You are frankly an idiot if you can't see how good our squad really is. great striker options, 5 midfielders a whole bunch of quality 10's who can play on the wings if need be. Rafeal and Shaw. Smalling Jones and Evans looking strong. As well as back up in a lot of areas. Like I said signings are needed but we aren't the mid table team you think we are. You are basing your opinions on gossip and unconfirmed reports. Suggesting **** that the club aren't behind LVG and he may leave if he doesn't get the players he wants.
All you do is ***** about Woody, how we should have signed this that and who by now and we can't compete against teams who we would have beaten 9/10 when Fergie was here.
You are quite possibly the most depressing fan I have seen and you clearly have no faith in the team or our youth prospects. And quite frankly you are boring me with it. Coming in this thread day in day out saying the exact same **** as the day before. I don't think this thread has seen a decent convo for a while because it always somehow comes back to you having another meltdown.
And you are quite clearly blinded by the fact you've taken everything I've said out of proportion.
Never said LVG was going to leave, what I said was is it beyond the realms of possibility that LVG would leave if he didn't get the players he wants (he has publically admitted to handing Woody a list of targets, inheriting a broken squad, needing players etc etc).
I never said we're a midtable team, however we finished 7th last season and have we improved the squad significantly more than anyone else above us? In my opinion no. Add to that fact we've lost more key players than those we have brought in. We've only made 2 signings for god sake and they were not even on LVG's list, they were from the old regime, so Woody had plenty of time to work on these.
I may be repeating myself in this thread, but at the end of the day, we're repeatedly not doing the right things off the pitch to address our onfield issues.
You say this is a fantastic squad? I say take another look.
Strikers and no.10's is our relatively strong area, although I have to point out, we haven't seen the best of Mata or Kagawa yet, especially the latter, who we may never see the best of. To say these can play on the wings is rubbish as well, they have shown no evidence that in the current team/setup they can perform and do a job for us on the wings. Apart from perhaps Januzaj last season who was good. Again I'm not counting what Mata has done at Valencia or Kagawa for Japan because it's totally different scenarios.
Woodward keeps talking and nothing keeps happening. Just take a look at what he said in that MUTV interview. We're apparently the biggest club in the world, with an unlimited budget, so we'll "watch this space".
Now to the actual realisation of the squad frailties.... Smalling and Jones have been shifted from pillar to post over the last few seasons and have shown absolutely no consistency and furthermore, a whole ton of injuries. So we're meant to now in this season where top 4 is a must, rely on these two + Evans (who actually picks up a fair few injuries himself) to carry us through this season? We have no natural leader here, no first-team backup at all.... we are relying on unproven youth players such as Blackett or Keane.
Now with the Full-Back/Wing-Back situation.... we have 1 Left Back proven at Premier League first-team level..... Luke Shaw... who has just come in and is still young with relative inexperience. He has already picked up an injury and who is our cover for him? Ashley ****** Young..... he's not good enough to be a winger, now suddenly converted to play somewhere further back as we have NO OPTIONS WHAT SOEVER.
Yesterday we played Jesse Lingard as a Wing-Back.... we all know this isn't his natural position and yet again we're only playing him there because we had no depth at RB/RWB whatsoever.... ok Rafael is arguably our only natural one, but he's consistently inconsistent and picks up injuries like god knows what. Then there is just Valencia... another failed winger who we have in the squad who is just meant to be a backup there, by the way... he was injured as well.
Due to our inadequacy of having any great wingers we can't even effectively play a 4-3-3 at the moment, which as you should know is LVG's preferred formation.
Now going to the other weak area.... midfield..... Ander Herrera, a new signing, is he a Paul Scholes? No. Have we replaced Paul Scholes? No. Do we have a Roy Keane type authortive combative figure who we can play next to him? No and No. Is Darren Fletcher good enough? In my opinion not, he showed a bit of form in pre-season now you're rating him as excellent/very good or whatever. He hasn't shown yet whether he can reach the level he did before his illness and furthermore, we are now heavy reliant on him to perform for us consistently... due to what reason?
Oh yes, Depth. We have Marouane Fellaini and Anderson.... Need I say anything about them? Then Tom Cleverley, who may at one point be a good alternative option, but for the last few seasons he has been absolute pants and he isn't the type of midfielder we need so badly, especially as we have kind of sorted that by getting Ander Herrera. Is Ander Herrera going to be good enough? Only time will tell, but right now we don't have any kind of balance in this midfield and quite frankly our backup options are beyond a joke for supposedly "the biggest club in the world". Ok you could argue we have Michael Carrick to come back but he's what, 33/34 now? And he's slowly fading out at his time here, he's had a poor last season and there is no certainty he will offer anything more to this side instead of Fletcher.
