Manchester United Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread - Mod Note in OP, 25/08

While Di Maria had a fantastic year, I'm not convinced he has been world class any other year at Real? Besides this year he often feel into the category of 'don't get the hype' for me. Players like Nani and Valencia have had years where they have appeared to be world class but it ultimately proved to be short lived, I dunno why but I just get a similar feeling with Di Maria - has he been consistently world class for a number of years as one would expect for a 50 million pound player?

Montroseee wrote: »

While Di Maria had a fantastic year, I'm not convinced he has been world class any other year at Real? Besides this year he often feel into the category of 'don't get the hype' for me. Players like Nani and Valencia have had years where they have appeared to be world class but it ultimately proved to be short lived, I dunno why but I just get a similar feeling with Di Maria - has he been consistently world class for a number of years as one would expect for a 50 million pound player?

While the quoted price is indeed on the higher end of the scale. He'd easily improve our team.

Eurosport Eurobot update saying Sporting have been offered Anderson as part of the Rojo deal, Sporting want Nani but he don't want to go home. This is going to be a long two weeks of will we or won't we get him,him,that guy etc.

kryogen wrote: »

It doesn't matter if nothing came from his crosses, that is no way to judge a good cross!

If the cross is good it will create something.

Nani made four in total.

The first was easily caught by the keeper as it was close to him and not a UTD player, poor.

The second was waist high and e asily cut out by the defender, poor.

The third was from deep, not accurate and came back out from the CB'S knees, very poor.

The fourth was slightly overhit, Fellanin from the backpost managed to nod it into the danger area, the resulting shot was blocked and cleared, only for Fellains height it was possibly going out for a throw, again poor.

Nani created zilch. He worked has but his crossing was poor. He got them off, thats about all you can say for them.

Sky Sports reporting: Reports coming out of Spain claim Bayern Munich are stepping up their interest in Atletico Madrid defender Diego Godin. Bayern's sporting director Michael Reschke is set to to travel to the Spanish capital to hold talks with Atletico over a possible move.

Might be good news on Benetia front.

RobbingBandit wrote: »

Cut his hair and he looks like Nani from real far away. :P

Yeah just send him over in a number 17 shirt and pop him into one of these:



By the time they notice something is wrong it will be too late.

Your Airbag wrote: »

Nothing was created from Nanis crosses. I don't know where the 50% of good crosses is coming from.

Creatively it was lacking quality. Using the 45min in a struggling team in the first game of the season line is wrong. How long has Nani been at UTD, how many chanes has he had and how many question marks are still over him?

My opinion is that he has never had a long run, I don't think he actually has played 6-7 back to back games in his time at UTD. I'd give him that chance and if he can't produce better than he'd go on the outbound list.

Its last chance saloon time though.

He put in 4 crosses. 2 were good and 2 were poor. 50% strike rate on putting in good crosses. The fact that nothing came of those good crosses, is not a valid criticism of Nani's quality of output.

Fúck all question marks hang over him regarding his quality (what you brought up) and consistency (the old favourite of his critics) for me. The fact that other people question his ability and consistency is of no consequence to me. The majority of football fans think silly things.

I do question his ability to stay fit after the last few years, and I question why Fergie seemed to take such a disliking to him. Maybe he is a shít to deal with in the dressing room and in training. On the pitch I've no doubts about him.

He had a plenty of long runs in the team from January of 09/10 until January of 11/12. So he has already had a chance at the club. He took that chance as well as you could want a player to, he was class. If you weren't convinced by that spell then I doubt there would be any point in you seeing him given another chance now.

Montroseee wrote: »

While Di Maria had a fantastic year, I'm not convinced he has been world class any other year at Real? Besides this year he often feel into the category of 'don't get the hype' for me. Players like Nani and Valencia have had years where they have appeared to be world class but it ultimately proved to be short lived, I dunno why but I just get a similar feeling with Di Maria - has he been consistently world class for a number of years as one would expect for a 50 million pound player?

He's not worth £50m in my view, but then I don't think any player is.

Can you name any winger who has been consistently world class for years on end? It seems to me it's a position where players will often get shunted around by their managers and scapegoated by their fans for failures from other players in their team.

Nani summed up

https://vine.co/v/Mgj7eTQv0ja

Larry Wildman wrote: »

Fascinating.

If we don't sign Vidal or a player of his calibre before the window shuts, serious questions will have to be asked of the club and of Van Gaal.

Van Gaal said that a player can be signed in 24 hours, no problem. You reckon that was a dig at Woodward?

It certainly will be if United don't buy the players needed (or wanted by Van Gaal) before the end of the window.

Your Airbag wrote: »

If the cross is good it will create something.

That is a ridiculous thing to say. You are fundamentally wrong in how you judge the quality of crosses.

J. Marston wrote: »

https://twitter.com/robshepherd5/statuses/501374866973810688

You're in for it now, Woody.

would have a feeling he is only putting 2 + 2 together here and hitting the jackpot - Woodward is public enemy number 1 now at the club so every journalist will be out to have a quick fix in terms of writing a story.

i expect problems between Woodward and LVG, but further down the line and not this soon.