pamcode:
He is Mad. How can he drop Rabiot for Nzonzi or Tolisso?

Nzonzi has had a good season while Rabiot because of his contract issue with PSG chopped bench in some games

Leyqute:


That one is even more shocking to me than Martial's exclusion

Smallings is the most shocking, he's the best English centre back in the pL and stones wey never play upto 10games dis 2018 was picked ahead of him, not to talk of jones that has been injured.

i feel sorry for Martial sha, lemar and dembele are not even better stat wise, dembele na disappointment, lemar had a terrible season with monaco, mendy wey the injury since seff was picked, even if we didn't sign sanchez and martial was 1st choice, him for no still smell plane.

Smalling the best English CB in the premier league? O lawd have mercy!!!! What manner of trash talking is this?.

elrony:


No lacazette?

Tell me there's Giroud or Gignac!

Dunno if it's just my gut or so, Deschamps doesn't rate Martial and Lacazette in his plans.
Speaking from last Euro!

I don't think he like the both of them.
My biggest surprise was taking matuidi instead of rabiot
That Lemar useless fah, a younger version of walcott

weedtaker:
Smallings is the most shocking, he's the best English centre back in the pL
.

WTF?


Obviously southgate could not be scammed as you have been by smalling!

sod09:
I don't think he like the both of them.
My biggest surprise was taking matuidi instead of rabiot
That Lemar useless fah, a younger version of walcott

Make we even see wetin dem go play na.

Weed my man! No mind them jare




Maduman ni bobo colouring yi oh. Cow dung?

Vanquay:


This man doesn't smoke weed,
I'm convinced he smokes cow dung and lettuce leaves.

wtf

funlord:



WTF?


Obviously southgate could not be scammed as you have been by smalling!

so which of the English CB has been better than smalling in the PL dis season?

weedtaker:
so which of the English CB has been better than smalling in the PL dis season?

Smalling has been the best of a bad bunch. They're all shyt.

MRTA7:

Smalling has been the best of a bad bunch. They're all shyt.

Thank you.

Martial go leave, Sanchez don old and go soon weak. No right winger or plan to buy one. We enter market for another panic buy. I wonder if this club and board members have goals and objectives sef.

sinizia:

who's the best English CB in the league dis season?, follow follow, na deliverance you need ekpa.

weedtaker:
so which of the English CB has been better than smalling in the PL dis season?

I've not really followed England's key players in defense but southgate actually pointed out the same reasons that the fans and jose all have for getting rid of him this summer...


Smalling is technically limited, slow, is not brave, can't really command his area and injects panic into those around him in dee


Newcastle game at st James park? Kompanys goal against city? Sevilla kicking us out of europe due to school boy defending by him once again? Make I continue?

Smallings time at united as a starter have come to an end...just watch what will happen this summer....

I think the issue is the use of the word "best" they're all shit so using best to separate Smalling is disingenuous.

funlord:



I've not really followed England's key players in defense

[quote author=MRTA7]

Smalling has been the best of a bad bunch. They're all shyt.

but southgate actually pointed out the same reasons that the fans and jose all have for getting rid of him this summer

Southgate na ode abeg, the idiot carry 6full backs go world cup, who told you jose wants to get rid of smalling? he's been United's most consistent CB dis season Ffs, you can fault his ball playing abilities but not his defensive ones, not many in the PL are as good defensively as smalling, you can bring out the stats, man no de run.

Smalling is technically limited, slow, is not brave, can't really command his area and injects panic into those around him in dee

technically limited yes, but so are many CB's, smalling slow? are you kidding me? can't command his area?? and not brave?? mehn...

Newcastle game at st James park?

the whole team were terrible in that game.

Kompanys goal against city?

scored the winning goal

Sevilla kicking us out of europe due to school boy defending by him once again? Make I continue?

erib bailly was more disappointing and so were the whole team.

Smallings time at united as a starter have come to an end...just watch what will happen this summer....

na here we the.

To be honest, Martial ain't helping himself either. Deschamps made it clear he picks Dembele, Fekir, Thauvin and Mbappe ahead of him because they can play multiple Positions.

Martial should develop his Skills, he shouldn't limit himself to a left Winger. He should be able to play multiple Positions like Mbappe. Even Nani was a Joy to watch on either Wings. Martial is talented, but kinda lazy to develop himself into a world class Player.

Ronaldo wasn't made by any Manager, he made himself what he is Today with dedication, commitment and enthusiasm for the Game. Martial can learn from Ronaldo, makes him is Mentor and moulds himself to become another Ronaldo for United.

