Marouane Fellaini | 2013/14 Performances

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.Rossi said:
The most controversial player to ever join United since Andy Goram :lol:

I've never seen a player divide so many opinions
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How about Berbatov? Tevez? Nani? Anderson? Hargreaves? Kagawa? Or even Rooney?

There's loads of players that have divided opinions more than Fellaini in recent years.
If anything, he divides opinions less than most. Seeing as I could probably count the caftards who think he's a good signing on the fingers of one hand.
 
Pogue Mahone said:
How about Berbatov? Tevez? Nani? Anderson? Hargreaves? Kagawa? Or even Rooney?

There's loads of players that have divided opinions more than Fellaini in recent years.
If anything, he divides opinions less than most. Seeing as I could probably count the caftards who think he's a good signing on the fingers of one hand.
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Nah...Berbatov, everyone seemed to want. Same with Tevez, Rooney and Kagawa...Hargreaves wasn't controversial. Nani and Anderson came out of nowhere.

Goram and Fellaini are the two I've seen that have caused the most hassle so to speak. Not going to lie, I never liked Fellaini at Everton but, the shit storm that happened on here the night he signed was hilarious.

I remember one post.."What the f**k is this shit???" :lol: still kills me
 
.Rossi said:
Nah...Berbatov, everyone seemed to want. Same with Tevez, Rooney and Kagawa...Hargreaves wasn't controversial. Nani and Anderson came out of nowhere.

Goram and Fellaini are the two I've seen that have caused the most hassle so to speak. Not going to lie, I never liked Fellaini at Everton but, the shit storm that happened on here the night he signed was hilarious.

I remember one post.."What the f**k is this shit???" :lol: still kills me
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Oh right, sorry. You're talking about opinions the moment they signed.

Yeah, I would struggle to think of any player who ever got such a negative response before he'd even kicked a ball for the club.

Perhaps Michael Carrick would be up there though? A lot of people thought we paid way over the odds for a player who wasn't fit to wear the 16 shirt. I think that's why it took such a long time for him to be accepted by a lot of United fans. The same will be true of Fellaini, no doubt, even if he does turn out to be a decent signing.
 
Pogue Mahone said:
Oh right, sorry. You're talking about opinions the moment they signed.

Yeah, I would struggle to think of any player who ever got such a negative response before he'd even kicked a ball for the club.

Perhaps Michael Carrick would be up there though? A lot of people thought we paid way over the odds for a player who wasn't fit to wear the 16 shirt. I think that's why it took such a long time for him to be accepted by a lot of United fans. The same will be true of Fellaini, no doubt, even if he does turn out to be a decent signing.
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Nah, Carrick wasn't an exciting signing by any means but most people actually thought he'd be a solid addition to the team. £18.6m was steep at the time but he has justified his price tag.
 
Pogue Mahone said:
Oh right, sorry. You're talking about opinions the moment they signed.

Yeah, I would struggle to think of any player who ever got such a negative response before he'd even kicked a ball for the club.

Perhaps Michael Carrick would be up there though? A lot of people thought we paid way over the odds for a player who wasn't fit to wear the 16 shirt. I think that's why it took such a long time for him to be accepted by a lot of United fans. The same will be true of Fellaini, no doubt, even if he does turn out to be a decent signing.
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A case could be put forward for Carrick that, having just lost Keane and RVN, the Ronaldo and Rooney incident, a lot of fans were just genuinely frustrated with what was happening for them two years...Everyone thought we needed a striker that summer and that Vidic and Evra were sure fire flops....Shows how much we know
 
So what's the score with Fellaini then? Is Moyes ever going to play him? Seems to me that our manager has lost a lot of faith in a player he paid the best part of £30m for. He's used him reluctantly all season, even when he's been fit.
 
Sarni said:
Nah, Carrick wasn't an exciting signing by any means but most people actually thought he'd be a solid addition to the team. £18.6m was steep at the time but he has justified his price tag.
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An insight which was, perhaps surprisingly, not available to the many people who criticised his signing at the time.
 
kouroux said:
Or Owen ?
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That was priceless!!!

When he brought out the cataloge, the Caf said: ":lol: What sorta small time club would sign this idiot?"

When we signed him, the Caf said: "Oh that's a very shrewd move by Sir Alex. He'll get the best out of him and it winds up the scousers"

The hypocrisy was ace!
 
Pogue Mahone said:
How about Berbatov? Tevez? Nani? Anderson? Hargreaves? Kagawa? Or even Rooney?

There's loads of players that have divided opinions more than Fellaini in recent years.
If anything, he divides opinions less than most. Seeing as I could probably count the caftards who think he's a good signing on the fingers of one hand.
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Valencia wanst overly popular when he signed. I was also not overly fond of the transfer. He of course proved everyone wrong with some cracking seasons. Sadly of course everyone has now forgotten how good he was :(
 
Rooney in Paris said:
Oh he was raw, that's for sure.
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He's still raw, there are still many openings of potential left untouched.
The only worry I have now is that Moyes has been brainwashed by the groans of the United crowd when he makes a small mistake due to nerves and settling in and is doubting himself for buying him... resulting in less opportunities for Fellaini to show what he is about.
 
