Question, what has happened to Schneiderlin?
I would have thought that he would have been ideal to compliment say Pogba, thus allowing him to do what he does best, but he has just not seemingly got anywhere near the first team on a regular basis so far.
He seems to have not really done what we might have expected him to have done for us so far, which is just not really good enough, as he was an experienced Premier League player when we signed him.
He should be the idea type of holding player, someone who puts their foot in, and breaks up play, and gives the ball say to Herrera, or Pogba, and allows them to shine, but he has even got overshadowed by Fellaini this season (who did start off very well).
Even as international standard player for France, he didn't exactly put in the best of performances, when given an opportunity against Northampton.
It is a tad bit perplexing really.
I am not quite ready to give up all hope on him just yet, but he really does need to sort himself out, if he wants an longer term future with us.
In a different point, but still about our team, does anyone else think that we have too many players who are not young players looking to break in, but should be playing first team football? I.e. is our squad a bit too big for our requirements, as players like say Young, Rojo, Schweinsteiger, Schneiderlin, Memphis, and Darmian, are all good players in their own right, but are just not getting much if any game time with us currently.
Would it not really be better, if they were perhaps loaned or sold, and replaced in the squad, by younger hungrier players?
We have a few good young players coming through, like Axel, F-M, Pieriera, and others, which could do a bench or sub role just as well as those players listed that have not had the best of times with us so far.
I am just trying to work out what might need to happen for us to get back to having some sort of sustained push towards the top of the league once again (this is what an international break does!)
Having a settled side might also help, as so far, we have re-jigged the side on perhaps one too many occasions?
I guess it would be a tad bit easier to do if the players on the bench were not big name players signed for huge sums of cash of big wages, as they will not be too happy about being there for a sustained period of time.
There used to be a sort of hierarchy in our more successful times, where the players knew their roles in the squad, (you didn't hear say from Ole about how he thought he was far too good to be a bench player, instead he said how much of a crucial role he thought that it was) now we have lots of players pushing for a place in the starting eleven, and not too many players happy to help out as it were.
Perhaps this is as a result of having too many managers in such a short space of time, so the squad is a hodgepodge of Moyes and LvG players, if we could let Jose put together his squad, and let him stay here for more than three years, we might, might, see a better put together squad, matching all of our needs and requirements.
Sorry for the rant, I just felt like that I needed to post a few things that were on my mind.
I would have thought that he would have been ideal to compliment say Pogba, thus allowing him to do what he does best, but he has just not seemingly got anywhere near the first team on a regular basis so far.
He seems to have not really done what we might have expected him to have done for us so far, which is just not really good enough, as he was an experienced Premier League player when we signed him.
He should be the idea type of holding player, someone who puts their foot in, and breaks up play, and gives the ball say to Herrera, or Pogba, and allows them to shine, but he has even got overshadowed by Fellaini this season (who did start off very well).
Even as international standard player for France, he didn't exactly put in the best of performances, when given an opportunity against Northampton.
It is a tad bit perplexing really.
I am not quite ready to give up all hope on him just yet, but he really does need to sort himself out, if he wants an longer term future with us.
In a different point, but still about our team, does anyone else think that we have too many players who are not young players looking to break in, but should be playing first team football? I.e. is our squad a bit too big for our requirements, as players like say Young, Rojo, Schweinsteiger, Schneiderlin, Memphis, and Darmian, are all good players in their own right, but are just not getting much if any game time with us currently.
Would it not really be better, if they were perhaps loaned or sold, and replaced in the squad, by younger hungrier players?
We have a few good young players coming through, like Axel, F-M, Pieriera, and others, which could do a bench or sub role just as well as those players listed that have not had the best of times with us so far.
I am just trying to work out what might need to happen for us to get back to having some sort of sustained push towards the top of the league once again (this is what an international break does!)
Having a settled side might also help, as so far, we have re-jigged the side on perhaps one too many occasions?
I guess it would be a tad bit easier to do if the players on the bench were not big name players signed for huge sums of cash of big wages, as they will not be too happy about being there for a sustained period of time.
There used to be a sort of hierarchy in our more successful times, where the players knew their roles in the squad, (you didn't hear say from Ole about how he thought he was far too good to be a bench player, instead he said how much of a crucial role he thought that it was) now we have lots of players pushing for a place in the starting eleven, and not too many players happy to help out as it were.
Perhaps this is as a result of having too many managers in such a short space of time, so the squad is a hodgepodge of Moyes and LvG players, if we could let Jose put together his squad, and let him stay here for more than three years, we might, might, see a better put together squad, matching all of our needs and requirements.
Sorry for the rant, I just felt like that I needed to post a few things that were on my mind.




