Manchester Utd Thread

Hans Moleman wrote: BrendanD88 wrote: Hans Moleman wrote: Every time a player runs at Darmian, he either gets beaten easily, or he ends up hacking the player down. He is no way whatsoever a good defender. I'd rate Young and Valencia, both converted wingers as far far better defenders than him. If he was a good defender, as ye are saying, he would nailed down to start for Mourinhos United side. He wouldn’t have 30+ caps for Italy if he couldn’t defend, look he’s not good enough for United and will be third choice RB once Valencia and Dalot get fit even still I expect him to move to a decent Italian side before the window shuts. But yea poorest defensive player you’ve ever seen  Your post is just a ball of contradictions. You're trying to make out that he's a decent player based on his caps for Italy, yet at the same time you are saying he's behind Valencia and Dalot. I mean Valencia is obviously not a strong point in this team. Darmian has no ability to deal with a wide player running at him. He is totally ill disciplined, and just resorts to pure lazy defending and fouling. I'm amazed anyone watching him play for United for the past few years would say any different.

uninspiring start from Utd, looks like it will be more of the same this season, if Bailly stays fit he could maybe do a half decent job at center half

Trap junior wrote: Poison One ''I am a head coach now not a manager''. Won't be long until the disease will be managing elsewhere

Be gone in a couple of months, all is not good between him and the hierarchy 

Hans Moleman wrote: BrendanD88 wrote: Hans Moleman wrote: BrendanD88 wrote: Hans Moleman wrote: Every time a player runs at Darmian, he either gets beaten easily, or he ends up hacking the player down. He is no way whatsoever a good defender. I'd rate Young and Valencia, both converted wingers as far far better defenders than him. If he was a good defender, as ye are saying, he would nailed down to start for Mourinhos United side. He wouldn’t have 30+ caps for Italy if he couldn’t defend, look he’s not good enough for United and will be third choice RB once Valencia and Dalot get fit even still I expect him to move to a decent Italian side before the window shuts. But yea poorest defensive player you’ve ever seen  Your post is just a ball of contradictions. You're trying to make out that he's a decent player based on his caps for Italy, yet at the same time you are saying he's behind Valencia and Dalot. I mean Valencia is obviously not a strong point in this team. Darmian has no ability to deal with a wide player running at him. He is totally ill disciplined, and just resorts to pure lazy defending and fouling. I'm amazed anyone watching him play for United for the past few years would say any different.  Yea Valencia who has been one of the best right backs in the league the past couple of seasons! Nice one Hans  Is this the same 'one of the best right backs in the league' that most United fans are now spitting blood about no top notch replacement coming in for him? That best right back?

Brendan, simple question. Is the United full back positions their weakest positions over the past few seasons?

A few of those mentioned have a one year extension afaik that the club can use.

Valencia has been one of Uniteds biggest problems in the past 2 seasons. He offers nothing in an attacking sense. He is, for a converted winger, quite solid defensively though. For a team like United who should be on the front foot in most league games, that is a disastrous situation at right back. Especially when a lot of the times under Mourinho, he employs a back 4 where Valencia was given license to consistently attack and the United left back was like a 3rd centre back at times. So massive amounts of play were going through Valencia. They were going there, and they were dying there.

You haven't noticed plenty of times in the past 2 seasons that Valencias average position for United is around 40 yards higher up the pitch than the LB? I'm talking over the past 2 seasons now, not just the last few months when Young became the regular LB. Mourinho has regularly employed a tactic at United where 1 FB has license to attack, and the other is clearly told to be far more conservative. Mourinho has employed this tactic numerous times with previous teams, Chelsea had Ivanovic as a far more attacking outlet than Azpilicueta when they won the title a few years ago under Mourinho. Tbf, it's a really basic tactic that has been used for decades.