they play a completely different system, so your conclusion makes little sense. Leverkusen play insane pressing and are a very direct team. Without the ball he has to hustle defenders all game long and with it he just has to get at the end of balls in the box. He doesn´t have do to anything, where he isn´t particularly good at, while his high energy and his ability to score from inside the box are used to his best. For United he´d have to play completely different and would suffer.some very cheeky posts in here.
Bayern leverkrusen are a very decent side, not far behind the current utd. If he is good enough for them he would of been fine for us this year.
This excellent timing by Chich.I'm happy for Chicha. He deserves a prolonged period of success after having been pushed around and been a bench player for so long.
It's just annoying that his purple patch coincides with our goal drought.
Exactly. Its not like we are spoilt with abundance of world-class strikers in our squad, so that Chicha was deemed as a surplus. Its not like Bundesliga is a tier or two below EPL. Glad to see Chicha doing well there. May it long continue.some very cheeky posts in here.
Bayern leverkrusen are a very decent side, not far behind the current utd. If he is good enough for them he would of been fine for us this year.
Yeah, ouch!I'm happy for Chicha. He deserves a prolonged period of success after having been pushed around and been a bench player for so long.
It's just annoying that his purple patch coincides with our goal drought.
I'd argue that he's ultimately not good enough for United (a team aiming to compete on all fronts), unless he's playing the role he was prior to leaving - that of third choice striker/rotation player.He's clearly good enough for us... he was in the past (you know, when we actually scored goals and won things) and he still is now.
Anyway well done to him for banging them in for Bayer.
Key word being ultimately. Right now we don't have better strikers than him.I'd argue that he's ultimately not good enough for United (a team aiming to compete on all fronts), unless he's playing the role he was prior to leaving - that of third choice striker/rotation player.
He is simply too limited to be a viable first choice option for a top club in my opinion.
But who would have foreseen that last Summer? The decision to let him go was the right one at the time. He had numerous chances here but never quite made the grade as a starter.Key word being ultimately. Right now we don't have better strikers than him.
We had already let go of van Persie and Falcao, it made a lot more sense to keep Chicha than to sell him. LvG put all his eggs in the Rooney shaped basket, and we are suffering at the moment as a result of it. It wasn't even as if we were paid an amount for him that made any sort of difference to us.But who would have foreseen that last Summer? The decision to let him go was the right one at the time. He had numerous chances here but never quite made the grade as a starter.
He's...he's...he's not ours anymoreThis has been one of the players LVG clearly misjudge.
Very happy for our Chicharito!
He´s in our hearts !He's...he's...he's not ours anymore
Hernandez finished both 2010/11 and 2012/13 as a starting centre forward at Manchester United, scoring 20 and 18 goals in each season respectively. Its not true to say he never made the grade as a starter. Sir Alex liked him, sadly his successors did not.But who would have foreseen that last Summer? The decision to let him go was the right one at the time. He had numerous chances here but never quite made the grade as a starter.
Wtf is that!He's...he's...he's not ours anymore
Wasn't he a sub in 12/13? Van Persie was #1.Hernandez finished both 2010/11 and 2012/13 as a starting centre forward at Manchester United, scoring 20 and 18 goals in each season respectively. Its not true to say he never made the grade as a starter. Sir Alex liked him, sadly his successors did not.
Leverkusen's style is completely different to United's, he's found a perfect team for himself who play the way he likes and can be the main man finally.some very cheeky posts in here.
Bayern leverkrusen are a very decent side, not far behind the current utd. If he is good enough for them he would of been fine for us this year.
It wasn't that difficult to predict it. In his 4 full seasons here, he outperformed and outscored Rooney twice, despite that he played less minutes than Rooney in each of those seasons.But who would have foreseen that last Summer? The decision to let him go was the right one at the time. He had numerous chances here but never quite made the grade as a starter.
We played 4-4-2 for the bulk of the season. Only against tough opponents did we play 4-5-1. Hernandez finished the season playing up top with Van Persie after Sir Alex decided Rooney wasn't going to play under him any longer. He started and scored in both the Swansea (H) and West Brom (A) games at the end of the season. He also partnered Van Persie for a decent whack of the winter while Rooney was not being used, which is when he bagged that late winner in the 4-3 win over Newcastle (H) and both he and Robin tore Wigan (A) apart.Wasn't he a sub in 12/13? Van Persie was #1.
Gomez was Bayern's best player in LVG's second season at Bayern, and he is a poacher too. He doesn't have a better technique than Hernandez, he influences the matches less than Hernandez. On the other side he is physically stronger and better on the air.If we had still been playing 442 or something like that he would have worked for us but theres no way in hell he fits into any LVG formation
Really? Who cares about the money. What did you expect? Him to go for 10m more? That would be less than half of what we wasted on Falcao. About a fifth of the money we lost on DiMaria and Falcao last year.The sad fact is that we bought him out of nowhere, helped establish his reputation as a forward and sold him for no real profit.
Did you mean to post in the Henning Berg thread?He's...he's...he's not ours anymore
There could have been more competition for his signature and consequently more options for himself to choose form if we hadn't completely destroyed his reputation by the Moyes nightmare, followed by the loan to Real, which did nothing for either him or us.Really? Who cares about the money. What did you expect? Him to go for 10m more? That would be less than half of what we wasted on Falcao. About a fifth of the money we lost on DiMaria and Falcao last year.
We have plenty of money.. So much that we dont care about being prudent with it any more,
He wasnt sold to a rival. He got a good move and its working out for him.
Not being a dick over his transfer fee was the least he deserved for being a really good player for us.
Not exactly from nowhere considering that he was already a Mexican regular and scored twice in World Cup.The sad fact is that we bought him out of nowhere, helped establish his reputation as a forward and sold him for no real profit.
We bought him before the world cup started for a reason, to keep the competition low for his transfer fee and even agreed to a friendly for our trouble.Not exactly from nowhere considering that he was already a Mexican regular and scored twice in World Cup.
Anyway, he scored 59 goals for us and was an important part of the team who won the league and reached UCL final in 2011, and the team who won the league in 2013.
Moyes and Van Gaal (especially the later) decided that he is shit though. Which looks to have been a big mistake.
A good few of us could see it last summer. When a player delivers like he did in his first season for us, and then gets little opportunity to reprise that, it's short-sighted to ship him out based on the fact he hasn't delivered. He never had a run as poor as Rooney's, so where's the logic.But who would have foreseen that last Summer? The decision to let him go was the right one at the time. He had numerous chances here but never quite made the grade as a starter.