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

Trying to tie a fancy knot, when maybe he should just use bunny ears until he gets his hands untied.

My numbers might be off (add ons might be included) but if Malacia goes on loan thats £174m worth of players out on loan.

It's crazy to think of the money wasted, I'll give Malacia a pass due to the injury.

It's mad money but then we can see why they don't want to be pushed into stupid money for Tel.

The two attackers leaving is a non issue for me. Rashford on his day is brilliant but he didn't want to be at the club and wasn't been right for a while. Rooney on the overlap said he has been talking to Rashford in teh past and advised him two years ago to get out of the club and Manchester. He didn't straight out say it but he alluded to problems with people around Rashford.

Antony is just Antony he is like a fancy car with no engine in it.... All show and no go. He will probably do well in Spain less attention and more freedom.

Antony mam of the match on his debut tonight.

Official announcement.

Sad to see its come to this, honestly thought him, Martial and Greenwood were going to be our strike force for a long time.

Hopefully dorgu will change the approach on the left.

I'd put amad right and then look at two from mainoo, garnacho, zirkzee off hojlund? Add Bruno in there but then you need mainoo cm. If Mount could maintain fitness he could take either 8 or 10 but it's not happening.

At sporting he played 343, at united it's been 541 more so.

So we're rubbish without even actually trying to implement the (hopefully) long term plan.

With Shaw not reliable could Maz be the LCB?

He should get a good few games tbf.

Yoro hasn't been great either but he's only young and adapting so I cant whinge....too much.

When did fotmob become so highly rated there was a load of posts over on Reddit by lads who didn't watch the game saying anothy shouldn't have won it, arguing with people who watched the game. Bizzare world we live in

I use it for the ease of having a quick look on matches, did a quick Google after to see what the rating was. That's why I didn't pull Mitch out on it.

Fotmob or any other app would likely differ in ratings anyway and shouldn't be taken as 100%.

Because it's Anthony as well id say people just being people for a moan.

Jebus Rashford looks rough in the pics from his unveiling at Villa. Hope he can get the head down and do well for them.

The thing that's annoying me, and it's a function of the squad, is that we're not actually pushing the style amorim would want.

343 with wingers as wing backs, is very different to the effective 5 at the back we are generally playing.

So we struggling and losing, while in large part not actually learning in the approaches we'd want.

Closer, on the left anyway.

The loss of martinez will be huge though, in terms of progressing the ball that side. Shaw can play lcb but he'll be injured before the end of the month.

On the right it's dalot or amad. He seems to want amad up top, so it'll be dalot imo. So still a full back. But in fairness to dalot he's generally more willing to drive on than mazraoui is.

Plus, who knows if dorgu will be generally picked as durst choice or if he's gonna be eased in more like yoro.

I'd like to see dorgu and amad wb. With Ugarte. Bruno then mainoo and garnacho off.... A striker.

Defense... Dunno. Shaw, mdl, mazraoui maybe? Maguire in for mdl?

Assuming Shaw becomes injured again that lcb position is a problem. I'd put mazraoui in the back line to have his passing there, but don't know if he could do that well from lcb. Maguire, mdl or yoro at lcb are also a worry. And I'd assume heaven isn't ready to be thrown in.

Yeah it feels like we are just prioritising being defensively solid over trying to develop attacking patterns at the moment. To be fair, teams aren't cutting through us and it's individual mistakes/moments that are costing us games (and winning games for us at times). It's dull and uninspiring but he doesn't seem to have the confidence to allow us to open up and commit more bodies forward. He's concerned about the midfield + Maguire not being able to cover the bigger distances in a more expansive approach, and our attack clearly isn't good enough to compensate.

I think there's more legs in the Tel saga going into the final day. Wouldn't be surprised if we pulled off another surprise deal