'Great' for his standards maybe. I think the issue is that we have a tendency of wasting some of our most talented youth players and giving chances to the ones that are far less so.
What makes you think we can give game time to a midget who plays pretty well in the youth sides? This is Manchester United, we still need to 'try' and win things.
I get that and i'm not advocating for every youth player to given a free chance at all, but when you've got players playing as bad as Lingard & Pereira were, it's only natural to try someone else no?
If you join the French Foreign Legion they should be able to help you on that score.Unless it's news that he's leaving, please i don't want to hear it.
Well i think the answer would be that when your struggling you don’t gamble, you stick with what you know even if that has its limitations.
Let byegomes be byegomes.
If he was good enough, he'd be getting game time. Clearly he isn't because even Chong has been getting game time so I don't really care tbh.
That's not correct. The contract expires on 30th.
Then a journalist was incorrect.
Foden has had 1 good game and it's called kicking on now?
That's not exactly always true though. Coaches don't always not give minutes to youth players because they're not good enough. There can be other factors that we do not know about. The situation with Gomes has been odd throughout.
Stop finding excuses for a player that has proved he wasnt good enough when given opportunities. This idea that Ole has been harming himself to "get one" on Gomes for not signing a contract is bullshit. If he was good as Lingard and Pereria (and thats a low fecking bar) he'd get game time ahead of them.
It really isn't a "is he good enough". It's obvious that Angel Gomes has loads of talent, there's nobody at the club who doubts that. But it's also incredibly apparent that he's tiny, smaller and thinner than pretty much any other player that has actually made it in the premier league, and also the premier league happens to be the most physical league of all the big leagues. Gomes himself has probably decided that his talents will be more suited to a different league, and who can blame him? It's entirely true. In Spain for example I have no doubt that he'll progress into a far better player than he ever could here, just becomes some people aren't really made for the league. Where the club stands on him probably is a similar view point, but would rather hold on to him for as long as possible and hope he develops more physically into something closer to what you normally see in the league (can be short, but the shorter players tend to be thicker/stronger on their feet or able to handle that physicality). That is likely all there is to it, with goodwill from both sides, as you won't have seen a more hyped up youth player with more media coverage from the club itself, among fans etc out of a player who has hardly kicked a ball for the first team. He's talented, and by all accounts has a good attitude outside of games.
I never said he was malicious. It's just been strange. At the start of the season, Ole was asked about him and he said don't worry he would get his chance later in the season, but it hasn't happened. So what has changed? I am hesitant to believe he hasn't been good enough, knowing how highly rated and talented he has been for his age group. Lingard & Pereira outperforming him in training? They've been pub footballers this season, you're not believing that surely?
You need to pay attention some more if you call it only 1 good game. And besides, if anything I was underrating Sancho's play where I could have classified it as something else.
Williams has had a better season than Foden overall.
You are answering your own question. Otherwise, the only reason why Ole isn't playing Angel is that he is racist or something.
Nonsense, there are other reasons for holding players back. If you've watched the Busby doc you'll have heard that other less talented youth team players were given a chance ahead of Bobby Charlton because it was thought he needed to toughen up.
What.
Agreed. The scrutiny this kid would be up for if he was dropped into the squad and expected to pull a lifeless United back would be mental. The media would hang this kid out to dry after his first poor performance. That alone for an 18 year old kid at the time would be pretty demoralising and unnecessary pressure.
Precisely. There are reasons why Ole has not played Angel as many times as LIngard, Chongy etc. And these reasons are clearly not obvious from the outside. As the cliche goes, the manager sees him every day on the training ground whilst armchair quarterbacks are trying to give their 2 pence worth like they know better than the manager.
Foden has 6 goals and 7 assists this season as an attacking midfielder in 1229 minutes. So a goal or assist every 94 minutes.
It's not run out yet.
No he hasn’t. I’m sorry but this is a ludicrous statement.
