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

Plus zirkee was terrible when utd didn't have the ball

The very scary thing is if the club backs him for a full summer window and get £150-200m of players for his system. Then he doesn’t make the cut and gets let go before Christmas ‘25 (which I personally think is more likely than not at the moment.) you’re left with a squad of misfits even worse than before EtH was sacked. So another new manager comes in with even more rubbish to shift and it will take ages for him to get a squad that he is confident in.

I like Amorim but the things I like about him are things he says, not what he does. What we actually see on the pitch is awful. I’ve supported Man United for 28 years and this is the only time where I’ve wondered what’s the f**cking point. The whole institution needs to be reset.

There isn't any point getting rid of Amorim. Prior to Amorim, ETH was the problem. Now Amorim is the problem. After Amorim, there will be another bright up and coming manager ground down until he is the problem.

99% of the issue is player recruitment. It has been awful for 10-15 years. In almost every part of the team, there is a lack of quality or depth or both. It's going to take several years to fix a problem that has been brewing for a decade or more. Finances are constrained. So no quick fixes. INEOS seem to have settled on a strategy of buying mostly potential and hoping to develop it. So we might as well buckle up.

I don;t think he wants to play 5 at the back, but we don't have the players to play anuthing other than that at the moment.

Doegu is the only wingback/winger we have capabale of playing that role.

Quenda is seeming a strong target for the summer and if we get him and a 10 we then possibly have 3 players for that role - Dorgu, Queinda, Amad.

We ar eplayung too deep, too fearful turning Amorim's 343 into a 541 a lot of the time.

There is zero chance he drops the 3atb formation medium term,and seems little chance of it short term either. If his 343 doesn't work once he has ehough players to actually do it he will still stick to it and get sacked or quit.

The club don't have anywhere near that money to spend.

This crisis demands fan action. Boycott of all united activities that put money into owners pockets, demonstrations and a real push to get the Glazers out or to get them to sell to a group that don't screw the club on loans and interest payments/asset stripping.

What I don't get is, how can our recruitment be so bad that what we thought were players capable of getting us into europe consistently at the very least are just about players capable of keeping us in the league, it doesn't add up.

It's one thing overpaying for players, it's another thing recruiting players who are supposedly barely Premier League quality when you have the finances and aspirations of winning titles. It doesn't make any sense.

I don't think all the players we sign are so so bad I think it's more that we are not buying players to build any team. It's happened since sir Alex retired.

How often have we made a signing and said yes that's exactly what the team needs to be finished? It's always like we need a defender and we sign a striker.

De ligt is not a bad player he just doesn't suit a high line. Same with maguire. Cas was a good player first year but he was signed a couple years too late. Some players just can't handle the pressure of a big club too.

There's never any focus on a system and actually team. I'm hoping that's changed nwo and I summer we will see more of a signing that fits a system like Dorgu does.

Anothyu won a penalty,scored a goal and has an assist and probably another motm 🤣

In fairness Zirkzee wasn't the worse player today.