Oasis007:


To be honest, Martial ain't helping himself either. Deschamps made it clear he picks Dembele, Fekir, Thauvin and Mbappe ahead of him because they can play multiple Positions.

Martial should develop his Skills, he shouldn't limit himself to a left Winger. He should be able to play multiple Positions like Mbappe. Even Nani was a Joy to watch on either Wings. Martial is talented, but kinda lazy to develop himself into a world class Player.

Ronaldo wasn't made by any Manager, he made himself what he is Today with dedication, commitment and enthusiasm for the Game. Martial can learn from Ronaldo, makes him is Mentor and moulds himself to become another Ronaldo for United.

I 100% agree with this. Its why I'm not going to put all the blame on Mourinho ( even though he deserves a little)

elrony:


Baba, no be sevilla be this na

Una don dey select pipu wen una dey allow post inside different threads!?

raumdeuter:


Nzonzi has had a good season while Rabiot because of his contract issue with PSG chopped bench in some games

Talk about Tolisso

Oasis007:


To be honest, Martial ain't helping himself either. Deschamps made it clear he picks Dembele, Fekir, Thauvin and Mbappe ahead of him because they can play multiple Positions.

Martial should develop his Skills, he shouldn't limit himself to a left Winger. He should be able to play multiple Positions like Mbappe. Even Nani was a Joy to watch on either Wings. Martial is talented, but kinda lazy to develop himself into a world class Player.

Ronaldo wasn't made by any Manager, he made himself what he is Today with dedication, commitment and enthusiasm for the Game. Martial can learn from Ronaldo, makes him is Mentor and moulds himself to become another Ronaldo for United.

What multiple position can Dembele, Lemar and Fekir play?
Who played as CF most times when LVG coached Manchester United? Martial...
So,if you want to talk multiple positions, Martial can play LWF and CF...
Dembele can only play LWF or RWF
Lemar is more a LW not seen him play from the right.
Fekir plays in the hole or RWF
Thuavin plays either wing.
Only Mbappe can play LWF, CF and RWF and deliver...
So your assertion is wrong...

Smalling played more? Yes...
Best English CB? No...
Maguire is light years ahead of Smalling.
And lest we forget, he was dropped because he is shaky on the ball (Pep philosophy influencing Southgate).
Maguire, Stones, Jones and Cahill are very comfortable on the ball unlike Smalling.

patrickmuf:
Smalling played more? Yes...

Maguire is light years ahead of Smalling.
.

This is laughable. he's just another overrated English defender.

raumdeuter:


Nzonzi has had a good season while Rabiot because of his contract issue with PSG chopped bench in some games

Is that it?.. What about Dembele?. Didn't he chop bench so many times? But he was fucking selected.

Dembele doesn't deserve to go the World Cup because he didn't play anything this season.

Rabiot is better than NZonzi, Tolisso and Matuidi by miles.

MRTA7:


This is laughable. he's just another overrated English defender.

Maguire? Have you watched him? He might not be world class but don't jump out of the context, I said when compared to Smalling...
Maguire is better than Smalling.

Rabiot is a starter for PSG, he deserved to be called up ahead of Tolisso and Maui did and probably Nzonzi who has been very good for Sevilla.

Mourinho struggling to recreate team of 'proper men' he had at Chelsea May 18, 2018 23:00:43 Main The Portuguese has so far been unable to rally his squad around him as he was able to at Stamford Bridge, and United are paying for the disconnect Manchester United’s inconsistencies this season have made them incredibly hard to judge. They beat every team in the Premier League yet also lost to all three promoted sides. They registered a first top-two finish in five years, yet were a distant 19 points adrift of champions Manchester City. And despite the fact they face Chelsea in Saturday’s FA Cup final, their humbling Champions League exit to Sevilla is likely to remain the most memorable moment of their campaign whether they win or lose at Wembley. One thing that there seems little disagreement on is the assertion that this United side still does not have the hallmarks of a true Jose Mourinho outfit. Two years into his regime at Old Trafford, there remains a transitional feel around his squad. If anything, there are more reminders of his post-2010 failures at Real Madrid and Chelsea than there are of his successes at Inter and in his first Stamford Bridge stint. While he struggles to find the fire inside the likes of the talented Anthony Martial and Luke Shaw, he has been able to draw crucial, if fleeting, interventions out of unfancied figures such as Marouane Fellaini and Scott McTominay. When compared to the machine he built at Chelsea between 2004 and 2007, the current United squad simply does not match up. At the Bridge, Mourinho had warriors in John Terry, Frank Lampard and Didier Drogba, and around them he formed an intimidating unit.

