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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) is joined by CEO Duncan Drasdo and Financial Director Andy Green from the Manchester United Supporters Trust for a special episode on all things behind the scenes at Old Trafford including a brief history of MUST and their aims today, views on INEOS and Sir Jim Ratcliffe so far, and the Old Trafford regeneration.
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Ivor Buzzkill.
feck off just feck right off!
Life is not fair.
I know what you mean, I smoked my last cigar last weekend. Would have gone down well with this fine Irish specimen.
Try this again
One good game does not mean anything can be "layed to rest".
I like to think Ivor Voice of reason is more apt.
Jesus way to put a downer on it! Still he looked a lot more fitter and leaner which makes me think that SAF has come down hard on his fitness issues - hence why he was out of the team for so long. We can only wait and see but today he showed that potential that many of us defended
First season there was plenty of games where he impressed in a midfield 2. Try again.
One good game where he plays brilliantly in a midfield 2 means that he has the ability to play brilliantly in a midfield 2. One good game where he passes the ball around and completes them with incredible accuracy including his hollywood balls means he has the ability to pass the ball with incredible accuracy and completion including his hollywood balls. One good game where he shows he can defend and attack and control the midfield area, guess what, means he has the ability to defend and attack and control the midfield area. One good game, proves he has the ability that everyone claimed he didn't. What he needs now is consistency.
What's up with the page count on this thread? Anybody else got page 53 and 54 even if there's nothing there?
His performance was that good that the caf is having to prepare itself for all the pages it will create.
Agreed, although it was brilliant to see him get back to doing what we already knew he had in his locker too. Never really understood how people had failed to recognise his vision and technical ability to hit a good pass, but the consistency of his passing today was a bit of a revelation. Delighted to see signs of his off the ball movement coming up to par too. Apart from his fitness, that's what was crippling his development as a midfielder more than anything for me.
Where the feck is Scholesy? I want him to come and tell us how shit Anderson is.
So nothing has been laid to rest then is what you're saying.
Crying in his pillow, calling out to god "Why! Why! Why!"
Hasn't he been ghosted? The phantom 2 pages in this thread are probably him berating anderson for being shite.
Scholesy got 'Ghosted' last week or the week before...it was his involvement I think in a Welbeck thread that caused it.
I'm not sure if that is why he hasn't shown up or not.
I'm not sure if that is why he hasn't shown up or not.
That's outstanding!
The Arsenal/Liverpool games which made him such a fan favourite in his first season weren't a patch on those stats. Accuracy aside, that's probably a good 20 passes more than he's ever made in one game before.
If this is the beginning of a Nani-style renaissance from Anderson then we're in for a cracking season.
Yup, he's a potentially brilliant player, just needs to get all his qualities firing at the same time and consistently. Very good signs today, some of his passes were outstanding.
Just a joke, my single Irish friend made me do it.
There were 2 passes that were perfection behind the full backs for the on running player and his overall attitude, workrate and passing was excellent. It's the best he's played in a long time, hopefully that will give him the confidence to kick on.
As was the response.
Let's disagree to disagree.
He was a lot more composed today, which has been one of the main causes for his erratic passing game the last couple years. He only really tried to rush a pass once today, which let to one of his few misplaced passes.
That's the thing though, I can't help feeling all that's needed for Ando to turn it on is a small swift in mentality in certain situations. He should take more of his brilliant runs with the ball through the middle - not just every 5th game. And then he simply just needs to relax and take a breath before trying the difficult passes.
What a brilliant day.
That's the thing though, I can't help feeling all that's needed for Ando to turn it on is a small swift in mentality in certain situations. He should take more of his brilliant runs with the ball through the middle - not just every 5th game. And then he simply just needs to relax and take a breath before trying the difficult passes.
What a brilliant day.
Never!
Aye, aside from fitness its the basics that have let him down - movement, making himself available, deciding what passes to make. Its been frustrating at times to see him cock up the fundamentals when he's got so much ability, but then again if it was that easy to master the mental side of midfield play there'd be a lot more great midfielders around. Hopefully he's turned the corner now like nani did in the Hull match around this time last year.
most impressed that he lasted the 90 mins. no way i thought he would last the distance with the energy he expended in the first half. top performance. possibly his best in a united shirt.
Aye, at his best I think he can combine Giggs' dribbling, creative passing and intelligent one and two touch play with Park's energy and grit. Add along his ability to move the ball around so well and you've got a cracking player.
I'd rather have Lucas.
I see today's the day all Anderson 'lovers' will come out of the woodwork, just like they had to when Nani finally started showing why he was signed in the first place.
This lad is the difference to us having a genuine chance of landing the big trophies and playing stylish football and not... Scholes and Giggs apart, he's the only other midfielder we have with panache and the ability to drive a game forward even under pressure. Anyone that has actually watched and participated in a game of football rather than studying pass stats could've told you that just by watching the glimpses of potential he showed in his best performances.
No doubt this'll be forgotton once he is rested for no particular reason and then has an injury which sets him back again.
I thought it for a while but he does seem to be more a Inestia than a Scholes
Totally agree. He's the kind of talent who will take his game to the next level in a short span of time imo. What I mean by that is that with him its most likely to just click into place rather than be a very gradual development. Hopefully this was the start of that.
Really? You're on your own there.
Was exactly how I was going to put it as well, it's been said by loads of people too.
Anderson's got a bit more urgency and forcefulness in his game than Iniesta though - much reflects how our style of play differs from Barca's I suppose.
Never lost faith in the lad.
Am I.. dearie me, but I thought Lucas was the one?? everyone sure jumps on bandwagons rather quick these days.
The potential has always been there but the way he imposed himself on the game today was very impressive. With more games under his belt, a consistent run in the side that is, he should build on this, given he keeps his eyes on the prize and doesnt go off-track.
Now now Raees, we all know who The One is.
Seems to me that Pogue was on that bandwagon from the start, judging by his first post in this very thread...
He's never denied his potential he's just suggested a bit of patience is needed (possibly because he himself got a bit caught up in it all at the time, and then learnt from that), there was never a need for Anderson to be thrown in there. He was always going to be inconsistent and when that was the biggest feature of his game - and it was - then it made sense to only play him intermittently and to be patient with him. And when he was so inconsistent he was just pointing out that other more consistent - yet less talented - players deserved their places. Lucas has been consistent, and he has deserved his run in the side (and praise for being so at his age).
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Thats our midfield for the big games and if Anderson performs like we know he can, thats a potential CL winning midfield.. he needs to be given a run of games, lets stop handling him with kid gloves.. let him make mistakes, its important to rid him of his immaturity and bad fitness.
Give this lad responsibility.
"the one"?
I'm getting a bit bored of fending off sniping from borderline thick teenagers but feck it, here goes.
Anderson always had the higher ceiling than Lucas, something I made abundantly clear when discussing the two of them. It wa just a question of whether he'd ever get his shit together. Meanwhile, Lucas was making the most of his more limited abilities and slowly becoming an effective player in his own way, especially in big games.
Given the choice between the two, any manager would go for the player with the most potential. Which has always been Anderson. I wouldn't have ever said any different. This doesn't change the fact that Lucas has arguably put in more solid performances in total for Liverpool than Anderson has for us. Here's hoping that's no longer true by the end of this season.
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