Said it many times here. Most seem to disagree on here. Scholes happened to agree and has said it a few times. We lack quality everywhere. Pace,leadership,athleticism,energy,creativity,finishing power.
Our buys have not been good enough, plain and simple.
You can say they are all good players and it's all LVG's fault but I don't agree totally. You could say that they are good players and the combination and balance isn't right and that is LVG's fault for buying them and then trying to fit them in. He doesn't know his best team and should by now etc.
Some of that is true I guess but for me our signings just haven't been good enough. Romero, Rojo ,Blind, Darmian, Memphis (needs time). We didn't need both MS and BS. Both have thus far been disappointing in my eyes.
We needed a player like their Dutch CM funnily enough.
For me I would like to see Fellaini and Jones sold at the very least. I suspect Mata could go. Not sold on Darmian for now but lets wait and see with him as it's his first season with us and I was banging the drum for him last summer. Whenever I had seen him for Italy and Torino a couple of times he looked great, but now starting to think Clyne would have been a better option.
We need top quality additions: a CB,CM,Striker at the very least....
We lack quality all over the park...
posted on 12/1/16
Arsenal got battered by Newcastle United and fluke a win. We should have won both games against Newcastle United but we can't put the ball in the net. All we lack is finishing power. If we take the chances the opposition will feel its game over and damage limitation. Remember the Watford away game end to end or PSV home game many easy chances or Wolfsburg away game many easy chances missed. We let teams who are crap stay in the game as we lack a natural goalscorer. If you look at our squad most of our players are poor at shooting.
posted on 12/1/16
Yeah Darmian is the worst crosser and worst reading of attackers I have ever seen. He lets strikers just run off him and he can't shoot or cross well.
posted on 12/1/16
"We lack quality all over the park."
noooo Shiite Einstein!
posted on 12/1/16
We just lack game management and we all know we have the worst shooters in world football. If I did a fifa game I would our shooting accuracy at like 40 out of 100 or whatever the rating is for most of our players.
posted on 12/1/16
comment by RED666👺 (U6562)
posted 1 minute ago
"We lack quality all over the park."
noooo Shiite Einstein!
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Well you will be surprised how many here have said LVG's signings have been good and are all good players and argued long into the night.
Rojo - Average
Romero -Useless
Blind - Average at best
Darmian - Started well..injured..awful now
Memphis - Hugely disappointing but potential and needs time
Martial - Looks potentially very very good (CF though!)
MS - Average so far
BS - Hugely disappointing but obvious class still
posted on 12/1/16
comment by Looney Van Tunes (U17867)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by RED666👺 (U6562)
posted 1 minute ago
"We lack quality all over the park."
noooo Shiite Einstein!
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Well you will be surprised how many here have said LVG's signings have been good and are all good players and argued long into the night.
Rojo - Average
Romero -Useless
Blind - Average at best
Darmian - Started well..injured..awful now
Memphis - Hugely disappointing but potential and needs time
Martial - Looks potentially very very good (CF though!)
MS - Average so far
BS - Hugely disappointing but obvious class still
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Why would that list suprised me? You seem to be very good at stating the obvious, tell us something we don't know!
posted on 12/1/16
RED666 - I am not saying the list surprised you, read what I said . I said many here keeps arguing they are decent buys and decent players. I happen to disagree, you may also ?
posted on 12/1/16
comment by Looney Van Tunes (U17867)
posted 33 seconds ago
RED666 - I am not saying the list surprised you, read what I said . I said many here keeps arguing they are decent buys and decent players. I happen to disagree, you may also ?
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I think it's obvious we're pretty average, we need th right blend of players, we're also lacking a top clas spine to the team, we've got DDG then I start to struggle
posted on 12/1/16
RED666 - Agree. We need a spine above all.
Now go and read the next post posted and it starts again, so many here think they are good enough but not being managed properly.
I think they aren't and also that the manager is making things worse.
posted on 13/1/16
It is no coincide our best players have been DDG, Smalling, Young and Mata
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Young and Mata have been nowhere near as good as DDG and Smalling though imo. If Mata and Young were having good seasons then we wouldn't suffer from such a dearth of creativity.
Mata has been our most creative attacking player but what competition does he have for that honour? Ashley Young and a couple of 20 year olds! Mata hasn't been good enough this season imo. Same goes for Fellaini, Rooney and Carrick so it isn't just the new signings that are the problem.
In fact it makes more sense surely to expect more from the senior players at the club who have been here for years?
They are the so called "spine" of the team after all - DDG, Smalling, Jones, Carrick, Mata & Rooney. I agree that the new signings have not improved us much but they are not the main problem imo.
Rooney played well tonight but that is the first time he has scored in consecutive league games since November 2014. He needs to maintain his new found form or he should be the first player to lose his place next season. And Mata would not be far behind either.