The Blues played high-percentage, effective football, with the mental toughness shown on the pitch being a mirror image of what we found in their manager. He was able to get them doing all the one-per-cent work week after week and gained the benefits in leading Chelsea to consecutive league titles in his first two seasons. “We call him daddy,” revealed Drogba to the Guardian. “I don’t know about all of us but he did a lot of things for me during that moment where I had a lot of critics. He was supporting me and helping me.” That siege mentality, the all-for-one, one-for-all approach, had already been made famous by Sir Alex Ferguson at United, but Mourinho used a more intense variation in order to ensure that players who had bundles of potential were able to deliver their best for the Chelsea cause. “Jose said that to me that I was the best in the world,” Lampard would explain years later. “I certainly didn’t believe it at the time and I don’t know how much he did – but it was great man management. “I took it at face value and thought: ‘If my manager I’m working for is saying that, I’m going to have to show him that he’s right’. “I didn’t want to be that player who let him down. I was quite conscientious and wanted to make him happy. He managed to give me confidence that I could do it and I loved going into work.” So far, Mourinho hasn’t been able to engender such unstinting support from his United troops. There so often appears to be a disconnect between what he wants from his team and what he is getting. Romelu Lukaku has largely delivered in attack and Nemanja Matic has had an impact in midfield, but even Paul Pogba, who has scored 11 goals and added 14 assists in his 60 league appearances since returning to the club, has had public difficulties with the manager in 2018. Instead it is the players who do not carry a big name and huge expectation who have received a lot of public praise from the manager. Fellaini has been trusted in big moments when Mourinho has despaired of the lack of effective outlets in his attacking midfield line, and the boss has made it clear he wants the Belgian for the longer term despite his contract expiring.

