Luke Shaw play your cards right
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January 5, 2018 at 11:36 pm #1579427
He is fantastic going forward, and has been great in the games since his return. Hopefully he can keep it going.
Make or break for his Utd career now.
January 6, 2018 at 4:57 am #1579455I’m surprised Mourinho hasn’t given him a break. That’s 4 games in less than 2 weeks. Almost like this is Mourinho trying to find his limit. There’s a reason we weren’t in for any LB’s last summer. Shaw is finally about to nail down that spot
January 6, 2018 at 9:06 am #1579479Fantastic to see him back and playing well. When focused and on form he’s the best left back in the league by a country mile. Rapid, strong, good crosser and links well with the forward players. Will he stay fit? I still feel we need a backup or young player for that position.
January 6, 2018 at 9:27 am #1579493Yeah a back up option is a good idea. Someone to keep Luke on his toes. A darmian replacement basically.
January 7, 2018 at 4:53 pm #1580190Shaw is quick but also have a strong lower base strength. A special physical characteristic of full backs. Reminds me of Evra. Don’t think Jose will sell him at all especially the way he plays. Talk of £50 million for Danny Rose is a complete joke. I would go for Tierney at Celtic as cover with a view to putting pressure on Shaw.
January 8, 2018 at 12:48 am #1580290I think Valencia will still be first choice next season so Fosu-Mensah should be good enough backup to him. Wouldn’t complain about Tierney at all. He can even cover at CB. Not natural there but would probably be better than Rojo and Blind. The alternative seems to be Ryan Sessegnon who is a lot younger and can also play left wing.
January 8, 2018 at 11:07 am #1580418If Shaw keeps his performance levels up for the rest of the season I’ll put my hands up and say I was dead wrong. He looks lean and mean plus he seems to have a bit more touch, guile, and confidence about him since he came back into the fold.
Hopefully Mourinho is satisfied with his progress now and Shaw’s “unprofessionalism” or “softness” is behind him. He’s put in a lot of good balls down the left – the slide rule passes, the cutbacks into the area, and the whipped ball beyond the defence.
January 8, 2018 at 11:39 am #1580448Hatters – Time will tell obviously, but I’ve got a feeling that Young switches to left back when Valencia returns and Shaw is back into the shadows. If this happens it’s clear Mourinho simply wants rid of him.
If that isn’t the case then it begs the question why on earth was Darmian or Blind ever preferred to a fully fit Luke Shaw this season? The performances he’s putting in now are nothing new. Nothing that he hasn’t always been capable of producing. So why has Mourinho waited for half the season?
Maybe what he says is true and Luke just wasn’t working hard enough in training and now he is. But I’ve got a feeling there’s more to it than that.January 8, 2018 at 11:47 am #1580457@happyhurling. Shaw’s performances of late are definitely something new mate. Earlier in the season he was overweight and off the pace – so much so that he looked average in the reserve league.
January 8, 2018 at 12:29 pm #1580507I think happy was referring to Shaw’s form pre leg break.
Problem is we’ll never know if it was Shaw’s poor attitude or some kind of Mourinho grudge from when Shaw chose United over Chelsea.That said I remember Mourinho before talking about Hazard saying that be expects the best players in the world not only to work as hard everybody else but even harder. Maybe he saw Shaw as a potentially world class fullback and wasn’t going to allow him to simply be good
January 8, 2018 at 9:02 pm #1580759If he can hang on, be determined and keep putting in the good performances he has managed with the few chances he has had so far this season he will turn around his career at the club.
January 8, 2018 at 9:11 pm #1580768I think Rudyard Kipling wrote a poem about Luke Shaw once TMA.
January 9, 2018 at 8:12 am #1580857Say that Shaw has fulfilled his potential and has somewhat become a world class left back will he be put in the same list as the players that were developed by Mourinho
January 9, 2018 at 8:13 pm #1581202@WG – My Boy Jack??
January 10, 2018 at 12:50 am #1581280With over 80 premier league and a few CL appearances before Mourinho turned up I’m not sure he can go into that list. Influenced maybe.
January 16, 2018 at 11:05 am #1584190Luke Shaw vs Stoke;
90% Pass Accuracy
1 Key Pass
2 shots
100% Tackles won
100% dribbles completed.Getting back to his best level!
January 16, 2018 at 11:32 am #1584197I think there was always talk of Mourinho wanting to get rid of him and that Mourinho wasn’t that happy with him overall. Up until this season that’s all it was, talk and rumours. However, when it became clear that Newcastle thought they had a genuine chance at signing him on loan it probably put the shits up him. He possibly always thought he was safe enough. It’s a shame in one sense that it took something like this to get him refocused but it’s great in another in that he seems to be coming good again.
January 16, 2018 at 12:27 pm #1584232@killeboye. Perhaps the threat of going out on loan was indeed the kick up the backside needed for him. In the end, I just hope he continues his run of impressive form and that he manages to notch a few assists soon.
He’s definitely looking up for it lately and we would be well advised to hold off on Danny Rose for the foreseeable future.
January 16, 2018 at 2:45 pm #1584310I don’t know how much I’d rate Danny Rose either, I thought he was very good at Spuds until Ben Davies came in an froze him out. I’d nearly rate Davies higher, watched him for Wales against Ireland last year and thought he was excellent. Very positive going forward, strong at the back.
Shaw is still only 22, so who do we get as back up, if he cements his place? A 30-something who still has a lot to offer but would be willing to play second-fiddle or an 18/19 year old who we will have to sell in a few years if Shaw continues his current vein of form? Or do we get a player like Tierney from Celtic, or Sessegnon from Fulham, who would push Shaw but if he turns out to be better then we could sell Shaw regardless? Or do we try to keep Darmian who really isn’t going to be happy warming the bench when he’d be getting first team action in Italy, potentially for Juve, Inter, Roma, Napoli or Milan?
It’s an interesting conundrum but one which is probably causing Jose to tear his hair out in one sense.January 16, 2018 at 5:23 pm #1584395Definitely not Darmian as backup left back. He’s prob ok for a non top 6 team but useless for us. I think the key to the new LB is somebody who can also play either LW or CM. Like a Rojo who can actually play full back
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