I am more excited about the uber deal
Marouane Fellaini gets 12 month contract extension clause triggered
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Darth Vader's noooo would be appropriate here.
Horrible
Horrible
Perhaps not but i imagine any fee we get for him with one year left on his contract will be a whole lot more than we would get with 0 years left on his contract.
Confirmed.
The Belgium press claim that he has an offer in hand and that he was undecided.
Not going to pretend he's a great player or should be in the squad, sorry. Hopefully it's just so we can get a transfer fee.
Perhaps these two are tied together. A pick-up for Felli in the summer?
To the testimonial!
Is there anything to suggest that? Mourinho has trusted Fellaini over other players and said he wants the fans to 'love' him.
that's good, we can prevent him from free transfer.
Fellaini can be useful sometimes in a match for us. and at least he never complain and with his limited abilities, he always tries to give his best on the pitch.
Fellaini can be useful sometimes in a match for us. and at least he never complain and with his limited abilities, he always tries to give his best on the pitch.
Not really happy about this news, unless it's to prevent a free transfer. He may do a good job in certain areas and have good games/bad games but for me he's not a Manchester United player and never will be.
Has he really?
Mourinho said Scheniderlin wasn't available for selection from the minute he asked to leave, that was months ago. Schweinsteiger has been frozen out from the start which leaves Mensah who is very young and more of a defender than a midfielder.
I do think Jose likes Fellaini but not to the extent some people think. If he had alternatives in midfield to choose from especially a defensive one to free up Herrera, Fellaini would have played a lot less than he has done.
But that was only in the last month, wasn't it? Fellaini started the Community Shield.
make sense to get some money from a potential sale. Hope h leaves in the summer
If we get £10,000.000 for him that will only equate to an actual profit of like 2-3m as opposed to just releasing him when you take everything into account. We'll pay him around 5 million in wages just to be useless for a year. Makes zero sense whatsoever and points to Jose actually liking him for some unknown reason.
I don't know. Jose clearly values him, maybe we all missing something here. Fair play to him.
He does have one of the best chest control in the world.
I don't know. Jose clearly values him, maybe we all missing something here. Fair play to him.
He does have one of the best chest control in the world.
He values his height. Well at least he's realized Fellaini is not a starter.
This.
On the plus side if we were going to offer him a new contract you would have thought we would have done it by now. This has got to be with one eye on moving him on in the summer. I'd take a packet of nobbys nuts and half a Carling for him.
4 years of torture endured. Time for him to be another club's problem.it's been nearly 4 years already
There's nothing wrong with keeping him around for a while longer as a squad/sub player. He can offer a lot off the bench and he's more than capable of playing in dead rubber matches.
I quite like Fellaini to be honest. Obviously he's not the best footballer in the world and I wouldn't want him as an undisputed starter; but he's had loads of shit from united fans and he's always risen above it and put in plenty of important performances for us.
If we get back to the top he probably won't be good enough, but seeing as we need to buy at least one maybe two midfielders in the summer, getting rid of him right away could create discontinuity in the squad which we don't need.
I quite like Fellaini to be honest. Obviously he's not the best footballer in the world and I wouldn't want him as an undisputed starter; but he's had loads of shit from united fans and he's always risen above it and put in plenty of important performances for us.
If we get back to the top he probably won't be good enough, but seeing as we need to buy at least one maybe two midfielders in the summer, getting rid of him right away could create discontinuity in the squad which we don't need.
He's scored 10 goals and assisted 4 in four years.. If a squad player that doesn't offer much and fills a role every now and again for 10 or so minutes is worth £90,000 a week in wages and a transfer fee of £28,000,000 then something is wrong. Mourinho is playing a stupid game by continuing with one of the few, if not ONLY United players to be largely disliked and often boo'd by the fans.
I'm not really sure he was brought in for his goals, and I think there might be a bit more to football than judging players on how many goals they score.
Mourinho seems to disagree that he doesn't offer much, you need a player that can add height towards the end of a match especially in a Mourinho team. I just don't see the point in getting rid of him to get someone in who would be largely similar.
He's disliked on here, but I always think the Caf can't represent all united fans really since there is so many and so relatively few on here. He's not often boo'd either really, he was boo'd by a selection of fans after the Everton match but that's it.
No you don't judge a player on goals alone, but when a player who plays behind the main attacker barely gets into double figures after four years there's an issue.
My point still stands, we're paying £90,000 a week and limiting the chances of much more talented and younger players simply because he's tall.. It's not like his height helps, he BARELY wins an aerial duel, uses his elbows more than his feet/head, gives away stupid fouls & is far too immobile to be expected to close anybody down. The amount of times teams just run through us when he's expected to be the man in front of defence is inexcusable and the same applies when he's the man who's expected to play behind the striker, things just go wrong.
It's easy for Mourinho to expect us to like him, he hasn't had to deal with him and his lousy play/mistakes for 4 years and he doesn't see Fellaini as a constant reminder of the abhorrent decisions made in the years after Sir Alex left.
I also fail to see the need in his height people keep banging on about when you look at our current team, we have plenty of options that are much better at defending a lead.
Of course, nobody is going to buy a player like Fellaini, even for say, £10 million, are they. Yup it is easy when there are so many daft comments about.
How many times has Fellaini played behind the striker?! He usually plays in midfield if not quite deep in midfield.
Which players offer what Fellaini does that aren't getting a match? As I said Mourinho likes a defensive tall player to bring on late in the match, and Fellaini suits that role well. There is nobody else at United who could fulfill that role so if he did leave we would replace him with somebody so similar it would be a pointless exercise.
Saying things like he uses his elbows more than his head and feet shows that you're not thinking about this sensibly really.
All in all he's a decent option off the bench, people like yourself will never like him which in the grand scheme of things makes no difference whatsoever.
happy about this. good decision.
You obviously haven't been keeping up. The reasons Jose likes him have been articulated quite extensively in the last week or two.
This is all well and good for the most part until you look at what can happen when you bring him in to close out a match i.e. give away a penalty after being on for less than two minutes and cost us two points.
That was one game. Clearly Jose doesn't base his opinions on one or two games.
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TFM can easily do what United are paying Fellaini 90k a week to do. Its not like its such a specialized skill that no one else can do it effectively. He's not even a master at it. More times than not Fellaini looks like the game is passing him by when he comes on late. A player like him takes time to get to speed with the tempo. TFM could do with those minutes
Wow, 4 years of Fellaini at United.
Hes done well from his point of view.
Hes done well from his point of view.
His inspirations probably were Mignolet skrtel and Lucas.
Hey, who am I to judge, maybe he has his uses.Lucas and Skrtel were great in their prime. Mignolet.... how many years has it been? 2?
Lucas and Skrtel were great in their prime. Mignolet.... how many years has it been? 2?
In their prime? Lucas has been at your club for about 9 years. His prime was when? 2008?
Mignolet was signed in summer 2013 I think? Same as Fellaini.
He offers nothing, at best he comes in and just sort of stays out of the way. At worst he makes needless fouls and gives away penalties. He truly offers us nothing.
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