Abraxas
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He was really poor here. The epitome of a nothing footballer. Nice to see him excel at PL level.
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Really? Wow I find that hard to believe, maybe my memory is more flakey than I think. I'll have to look it up when I get a chance hopefully this afternoon to see who he started alongside etc.That’s demonstrably untrue. Pereira got most of his games under Solskjaer. Fellaini played a total of 3 minutes under Solskjaer. I doubt there’s a single game Pereira played alongside Mata and Lingard. He was mostly playing with Fred, McTominay, Matic and Pogba. Much like Bruno.
On your other point, he started 11 Premier League games in a row in 19/20.
Well put. Pereira got his chance when we were a dumpster fire.In no way comparable. Whenever Pierera got a game it was usually in a midfield which consisted of himself Lingard, Fellaini and Mata, Bruno himself would would struggle with that. Whenever Pierera got a chance it was usually as part of a second string side.
Bruno is clearly a better player, I'm not arguing otherwise but to say it all changed when Pierera was taken of of the team is not true given he was never in the team to begin with. I doubt he ever started three games I'm a row for united.
I admire him for going to Brazil and doing well over there. The fact that he is doing well at Fulham proves he is a player capable of cutting it in the PL and good luck to him. Nowhere near as bad as our fan base made him out to be.
B.s pereira was playing in front of McFred. Bruno came in January and played in front of the same 2 guys and started producing.Well put. Pereira got his chance when we were a dumpster fire.
I'm a fan of DvB to some extent, Pereira has definitely more ability.Probably better than VDB who we wasted £35m on.
I'm not sure if "B.s" is intended to mean "bullshit", but if the argument is that we had a well-oiled machine in midfield when we had McFred I can't argree with that. McFred was a shambles. Yes, Bruno in his early days was great for us -- but only in his early days -- but I'm not arguing Pereira was better than Bruno. I'm only arguing that Pereira rarely ever got to play with the quality personnel he needed to play with to have a chance at succeeding at Old Trafford. Jose tried to convert Pereira into a deep lying midfielder and that project didn't work out any better than his attempts to play Fred and McTominay at deep lying midfielders.B.s pereira was playing in front of McFred. Bruno came in January and played in front of the same 2 guys and started producing.
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Because more senior members are egoistic and want them for themselves.Will remain a big question, why he not given set pieces whenever he played for the senior team?
Watched the game and that was an awful miss. He was very good in general though and if Paulinha had been better in front of goal he'd have had another assist with a nice through ball.He played well today but missed a one on one chance he should’ve scored.
He’s been excellent all seasonBest game I've ever seen from him typically
He just never really did anything when he did play for us, even though it was clear the attributes were there. Wasn't a mistake to let him go but good on him for starting to show his abilityAlways had technical ability and a good work ethic. Of all the players to leave permanently in the summer, I thought it was a shame he didn't get a pre-season or something under ETH. Can play it short, good at pressing and counter pressing. Would have been a good alternative to your McT. Probably would have still been a problem (like McT and Fred in the sense we still would have needed better first teamers) but could have been useful for at least a season. Made sense for Pereira to not want that though.