Apart from the Pep and the Academy thing, most of your opinions are shared by the majority at RedCafe. I'd say that makes it quite popular.
I'll make a unpopular prediction:
Ryan Giggs will be a very good manager.
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I'll make a unpopular prediction:
Ryan Giggs will be a very good manager.
Pep has made Bayern worse than they were before and him as a manager who will oppose united next season does not scare me.
Rooney is still good
Jesse Lingard having a future here, hanging on to old players like Carrick and the midfield being far from sorted are not that popular here IMO, many think Lingard is not good enough, lots want to keep Carrick another season and most only seem to feel we need one CM addition.
I'd same better at certain aspects, worse at other overall a slight decline.
Considering how good Bayern were before he came in, seems harsh to beat him on that.
He made Barca a lot better, reckon he'll make City a lot better too.
Van Gaal was right to cut down our massively bloated squad and we could still do with losing a few players.
It's like saying Ferguson made us worse after 1999, because we never won the treble again. Had Heynckes stayed Bayern wouldn't have continued being that good anyway, every team has its peak, and Bayern peaked in 2013, after that it was always going to go a little bit downhill.
Mourinho would do a better job here than Pep or Pochettino.
I still have reservations on Rashford (hope i'm wrong).
Fosu Mensah would be a better DM for us than Schneiderlin given the chance.
Herrera's United career may have already peaked.
I still have reservations on Rashford (hope i'm wrong).
Fosu Mensah would be a better DM for us than Schneiderlin given the chance.
Herrera's United career may have already peaked.
Its the "Unpopular Opinion thread" not the "Downright Crazy thread'
Football would've been better off without the Bosman ruling.
The Class of '92 shot JFK.
Put him alongside Ryan Shawcross and I swear they'll be unstoppable.
What made you come to this conclusion, was it the massive injury crisis we didn't have the numbers to cope with that basically derailed our season perhaps?
No squad that has to regularly field midfielders and youngsters to cobble together back fours to fulfill fixtures and has very few attacking options off the bench could do with losing numbers.
The following players are shit and need to be gotten rid of - Bastian, Memphis, Schneiderlin, Rojo
Unpopular opinion huh!!!
Shaw is not something out of the world. He is just a routine player. He goes too forward trying to attack (which he has truck loads to learn about) creating a huge hole on the left in defense which could/will be easily exploited by opposition.
He will remain at almost same levels and we will not be getting the so-called 10 years of loyalty at very high levels which half of caf seems to be convinced about.
PS: This is just an opinion and I am not expecting anyone to convince me otherwise. I hope/pray I am proved a d**k and he becomes an awesome player who will play for us for ages.
Shaw is not something out of the world. He is just a routine player. He goes too forward trying to attack (which he has truck loads to learn about) creating a huge hole on the left in defense which could/will be easily exploited by opposition.
He will remain at almost same levels and we will not be getting the so-called 10 years of loyalty at very high levels which half of caf seems to be convinced about.
PS: This is just an opinion and I am not expecting anyone to convince me otherwise. I hope/pray I am proved a d**k and he becomes an awesome player who will play for us for ages.
Corrected. You're welcome
Never mind unpopular, I feel like I've wandered into the 'mental football forum posts' thread with some of these
Memphis wlll become world class for us
Fellaini has been a better signing than Schweinsteiger and Darmian.
People formulating crazy shit on the spot just to post something
Our season wasn't derailed by an injury crisis though. We were actually playing some of our best football when we had the most players out and our results declined again once the likes of Fellaini and Carrick returned to fitness and came back into the team.
Our problems this season stem largely from Van Gaal being a poor match day manager (tactics, team selection, substitutions) combined with a lack of quality (not numbers) in certain positions. The decision to cut the numbers was sound and has been justified by the emergence of younger players like Varela, Bothwick-Jackson, Rashford and Lingard.
I want us to keep giving younger players chances and I want more quality in the team. Cutting the numbers in certain positions will make it easier to do both. For example we desperately need to sort out our right hand side, next season we could have Shaw/Martial on the left, that's world class. On the right we could have two from Mata/Lingard/Young/Valencia/Darmian/Varela, that's six players yet no combination we can put out is better than mid-table. I'd be happy to lose all four of the senior players provided they were replaced with two of higher quality and I could make a similar point about our midfield.
Carrick is and always was massively overrated by United fans.
there are too many foreign players at our club and most of the current players don't appear to give a toss - unlike 13 years ago when half our squad would sweat blood for the shirt
I don't think we should bother with Memphis next season. His lack of technique can't be coached.
To be honest, I think the 'foreigners' that have played and currently play at the club understand the identity of United and they love being a part of it. There's only really Di Maria you can say hasn't appreciated it in recent times, Pehaps Tevez and Heinze at a push to. I think it's more of a fact that the current players aren't playing for Van Gaal more. They would welcome a change as much as us if effort and body language are anything to go by (and not scripted interviews).
Interesting that you picked three Argentinians...
Schweinsteiger was a stupid signing and the club should have seen through the fact he was cheap
I predicted he would be awful and he has been even worse than I was expecting.
I predicted he would be awful and he has been even worse than I was expecting.
Valencia is a very good right back.
Football agents get a bad rap. They provide a valuable and necessary service and are easily scapegoated by clubs and media when it suits them.
People who start their posts(here or elsewhere) with "Wow" should receive 12 months hard labour.
1. Herrera has had many bad games that get glossed over when he plays one good game. The opposite of Fellaini and Valencia.
2. We were right to sell aall the players we sold incuding Nani
2. We were right to sell aall the players we sold incuding Nani
That's actually a really interesting point of view. I guess it's easier for us, clubs and the media to label players & agents as greedy rather than take aim at a faceless organisation like a club. We assume that clubs will almost always act 'above board' and this isn't the entire truth.
Steady.
There's unpopular opinions and then there is that
Mere co-incidence. On the other hand...
Yeah having basically no defenders bar Smalling for months, having 3 midfielders injured and playing Fellaini in there and no real attacking threat and no options off the bench really saved our season.
Once Shaw, Schweinsteiger, Valencia, Jones, Rojo and Young etc. all got crocked our season went tits up.
Wayne Rooney need to leave we need to move on. He is holding the team back. We look better without him. More fluid less passive.
I disagree we played better football in spurts but results overall declined once the likes of Shaw, Schweini, Jones, Rojo, Young, Valencia etc. all got long term injuries and showed how thin our squad really was. We just didn't have the numbers to cope. And however great it is to see all the young lads playing it was forced upon us and cost us games as a result.
I mean it's obvious all those players got injured around November-December bar Shaw and thats when our season took a nose dive. Before that we were going well and in the title race with a pretty good record.
I actually agree with your point about quality, we are desperately lacking quality and yes especially in the right. I would like us to sign a new RB and RW.
There has been a good 60% of our squad that have been worse than him this season.
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