Apologies, wrong thread, but the other Pool one was shut down.
Ibes main problem is his lack of guile. It's a problem on the wing, can barely imagine him central.
Hopefully you'll sell him for a ridiculous fee, as I believe we have something like 15% of the profit.
You reckon he will be played more as a winger then?
Just my feeling, yes.
You are spot. I dont see Marcus and Martial having a future as centre forwards with Jose as Manager. This is why its very reasonable to get worried about Marcus' game time next season. Its the same with Shaw and CBJ as I think they are not big and strong enough for Mourinho's liking although Shaw has a good chance. Reminds me of Bertrand at Chelsea also
My thoughts as well on the typical forward Jose prefers. Come to think of it though, If Rashford is given a chance to lead the attack and excels at everything Jose wants from him, will he still overlook him and play him as a winger just because he doesn't really have the attributes he prefers from a striker?. I think he probably won't and would continue playing him as a striker. I truly believe this kid will surprise him. He has more to his game than how he looks.
Jose's Chelsea tried to sign Shaw and Martial. Martial is better as left wing forward than center forward. There isn't s reason to worry about Martial and Shaw.
I also think we shouldn't worry about those two. Especially Martial. If the injury massively affects Shaw, then we should worry but I don't think it will.
Remember at Chelsea not all signings were of the Manager's choice. It was a 3 way tie between the Manager, Emelano and Abromavich.
Chelsea were linked with Shaw for months and Jose himself confirmed that they backed out once ManUtd made the offer.
He can play back to goal, the Jose kind of striker role. However, the youth team coaches must have seen something unique in him:
There is another article that I just read, today. The author is rather confident that, Rashford will have times under Jose, and be played at the No 9 role.
If Rashford plays wide then it means Miki will sit on the bench which is an unforgivable sin according to caf sentiment
Januzaj carried a David Moyes Manchester United at the age of 18. Not his fault he got Van Gaal'd.
He also got Tuchel'd, was that VG's fault? I think it's time to accept that he either just had a ridiculously good purple patch during the Moyes era or he has a shit attitude. Possibly both.
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Like I said a lot of times before, you need to be mentally right to become a star.
How many appearances did he get in Dortmund? How many of them were sub appearances? Even in those he wasn't that bad. Januzaj's development is not over. If we let this kid go he will make a name for himself somewhere else. No way what we say in his debut season can be describes as a purple patch. The way he took on whole a team's whole defense at times is not something that can be taught to many players.
Doesn't his lack of appearances at Dortmund tell us something? A potential world class player would never have a problem like that regardless of competition. Anyway his attitude was questioned as well when he was Dortmund. I don't see Januzaj ever fulfilling his great promise unfortunately.
Wasn't he up against Reus, Mkhitaryan, Aubameyang et al. for a place in the forward line? Not easy for a 20 year old non-BVB player to manage getting past them. I have no idea what his future holds, or whether he'll turn out any good, but I don't think we can read anything into his Dortmund excursion. He just chose the wrong destination I think.
The lack of appearances don't say anything. Their attacking 3 was top drawer, Kagawa, Mkhitaryan and reus. 1st choice backup was their academy lad Hoffman. Even Castro used to be deployed there iirc. It was always such a stupid loan destination. He wasn't good enough to be first choice and being on loan, Dortmund had no incentive at all to give him game time to aid his development.
But surely he would have had some discussion with Dortmund before signing - there must have been some expectation of playing such that both Januzaj and Dortmund benefit from the loan. Clearly it didn't go according to the plan as his time was terminated. This is after Van Gaal clearly started the season with high reliance on Januzaj as a striker/winger but changed his mind quickly after he failed to step up presumably.
Well, whatever discussion he might have had regarding getting game time had to be reliant on him delivering from the get go and for that to happen, it would need to be at a level higher than their 1st choice 3. Maybe Januzaj was confident of doing this but the chances were always bleak in that regard.
The dude is ice cold, he's one thing you do not have to worry about.
Fascinating, helped him get on board with Van Gaal last year. I did think he had a lot more synergy with his back to goal than a lot of our other forwards. Thanks for the info.
Reus has been injury prone but last season he managed to keep himself fit whilst guys like Mkhi had amazing seasons. Dortmund probably got Januzaj as insurance incase Reus got injured or guys like Mkhi produced the form they did 2 seasons ago but things did not play into Adnans favour. As for chances under Lvg don't forget that we sold most of out wing options under him because he was obsessed with wingbacks in his first season and obviously a guy like Adnan would struggle to get game time in that set up. Last season Lvg again gave him a chance but as a number ten not as a winger, after his loan I remember he played as a wingback for us against Southampton for like 10 minutes. He was never given a proper chance under LVG, I felt sorry for him because he worked so hard last summer with Shaw in Dubai preparing for this past season.
if anything that will make him happy to come back to United where it's obvious the fans love him. Appreciate what you're saying in the sense you think he might be shy on confidence, but sometimes just moving back to where you're happy makes a big difference to a player
Where did he carry them to exactly ?
He might one day but he needs to work on his productivity. I think he could offer something centrally but so could pereira and many others.
He is a potential worldie let alone a top player. Time will tell. I am not the oldest but in my thirteen years or so of following football (which isn't a lot compared to many on here) I haven't seen a better youngster at his age bar Messi, Rooney and maybe Ronaldo.
and Kiko Macheda was the second coming of Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
We finished 7th. Our lowest finish in PL history. He did not carry us, he had maybe 5 good games at the most and has been deemed surplus to requirements ever since, both at us and dortmund. If he was good enough, we'd know by now.
Januzaj is a potential worldie and I stand by my statement. I never thought Macheda as that. I thought Macheda could develop into a really good player for us but nothing close to the feeling I had from Januzaj.