Elsewhere McTominay was the man he turned to to keep Ever
Banega quiet in Seville and hold Eden Hazard’s reins when United
beat Chelsea at Old Trafford. It is also the young Scot who
Mourinho made a point of handing a ‘Manager’s Player of the
Year’ award to in light of his desire to do anything and
everything the Portuguese asked of him.
Since Mourinho has been unable to rally his senior players
around him in the way he did at Chelsea, he has held up
McTominay as the example of work-rate and professionalism. It
also helps that the midfielder has shot up to around 6’5” in the
last few years, helping him to become a far more imposing
figure who can attempt to carry himself in the same way some
of his manager’s most successful alumni have in the past.
Others to have featured heavily include Ashley Young, who has
got his head down and worked hard in adapting to a deeper role
under Mourinho and earned a place in the England World Cup
squad off the back of it. Jesse Lingard, too, has reacted positively
to his manager’s teachings and has become a club and
international regular as a result.
Yet for every potential warrior and selfless team player he sees
in his United squad, he sees somebody else who isn’t given him
what he needs. While Martial, Shaw and Marcus Rashford take
increasingly lengthy spells to adapt to the Mourinho way, the
boss is giving them little leeway until they show they’re meeting
his standards.
Shaw was one of the first to draw his ire just five games into his
first league campaign, identifying him as the guilty party in
Watford’s second goal in a 3-1 reverse. Just a few weeks later,
Chris Smalling joined the left-back on the naughty step when
both ruled themselves out of the trip to Swansea through injury.
“There is a difference between the brave, who want to play at
any cost, and the ones for whom a little pain can make a
difference,” said Mourinho. “If I were to speak with the many
great football people of this team, they will say they played
many times without being 100%.
“We have players on the pitch with problems. In every sport,
how many times do you play and you’re not 100%?”
Latterly he has asked Martial to bring out the Mourinho in himself
in order to win favour. “Is Anthony player with great potential?
Yes. Can he play for success with me? Yes. But he needs to give
things for me that I like.”
And that is something Mourinho has continued to struggle with
throughout his Old Trafford reign. Whereas at Chelsea and Inter
he found players willing to buy into everything, at United the
expectations of established internationals have not been on Jose’s
wavelength. A manager who demands tough personalities is yet
to be convinced that his squad has enough of them.
His choice of words when hailing the retiring Michael Carrick last
week was noticeable.
“The most important quality is to be a man. M-A-N. Capitals. He
is a proper man,” said Mourinho.
“Football is not full of them. And not just football; society is not
full of them. When you find one of them, you have to value and
you have to keep.”
It is clear when he says that that he believes his squad to be
short on ‘proper men’ too. In fact, it is evident in how he talks
and acts around his players that he remains unconvinced by
them. The planets have not aligned for him in Manchester as
they did in west London.
“Jose could not have come in at a better time,” his former
Chelsea charge Joe Cole once claimed to the Sun. “It was the
perfect team for him at that stage of his career.
“He had 20 hungry lions desperate to win things. It was the
easiest team to manage. He did not have big egos, we all
wanted to play football and we all went out together.”
As he faces up to Antonio Conte’s current Chelsea side on
Saturday, one thing Mourinho knows is that he has still only just
started in getting Manchester United to play in his vision. The
big, powerful machine that was his Blues squad for so long is
still far from being replicated in the north west. There is a lack of
those hungry lions of whom Cole speaks.
“Mentally and psychologically, he had us from day one. We
bought into whatever he was going to deliver that day,” John
Terry told Sky Sports of Mourinho. "I would give everything for
him. I would leave that pitch in a coffin for him and every player
felt the same.”
The challenge now is for ‘The Special One’ to coax a similar
response from a squad most of whom he has yet to convince.
It just so happens it is the club at which he did his greatest work
who seek to send him into the summer with another headache.[b]Elsewhere McTominay was the man he turned to to keep Ever
Banega quiet in Seville and hold Eden Hazard’s reins when United
beat Chelsea at Old Trafford. It is also the young Scot who
Mourinho made a point of handing a ‘Manager’s Player of the
Year’ award to in light of his desire to do anything and
everything the Portuguese asked of him.
Since Mourinho has been unable to rally his senior players
around him in the way he did at Chelsea, he has held up
McTominay as the example of work-rate and professionalism. It
also helps that the midfielder has shot up to around 6’5” in the
last few years, helping him to become a far more imposing
figure who can attempt to carry himself in the same way some
of his manager’s most successful alumni have in the past.
Others to have featured heavily include Ashley Young, who has
got his head down and worked hard in adapting to a deeper role
under Mourinho and earned a place in the England World Cup
squad off the back of it. Jesse Lingard, too, has reacted positively
to his manager’s teachings and has become a club and
international regular as a result.
Yet for every potential warrior and selfless team player he sees
in his United squad, he sees somebody else who isn’t given him
what he needs. While Martial, Shaw and Marcus Rashford take
increasingly lengthy spells to adapt to the Mourinho way, the
boss is giving them little leeway until they show they’re meeting
his standards.
Shaw was one of the first to draw his ire just five games into his
first league campaign, identifying him as the guilty party in
Watford’s second goal in a 3-1 reverse. Just a few weeks later,
Chris Smalling joined the left-back on the naughty step when
both ruled themselves out of the trip to Swansea through injury.
“There is a difference between the brave, who want to play at
any cost, and the ones for whom a little pain can make a
difference,” said Mourinho. “If I were to speak with the many
great football people of this team, they will say they played
many times without being 100%.
“We have players on the pitch with problems. In every sport,
how many times do you play and you’re not 100%?”
Latterly he has asked Martial to bring out the Mourinho in himself
in order to win favour. “Is Anthony player with great potential?
Yes. Can he play for success with me? Yes. But he needs to give
