The Unpopular Opinion thread. Post yours here.

[Sandikan]

That's true, we're not really free-flowing (yet), but under LVG there were games when we literally had 1 chance in the entire game. We've already had more entertainment in 10 games with Mourinho than in 2 seasons under LVG.

We couldn't boss lower league teams. And although no one quoted it as a record (which is unusual as media love records of anything), i'd be amazed if we've had as many 0-0 at home at half time games as last season, or just 0-0s full stop.

 

[Sandikan]

Manchester City will struggle to stay in the top 4 this season.

They started last season like animals, and then had to hold on for 4th at the last min on goal difference.

This season we thought differently, but last 3 games have been pretty ropey.

Long may it continue..as long as Liverpool bore off.

 

[Nytram Shakes]

If Leicester City can win it, we can win it with one of the most talented strikers in the world. The reasons we won't win the league this season go waay deeper than that.

yes i suppose we may get a miracle win the league with a 35 year old striker, but miracles like that and Leicester winning the league rarely happen.
and your right our problems do go deeper, but relying a on 35 year old striker to be the focal point of our attack is defiantly one of our problems.

 

[Insanity]

There is very little chance that Rashford will get chances to start games as a striker under Jose unless there is a catastrophic injury crisis. Jose system needs a striker with strong hold up play, and Rashers isn't capable of that right now. I see most of his appearances as a winger or off the bench late in the games.

 

[M Bison]

There is very little chance that Rashford will get chances to start games as a striker under Jose unless there is a catastrophic injury crisis. Jose system needs a striker with strong hold up play, and Rashers isn't capable of that right now. I see most of his appearances as a winger or off the bench late in the games.

I tend to agree with you and I don't think he's good enough as a winger so he may have to make do with cameos this season.

I do think he'll get game time in the cups etc and unless Ibra improves he could be in the side even sooner.

 

[Needham]

The chinks we are starting to see in Rashford's talent totally back up those who maintain he is yet another overhyped fly by night here today gone tomorrow pure average English talent.

 

[ants7]

Personally I like to see the young lads having a bit of fun.

yeah. it might be all me and I really am an old miserable cnut (although i'm 31).

 

[ants7]

RVP is nowhere close to being a United legend.

I don't think many would argue with that. It's just that the impact he made in his 1st season creates such a strong positive nostalgia towards him. Not a legend by any means but has a very strong place in any club's fan's heart.

 

[VorZakone]

The chinks we are starting to see in Rashford's talent totally back up those who maintain he is yet another overhyped fly by night here today gone tomorrow pure average English talent.

Wow, that's just writing him off too fast IMO.

 

[Donut]

The chinks we are starting to see in Rashford's talent totally back up those who maintain he is yet another overhyped fly by night here today gone tomorrow pure average English talent.

It's becoming obvious he's not a good winger, his dribbling is non-existant. He is a very good striker with big potential though.

 

[nick2004]

SAF was the best manager ever for us, but in his last two seasons he cost us much more than 200 million. One hundred for Pogba (lost because he played Park and Rafael in midfield), and 100+ million because he picked Moyes to replace him.

 

[Lurpak99]

SAF was the best manager ever for us, but in his last two seasons he cost us much more than 200 million. One hundred for Pogba (lost because he played Park and Rafael in midfield), and 100+ million because he picked Moyes to replace him.

How can picking Moyes cost us £100m?

 

[Nytram Shakes]

The chinks we are starting to see in Rashford's talent totally back up those who maintain he is yet another overhyped fly by night here today gone tomorrow pure average English talent.

think what your starting to see is that an 18 year old form will fluctuate especially when he is been played out of position

 

[Nytram Shakes]

SAF was the best manager ever for us, but in his last two seasons he cost us much more than 200 million. One hundred for Pogba (lost because he played Park and Rafael in midfield), and 100+ million because he picked Moyes to replace him.

id argue fergie cost us more by leaving a team that didn't really have any first choice outfield players in their prime.

 

[marukomu]

Manchester City will struggle to stay in the top 4 this season.

Unpopular? I would pull my plonker for hours if this happened.

 

[Sammyjunn]

id argue fergie cost us more by leaving a team that didn't really have any first choice outfield players in their prime.

Van Persie, Rooney, Rafael, Carrick did really decline a lot over the course of a few months including injuries, they were 4 of our key players. No one would say that in 2012/2013, Evans, Welbeck, Rafael, Kagawa would go on to have absolutely no use for use in the years to come.

 

[SirScholes]

Van Persie, Rooney, Rafael, Carrick did really decline a lot over the course of a few months including injuries, they were 4 of our key players. No one would say that in 2012/2013, Evans, Welbeck, Rafael, Kagawa would go on to have absolutely no use for use in the years to come.

Really? Kagawa wasn't very good, welbeck and evans were average and rafa was always a liability in terms of defending.
If that was the best we could offer its no wonder we stumbled

 

[SirScholes]

Delle alli is vastly over rated, isn't a great passer and is mediocre in terms of football intelligence

 

[Sammyjunn]

Really? Kagawa wasn't very good, welbeck and evans were average and rafa was always a liability in terms of defending.
If that was the best we could offer its no wonder we stumbled

Kagawa was one of the best players in the Bundesliga and a key player in a side that overpowered Bayern, Evans was actually our best CB that season with many injuries from Vida and Rio, Welbeck was a promising talent at that time who was versatile and also showed a lot of promise in his first few debut seasons when he played in front of/alongside Rooney. It is easy to say after this was wrong, that was wrong etc, but just point out how many people were foreseeing a huge decline after we won that title. And I dont think you really saw Rafa that season, he was top class.

