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

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,866 ✭✭✭Robson99


    Welded to his line...never narrowed the angle. Piss poor as usual



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,166 ✭✭✭✭nullzero
    °°°°°


    Hard to see us making any progress up the table of we keep refusing to create chances.

    Decent performance overall, we need to stop conceding and just become hard to beat until the end of the season.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 35,193 ✭✭✭✭The_Kew_Tour


    That was good performance. Just don't have few finishers

    EVENFLOW



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,629 ✭✭✭All_in_Flynn


    Played well and lost. Frustrating decision making at times let us down. Garnacho has a lot of growing up to do over the summer.

    Only games that matter this season are the European ones.

    Things definitely improving though from a system point of view. Having to constantly change the back 3 is hampering us though.

    Dorgu has made a big difference to us on the left in terms of balance. Opens up the pitch for us and so Dalot getting more space on his side.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,258 ✭✭✭El Gato De Negocios


    Forest got the early goal and were happy to sit deep for the remaining 85 minutes and hope for a hoof ball, it is what it is.

    Decent performance overall from us but our lack of attacking focus is there for all to see. Has to be addressed in the summer. For all Garnacho sees of the ball his output is very poor overall.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,191 ✭✭✭✭billyhead


    We really are **** up front.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,467 ✭✭✭BenK


    The team is starting to get an identifiable shape to it at least. I think a proper goal scorer would do absolute wonders for the team. Hard to get the right profile of player obviously but that is the number 1 transfer target for me.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,587 ✭✭✭✭FourFourRED


    13th is probably the ceiling now with 8 games to go. All eggs in the Europa League basket.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,194 ✭✭✭✭Nalz


    and in the wing back areas. Dalot got little joy and Dorgu gave the ball away or slowed it down so much.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,194 ✭✭✭✭Nalz


    Against a tired Forest who usually let teams have the ball. I'm not reading anything into that performance at all.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,589 ✭✭✭Ninthlife


    Did Sels have to really make any save despite 20 odd shots on target??

    If Tyler Dibbling is 100m we should easily get 60m+ for Garnacho and the first team to offer it id bite their hand off. Brainless at times...



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,194 ✭✭✭✭Nalz


    Dorgu, Garnacho, Dalot and Zirksee second half were very subpar, for our standards.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,767 ✭✭✭DellyBelly




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,589 ✭✭✭Ninthlife


    Watch the replay from behind his goal...he was 10yds outside the box and back peddaled back to his line despite Elanga advancing and got the angle all wrong....sick of his sub standard execution of basic goal keeping



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 20,053 ✭✭✭✭y0ssar1an22


    i think he got the team wrong with cas and ugarte in CM. should have been bruno. with garnacho, zirkzee and rasmus up top.

    would it have made a difference? who knows. but he tried to change it by taking ugarte off at HT.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,842 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    Certainly offer more than Hovjlund who was piss poor.

    I hate being too critical but Maguire got more touches in the box in 6 or 7;mins than Rasmus did in a full half.

    Based on that performance maybe leave Maguire up there, more danger anyway as one could see.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,191 ✭✭✭✭billyhead


    The wing backs do need upgrading but signing a proper striker must be the number 1 priority in the summer transfer window.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,283 ✭✭✭thefa


    When push came to shove, almost everything was going down the left.

    You can look at individual Garnacho goals/the odd assist and be impressed but the end product has been lacking for a good while. He’s arguably the best in the squad to take on defenders but looks more like a guy to bring on from the bench than start.

    Dorgu’s been a big improvement but can hopefully find a bit more consistency with the passing. Still only has a handful of PL games to his name so has great promise.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,519 ✭✭✭✭pjohnson


    Thats his go to move. Make sure to make the angle as big as possible for the attacker. Makes Garnacho look like Einstein.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,629 ✭✭✭All_in_Flynn


    There’s a decent chance Garnacho gets sold in the summer but there is still a lot of potential there.

    The hope is that he grows into his body over the summer and gets that explosiveness that will take him to the next level. Elanga a good example of it. He was always quick but he’s a man now and is lightening. Garnacho has a similar profile in that he’s quick but lacks the power.

    I like Dorgu I have to say thus far. He’s a little raw but he’s made a difference.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,970 ✭✭✭Bleating Lamb


    One of the selling points for Dorgu was his ability to progress the ball up the pitch with dribbles……the one time out of 10 that he actually went to the byeline and crossed tonight,Maguire nearly scored.

    The coaches need to double down on getting him and Garnacho making better use of the ball they get in the attacking third.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 35,193 ✭✭✭✭The_Kew_Tour


    On that basis we can't read anything into any United performance where we play on a Thursday night against a team that did not play for week.

    But we do...

    EVENFLOW



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,194 ✭✭✭✭Nalz


    They played 120 mins on Saturday, almost the same starting 11 too.

    That plus how they play non possession ball means very little can be read into United's positive possession performance.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 20,053 ✭✭✭✭y0ssar1an22


    its not massively hard. drop garnacho till he learns to pass the ball.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 35,193 ✭✭✭✭The_Kew_Tour


    So United will get same treatment when they play against Newcastle and Wolves in coming weeks after having less than 72 hours rest from midweek games?

    EVENFLOW



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 20,053 ✭✭✭✭y0ssar1an22


    do we reckon anyone has said something similar to garnacho? i think we dont have any leaders to do that. walker is there like 5 mins but has standards so speaks up.

    There's Kyle Walker, who, upon returning to the field at halftime of Napoli-Milan, is speaking animatedly with Joao Felix. The body language suggests: part of it is an attempt at persuasion, part of it is a reproach. You can hear an audio: "Just pass the ball. we are not Messi. No one here is Messi"



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,191 ✭✭✭✭billyhead


    I see were linked with Delap again. If we buy him as our starting striker it's a big gamble. Will he consistently score high numbers each season?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,239 ✭✭✭✭PARlance


    Going to cost us about €50 million to find out! I would definitely prefer someone more established. But there isn't a huge pool out there.

    The article I spotted linking us with him yesterday was in the Daily Mail and it was an absolute nothing article. Not to say that Delap isn't one of the ones we will be looking at but there really wasn't anything in it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,582 ✭✭✭✭JRant


    I don’t think Garnacho cares being honest. He wants to be the man and get the goals. What we seen last night is just more of the same from him and his decision making starts and stops at him taking a shot. We had 21 shots on goal last night with him taking 6 of them himself, often when there was a better option around him. Even when he did pass the ball it was often when the shooting chance had just gotten away from him and the pass seemed more panicked than planned.

    "Well, yeah, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man"



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,811 ✭✭✭ericzeking


    That Elanga fella would be perfect for the attacking right wing back role….



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