The problem with Fellaini is that it was never really explained exactly what he was supposed to do at United. He's played DM for Belgium and did so before joining Everton. He's also been in a flat centre mid pairing at Everton, but excelled when he played as an attacking midfielder last year.

It was kind of suggested that he was going to pay as DM. But he played alongside Carrick, who while not really a DM himself certainly plays deep on the pitch. So against Southampton for instance you had Fellaini and Carrick both sat really deep and acres of room in front before you reached another United player. I don't think a DM and a deep lying playmaker in a 4-4-2 with wide wingers and two strikers pushing forward really works.

However he's never going to be able to play attacking mid for United, he's not creative enough (or perhaps he's the wrong type of creative - all elbows and bustle rather than flair).

But he isn't going to be a box to box midfielder who can sit deep and shield the back four but also burst forward and join attacks. Players with that level of fitness are super-rare, and he ain't one of them.

Maybe he could play the DM role if he had a genuine attacking midfielder alongside (or ahead of) him. But we ain't got that player available now.

I saw an article the other day that described United as "a team who continue to resemble a Rubik's Cube to Moyes". That's about right, and Fellaini is just another problematic part of the puzzle.
 
Adebesi said:
I was far more underwhelmed about the signing of Owen and Young.
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Young... average player at a shit club with one year left on his contract and we bid 18 million... the worst thing is, he turned out to be just as shit as the average muppet's first, second and final reaction when they heard the news. There was none of that ''an underrated player who is going to surprise a few people on here'' stuff.

One of the cases when a player REALLY is utter shit because his name does not end with -inho.
 
Kevin said:
Young... average player at a shit club with one year left on his contract and we bid 18 million... the worst thing is, he turned out to be just as shit as the average muppet's first, second and final reaction when they heard the news. There was none of that ''an underrated player who is going to surprise a few people on here'' stuff.

One of the cases when a player REALLY is utter shit because his name does not end with -inho.
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Short memories? He had a very good first season and was a key player for us at times. He might have struggled for form with us subsequently but he is so far from being shit. He absolutely did surprise the doubters that season and has struggled with injuries since then.
 
mufcwarm92 said:
Short memories? He had a very good first season and was a key player for us at times. He might have struggled for form with us subsequently but he is so far from being shit. He absolutely did surprise the doubters that season and has struggled with injuries since then.
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He had a DECENT first season and showed what he is all about, a nothing player, subsequently.
 
With Owen I thought, meh, he'll be injured most of the time anyway. Irrelevant.
With Young I thought, my god we have just been given a footballing lesson by Barca and to close the gap we are signing Young? It was the context. I had no particular issue with Young but it wasnt a signing that strengthened the first team which is what I wanted badly at that time to feel better about how utterly we had been outclassed in the CL final.
Fellaini at least plays in a position we are weak in, and I suspect could become a feature in our first XI - though whether he can live up to that remains to be seen.

My disappointment last summer was about the business we didnt do, not the business we did. Fellaini strengthens us, no question in my mind.
 
Kevin said:
He had a DECENT first season and showed what he is all about, a nothing player, subsequently.
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Slotted pretty seamlessly into a team who only missed out on the title on goal difference, scored some important goals and a fair few assists too. It might be the popular view but it's ridiculous to write him off as a nothing player IMO.

Personally I think he exceeded expectations first season, as a player United was probably a step too far but he simply isn't shit and is one of the better wide players in the country when fit.
 
bishblaize said:
The problem with Fellaini is that it was never really explained exactly what he was supposed to do at United. He's played DM for Belgium and did so before joining Everton. He's also been in a flat centre mid pairing at Everton, but excelled when he played as an attacking midfielder last year.

It was kind of suggested that he was going to pay as DM. But he played alongside Carrick, who while not really a DM himself certainly plays deep on the pitch. So against Southampton for instance you had Fellaini and Carrick both sat really deep and acres of room in front before you reached another United player. I don't think a DM and a deep lying playmaker in a 4-4-2 with wide wingers and two strikers pushing forward really works.

However he's never going to be able to play attacking mid for United, he's not creative enough (or perhaps he's the wrong type of creative - all elbows and bustle rather than flair).

But he isn't going to be a box to box midfielder who can sit deep and shield the back four but also burst forward and join attacks. Players with that level of fitness are super-rare, and he ain't one of them.

Maybe he could play the DM role if he had a genuine attacking midfielder alongside (or ahead of) him. But we ain't got that player available now.

