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What's wrong with playing a winger like Young who has a lot of energy and defends well at full-back?Young needs to be considered as a serious option and as long as Darmian doesn't show that he can do better, bench is the place for him.
fair reply and he had a shocker, as do all players. my point kinda was more that i want defenders to play in defence and attackers in attack. hate it when we play players out of position like Fellaini as a striker, valencia as right back
I think he's still getting used to LVG and a new league of course.
Yeah, he hit the ground running, but sort of lost steam. Same as with Depay, really. Maybe the seeming ease of transition caused some complacency. He's shown what he can do, so it's just a matter of getting back to that level.
Young is quicker and has played his heart out even against tricky opponents. Please do not change the the back four unless it´s needed.
Doesn't really apply to Shaw. He's been great every time he played, and was simply injured for most of his first season having won Louis over after some pre-season fitness issues. He's never struggled to be first choice for more than a game or two when fit.
It does actually - even though he wasn't really dropped by LVG. He didn't have the best of form during the middle part of the season even fit which led to people questioning (wrongly obviously!) if he was massively overhyped and if he had the potential to become a good player for us. Specially, questions were raised as to his attacking potential. Then around the time we played Chelsea the second time, everything started coming together for him. He was actually the best player for us against Chelsea, which obviously was the norm this season before his injury but was a new phenomenon last season.
Are you judging his defensive skills or attacking skills?
Both in combination, as I would for a fullback.
You're right. He started very well but he didn't really keep it up long, unlike the Caf's general perception of his performances which for some reason kept going up and up. People would put him in Real, Barca and Bayern's teams when making combined XI's in one thread. The whole thing was really odd. He was great in the first two games and then had another good period (Sunderland and Wolfsburg) and that's about it. My rating of him on the Caf so far is 5.8, compared to the 6.3 average and my ratings of the other players are generally pretty similar to the average.
What would make you think that? Most here are critical but many are pointing out that he's still adapting and it's normal.
Ive witnessed comments in here saying LVG doesn't rate him, and that he offers no attacking threat.
I does seem that way at times, though not so much for Darmian perhaps. Plenty of people basically gave up on Depay, writing him off completely, and Rojo's been getting stick from some from day one. Plenty of people were (and are still) doubtful of whether Blind's good enough. A lot of people seem to have the patience of literal children.
Yes, I agree - he doesn't seem to trust him for some reason. I think Valencia would have carried on in the role had he not got injured and now Young is playing there, which puts Darmian at third choice. he has also been withdrawn at half time a couple of times I think - disappointing as we had high hopes for him
Indeed
He isn't an ordinary player at all. His first 5 or so PL games and the CL qualifiers, he was very good. He was defensively sound and got into the right positions. Most of the players struggled to beat him 1v1. Meaning he is technically sound. It's probably a temporary form or confidence issue. I'm certain him and Memphis will be mainstays in our team soon.
Reads like you've never actually seen him play.
Evra was solid at one point
I meant at the beginning of their United careers, Evra's first few months were very bad.
