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You are correct on all those players. If a big offer came in for Rashford I would take it in a heartbeat. I think hes already on a massive salary and its only going to go in one direction. Thats a result of having far too few quality players to compete with him though. If we got offered £40m for Martial I would happily take it.

Everyone is fawning over Lingard again suddenly since he started actually playing regularly. Hes still the player he always was. Decent enough but not top class and blows hot and cold too often.

I doubt he would come to United but I would break the bank to get Haaland and get rid of Martial and Pogba at a minimum this summer. Bring in a top class CB and then look at sorting out RW and midfield the year after. No idea whos going to have what money to spend in the summer.

I know Pogba is not consistent enough, but we've really missed him since his recent injury. We're much better with him and Fernandes playing.

Martial absolutely needs to go, no questions there. Go to a smaller club where he can be the big dog and get away with not trying as hard.

Maguire we're kinda stuck with as he's captain, I can't see any way we get rid of him. Shame as Lindelof plays quite well with someone else like Bailly next to him.
 
If a big offer came in for Rashford
You've got no soul. Rashford is a match winner. In any other team he'd be tearing it up each week. Think of how Sterling blossomed under Pep. The lad is 23 yo and his record is excellent. He temperament is good and he is an ambassador. Ok so he's not brilliant every game and some of his decision making could be better but he's as close as we've got to a world class forward with time on his hands to improve. Not to mention he's a local lad made good. People have short memories. Giggs wasn't the best every week at that age. He played less and scored less - would you have sold him also after a few poor games. If United sell Rashford in the next 2 years then something is more wrong at the club than I thought.
 
You've got no soul. Rashford is a match winner. In any other team he'd be tearing it up each week. Think of how Sterling blossomed under Pep. The lad is 23 yo and his record is excellent. He temperament is good and he is an ambassador. Ok so he's not brilliant every game and some of his decision making could be better but he's as close as we've got to a world class forward with time on his hands to improve. Not to mention he's a local lad made good. People have short memories.

I'm not saying that we should actively try and sell him but I think he is overrated by the fans. If someone offered £100m I would very much take it. I like the lad and I think hes got a great attitude but hes not even in the same ballpark as the likes of Haaland etc.

Players develop at different rates so maybe he will kick on in the next few years but he doesn't have that natural finishing ability that the top strikers have. He misses a lot of one on ones and chances where you need to instinctively know where to put the ball to give the keeper the worst chance of saving it.

I know Pogba is not consistent enough, but we've really missed him since his recent injury. We're much better with him and Fernandes playing.

I agree that we are better with him available but hes simply not worth the wages, bother and constant speculation even ignoring his patchy form and the indifference that comes and goes. We need to replace him if we sell but I think we can replace him with someone who will benefit the team more.
 
Our biggest issue is still Ole. We will drift around the top 6 as long as he is in charge. Where we sit will be dependent on the other teams form and the ebb and flow of our key players.
 
He really isn't.

He has more goals and assists this season than both sterling and mane so he cannot be that bad. Add to that he is 5 years younger than Mane and 3 years younger than sterling who are at their peaks.

Rashford got 22 in all comps last season (he was also out for months). This season he looks like he is going to match that and even get closer to 30. If he can do it again for a third season he will be matching the likes of Sterling and Mane in an inferior team at a much younger age.
 
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He has more goals and assists this season than both sterling and mane so he cannot be that bad. Add to that he is 5 years younger than Mane and 3 years younger than sterling who are at their peaks.

Rashford got 22 in all comps last season (he was also out for months). This season he looks like he is going to match that and even get closer to 30. If he can do it again for a third season he will be matching the likes of Sterling and Mane in an inferior team at a much younger age.

Im not surprised...Mane is having a poor season. He's still a 1 in 2 player not a 1 in 4. I'm not saying he's a bad player by any means but he isnt up there with the worlds best.
 
Im not surprised...Mane is having a poor season. He's still a 1 in 2 player not a 1 in 4. I'm not saying he's a bad player by any means but he isnt up there with the worlds best.

