raumdeuter:
diademk07, afrodoc2

WHat do you think of this

"He's a top player and I think he could be a phenomenal central defender," Mourinho told Sky Sports. "With the quality of his pass, with his aerial game, with his agility in such a big body, for his defensive side of the game, coming from the back with the ball, he would be a phenomenal central defender, too."

http://www.squawka.com/news/paul-pogba-could-play-at-centre-back-says-jose-mourinho/809249

Danhumprey:
How do you fit in Yaya Toure, Pogba and Herrera in a midfield three?

The solution is not in buying more players ALONE, but rather in playing to the strength and abilities of the players currently available, just like Conte is currently doing at Chelsea.




All this buy, buy, buy.. .....no be am o. Tactics is what matters.

raumdeuter:
Afrodoc2 that's why elders should not leave this thread

Pogba needs defensive players to cater to him, Yaya needs defensive players to cater to him

Now combine those 2 together and the only player behind them to be Herrera

That's what we call erekere sleeping on bicycle

raumdeuter:
diademk07, afrodoc2

WHat do you think of this

"He's a top player and I think he could be a phenomenal central defender," Mourinho told Sky Sports. "With the quality of his pass, with his aerial game, with his agility in such a big body, for his defensive side of the game, coming from the back with the ball, he would be a phenomenal central defender, too."

http://www.squawka.com/news/paul-pogba-could-play-at-centre-back-says-jose-mourinho/809249

Funlordjnr:




Some of you niggas are just funny! Who said he should be bought? Or did you not read that a LOAN DEAL would make sense? And why can't they fit into a middle 3? Can't herrera play at the base with yaya and pogba given license to roam? Won't yaya bring his set piece brilliance and add some additional passing range that ibra and rashford etc. can even benefit from?





And by the way what are the strengths and abilities of "fellaini, bastian and schneiderlin"? And what end product have they been able to achieve for your team so far? Or are those their abilities so superb that mourinho has decided the best place for them to bring it to bare is on the bench or in the reserves?

elampiro:

Mkhitaryan is fit.

Fellaini reported fit.

Jones, Eric and Rooney out. Rooney to undergo late fitness test.

I told Mourinho to take it easy with Rooney's chronic back pain, but he was made to run like a teenager against Fernabache. Lol

Phil Jones knew ligament.. We were told he would be back in October. This guy should stay fit for once. We have two players now with two knee ligament injury.

Hope we are not back to our 'November injury curse? Since SAF left, our players get injured from October - December. By January, we would be praying for some to return to help us fight for top four. Mourinho told is his players don't get injured so much, so let's hope for the best. Valencia and Smalling must stay fit now.

patrickmuf:
I'm a year older today, happy birthday to me...
The team owe me a victory today, we never lose on my birthday...

afrodoc2:


The question has never been Pogba's skill set but his application and mentality. Pogba would be a great PS4 player cos if u listed Pogba's talents in a vacuum it would be quite impressive i.e height, body balance, shot power e.t.c The boy is lazy and after spending years in the citadel of tactics serie A he is still tactically naive. Xavi, Pirlo, Scholes et al should sit down together and write a book and teach some of these rudderless midfielders.

But wait o , is Mourinho saying he thinks Pogba would be the first 100m defender? lol

afrodoc2:


But wait o , is Mourinho saying he thinks Pogba would be the first 100m defender? lol

Diademk07:
Probably tongue in cheek comment. Because those aint attributes that makes up a good defender, not to consider Pogba's poor positional discipline, intelligence and defensive work.

Right now, Pogba is no different from a youth prodigy that just got promoted into the first team when you consider his little intelligence and his tendency to hug the ball too much. The one thing that annoys me so much is his laziness. That one can't be excused.

afrodoc2:
Yaya Toure would be another waste of money and space. There are too many old or slow or just purely lazy players in the team already, there is no need adding another one who is old, slow AND lazy.
If you want Pogba to succeed you need him to play with midfielders who work hard with and without the ball and play in midfield orchestrating play.
Yaya Toure is none of these at this stage in his career and so is not what we need. Matuidi in January would make more sense and give us better balance than Toure, Strootman if he maintains fitness also makes more sense in terms of balance and being an upgrade on Fellaini and Schneiderlin( who is obviously out of favour).
Then next season we buy actual midfielders who love to make interceptions, pass the ball and run the game e.g Kroos, Verrati, Alcantara
But knowing JM and his ultradefensive mindset i suspect this is not happening.

