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

Just so we're are clear, people are allowed to point out the problems before the game, but not allowed to mention it afterwards, right?

This reminds me of the Ugarte/Eriksen pairing vs Newcastle, not confident at all now.

Dalot actually I now see he wants more physicality so not too bothered by that.

de ligt over maguire, casemiro over ugarte and Mount over sesko.

I just can't get behind amorin with dumb ass decisions like this. Throwing this game.

He was good the previous game and casemiro us also horrible under pressure. So we get all the bad parts of ugarte with out the legs to cover ground. Great.

Maguire more proactive in attacking the ball, stepping up, and in his ball use.

There is a chasm between them.

Casemiro is rubbish in the pl. Cant run, poor under pressure, poor on the ball. It's pure bias against urgarte.

So what if sesko was signed 8 days ago. We've evidently no other striker!

Fair enough on Maguire. I rate him more highly too. I don’t think there is much in it though. Both have their weaknesses.

Casemiro is just better than Ugarte. Even if he was in a wheelchair. It’s not close. Look at any statistical rating of last season and you’ll see a chasm between the two of them in PL.

Modern football is pretty tactically complex. Sesko won’t have had time to get up to speed. He also missed the last 3 pre-season friendlies so won’t be physically up to speed. Standard for him to come from the bench.

Played mount as 9 with cunha and mbuemo as 10's against fiorentina. Categorically did not work. Changed to mbuemo as 9 and mount as 10 as match progressed. Ineffective also.

Surprised how poor that selection was against fiorentina that he would go again but this time put mount up against physically stronger saliba and Gabriel 🤷‍♂️

Yeh it's a silly selection I won't be defending him after the game.

Sesko must be a tactical imbecile then if it takes him so long to understand the role that Mount is considered a better striker option today.

Also against Set Piece FC Dalot gives you more height. Whether it's affective or not is another thing. Now I still would have preferred Amad over Dalot. Think he offers more going forward and even defensively he's better at closing down players and winning the ball back to start counters. So fingers crossed Dalot proves me wrong and has a cracker.

I hope so. Maybe a 3-5-2 or call it a 5-3-2 but would hope that Mount is playing closer to midfield with Cunha and Mbeumo playing higher.

Amorim on Sesko and Zirkzee on the bench:

"Of course [they can bring something coming off the bench]. Josh has had few training sessions with us, Sesko has changed his life in a week, so we try to pick the best team to start."

Amorim on starting XI:

It's going to be like this during the season. We have more options, we have to choose the right players for each game.

"Sometimes we are thinking not just about the 11 guys that start the game. We need to imagine how we are going to finish the game and to win the game."

Amorim on strong bench:

"It's really important. We don't know, we can't imagine how the game is going to be played, but in the end, we need to have options to change things during the game, and we have that players."

Amorim on the game :

"Of course, [anything is possible] especially in front of our fans, a new season against a very, very good team. So we are prepared for that. It's going to be a very good game."

Amorim on United fans:

"They are always important, but the most important thing is for us to perform, and to run, and to fight. And then, no matter what is the result, the fans will be with us."

We really don’t do ourselves any favours. We’ve dropped one striker who’ll run his socks off and at least put in a shift, and the brand new shiny one is sat on the bench for no reason at all.

If this goes badly, AM will be absolutely crucified, and rightly so. Honestly, the best we can hope for today is a boring, scrappy draw just to spare the manager from the firing squad.

But it’s the literally the same argument from last season cause we haven’t signed a CM so you’re either getting Case or Ugarte.

Regarding after the game it’s the same doomers who sometimes I think want us to lose just so they can go told ye so.

The shiny one has had a handful of sessions for training I say and the other one is not a very good striker.