Again. What you’ve quoted (and what Herrera said) and what Pexbo took from it (and what I originally argued with) are completely different things and, unsurprisingly, he created this mythical scenario as the main evidence against Herrera in a post where he criticized Herrera’s hypocrisy.
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Just because we haven’t done it doesn’t mean it wouldn’t be relatively simple. There’s a lot of shit you’d file under that heading over the past decade.
Its funny you mention Javier Hernandez as he's actually been known to be fake and a massive twat for a while now.
He started hanging around with some life coach and basically became an egotistical Ronaldo-lite. There are reports of him being a problem at Leverkusen and West Ham and when he went to LA he refused to speak to his teammates other than one or two other Mexicans. I have some friends of friends who play/played in LA and they can't stand him, no one can. So far up his own ass and incredibly rude to anyone below him. He even ruined his god-like status in Mexico by being a cnut. During a camp he threw a party with hookers and then refused to accept any responsibility blaming loads of other people and even got some regular workers fired over it. Then took 3 years to apologize, conveniently right before the World Cup thinking he'd get called up but he wasn't because Tata could see right through him and he causes so much trouble. Then there are the claims from his ex-wife that he refused to install safety railings around their pool to protect their children because they didn't fit the aesthetic and in general was a completely absent father. No surprises for when he released his crying sob story of how he was sorry for being a terrible husband/father/person.
Couldn't care for either of them personally, both fairly average players who have dined off being "passionate" despite Hernandez actually being a twat and Herrera chasing the money.
Poor mans Nicky Butt.
He came, did a decent job, and left. Nothing player really, not good enough for a United midfield but also didn't stink out the place like a Schneiderlin/Schweinsteiger.
For all the criticism Fellaini gets/got, I think he was a better signing than Herrera.
For all the criticism Fellaini gets/got, I think he was a better signing than Herrera.
Fellaini's a god-damn legend.
The two posters above me... did you watch our games when he was here?
He's giving his version of events on Man Utd's in house official podcast. If he was lying that much do you think the club would publish and promote this on its website and social media?
One of our most likeable players in the post Fergie era. Loved everything about him.
The midfield was a mess while he was here as well. The reason for that is, it's Carrick who we've been failing to replace for the best part of a decade.
Mourinho made us £40m on Matic who was decent for a couple of 3-4 months spells over the best part of the 4 years he was here. Prior to that we were limping along with an aging Carrick, who whenever he hit a patch of form made us look like a decent team.
It's bizarre to me that we spent £50m (and wages) on Fred. Then went out and sunk another £40m (and wages) on Van de Beek. Only for the midfield to get worse.
Herrera was not an all time midfield great. He would not have started for any of our title winning teams, except maybe 2013 for Cleverly. However, had we renewed Ander after Stockholm - before PSG came in - we would have saved money and had a better midfield.
Was always crazy how he was player of the season and then replaced that very summer and sent to the bench by matic. Could've at least tried to build around a midfield 3 with Pogba, Herrera and Matic, but they never went for it.
Too late would have been after he signed the PSG contract but he was offered a new contract by united before he inked the PSG contract not afterwards.
The PSG contract was worth a lot more than the united contract.
He chose the PSG contract.
They are the facts. What can be debated is should we have matched the PSG contract and should he have been offered the united contract even earlier. I'm fairly neutral on Herrera, I like him and would have preferred if he stayed but wasn't overly upset when he left.
The contract offer by PSG was crazy, no ?
Even fans of Herrera mentioned that we maybe shouldn't match that offer.
Even fans of Herrera mentioned that we maybe shouldn't match that offer.
Yeah, the time to resign him was earlier — probably around the time that Herrera mentions himself. And for a different money.
Once PSG came with that offer he was gone — we would've never matched it (although with Woodward you never could be sure) and we certainly shouldn't have. He was a good player but never ~300k per week good, not even close.
It’s a shame he left, was always a big fan of his and loved what he brought to the team. Always difficult to gauge what happened with him considering our poor approach to contract renewals, but ultimately he decided to leave for big money at PSG.
Rated him. Never went missing like a lot of so called more talented players did week in week out. Would still be a decent utility player for us I reck.
Loved that assist for Martial in the FA cup semi final, watched it at a mates wedding who’s new wife gave in and put it on the screens, even my mates dad had it on his phone during speeches before that!
Loved that assist for Martial in the FA cup semi final, watched it at a mates wedding who’s new wife gave in and put it on the screens, even my mates dad had it on his phone during speeches before that!
It was a painful time to be a united supporter, you could see we were going to collapse.
Ole boys? Wasn’t Herrera a key player for Ole up until he got injured and declared he was leaving?
It clearly was the right decision for him and poor management by us, trying to underpay one of our best players but pay worse ones more, of course he left.
But Fred cost 50m for a worse player.
Pogba was and it wasn't even close. Funny the difference in how both are perceived however.
Some of the hate he gets on here seems really weird to me. I didn't listen to the interview but it pretty much confirms what I suspected judging from the comments: he wasn't offered a contract after a very good year of performances in 16-17 and a MOTM in the Europa League final (he also did pretty well in his first season too). I would have told the club to get fecked if i were in his shoes and i saw Phil Jones and Ashley Young get contract extensions ahead of me.
But they all got offered contracts in their last year, and signed them. Herrera got the hump because he got offered a contract extension in his last year when he wanted one the summer before. He's angry at all the wrong people, he could have stayed if he wanted to.
For a start he's never been a £200k+ a week player, and the issue wasn't that he was underpaid, the issue is that he wanted a contract offer the summer before he was offered a contract extension. It's daft, he should be annoyed at the people who convincned him getting offered a contract in your final year is disrespecful.
i remember at the time the story was the Spanish guys were pissed the club were favouring the English players. Jones, Smalling, Young, etc
Woodward tried similar with Fellaini, who ended up publicly mocking the club as they had to pay up for him due to Mourinho wanting him to stay at any cost
He may have had his limitations as a player, but at the end of the day we replaced him with hopeless cloggers in Fred and McTominay.
Sickening we did not give him the respect he deserves and give him a new contract. Makes it worse it was at the time we renewed players like phil jones, mata bailey, rashford and Martial on bumper deals during the same period
Doesn't mean it would've been a good call. Actually letting him go turned out to be a great decision.
He's been injured a lot for PSG on huge wages for a player of his quality and hasn't even stablish himself as a starter. He'd be another injury prone deadwood player in our squad at this point.
One of my favorite players. Ten-hag would love him here. I'm sure he would have played more games than Bailey and Phil Jones if he had stayed.
All said and done you can't deny his work rate for the club, it was exemplary.
Didn't exactly light up the french league. Would've been happy for him to stay had we not signed Fred
I'm kinda on this side of the takes.
Yet another player we let down. We should re sign him to keep company to the likes of Sancho, Maguire and Jones. Trophies are secondary when compared to giving players their safe space. No one is bigger then the players
Could never forgot the moment where he was lifted up by Mark fecking Noble. And the absolute ridiculous thing was our entire spineless team that season saw that and allowed it to happen
And I think that was crucial game for top 4?
Everyone is general after the battle.
Wouldn't last two minutes on the pitch under Ten Hag that's for sure
We needed to make sure to sign contract renewals for the likes of Jones, Lee Grant, Lingard, Mata, etc. It's Herrera's problem he couldn't wait for us to sort out important players first.
Made no sense! Not giving a player who just won player of the year a new contract yet giving Phil Jones one who never plays a game 
Herrera loved this club! The board have No brain cells!
Herrera loved this club! The board have No brain cells!