28 Nov 2016 18:23:25
I am with the way we're playing.
But what bothers me is that time and again we are not focusing on the Premier League as we should be.
Rooney and Mata played really well against Swansea.
Nobody cares if we win the league cup or europa league.
Those 2 competitions should be for our second string sides.
Pogba and Zlatan are new to the league, and Zlatan being 35 and the league being hardest in the world, they must only start the premier league games.
The europa/ league cup should be for benchwarmers.
The likes of Young, Schneiderlin, Martial or maybe give Tuanzebe a go.
No matter how fit Jones is, it is stupid to play him 3 games a week, he should be brought back little patiently.
If I were Jose, I would stick to a first 11 and only change players when they are injured, he doesn't rotate his squad well, not everyone is as good as SAF with that respect.
We must play Rooney, Zlatan, Mkhi, Mata, Herrera/ Carrick and Pogba.
Mkhi needs to start every single game for us in the PL. he just passes the ball and runs in to the middle, simple things.
He's average a chance/ shot every 8.5 mins. That is ridiculous.
And with the recent struggles with our left backs, Darmian not crossing well, Shaw out of favour, I would not be against Young as fullback, as he's not really had a bad game there.
Atleast with young we can stretch the left side giving Pogba more space, and it's painfully obvious we dominate most games, so why not play a gung-ho team.
I really think Basti should play the league cup game, as I think he can still contribute. It was what LVG thought rotate Carrick/ Basti in the holding position.
A bit of experience with winning and let past be past, if he's genuinely willing to play for us, so why the hell not.
Even 7-8 good games from him, would help us.
As I think we've tried everything but not given time to Basti and Mkhi.
I don't expect Morgan to do much, and Depay has been a flop.
28 Nov 2016 19:56:28
I care if we win them, particularly the Europa as it gains entry into the Champione League. I'd be happy finishing outside the top 4 and winning all 3 cups.
28 Nov 2016 20:41:49
We have barely seen Depay, Schneiderlin, Basti, Miki, TFM, Young, Smalling and Carrick all season, yet it still feels like every week it's a totally different team. He is just getting every 50/ 50 call wrong at the minute.
He stumbles onto something that worked, yet tears it up the next game. So reminiscent of LVG, past 3-4 games we have looked a bit better, but aside from Arsenal who have we played? Everyone thinks we look better, but it's still nowhere near good enough and it's because he has lost that X factor which was his confidence. Hard to get back.
I even think the Zlatan extra year was wrong at this time, as it rewards rank averageness and sends the wrong message to those fighting to start.
29 Nov 2016 10:09:52
What you mean beast is that Jose is using the squad well in a tough season where we have Europa league? You can twist what you said both ways, the fact is that we are playing well whichever players play we are just missing chances.
Zlatan has 3 goals in his last 2 league games by the way, distinctly average.
29 Nov 2016 11:36:44
GDS2 - We have played well the past few games, for the most part this season it has been just as bad as under LVG, look back over earlier games it can be a great aid to getting a good nights kip!
29 Nov 2016 11:47:27
So what you're saying is we are seeing improvement?
29 Nov 2016 12:07:02
I have said several times the past few games have been an improvement, but an improvement on LVG's Utd, not the Man Utd I expect! I don't understand why your benchmark is LVG's performances.