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

If you actually read them they are not one sided.

But that would take actually reading them and not just assuming that because I don't call a player a terrible human and the worst player on the team that I'm some die hard fan of him.

If you really want to know I was at my work Christmas party that night and they turned off the 2nd half on the screen that I was watching so only seen snippets of the 2nd half.

You just admitted I praised him when he did well. Do I need to make 20 posts doing it for it to count? I made one post laughing at the ridiculous situation of being 2-1 down to them and one after it saying that Højlund did well. Almost like you're talking absolute nonsense.

I've laid out my position on both of them previously.

Have made points about what they do well and what they should do better on. I've not once argued that Rashford was playing well last season for instance. Yet I'm dogged in defence of him supposedly because it's just overwhelming nonsense hate watching everything he does.

It's because there's an overwhelming positivity towards Højlund even when he's now on 1 goal in 9 league games and an overwhelming negativity towards Rashford that one is treated like a pot shot and one is treated like an iron defense. I should just accept it's the way online discourse has gone but it used to be better on this site at least.

It's really not. It's a pure pile on. Even when he was scoring goals every week (or like he has been the last couple) and literally petitioning the UK government to provide meals to kids in poverty there were the same people waiting in the wings for his form to turn.

Look at last night. Is there a more mentioned player in this thread than him despite playing a third of a game that Arsenal were turning the screw in. This is despite no other attacker having an impact in the game, the best attempt coming from the right back.

Point to someone thriving in the same conditions and I'll happily say it's all on the player. If he's still playing like last season in 2 months time well then it's not going to work out.

Fact is the team looked better going forward with him and Zirkzee at the weekend than they have all season. Because they didn't plough through the best defense in the league off the bench they're immediately back to being rubbish. That's not rational discussion and is reactive to every 30 minutes of play.

There's no problem criticising him. He makes boneheaded plays in defence when he's back there quite regularly as he can't tackle and doesn't have a lot of experience in those areas.

To be honest, if there were other players in attack who were playing better that him consistently I'd have no problem laying the blame at his door. The only player you could point to is Amad and that's in the last month or 2 and has coincided with Rashford looking better.

Btw it's posts like this that actually can stimulate discussion.

This and the previous one I can't quote just blatantly weirdly calling me a previous poster who I've been on the forum longer than and was actually on the other side of every debate to are not. But hey, you got your little internet numbers up guys 👍🏻