Manchester United Banter Archive March 07 2015

07 Mar 2015 17:16:07
Guys could you all do me a favor and please look and reply to my post on the 'other posts' page, would be a great help.

Thanks.

07 Mar 2015 18:12:07
You got a £100 bet on with a lad at Uni? You must both be Lecturers.
If not, I bet you are one of the first to complain about tuition fees. I thought all students lived below the poverty line and only ate beans? :)

07 Mar 2015 22:41:43
Betty in my day beans would have been a luxury. Don't know there born.

08 Mar 2015 11:28:36
We had to work 25 hours a day just to get the beans.

08 Mar 2015 12:24:30
Back in my day we didn't even have beans, so we had to use our imagination to pretend what having food in our bellies might feel like

08 Mar 2015 17:20:45
Well in my day, they hadn't even invented imagination. So there.

08 Mar 2015 17:59:11
n my day all my money went towards beer and no beans for me :)

07 Mar 2015 12:49:56
Apart from the bad press that Evans has brought to the club can no one see the blindingly obvious positives? He won't be playing for 6 games. To me that is great news, he is useless.

07 Mar 2015 13:16:31
I thought he played well against Newcastle.

07 Mar 2015 13:22:48
He is one of the worst players in the squad. He doesn't pass well, not that strong in the air and not quick, I don't know why he is still here. If we get two centre backs in summer then he and Jones for me are gone.

07 Mar 2015 13:23:04
People have selective memories, Juan.

07 Mar 2015 13:54:03
Last week he was better than Di Maria, Valencia, Felliani, Smalling and Young. He has came through the youth system, has cost us nothing in the way of transfer fees and is one of our own.

Granted he is not the best player in the team but he is more than capable of being a good squad player. He has had good years and bad years, good games and bad games but like John O'Shea (who wasn't the greatest technical player) always gives as much as he can.

Short memories indeed.

07 Mar 2015 15:21:43
Yes he's one of our own. But this year he's regressed. At some point we have to decide is he worth persevering with or do we let him go?

We all agree we need one centre half. Rojo is safe. But one of Evans, Jones or smalling in all likelihood will have to leave. Maybe even two. At moment Evans is winning that particular race.

I'm all for backing our players. But we can't afford to be sentimental and hold on to players that aren't at the level required or are on the decline. Whether we bought them or developed them. We had too much of that at the end of the fergie era.

07 Mar 2015 16:15:06
Can you honestly say he is good enough for Manchester United? You must be mad. What is he good at?

It makes no difference if he was from the farest reaches of the world or was at the club since he was born - he is still rubbish and wouldn't even make the bench of teams like City, Chelsea, Spurs.

07 Mar 2015 18:46:45
I'm totally with JuanMata here. How can ye not see he is a HUGE loss for us.
What everyone isn't seeing also is that he is under a lot of pressure. He is seen a senior figure in the squad and because of this is overly used by the new signings and more youthful members on match day, with all the passing back that goes on. It looks as though LVG has told the team to do this in order to restart a dead attack, to gather momentum from the Gk if Ness. Who is going to do this now? No Rio, no Vidic. Jones is always injured. 2 years ago we were singing his praises.
I think once Blind, DiMaria, and Herrara are used to the premiership AND it's players, we will be a lot stronger.

07 Mar 2015 22:48:03
But as senior player he should cope with pressure. Vidic did. So did Rio. And Johnson. And Bruce. Evans looked assured 2 years ago partnered by either Rio or vidic but now as the senior player in the partnership he can't take the pressure.

07 Mar 2015 23:11:46
A HUGE loss for us? Give your head a wobble mate. He's terrible and has been consistancy for years. He had one good season alongside Rio and Vidic. He's slow, poor on the ball, weak, clumsy. Doesn't matter if he's one of our own or not if we want to be the best we need the best and Jonny Evans is a mid table player at best. Of our 3 poor CB he need to go and if another one does too then it would be jones . Smalling best of a very bad bunch

07 Mar 2015 07:57:13
Ed quick question regarding William Carvalho. I have seen you have stated United still maintain interest in him but his price is still very high.

I was wondering is the price being set by Sporting or is that what it costs to buyout his contract?

Cheers.

{Ed002's Note - Coincidently it is both the price Sporting want and the value of his release clause (which is no consequence to any English sides). There is no "buyout" clause.}

07 Mar 2015 10:39:03
Perhaps Nani can be used in the deal?