PSG have 60 points
2nd place Nice have 36 points
2nd place Nice have 36 points
Angel Di Maria | Performances | Wife: "He only joined United for money. The food was disgusting. The women look like porcelain"
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PSG have 60 points
2nd place Nice have 36 points
That's not nice
Have you seen our current squad? Bar one or two players, the rest wouldn't make it another team in the top half of the table. di Maria jumped ship before it was too late. Good on him. Look at the state of our team.
If LvG wasn't so hell bent on changing a 27 year old, coming off the back of his best season, into something he isn't then he'd still be here, flourishing as he is for PSG. I completely blame van Gaal. The one world class attacker we had, he forced him out of the club. fecking prick.
This. LVG can even buy Messi and turn him into shit in a few weeks.
Right, well you're wrong. Di Maria was a joke, acted incredibly unprofessionally, and also played really, really bad -- to the point where Ashley Young made him look like an amateur. He never wanted to be here and I'm glad he's gone.
Ah yes, the great Ashley Young. Why do you think he wanted out? What do you think of our current performances? Aren't we, as a team, the same fecking joke that di Maria was?
He was unprofessional, and also really bad at playing football. I remember how he couldn't even keep hold of the ball -- would fall on the ground like a baby after the slightest of touches.
Then refuses to fly out and train with the squad. Meh, good riddance.
Di Maria was fecking trash and he gave up on us. Couldn't make a 5 yard pass and got pushed off the ball so easily.
Messi would start off well.
He'd be dribbling past players.
He'd be creating/scoring goals. More so than any other player in our team.
Then as the weeks roll on, he'd stop scoring and creating goals and would become like all our other attackers.
He may even get benched if he doesn't pull his weight defensively.
If he gets disillusioned about the whole thing, he will ask that he be sold to another top team who can compete for trophies, where he would flourish, just as he did before joining us.
Does that sound unbelievable? Well, it happened exactly that way with Di Maria.
Okay, lets go with your argument.
Who is doing better right now. Us or Di Maria?
To save his career. I don't blame him. He obviously felt that he was going nowhere at United and left as soon as possible. Nothing wrong with that. And hey presto... look at the state of our great club. Worse than under Moyes.
Hmm? We're a football club, he's a football player... my argument isn't that Di Maria isn't doing well in France, just that I'm glad he's not here because he didn't want to be and it showed in his on-pitch performances and his unprofessional conduct off-pitch.
No. He couldn't deal with the league and was too pussy to try.
Seemed perfectly fine during the first month or so. Wasn't "too pussy" to try then.
He had about four good games. Was terrible after that. If that's the standard...
Still far better than any other attacking player has managed since. The standards have dropped, I'd love to see one our current players to perform similarly for 10 minutes in any given game, these days.
This guy is really defending di Maria
He had about three good games, one of them was at home to QPR.
And? He seemed perfectly fine and genuinely happy to be here. In fact, most felt he was a class above the damn league, early on. And the suddenly he fell away...
This guy is really defending di Maria
You must seriously be entertained to post two smilies in two separate posts.
What do you mean and? He was fecking atrocious after those three games. What are you even defending here? He fecking gave up because he couldn't deal with the league.
must have missed something. He could not put up with van Gaal's kin philosophy.
What do you mean "one of them was against QPR"? For the best part of three years, there haven't been many easy games for us. In fact, Yeovil Town and Cambridge looked like Barcelona and Real Madrid against us.
Okay, so even if you disregard how shit QPR were, he still only had about 3 good games at the start and then was thoroughly shit.
A player like him deserved to be in a better place than that Mickey Mouse league.
Okay, so even if you disregard how shit QPR were, he still only had about 3 good games at the start and then was thoroughly shit.
Not exactly true. Lets stop here.
Carry on posting smilies in every post.
He has no real argument. Ok mate.
Surely playing in the French league for PSG would get boring.
Someone with a different attitude would have stayed to "defend their name".
When they list the premier leagues most expensive flops, Angel will be at the top of the list.
When they list the premier leagues most expensive flops, Angel will be at the top of the list.
Players have short careers.. why would he waste it in a team in transition under a manager who stifles his creativity?
He's went to a better team and will win trophies there. It was a no brainer, really. I'm not saying he couldn't win trophies at United.. but not in this current set-up.. so why take the risk of staying when you have an out like he did?
Still delighted we got rid of him
He's obviously good
But I think he downed tools
No bigger sin. Even tevez played 100% when he could
He's obviously good
But I think he downed tools
No bigger sin. Even tevez played 100% when he could
Everything points towards ADM making the smarter choice by leaving a poor team.
To me its pretty obvious he was LVG'd.
Didn't look unhappy in his first month or so, got injured came back and then was shuffled around the team and as a team we literally stopped playing football. Not as bad as this season though thank fully.
He was't arsed after that, and thats his fault, but if anyone thinks things couldn't have been better if we didn't have a better manager you are kidding yourselves.
Didn't look unhappy in his first month or so, got injured came back and then was shuffled around the team and as a team we literally stopped playing football. Not as bad as this season though thank fully.
He was't arsed after that, and thats his fault, but if anyone thinks things couldn't have been better if we didn't have a better manager you are kidding yourselves.
Obviously none of us will really ever know, but I do wonder if he could have stayed and had a fine United career, had we pampered him a bit more. Some players do need that. Maybe it would have made sense with a 57 million pound signing form a foreign country who needs time to adjust to a life/football in England. Of course he would have to be receptive as well.
Can't believe people are defending Di Maria here. He lost all confidence the moment things got a little rough, and started getting all of the basics completely wrong.
LvG isn't what caused Di Maria to wilt, he just didn't have the mental fortitude to be the main man here, he needed the giant shadow of a Ronaldo or an Ibrahimovic to hide in when things weren't going well, our only place for him to hide was Fellaini's hair.
LvG isn't what caused Di Maria to wilt, he just didn't have the mental fortitude to be the main man here, he needed the giant shadow of a Ronaldo or an Ibrahimovic to hide in when things weren't going well, our only place for him to hide was Fellaini's hair.
Obvious what sort of player you've got on your hands when they're desperate to join PSG. They're like the Harlem Globetrotters..must be such an easy life.
Not necessarily. Would you want to play under Van Gaal? @kouroux is bang on. Di Maria made an excellent choice. PSG are going somewhere. Whereas United are a laughing stock.
Players go there to live in Paris while being paid high wages and I don't blame them.
Not saying he made a bad decision. What im saying is, a different player might see that he needs to prove his worth to English/Man Utd fans.Bastian left a team where he can almost guarantee a trophy each season to come to us.
Different players, different mentalities.