Nani

I really do hope he comes back, he's exactly what we need on our flanks right now. With this form and confidence of his, it'll be a new fresh breath pumped into the lungs of the team. He knows the club, majority of players and we wouldn't need to spend another chunk of cash on another winger.

I've never lost hope that he'll come back one day as a completely new person/player, similar to that from 2007-2010 but with more experience. I'm not losing hope now either. We'll see...

it seems to be "now or never" every year

He could play as a No.10 easily but point that I'm trying to make includes Nani in a new system when the right players arrives. Maybe I'm the only one in this but I feel that di Maria suffers from Nani syndrome recently. Started excellent, than picked up an injury, moved around positions and being wasteful (losing the ball more than it should, taking some long range shots even from almost impossible situations, running with the ball and being dispossessed) etc.

But, imagine these two in the same team and in their correct positions, both in form (di Maria's start of the season and Nani of now).

Nani has always been too inconsistent for my taste and sometimes selfish and wasteful in front of goal.
He gave an interview recently saying that he feels happy at Sporting and I'm inclined to believe that he'll stay at a club where he can make a difference.

Never doubted his talent, just his commitment.

Then again, maybe we'll not get any transfer fee for him:

Nani keeps Sporting Lisbon on his mind but Manchester United in his heart

Portuguese winger’s stunning strike last weekend brought him back into focus in England but United have been steadily keeping abreast of his progress with Sporting


Nick Ames

Thursday 26 February 2015 07.00 GMT


There may have been few tears at Old Trafford over Nani’s return to Sporting Lisbon on a season-long loan last summer but his lachrymose reaction to scoring against Gil Vicente on Sunday thrust him back into the international spotlight and brought a reminder he has not quite been forgotten in Manchester United’s corridors of power, either.

Nani was allowed to rejoin Sporting, from whom he joined United in 2007, in August after guarantees of first-team football under Louis van Gaal were not forthcoming. He has regained some form and confidence and, while Van Gaal has not been in touch personally, the club’s executive vice-chairman has been keeping tabs on his progress.

“I receive some texts from Ed Woodward,” Nani says. “He texted me about the goal [on Sunday] and the great season I am having here.”

Whether or not this is a sign Nani’s services may still be valued by United, the Portuguese winger believes he was correct to move from a club at which form and fitness restricted him to 34 appearances in his last two seasons.

“I love Manchester United,” he says. “The only decision I made was to play more and be me again, because I lost a lot of things there last season due to injuries and the change of manager. The new manager didn’t know me well and a lot of things changed. I needed to play regularly to be happy.”

He is doing so now, and his goalscoring ratio – nine in 25 appearances for Sporting this season – is bettered only by Robin van Persie and Wayne Rooney among those playing regularly for his parent club. A string of pragmatic United performances may have led to one or two revised opinions of Nani’s gifts, and from afar he has taken note of their change in approach.

“I am not surprised [by their performances] because it’s normal when a lot of things change,” he says. “To compare with last season, we played a different system. We used to play very attacking football and we used to score a lot of goals. Now we are more compact, more organised but we are not scoring goals like we used to.”

Nani’s effort on Sunday was a vicious, dipping 30-yard left-footer into the top corner after the ball had sat up for him. It was an outstanding goal but not an obvious candidate to set off a reaction that saw him sink to the ground, apparently crying – he had effectively put icing on the cake of a routine win against the Primera Liga’s second-bottom side. He explained after the game that it had prompted thoughts about “personal stuff, that nobody knows about”, and elaborates that it had come at the end of a testing period.

“I had a very difficult week so physically it was hard for me to be at my best,” he says. “I was feeling some pain in my leg and I wanted to help the team. In the game before against Wolfsburg [Sporting lost 2-0 in the Europa League] I couldn’t do my best. I ended the game wishing I could have done more. I prepared myself to do my best and after the goal I thanked God, who helped me be my best.”

Nani was speaking before Sunday’s match between Sporting Lisbon and Porto, which is live on BT Sport. Sporting sit in third place, five points behind Porto and nine shy of the leaders, Benfica. It is one of the showpiece fixtures in Portugal’s calendar but, if his gifts are required again in Manchester, it could be a fleeting reacquaintance with a famous old rivalry.

“You never know the future,” he says. “It depends on a lot of things. If United want me to stay then with a different mentality I think we can work well next season but there are a lot of things to discuss and see.”

www.theguardian.com/football/2015/feb/26/nani-sporting-lisbon-manchester-united



So, never say never. He obviously is not the only one who suffered from the Moyes syndrome that was boosted by injuries and a lack of trust in him.

And Woody writes to him FFS!