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

Does Amorim have more wins than Pep in City's last 11 games?

Imagine telling someone that back n October.

IMO there are two different 10 roles. more central creative player, and a runner.

Mount, Bruno - central creative (and I think Amad can do it too).
Garnacho, Rashford, Amad - runner.
I reckon Amad was played as the runner, so when Mount came off Bruno was the natural replacement.

Mount and Bruno not having the same profile as Rashford doesn't really make a difference. Both have a different profile to Garnacho too.

And I would say of course Rashford does need replacing. You'd be getting rid of him cause he is not up to the standard you expect or want - but you would plan on the expected stadard.

We don't replace Rashford and our 10 position players are

Garnacho - lots to prove, should be given time.
Bruno - we should be looking at replacing him in the next couple of seasons, and also plenty say he can't play the role.
Amad - Yep, I like him - but I'd still be wary of him being top top class - I reckon key squad player might be his ceiling but I'd give him the time to find out.
Eriksen - should be gone in the summer - he presses worse than Rashford.
Mount - can't play more than 45 minutes without getting injured.
Antony - less goals and assists than Rashford over the last 18 months.


IMO You have 3 viable options, and question marks over all of them.

That isn't to say keep Rashford - he has massive question marks (or answers…) over him. But if you sell Rashford you have created the squad room to replace him and we 100% should be getting a first choice top quality player for that position to replace him.

Not only should Rashford be sold, and replaced, but Eriksen should be sold, Antony should be sold and you'd have to be a moron to rely on Mount at this point. Would be like saying we don't need a LWB cause Shaw will be back soon.

Oh I'd no problem with Maz RWB. It helped us. I just meant Yoro getting fit enough to start means both Amad and Maz can shift up one place along the right side leaving them both in their most natural positions.

Ideally we can trigger Alvaro's buy back and have him replace Dalot at LWB possibly starting to give that left side a bit of shape.

I get loosing Rashford leaves us a bit short with regard the #10 spots but if that money can get us an actual LWB I think Amorims system would really start working.

We beat our City rivals in the last minute at their stadium and yet it's drama again.

If you were to sell Rashford for 40milliion in January, from a PSR amoritization point of view that would free up a HUGE amount of transfer spend and over 7million in wages for the remainder of the season.

If we could invest that (and we may not be able to, money might be that tight/bad) we should have no issue with buying both a lwb and a player to replace Rashford.

IMO the issue with replacing rashford is finding the right player, available. I don't think INEOS would buy a 3rd or 4th choice target in January if they think a first or second could be got in the summer. Like I can see Cunha leaving Wolves in January, and I think he would do well in that spot - but do United want him badly enought to spend in january and close off that position before the summer? But then who, signficantly better, could we get in the summer, especially if we don't make the CL

That's the thing with the finances they sound like they are fairly stretched alright. So wasn't sure what we could do about the money.

I guess it's a little semantics but if we were buying a good enough 10 we'd be replacing Bruno more so then rashford in my head. And then Bruno takes a squad roll maybe filling in as a 10 or a 6.

Although maybe I shouldn't start a Bruno debate right now 😂

I Wonder will he go for Pedro Gonçalves from Sporting as a Rashford replacement, knows the system and has put up good numbers in Portugal.

Yeah, Amorim seems smart enough to avoid some obvious pitfalls and going after his old players is something he should avoid. When you have access to the "Manchester United" level of transfers you really should have more ideas than just going for lads you worked with at smaller clubs.

If he goes for Sporting players he'd better be damn sure they will succeed, because if they don't he will get hammered for it.

Reports are Garnacho in squad for tomorrow but Rashford not.

Be interesting why Amorim says he's left out and if he'll be an option for the weekend or moving forward. Difficult one to handle.

"Reports"?

Hopefully not the Garnacho's brother variety lol.

To where, is the problem. Can't get on the pitch, can't fool people into thinking their tactics will get more out of him.

Would he fancy playing in Switzerland?

How is Mount SSSSOOOOOO broken? Like there has to be a legit medical reason his muscles seem to fall apart under any intensity.

With Shaw I assume the reconstruction of his leg altered his structure and has caused such problems.

Mount had a pelvic issue, twice, the season before we signed him. Did something happen with that recovery that has compromised anything connected? Like he was generally grand before that.

Yeah the Mount one is pretty bizarre. It has to be more than just bad luck because it's been a serious of constant breakdowns since he's been at the club. It's a real pity because there is a player of genuine quality there I feel.