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I don't think he nailed down a CM slot last season, as soon as he was dropped we went on our best run towards the end of the season.
Sexy bastard for me.
Im struggling to see this! He cost us goals consistently. Not the worst of our problems and he is a good player but we need better imo.
I don't think he does! I can only think of 2 this season and with that in mind he's been one of the few constants in our team!
Agreed. Too many brainfarts in dangerous positions when under no pressure at all and he can't really recover positionally in this situations because of his lack of pace. Needs to cut this shit out before he could be called an accomplished CB.
What are these consistent goals he's cost us?
Bench. Back up to Shaw and CMs.
I think having Schneiderlin to get about and cover for him would actually make him almost the perfect 2nd holding midfielder in Van Gaal's system tbf. A luxury he didn't have last year.
And the CBs.
That was never his fault. He's standing there with nobody within 40 yards of him. Rooney literally runs the other direction away from him, and Schneiderlin retreats behind him expecting Blind to advance with the ball. He could potentially have got it into Mata's feet at 1 point, but he was well marked. The only other option was lumping it forward or forcing a difficult pass into Rashford's feet, and unfortunately he lost it. If the midfield weren't SO FAR away from him and did their jobs receiving the ball it wouldn't have happened. Very easy to just blame Blind directly as he passed the ball, but he really shouldn't have to be trying to fire in such a difficult pass. It's exactly why Rooney will never work as a CM IMO
Recently against Spurs he played a major part in 2 goals we lost of the top of my head. Against Palace he nearly cost us. It's every other game! He is a good player and nice on the ball but an accomplished defender he certainly is not.
Hard to disagree he's had a good season but he is a suspect defender. Given the choice of buying and replacing either Valencia at right back or buying and replacing Blind at centre back I'd buy a centre back. But Blind is a great squad player I just think he's Nicky Butt level or P Neville level type player as in very valuable to the squad but not quite first 11 regulars if we want to be top dogs again. Maybe like Fletcher he will improve again and become one but he has to many major flaws for this ie positional, pace and physicality (he's a bit of a girly). Only the positional he will be able to improve on.
Cost us points against Chelsea with silly defending, lost Rondon against WBA in an almost identical fashion. To me, as someone who thinks he is still a good player despite being quite poor at CB this season, these lapses are almost identical and stem from him being a midfielder and using a midfielders instinct.
It's what he does, though. Most of the time it takes him way too much time to make his mind up and he ends up making a mistake in a dangerous position or just hoofs it in no man's land. What makes it even more dangerous is his lack of pace, which prevents him from recovering positionally. We can't just blame the other players' movement every time.
Smalling cost us just as many. He was to be blamed for all 3 goals against Newcastle, the first against Wolfsburg, the goal by west ham in the FA cup where he was completely screwed up by letting Carroll (his man) have a free header to lay it off among many and could have cost us more too (vs villa he was wrong footed by ayew twice and required timely intervention from Rojo and Blind to save him).
Oh get lost!
Blind is head and shoulders above both of those players, good as they were.You have to be kidding meOh get lost!
As some have said before, I think Barcelona would love him. He's perfect for them.
Pfft, laugh all you want. Plenty on here have said it. He's got all the qualities they like in their centre-backs with their style of play from 2009 onwards.You have to be kidding me
Reminds me of those threads, where fans put Darmian/Smalling/Schneiderlin/Mata/Depay in hypothetical combined Barca+United (or United+Bayern) line-ups. Madness.
Although I agree Barca wouldn't be in for him to day his ability on the ball is vastly overrated is nonsense, he is head and shoulders above anyone else in our side with ball at feet, and if we consider him as a centreback, there isn't another with his passing capability.
There was a lot of speculation that they were in for him when we signed him.
Agreed, he had a couple of dodgy moments but overall played well.
I'd upgrade on Smalling before I'd upgrade on Blind.
He gave away 3 blatant chances! I'm not saying he's not a good player but he's never a top centre back!
If Blind had scored that OG today I can guarantee this thread would be hopping. The guy is just a brilliant player. Ironically the player he's had most trouble with this season is Troy fecking Deeney.
Ah yes, Lawman and his exaggerated chances. It's a little sad your actively trying to find fault in him now.
Not good enough to be a long term solution for us at centre half nevermind fecking Barcelona.Oh get lost!
As some have said before, I think Barcelona would love him. He's perfect for them.
I wish we could merge the two tbh. Would have more a Rio type player then
Does seem the case for some players.
Ivaldo a better team or one in Evertons case (lacking confidence) would have punished us yesterday. Did you not see him lose Lukaku positionaly and physically only for Lukaku (who was out of sorts all game) to head wide from 6-8 yards out? That was the blatant one there were other half incidences that as judging anyone you'd mark him down for them. Or as a coach or manager you'd point out and try and work on them. To have a pop at me personally is a bit poor and not something I'd expect from you because we disagree. So I'll happily leave it at this. I like Blind he's not our biggest problem and has more than earned his place in our squad but unless he cuts out his basic errors and he makes them every other game. Then he needs replaced long term with better quality if we want to be top dogs again.
