Just imagine what a nice mediocre wing back - coming off the bench from time to time - Mou would have formed out of him..Don't think that's entirely fair. Jose would have recognised Messi's unearthly ability, just wouldn't have known how to maximise it. Would love to see him trying to convince Messi to defend though
Lukaku wouldnt have got into the strong teams of the past.
It was all good until point 3.
Ivan fecking Perisic is better than Martial/Rashford/Mata/Sanchez/Lingard as a pure winger. I don't care if he's not prime Robben or Ribery, he's better than all of our current "wingers" on the actual wings.
I'd say De Gea, Pogba, and Sanchez would have a look in. De Gea vs VDS, Pogba vs Scholes, prime Sanchez vs prime Rooney would have been some competition.
Definition of world class is somewhat subjective. World class managers can change over time. Mourinho was called "world class" before the last Chelsea meltdown, but at present time seems closer to outdated than world class.
Yes agree with that. De Gea and prime sanchez easily. Fergie tried to get him when he went to Barca. Pogba if Fergie could have kept him focussed as well. He does at the moment have inconsistancy though, but with better players around him would probably be ok.
We kinda do. Just look at Pogba's recent antics.
So did Moyes and LVG what?
Yeah,it's because of Glazers and Woodward that we cannot beat Brighton away two years in a row
You think Messi would score 20 goals in our setup? Hed be lucky to score 5 goals. Our football is not suited for creative players at all, only headless chickens and tall lampposts will thrive under current Mourinho
And how exactly do you propose that happens? Are the fans going to raise literally billions of dollars to buy the club off the Glazers?
It's not a fact. It's complete and utter bollocks, that's what it is.
Exactly. The problem here is our coach is a dinosaur. Give him Citys squad and he would get rid of probably half of that team. People keep banging on about David Silva, do you think Mou would ever play Kdb and Silva in the centre? He would have flogged off most of that team.
I agree that an unproven manager(like the appointment of G. Neville at Valencia) would not work. But there is a huge gap between unproven and world class, and there are many managers that is proven or close to world class that would fit the criterias of playing attractive football and able to improve players.
It won't change until the owners leave so you better get your thinking caps on if you want to see Manchester United back at the top of the English and European game.
Cristiano Ronaldo might score 15, which should please the CR7 fans.
I don't get all the constant obsession with the attractive football crap. We ain't Arsenal or Spurs. We need winners and we need to win trophies.
He needs to teach them how to make a pass? I thought pro footballers should know how to do that.
Not without intensive coaching and constant guidance from the sidelines.
I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you were living in a cave when the story broke about Ed vetoing another CB signing because the shower on our books already are “good enough”. If so, google is your friend.
You do realise that it's not either Attacking football or trophies right? You can win tropphies by playing attacking football, it's not a novel idea, all the clubs everywhere have been doing it for decades.
It's mainly because so far, playing attractive football and having a good amount of investment generally leads to success. Arsenal and Spurs aren't putting hundreds of millions into their squads. Liverpool might be winning nothing but they look to have a better chance of winning something than us right now.
We know
It’s not so much worse players as it is players who aren’t known as superstars but can be counted on to put a shift in and come up with brilliance every once in a while.As opposed to the countervailing 'we need worse players' argument
You do realize if you want to win trophies playing attacking football you need to have squad as good as Barca or Real or spend even more boatload of $ to get the right players in like City.
That's bollocks. Every trophy we won with Ferguson was won by playing attacking football.
You were referring to Bailly, who Mourinho (presumably based on information given to him by the scouting staff who you clearly outweigh) decided to rate enough to want at the club.
Not saying that we need to play attacking football no matter what. The point is that playing football where the idea is to score one more goal than the opposition rather than what we are doing today which is to concede one less goal than the opposition, can be an indicator for success.
