Hes an odd one. He leads by example so much of a time from an effort standpoint but he is whingy and doesn't put the team above his emotions when he needs to. Liverpool game is a good example of this. He has a resting whinge face somewhat like Gabriel Jesus so he always looks like hes having a whinge when perhaps he isn't which doesn't help.
Nah, we have a paper thin squad in loads of places.
No good cover at CB
No cover for Casemiro
No right winger apart from Antony.
No out and out striker for when Martial is injured 75% of the season.
You can't challenge on 4 fronts when you don't have remotely good cover for 5 positions and you don't have a proper striker who is consistent and available most of the season.
Totally agree on Fernandes. As a Utd player love him, I think the only reason he stopped tracking back Vs Brighton is he just had run out of energy, but don't think the constant whining helps anyone.
So as I say this is where I was mistaken regarding team quality
CBs Maguire is great for England and I thought he would bounce back. So I had thought we had 3 excellent centre backs with a 4th Lindelof who is probably up there with most teams 3rd. Unfortunately it wasn't been a one off poor season, Maguire cannot play in this system with De Gea behind him. I think he would be still be good in a high line with a goalkeeper who steps out of his 6 yard box, but I think he should go this summer it's a waste for Maguire and a waste for Utd.
Yep DM no cover. Right wing was hoping to see more of Amad and Pellestri. Sancho has played there to good effect for Dortmund. Obviously Amad is on loan and that's going well. Pellestri hasn't had many minutes though have liked what I have seen. Sancho hasn't happened for him this year.
Striker agree no good cover.
So my thinking was we still needed a striker and backup DM, but elsewhere we would be okay, obviously we weren't, and both luck (injuries to Eriksen, van see beek. Casemiro getting those red cards he was accumulating at real madrid), and poor performance has mean that the first 11 have had to play far too much.
However we have had good season. 1 cup win, FA cup final to play, deep run in the Europa League (albeit the collapse and second leg against Sevilla were shocking), and we are 6 points clear of 5th with 8 games to go.
Have the performances been good enough no, were 20 goals light and have had too many hammerings. So lot of improvement needed, given Liverpool, Chelsea and Tottenham are all likely to improve next year, and who knows what Newcastle will do in the transfer market.
And I'm not sure what you're trying to prove with those stats? AWB's made 26 appearances, Sancho 31 and Antony 36, compared to 45 for Rodri, 45 for Bernardo & 42 Gundugon. Again, I'm not sure the point of these stats but anyway.
Not that it's relevant to the point I made as the two sides today are not the same as 4 years ago but I take it City have won more of the last 10 than Utd?
