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The DVB thing baffles me...surely they knew the player they were getting, had scouts watching him...or maybe they just heard he was available, grabbed him right away then shrugged their shoulders after?
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Donny never got to start any real games and was typically brought on in the 93rd minute.
Jadon for absolutely no reason based upon form gets to start for UTD and gets picked in the England squad.
That's 100% fraud.
Sorry but NO No No
Pogba (on his day) may be one of the best players on the planet, but he has never been reliable week in week out for Utd.
One match he can be electric, the very next (with the same players around him playing with the same tactics and in the same position) he has been a liability time and time again
I really hope Utd let him go (anywhere) - any player who can offer a 7/10 performance every week would be MUCH better than Pogba who turns up 3 times a season and otherwise is invisible offensively and defensively a liability.
He also isnt worth the £300k-400k a week playing like he is and always has done for the last 6 years.
Martial needs to be sold, he lost interest/form in the unfair red vs Spurs early last season and has never regained it (even last weeks goal came after 2 or 3 decent other chances that he fluffed completely) - and unfair red in the sense that Lamela? should have been sent off for the same incident for the initial transgression.
We have blatantly needed a right sided out and out winger for donkey's years - only exaggerated by AWB's lack of attacking. No one previously enjoyed playing there, and even Greenwood cuts in early majority of hte time.
Sancho just needs to be given time to adapt tot the PL, he will come good (even if just to prove to Pep that he was wrong). Ole knows how to bed in players I think a lot of people need to remember just how young Sancho is and given how long he spent in Germany he will need time to adapt to a league he never played in before (I think he played a few cup games for City before he left, not sure he ever played any league games though)
Donny will only go with significant money coming the other way - cant see Utd letting him go even on a loan (unless its with the relatively new "definite buy" type clause added, that seems to only just started appearing in the last 2 -3 seasons).
for right or wrong Utd have been looking out for all round midfielders recently - and Donny should have worked, but he just doesnt seem to be able to adapt to the speed of the EPL , sometimes transfers just dont work out.
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And these are just his qualities
And that was just one game too for our £47mil Brazilian gem. I daren’t watch the analysis of any others!
Varane is injured. Let’s hope it’s nothing too serious.
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Terrible timing, unlucky especially with Maguire out.
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We can be like Liverpool and moan about injuries costing our season.
Phil Jones will rise again just like Jesus.
However in theory we have Bailley, Lindelof and Jones
Not exactly the same cover issue that Liverpool had when VVD, Gomez and Matip were all out for months. No excuses
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Maguire should be back shortly, and partner with Lindelof
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Good news, UEFA have admitted they were wrong and reduced AWB's suspension to one game so he's served it.
Interesting analysis from Carragher and Neville: the players don't work nearly hard enough for Ole, a good manager would find a way to make such a good squad work, it can be done. He's reached his ceiling as a manager and can't take us any further now. He can't just play McTominay and Fred and hope for the best as it doesn't work. Not that it wasn't obvious to almost everyone...
Neville understandably won't call for a change to be made, but you can tell he's given up on him.
Neville understandably won't call for a change to be made, but you can tell he's given up on him.
I seem to recall that we had an industry issue before he took over and were one of the "laziest" teams in the league. As I recall it improved a bit for a while but the players appear to have relapsed and that has to be on the coaches. I agree he has reached his ceiling and largely because he has failed to appoint top quality coaches. He's been allowed to assemble as good a squad as anyone and has chosen(?) to squander a lot of money on positions he didn't need to strengthen at the expense of dealing with the weakness that has persisted at the club for a generation. This isn't a McFred issue. It's a coaching and formational issue. I don't see a top side playing with the formation we play or wasting talent like we have. It's been obvious for a long time that our players think they are better than they actually are and the management haven't got the nuts to make the big calls. That means ripping the likes of Bruno, Pogba, Greenwood, Shaw etc a new one when they don't work for the team.
Sadly it will take for the season be a write off before the board will act. However at this rate that could be in the next 3 weeks.
I think almost everyone is in agreement now that he's quite frankly a low level manager with some world class players. Recent Man Utd fan polls I've seen have 90% of fans wanting him out.
This was interesting from an article I saw recently, on comparisons with Klopp (laughable as they are to start with really):
We are not going to be picking up any sort of pace, in fact, we are improving the squad and going backwards.
In terms of a replacement, the two main available candidates are not necessarily ideal, but both are a massive step up on Ole - not difficult I suppose. Zidane and Conte. I understand the reservations about both, but at this point I would be prepared to abandon the 'project' and appoint either. The season is not yet a write off, but it soon will be.
We'll no doubt somehow beat Liverpool which will buy him more time. Atalanta to come first though, tomorrow night...
This was interesting from an article I saw recently, on comparisons with Klopp (laughable as they are to start with really):
We are not going to be picking up any sort of pace, in fact, we are improving the squad and going backwards.
In terms of a replacement, the two main available candidates are not necessarily ideal, but both are a massive step up on Ole - not difficult I suppose. Zidane and Conte. I understand the reservations about both, but at this point I would be prepared to abandon the 'project' and appoint either. The season is not yet a write off, but it soon will be.
We'll no doubt somehow beat Liverpool which will buy him more time. Atalanta to come first though, tomorrow night...
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I think if anything there will be a coaching shake up if things continue to get worse.
Ole will still be here until the summer at least.
Ole will still be here until the summer at least.
Yes, the coaching staff are yet another problem.
Not sure why people make statements like this, you think if we're in the bottom half of the table and out of every competition in 8 weeks they'd still keep him? No chance.
Bizarrely, yes.