Dave's a fucking menace.
Arguably Mata, Rooney and RVP are a better front three than Coutinho, Sturridge and Suarez also.
They won't win anything with him but they will beat alot of sides they have been losing toAnd therein lies the problem; names on a page are one thing, how they are set-up to perform on the pitch is another.
United's problem for the last 6 months isn't that they haven't had Juan fucking Mata. The same squad that's sitting 6th (or wherever they are) and 7 million points off Man city - because let's not forget that very same squad won the league last year - it's that their manager doesn't know how to set them up appropriately to win games.
This is one fucking trillion billion zillion per cent the impact tactics, shape and formation have on a team. Do not for one fucking second think that this nuanced bullshit you hear about "tatics being irrelevent" is true, because this United side are a case study for the ages on what altering shape and approach can do to materially impact a side's output in a matter of months. They've gone from 1st to mid-table dirge with the same group of players.
Spending 40 million pounds on Juan fucking Mata and painting pretty triangular pictures on an internet forum of what he, Van Persie and Rooney would look like on a theoretical football pitch will not stop 1) their back four playing in a flatter line than they've done since Tommy Docherty was in charge, 2) their full-backs not being allowed to wander up the pitch, 3) the enormous gap between their stationary flat midfield and strikers, 3) them defaulting to getting shape in their own half of the pitch when they lose the ball as opposed to charging forward under Ferguson and pinning sides into their own half, 4) their manager from becoming a conservative, risk-free operator.
Has anyone watched them play? They sit in their own half, constantly in shape, living under fear that they'll venture out of the standard operating system that their ultra-negative new Manager has fucking drilled into them. Have a look at how Everton operated for the last 10 years; there's a reason why they shit themselves anytime they came up against someone decent - because they weren't allowed to play. And now they're a free-flowing side that can go to Arsenal and come away with a result after taking them on. Turns out they have footballers in that squad after all. Who knew? Not Moyes anyway.
Which was the very thing Ferguson gave that same group of players that Moyes now has under his tutelage; the freedom to attack and to take the game on.
Buying Juan Mata is putting lipstick on a pig. So long as that Manager is in charge they'll look feasibly great on paper, but will be the same plodding rigid boxed Everton-in-red-shirts pretenders that they are right now.
This guy couldn't get output out of Mikel Arteta and Ross Barkley - in fact he barely even gave them the chance. Why is it going to be any different with Mata? Moyes doesn't know any other way.
There's a familiar ring to this.They won't win anything with him but they will beat alot of sides they have been losing to
Yeah Dave, you know Dave?
And therein lies the problem; names on a page are one thing, how they are set-up to perform on the pitch is another.
United's problem for the last 6 months isn't that they haven't had Juan fucking Mata. The same squad that's sitting 6th (or wherever they are) and 7 million points off Man city - because let's not forget that very same squad won the league last year - it's that their manager doesn't know how to set them up appropriately to win games.
This is one fucking trillion billion zillion per cent the impact tactics, shape and formation have on a team. Do not for one fucking second think that this nuanced bullshit you hear about "tatics being irrelevent" is true, because this United side are a case study for the ages on what altering shape and approach can do to materially impact a side's output in a matter of months. They've gone from 1st to mid-table dirge with the same group of players.
Spending 40 million pounds on Juan fucking Mata and painting pretty triangular pictures on an internet forum of what he, Van Persie and Rooney would look like on a theoretical football pitch will not stop 1) their back four playing in a flatter line than they've done since Tommy Docherty was in charge, 2) their full-backs not being allowed to wander up the pitch, 3) the enormous gap between their stationary flat midfield and strikers, 3) them defaulting to getting shape in their own half of the pitch when they lose the ball as opposed to charging forward under Ferguson and pinning sides into their own half, 4) their manager from becoming a conservative, risk-free operator.
Has anyone watched them play? They sit in their own half, constantly in shape, living under fear that they'll venture out of the standard operating system that their ultra-negative new Manager has fucking drilled into them. Have a look at how Everton operated for the last 10 years; there's a reason why they shit themselves anytime they came up against someone decent - because they weren't allowed to play. And now they're a free-flowing side that can go to Arsenal and come away with a result after taking them on. Turns out they have footballers in that squad after all. Who knew? Not Moyes anyway.
Which was the very thing Ferguson gave that same group of players that Moyes now has under his tutelage; the freedom to attack and to take the game on.
Buying Juan Mata is putting lipstick on a pig. So long as that Manager is in charge they'll look feasibly great on paper, but will be the same plodding rigid boxed Everton-in-red-shirts pretenders that they are right now.
This guy couldn't get output out of Mikel Arteta and Ross Barkley - in fact he barely even gave them the chance. Why is it going to be any different with Mata? Moyes doesn't know any other way.
I agree Ryan. But Mata might help them push us all the way for 4th now. He isn't going to solve their plethora of problems. No one is saying that. He might however act as a catalyst to drive them into 4th at our expense.
Yes he's signed but he still has to have his medical before the deal is complete.
CuntsMoyes says Mata's the first of many of the kind of quality to come to United this year.