Fellaini the Impact Sub: Help or Hindrance?

[Bojan11]

I don't get why if we bringing him on that we don't play him the role that we he had towards the end of last season.

Instead we stick him in CM for 5 mins. Then he gets moved to striker. This is down to the manager. He's not useless as shown last season.

 

[RedDevil@84]

He is not useless. But he is far from a go-to man. He doesn't have some talent to come off he bench and play extremely well. He tries, most often nothing new happens.

 

[kouroux]

It doesn't help that only he and the person hoofing the ball up to him are the only players playing the sodding tactic.

Not only is it feckin' daft that we resort to lumping it forward to Fellaini with 10/15 minutes left to spare, its completely moronic how we - as a side - do not fully commit to the tactic in any meaningful way. The amount of times we lump the ball to Fellaini and there's either only one or - often times - absolutely nobody with 10 yards of him is completely astounding... I mean what the are our players expecting Fellaini to do? Pinpoint a 20 yard pass with his head?! Surely if we insist on doing this, 2 or 3 of our players need to be in and around him to actually pick up the scraps? But no... everyone just goes about their merry business... then again, maybe everyone is in denial that this is actually a tactic that Manchester United are resorting to when there's 20 minutes of the game still to play.

Also, Fellaini is not good enough with his head for it to be that effective with it anyway... his main strength is bringing the ball down on his chest and holding up play so that others can play off him... but this completely falls apart when he is a) completely shite like he was today and b) nobody can be fecked to get anywhere near him.

Honestly, the whole thing is fecking bonkers, and it does my head in.

It is madness when you really think about it.

 

[Golden Nugget]

It doesn't help that only he and the person hoofing the ball up to him are the only players playing the sodding tactic.

Not only is it feckin' daft that we resort to lumping it forward to Fellaini with 10/15 minutes left to spare, its completely moronic how we - as a side - do not fully commit to the tactic in any meaningful way. The amount of times we lump the ball to Fellaini and there's either only one or - often times - absolutely nobody with 10 yards of him is completely astounding... I mean what the are our players expecting Fellaini to do? Pinpoint a 20 yard pass with his head?! Surely if we insist on doing this, 2 or 3 of our players need to be in and around him to actually pick up the scraps? But no... everyone just goes about their merry business... then again, maybe everyone is in denial that this is actually a tactic that Manchester United are resorting to when there's 20 minutes of the game still to play.

Also, Fellaini is not good enough with his head for it to be that effective with it anyway... his main strength is bringing the ball down on his chest and holding up play so that others can play off him... but this completely falls apart when he is a) completely shite like he was today and b) nobody can be fecked to get anywhere near him.

Honestly, the whole thing is fecking bonkers, and it does my head in.

This. I'm not his biggest fan, but I feel for him at times. No one around him at all when th ball is played up - this is ok if he's only used as a decoy to drag players away - but if that is our tactic (which seems to be the case more often than not) threshold be players surrounding him, more pressure needs to be put in on he defenders, as opposed to it being a 2,3,4 on 1.

I'm sick of these long balls from defense to him every single time when he's on - play it up and cross it from the wings when we have other men in the box -Stoke didn't even do this under Pulis.

 

[iKeano]

Hinderance. Since that flesh-eyed fool paid £5m more than his buy-out clause a matter of days after his clause ran out, Fellaini has been a hinderance. He is an Everton midfielder that's had a few decent games for Everton and the very odd, rare, decent touch for Utd.
He shouldn't be in the squad if we're honest. You could literally take any PL midfielder and argue the case that he's had a 'few decent games', 'scored a few goals' etc. Not good enough, not by a country mile.