Friday, December 15, 2023

Manchester United flops XI

Inspired by a Stretford Paddock video. Here's mine.

  1. Massimo Taibi
  2. Matteo Darmian
  3. Fabio da Silva
  4. Phil Jones
  5. Fred
  6. Paul Pogba
  7. Angel Di Maria
  8. Memphis Depay
  9. Radamel Falcao
  10. Alexis Sanchez
  11. Anthony Martial
Flops should be defined as the gulf between expectations and performance. So some worse players were excluded because expectations of them were low.

Darmian is the player in this XI with the least expectations, but he made it on the merit of how bad he ended up.

Pogba is the player in this XI with the most good performances, but for that reputation and that price, he still fell woefully short.

The final spot was a toss-up between Memphis and Marcos Rojo. I did not want to include Memphis because he wasn't very bad and he was asked to do a lot, but all things equal, Rojo definitely didn't have the expectations that came with Memphis.

Thursday, July 13, 2023

"Mr Franz, I think careers are a 20th-century invention."

Friday, June 02, 2023

好人做了一辈子的好事,做了一件坏事就叫原形毕露。
坏人做了一辈子坏事,最后做了一件好事却叫浪子回头。

好人成佛需要九九八十一难。
坏人只需要放下屠刀,就能立地成佛。

Tuesday, May 02, 2023

“他每个月赚两千块的工资,你却要求他带给你两万块的生活质量。他做不到,你就说他没用,无能。那你为什么不找一个赚两万块的人呢?是不是人家也看不上你?”

Monday, January 02, 2023

"I don't invent the picture. I don't need to invent the picture. I find it already in nature. I just have to free it."