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

I think a big problem with the United squad is that we are generally quite slow/week. So individually the players may not be bad, but in the aggregate our inability to compete physically with the opposition in terms of hard running and physical duels exposes us massively.

Yoro has good physical traits.
Dorgu has excellent physucal traits.

Urgate has amazing work rate and intensity but lacks size.

Zirkzee has size but lacks speed and intensity.

I reckon speed and intensity are going to be, and HAVE to be, key traits of our signings moving forward.

You could see the press was a mess early Bruno kept looking behind him every time he went wide,.he had words with Mazraoui at one stage after it.

The plan was certainly for him to go wide but he wasnt overly quick about it and whomever was meant to be covering midfield didn't do it well maybe multiple players were meant to do it depending where the ball was.

Zirzkees pressing was a disgrace most of the game in terms of effort until the final 10 minutes for whatever reason.

Whatever the plans are with this press the message is not getting across to the players yet, always looks really bad especially in the first halfs

what do you think we are not seeing?
What do you think the conversation should be?

I think we have as much chance of impacting the formation as we do the ownership.

The only reason the glazers looked to sell in any form was cause the finances are fooked. they never, ever cared about any protest.

I don't see how me posting on here I want the glazers to sell up is going to have any impact.

LOL.

Where are your big rants and calls to action then? What have you done to prove you care?

Cool, you clearly care more than me so. Fair enough. I've always been quite blassie about the ownership of course.

Sounds like your way doesn't work.

It worked for you? Did the Glazers step down just for you but stay in control for everybody else?

I haven't spent a penny on United in years. I'd like to say I was protesting, but really I just don't ever wear replica tops.

Another match, another meltdown. The type of performance today shouldn't be cause for a meltdown, these are the types of games that were to be entirely expected when we didn't address our inability to score goals this summer.

Gotta love "top reds" 😂

Inter Milan.

Leverkusen.

A pity Moyes is off the market to stable the ship. Give it Giggsy would be the only real option now

Why? What would that have achieved?

depends on how it was treated.

If you had agreed a deal with Amorim, you still could have been targetting players for his style while playing something more familiar to the current players and possibly having a more confident bunch of players.

On the other had you wouldn't have Amorim's direct assessment of the players so you would possibly have had a delay there - but at the same time i don't think we needed an assessment to know Casemiro, Eriksen, Lindelof, Evans would need to be replaced and that Shaw, Mount can't be relied upon. Hojlund maybe more of a question mark though, maybe.

My big gripe is that we got Amorim in with 2 months to the January window and we on;y signed one player to bring him towards his style. I get the first choice 10 or CM or ST we want may not be available, but not every signign we make has to be or can be a first choice player - there will be other signings - were they not possible? Hackney at Boro would be my example. I think he could be an excellent squad player - his style of play would fit near perfect beside Ugarte. Is he going to be the CM signing to push us up a level (or 7) no. But he would be (imo) a great squad player going forward - and would have made (imo) a big impact on our quality, options and depth this season. Could he have been signed?

We currently have one 10 in the squad that we trust. Well, NOW we have 0. Yes we need a first choice in the summer, but we also need depth. Could Nypan have been that player? He was clearly available (and chose not to leave). We seeminly made no move at all.

Basically - if we weren;t going to accelerate the reset of United this season, why did we give up on this season by changing manager, forcing a chance in formation and style, but only buying one player to even start an adjustment.

To be fair though, I reckon everyone hoped that they could solve the Rashford issues and he'd have been contributing and doing well for us, as well as Amorim getting more out of Hojlund - those two playing and doing 'well', along with maybe Mount? We look a much better side, imo. So i reckon things are a lot worse than was hoped cause of those three elements.