And Martial on the left wing to help him learn to be a striker...........**** I get it now LVG is a genius.
I said a while ago I felt Rooney is finished, but since then I have no doubt that our style of football under LVG has been culpible in that. It's certainly hindered him and probably accelerated his demise. So putting Martial up front will only solve half the problem. I can guarantee you now his individual brilliance will enable him to score goals and mask our cumbersome football. But at some point (and it wont take long to see) he will also struggle, bcos our build up play and tactical approach will still be to play in front of defences and have possession without purpose. Martial on his own cant fix that.
This is going to happen anyway. I said it when we signed him and I maintain it now, he can not be expected to carry our attack all season. He's nineteen years old and in a foreign land, his form WILL dip. This is why Rooney still remains a crucial player for us, whether the 'finished' brigade think so or not. I can't really think of a genuine candidate bar the obvious Vardy and Austin but, and I'm contradicting myself from UIR's thread a bit, we probably should look to buy a centre forward in January for this reason alone.
I dont think either Rooney or Martial or buying another striker is going to solve the problem if we arent getting the ball in the oppo's box. That's where the problem lies. It's a tactical problem not just a player/position problem.
Depay is trying too hard and just needs to calm down a bit and play his natural game. But as I've said above, we arent creating chances for any of our front 3 bcos we're far too slow and cumbersome passing it sideways and back for us to be able to expose defences.
Well of course, but there will come a point when the penny drops and when it does we will need strikers to finish things off.
I've had a quick glance back through the thread in question. You took every quote out of context. By the way, I also didn't spot anything from yourself saying how brilliant Martial would be. You also knew nothing about him. Whatever point you were trying to prove, you failed.
Van gaal puts martial up top. Martial then struggles to score a few goals. Certain people then claim Martial wasn't all that and he's been found out, we over paid, flop, worse than Liam Miller. It wouldnt matter what he did tbh.
Actually, yes it would. If we put Martial up front and gave him some decent service it would be a start. Do you watch the same games as us?
I said I didn't know who he was. I didnt. I was intrigued and excited though, like most normal people were. Some, and you can make any excuse you want for them, didn't. They can claim they were joking or whatever as much as they like, they were made to look like tits by the lad. Though rest assured, if Martial was to have a poor run of form, guess who would pipe up...
And sorry but . I state that some United fans disagree with others, were not all in a mass meltdown but Chief goes on to state its the rest of the planet v me
Ha ha, yeah. Says the brightest star in the constellation. At some point you won't be able to just say; He's an ex player, what does he know? He's a journalist, what does he know? He's an ex manager, what does he know? He's just a fan, what does he know? and accept it could be YOU that is wrong.
When they stop talking ****e? Could be then. Until then though, it's best to point out when people are taking bollocks and having unwarranted pathetic child-like meltdowns. It's pretty embarrassing tbh. Imagine being like that in the real world. Journos and melting fans though. Ffs Chief.
