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A colleague of mine and I agree that Rooney costs the club too much for what he offers and that even if we offload him on a free we would at least save his £300k a week wages and a spare place in the squad for another, younger player.
I think the self belief that JM and ZI will bring will help us. I think top 4 is a must but top 3 is an achievable target even if just to avoid a two legged playoff to get into the CL proper.
Is Fonte more or less a certainty then? I was wondering if it was just a typical JM destabilisation tactic ahead of the Utd v Soton game. We are weak at RB, even if Herrera thinks Valencia is the best RB in the world right now. And, at the risk of sounding like Wenger on having a long time injury player return, having Shaw back IS like a new signing and he's seemingly carrying on from where he was before the injury.
Cant talk about transfers in this thread
RB looks as though it will be sorted out in a later window, hopefully meaning Darmian is staying another season (think he deserves to be given another year imo).
Shaw has me smiling all match by the sheer determination of covering the whole left side and even getting into the box and really driving at the opposition. Fabulous.
Still wondering how Ibra will do on the fabled wet and windy monday night in Stoke after Christmas (when he would normally be having a week or two off), but certainly looking good so far.
RB looks as though it will be sorted out in a later window, hopefully meaning Darmian is staying another season (think he deserves to be given another year imo).
Shaw has me smiling all match by the sheer determination of covering the whole left side and even getting into the box and really driving at the opposition. Fabulous.
Still wondering how Ibra will do on the fabled wet and windy monday night in Stoke after Christmas (when he would normally be having a week or two off), but certainly looking good so far.
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Mourinho could always rest Ibra around Christmas to save him from burnout with Rashford waiting in the wings
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Hopefully Rashford will start to get some minutes on the pitch soon. Its a little bit of a worry that he hasn't seen any in the league yet.
Mourinho mentioned the other day that the players who haven't been getting games yet will start getting them in September when there are more matches to play. Rashford will probably start over Zlatan for the cup games like the Europa, at least in the early stages.
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No, I think that Mourinho rates him. You can't say he hasn't been quite good so far this season. I don't know if its because he is a bit more physical and Mourinho is still experimenting and wants some stability there. Fellaini isn't bothering me these days. Rooney is still the biggest blockage in the team. Get rid of him and get Mkhitaryan into the side and we will suddenly look much better.
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Fellaini will have to perform against some good opposition to win me over but so far he has been pretty good. Not amazing but pretty good.
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Not getting sent off or directing assisting an opposition goal doesnt equate to a good performance though. Remaining anonymous is about the best he can do.
but that's minimum expectation...
true, but in 2 games under Mourinho he has already shown more than he has for the previous 3 seasons, its early days but I'm expecting some of the historical poor performers to up their game under Jose, hopefully Microphone is one of them, because we could really do with someone playing that DMC role very well.