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Rothen: Di Maria's PSG form affected by poor attitude
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cant believe we wasted so much money for that cnut
You see that's the problem here, people are blaming Di Maria when it's exactly what Kluivert and the direction of the club are doing, pointing fingers to find someone to take the pressure off them. Their mercato is failing and they are blaming the players.
L'equipe are cnuts, they live to stirr shit
Qatari ownership seems to have taken its toll on Angel....
Falcao and Di Maria. No maybes about the latter at all.
We bought Di Maria because he was able to create a lot of assists which he did and still does.
I remember some people arguing strong that we should have made a profit on him. We did well to get £45m or so from Paris, he is probably going to move somewhere for next to nothing soon.
Wimp.
...can he play wingback? Asking for a friend.
I do not think he is going anywhere anytime soon. He has not been that bad this season.
Di Maria strikes me as a player who downed tools and hasn't given absolutely everything he has got since being unceremoniously booted out of Madrid. He never wanted to leave and he has been a husk of the player he was there since.
Whether he was having a bad day at the office or not for Madrid, he could never be accused of half-arsing it or lacking in the commitment stakes. In fact, that was the biggest shock of all to see that he was as mentally frail and unprofessional with us as he proved to be as that's the last things his career profile up to that point in time suggested he would be.
He had that career apex season at Madrid, and no other club will get that level of dedication and desire out of him again, irrespective of whether the talent is there to reproduce such form over an extended period of time, which it is.
Whether he was having a bad day at the office or not for Madrid, he could never be accused of half-arsing it or lacking in the commitment stakes. In fact, that was the biggest shock of all to see that he was as mentally frail and unprofessional with us as he proved to be as that's the last things his career profile up to that point in time suggested he would be.
He had that career apex season at Madrid, and no other club will get that level of dedication and desire out of him again, irrespective of whether the talent is there to reproduce such form over an extended period of time, which it is.
Well you know how it is. Once you reach the top, the only way you can go is down.
Entitled gobshite has poor attitude? Shocker!
Mkhitaryan was the best player in the 2015/16 Bundesliga so I suppose he counts. Falcao also counts as a galactico, even if his career was going downhill by that point.
No surprise here really. What strikes me however, is that people on the caf thought that on the pitch he was a hard worker, and always gave it all. I'd say he was anything but. The match against Dortmund at Signal Iduna Park during real's decima season was just a classic di Maria. He missed a penalty in the opening 15 minutes and he behaved like a child; completely stopped playing. If it wasn't for Mikhitaryan's terrible conversion rate, then Dortmund would have won that easily 4-0 progressing to the next round. His attitude always stank
You mean the game he played less than 24 hours after leaving the hospital due to gastroenteritis, after he lost 15 pounds in 2-3 days because of it?
This is the first time I heard about something like that. The only thing that I remember was that Ronaldo was not playing in that game, and di Maria was madrid's main man in that match. Nonetheless, whenever I saw him play he was incredibly inconsistent. He could be a world beater against Barcelona in one game, and in the other he was enormously bad (and in these kinds of games he was "offended" that he couldn't string a pass). I always questioned his work ethics, his technique is undoubtedly incredible but his mentality is that of a 5 year old kid
It's no less true.
Which was insane given his shape and the presence of Bale, Modric and Benzema, and speaks volume of Di Maria's quality that players like that would defer to him even when he coul barely stand. And Ancelotti's confidence in him that he would play him at all.
His work ethics at madrid were great. It's the whole reason we sold Ozil instead of him when we signed Bale. As for being inconsistent, yes, that's his limit, though it's not nearly as bad as his detractors would say. And when he's on song, he's a force of nature
I never questioned that, therefore I am not sure what you mean by "no less true". Was simply not aware of this fact, that's all.
It is, indeed, insane to play a completely unfit player in such an important game. I know that this kind of approach is appealing to the fans, as they always appreciate "heroics" like that. I, however, consider it plain stupidity. Simply because the manager is weakening the team immensely. To think that Ancelotti picked a player completely unfit for an ultra marathon that was the game against Klopp's Dortmund (it was two seasons before complete breakdown of BVB mind you, they were playing some absolutely wonderful stuff) is just beyond me, and says a lot about mismanagement.
