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I'm very hopeful of Kagawa having a David Silva style second season for us.
Took the words out of my mouth. Silva was very patchy in his first season.
I'm very hopeful of Kagawa having a David Silva style second season for us.
Calm down dear! There are parallels between Kagawa's debut season and Silva's & Mata's. it's been a settling in season, disrupted more by injury than being played out of position. I keep saying it, but very few players at United play their 'preferred' position week in, week out. If Kagawa possesses the quality that he's reported to, he'll adapt fine.
Don't agree. We couldn't play De Gea at fullback and expect him to adapt.
Kagawa doesn't have the physical assets to succeed as a United winger. He's a cerebral player who needs to play centrally to utilise his movement, quickness of thought and action, clever link ups, etc. The team itself has to play at a high tempo to see the best of him.
Agreed. It's already looking as if Fergie is going to f**k him over.
Kagawa plays a certain role very well. If Fergie didn't want that type of player, why waste the player's time and United's money?
What a silly example. Playing a goalkeeper in an outfield position is entirely different to playing an outfield player in a slightly different outfield position than he's used to.
Don't see what's wrong with playing him "out wide".
He'll always be drifting inside anyway, given his playing nature and it's a good way to make him more difficult for opposition defenders to pick up, especially if he's interchanging with other similarly versatile players in that zone, like Rooney, RvP, Nani etc.
Don't see what's wrong with playing him "out wide".
He'll always be drifting inside anyway, given his playing nature and it's a good way to make him more difficult for opposition defenders to pick up, especially if he's interchanging with other similarly versatile players in that zone, like Rooney, RvP, Nani etc.
I think it's about time we try Rooney in different positions. After all, he's the verstile one. Not Kagawa.
Kagawa's main strengths for me are his quick passing and ability to operate in tight spaces, not necessarily things I'd associate with being a success out on the wing.
Isn't that the guy who plays Kagawa on the left?
In theory, this could work. In theory...
I've followed Kagawa closely for several years now, and I have to say that he can play as a "winger". His performances go from "mediocre" to "brilliant", depending on the game, so he's not a bad option. Especially considering how crap our wingers currently are! If given time, Kagawa can develop into a pretty good winger.
The problem is: that's probably his limits. "A pretty good winger". Kagawa is by nature not a winger, not even a modern one. It's therefore wasteful to try and convert him now. In the AM role, he is already brilliant! He's potentially world class within few years! Why would we throw away that for a potentially "pretty good winger"? It doesn't make sense anymore. In the begining it made sense because we didn't have a choice and we had to try it. But the season so far has shown overwhelming evidence for Kagawa being a totally different player in the AM role.
I think you'll find Rooney has been tried in different positions his whole career at United, but we know he's more productive in central areas. He's scored 34 goals as a main striker in 09/10 and 34 goals behind the striker last year, maybe it's actually beneficial for the team to keep him in central roles.
If Kagawa fights for the behind the striker position and makes it his own then fair play but at the moment Rooney is delivering for us and his goals recently are a reason why we've extended our gap at the top.
Despite this Kagawa vs Rooney argument, I actually think Kagawa links up best with Rooney compared to our other forwards.
The talk of Fergie "fecking over" Kagawa is quite strange. The reasons he's not played much or not played in the hole is because of the unplanned purchase of RvP as well as that he was injured for a while.
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The talk of Fergie "fecking over" Kagawa is quite strange. The reasons he's not played much or not played in the hole is because of the unplanned purchase of RvP as well as that he was injured for a while.
It always takes time for foreign signings to settle in, not only on the pitch, but off it is as well. It takes time for players to become accustomed to a new culture, a new way of life etc.., and I expect he is coming to the end of that 'transitional period' now. On the pitch, it took him a while to find any sort if form due to early season injuries, but when he has got himself out on the field, he has shown glimpses of what to expect, and what we can look forward to.
His movements excellent, and he has that rare ability to find space in tight areas, and at times, he has shown that he has the range of passing to be able to exploit that. Again, technically he has shown he has the ability, but not on a consistent basis, and that is where he needs to improve in my opinion. There have been games, or periods in games where he has looked excellent, but it's all about stringing these moments together, and displaying them on a consistent basis. What I have noticed about him is that he is prepared to put a shift in wherever he plays, and as I say, we have plenty to build up on.
He certainly isn't a winger, but it's good to have a little bit of variety, and overall, I think we have that in the wide areas. Unfortunately they haven't really displayed it this year, but what this squad is able to do is adapt, and Kagawa has added another string to our bow in an attacking sense. As I say, he hasn't started off like a house on fire, and I didn't expect him to tbh, but he has shown enough glimpses for us to have high hopes, and we certainly have plenty to work with and build up on.
Scored a sublime hat trick, can't get a start since.
Scored a sublime hat trick, can't get a start since.