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In happier times for Manchester United, it was reasonably common for Paul Scholes or Michael Carrick to play over 100 passes in a single match. Even then, however, their figures tended to be inferior to those of Xavi Hernandez and Andres Iniesta from the days when tiki taka was all the rage at Barcelona.
Andreas Pereira’s statistics are not quite so impressive.
So far this season Pereira has averaged 32 passes a game in one of the poorer United teams in memory. There is only Aaron Wan Bissaka who has lost the ball more times and, of all the players in Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s team who have made 50 passes or more, Opta’s number-crunchers show Pereira has the third worst passing accuracy at the club. Against Wolves last weekend there were 14 different occasions when he gave away possession.
It has left Pereira straying dangerously close to being the player the Old Trafford crowd distrusts the most and, ordinarily, it might be possible to feel a measure of sympathy for him. Not so much, though, after seeing the photograph posted on his own Instagram page this week of him with “Tiki Taka Legend” inscribed next to his name on a 24-carat gold phone, below.If we are all only happy when we are really winning in the end, when your race finishes, what life would that be?
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Originally posted by RedReet View PostIn happier times for Manchester United, it was reasonably common for Paul Scholes or Michael Carrick to play over 100 passes in a single match. Even then, however, their figures tended to be inferior to those of Xavi Hernandez and Andres Iniesta from the days when tiki taka was all the rage at Barcelona.
Andreas Pereira’s statistics are not quite so impressive.
So far this season Pereira has averaged 32 passes a game in one of the poorer United teams in memory. There is only Aaron Wan Bissaka who has lost the ball more times and, of all the players in Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s team who have made 50 passes or more, Opta’s number-crunchers show Pereira has the third worst passing accuracy at the club. Against Wolves last weekend there were 14 different occasions when he gave away possession.
It has left Pereira straying dangerously close to being the player the Old Trafford crowd distrusts the most and, ordinarily, it might be possible to feel a measure of sympathy for him. Not so much, though, after seeing the photograph posted on his own Instagram page this week of him with “Tiki Taka Legend” inscribed next to his name on a 24-carat gold phone, below.
Where’s the photo?
Me, I’m either planning a holiday or I’m on one.
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Me, I’m either planning a holiday or I’m on one.
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Jesus, I'm sure we've all had some bad hot takes on here but that takes some beatingOriginally posted by red g View Posthttps://www.redcafe.net/threads/woul...-messi.418648/
And i thought we were sometimes deluded, On old thread bump on whether they would swap Martial for Messi


They all still rate Martial far higher than he deserves too. The fee at the time they signed him was crazy high and he'd only scored 15 career goals.
He's only averaged a goal every 3.4 games at Man Utd. The most he's scored in a season for them is 17. No idea how that lad thought he was suddenly going to consistently double that for an underperforming team
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Originally posted by red g View Posthttps://www.redcafe.net/threads/woul...-messi.418648/
And i thought we were sometimes deluded, On old thread bump on whether they would swap Martial for Messi


Shades of the Blue****e saying they wouldn't swap Jelavic for Suarez.
For what it's worth I rate(d?) Martial. I think Klopp would have him playing at a far, far higher standard than he ever has for them.
You look at the managers he's had since he signed for them. He never really stood a chance.
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