Nah Lingard is worse. At least James is very fast and has shown he can be lethal in front of goal. Lingard isn’t fast, very average finisher and passer which means he is useless as a 10.
Perfect for Ole’s philosophy.
I’d have James play under a proper manager before giving him a verdict. He looked bright when he came in.
What’s that got to do with his performances and ability?
yeah, obviously your dad dying unexpectedly when you're 22, and just about to sign for the biggest club in the world and completely uproot your entire life, has absolutely no impact on your life, performances, morale or stability.
Did we stop for a moment and not criticise Ronaldo for making that poor choice of pass because his Dad passed?
but let’s try and keep it about performance. Life’s not fair sometimes.. some people on here probably lost a close loved one very recently but also don’t have James finances. Should Daniel James feel sorry for them?Think his ceiling would be a Pedro.
Against City? In the league. Straight at the keeper.
I don’t blame James but I always knew this season was a transition season. Offload, add two young English guys as starters and offload more then buy in January and Summer. Two or one at a time. One more year of that and the squad could be completely stronger at the end with a young core. Then I thought it would be go for a marquee or great up and coming manager unless Ole made us gallop again.
I agree. The clear out was needed, anti Ole posters will use it as a stick to beat him but he got rid of dead wood that most here wanted gone for a long while.
What culture has he changed? A culture of having a lower age? Or breaking records of bad results?
Sure Ole hasn't done very well, but you have to take the squads each manager inherited into consideration when judging them surely. Moyes inhereted champions, a stable club with a dressing room full of the right personalities. Ole inhereted a shambles of a squad and a club.
Absolutely agree there are parts of his game that can improve but that's true of most players. He is very young and has been overplayed this season. Not sure about his pace game being found out, we all knew about his pace before he signed, he's just suffering a very natural dip in form, while the team around him dips as well. And if other forwards don't move and stretch defences enough he will fail to find the spaces he needs to run into. Not his fault, it's a team game.
The manager had not bought him as a backup. He was very much our only attacking signing of the summer. So don't know about the overplayed argument.
Why is it on him?
You cant be serious right now man? Even if he turns out to be shite, he lost his father right before joining the biggest club in the world. Depression + pressure to peform would have an effect on the best of players.
I would just like to take this opportunity to criticise both this post and its accompanying poster. You seem like a complete wanker, sir.Did we stop for a moment and not criticise Ronaldo for making that poor choice of pass because his Dad passed?
Did we say wait.. don’t sack Mourinho. His Dad just died?
I’m not trying to stop morality and thanks for the comment
Mate many players have lost their parents like I said in my example. Are we going to judge everyone like this.
Captain Moral.
You must be very alone in life.
A lot of those players may already be established or playing at lesser clubs with little to no pressure. I feel like disregarding his father's death to say it should have zero effect on his football just isn't right. And I'm someone who also feel's he's been very poor lately too.
But we were happy to have a 19 year old Haland as our main striker?
Haaland already had 60+ first team appearances for Molde and Salzburg and is over a year older than Greenwood. He's clearly at a different stage of his development. Also I didn't see many suggesting he should instantly be our main striker, just that we badly needed another striker and he was a great option.
I was going to say how fecked up this post was, but then I saw the poster...Did we stop for a moment and not criticise Ronaldo for making that poor choice of pass because his Dad passed?
Did we say wait.. don’t sack Mourinho. His Dad just died?
I’m not trying to stop morality and thanks for the comment
Greenwood has played 30 games and most have been this season, and is a year younger like you said, that is not a clear different stage is it? 1 year is similar stage of development.
Yeah and when he barely played in the second league game this season you came up with posts like this
So shit on Ole if player is played as main back up player or if the player is not getting mins.
But then we are claiming his circumstances are far greater than everyone else’s because they may have been more established. How do we even know if him and his dad were close?
