bit weird him going to China. There'd have been PL clubs interested. My favourite moment was when he was booed as he came on in pre-season, then scored a winner in the last minute.

To bo fair to the tree man, he did have a knack of cropping up with goals at crucial times. Or failing that, he'd at least liven up the game by trying to get sent off.
Don't doubt there would have been PL clubs interested but i also doubt there were any willing to match the reported £200k plus wages he's getting in China.
 

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Don't doubt there would have been PL clubs interested but i also doubt there were any willing to match the reported £200k plus wages he's getting in China.
Surely it gets to a point where you have enough money not to worry so much abot how many thousands more spare you'll have a week.
 

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It is funny that there are so many posters who cannot bear to do anything except mock and criticise him. Sort of puts paid to any claims of objectivity from large swathes of the 'fans'.

A couple of moments to mention;

  • Getting boo'd by our own 'fans' in a pre-season game when he came on as a late sub, and then pretty much immediately scoring and shutting them the hell up.
  • Cant remember the specifics but there was a beautiful through ball he played to someone (I think Valencia) from the edge of our box, which I believe led to a great counterattacking goal.
  • The little feud with Scrappy-Doo Wilshere.
He was always 100% committed and played well in multiple roles - a destroyer, a target man, an impact sub. Good luck in China big man.
 
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Good luck Mr Fellaini.
You tried your best for us and got us some important/crucial goals.
You showed a lot of passion when playing and I hope your time in China.