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MANCHESTER UNITED SIGNED ANGEL DI MARIA

             

     

ANGEL DI MARIA STATS:                                                                With Angel Di Maria set to become the most expensive purchase in British footballing history, we’ve taken a look at some of his career statistics.

  

Last season in La Liga, Di Maria created a goalscoring chance for his team mates once every 26 minutes. However, the season before it was just once every 45 minutes.

         In the Champions League last season, Di Maria created a chance every 41 minutes for team mates, of which 25 percent - five - were converted into goals.

Of his 91 goal scoring chances created for team mates in La Liga, 18 percent of them, 17, were converted into goals.

Di Maria completed a total of 1,357 passes in La Liga last season, passing the ball once every 1.8  minutes His 399 passes in the Champions League sees his average passes at on every two minutes in Europe’s top club competition.

Over the course of the La Liga season, Di Maria made 58 shots, of which 58.6 percent were on target. In the Champions League, his shot accuracy was 53.3 percent.

Over the course of his career, Di Maria has scored a total of 57 goals in 352 appearances - giving him an average of a goal every six games. However, his 11 goals in 52 appearances in all competitions last season put his average at a goal every 4.7 games.

 MANCHESTER UNITED SIGNED MARCOS  ROJO

   

 

PROFILE OF MARCOS ROJO ;

 

Manchester United's new no.5, Marcos Rojo, is an aggressive, accomplished Argentine defender with a tough-tackling style that is sure to prove popular at Old Trafford.

The highly-rated South American starred at this summer's World Cup in Brazil, where he played in six of his country's seven games and only missed the quarter-final win over Belgium due to suspension.
Rojo also scored his first-ever international goal during Argentina's 3-2 group-stage win over Nigeria. Respected analysts Castrol Index even selected the 24-year-old in their official Team of the Tournament with an average rating of 9.5 out of 10.

Argentina head coach Alessandro Sabella had previously worked with Rojo during their time together at Estudiantes, winning the Copa Libertadores in 2009 and the Torneo Apertura the following year.
A move to Europe and Spartak Moscow followed, although the youngster struggled to settle in Russia with Nemanja Vidic’s former club. Nonetheless, senior international recognition with Argentina was still forthcoming and he competed at the Copa America as he proved his value at the highest level.

A switch to Sporting was sealed in the summer of 2012 for a fee of around £3.5million and, after adapting to life in the Portuguese league, he excelled throughout the 2013/14 campaign and impressed in a side that finished runners-up to Benfica.

Although regularly playing at left-back for Argentina, Rojo was often deployed in the middle of Sporting Lisbon’s defence and looks suited to playing as part of a three-man backline - which would of course suit Louis van Gaal's 3-5-2 formation this season.

Rojo - whose surname translates from Spanish to ‘Red’ - becomes the fourth Argentine to join United, following in the footsteps of former Estudiantes team-mate Juan Sebastian Veron, Gabriel Heinze and Carlos Tevez.
                                                                                              BY: HIKMAT MAHARJAN