I saw an article the other day that described United as "a team who continue to resemble a Rubik's Cube to Moyes". That's about right, and Fellaini is just another problematic part of the puzzle.
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Yes I would agree when Carrick and Fellaini have played together, they haven't meshed well in the side, Fellaini's two better outings have been while playing the lone DM in Carricks absense I believe, the game against Sociedad away, he was generally very good prior being sent off a little harshly in the final minutes, and his performance vs Everton at home was also quite decent.
If I'm looking at how best to intergrate him right as of right now, I would say it's Carrick and Fellaini fighting for the same spot, perhaps they could form a partnership if given time, but as you say, they both have a tendency to sit deep and with Rooney currently playing quite high up in his 2nd striker role, it does leave a rather sizeable gap between the middle and our forwards compounding our generally disjointed formation.
 
bishblaize said:
The problem with Fellaini is that it was never really explained exactly what he was supposed to do at United. He's played DM for Belgium and did so before joining Everton. He's also been in a flat centre mid pairing at Everton, but excelled when he played as an attacking midfielder last year.

It was kind of suggested that he was going to pay as DM. But he played alongside Carrick, who while not really a DM himself certainly plays deep on the pitch. So against Southampton for instance you had Fellaini and Carrick both sat really deep and acres of room in front before you reached another United player. I don't think a DM and a deep lying playmaker in a 4-4-2 with wide wingers and two strikers pushing forward really works.

However he's never going to be able to play attacking mid for United, he's not creative enough (or perhaps he's the wrong type of creative - all elbows and bustle rather than flair).

But he isn't going to be a box to box midfielder who can sit deep and shield the back four but also burst forward and join attacks. Players with that level of fitness are super-rare, and he ain't one of them.

Maybe he could play the DM role if he had a genuine attacking midfielder alongside (or ahead of) him. But we ain't got that player available now.

I saw an article the other day that described United as "a team who continue to resemble a Rubik's Cube to Moyes". That's about right, and Fellaini is just another problematic part of the puzzle.
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Good post. Good player he may be but he doesn't really solve anything for us i.e. he can't particularly play DM, box to box or an AM for us.
 
Carrick isn't going to play forever, he'll be 33 at the beginning of next season. Fellaini is in with a shout of replacing him in that position.
 
Kevin said:
Young... average player at a shit club with one year left on his contract and we bid 18 million... the worst thing is, he turned out to be just as shit as the average muppet's first, second and final reaction when they heard the news. There was none of that ''an underrated player who is going to surprise a few people on here'' stuff.

One of the cases when a player REALLY is utter shit because his name does not end with -inho.
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Don't get the hate for Young tbh. I think he's a useful squad player, people on the caf seem to think every player should be able to produce their best football for us no matter their situation. You can't blame Young for our stupid bid, he did after all have a decent first season for us. Fellaini however has had a terrible first season for us, he's started 4 games for us and we've dropped points in 3 of them. Since early December he's been out injured. He does at least seem to be coming back just in time for the CL, so he might turn out to be not entirely useless.
 
Am I the only one who can't wait to see Fellaini back playing? I know he hasn't had the best of starts at United, however, I just feel that if we can get the right player next to him (dynamic), we could see better performances.
 
Walters_19_MuFc said:
Am I the only one who can't wait to see Fellaini back playing? I know he hasn't had the best of starts at United, however, I just feel that if we can get the right player next to him (dynamic), we could see better performances.
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Fellaini was a panic buy. I cannot see what he would contribute.
 
Walters_19_MuFc said:
Am I the only one who can't wait to see Fellaini back playing? I know he hasn't had the best of starts at United, however, I just feel that if we can get the right player next to him (dynamic), we could see better performances.
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I honestly do look forward to seeing him back too.
 
Fellaini is little more than a chest trap specialist who can be brought on in stoppage time when we're reduced to chasing the late equalizer from the long hoof from the center circle.

But in the first 85 minutes he can't be trusted to provide any useful service without risking giving up multiple free kicks in dangerous positions.
 
Freak said:
Would you all give it a rest already? He's been playing with injury and there's been a settling in period. Im not his greatest fan but this bashing is nonsense.
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Would you have spent 27.5m on Marouane Fellaini?
 
Walters_19_MuFc said:
Am I the only one who can't wait to see Fellaini back playing? I know he hasn't had the best of starts at United, however, I just feel that if we can get the right player next to him (dynamic), we could see better performances.
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You're not the only one. It's kind of embarrassing to see the posts continuously picking on him when the guy has not even got a proper chance to be a Manchester United player. Sure, people have reservations about him and we definitely overpaid, but the least we should do is to see how he does when given a chance in the team once he is fully fit.
 
Freak said:
No. But he's here now and we should judge him when he has a run of games injury free. He won't be the midfielder to solve our issues but at least give him a chance to prove why he'd be a good player for us.
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Seems to me like another player who has become a victim of fans infatuation with transfer fees and wages.
 
Looking forward to seeing him back, feel he can contribute. Like it's been said we are in dire need of cm's and he is one (regardless of your opinions!)

Think in time he can come good, given the stick he's received I hope he does
 
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