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

I think he was way over the top in his criticism no doubt about it really and was just letting his frustration out even some of what he said about the pressing I don't think can be leveled at Bruno.

But the stuff about leadership and what gill came in with about his whining I do wonder about. Does that effect the morale of the team nobody likes to here someone whinging All the time.

You look at Van Dyke at Liverpool constantly barking at people telling them what they should have done or where they should be or Odegard at arsenal tried to motivate players and gee them up in a more positive way.

On the flip side it's hard to know how much it really matters if someone was the say Bruno leads by example in terms of output and work rate it's hard to argue against that.

I do feel united fans over rate him like in all his time at the club have we ever had any serious interest in him, bids or even speculation about a move from a big team, his wages were fairly reasonable most of his time at the club so that didn't block a move yet no big team really came looking, that should at least give some pause for thought.

I think if we go on to find success for top trophies in the next 10 years he won't be thought of too much tbh maybe that wouldn't be fair but it's how I would see it and if things stay the same or get worse he'd probably just divide opinions like degea and rashford Do now

Decent finish……although he had plenty of time to decide what to do .

I dont know much about Trafford, he is an example. What our scouts need to be doing is looking at keepers with the profile like that of Trafford and identifying who has the traits needed as we cannot afford another 50 million keeper.

Now on Trafford, one of the reason Talk Sports are not doing segments on the Burley keeper mistakes is because they have only conceded 1 goal in the last 14 matches, in the one match that Trafford missed. Thats a remarkable record. He is not the keeper who looks good because his team give up a lot of chances. He is the keeper who allows no mistakes behind a good defence. Is he good enough, I dont know, but to write him off based on what he did as a 20 year keeper is strange given what he is doing now. And anyone is better than Onana

Yeah it was very strange. Obviously it’s good entertainment but if you take it at face value, he was definitely OTT and borderline angry really, which is weird for someone who doesn’t even support the club. I think Ian Wright was making sense but he was talking to a wall at that point.

Roy repeatedly trying to hammer home some point about “taking responsibility”. Why would you start with Bruno on that point of all people. When others are phoning it in, he’s always available to play and doesn’t hide away from it. He has bad games but he’s always there. Always faces up to the media. He has his faults and can be frustrating of course but the guy is obsessed with Man United and you can see how much it hurts him when we lose.

Look at the some of the other captains of big clubs in the league at the moment. Son, Odegaard, Reece James, de Bruyne. They’re not exactly like the captains of old, which is what people are expecting us to have. van Dijk being an exception. Teams don’t have the Roy Keane’s, Tony Adams’, Vieira’s as much anymore.

But Keane has always been like that. His analysis is simplistic at best and judgement is average. He's driven by emotion and doesn't have the best critical thinking skills. It's why he's still a pundit and not in management - despite wanting to re-enter management.

Put Bruno in a team where he is surrounded by players as good as him and better, players who have a similar game intelligence and workrate to him - he would thrive and be well worth his place.

Any player who can consistently stand out and perform in this Utd Squad is a fairly remarkable player IMO.

Amorim on Garnacho walking down the tunnel vs Ipswich

"He came to me. It was funny because he came to my office. I did an investigation, he went to the dressing room to change his clothes because they were wet. He watched the game from somewhere different from the bench. There is no issue. I told him perception is important. He will pay for dinner for all the team."

So Garnacho has to buy dinner for everyone because of how he reacted. Whatever about the on pitch performances but Amorim is very good with handling the media

Just watched the Keane-Bruno bit on the Overlap. Keane has made a tit of himself there to be honest. I get what he's saying to an extent but what the feck man. You'd swear his wife had just texted to say she's shagging the neighbour. No need for that anger at all.

and the neighbour was Bruno

Sometimes it looks staged to drag in more viewers.

Dalot vs Ipswich was his 101st game since the start of last season. That's an incredible amount of games and is something like 9000+ minutes on the pitch.

No wonder the drop in form has happened with that amount of game time.

Another assist for Rashford and he looks good. He's putting in some good set pieces into the box.

Paper talk saying Barca will in for him in the summer (take with a pinch of salt) so if he's reading that he'll want to put in some good performances to impress for his dream move.

Will raise the price tag for us i'd imagine, which will is pure profit and that will be massive this summer for us if we want players in.

Dealing with any club he goes too should be an early priority imo to give us some cash this summer.