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Originally Posted by Chris Quayd
Honestly, I think he has some attributes both on and off the pitch that I would want any United player to represent. It's not enough to earn you a first team spot but local lad and academy product from the age of 8 are a distinguishing feature of our history and almost unique among top clubs. On the pitch he is good technically, sounds basic but when you consider that we have a £75m striker incapable of using his weaker foot, controlling a ball or weighting a pass you realise you can't take it for granted. I'd love him to score more goals of the likes he has scored previously but I'm under no illusions that he is good enough to be consistent enough to do that. Still prefer him to watching Mata mind.
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Fair enough, but it IS possible to have an opinion on Pogba, Lukaku, Sanchez
and Lingard simultaneously - unless you’re Siders that is.
Lingard got grandfathered into the team because of a perfect storm of us being shit, slow and unsuccessful. The fact he was a homegrown that ran a lot and had energy in spades; but even from the beginning his movement was married with some of the worst positional discipline I’ve even seen in a United player. He rarely contributes game changing shifts, and if his performances could be evaluated with out the rose-tinted glasses of academy nostalgia he wouldn’t have made it past half a season - which would have been consistent with his time at Birmingham, Brighton and Derby.
He’s a Man Utd player, but he would never get near a
serious Man Utd team. As for getting “wound up”, well any human with self awareness would realize that now is not the time for this nonsense. Any time he chooses to appear #@&%!ed in public some of it rubs off on the club.