I still think he's better than any midfielder we have not named Pogba and infinitely better than whoever Ole is putting as no. 10.
The decision to sell Fellaini
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You're not going to get many logical replies on this one.
Fellaini could be world class and people would still hate him because "of what he represents". Another reason why fans need to be completely ignored by the club when decisions are being made
Aye, same with Lukaku, same with Sanchez, similar with Herrera in that we arguably could have done more to keep him. Players allowed to leave is one thing, replacing them inadequately or indeed not at all is not good enough.
He put some decent performances as a pure destroyer at the base of midfield three towards the end of his time here (I think I remember a game at Turf Moor where he was notably good?) but yes he's far too limited. As has been said previously in the thread it's a sad state of affairs when we're pining for the big Belgian.Absolute rewriting of history. Fred is incredibly awful for a £52 million player, but Fellaini was even worse when it came to the technical side of the game, bar a few moments each season. Scoring some scrappy goals here and there don't make Fellaini a useful CM, he was kind of acceptable as a battering ram, nothing more.
Have you people seriously forgot how hilariously bad Fellaini was on the ball? How he was as slow as Matic and was a walking red card a lot of the games, giving away silly fouls and penalties?
Things are gonna get worse I'm afraid.
We will miss Darmian too ?
We'll miss a lot more than players the way things are going.
Given we still play the same way he'd be an asset to have - might as well bring back Ibra and play him and Felly up top. Long ball after long ball into the box, what more can we ask for.
He had the best performance in a cup final since Rooney and Ronaldo destroyed Wigan.
He made Ajax look like 10 year olds.
He made Ajax look like 10 year olds.
The height of revisionism...
I've seen it on here about Rafael (very committed but rash and injury prone) and Nani (uber talented but inconsistent and frustrating). But this takes the cake.
Exactly what @red4ever 79 said; After we lost Herrera as well, we should have brought in a replacement.
I've seen it on here about Rafael (very committed but rash and injury prone) and Nani (uber talented but inconsistent and frustrating). But this takes the cake.
Exactly what @red4ever 79 said; After we lost Herrera as well, we should have brought in a replacement.
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Fellaini would have more presence up front than all of our strike options put together. But it's not only him we haven't replaced: Herrera, Sanchez and Lukaku could be added to the list.
It was the not replacing him that is absurd.
The same people who miss Herrera and Fellaini are the same who would tear them apart if they had half a bad match and say they're not united quality
The one and only player we’ve had who could come on from the bench and impact the game, but nope, he ain’t no Mata, let’s sell him.
Fellaini has its uses when you play shite like we do. When we were flying, nobody cared. Ideally that is how it should be. But with us playing shit on a stick football, people would rather have him here and that shows the desperation and lack of any sort of presence upfront, that we need to discuss this. Yeah Fellaini and Lukaku are badly missed, since we dont have plan A or cant keep and pass the ball to save our lives, crosses and long balls to a target man are the only things this team knows and that saved us in the past in shit games.
I would argue that even replacing them wouldnt have lead to anything, replacing target mans with target mans can only get you as far. Replacing them with good footballers, you need to coach them and coach attacking patterns. It wouldnt have made a big difference, we rely on individual quality to save our asses, with replacements or not. It just shows how hopeless our team and coaching staff is.
I would argue that even replacing them wouldnt have lead to anything, replacing target mans with target mans can only get you as far. Replacing them with good footballers, you need to coach them and coach attacking patterns. It wouldnt have made a big difference, we rely on individual quality to save our asses, with replacements or not. It just shows how hopeless our team and coaching staff is.
I honestly felt that he got more stick than he deserved. Wasn't pretty to watch, not the type of player we want but he was an excellent player to bring on when you wanted to change things up, scored some important goals for us as well.
He wanted to leave it was good decision to sell and get something for him. Mctominay got more game time which has turned out pretty well. The issue was not bringing any midfielders in to replace him and Herrera.
Fellaini was replaced by McT and it was a good decision. He was bad even as a stop-gap option and I'd rather see a youth player getting a chance. Letting Herrera leave without signing anyone in his place was criminal.
