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It is. I get your point, but being in the right position doesn't definitively mean the player will perform good/great.
Problems are the runs he made isn't a good run at all (half-hearted at best eg. Lindelof's pass to him inside the box with his half-baked running) nor it is a good choice to pass it to him considering defender's good anticipation (they follow him at good distance) and lack of good spaces he's running into.
Also, continued poor performances make any position the ‘wrong position’. Hypothetically, if James never plays well on the left-wing, there is little basis to declare it is any more his rightful position than the right wing. The proof is literally in the performances.
I don’t like Lingard at all. But he at least has minimal uses recently (fresh legs, pressing). James plays worse than Lingard, he doesn’t do anything at all
Lingard is tactical astute. He can do lone pressing. He is not exactly pacy, only a bit quick, but he can make good use of it. James is just clueless. He just abuses his pace, but when we don't use collective high pressing, he can't even do individual pressing and look as if the game just pass him by.
barely got into the game.i am watching the leeds united documentary and he almost joined Leeds last january for the deal to fall through at the very end of that window. I felt bad for him because it felt like he really wanted it to happen having gone there with his dad and looking back i do feel he would have benefitted massively from an education under Bielsa. He is the sort of player he likes anyway, clay he can mould rather than finished pots.
Yeah, agree with that. Not a fan of James at all, but he seems to be a good lad, and it would do him a lot of good learning the basics under Bielsa.
This is the most bang on post in here.
I am a big supporter of Dan but clearly at this point he needs a change of scenery. I think a loan to Leeds would be perfect to continue his education and restore his confidence. I watch him when he is with Wales being Welsh myself and he looks a different player. I think he plays very much on confidence and knowing his role and with Giggs support and having target men like Kieffer Moore to aim at he becomes a real threat and looks comfortable on the pitch but I really feel at United he is being left to try and figure it out himself and not getting a proper education.
I think that makes sense. Watching him and Van de Beek try to cooperate yesterday was painful at times. Never on the same wavelength. James did well at the beginning of last season when United had to play simple due to personnel and time together under Ole. He looked better than Mata then. Now we have more creative players and more of the ground structure, more onus is placed on the attacking players to combine creatively and to a larger degree avoid simplicity (to avoid predictability). B-string will always suffer then, but James suffer more than any, whereas Mata can find ways to contribute.
And if James doesn't make it as a starter with Leeds and becomes a fringe player there? How does that impact his confidence and long term chances?
I thought he was a good option last year but my goodness he is so poor.
Imagine if we could give Mata the age & pace of James...
Looked like Mata had turned back the years with his run that led to the free kick for the first goal.Imagine if we could give Mata the age & pace of James...
Charming. Coached properly he is a decent PL winger, probably not United level sadly but he will have a good career, he needs better coaching and to play for a team with a more straight forward attacking style. Calling our own players dog shit is everything that is toxic about this forum.