Most of my close friends are madridistas and they were ecstatic that Perez sold di Maria for such a hefty price to United. For them he was an incredibly inconsistent player, with only one good season. That season was of course when Ancelotti decided to put him on the left side of his 3 man midfield, where he was very good. I think the decision to sell him was (from the perspective of a RM board member) very well thought. A lot of money suddenly became available, a player which was unhappy with his salary was moved on, and it left a space for Gareth Bale, who to me is slowly becoming an absolute beast of a player this season for Madrid. If only he could avoid injuries.
Of course that is not to say that di Maria is a shite player. As I said earlier, his technique and vision for a pass are second to none. If only he could grow up, then he would be a complete footballer.
He was great for United as well at first, clearly showed that he was our best player in the squad by quite a distance when he was on form. Unfortunately he got injured and then something clearly happened that messed with his head. Still he created over two chances/game for us playing in umpteen different positions during LVG, a manager that barely wanted his team to create chances unless 115 different set of criteria had been met beforehand. Too bad most football fans have really selective memory and completely ignore everything good that might have happened if something bad followed it. (see Rooney for prime example)
He's been absolutely invisible in this match 
What a shame he didnt want to play for us,he would have been a great addition to our team now if it was a fully commited ADM we signed.
When was the last time he looked committed anywhere though? Not since his last Madrid season tbh, where he had a well defined role, in a star studded and successful team. Came to United, and despite putting up some decent assist numbers, looked limper than his moniker (The Noodle). Has a poor attitude at PSG now apparently.
Yeah I know he's lazy but when he isnt lazy(which is rare nowadays),he's a good player.
psst he scored in the 90th min.
No one is doubting his quality.
I've just never liked him as a player. I got excited when he signed because it seemed like we were setting down a marker, and the hyperbole from Spain was so high. Sid Lowe and Graham Hunter were waxing lyrical. But aside from his one season where he played left of CM in a midfield 3, and was really the engine of that great Ancelotti team; he has always looked suspect to me. Mentally weak, and inconsistent. When I watched him as a winger for Real, I was consistently reminded of Nani.
He briefly looked really special for us, especially that run and goal against Leicester. But it didn't take long before he looked like a cooked noodle again.
You live and learn. We got completely burned with that one.
Yeah I was the same,thought we had finally landed a decent winger post Ronaldo,massive let down in the end.
Agree with the Nani similarity with regards to a frustrating player.Can be a joy to watch when on song but more of a frustrating player to watch than an enjoyable one.
So will he make a pit stop at Turkey or China or is it back to Argentina for him now? LA Galaxy? Maybe give it another shot at the London clubs?
No bad timing at all, he truly was horrible in this fixture. A pointless goal basically, that was needed much earlier. Plus after scoring, he was too busy making "heart" gestures with his hands instead of going back in place to try to score the third.
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Both he and Alexia Sanchez are wingers who were pushed out of the big teams in La liga. What separates them is how they reacted to this dark period in their careers. Alexis brushed it off and worked hard. Di Maria sulked.
If there's anyone that knows about being a great footballer and then suddenly stop being one it's Kluivert.
Falcao was a loan punt. Hardly a Galactico, a player that played for Porto, pre-good Atlético and Monaco.
Since he's counting Pogba you can count Zlatan and Mkhitaryan and Schweinsteiger.
AdM has always been an inconsistent performer. Even at Madrid,except for that last season. It's no different now.
People just love this psycho-analysis based on usually nothing. Has nothing to do with his attitude.Some just come across as the jilted ex still stalking their ex's instagram and facebook pages to see if they have gained weight or something. Di Maria has moved on from us.We should too.
People just love this psycho-analysis based on usually nothing. Has nothing to do with his attitude.Some just come across as the jilted ex still stalking their ex's instagram and facebook pages to see if they have gained weight or something. Di Maria has moved on from us.We should too.
I don't care what he did or what he's doing elsewhere - he came here and put in a token effort to start (admittedly with flashes of brilliance), took the piss for the rest of his stay and then bad mouthed us once he'd departed. Apparently he was jeered last night by his own fans. Unfecking lucky son.
Sanchez does push-ups in between training drills. Di Maria doesn't look like could do a single push-up if he tried.
Yes there was a hell of a lot of revisionism on here when he was signed. He was never a consistent performer until that last season at Real, where in fairness he was pretty damn fantastic it seemed. But prior to that he was the epitome of a flaky winger, his top level was excellent but the rest seemed poor.
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