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

Or 3. He has got a very active PR team.

It's not unusual for footballers to do additional work. I remember a few summers ago, Sky / Neville did a big interview with Rashford while on his pre preseason. Lots of other footballers do this pre preseason these days… not too many get the sky cameras in for it.

I do look forward to the time, probably in 5-10 years, when Rashford is not an active topic of United related discussion! A bit like Pogba before him.

His actual footballing output over the years has really not justified the level of debate about him.

All the extra training to get extra super fit, right..……to then jog around the pitch on a Saturday

The real key is that players shouldn't really be doing their own training sessions. Training at the highest level and for elite athletes would be strictly regulated and monitored by the fitness coaches, not much point developing a training plan if the athlete is off doing their own thing as well. That is just a way to get injured or overtrained.

So if these "extra" training sessions actually happened they would have been approved and set by the coaches.

But "Player doing club training sessions" doesn't have the same PR ring to it as "Player doing extra sessions" I guess.

Ye that's it exactly. One of the coaches that a good few of the Manchester United players uses is Ryan Hopper, he's on Stetford Paddock a few times throughout the year and he has said that all of it is extra work and training decided by the player. The club have no involvement in it.

He had a session recently on a Sunday morning with Chido Obi Martin and the comments on the clips of it were full of praise for the him "working hard", "doing extra sessions" and so on.

The comments on the clips for Rushford's sessions only a few months before were mainly "Just doing this for PR", "don't try like that on the pitch."

There's plenty of double standards and hypocrisy amongst a lot of fans.

If players are arranging their own training sessions with private coaches and undertaking plans that the club have no involvement with, then I am actually staggered.

I hope sincerely that this is a Ten Hag thing and that Amorim has been addressing it.

Players have been doing it for years, before ETH and it's continuing under Amorim, as I said Obi Martin was working on finishing privately with Ryan Hopper only a few weeks ago. He's worked with Bruno, Fred, Dalot, Elanga, Ella Toone, Dan Gore, that I know of anyway and it's all extra work separate from their work with Manchester United.

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/man-united-marcus-rashford-training-29903004

He's chatted about how he doesn't deal with the club in anyway in relation to it.

players, like Marcus, are paid a fortune for their sponsorships.

Updating instagram with your training image showing off your nike top at the same time or whatever could simply be part of the business needs as, essentially, a commercial entity. "You need to hit X amount of impressions per month". And United has sold itself to players on the basis of the increase they will get in social follows, and therefor sponsorship revenue.

Which is PR, but more so in terms of sponsorship deals rather than 'please like me'.

BTW… Can you provide me some examples of Rashford moaning and whiching about every part of management and backroom team? Or is it just hatred fueled toxicity?

Chido Obi has confirmed that Martin is his middle name, so we've being calling him the wrong thing😅 If I remember correctly wasn't there an issue with Shoretire pronunciation?

What are you talking about? How is anything I said unfair on any of them? I'm not criticising anyone.

I said that the comments under the two videos were vastly different despite the players doing the exact same thing, extra training with the same coach.

One was pure positive (praising Obi Martin) and the others were pure negativity (towards Rashford). This shows double standards of fans.

The two people were doing the exact same thing and it was drawing complete opposite reactions.

There's a winger at Betis currently tearing it up...another goal tonight...maybe one to look at for the future

Delighted he's doing well, for himself and for our bank balance!

I'd give my left arm for an experienced Striker like him now.

I don't think Harry Kane would suit Amorims preferred style but I think there's a very good chance that Kane is gettable from Bayern this summer.