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

Logged on again…to see people trying to pin all of this on Amorim. Unbelievable, Jeff!

Im a glass half empty guy and nothing surprises me with this lot but you're right, its 8 points to relegation and 11 to 4th, not much of a swing.

Very very worried about where the team goes from here, the days of spending 100mil on players(donkeys) are over so we'll struggle to sign proper players.

We can't keep signing players who have scored 11 goals in Italy and expect them to solve our goals problem. Need a proven goal scorer.

A striker and a proper fit left back and we might be a lot better

Tbf the amount of individual errors since Amorim has taken over is mind boggling! 2 goals direct from a corner in the space of a week or 2 is insane and just shouldn't happen.

Surely Heaton can't be any worse!

He’s in the spotlight at the moment for a recent period of questionable form but he can be an easy target imo. For the first part of the season he was quite reliable. I don’t think I’d start with Onana at all. (Not saying you are).

Lack of goals is the big issue obviously. Big chances created v Bournemouth and all missed. You score a goal early on and it can change the game. Going into games wondering if we’ll score or not is crazy when you think of our past.

Leicester, 18th place, have scored more goals than us. We have conceded less than the 5 teams above us.

Edit : Read it wrong 🤦🏻‍♂️

Yeh it was mentioned on the bug thread

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058199223/just-bugs-missing-functionality-reports-no-griping/p89#latest

Pages with more quoted replies seem to be worse....And I quoted you to absolutely not help with it at all 😅

Maybe because our midfield is completely sh*te and has no creativity, and when they do create something, usually Bruno or Garnacho shoot from wherever and miss?

Either way, poor creativity and limited supply aside, Hojlund has hardly set the world on fire so far himself. His hold up play for a big lad isn't great, and his finishing tends to be more towards the keeper than the corner. He's also not great in the air (has he scored a header at all from a set-piece since he arrived?).

Hojlund was an expensive panic buy by Ten Hag. He's decent, but looks to be decent in a €30m back-up striker kind of way, not a €70m play every game and get 30-40 in all competitions kind of way. He's got 12 goals in 43 league appearances for United, that's a worse statistic than with Atlanta. He does not look like, and has not so far played like, a 25 goal a league season striker, and at the very least that is what United need. Though it must be said in European games he's hit 10 in 12, which is a serious quality return, even if most of them have come against poor enough sides, but it does show potential.

Yes he's young (though 21 is hardly a baby) and has potential, but at some stage potential needs to turn into something tangible. And so far, he hasn't hit the middle, never mind the heights.

I'd be worried too that the amount of niggly injuries he seems to be picking up, the club is already saddled with expensive sick notes, notably Shaw and Mount, we could do without another.

I hope he becomes a top player and the quality striker we need, but at the moment, he's looking anything but.

We are better with Amad at WB, since he's moved to the 10 position the team has declined.

Ya, it's very United at the moment. You log in to find you're miles behind were you should be, and when you try to catch up, everything goes mental.

The creativity from midfield is a huge issue. Ugarte is just a stopper....and time will tell if he's good or not. Mainoo looked very poor last night and seems to be struggling this season...he doesn't look like he has the athleticism

Casemiro and Eriksen are finished....both looked the were running on sand last night....in fact I thought Casemiro looked like he has completely checked out. Bruno simply isn't good enough to be in a team with aspirations for top 4. You can put any striker in the world up top for us now and we still going nowhere

Look at Cuhna last night. He looks a proper player. Hard working tracking back and then so positive on the ball going forward....compare him to Bruno ....

We have looked decent with Amad at RWB...LWB is killing us....

IMO we need 3 big signings to get this Amorin rebuild up and running. GK, LWB and a middle of the park player that has some creativity

The dismissal of Rashford was the stereotypical new manager declaring he’s now the Gaffer. He can’t go back on that now, if he does it will be out of sheer desperation. And will be seen as such.

It was the right thing to do, but he couldn’t foresee the collapse in confidence by the rest of the team.