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[Opinion Post] Left Back (self.reddevils)

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I'm going to be submitting a post a day for each position on the team which should create some discussion until the season begins. These posts are to compare the current options and general discussions surrounding each position. Yesterday was right back's turn, today is left back.

Player Age Joined Contract Expiry Appearances Clean Sheets Goals Assists Points Per Game Assists Per Game Clean Sheets Per Game
Luke Shaw 21 2014 2018 (+1) 28 6 0 1 1.64 0.04 0.21
Cameron Borthwick-Jackson 19 YA 2020 (+1) 14 6 0 1 1.86 0.07 0.42
Marcos Rojo 26 2014 2019 33 15 1 1 1.91 0.03 0.45
Daley Blind 26 2014 2018 (+1) 12 2 0 1 1.67 0.08 0.16

Possible Talking Points

  • Do you feel any improvement is required in our left-back department?

  • How would you like CBJ's future handled? Kept in-house in case any further injuries happen to Shaw or allowed to go out on loan to develop more?

  • Do you see any promising reserves coming through?

  • Are you happy with Shaw as no.1 and further back-up provided by rotation cover?

Previous Posts:

Goalkeepers

Right Back

p.s. apologies for how late today's was. Going to try to aim for late afternoon UK time to post these.

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[–]darkcoolster 11ポイント12ポイント  (0子コメント)

I rather Darmian be on the left than Rojo. Rojo offers nothing attacking wise and is weak defensively. Blind is good on the left but I rather see him at midfield or center back. Luke Shaw is the starter no doubt, hope he finally goes injury free

[–]clg93 4ポイント5ポイント  (2子コメント)

Think Darmian will be backup here rather than RB, why else would he have played there vs Gala? I said it in another thread, surely if he was gonna play RB he'd have come on there with Young going to LB

[–]MylesVE 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

Played there (briefly) for Italy at the euros as well.

[–]clg93 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Yeah apparently he played there fairly often for Torino too, Mou showed with Azpilicueta that he has no qualms playing a right footed player on the left, if we sign Fabinho then I do believe this will be the case.

[–]Lord_SchelbJose F. Busby 4ポイント5ポイント  (3子コメント)

If the rumours are indeed true, Im thinking:

RB: Fabinho / Valencia / TFM

LB: Shaw / Darmian / Bojack

Edit: According to Castles, Blind and Rojo are up for sale.

[–]Allard1994Good one Jose, good one. -1ポイント0ポイント  (2子コメント)

Blind is not for sale

[–]drivinganindievanScholesy 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Blind is most definitely not in the first plans for Jose though.

[–]Lord_SchelbJose F. Busby 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Im not the one who decides, I gave you the source, wich is reliable when it comes to jose.

[–]Saf94 2ポイント3ポイント  (1子コメント)

A lot of people comment about our LB situation being fine. It isn't.

We really need to learn from last season that we're one injury away from being crippled at LB. Yes we have quantity at LB but we certainly don't have quality. After Shaw we are very limited. Rojo is awful, CBJ is very young and while Blind is a good player I just don't think he has the pace or dynamism to play LB.

I wish we'd sign a good back up LB, people often say if Shaw hadn't got injured we would've got 4th place. How can we then go into the new season with that kind of risk? Yes Shaw's injury was a freak but it's not like he's had a flawless injury record before that, last season was meant to be the season he got over his injury record and became a consistent first team regular.

I just feel nervous not having a proper backup LB to rotate with Shaw, it's a lot of games he's going to need to play and he's still so young.

[–]omegaxLoLAnder Herrera 4ポイント5ポイント  (0子コメント)

I can see Darmian being back up to Shaw for the season with Valencia starting on the right, hence the Fabinho rumors. Or Fabinho starting on the right with Valencia as his backup. Other than that piece of wild speculation, I agree, we are desperately missing a quality LB backup.

[–]saulelek 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Hope Rojo is sold. He's awful.

I'd keep CBJ and give him minutes as Shaw's backup - have to manage Shaw's fitness carefully so lots of potential for games, especially in the Europa League

[–]Z1964Memphis 2ポイント3ポイント  (3子コメント)

I feel like Rojo will be wasted this season.

[–]Alehud42 5ポイント6ポイント  (0子コメント)

By "wasted" do you mean "sold"? Because then I agree.

[–]darkcoolster 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Seems like he's mostly played center for pre-season

[–]Saf94 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I doubt many people will be shedding a tear

[–]Ashys_Martial 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

Luke Shaw joined in 2014! :)

[–]tocitusMemphis[S] 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Indeed! Take note kids, this is an example of what happens when you rush even the simplest of tasks.

[–]Nhialor 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

We didn't sign Luke shaw in 2011, we signed him in 2014.

[–]tocitusMemphis[S] 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Yup, this is what happens when I rush

[–]parton9020 times, 20 times, Man United 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

Would prefer for us to hang onto CBJ, he'd probably be my first choice back up and the game time this would give him would aid his development. Then again if he could a loan somewhere in the PL where he'd be playing week in week out I'd be comfortable with Blind as back-up. Rojo is a bit meh for me still, really don't think he's good enough for us and imo he's better at CB than LB.

[–]Lax4Evr 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I know the gametime would help his development, but are you sure you'd be confident with CBJ as our full time 2nd string? If Shaw picks up an untimely nick this season I wouldn't want CBJ to be starting for us against the likes of City and Chelsea with their seasoned wingers.

[–]kaizoku7 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Historically Shaw plays the full season at Southampton. hope he stays fit and healthy.

If that's the case, Darmian, Blind, Young, TFM, CBJ are more than enough numbers and quality to fill in when needed.

If Shaw missed large chunks of the season again then we'd get by. I don't think it's our weakness at all.

[–]RichieMcladSchweinsteiger 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

This was probably the most troublesome position injury-wise last season. At times it seemed like it was cursed (Shaw, Rojo, CBJ, Young and Darmian were all injured at one point IIRC).

I hope Shaw can get back to his pre-injury form, otherwise I don't think Rojo and CBJ are good enough (atleast for now) to be Manchester United players.

[–]W0rsleyRafael 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Shaw is obviously far ahead of anyone else in the team at LB, I really like the look of CBJ but think he should go on loan, he is good going forward and has the best cross I've seen on a United player since Beckham but could do with improving defensively, Rojo just can't defend 1v1 and for whatever reason his positioning went to shit last season.

Blind and Darmian are good enough cover for Shaw for this season, I also think the fact they can both play multiple positions is for the best, whoever is backup to Shaw has to realise they will barely ever play LB unless he gets injured.

[–]Phosbum 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Why the fuck is everyone so mean to Rojo?