However the major problem right now is not the quality of the players but the mindset of the manager.
Playing Fellaini repeatedly in big games shows JM currently has a problem with his faculties.
Completely sidelining potential solutions like Carrick, Schneiderlin and even Schweinsteiger while giving us this Fellaini rubbish is inexplicable.
Parking the bus against Liverpool and turning our best young finisher Rashford into a wingback was disgraceful and made even more disgraceful by fans applauding his "tactics".

If the only way he can avoid 4-0 defeats against big teams is to park the bus MAYBE he is not the right man for the job, just saying.

SailorXY:
talking about Schneiderlin what do you tho is the problem? I used to swear down he's a Mourinho type of player. I haven't seen a game where he featured this season but I'm really wondering if he's really that bad.

SailorXY:
talking about Schneiderlin what do you tho is the problem? I used to swear down he's a Mourinho type of player. I haven't seen a game where he featured this season but I'm really wondering if he's really that bad.

Funlordjnr:




Some of you niggas are just funny! Who said he should be bought? Or did you not read that a LOAN DEAL would make sense? And why can't they fit into a middle 3? Can't herrera play at the base with yaya and pogba given license to roam? Won't yaya bring his set piece brilliance and add some additional passing range that ibra and rashford etc. can even benefit from?





And by the way what are the strengths and abilities of "fellaini, bastian and schneiderlin"? And what end product have they been able to achieve for your team so far? Or are those their abilities so superb that mourinho has decided the best place for them to bring it to bare is on the bench or in the reserves?

Danhumprey:
The bolded is what is my problem with having a midfield three of Yaya, Pogba and Herrera. You expect Herrera to shoulder the burden of the midfield defense and protection of the back four alone, while those two [b]dogonyaros [/b]walk around the field lazily, refusing to help out in defense?


We all know Yaya Toure and Pogba are lazy players defensively and with egos, and that's not what we need right now. We're still trying to fit in Pogba and you're suggesting Yaya Toure?




Nigga, please.

Diademk07:


Doesn't have the defensive awareness to play as a DM such as Wanyama nor enough ball skills to play as a box-box for a top club like ours.

On another note, Mourinho should stop staying at a hotel. Let him get himself a house and bring his family to live with him in manchester. My marshmallow heart has started to pity the poor fecker and I can't afford to do that.

Elxandre:
Schwein should be recalled!
You can't keep earning so much for staying with Ana Inanovic 24/7.

And funlordjnr, you say make we sign Yaya?
The same guy wey dey use walking stick waka for pitch?

Fussbot:
What time is the match?

Funlordjnr:




7:30...........

afrodoc2:

Schneiderlin is not that terrible a player, just that he lacks discipline. Not tactical discipline as such but knowing when to tackle and when to shield, when to slide in and went to hold off. Then also he is way too limited in his passing.
Having said all that i would have him ahead of Fellaini in the team. Herrera has impressed of late but he is not the long term solution.

When we said Pogba for 100m was wasteful people did not understand. Imagine spending 100m on midfield and the midfield is still our problem.

Funlordjnr:




Bros! Read my epistle again abeg! And which walking stick him dey use? No be beef make am dey chop bench?


Yaya on loan would make sense? All these other bros dem just dey mumur without making ANY OPTIONS WHATSOEVER....yaya is a quality player, premier league champion, nations cup winner, champions league winner, player of the season etc.... And now because of club politics niggas dey spit blasphemy? I can't fit believe wetin I dey read for here sha!

Make dem remember say a.c milan thought PIRLO was finished and see how that turned out for juve!

Anyway abeg give me ya own suggesty egbon!

elrony:


No be 8pm again?

Diademk07:


Doesn't have the defensive awareness to play as a DM such as Wanyama nor enough ball skills to play as a box-box for a top club like ours.

On another note, Mourinho should stop staying at a hotel. Let him get himself a house and bring his family to live with him in manchester. My marshmallow heart has started to pity the poor fecker and I can't afford to do that.