Manchester United Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread - Read Mod Warning in OP 7/1/15

We're probably better off playing Fellaini at the weekend to give West Ham's centre backs a challenge if we insist on playing out wide, easy pickings for them clearing crosses against Falcao and RVP

Here we go again

Can't help but everytime I read Ogden's stuff that there is still the seething tone that he's not ITK anymore.

Claiming Herrera isn't playing because he's too adventurous and Van Gaal doesn't like it, smacks of him trying to get his ITK status back.

United have been terrible to watch i think since ronaldo left, the pace in our team seemed to just get worse every year from them i thought but i think the wins obliviously masked a lot of that. Even in fergies last year when we won the league there were so many games it was just terrble to watch but in the end theyd come from behind and win but the play wasnt good.

bangkok wrote: »

I don't know, I would find it hard to believe that he wouldn't be playing because of that. if that was the case, I don't think he would have him involved in any match day squad or be bringing him on in games.

Also im more inclined to believe that van gaal is not a fan of flair players etc and is very defensive as he said himself he plays rooney midfield as he is good defensively and his continuation of 5 at the back

Can't really say that though. If we've nothing bar history to go on, he's had some great attacking players through the years and used them well. Riquelme is the one that's always used against him but to be fair he was a player that needed a lot of hard working players around him bursting a gut to supply him. That just wasn't going to happen in a side that already had someone like Rivaldo and Kluivert who weren't too intent on working.

Last night, the idea with Rooney playing out wide I think was to have him out of the congested area in front of goal. He got on tons of ball throughout the game and he can provide a good cross from that position as well. And then that eventually opens up gaps through the middle for the likes of Mata.

Only thing we seem to know for certain about LVG's game preparation is that he looks at every side differently and prepares differently every week rather than have a set formation every weekend. It can help us in that teams will find us hard to figure out but the negative is that we look disjointed and lacking in cohesion with our shape and passing.

I think, should we make the CL this year and we purchase a couple of players - then we'll see a more settled approach next year.

On a side note, hopefully McNair ends up being our equivalent to Badstuber or Puyol (who was on the way out of Barca before Van Gaal joined) after last nights performance and performances early in the season. He looked excellent there on the right side of defence albeit against Cambridge. Van Gaal tends to bring through this kind of player out of nowhere that just fits. Very early days yet but fair play to the lad.