Rojo - complete unknown Rafeal - Complete Liability Di Maria - Great improvement Herrera - over-rated (in my opinion) Carrick - Average/good If you look at the BIG teams of this current era, they have 2 quality players for each position. If you look at Utd, I struggle to see 11 quality players let alone 22. You get injuries once your already injured players are back, and you're in a **** storm. Quite simply you need about 5 more players that are versatile. Christian was right back in January when he said that at least 300mil needed to be spent, but you disagreed. I think he's proved the majority of you were wrong.
Rafael was poor last season but a beast prior to that. Hes a quality rb in form. Herrera. You judging him on 70minutes v swansea?
By who?, we have just said he is an improvement on what we have and rivals fans have dubbed him "The Spanish Cleverley"
No. Judging him on previous viewings - nothing special if you ask me. Better than Carrick and Cleverly et al. But certianly wouldn't get into any of City, Chelsea or Arsenals midfield. Massively over priced too. he's a 15mil man tops.
You're failing to factor form into your assessment. 2/3 years ago, Rafael, Young, Jones, Mata, Kagawa, Carrick and Hernandez all looked like cracking players. They don't now, because they're all out of form. Truly great players maintain their form for years, but there's not that many of them about. But look at your team. Few of those are what I'd class as 'great' players, but they're all on good form. The likes of Allen, Sturridge, Skrtel, Johnson were doing nothing 2/3 years ago. Who's to say they won't dip again, as so many of ours have? The one, truly great, proven player you had has left. The likes of Sturridge, Sterling and Coutinho could easily be flashes in the pan.
That's true - but as it stands I see no signs of our players form dropping. They've bought into a philosophy of football that suits their style. But who knows what the future may bring
Erm, no mate. You need those ON TOP of what you've signed in my opinion Honestly, your squad frightens nobody. You have 2 and a half world class players by my estimation. Van Persie + Mata and Rooney's the half. All the rest aren't up to the Man Utd standard I know. You've always had a couple that were effective passengers because the rest were so good, but right now 8/11 players aren't good enough.
De Gea is world class IMO. Jones could be, as could Januzaj. Don't know about Rojo, Shaw or Herrera yet, but we'll have to wait and see.
Nah, he's improved a lot, and he has the best distribution via feet I've ever seen, but he's a hell of a long way from the Courtois, Lloris, Neuer etc class for me. He's capable of becoming a world class goalie, but the jury's still out.
I feel for the Chosen One, he had to stick with a rubbish squad, while LVG takes over and spends £140m on 4 players straight away.
