edcunited1878
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Haha. Cleverley and Ando were actually really decent before Cleverley got hacked down and was injured and before Ando kept eating poorly. That is to say, United still have reliable, high quality players to get their results. They performed a tidy and safe, but quick and disciplined role in title contending teams just like Henderson does at Liverpool.Cleverly was surrounded by fat Ando. They were the midfield till Cleverly got injured. Tevez and Ronaldo were not there for the last CL Final. Good managers make good players better. Why did RVP score all those goals for United under SAF? Because as the players tell now, they were told they would be dropped if they do not pass to RVP if he was in a better position. And SAF would have dropped them. We see the selfishness of the players now and our manager sits there day after day looking at his ipad.
Rooney, Berbatov, Giggs, Carrick, etc. I'm missing loads of players but you get the jist....and the most formidable defensive 5 in the club's history one can say. And United played to their strengths and it evolved, but shit was class and it worked.
Even without RVP, the team was good "enough" to only lose the title on GD the previous year. SAF would drop them for a good player...Rashford isn't going to be dropped for Dan James. Martial isn't going to be dropped for Ighalo. Greenwood isn't going to be dropped for Lingard or Mata, rotated at best. I feel like Pogba should only be getting 30 minutes off the bench in PL matches behind DVB, but that's the managers call and seems like the only way Pogba can get into match fitness, but his brain and decision making is still quite the same under Ole as it was under Jose.