What is it you are trying to say here mate and why are you waffling on about this nonsense in a Sergio Romero thread?
I can't care less about the player's nationality or 'DNA' as long as he's talented and committed. I criticised a number of players in my lifetime, sometimes fairly while others less so. Yet I never hated anyone. Ole's team is the closest of hating and it wasn't reserved for an individual player but nearly the entire team.
So if you don't care what is all this talk of a ''British core'' about then?
Yeah let's keep an average, over the hill, back-up keeper instead of a promising young England International from the Academy.
So professional clubs just accept whatever's offered then even if it's way below their valuation?
Read they offered us $2m, guess we thought wed rather keep a third GK in case
United's obsession in hoarding unhappy players is what lead to this disaster in the first place. There was a reason why SAF sold squad players such as Phil Nev on the cheap.
Simply because Ole's obsession for a 'British core' was not only expensive but stupid. Under him United spent 130m on Maguire and AWB which is probably more then ETH has to spend this year. He also insisted on guys like Shaw and McTominay who were clearly not good enough, he ran Rashford to the ground and he insisted in keeping Lingard when we could have sold him for good money. An aura of complacency and toxicity kicked in which lead to this disaster. In the end ETH had inherited the laziest and possibly the least talented team United had ever had in the past 35 years with many players leaving for free. United DNA indeed.
We hyped Henderson on the basis of 1 half decent season in the EPL and because of that we made him the 6th most paid keeper in the EPL. How did that work out exactly? He's not set to go on loan at Nottingham because he's nowhere near to DDG, he doesn't want to stay on the bench and no one can afford/bother to buy him. Which means we're now on the look out for a no 2 again.
You would have thought that after last year fans would have learnt not to hoard players who doesn't want to be here especially when they do have a point (ie they aren't being played)
I’ve heard these Goldbridge followers spouting this bullshit about too many British players. Could you imagine going to Barcelona and telling them they have to many Spanish players or better yet go to Ajax and tell them stop playing Dutch players?
I am not a big fan of Goldbridge. However I think that Barcelona and Ajax would have issues if their Spanish or Dutch core was largely made up of players who are simply not good enough.
Yeah I suspect it's just another in a long line of nonsense myth to beat Solskjaer with. The idea that United having a 'British core' is a negative is pure and utter nonsense.
Mourinho and Guardiola wanted Maguire. We overpaid but then United usually have to.
Hindsight is 20/20 but only an idiot would have chose Romero over Henderson is asked who was a better bet to replace DeGea.
Just answer the question mate instead of spouting more waffle.
City bailed out the moment silly sums were being asked. We didn't and we ended up buying an average EPL defender at the price of a Van Dijk. Fred is the best CM we've got (Bruno is a no 10), Bailly would be a first teamer if only he could remain fit while AWB is nowhere near to first team level.
Not really. We paid Henderson the salary of a first team goalkeeper based on just 1 season with Sheffield United. It was a shit fest waiting to happen because we now had two goalkeepers on 475k between them both of whom expecting to be first keeper. Romero might not have had Henderson's potential/hype but he was happy to be backup keeper as long as he got a fair share of the whip. That was something neither DDG nor Henderson were happy with. Yet another clusterfeck from Cardiff.
If the player is unhappy and we can't get better value then yes we should have accepted the offer. SAF did that all the time including with P Nev but also bigger stars like Beckham and RVN. Hoarding unhappy players at the club will only result to, well, last season.
feck me that’s a reach even for you
We did sign McShane.feck me that’s a reach even for you
For the first team?
Have I said that? The answer is no.
Him not being good enough in his prime has zero relevance to what he was signed to do - which was play as a senior player/coach at U23 level to teach youngsters in real-time on the pitch when playing U23 matches. It’s an innovative approach and something Liverpool have copied this summer. As per usual you’re moaning for the sake of fecking moaning.
What would someone who was barely EPL level teach to our youngsters? I mean its not like we signed a 35 year old something Buffon. We're talking about McShane here
Someone asked why we signed Heaton since we barely ever played him. I highlighted the fact that we also signed McShane on similar conditions. Then hell went loose based on that comment.
What could former academy graduate, international and professional footballer for over 16 years playing at EPL level Paul mcshane who also has his coaching badges teach Manchester United academy players about making it as a footballer? No idea. No clue at all. God you’re tedious.
That changes everything. A United youth talent has plenty to learn from a former Ireland international who spent most of his career playing with the likes of Hull, Reading and Brighton. You only have to notice how many trophies we won with Ole and his former Reds at the wheel
Yea. They do - because for 95% of them the career he’s had would be incredible. They don’t all make it. In fact few of them do. His footballing ability also has zero fecking relevance to his coaching ability. Yet again you’re talking absolute cock.
We already seen the benefits of having so many ex players 'at the wheel'. Enough said....back to the Romero.
Would he be 3rd choice keeper though?Romero made a lot of noise about being second choice goalie and in the end said that the club was treating him like a slave not letting him leave. Now he wants to come back as 3rd choice?
Yeah, that makes sense
That isn’t what happened though. He dropped to third choice on Henderson’s return, was told he could move to Everton to sit on their bench then the club changed their mind last minute for no reason.Romero made a lot of noise about being second choice goalie and in the end said that the club was treating him like a slave not letting him leave. Now he wants to come back as 3rd choice?
Yeah, that makes sense
What absolute nonsense. Liverpool just hired Jay fecking Spearing as coach. Do you think it's also out of pity, because he's one of the old boys?
I hope we don't. He's 35 and barely played in the last two years. Would rather go for someone younger, like Bachmann.
Anyway lets hope he's better then Ole, the Nevilles, Giggs, Fletcher, Carrick and Co who were all given chances at the club and failed miserably
From what ive read, guys like Fletcher and Carrick and Mckenna tried to make the best of a bad situation, rather than being the main causes of it. But anyways, like you said, lets hope they are better, and at least give them the chance rather than judging them based purely on association.
You spout some absolute waffle mate. We're going way off topic so I'll leave it there as it'll only lead to more nonsense.
Liverpool signed Jay Spearing in the role McShane had last year. The one Spearing with 29 PL appearances.
Fair enough but did we really need to bring him in as a player first? How many former reds does our club need at the time? What were the benefits of having Ole, Carrick, McShane, Clegg and Fletcher involved?
That's a weird opinion to have given there are countless great managers who were bang average or worse players.
Fair enough but did we really need to bring him in as a player first? How many former reds does our club need at the time? What were the benefits of having Ole, Carrick, McShane, Clegg and Fletcher involved?