 

[SirScholes]

Kagawa was one of the best players in the Bundesliga and a key player in a side that overpowered Bayern, Evans was actually our best CB that season with many injuries from Vida and Rio, Welbeck was a promising talent at that time who was versatile and also showed a lot of promise in his first few debut seasons when he played in front of/alongside Rooney. It is easy to say after this was wrong, that was wrong etc, but just point out how many people were foreseeing a huge decline after we won that title. And I dont think you really saw Rafa that season, he was top class.

Evans was our better defender because the others were injured, doesn't make him a good player.
Kagawa never seemed a good fit for us in fergies season, what he did previous doesn't change that.
Welbeck I said for years was a comedy act with falling over in front of goal he was not/is not a good player
Rafa had a good season going forward but defending was always making mistakes.

 

[::sonny::]

Smalling is an average player.

 

[JoaquinJoaquin]

Smalling is an average player.

Yup. Massively overrated on here. Rightfully dropped for England and should be for us next summer when we buy a top quality cb.

 

[prateik]

The team is very average. Some quality players who are under performing. A lot of average players who are hit or miss.

Fergie could get a squad like this to work as a team and be really good. Whatever we are doing after he has left isnt working.

On a good day, we can play some nice football for 45-60 minutes... that is about it.

Dont think we'll make the top 4. Not on what we have shown so far.

 

[All 3 United]

Ibra is finished. Smalling isn't good enough and lingard is a championship player.

 

[Gbenger]

Smalling will NEVER become a top defender.

 

[sizzling sausages]

Pogba should be dropped for tougher matches.

 

[Big Ben Foster]

Liverpool will win the league before the next time we win it.

 

[An Irish Red]

Rashford is the most overrated player we've ever had. Comfortably at that. Not saying he's a bad player, nor that he doesn't have potential, but he's not the next Ronaldo like he's made out to be.

Martial is a much, much better player.

 

[Igor Drefljak]

Mou tactics are outdated and being the top class manager he is, it's he who needs to adapt more than the players

 

[Bojan11]

Rashford is the most overrated player we've ever had. Comfortably at that. Not saying he's a bad player, nor that he doesn't have potential, but he's not the next Ronaldo like he's made out to be.

Martial is a much, much better player.

Agree 100%.

 

[Sandikan]

We're looking pretty decent and will easily put in a go at the league

it's an UNPOPULAR views thread people!

 

[nick2004]

How can picking Moyes cost us £100m?

If you add the money lost from finishing 7th and missing CL, the manager changes that created instability, the subsequent hire of LVG after only 10 months of Moyes (that we wouldn't need if we had hired Mourinho back then), and all the player selling and buying that did not really improve us that much compared to our last winning team... all that money is well above 100 million...

I don't think that Mourinho in 2013 would buy Fellaini and Mata, that team needed a couple of players but not those two, and not the total overhaul we have witnessed in the past 3 years. The reason we are still not playing well is that we don't have a stable core, and you can have a stable core without all players being the perfect superstars.

 

[sullydnl]

Rashford is the most overrated player we've ever had. Comfortably at that. Not saying he's a bad player, nor that he doesn't have potential, but he's not the next Ronaldo like he's made out to be.

Martial is a much, much better player.

Largely agree.

 

[bosnian_red]

Pogba isn't world class or close to it. Incredibly talented, capable of the spectacular, but he's proving to be exactly what I said he was all of last season. A youtube highlights player. Nothing more then that. He'll score a screamer occasionally, nutmeg players now and then, pull off some nice touches, but for the rest of the 80 minutes of the game, he'll do nothing. Juve got the better midfielder in with Pjanic for 25m then what we got for 90m. Sad but true. He'll come good I think and improve a lot, but despite being 23 now he still plays like he's a 19 year old.

 

[VorZakone]

Pogba isn't world class or close to it. Incredibly talented, capable of the spectacular, but he's proving to be exactly what I said he was all of last season. A youtube highlights player. Nothing more then that. He'll score a screamer occasionally, nutmeg players now and then, pull off some nice touches, but for the rest of the 80 minutes of the game, he'll do nothing. Juve got the better midfielder in with Pjanic for 25m then what we got for 90m. Sad but true. He'll come good I think and improve a lot, but despite being 23 now he still plays like he's a 19 year old.

Pjanic really isn't as good as you think he is.

 

[Lentwood]

We should never have sacked van Gaal

 

[bleedred]

We can still win the league. 6 points at this stage of the season isn't much.

 

[bosnian_red]

Pjanic really isn't as good as you think he is.

He is a better midfielder then Pogba is though. Even when both were in Serie A together, Pjanic was always better at actual midfield things while Pogba just popped up now and then to produce highlights moments, while Pogba's midfield partners did most of the actual "midfielding". Pjanic goes there and is a key player instantly too.

 

[Frank Grimes]

Rashford is not all that.

 

[Scholesy]

Rashford and Lingard are lower table/Championship quality.

Martial should leave us for his own good.

Rojo should be given a chance as first choice CB.

Mourinho has been poor so far.

Pogba and Ibra have been 2 of our better players so far.