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Imv a large part of the #@&%!-up the summer Fergie left, and especially given the chosen one's lack of experience in the market at a club like United, was how the club conducted that window - it was an absolute £#%&!ing shambles and anyone putting that mainly at the feet of the new manager is an idiot - even if the new manager turned out to have £#%&!ed up all the deals I would still blame the club for letting it happen ffs. They'd had months to prepare for it, they had deals lined up, and they £#%&!ed it up. I certainly do not blame LVG for the signings that were actually made last summer, except maybe the Di Maria one - it was an exciting deal in one sense, but if he'd fancied Memphis at that point surely it would have been better to go in high for him instead of getting fleeced on Di Maria. The rest of the signings were all fine by me, including the punt on Falcao. The point is though that he's now had a whole season and two more windows and up to now has deliberately weakened the striker pool and failed to address the defensive issues at centre back. He also appears heavy on AM's all of a sudden which threatens to block the route to the 1st team for some, and especially when he inevitably resorts to using Fellaini. If he were to not sign anyone in defence I'd be okay with it as long as he intends to bring Blackett and McNair through - or at least try anyhoo - and that very much goes for the other youngsters currently in contention further forward. Quote:
People will always dream up reasons why United won 5 out of 7 league titles despite (sic) all their players, but let's be honest, it's pretty ridiculous when you scratch below the surface. Particularly on those Real games, United were clearly able to compete toe to toe with them and they were two really good european games. The stat I posted the other day about the number of times (20) that 12/13 scored 3 or more goals tells a story about what level they were at as well, when you also se that the 07/08 team only managed it 15 times, and the Treble side only 18. |
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Moyes had from mid-May to begin his own preparations, especially as he already had his staff in place. He had a lot of time to assess potential players and begin contacts. Him seemingly being unable to make decisions (a reputation he had at Everton) in the market was a bad fit for us. For whatever reason, he had nearly four months and only came up with Fellaini. LvG had much less time and still signed off on six deals. I think Moyes's caution was probably in evidence again. LvG has weakened the frontline, but it's the right decision. Falcao had to go and RvP isn't made to play the deputy. Let's see what happens in the remainder of the window, but given the overhaul needed anyway, combined with LvG bringing a different approach to what we're used to, I must say I'm not that surprised it's been so chaotic. The Di Maria and Falcao failures haven't helped, as you say. |
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As far as weakening the front line being the right decision, we'll only know for sure when we know how well Rooney lasted. At this moment though it looks to be a clear mistake. The window isn't shut yet of course, and if another striker is fetched in then that in itself would indicate that LVG himself would see it as a mistake to go with what he's got as well. |
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i imagine the conversation with LVG went something like this: you've got a blank chequebook to spend however the £#%&! you like. in the meantime we've already set up herrera and shaw, do you want them as well? yeah ok. £#%&!ing genius. |
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It's like someone said earlier, this isn't a computer game where you buy a new team and it all just works out. Ideally a new manager coming into a new country doesn't have to sign 12 first-team players inside his first year. |
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and that useless @#%&! fellaini is the very same player that saved LVG's first season from being an abject failure, arguably moreso than moyes bearing in mind their respective CV's. LVG would not have had to sign half the players he has if United had been ready in summer 2013, and it's arguable whether he needed to sign 12 players already anyway. |
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incidentally I would say that of the supporting cast LVG has really only 'drummed out' a handful of players - cleverly, nani, anderson, welbeck, kagawa... after that it's mostly veterans who've left along with bit part players. by comparison brown, o'shea, owen, berbatov, park and hargreaves iirc all left at various points during fergie's last couple of seasons, along with a similar number of bit parters the real work LVG has had to tackle is replacing the veterans, of course, as we all know. and he currently appears to be of the opinion that the 2 english centrebacks fergie brought in for the job are in contention. go figure. |
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What saved LvG's first season was LvG finding a system that got the best out of a very limited group after Di Maria, Falcao and RvP had flopped. It could easily have fallen apart with such little creative talent, but the big man produced a balanced system that delivered when we needed it |
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he did have the outline of his system, but it was tactical variation that saved the season - Carrick dropping virtually into a 3 at Anfield was a good tactical choice, for example. Overall it was using Fellaini's skill set and exploiting Mata that were the two key aspects that saved the season from abject failure. also high on that list was persevering with Young & Valencia as well as shifting Rooney up front out of the way and allowing Herrera to blossom a bit. |
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