Pre Season Friendly Thread 18/19

cant believe how badly Utd ***** up by not giving enough time to apply for Sanchez' visa for the American tour (after his tax fraud case in Spain bars him from entry into the US)

The whole club has been saying - wait for Sanchez to have a decent pre-season and he will show how good he is ……...so we see all the pictures of him training alone in Carrington while everyone else flies off to the US. Doh!!!
 
Surprised no one took Sanchez' past discrimination into account when the tour was being finalised. I'm sure United's lawyers should have foresaw the problem.
 
You do wonder at times how these things happen. That could make quite a big difference to our season and he is not getting any younger so it would be nice to have him firing on all cylinders this season.
 
Just under an hour until our 4th pre-season game kicks-off vs Blackburn. A penny for Karius' thoughts as he starts in goal :/
 
Probably have a blinder as the pressures off. He knows he’s lost his place and is on his way anyway, what’s he got to worry about?
 
I know it's pre-season but I think I'm going to have to order myself a Keita 8 shirt soon. He was really impressive today, gliding around the pitch making everything look so easy.
 
Sanchez got the green light for his US visa, could have done with him against Club America. Was nice to see some of the youngsters getting some play time, like the look of Chong, but wonder if he will ever get the chance at Utd.
 
I really like the look of Keita, first time watching him tonight but can only echo BaZ's comments above :cool:

Edit; Our defence sucks though, 2-1 Dormund :(

Edit: Shocking mistake by Karius, it's actually become embarrassing how consistently bad he is. 3-1 Dortmund.
 
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Poor at the back again from Liverpool. Really disappointing to concede three given the limited time in front of goal they had.
 
It's been a theme under Klopp. The fullbacks were so high up the pitch a single ball down either wing and we've got two defenders against four or five attackers.

I'm hoping Fabinho plays like a proper DM and sits in front of the back four this season, will help a lot.
 
Karius is shot to bits, he needs a long break before he plays again. It wasn't just the save for the 3rd goal but in the first half he's came miles out of his area to sweep up behind our defence and then passes it straight to a Dortmund player.

Not overly fussed about our general performance in friendlies, especially the 2nd half where there was no real structure to the side. On an individual basis it's so hard not to be impressed with Keita though and Curtis Jones looks to have a big future ahead of him too.
 
We surely can't go in to the season with him as our backup can we?

Club and player need to part ways fast but who would take him for the kind of money we would want?

He seems desperate to get the ball away from him as fast as humanly possible but there seems to be no connection between his brains and hands when he does that. It's almost blind panic takes over him.
 
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We surely can't go in to the season with him as our backup can we?

Club and player need to part ways fast but who would take him for the kind of money we would want?

He seems desperate to get the ball away from him as fast as humanly possible but there seems to be no connection between his brains and hands when he does that. It's almost blind panic takes over him.
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Providing Alisson is fit and available for every game for the first few months then it gives Karius the break he needs and I think he can be our backup. Sods law is Alisson gets injured after a week and Karius ends up straight back in the side though.

We won't sell him because nobody will pay us anything to make it worthwhile and are we going to sign another keeper this summer to loan Karius out? I'm not sure.

The guy is shot to bits. He needs a long break from the spotlight to get his head right and as importantly for the focus on him to shift away. A few months on the sidelines and then bring him in for a League Cup game against a League One side then sell him next season.
 
I feel for him now...it's not helped by media outlets taking the **** out of him either. The amount of so called Liverpool fans sending him abuse over twitter is unbelievable. Completely uncalled for.
 
Haha just read that report and was about to post in here, good to see we're ticking along as you'd expect with a Mourinho side :D:(.
 
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