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I still think our best system is 4231, and dropping either mata rooney and RVP. If by miracle everyone is fit, the team defiantly should look like this
Exactly what I think too, it is crazy how he's let this aspect of his game get that worse without trying to change things. I bet he believes that smashing it increases his chances of "creating" danger. That's retarded IMO.
Where as Valencia got rewarded with a new contract.
We do. He had one end of last season and Giggsy decided to hand him a shiny new contract.
It was Giggs? I know that Giggs was said to have told Rio that if he was manager he'd be our main man at the back this season.
Giggs didn't make that decision.
Redknapp claimed that iirc. Wont be surprised if it was true though, he played him every game when he was in charge.
He was the manager at the time and if I'm not mistaken even commented on how busy he was with preseason planning and contracts for players.
Valencia signed a new contract in mid June. Van Gaal was manager.
He was nowhere near the club at the time, Giggsy was his man at the club then. Ofcourse, there's no way one can say this for sure but with giggsy being the AM and the interim manager before that and Van Gaal busy with the WC, it has to be Giggsy's call not Van Gaals imo.
And by that time Valencia wasn't a player that needed to be assessed or watched live to see his level. He was a confirmed poor player.
So what if he wasn't near the club? He wanted Evra to stay and didn't want Rio.
So he gets advice about the current players by the man already at the club who happens to be his assistant manager.
You know Giggs wanted Rio to stay right. So by that logic LVG would have given him a new contract too.
No because unlike Valencia, Rio was a no brainer. I'm not saying Giggsy made either call on his own, ofcourse it was discussed between the 2. Giggsy would have asked for both to stay, Van Gaal agreed regarding Valencia and not about Rio.
Not necessarily gone, but have our most creative players as top priority rather than him be the main man in constructing attacks which is also down to Mata, Rooney, and Van Persie playing poorly. Historically we use the right wing more than the left wing, and most of the time there's been nothing wrong with that. But surely Moyes should have identified the problem early on and changed our approach. Van Gaal recognised the problem as soon as he arrived, and playing Valencia is down to us lacking options (Rafael injured) and players not being of the right profile (Nani, Januzaj, and Zaha) to play in a role that requires you to be very solid defensively. But then... is Valencia viable enough defensively?
As was Nani, Rooney etc etcWhere as Valencia got rewarded with a new contract.
Would agree with this except I'd have Evans in place of Rojo, and think this system allows us to use Welbeck a lot more as he could provide cover for the wide role and play in place of Januzaj in some of the games.
But I get the sense even if everyone is fit he will stick to 352, which is a worry with his reign, that his stubbornness in not playing a system that gets the best out out most creative players, just because he cannot drop the main 3, who have been terrible
LVG probably made the call on Giggs's advice as his assistant manager. The same way he sanctioned the Herrera and Shaw deals despite them not being his targets. He trusted the club's judgement on those two transfer and Gigg's judgement on Valencia which was wrong imo.
I think when everyone's fit, he'll be consigned to being a benchwarmer. That said, relying on Rafa to be fit for prolonged periods is more foolish than relying Valencia to get a single cross right in a game.
Very simple - one trick pony got found out. Defenders learned to show him onto his left and never give him the chance to get into the space behind them and that's his entire skillset nullified.
Do you really think that? I am not having it. That doesn't explain his unwillingness to run at/past people or even find a simple cross, all things he was doing consistently well previously.
It's very easy to counter him because the defender knows exactly what's going to happen. If positioned correctly, it's very hard for Valencia to get a run at the fullback. That's why most players have at least several plays in their book. Unfortunately Valencia only has one, and unless that one move is absolutely unbeatable, you're going to get found out at the top level.
He's a bloody coward. What we're left with now is a shell of a once effective winger. Will he try take on a man? No. Can he whip a cross around the fulllback? Can he fcuk. Can he come inside on his left? Impossible. Does he have have pace? Yes but only without the ball but when he receives it he turns into a bumbling one paced wreck. Technical ability? None. He would not start on the Everton side nevermind any of the "big guns", thieving a living he is.
Yes, 100%.
Agree but sub "whatever reason" with confidence. One trick ponies CAN be effective.
