i'm certainly focusing more on the performance....delightful compared to recent times!
Using Fellaini further forward
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i'm certainly focusing more on the performance....delightful compared to recent times!
He's a weird footballer.
I have the count at seven so far. It could easily be more. These aren't aerial duels, these are just him being clumsy as feck.
He almost looks beyond help.
Give me a well-positioned intercepter over a tackler any day of the week.
Yet he set up our goal...
He is just not the quality we should have
I'm watching the Bayern match at the same time, we haven't a chance of competing with them with players like Fellaini and Cleverley as first choice midfielders. It's not even remotely close.
Good assist, everything else was horrific. At least we didn't concede with him on.
Why didn't we buy Ozil? If we using him further forward.
The assist wasn't that good as the defender should really have cleared it.
I'd use him further back in away games, preferably left back in Manchester.
I really thought this nightmare of playing that much further forward would never happen but it did. Moyes is a really weird coach.
It didn't happen.
Defensive error more like.
He's probably trying to kick people in the tunnel.
OMG his touch and passing is of Sunday Pub league quality...
Eh? He was playing in central midfield, you weirdos.
He was completely dreadful again, he's a pretty average CM anyway but he's lot, lot better than this.
Cool hair, though.
Well, we probably shouldn't do that again. I've seen him perform better up there but it's still some way off more suitable players.
This is still very much a puzzling signing and even more baffling selection given what he offers to our midfield. Is he really better than Anderson at being clueless in midfield?
Indeed. The moaning in here is just pathetic
He played up and down in midfield, no static position. Was deep as often as he was advanced of Carrick and Cleverley.
Poor touches, gave the ball away too much, got tackled too much, gave away lots of freekicks. Struggling
Poor touches, gave the ball away too much, got tackled too much, gave away lots of freekicks. Struggling
he was gash....the amount of time he gave the ball away was just irritating. So far Young Mk2
He did in the first half. But then was moved up behind behind RVP for 20 minutes in the second half. Which was stupid.
30 fecking million 
Dear me. He's really proven the people who didn't want him right so far. Should never, ever, play as the number 10 when Rooney is out, because we have Kagawa on the bench and then Januzaj is also there.
Prefer Cleverley in center mid to him as well. One thing he's good for is giving us some depth and enables us to rest Carrick once in a while, but he should have been bought as a starter, which his is what his price will unfortunately force him to be.
Dear me. He's really proven the people who didn't want him right so far. Should never, ever, play as the number 10 when Rooney is out, because we have Kagawa on the bench and then Januzaj is also there. Prefer Cleverley in center mid to him as well. One thing he's good for is giving us some depth and enables us to rest Carrick once in a while, but he should have been bought as a starter, which his is what his price will unfortunately force him to be.
We have Rooney, Kagawa, RVP and Januzaj whom I would prefer a million times more than Fellaini to play there. It makes sense to play him in a 4-3-3 but as a central midfielder. As a No.10 it would be a disaster.
Too much for his level I think. I'll make a decision at the end of the season. I want him to do well , but feel it's not going to happen.
Some alarming limitations coming to the fore
Most bizarre thing was his complete failure to use his big frame to keep hold of the ball.
At the highest level he doesn't have the speed of tought for the game IMO.
At the highest level he doesn't have the speed of tought for the game IMO.
He was definitely pushed behind RvP later in the second half for about 20 minutes or so. Strangely enough he was just as hopeless in possession up top as he was when he played beside Carrick.
Any specific criticisms? Be careful in your reply by the way, don't want to offend people who mistakenly think he's a good footballer.
He's terrible.
Cant keep up with breaks, cant hold off small players trying to get the ball off of him, cant keep the ball and so on