16 Feb 2015 21:49:33
Gotta love Fellaini, lots of stick last year from everyone, come back this year stronger and having a big influence in matches. Is Rooney and Fellaini our forward line for the rest of the season?
16 Feb 2015 22:07:49
Seeing as all of our experienced strikers lack pace at least Rooney and Fellaini can hold the ball up with their strength bringing others into play. RvP and Falcao have both been fairly useless in the fact they don't create and struggle to hold the ball up as they're pushed off too easy.
Who would have believed that not so long ago, many of us wanted to see the back of Young and Fellaini, that LvG wouldn't give up his precious 3-5-2, Rooney was being turned into a midfielder and Herrera had no future with United.
Theres a lot of work to do, but is LvG starting to listen? Does Herrera have a future, has LvG seen the light on 4-4-2, are Young and Fellaini reborn? Tonights performance was better, just, and there's hope. LvG is even now openly saying he wants a creative midfielder. We live in hope.
Agree about Fellaini. He's made a big difference for us in the penalty area, both keeping the ball alive and scoring.If we're going to be fairly static from a movement point of view then we need someone in the middle who can scrap for the headers. And then we need someone who can get it in there. In this respect Valencia did a good job, Young on his day can do it too, so can di Maria.
It's clear as day!! Drop Falcao and RVP. Play Rooney and Fellaini up top, with Herrera, di Maria, Blind and Carrick when and if he comes back. Or bring in Wilson if we need more speed.
Do we have to go behind before we start playing?
Fellaini is not the long term answer if we want to challenge for leagues and in Europe. His attributes for Everton were clear, great when the ball was put to him in the corners of the box, chest control excellent and he made mockery of our defence doing exactly that in the 4 all draw at OT. Fact is the manager last season didn't play him in his best position, this season he has been plan B, something many teams don't have, and an ace up a managers sleeve, a manager who should get some praise amongst all the flak for having the bottle to use him in that way.
Fact is he was injured almost all of last season and nerve really fit, but in your world DM was at fault for everything including the way the stars align themselves.
I guess LVG is a genius for realising he is a handful when played upfront given the fact he tortured us for many years doing that for Everton, unbelievable who you try and put one down and biggie the other one LOL
GCU
Fact is LvG has a plan B which involves using Fellaini in a position Moyes did not dare try because, in my opinion, he was bothered what people thought of him as he admitted in the RVP situation last season.
People like yourself and JMB are so desperate for LvG to fail so that Moyes will not be seen as too bad and I really don't know why. You both bring up Moyes in comparisons and comments when reality is he is a failed sacked manager who wasn't good enough and isn't coming back. I would rather forget him but you guys seem obsessed, how about not mentioning the useless one any more?
17 Feb 2015 11:05:24
If all our players had the determination, grit and will to win that Fellaini has, we wouldn't have to rely on a good last 30 minutes, to put away a league 1 side.
Redman
The thing is you would of slated moyes for doing some of the things lvg has,
i find your call to back the manager a bit 2 faced to be honest .
It should maybe be "back the manager i approve off "
17 Feb 2015 11:45:39
Fellaini is still one of the first names in a pretty attractive Belgian international side who are fairly high up the FIFA rankings, so to say he couldn't cut it in European football for us, might be doing him a disservice.
Jred
It's back the manager who has the CV and pedigree at our level, like I did when SAF first came. LvG may get it wrong, he wasn't my ideal manager and if he leaves he leaves. However, I said when SAF left we needed a senior manager who would command respect, we didn't get one but now, for me, LvG has enough on his CV to merit more time.
I don't recall making calls to back him particularly yet I will support him as above. I also have concerns at our style and his obsession with RVP and likely Strootman. Saying that we are still in a far different place to 12 months ago, whether lvg will be the right choice remains to be seen but he is a far better choice than we had.
Redman
In LVG case he was good 10 years ago and that is it and never been a great manager in my opinion.
When you say Plan A and Plan B, Moyes did not have Di Maria, Falcao, Herrera, Blind, Rojo and Shaw to call on. He had an ageing team to choose from and many players coming off the boil evident by how they are struggling in their new set up except Evra, who everyone slagged for the last few years.
You have very little objectivity when it comes to this subject because as you have said many times from the onset you were against the Idea.
I have nothing against LVG but the more I watch us the more I am convinced he is so wrong for us and as Jred said earlier we will not win the league under this guy no matter if he is still here 5 years from now.
Scrapping through games against opposition that has a fraction of our talent is nothing to boast about.
I wonder how LVG would have done with ;sat years squad :)
GCU
I believe LvG would have had last years champion squad comfortably in the top four whilst starting the clear out as this year. I believe most top level managers would have got us easily in the top four last season.