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He was the only one named. He probably knows he is on his way so has decided to fight his corner in the papers. Cant really argue with that, I know I would be if my boss kept spouting stuff about me.
He talked about Valencia too.
I'm talking about the general area. Now you could also say that your "double the number of passes past the opposition 18 yards" is 3 to 6 out of 39 and 41 passes but one of Shaw's pass is virtually on the 18 yard line, so it could well be 4 to 6. That 4 of the 13 passes made by Young in the last third are throw ins, while Shaw has only 1 throw in out 15 passes, that last point is important regarding your post because the 1 to 5 from the touch line represents throw ins. Shaw registered 2 crosses while Young registered 1.
Agreed. Probably moved a year too soon, should of stopped another year at Southampton and played every week.
Actually LVG had issues with Shaw as well, he publicly said Shaw wasn't fit enough to do what he was asking of him. I don't think LVG and Jose are both wrong bout Shaw.
27m back then was a lot of money.
I wouldn’t say Matic has transformed our midfield. He is better than playing Fellaini or Herrera in that role but our midfield still has the same problem it had last year.
Yep this completely sadly. Shouldn’t have been dropped
When you're a professional highly paid athlete, least you could do would be to control your weight and maintain your fitness. Can't blame any manager for his issues as he's had the same issues under everyone who's managed him.
Who are all these top athletes at manchester united who play at the top level every week? I could only name De Gea.
That's a fair point but also remember he has probably been injured for about 70% of his United career. Constant instability and hard to maintain fitness. Some players need extra nurturing and he seems like one. The talent is very very clear but the managers we have had in gaal and Jose do not fit him at all. He should leave unless we get a new manager (which I want but don't count my lucky stars). I just no in a few years he is going to be something special .
Off topic but Lequipe has an investigative program on their channel and a year ago it was about football players using personal fitness coaches and dieteticians. Apparently it's very common that clubs don't like it because they want to have a total control over the players, some player hide it from their clubs.
Atkins, Hodgson, Pochettino, Van Gaal and Jose have all questioned Luke's attitude. Maybe the problem is a little deeper than you're making out it is. As I said the least any professional Premier League player should be able to maintain a good level of fitness. I don't know what manager he needs, but seems ALL of the ones he's had have had issues with his fitness and weight.
Yeah I get your point as I've said but i still believe some players need to be pampered. People forget players are also humans and are full of emotions. He probably feels like he has no desire after Jose constantly humiliates him publically. Shaw shpuld fix up but probably needs a klopp type manager to push him and rejuvenate him.
Some people just mature way later
Like that's some sort of upward curve.
I think you misunderstand my meaning of top athlete here. In this case, I mean players who have the fitness to play for 90 minutes for the majority of the season, and not based on ability.
Like we're some sort of fecking nursery for spoilt footballers!!
And Mourinho gave him a lot of praise so things were looking positive then he just dropped him again.
Couldn’t agree more. Fair enough if people on here don’t rate Shaw, but what’s with the fecking vitriol. He genuinely seems a decent bloke and he’s still a United player. The fact remains, Mourinho is a cnut.
If we're demand our players make up for a lack of professionalism from the manager, we have the wrong manager.
It's not about making up a lack of professionalism, it's about not making a problem worse.
Ok, if our players have to be mindful of not exacerbating a problem caused by the manager, we have the wrong manager.
Maybe, but then we also have the wrong player don't we?
Are you an adult?
I think people would be less prone to doing this if Shaw’s principal rival was someone other than Young, a player towards whom Caftards have an unreasonable dislike.
Well put. I also think it is fairly clear, from what has been said before and now, that Jose’s issues with Luke is not much about fitness and ability, but about attitude and intelligence. I don’t much care for Mourinho’s way of hanging him out to dry in public about it, but his frustration is in a way understandable. He know’s what kind of positioning and choices he’s been trying to hammer i to the lad, and when the lad can’t grasp it like other players can, it wears on. Particularly when ‘experts’ like us and Paul Scholes see a Shaw running fast, going hard into duels and winning headers, and ignoring how they don’t really know what tasks he has that he’s messing up, go on to claim Mourinho doesn’t know what he’s doing benching him. Rumours points towards his own superiors at the club can’t understand it, and is trying to force an unwanted player on Mou.
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