*Transfer Window 2014/15 Season Rumours/Signings *AKA Man U fans listing every player under the Sun

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Tute said:
There are a few players who I feel should get a chance under LVG to "sort it out, or go" - Valencia being one of them.

I just can't help but feel he should have been signed up for one, maybe two years more at most and then offered something longer if he rediscovers his form.

Unlike Young, I do think it's in there somewhere.
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I think Valencia could be good again, but his confidence looked completely gone. The amount of times last season he could have run at players, but didn't highlights this. Perhaps Van Gaal can get his confidence up. He certainly looks like a guy who could be a lot more inspiring than Moyes.

Young should definitely go. Has never really been any good in a United shirt. Waste of a squad place.

Will be interesting to see where Kagawa ends up next season. I still think he's really good, but perhaps will never be suited to a pacey team that play down the wings. I assume Klopp would have him back at Dortmund in a heartbeat.
 
As was said, we can't get rid of them all, and out of the bunch, Valencia is lesser evil. He had it before the break, but looks shocking, and his final 'Smash' ball is disgusting, but i don't mind him being a bench option or seeing if LVG can fix him :P
 
Kagawa can play well on the left wing, no?

In which case, I'd ship Young out and start playing Kagawa there. He can easily swap into the No.10 role in the event of injury to Rooney/Mata.
 
Kagawa CAN play on the left wing, but I've never seen him look good there (since he signed for us).

I really hope Young leaves, I can't stand him. I've no idea how LvG would want to line up our current squad, it doesn't look as if it suits his typical system. Signings required, unless we're hoping players can adapt to new roles.
 
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If only Nani would get his head out of his own backside, he'd be half decent. Another one, for me, that is on his last chance.
 
Agreed. Also too selfish on the ball and prefers to use trickery and mucking around rather than keeping it simple. He's got pace, he can beat people if he just runs at them!

But he'd rather stop, muck around with stepovers and lose the ball.

I'm hoping LVG will sit him down and put him right.
 
Tute said:
Kagawa can play well on the left wing, no?
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So many people rate Kagawa so highly.

Fergie couldnt get much out of him.
Moyes couldnt get much out of him.
Maybe LvG's system might work for Kagawa, IF Kagawa is able to pass/receive quickly/accurately, negating the need for him to be strong/physical (which I believe is his weakness).
 
Valencia has looked awful at crossing at the world cup too. You can't have a winger who can't cross the ball and isn't one of the best in the world if you want to compete against other teams with players who are.

and as for kagawa, when he plays and especially when he's on a wing he's too ineffective because he's not direct enough. He can't do what the top tip players do like picking up the ball, driving towards the net, beat a player or two and score. Players like messi, ronaldo, robben etc make this look easy but that's why they are so important to their teams and why ronaldo scored a million goals for utd and when he left we lost that drive because neither young nor valencia can do it properly either. Our strikers are too slow to do this so we need other direct players. Kagawa is more likely to trap the ball and play a neat pass. We need that directness. It wins games.
 
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The Running Man said:
Valencia has looked awful at crossing at the world cup too. You can't have a winger who can't cross the ball and isn't one of the best in the world if you want to compete against other teams with players who are.

and as for kagawa, when he plays and especially when he's on a wing he's too ineffective because he's not direct enough. He can't do what the top tip players do like picking up the ball, driving towards the net, beat a player or two and score. Players like messi, ronaldo, robben etc make this look easy but that's why they are so important to their teams and why ronaldo scored a million goals for utd and when he left we lost that drive because neither young nor valencia can do it properly either. Our strikers are too slow to do this so we need other direct players. Kagawa is more likely to trap the ball and play a neat pass. We need that directness. It wins games.
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Man Utd's problem from pre-Ronaldo to post-Ronaldo isn't their pace with the ball, but the pace of the ball. They used to carve teams open on the break with incisive balls between 3 or 4 players (not too dissimilar to Liverpool played this season when they countered at pace). Rooney has never been especially quick over 100m and while he's quicker Ronaldo isn't stunningly fast sprinting with the ball, but they made the ball itself do the running to devastating effect.
 
Hm yea you don't have to be the fastest but being able to run past a player and score a goal is something we don't really have right now. Even if they don't score they can force the keeper to spill it. Win a free kick etc or make an assist . We just don't have players who can di that.
 
And possibly the only player who can reliably clip it into van Persie is Carrick, who's normally too deep to have that influence.

I know most Man Utd fans here love him, but Kagawa isn't going to last. He doesn't suit Man Utd and from what I've seen, he doesn't suit van Gaal. He's too slow across the ground and too slow in the head. He does have a good touch, but he doesn't carve chances for himself or others enough. Good enough for the bench probably, but I suspect under van Gaal he'll even be overlooked there more often than not.
 
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