Mane in his best season got 26 goals and 22 last season which was the same as Rashford. If Rashford gets close to 30 it will be a fantastic season for him and similar to Mane. To quote Jamie C "The best wide left player in the world."

He is also still only 23. It is pointless comparing goal tallies to other European clubs because their leagues are not as difficult to score but compared to other players from the Prem in his position. He is up there. Also like I pointed out Rashford's is not playing with as good players as City or as well managed as Liverpool.
 
Mane in his best season got 26 goals and 22 last season which was the same as Rashford. If Rashford gets close to 30 it will be a fantastic season for him and similar to Mane. To quote Jamie C "The best wide left player in the world."

He is also still only 23. It is pointless comparing goal tallies to other European clubs because their leagues are not as difficult to score but compared to other players from the Prem in his position. He is up there. Also like I pointed out Rashford's is not playing with as good players as City or as well managed as Liverpool.
Mane's not an out and out forward like Rashford, he's half way between a forward and midfielder - a more like for like comparison would be Salah. Mane also doesn't and didn't take a single pen last season - 7 of Rashford's 22 were pens and I'm guessing he missed a couple on top of that too. Given the type of player Rashford is, he needs to be getting Salah/Mbappe type numbers consistently to be up their with the best.

Rashford is a very good young player and could go on to become a top tier player but he's not at the level of the best attacking wide players now.
 
Nor will he be with Ole coaching him too. The amount he fluffs is unreal. He really needs some decent guidance and the rest of the team to back him up.
 
Nor will he be with Ole coaching him too. The amount he fluffs is unreal. He really needs some decent guidance and the rest of the team to back him up.
Salah and Sterling both miss their fair share too but it's not stopped them becoming elite forwards. I think the biggest thing that Rashford and a lot of other talented wide players are missing is a real desire to score goals. Somebody like Salah isn't happy just stood out on the wing waiting for the ball to come to him - at every opportunity he's looking to run in behind or get into the box when we're attacking down the opposite side of the pitch.
 
Greenwood, Rashford, Cavani are all good enough imo.

Problem is with Fernandes' form dropping off, we're back to the bad days before he arrived where we just can't break down defences at all to make opportunities for them. Matic and Fred just aimlessly passing the ball from side to side, hoping....I don't actually know what they're hoping for, a defender to fall over? Everyone stood static, no-one making runs and space.

Desperately need Pogba back...he does draw in players and make room for everyone else.

Either way, I hope we get an absolute humping on Sunday, I don't think I can face another 0-0 coma.
 
I saw something yesterday that showed we had 4 out of the top 5 players in the league for minutes played this season. Rashford, Slabhead, Fernandes and someone else. Ole has been flogging those players for the whole season after they didn't get a proper summer break. Its amazing we haven't had more injuries to them. Does surprise me because any cup games he has tried to rest Rashford and Fernandes he has brought them on early in the second half usually to try and save the game.

The truth is that this current set of players isn't going to beat an in form City to the title. The other truth is that this squad is plenty good enough to be 10-15 points better off than we currently are in the league.

When the teams results ebb and flow with the performances of 1 or 2 players, its not your manager that is responsible for your good form.

Hopefully Ole will be gone in the summer but I doubt it. We will get top 4 I imagine and I imagine that we have no plan for Oles successor. If he gets the sack at some point we will look around and see whos out of a job. Standard United planning.
 
I also don't think Bruno's dip in form is actually real but rather teams have adapted. Every team now knows he is the danger man of our team so they essentially man mark him out of the game. This happens all the time when good players become established. What helped before was that Pogba played and teams couldn't mark both out of the game. I full expect it to get better when he returns.

This is why City ATM are just so lethal. They have something silly like a 88% win percentage without KDB because all the players are just all top tier so the teams just cannot do anything about them.
 
Bruno is misplacing simple passes that he wasn't earlier in the season. He runs his heart out every game as well. Hes the one chasing players down and forcing the keeper to clear the ball. You can't play like that AND play almost every minute of every game without consequences.
 
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