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

You can see how intelligently he links the team together when he can. Looks key to it all functioning. Then bam, injured.

It got way overshadowed by the Rashford and Garnacho omissions but I thought it was a really big call to start Mount and Amad ahead of Bruno in those 10 spots. Bruno's influence will diminish a lot under Amorim imo. And that's no bad thing, even if he was playing great - relying on one player is a weakness.

It seems Barca find themselves in this situation quite often, but they seem to avoid it somehow.

We have a gem on our hands with Biancheri.

Seems to be pretty clear that Rashford's interview wasn't known about by the club.

Terrible response to getting dropped if you ask me and reinforces that it was the right decision. He's made everything about himself.

Thankfully, Garnacho seems to be keeping the head down so hopefully he will learn from it and come back a better and more determined player.

Been tied up elsewhere for past few days so missed all the Rashford fallout thankfully. I think he has something else lined up elsewhere surely.

It's funny tho he invites Winter for an interview when he's giving out gifts at a school or whatever... Why didn't he invite him along last year when he was on the lash in Belfast.... Many players do stuff for the local community they just dont bring along a journalist.

Excuses can and will be made for him but the simple fact is that we are now up to 6 managers that have had to call out and/or publicly discipline Rashford (Mourinho, OGS, Ragnick, Southgate, ETH & Amorim). One or two you can put down to personality clashes or specific bad times in Rashfords personal life but six different managers?! Honestly it's pretty unprecedented and inexcusable

Amorin said at either his last Sporting press conference or his first United one that he would not buy a Sporting player in the January window. Of course managers can change their mind, but Amorin strikes me as someone who would consider keeping his word as very important.

Now if some other club agreed a fee with Sporting for a player, and United came in and matched the bid and the player chose United because of Amorin, that would not be regarded as breaking his word as Sporting would be losing the player either way.

Separately, United seem to be going gang busters at underage this season. I’ve seen so many scores where they’ve hammered teams, including top teams. Seems like something good has been going on at underage for a few years with players breaking through or getting close to breaking through. One area where they seem to be best in class or thereabouts, not sure who deserves the credit for it.

There was stuff about the 'SQUAD' visiting various hospitals and charities last week or the week before and meeting kids etc. No journalists, no PR teams, no hidden agenda's…

Such a hard upbringing too he had to get the bus to training as a young fella because his mother didn't own a car... Imagine that bless him.

Invite Henry Winter along with you to do a piece on that for sure. Raise awareness. Let him know in advance that the interview is solely based on the work he’s doing to help kids. Nobody is talking about that now because of what he has said about being ready to leave Man United. That’s the story.

Its not the feed the kids stuff people have a problem with at all, its honestly great rashford does it and uses his prfoile in the way he did for the kids but it should be kept separate from football, he invited a or some journalists along to do an interview and gave a very unprofessional one without talking to the manager or the people who run the football side of things.

The interview takes away any spotlight he might have been hoping to shine on whatever charity he was supporting and shines it directly on him, the club the manager and his relationship with all of them.

People say Rashford get unfairly singled out but it was him that gave this interview when he was doing charity work, it was him who put it all over his social media when he was away on international break (i dont think anothy or casamerio did when they were away) he and his team are very pr savy they know how this all works and where the attention will go when they do what they do.

You cant have it both ways, you cant be a social media presence and just take all the positives that go with it and you certainly shouldnt be giving unprofessional interviews when out doing charity work without expecting a negative reaction. what he did was completely self serving and in the end doesnt help him, the club or the charity/charity work