I'm not saying Fellaini would have been in an SAF team, he would have been nowhere near. Neither would most of our starters.
I'd say so as well, interesting that at 31 Fellaini has only been signed by one manager his entire career.
Well you go to excessive lengths so you can get back to Lingard again, and my criticism of his performances and conduct. Fellaini is not even playing, and in that small game time he gets he does his best, and you wouldn't hear a sniff from him outside the pitch as well. He's been a good pro and servant to this club.
No.... This is Mike Smalling
Fellaini had just signed a new contract on a position of strength. I think his salary reflects that. I doubt that the club is happy to keep a player who gives 10 sub appearances a year on that salary and I also doubt he's got the characteristics needed to play in Ole's system.
Im just speculating as i don't see many football- related reasons to let him go in the current situation.
I think there is. He's just signed a new contract on a position of strength. That means he's probably at the top tier part in terms of salary. If the new manager has no intentions in keeping him and is eyeing for other signings in that position then its only fair we'll try and let him go.
Yeah exactly mate all managers do it now and then even Ferguson. But other managers using it on occasion can't be used as a defence for Manchester United deploying the tactic quite often and for longer than 5-10 minutes in games the last few years.
True Mikes got a decent scoring record for a defender. 15 goals since 2013, Fellaini has 22. So he could definitely be used in that role in an emergency.
Go on, you are doing a good job trying to get around your hypocrisy. Not rating Lingard, consistently bashing him, calling him a nothing player and epitome of the mediocrity surrounding the club is criticising his performances, while others doing the same for Fellaini is hating and unwarranted slating.
It wasn't even a month before, it was 5 days previous of his clause ending! Desperate last minute buy
This would make a fantastic bit of trivia in years to come. It would be brilliant if his move away from United ended up being to a Moyes managed club as well
Whats that going to do when we need a goal? Lukaku is clearly a goalscorer off the bench, Fellaini isnt much of one.
We offered them barely enough to be a sensible offer for Baines alone, for both of them. We were never going to sign them like that.
Jesus Christ pal, you alright? You seem upset? It's like you couldn't wait to get back to defend Lingard here, and there's no need.
Ofcourse we weren't, but that wasn't the point. People are trying to portrait it as if we just jumped on Fellaini last minute, we didn't. It was more or less a done deal just waiting for us to get it over the finish line, with Moyes talking about the importance of Fellaini not being the first signing and how it would look, it's pretty clear why we waited...
Haha yeah definitely, Marouane must be crossing his fingers Moyes or Jose get a new job soon.This would make a fantastic bit of trivia in years to come. It would be brilliant if his move away from United ended up being to a Moyes managed club as well
Since the Young Boys game, Fellaini has played against Southampton, Valencia, Liverpool, Arsenal, Cardiff and Reading. Whether what is going on in this thread is performance related or not, then that is up to you to decide. What you referred to as hate and unwarrated slating is quite similar to what you regularly do in the Jesse Lingard thread, and at the end of the day, it will always come back to that. Maybe just admit that you give Lingard hate and unwarrated slating too, rather than trying to get around what you clearly stated and come across as a hypocrite instead.
Eh, we waited and the fee increased because his clause expired. If we got him cheaper the expectations would have been lower and we'd have had more cash to spend on the "marquee" signing. Nobody would have been talking about Fellaini if we followed it up with a bigger name.
If the choice is playing against Fellaini for 20 minutes a season (with his upgrade on the pitch or bench) or having him on our side for thousands of minutes all season long...that's pretty easy actually.
He may also be used in cases when we are up against a team who have 11 men behind the ball and are defending for their lives. We can start pumping balls, straight into the box, for him to chest down to our other players.
Please explain why we bought him few minutes prior deadline for 30m when we could have signned him for less just 5 days before.
We might as well hire a tall boy scout. Seriously he is probably paid good money and he doesn't fit ole's game. Selling him is a no brainer
So who do we bring on to help out an under pressure defence again? Lukaku? Fred?
We tried to sign him with Baines. After the release clause expired Everton played hardball with the price.
I think that when three very different managers, with very different playing styles, and with plenty of achievements in football to show they know a lot about it, all take a liking to a player competing with numerous multi million rated players, it says a whole lot about the player.
That doesn't really make sense. If fellaini was our no 1 target then we would have signed him on cheap then we would deal with baines as a separate transfer
How did SAF survive without a Fellaini equivalent?
They regularly watch that clip on Rawk, like we do Slippy g.
We tried to get Fellaini cheaper by buying him with Baines. We wanted both but thought we could get Fellaini cheaper than his release clause.