I'm waiting for him to show that technical ability then given that he hasn't shown anything that could be considered better technique than Fellaini's, nevermind having half of Fellaini's impact.
Replacing him with having a better option coming in mind was fine, replacing him with garbage Fred or Pereira was monumentally fecking idiotic. It's also funny how people used to complain about him being plan B and us, apparently, resorting to plan B and playing like shit because Fellaini is here. Well now we're playing like fecking shit, he's not here and we've got no plan B. Some mastermind shit behind it all.
McT is a lot more similar to Herrera than he is to Fellaini, style wise.
If anything he replaced Herrera in the squad.
Pereira is one of my biggest disappointments as a fan though. He is the last one from the generation of youth players that I've seen during my time as a regular youth/reserve team viewer and he looked absolutely class — great passing, crossing & dribbling skills, had a mean shot on him and was awesome at set-pieces... but somehow he turned out to be completely average. Not even inconsistent or not dedicated enough, just plain average 
Wasn’t it proven by a few on here that he actually didn’t really impact games of the bench as a plan B, despite it often being said.
Selling Blind and replacing him with 30m Lindelöf was a bit strange. That 30m could have gone into our forward line/midfield. I don’t see anything Lindelof can do that Blind couldn’t.
Selling Blind and replacing him with 30m Lindelöf was a bit strange. That 30m could have gone into our forward line/midfield. I don’t see anything Lindelof can do that Blind couldn’t.
People claiming Fellaini was even half as bad as Fred has been so far... Jesus Christ. Yes he probably wasn't good enough but he single handedly won us a lot of games. Fred has done absolutely nothing so far.
Very good decision. He was never good enough. More need to follow him out of the club as soon as possible. What is with all the revisionism all of a sudden? Most couldn't wait to see the back of him, Lukaku, Sanchez and now we hit a sticky patch and it's the first thing people are using as a stick to beat ole and the club with.
I don't agree with you but it's hard to argue with you on the matter
I don't think that he is similar to either of them to be honest.Regardless of opinions about selling Afro being good or bad, here is a thing with him, he is an excuse for lazy football, for the likes of Young etc. Not Afros fault but they would see him as easy way out to not just play the ball, hoof it towards him in "Jesus take a wheel style" and they done their part.
So no, i dont think it was a mistake that Ole sold him, Fellaini aint bad player for what he is/was just others abused his presence as easy way out 20/7.
So no, i dont think it was a mistake that Ole sold him, Fellaini aint bad player for what he is/was just others abused his presence as easy way out 20/7.
Well, Young still does the same thing by hoofing the ball forward on the wings to our speed merchants.
It was a right decision.
This is just silly. He was awful, useful only in holding the ball up when we were playing route 1 football. The fact his replacements aren't even good enough to do that is neither here nor there when you consider this sale.
I always felt like United didn't use Fellaini properly. He's best right behind the striker as a roaming forward who can win second balls. Playing him any deeper just created problems.
Does Pereira play right wing?Didn't know Fellaini played RW
Fellaini was never good enough for the club and would bare no improvement to this current side either. We'd be berating Ole further if he was rotating between Fellaini and Matic, good choice selling Fellaini imo.
I know he's been stationed there, but he looks about as good a fit there as Mata, Lingard etc
Agree. Now we don't have any player that can head a ball either. At least Fellaini had a good chest control too.
Correct decision to get rid. The problem was not getting a replacement in, as it was with Herrera, Sanchez and Lukaku.
You can see Fellaini's value when it's late on in the game, and we can't even think about knocking one high, as we have no one in the front line of any use in the air.
Well yeah, as you say that's the position he's being picked to play, not CM so the comparison of Fellaini and Pereira is seriously flawed as a result.
I don't miss Fellaini, but we should have got a replacement for him. This is what's wrong, our squad is far too thin because of not replacing players. It's penny pinching and it's not fair on the fans.
He has had some games in centre mid/number 10 though hasn't he?
Unless I was totally drifting off!
He was used like that mostly under LVG and had a big role getting top 4 in his 1st season and the FA Cup in his 2nd.
Mourinho then came and started him in a midfield 2 with Pogba.
he had to go.. but a better midfielder had to be bought.. Not Fred or Matic..
I miss Fellaini.
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