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

I make this the squad (in temrs of who might be available)
Onana
Lindelof
Mazraoui
Le Ligt
Yoro
Heaven
Dorgu
Dalot
Bruno
Case
Eriksen
Collyer
Fletcher
Hojlund
Zirkzee
Garnacho

Heaten - Injured
Bayindir - Injured
Mee - Injured
Maguire - Injured
Martinez - Injured
Shaw - Injured
Evans - Injured
Mount - Injured
Mainoo - Injured
Ugarte - Injured
Amad - Injured
Obi - Not registered.

Included Amass and Fletcher as they are on the A list, despite not having played.
Will be interesting to see if we give Fletcher minutes because we specifically included him on the A list over Obi (or Kone?)

A few other young lads were in the training squad today so they might travel over to sit on the bench.

Confirmed travelling squad:

Goalkeepers: Andre Onana, Elyh Harrison, Dermot Mee.

Defenders: Diogo Dalot, Noussair Mazraoui, Matthijs de Ligt, Ayden Heaven, Victor Lindelof, Leny Yoro, Patrick Dorgu, Harry Amass.

Midfielders: Casemiro, Toby Collyer, Christian Eriksen, Bruno Fernandes.

Attackers: Alejandro Garnacho, Joshua Zirkzee, Rasmus Hojlund.

From MEN.

Depressing enough watching PSG and seeing how good the lads we were linked with are. Kvara and Mendes.

Even our ex goalkeepers are making clangers in the champions league.

Tough watching the champions League these days. Really depressing what the Glazers have done to the club.

This season really can't end fast enough. These players know the club will listen to offers for every player and they don't care; that's if they ever did. I don't expect any improvement at all this season. Hopefully we get rid of some of the deadwood, get players in who can play the system the manager wants and push on from there. Realistically we need to see improvement year on year so if that means next season we target a top half finish so be it; that's where are are as a club after a decade of shambolic leadership.

17000 posts on boards.....How have you not commited yourself to an asylum! 😅

When emery took over at the villa, Gerrard had them in 17th place, in 2 years they are in with a great chance of CL quarter final, in the squad last night, there were10 players that Gerrard had at his disposal.

Although league form especially GD isn't great this year they still have a shout of euro football and are still alive in both cups.

I think amiron is getting a massive pass from majority of utd supporters, excuses been banded out left right and centre, players can't fit the system, not good enough for the system etc

emery has had massive injury headaches this season and last and while not always getting it right, gets on with it. He's as good a coach as a manager.

the worry is that with knowing we can not replace the full squad, can we get enouigh players in that can play it - that the players remaining from the current side can perform well enough at it to get the improvement we need.

It is possibly that with better or more comfortable players around them players under performing at the moment will improve in the same system - or that they themselves are being compromised by 'worse' players around them.

Its a worry though.

Is that the Inter Milan squad littered with United cast offs and those deemed not good enough for us like Darmian, Mkhitaryan, Arnautavic and Taremi?

They've moved on Young and Sanchez recently enough

I don't believe we don't fundamentally have the players to play any particular system. Professional players should be able to play any system and as Amorim keeps saying it's not so much the system, it's the style of play.

But we have a bunch of players who's attitude is lackadaisical….they get paid extortionately regardless of doing what they are told or not…many of them won't be able to snap out of it as they are kind of institutionalized, so in that sense we will need a load of new players but it will cost alot of money we may or may not have. While I say it will cost alot, I think the cost should mostly be on getting rid. We should be buying younger, cheaper players on modest contracts for some semblance of a fresh start.

It's ultimately all on the club….I believe it dates back to the release that was felt when SAF took his thumb off the squad when he retired. The strict teacher was gone, the kids partied, reigning champions finshed 6th or 7th was it?….Ed Woodward started dishing out the big dough for the big stars to save the day, Managers came and went and there were false dawns but ultimately that ruthlessness, that accuracy wasn't there and the party carried on……. to this day.

And we are where we are.

Yip, we're all really psyched for the big European tie tonight! 😬