This is true, After a few games he was getting plenty of praise from all quarters for having strepped up from previous years.
he's not even had a bad game tonight and he's getting slated.
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This is true, After a few games he was getting plenty of praise from all quarters for having strepped up from previous years.
he's not even had a bad game tonight and he's getting slated.
You're saying that as if it's a good thing. If anything, it shows that we have a deficiency in the amount of capable corner takers we have. Giggs is 35 and isn't going to start every game. Nani is never trusted with the big games. Where does that leave us?
Ah, so he managed a good cross against a Wolves defence.
I'm delighted, as Fergie will be.
I'm not expecting him to be perfect at it. I just expect him to deliver a good ball when he has the time and space to do so, which he rarely does.
His crossing was rubbish tonight. But by and large when he's on the left and coming inside onto his right foot, his crossing is better than any of our other players except maybe Giggs on a good day. Tonight he played on the right and it required different delivery to his normal kind and it wasnt very good at all.
I disagree. Ronaldo didn't make a tremendous amount of progress in the three years before his breakout season. That entire time he was capable of moments of utter brilliance, followed by moments of utter failure.
My point, however, was related the to Ronaldo of now, one-of-the-greatest-players-in-the-world Ronaldo. Even as he was being amazing for us, he still frustrated the fans and his teammates frequently. Even in matches where he ran the show there'd be at least three or four occasions where the crowd would be a little antagonistic towards him because he'd do something that'd piss us off a little bit.
Being frustrating does not correlate to talent or the ability to "make it" at United.
Uh no, no I didn't, not at all, can you read? All I said is that a winger SHOULD be good at crossing the ball, other wise they wouldn't be a great winger, would they? Seeing as taking a corner involves crossing the ball to an extent, they should probably be quite good at that too.
And that's Nanis fault is it? He's hardly not trusted for the big games, do you just invent this shit or something? Obviously you're going to take Giggs, an experienced legend on high form ahead of a 23 year old winger in the big games.
Well that was more down to him being a cnut, rather than his inability do the simplest functions.
There are different kinds of wingers. Park for example has very average delivery. You never see him take a corner, you never wonder why.
Could you tell me these games where he has made a 'marked improvement'? I can think of only the Wigan game when we won 5-0.
The rest he has been average at best.
1. You haven't seen many games then.
2. His final ball has been impressive this season apart from this game. The left foot cross to Rooney vs Birmingham is an example.
3. Lesser games like vs Arsenal? He's lost his way recently a bit but for a long while he was first choice from the start of the season.
fecking hell. Some people... Nani had a very good game, I'm actually very sure if another player had a similar game they wouldn't be slagged off as much. Maybe people just find Nani's face annoying or something to come out with half this shit.
How am I making it up. Name me the big games he's started since he's joined us. Go on.
Oh stop making stuff up, you're basing that purely on tonight, a match where he had very limited options for passing and crossing.
Er... he's twenty-one? I doubt he'd start that many "big games" because in those games you go for experience every time.
Good post....This whole thread is a joke tbh
As a piss-poor WUM myself, I have a finely tuned ability to detect others, and my WUMmy sense is tingling in this thread.
Er...well he's twenty two for a start. A player bought for around £17m would have been expected to have started to secure his place in the line up for big games after 3 seasons at the club. It's no coincidence he starts against the likes of Wolves in the Carling Cup, rather than Besiktas in the CL.
Do you hold the same opinion for Anderson?
Mine should have tingled much earlier
I wish this was the case, but it just seems to me that some won't give the lad any credit at all.
Some players will always have their knockers no matter what they do and unfortunately Nani is going to be one of those players.
He's no Modric.
No. As he's started against the likes of Barcelona (Where he was terrible along with most of the team) in the CL final and the derby this season.
I have seen him in every game this season. Don't presume to tell me I haven't seen many games, it doesn't strengthen your argument, and just makes you sound like an arrogant tosser.
It hasn't been impressive. See Chelsea in the CS, see Arsenal, see the majority of the Birmingham game. For the positions and space he often finds himself in, he should be delivering a better quality of ball.
People really are blinded, simply because he is a United plater.
He was poor against Arsenal, as were most of the team that day.
OK, if you say so. I'm basing my opinions on one of our players purely on how he played against Wolves in the Carling Cup on a cold Wednesday evening.
Big game indeed
The Arsenal match this season wasn't a big game then?
No of course not, only if Nani hadn't played in it.
:d
I can never help feeling that some people have an agenda when it comes to Nani and are determined not to like him no matter what he does. There were a few who were the same with Ronaldo in his first 3 years (*cough* Remi 'yong n lernin' *cough*)
I'm one of Nani's supporters but tonight he did not play well, I wish I could say he did but he didn't do it for me tonight. I have to stay objective here, he slowed attacks down, his crossing was atrocious and he kept dwelling on the ball and making wrong decisions. I'm genuinely stunned at some reactions. If he does not play in the following match I wonder how many people would say "how come, he was so good against Wolves? You didn't see my 7?"
At the end of the day he's a Portuguese winger and he's not Ronaldo. So he must be shit.
Slowed down? he was the only who actually had something to offer in our attack.
The end product wasn't there tonight, but there was reason why the players all gave him the ball.
That's the problem, it never is there. If he's struggling against Wolves, how do you expect him to cope against a better quality opposition?
You really are clueless. feck off
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That was Nani against Arsenal. Look at his passes and look at his success rate. Look also where he's passing. That's about his impact.
Slowed down Top, other players would be waiting and he would just dwell on it