Quote Originally Posted by IainR View Post
WHy? Carlos is doing exactly what Danberts wants...

Evans is rated, he has really stepped up, his nose was put out when United signed Jones and Smalling but he's responded and been the number 1 choice this season.

We are still not a unit at the back but I don't think its a player issue..

Cleverly is an issue, he can be superb but isn't being consistent at all and can go missing. As I said I think we need 2 midfielders, I think Cleverly is another Phil Neville... decent squad player but not a regular in the team.

The way people gripe on you'd think it wasn't less than a year since we had the best start of a season in the history of the EPL..

I do think Nani and Anderson have had their chances, Anderson is class on his day but clearly isn't fit enough and I'd get rid of both.

As I said though, look at the average age.. Danbert keeps saying we are aging but refuses to actually quote ages because our average age is superb, one of the youngest squads in the league.

Kagawa could yet step up, he was superb for Dortmund, maybe he'll go back but he was a good buy, sometimes they don't work out but the suggestions he was a buy for marketing reasons are extremely ignorant and anglo-centric at best, anyone who watched German or European football will know how good he was. Even now the Dortmund fans have a free Kagawa campaign to get him back..

Zaha, Young, Valencia, Van Persie, Buttner, De Gea, Jones, Kagawa all came in in recent seasons.. Fergie was backed and has bought good young english talent for the most part.
So if all this is true, why are United so shit?

Are you saying that a competent manager should have this United squad in the top 4 right now?

It seems to me that you are saying that a manager with the right background and record should be capable of motivating the players you've got and getting them to play for him? But that isn't happening Iain.

You're argument seems to suggest that the players are good enough, in that case it must be the manager who isn't. Perhaps then United needed a manager that had operated at United's level before arriving at United. A manager that would have a knowledge of players the World over that were of the required quality and been able to identify 1 or 2 that even United could afford. A manger with experience of managing a big squad over a 60 game season, would have a back room staff with the understanding of the fitness and training requirements to navigate such a schedule.

Unfortunately Iain..... Moyes has none of the above, and that's without getting into tactical nous and playing style.