From Laughing Stock To Star: The £30m Man Forcing Critics To Eat Their Words




I think we’ve waited long enough.

It’s time we banished into the wilderness any notions of Marouane Fellaini’s Manchester United career being an abject failure.

In a week which saw Louis van Gaal transition from aging philosopher to born-again genius and Juan Mata explode from the bench to write himself in to United folklore, it’s the fuzzy-headed Belgian with the velcro chest that has to come away with at least a hefty chunk of the peculiarly fickle plaudits coming United’s way.

Signed by David Moyes for the best part of 30 million pounds, Fellaini, despite an injury plagued campaign, quickly became a symbol for all that was wrong with the Scotsman’s ill-fated and short-lived reign at Old Trafford. A large afro-headed stick to be wielded by opposition fans and pundits alike.

But the Belgian has slowly found steady ground for his considerable feet to stomp on under van Gaal. And once the realisation that his best position was a more advanced one arrived, Fellaini’s best form, not seen his days at Goodison Park, soon followed.

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Steve Ferguson had taken over & re-branded The Faithful MUFC website back in the summer of 2014 and is now the owner and editor of the site. Steve, from Ashton-Under-Lyne in Greater Manchester, is a 35-year-old life long Manchester United fan, travelling over the globe to see the Reds play. Steve has been lucky enough to be at both the 1999 and 2008 Champions League finals, seeing Manchester United lift the biggest trophy in the World, none more exciting than that faithful night in Barcelona in 99. The website is a blog, but also hopes to deliver the latest Manchester United news from around the internet too, linked up with our growing twitter account which is @TheFaithfulMUFC, give it a follow as we will follow you back as soon as we can.

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