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

He did plenty of diving when he played for United.

CAS has played fuxk all under Amorim, he has been playing collyer who is now injured. What you saying isn't happening

Mainoo, Collyer, Eriksen and Mount all unavailable. That’s the only reason Cas was involved in the last 2 games.

It’s clear he’s not part of Amorim’s plans

Casemiro needs to be put out to pasture. His energy levels, ability to get around the pitch and overall sluggishness are a real liability. The midfield looks so weak when he plays.

Rasmus desperately needs to be taken out of the spotlight and maybe a loan somewhere. He looks completely broken.

Dalot has become the place where momentum and attacks go to die(unless its the opposition doing the attacking)

Onana is also a problem and a dodgy keeper will almost always mean nervous central defenders.

On the positive - Dorgu has added some athleticism, phsicality, power and pace down the left. Bruno made mistakes but we have 0 creativity without him, and he always works his bollokx off. Ugarte scored a nice goal but struggled in midfield, especially when playing beside Casemiro. Garnacho looked bright when he came on. Obi got some first team minutes again, didn't really have any impact but that's almost to be expected given his age and the mess he's being thrown into.

Overall it's hard to take too many positives from that draw. The first half was just so bad, and its becoming a recurring theme. The players are clearly not willing or unable to follow Amorims instructions in the first halves of quite a few games this season. To his credit, he has generally been making effective subs but its very hard to overlook how bad some of those first half performances have been.

This team are so fragile right now that if we have a run of a few more losses I would genuinley worry about just how close to the bottom 3 we could find ourselves. Being involved in a relegation battle seems almost impossible considering just how badly the teams below are doing, but then again, Man Utds form and results for a quite a while now have been worrying in the extreme.

Yeah Dorgu was good. A live wire going forward, some good tackles at the other end. Definitely a good addition.

Obi was as expected. Lively and enthusiastic but didn't have much impact to be honest. But a good run out and didn't do any worse than Hojlund who sucked again.

Clone Dorgu for the other side, and have Amad back and we'd have so much more quality.

If we can get garnacho combining with him it would be huge for our attack. We need garnacho to play for the direct style and pace, but his ignoring of the wing back is so damaging to us at the same time.

Feck sake, West Ham, Wolves, Palace & Spurs all winning.

Today looked like a decent point under the circumstances. BUT…..with both West Ham and Wolves within minutes of surprise away wins, its getting too close for comfort at the bottom.

Might be we’re in 17th place soon if we’re not careful

As long as Leicester, Southampton and ipswich remain below us I don't care whether we finish 15th or 17th.

chelsea going 3 at the back today. will be interesting to see if maresca can implement this after 3 days.

not actually 5 at the back.

Agree, I don’t think relegation is realistic. But 17th place is. And that’s utterly embarrassing imo.
Thank goodness that Southampton and Leicester are as bad as they are.

Come the summer, will quality players really want to join the team that finished one or even two spots above relegation?

Quality players may not join us in the summer due to a lack of European football and the fact that we continue to be a basket case, I don't think they'll pay much attention to which position in the bottom half we finish in. The league is already an embarassment, but we live in hope that this team can put some together some kind of run to try and finish higher up