Tyler Blackett

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[Welbeck19]

Wait, United are calling back Tyler bloody Blackett? He's been that useless for Celtic that he can't get into their match day squad, never mind the bench and yet somehow he'll come back to United and as you said more than likely find himself thrust into the first team again. I get that injuries are mounting, but this is desperation when your calling back someone who's so bad he can't make the Celtic bench.Even at United he barely had a handful of half decent games, before reverting to his usual awful self following that. Any loans he had weren't particularly successful either.Truthfully the only reason he ever got a chance was Van Gaals obsession with a right and left footed centre back and Rojo signing put him on the back burner for a while. He's looking like the kind of player who if he doesn't improve massively will end up as a league 1 or 2 player in a few years.

[david16cse]

Defence 80
Body Balance 86
young elite player

[PIPA23]

the numbers you suggest are backed by what exactly?

He has played 3 games for Celtic in 2015-2016... actually it was his only games in the whole season...

in fact he maybe he deserves a downgrade..

[Ramindbroken]

For what I've seen from him, he's faster than this, probably mid yellow TS.
But his TW and positioning suck, probably he should be at mid 60's. With Bailly on the team he probably won't even play.

[anOKguy]

Man, I remember watching him come into the scene at United alongside McNair and thinking they had possibly secured some great young talents. It turned out to not be the case and he’s had a very mediocre career with Reading over the past three years now. He’s lined up at LB just about every game only moving inside on occasion. His defending isn’t this good, his passing accuracy seems to have dipped, and his TW is often suspect

[petreleo]

Man, I remember watching him come into the scene at United alongside McNair and thinking they had possibly secured some great young talents. It turned out to not be the case and he’s had a very mediocre career with Reading over the past three years now. He’s lined up at LB just about every game only moving inside on occasion. His defending isn’t this good, his passing accuracy seems to have dipped, and his TW is often suspect

Agree with you on everything.
Blackett just made it to the 1st-team under LvG because he was decent with the ball at his feet and could play in a back-three, and that's what he was asking his players to have. He did fine at first, and played to his strenghts, but not long after that, his flaws re-surfaced and he was dropped.
Before that, I can remember him in a Ferguson's pre-Season squad in South-Africa, but after that he had never been good at any of his loan-spells away from the club.
McNair was a different player imo. He could play at least three positions Center-Back, Defensive/Central-Mid, Right-Back and even Left-Back on occasion. He had good all-around skills but quality-wise never good enough for a starter. Just your typical United versatile back-up Defender of the past, e.g. O'Shea, Wes Brown and David May. He could still do a decent job in that role to be honest, however left Man Utd because Jose wanted to loan him out, but preferred to leave permanently because he wasn't given a chance.