25 Oct 2017 17:44:21
Hi ed001. What's your opinion on Luke shaw mate? Seemed to be really promising player before the injury. It looks like mourinho doesn't rate him but seems like a klopp player bombing down the wings. Doubt united would ever sell to us anyway.

{Ed001's Note - has not adjusted well to going to a big club and is not putting in the work on the training ground. He put on a lot of weight and is not as fit as he should be. Avoid like the plague.}

1.) 25 Oct 2017
25 Oct 2017 18:01:52
He is a free agent in the summer if united doesn't offer him a new contract along Herrera, Mata, Fellaini and Blind.

2.) 25 Oct 2017
25 Oct 2017 20:34:07
They'd be daft to offer him a new contract, bugger that I wouldn't have him anywhere near our team. Remember all the hype about him joining UTD as well. In my opinion he just got lazy his head isn't in it at all.

3.) 25 Oct 2017
25 Oct 2017 21:10:20
Problem is he came in, had a decent first 15 games as a teenager and then it all went to his head when he signed for a massive club for £30m. In 12 months he went from Saints U18's to being a millionaire in United's first team. It was an abhorrent and totally unjustified rise. He was decent for his age, but not spectacular. I said way back at the time he was on the same level as Brad Smith, but with more hype. Turns out i was wrong. Brad Smith is better, because at least he applies himself and is first choice for Australia, even if he isn't quite a Premier League player. He is a footballer which is more than Luke Shaw can say right now.

I never understood what people saw in Shaw that made him so different to other young left backs. He wasn't even the best left back in the Saints academy. That accolade belonged to Matty Targett who also hasn't quite made the grade. This is why you have to carefully manage most kids. For every Kane or Rashford who will fight to make it regardless, there is a Shaw or a Wilshere who just cannot be bothered once they get a big contract and are told they are the future of England! Sad, but that's the reality.

4.) 25 Oct 2017
25 Oct 2017 22:14:41
You’re talking absolute nonsense again MK.

5.) 26 Oct 2017
26 Oct 2017 00:37:48
Tezza-M - if he's talking nonsense then correct him? what did he say what is wrong?

6.) 26 Oct 2017
26 Oct 2017 05:43:11
Well he said Brad Smith is a better player than Luke Shaw and, whilst Brad Smith may work harder, he is simply not. He also says Matty Targett was a bigger prospect - again this is simply not true. Adam is an interesting poster and always sparks lively debate, and I do enjoy reading his comments, but he has a tendency to grossly overexaggerate anything to make his point and this post above demonstrates this.

I do agree with the first part of the post though - Shaw moved too early, got too comfortable, has not got complacent and looks to be on a real downward trajectory. He will have to change his mindsent soon otherwise he will be yet another youngster who has squandered their huge potential. I genuinely believe, if he had the work ethic, that he would be absolutely top class.