Recent content by Presto

I highly doubt any sane club would let 2 LBs go on loan leaving the squad with only real LB (Shaw) and a RB who can play as LB (Dalot) (somehow Lisandro who can also play there) at the start of this season when Shaw hadn't been injured yet, thought since this is Manchester United, that stuff...

Veron at Manchester United is a huge disappointment, afterward from Heinze to Hagreaves then Jones, all injury prone so I don't think that's a good number to give to any new signing

OK none of our current midfielders is a DM, can you name some youngsters from our academy who would fill that exact role? And how long would we have to wait until one of them grows fully to his potential and how far would United go down in the waiting time while persistently playing McFred as a...

At 5'9" he's too short to play CB in PL, today's game clearly showed that

OK if De Jong doesn't lack "intercepting, blocking channels" why his defensive stats over a season are this low compared to Carrick? (Stats generated by Squawka, provided by OPTA, sorry I'm newbie so I don't have permission to insert image here, but if you want to check legit these stats you can...

Not really, not only Carrick can dictate the play, can spray passes anywhere on the pitch, but also he can actually defense with a great reading of the game, very good at intercepting and blocking the ball, is quite tall for a midfielder (6'2'') that sometimes he even played as a CB, while De...

Just've seen your reply after navigating back to one reply mentioning Riquelme when we signed Carrick, problem is that De Jong isn't as that good as Carrick defensively wise, so the need to sign a true DM to protect the defense at the moment. Plus De Jong is not really a deep lying playmaker who...

Chelsea didn't advance doesn't mean they didn't create any significant chance from set pieces and long balls during that exact time span when Madrid's defense struggled dealing with them. Your question is completely irrelevant to the actual fact that Madrid's defense full of defenders who are...

Height does matter, especially if you watched the 2nd leg Real Madrid vs Chelsea in Champions League quarterfinal this season, after almost all the not so tall Madrid CB got injured and Carvajal was brought in as a situational CB, Chelsea put Madrid's defense in panic every single time they...

Because Poch wasn't wanted as much as Moyes (the chosen one, preferred by sir Alex), Van Gaal, Mou and then Ole? And you know how hard it is to deal with Levy back then when Poch was still Spurs'manager?

Defensively Smalling was miles better than Maguire and better than every other CB like Blind, Baily, Jones, Lindelof. Baily bar the crazy moments is also reliable than Maguire. Young despite a left wing back / left midfielder being played as a left back was much more consistent than Shaw both...

2 full seasons without regular football and lost a place in his national squad already, have never ever really given a chance here, didn't feature in the starting lineup even when Bruno was dropped and Fred was missing, meanwhile managers don't let him go whilst keeping promising him chance to...

Both are clueless, it's not like only one of them can be clueless. Don't use Ralf's incompetence to back Ole, it's completely irrelevant and doesn't make any sense

Questionable man management and baffling decisions out there: Promised to give VdB (and a few others to some extent) chances, then continuing brought him on at very late moments in game (85th minute or even later), then entirely ruled him out, meanwhile still said in interviews about wanting to...

Mind you literally nobody in the world football today runs this bizarre 4222 system, it doesn't make sense to try to fit players who are all unfamiliar with this system in just 6 months before switching to another one when a long term manager comes