Manchester United Thread 25/26 - Teamtalk/Transfers/Gossip Mod Note in OP 26.09.24

Objecting to wearing a rainbow armband on religious grounds is pretty spurious imo. The Quran teaches that gambling is a sin, yet Muslim players are happy to wear a jersey sponsored by gambling companies. The Quran also warns of the dangers of being in debt, yet Muslim players will wear a jersey sponsored by an easy-access, high-interest lending company. I'm generally sceptical of religious motivations, but there's a hypocrisy there I'm not comfortable with.

It's probably very naive of me to say so, but I would prefer to see no sponsors on jerseys and a cessation of clubs promoting 'causes'. No poppies, no rainbows, no taking a knee, nothing. If clubs want to continue with the equality initiatives let them do it away from the pitch and foster inclusivity in their communities. Let them empower their supporters in making the grounds safe for all supporters, let them bring ticket prices down for families, kids and OAPs. Our owners in particular only care about their bottom line and their bottom line has nothing to do with fairness or equality.

We need to cut our losses with this chap.

It's not complicated.

Maz is a devout Muslim, his religion teaches that homosexuality is a sin. He is free to have that belief, and others are free to mock it.

If he was calling for gay people to be put to death, I'd take issue with him. If he's quietly saying that he doesn't agree with homosexuality, I don't care. And he didn't even say it, he just told the club he wouldn't wear the kit. Same way that fella at the weekend didn't wear the rainbow armband.

And amad dropped to the bench too!

Today was a day I though he should be going as first choice as he could, and hold off the heavy rotation.

He's stuck with the training focused rotation and I don't like it, not for tonight's game.

No issues with it at all. Arsenal game is going to be tough no matter what I trust the man to do what's best for the team long term.

A massive battering could also dent the confidence of the players.

That's fine, we disagree.

I don't think playing malacia vs the most on form winger in the country helps him, or gives us a good shot at a result. It could be worse than neville vs West brom!

Do you think we should play 4 at the back tonight?

The new formation leaves us open for a hammering regardless of the personnel at this stage in it's implementation I would say.

I thought Zirkee was having a shocking start to the season, he looked decent up front, wouldn’t do any harm to give him another go there.

He will in only 3 days time. Arguable all our forwards have been inform last 2 games so surely we can trust that he is picking what he thinks is best players for fitness/prospects of beating Arsenal.