18 Aug 2020 20:56:22
It's looking like the Champion's League and Europa League finals could have 5 players who have left United in the last 2-3 years. IF they are good enough for European finals, why were they not good enough for United?
Just asking.

1.) 18 Aug 2020
18 Aug 2020 22:02:41
Let's be honest, Di Maria, Lukaku and Herrera were all good enough. Di Maria wanted out, Ole didn't want Lukaku and we messed Herrera about too much.

Sanchez was a complete failure.

2.) 18 Aug 2020
18 Aug 2020 22:06:33
It's not as simple as "good enough" or not. The Italian game is slower and easier on players who don't have the legs for the English game anymore. This is a matter of style, not quality, before anyone thinks I'm bashing the Italian game.

Lukaku is the only one good enough, and he didn't fit the way Ole wants the team to play. It's not unreasonable to say he should have been kept although it is very much a matter of opinion.

Smalling is good enough as a squad player, no more.

The others? No.

I'm happy they are doing well, but we are better off rid of them.

3.) 18 Aug 2020
18 Aug 2020 22:07:51
None said that Di Maria wasnt good . I think Herrera (who was superb in another big match) has his fans also but he can't make a Hollywood pass so the hype is not there. Then Young was below average when he played for us and its best for him that he went in slower ligue playing wing back and not left back, who misses him? Sanchez wasnt good for us, he is good before us and after us but not for us, everytime he played he was one of the worst players on the pitch, its not our fault. Lukaku is theoritically a good goalscorer with bad technic and first touch. Yet he didn't scored a lot for goals, he scored 1 goal in 20 matches against big 6 or something like that. In addition very bad hold up play, not for my liking. It was a win win situation with all of this and i won't miss them except Ander Herrera, we hadn't a better numper 8 for years.

4.) 18 Aug 2020
18 Aug 2020 22:18:34
Oh, sorry, Herrera is still good. He's probably the one who could really offer us something we need, I'd have him back in a heartbeat.

5.) 19 Aug 2020
19 Aug 2020 03:19:03
Non of them were good enough. Move on.

{Ed0666's Note - really?

6.) 19 Aug 2020
19 Aug 2020 05:37:16
Lukaku was definitely good enough, but he didn't suit us, we never played to his strengths which is putting crosses. Also he didn't want to stay.

Same with young, he didn't want to stay, people have forgotten his terrible Barcelona performance last year, him staying or going would not have made much difference.

Herrera, we should have 100% given him a contract, it was really foolish of Ole, as if you're going to overpay someone, you overpay someone who speaks no I'll of the club, and is a leader. Herrera was a big game player, and his stats were a little below Kante in one of the seasons. He could play any position in midfield. It was a stupid decision by Ole. And now he's starting finals for PSG and is going to play the final. You don't start for PSG, if you're not good enough. Him, Bruno and Pogba would have been a great midfield. Has injury issues though.

Sanchez. Overpaid, perennially injured, not good enough for us, and infact someone who massively halted martial's progress. Happy to see the back of him.

Di Maria, he didn't want to play for us, what can you do then? He was MOTM in semi-final, he was always quality.

7.) 19 Aug 2020
19 Aug 2020 06:49:46
Herrera is on record as saying that Ole wanted to keep him but the board didn't offer him a contract extension until the last minute and by then he had already agreed terms with PSG.

8.) 19 Aug 2020
19 Aug 2020 07:10:08
Liverpool won the Champions League last year playing a high intensity style which is based on the traditional physicality of the English game allied to excellent technical football skills.

Had Pep not tinkered and over thought too much City would most likely have won or at least got to the final this year.

The ex Utd players plying their trade abroad could not cut it (possibly Lukaku apart) in the Premier league any more. Too quick and intense for them. Had Utd taken their chances against Sevilla their intensity would have prevailed and Utd would be in the final of the Eufa Cup.

9.) 19 Aug 2020
18 Aug 2020 22:51:51
For gods sake the stuff on here just keeps getting better and better 🤣🤣🤣🤣.

10.) 19 Aug 2020
18 Aug 2020 23:57:02
Herrera looks great but he and dimaria are playing with neymar and mbappe playing with that level of player should make you look good.

11.) 19 Aug 2020
18 Aug 2020 23:57:52
thorne inter have not played italian teams through this competition. yet that lesser league are in the final and we are not.

12.) 19 Aug 2020
19 Aug 2020 08:00:07
If my uncle was a woman he would by my aunt.

13.) 19 Aug 2020
19 Aug 2020 08:44:10
Daz, I know that. They are playing most of their games there though.

Someone like Young is more rested than if he was playing in England, and regardless of the opposition, the team plays a style which really benefits more from his experience, and doesn't punish his older legs as much.

If Utd played like an Italian team, maybe Young would be a good player to have, but we don't. For the way we play, he isn't.

14.) 19 Aug 2020
19 Aug 2020 10:55:55
When Herrera was with Bilbao he was a player who liked to play a first time pass and take a chance, LVG dropped him until he'd taken that out of his game and turned him into a player who played it safe, then Mourinho came in and used him as a midfield destroyer.

He was a big part of that great run Solskjaer had when he got the manager's job, which came to an end when Herrera got injured .

But best of luck to him now, as much as i detest PSG i wouldn't begrudge seeing him pick up a Champion's League medal.

15.) 19 Aug 2020
19 Aug 2020 13:28:17
Yes really.

The one exception was Herrera, who was loved. But our midfield lacked creativity with him in there, and he was not great as the only defensive mid in the style Matic plays for us now. He was great in a 3 man midfield. But that limited other options.

Di Maria was terrible. Heart not in it. Fell out with team mates or manager. who knows? But he was not good enough for us when he was here.

Lukaku was terrible, scores goals, but limits other players. Control and touch awful.

Young? Come on. Time well served. But everyone wanted him to go.

Sanchez was not missed by arsenal fans, who watched him every day. Came to man utd and we were surprised that match of the day sanchez didn't show up.