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

Thought Anthony was semi decent when he came against them. Played a lovely flick on for Amad who then went down the by line which ended up with Bruno not controlling it out for a gk.

Thought we were defensively solid pretty much most of the game and id give that to Maguire in the middle of the 3, his attitude is brilliant. Definitely worth holding on to, can come in when needed.

Martinez split passing from defence to attack is a huge bonus, best at it.

Yoro looks a tidy player as well, played some nice balls out right for the lads to chase. He's been added in slowly to first team which is 100% the way to go.

Maz again, a superstar of a player, his close control and reading of the game is just class.

Bruno had some very high praise for Ugarte, who seems to be settling in well and is a work horse, something we've needed badly in the middle.

There's nothing to suggest we won't be in top 4 by the end of January. So little in it.

Just seen Rubens post mat h interview. What really struck me was why he was asked about dropping Rashford and Garna. One line he said..

"We need to put things in to context within our club, when people are loosing their jobs, we have to put the standards really high and for that they have to fight for their place in the team."

Seems like a no nonsense guy and the more I hear the more I'm like, yup we got the right guy. He's a supporters manager tenfold with his honesty and it's slowly showing on the pitch with his philosophy.

Well worth checking out

I also feel that it's only appropriate to remind ourselves again that Erik ten Hag WOULD NOT play Amad...

I generally tend to feel for ETH but every time Amad plays a blinder I'm reminded of that fact.

Ya I was the same I stuck up for him at times especially over the injury crisis and when amad started the season so well I thought we would finally see changes but somehow ten hagg found his way to playing rashford and garnacho all the time and dropping amad, which coincided with our performances dropping too.

The man was mega stubborn to his own and the teams detriment he just totally lost the plot somewhere along the way.

I love Mazraoui but **** hell imagine not playing amad as a 10 when you are stuck and playing maz, he just didn't want to get proven wrong about his own poor decisions that on some level he knew was wrong

The backing is gone and rightly so. The Rashford debate has been going on for over 2 years now. He should be at his peak but instead he's being left out of a derby day squad, not team but the squad because of his attitude and application. That video from a few weeks ago with the gloves absolutely sickened me and spoke volumes of his attitude. I'd gladly never see him play for Utd again.

Nacho needs to get his head out of his ass. He's still young so the mistakes he's making are not surprising. His decision making in game needs to improve. His decision making off the field also needs to improve. If it's true about Nacho and his brother being responsible for the leaks via that twitter account then this needs to be a wake up call.

And to put it in simplistic terms that are indisputable, if Garnacho or Rashford play yesterday in place of Amad then we never get the pen and we never get the second goal because neither guy makes those runs. Rashford never has and never will, Nacho needs to wake up and learn to work harder.

If you can't see the difference in application and attitude between Maguire & Anthony and Rashford then there's no point in even responding to you

The reason Maguire is been praised is because despite all the abuse he got he has shown how a true professional works, he went through a bad batch but as someone above pointed out he's been fairly solid now whenever he's called on. And Anthony, for all his lack of ability he cannot be accused of not working hard.

Working hard is really all anyone is asking for from Rashford. I think everyone agrees he has the ability. Look at Wout last year, not much ability but worked his arse off and was generally accepted because of that.

You're still giving him a pass because he did well a couple of seasons ago. How long are you gonna give him that pass for?

As one of the senior players in the squad on one of the highest contracts do you not agree he should be trying harder?! I guarantee if he was visibly trying his best but not scoring regularly the fans would still be on his side.

Danny Murphy full of praise for us on MOTD.....I'm not used to this 😐

As a tangent; I feel that making Ferguson take a step back was a huge step in the club moving forward. Amorim has the space to be his own manager.

I don't want to make excuses for those before him, but I do think it was a hard job made harder, while Ferguson was floating around. By his nature, he's never not going to have some influence or interfere in some way.