Wes Brown provided an assist with his left foot in a Champions League Final, have some respect.
Yep people were way too quick to deem those signings as successful. I’d swap all of them out easily right now.
I have been thinking about O'Shea lately. He would be our best defender today.
Won the Champions League with Wes Brown providing an assist in the final. Brown was great.
How depressing is that.
Tuanzebe I personally wouldn't play at RB but he could do a job there in a emergency situation but he's not a RB and has had some very poor games playing that position for Villa on loan. He's not lacking in pace though and is arguably even quicker than AWB IMO.
The problem isn't the scouts but rather the club hierarchy giving too much power to the manager when it comes to recruitment. So we as a club allow the manager to set the short term and longterm goals which has been a major factor in our fall from grace. You don't sign players like AWB and Maguire if the plan is to implement a high pressure play style which Ole implemented for several years at Molde. He's quite frankly got these two signings wrong IMO and it's one of the reasons why we struggle to effectively advance play from deeper.
Mate, I felt really bad towards you last yet when you kept telling us that AWB wasn’t the right signing. Don’t get me wrong, it was nothing personal, on the contrary, I wanted success but AWB has not only disappointed, he has managed to be the worst signing since Bebe, Tosic, etc etc..
To say he was very good last year is a stretch. His overall limitations were very apparent and he had a few genuinely poor performances.
Tbh with you mate i'm just very disappointed with how we've wasted our money on players who don't suit playing in a team that should be playing in a proactive, imposing manner. You're one of the posters that I get on with and have always had a good rapport with and I will never argue with you mate even if you criticize me. But I cannot understand why he (Ole) decided to sign two players who are unsuited to playing a brand of football that he wants to implement.
Very true. Actually lot of people called this last year. We could have spent that 130m smartly and would still end up with change.
These aren't one off performances. He has been shite for quite a while now.Imagine conceding a mere 3 more goals than the dippers and 1 more than citeh, yet giving up on our defence after a run of 16 matches in the premier league with only 1 loss (on opening day with no preseason whatsoever).
Incredibly knee jerk.
He was great that season but in his early 20s he was diabolical at times.
This is a bit bizarre. What do you want?Remember all those posts "All Ole's signing are great"?
I'd prefer Williams or TFM as RB to Laird. I was convinced Williams is a LB, but Laird is not a solution either.
I wouldn’t blame the scouting setup. The blame lies with the “buy British” mentality that we had last summer. Thank God we seem to be getting away from that senseless mentality.
Mostly he doesn’t have a good “football brain”. He doesn’t sense danger, or movement ahead of him. Last year we thought he had a good year, specially when comparing him to Ashley Young. But he is miles from what we need. IMHO, we need a RB more than we do a LB. But unfortunately, because we overpaid for him, we are stuck with him for some time.
I agree with the Lindelof thing. The attack has been targeted twice on the same side by two different clubs not because of our RB but because of our RCB. Wan Bissaka to me is not a player who currently plays in his own channel but is made to play more narrow because Lindelof invites the pressure on to him. The lack of heading, the lack of tackles - if maguire was on AWB side as a RCB then I dont see Wan Bissaka cutting in all the time to be so narrow and try to help out with the defending unless Maguire needed that.
that's something that is happening with United on a regular basis. Players come in, they are initially great then their performance dip. It happened to Bailly, Rojo, Pogba, Lukaku, Di Maria and now to AWB, Maguire and Bruno as well. Which makes you wonder if its down to coaching.
We are neither getting the best out of Maguire nor AwB. The manager sticking to that defensive partnership when it clearly has glaring weaknesses is mind boggling.