things for me that I like.”
And that is something Mourinho has continued to struggle with
throughout his Old Trafford reign. Whereas at Chelsea and Inter
he found players willing to buy into everything, at United the
expectations of established internationals have not been on Jose’s
wavelength. A manager who demands tough personalities is yet
to be convinced that his squad has enough of them.
His choice of words when hailing the retiring Michael Carrick last
week was noticeable.
“The most important quality is to be a man. M-A-N. Capitals. He
is a proper man,” said Mourinho.
“Football is not full of them. And not just football; society is not
full of them. When you find one of them, you have to value and
you have to keep.”
It is clear when he says that that he believes his squad to be
short on ‘proper men’ too. In fact, it is evident in how he talks
and acts around his players that he remains unconvinced by
them. The planets have not aligned for him in Manchester as
they did in west London.
“Jose could not have come in at a better time,” his former
Chelsea charge Joe Cole once claimed to the Sun. “It was the
perfect team for him at that stage of his career.
“He had 20 hungry lions desperate to win things. It was the
easiest team to manage. He did not have big egos, we all
wanted to play football and we all went out together.”
As he faces up to Antonio Conte’s current Chelsea side on
Saturday, one thing Mourinho knows is that he has still only just
started in getting Manchester United to play in his vision. The
big, powerful machine that was his Blues squad for so long is
still far from being replicated in the north west. There is a lack of
those hungry lions of whom Cole speaks.
“Mentally and psychologically, he had us from day one. We
bought into whatever he was going to deliver that day,” John
Terry told Sky Sports of Mourinho. "I would give everything for
him. I would leave that pitch in a coffin for him and every player
felt the same.”
The challenge now is for ‘The Special One’ to coax a similar
response from a squad most of whom he has yet to convince.
It just so happens it is the club at which he did his greatest work
who seek to send him into the summer with another headache.[/b]Elsewhere McTominay was the man he turned to to keep Ever
Banega quiet in Seville and hold Eden Hazard’s reins when United
beat Chelsea at Old Trafford. It is also the young Scot who
Mourinho made a point of handing a ‘Manager’s Player of the
Year’ award to in light of his desire to do anything and
everything the Portuguese asked of him.
Since Mourinho has been unable to rally his senior players
around him in the way he did at Chelsea, he has held up
McTominay as the example of work-rate and professionalism. It
also helps that the midfielder has shot up to around 6’5” in the
last few years, helping him to become a far more imposing
figure who can attempt to carry himself in the same way some
of his manager’s most successful alumni have in the past.
Others to have featured heavily include Ashley Young, who has
got his head down and worked hard in adapting to a deeper role
under Mourinho and earned a place in the England World Cup
squad off the back of it. Jesse Lingard, too, has reacted positively
to his manager’s teachings and has become a club and
international regular as a result.
Yet for every potential warrior and selfless team player he sees
in his United squad, he sees somebody else who isn’t given him
what he needs. While Martial, Shaw and Marcus Rashford take
increasingly lengthy spells to adapt to the Mourinho way, the
boss is giving them little leeway until they show they’re meeting
his standards.
Shaw was one of the first to draw his ire just five games into his
first league campaign, identifying him as the guilty party in
Watford’s second goal in a 3-1 reverse. Just a few weeks later,
Chris Smalling joined the left-back on the naughty step when
both ruled themselves out of the trip to Swansea through injury.
“There is a difference between the brave, who want to play at
any cost, and the ones for whom a little pain can make a
difference,” said Mourinho. “If I were to speak with the many
great football people of this team, they will say they played
many times without being 100%.
“We have players on the pitch with problems. In every sport,
how many times do you play and you’re not 100%?”
Latterly he has asked Martial to bring out the Mourinho in himself
in order to win favour. “Is Anthony player with great potential?
Yes. Can he play for success with me? Yes. But he needs to give
things for me that I like.”
And that is something Mourinho has continued to struggle with
throughout his Old Trafford reign. Whereas at Chelsea and Inter
he found players willing to buy into everything, at United the
expectations of established internationals have not been on Jose’s
wavelength. A manager who demands tough personalities is yet
to be convinced that his squad has enough of them.
His choice of words when hailing the retiring Michael Carrick last
week was noticeable.
“The most important quality is to be a man. M-A-N. Capitals. He
is a proper man,” said Mourinho.
“Football is not full of them. And not just football; society is not
full of them. When you find one of them, you have to value and
you have to keep.”
It is clear when he says that that he believes his squad to be
short on ‘proper men’ too. In fact, it is evident in how he talks
and acts around his players that he remains unconvinced by
them. The planets have not aligned for him in Manchester as
they did in west London.
“Jose could not have come in at a better time,” his former
Chelsea charge Joe Cole once claimed to the Sun. “It was the
perfect team for him at that stage of his career.
“He had 20 hungry lions desperate to win things. It was the
easiest team to manage. He did not have big egos, we all
wanted to play football and we all went out together.”
As he faces up to Antonio Conte’s current Chelsea side on
Saturday, one thing Mourinho knows is that he has still only just
started in getting Manchester United to play in his vision. The
big, powerful machine that was his Blues squad for so long is
still far from being replicated in the north west. There is a lack of
those hungry lions of whom Cole speaks.
“Mentally and psychologically, he had us from day one. We
bought into whatever he was going to deliver that day,” John
Terry told Sky Sports of Mourinho. "I would give everything for
him. I would leave that pitch in a coffin for him and every player
felt the same.”
The challenge now is for ‘The Special One’ to coax a similar
response from a squad most of whom he has yet to convince.
It just so happens it is the club at which he did his greatest work
who seek to send him into the summer with another headache.

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