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Personally think the league was utterly, utterly shite last year and 81 points just proves it.
He's got a decent squad there. If he could coach them into playing in an attacking manner (or coach some form of attack plan that isn't hoof it to the big man) and stop them being so £#%&!ing passive all the time, they could do well. |
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The set of players we have at the moment are back up squad players at best Bailey, Shaw, Dalot and Lindelof are young enough to potentially grow into first team regulars tbf. |
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2008 is an anomaly, the best defensive unit Utd have ever had, by some distance, most groups will look poor compared to that selection. Let us see how Bailly and Lindelof develop, Mourinho wanted them, now trust them and develop them into the players we need, if a world class defender is available who can lift the level of the rest then great, but Maguire and effing Toby are not that. |
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No way would Fergie have built his defence around Smalling and Jones, he’d have either shipped them out for better or kept them on as back ups by now. Lindelof and Bailey could become first team quality, but not many sides build their defence around two 23 year old centre backs tbf. |
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Still better that what we have, just on having Stam who was a monster but the defenders now are far better than they are given credit for, yes even the pair of Smalling and Jones. Perhaps with perfect Cb's and full backs Sanchez will stop giving the ball away like a charity bus gives biscuits out on a Saturday night, Mata can start to run quickly and Rashford will develop some composure. |
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But the fact is neither Smalling or Jones are good enough to have a defence built around them if we’re serious about consistently challenging for major honours any time soon. Fergie would have done something about it by now. |
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Of course, Baiily will break something doing a Jones at some point. |
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As others have pointed out, no-one we looked at is necessarily better so let’s put some confidence in what we’ve got. |
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Yes he's signed 3 of them. But he's not allowed to sign some experience to help guide them. |