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

IMO the Grimsby game on the back of failing to beat fulham and failing the eye test in the second half vs them ruined everything. there was a bad taste in the mount from Fulham and then Grimsby looked like a bunch of players who had no interest in playing for the manager, for club, for the fans - and then Amorim seemed to basically hand in his resignatioin in the post match interview.

It is genuinely difficult to take positives from any match with everything around those two games stinking things up.

Any pre-season positivity or 'benefit of the doubt' was utterly used up and thrown away that week, even for me.

And Brentford will be the same imo. In isolation, a draw in that game is not a bad result. But a draw when we need to build positivity won't be enough, and a loss certainly won't be. There will be no context or excuse accepted by the majority. It would be another point of failure in a long line.

IMO we need to beat Brentford and Sunderland. Winning those two puts us on a good footing going into the Liverpool game where I do think a loss, as long as we don't look like bumbling morons, will be 'accepted' and not instigator of calls for Amorim to be sacked.

If we fail to get 6 points, and then lose to Liverpool, its gonna get noisy.

You always know that United have a terrible performance "in them", like Grimsby.

However they don't really have any excuses ahead of Brentford, they should at least put in a decent performance.

No midweek game. The team is now largely stable, with Ugarte coming in for the suspended Casemiro (an improvement in my view), and Cunha to come back in.

Even if we clicked and got into a 2-0 or 3-0 lead, we'd probably just fall back or even go to sleep.

I'd even take a scrappy 1-0 win now tbh.

I can't even remember the last time we won back to back league games. Putting a run of consecutive wins together is the most important habit this team needs to learn

Slightly related but the lack of mid-week football meant that I watched a bit of the U21s in action last night against Athletic Bilbao. Only got the last half an hour but Obi was an unused sub. There was some speculation online that that might indicate a call up to the senior team but I'm not too sure, I watched him a few weeks ago and he was less than impressive.

Was surprised not to see Leon involved, he might be in danger of falling between two stools.

Jack Fletcher was very good in CM, really drove them on in the final stages to get a late winner.

Maybe unpopular but I love a Friday evening kick off. Get in after work, get the kids to bed and settle down to watch the game.

For travelling fans it's not so good obviously.

I think if Amorim has a fully fit squad, Sesko doesn’t start. He has a big call tomorrow.

If Sesko doesn't start, I give up. I'm hoping Lammens starts too.

Harry would have to start against the long throws too id imagine.

In place of who, Yoro ?

He has to start. And nothing to suggest he won't. He only missed the first couple of games as he was building up his fitness.

We simply cannot pick an out-of-position Cunha or Mount instead of him.