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

Think its in the 50's that would rise to 70ish if he hit what was needed.

Still tho, your point still stands. Lad needs an experienced striker with him next season.

Unfortunately Fulham had the way better penalty takers, Jimenez, William are regulars, Robinson's one was I've cold, we had Bruno and that was about it, I had no faith in anyone after him really except cas.

It is disappointing to be out of the cup the league is a wash now anywyas at best we could scrap top 10 and won't be relegated, no problem seeing more of the kids if they are anyways ready and prepping for next season and the Europa league

The jury has been out for long enough, I'm afraid. A truly awful signing.

Do you think Ipswich or Leicester are getting 23 points from their last 11 games? They’ve managed to get 17 points from 27 games up to now.

Lindelof scored the winning penalty against Brighton to send us into the FA Cup final in 2023 tbf. Think whoever missed today was going to be criticised. Garnacho’s shooting is awol, lads only 20 and clearly feeling the pressure.

I don’t. But I do think we will struggle to get the 10-12 points needed and will finish 17th.

17th ffs

To try to be better than 17th - to not be the worst team in the premier league.

our run in is:

Arsenal, city, Aston Villa, forest and Chelsea. Brentford and Leicester not straight forward.

Take the blinkers off man

You thought 40 points were needed to avoid relegation and you accuse others of having blinkers on!?

Utd are 16 points clear of the relegation places. They are probably safe even if all remaining games are lost. 3-4 points needed maximum, not 10-12.

Also 17th isn't the worst team in the league, I believe 20th is. Maybe you mean worst team in the league not to be relegated?

Anyone talking about relegation, with any level of seriousness or claiming we need 40 points is either talking out of their hoop or on the wind up so I'm not gonna go too deep here, just to say don't panic there lad. Everything will be alright.

Højlund needs help, still. He looks broken at this stage (and yet is still not underperforming his XG incredibly he just lives on scraps, actually scraps is too generous a word). It was flagged very well that bringing him in on his own to put the whole shop on being the man from day 1 (or day 400) was madness and as likely to break a prospect as make him.

The pile on at the moment is a bit sad to see, even the likes of Chido offers more etc comments all kinda completely ignore that when Chido comes on the tactics also change. He won't do it, but I hope he actually does start Chido a few games so people can see the familiarity of a striker working the graveyard shift at united. This isn't new, this has been going on years.

Lads criticising the penalty takers when they have no idea who put their hand up or didn't to take one. Bare in mind we had two 17 year olds on the pitch and they were never gonna be in the first 5 takers. Garna can't hit a 5 yard pass never mind a peno so that leaves 7 other names available. Should MDL or Maz have taken one because they are the only other available guys.

The constant need to criticise and moan about every little thing is exhausting. Today's game didn't teach us anything we don't already know about the players. And genuinely anyone trying to blame the formation or style of play or saying there's no clear patterns is not worth debating. Same as the "fans" that blame the manager, just not worth even engaging with.

It's the worst assembled squad of traditional top team I've seen in my 35+ years of being a fan. We probably won't win many games between now and end of the season. It's going to be a tough couple of months but if, and it's a major IF, we get the summer right, we can begin to look forward. I don't expect we'll be seeing anyone big name players other than Bruno in a Utd shirt for the foreseeable future but that's likely for the best.

There is a way forward and I fully believe RA can be the man to get us there but the fans and more importantly the powers that be will need to ignore alot of outside noise. Because make no mistake there are many people that are and will continue to bask in these low moments for MUFC. I have faith in the manager, it's the fans and the board that worry me most.

He has improved a lot in terms of how much he passes, he used to shoot on sight, even though today he have 5 or 6 shots only one was stupid, that's not bad Bruno has one himself and his ridiculous rabona.

Its not just when he cuts inside either, his left foot crossing has improved and something he uses a lot more and only 3 4 games ago he was completely ignoring the overlap he is trying and finding the overlap much more often now, our goal came from him using dalot on the left today after a decent dribble from him.

He shooting has been poor this season and he still has areas to improve on like decision making but he is only 20 trying to learn a new position and change what the last manger wanted him to do by being more of a team player instead of always shooting.

I think it's good to see a young player trying to and improving the weak areas of his game, we have said young players in the past have stagnated at united over the years and I don't know what the future holds for garnacho but he deserves more credit then he gets imo

I think both things can be true, Hojund isn't getting enough service and is very low on confidence but also he is doing a lot of things wrong.

Obviously the tactics are different to the start of the game when obi came on but it's not like Hojund hasn't had opportunities in a game state like that himself,.we have been chasing plenty of games where he has been on the pitch or come on as a sub himself.

I don't think obi is ready but his performance was better pretty much then anything Hojund has done against a premier league team this season