Thanks for the opposition view, sometimes i wish we had fans from all of the clubs offering insight into there own teams.
There is a lot of united influence on your current team.
- Drinkwater- i watched him in reserves at united and also some games under 18s , frankly rated him higher than cleverly. Was good tidy player, never really had the x factor nor like cleverly did it on a loan, hence was let go. It will be good to see him again, also scored good goal against liverpool reserves .
- Matty james - Before he got injured, there were calls for him and magnus eikrem to be promoted to united team. He is a good passer of the ball and is overall a great midfielder. Really wanted him to make it here, was rated highly at a point too.
- De laet- Never understood why we bought him, i guess e had some talent, scored a good goal in reserves.
- Schlupp - Another bizzare transfer we almost made, It was really strange with him. How do you rate him?
- Barmby - One of the very highly rated under 18's at united. But he could not really cut it at Reserve level, there was just too much competition. How is he doing? has he played yet?
- Lawrence - Will be a good lower-midtable premier league player. I like him. Just has a poor injury record.
Powell wont play, but he is very lazy, could be a good footballer,but his attitude does not fill you with confidence.
I hope you can tell me more about how they have done at your club. Also what do you expect of the game? Do you think you can beat us? or do you expect the manager to be playing for a draw.
Drinkwater was our best player last year by quite a bit. Dictates all play, is a fantastic passer (I think I remember he had over a 1000 more than anybody else in the championship and a massively high percentage of them were completed) and scored some incredible goals (
). As I think I said up in my other post, his coming on at half time with Cambiasso is what won us the Stoke match. Has his head firmly screwed on too and has the right attitude. Should be said also that he didn't start well for us in his first year and had the fans on his back at the beginning of the last one, so to step up as much as he did is incredible.
Matty James is great as well. A starter with Drinkwater when he's back from injury--won't be this week though, unless as a substitute. Can't remember him losing the ball once with us really. Not a player to do something spectacular, keeps it a bit more simple but does everything he does perfectly so Drinkwater tends to get all the praise.
De Laet started off this season shakily and to be honest always has a few matches every season where he just seems to have something else on his mind. Was better against Stoke though and he's great going forwards and linking up with Mahrez.
Schlupp is... Not really sure what to say about Schlupp. Most of the time looks competent despite lacking a bit technically, then he'll go onto do something surprisingly great one match (his run and cross to pick out Ulloa against Arsenal), and have an absolute mare the next match and decide to take on more than he usually would (Stoke). Has a lot of pace though which can work out well for us if he crosses it instead of attempting to shoot. Started as a striker, ended last season as a left back, started this one as a winger.
Don't really know anything about Barmby yet.
Lawrence is playing his first match against the Fulham U21s right now but we're losing.
Oh, and I don't expect us to win but I expect us to be competitive. Pearson isn't one to set us up to park the bus, especially at home. We didn't do it away at Chelsea and I'd say we just about matched them for the better part of 60 minutes.