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

A loan would be best on the off chance we get Europe next year.

I don't really rate Zirkzee I don't think he has the ability to score or create the number of goals we need. Another poor signing from the Ten Hag era. Hopefully he can move on in January to reignite his career elsewhere

I'd rather Chido Obi starts getting more time with the senior team 3 goals in 6 games for the U21's so far one for the future hopefully.

A broken clock is right twice a day and he was the first one to go public about Baleba. Supposedly Newcastle don't have a buy back clause for Anderson.

Easy to write fanfic. The odds of Bruno leaving have to be getting higher in each window.

and Baleba and Anderson are the two most likely candidates (2 of 3 if we include Wharton in the list) to be brough in - and with Casemiro very likely to leave we will need two CM signings regardless. If we sell bruno we maybe need 3 tbh.

Ugarte, Mainoo, plus 2 QUALITY signings for the central midfield should suffice

Bruno will be 31 or 32 next season right, probably the correct time to move on a #10 really, especially with Cunha and Mbeumo younger.

Wingbacks too please. If they can get 4 signings next summer, and it's 2 midfielders and 2 wingbacks, it will be another good window.

Open Heart Surgery takes time, and you can't correct every squad deficiency at the same time.

Anyways, the window doesn't open for 3 more months. They need something to fill the papers during international week.

We'll have a better idea in January on whether Amorim and his system will stay or go

Let's be honest, he hasn't been given much of a chance by Amorim this season. You wouldn't mind if the other midfielders were pulling up trees with their performances but they're not. The contract is one thing (he is due a new contract if the club wants to keep him) but I'd imagine he is more interested in playing football at the moment.

Maybe if he was Portugese like Dalot there would always be a place for him in the team.

And Bruno as a CM is an area teams are actively exploiting.

And he didn't even need to drop him. Could have played him at 10 instead of Amad (and kept Amad at RWB) when Mount/Cunha were out. meaning you still have heroic Bruno to save you, and you are showing Mainoo it won't always be bruno at CM.

But nope.

We'll lose Mainoo cause we can't do anything but play Bruno at CM for 99% of relevant games, where he isn't even really playing well. Brilliant. Just BRILLIANT.

Sure we'll likely lose Mainoo still if Bruno leaves and the club actually splash big money on Baleba and Anderson.

i think you would have an easier time rotating between those three to be honest. you could pick any two and it would work, and the choice of two could be form and opposition dependent.

There is no club he could realitically go to (big club) where there won't be competition for a starting spot.

The issue, imo, at united is there is no competition for the starting spot. Bruno has it. Amorim won't take it away from him for any reason.

but when he came on agaisnt City he was one of our better players, didn't start the next game. As he has been in other games as well. Bruno cost us goals vs City, vs Fulham, starts every single match. Bruno doesn't have to put in 90minutes to play. Bruno didn't put in 1 minute vs Fulham, started the next pl game.

If he isn't given a chance to build any game rythm it is going to be hard.

And I dont think Mainoo is suited to being THE defensive player because he doesn;t have the intensity for it as your example vs Brentford - needs to be played as the 8 with a defensive player beside him (just like we are doing with Bruno)

I just can't see Amorim outlasting Mainoo, he just needs to be bide his time and we will be back to playing 4-3-3 / 4-2-3-1

Well if he can't take his 10 minutes chances and actually be able to run and press and position himself properly on the pitch he has no business starting a match, sure he looked decent when city were sitting back and was the only player able to operate in tight spaces but there is so much more to that in midfield.

He is still very young his time on the pitch needs to be earned and not given to him and he needs to start showing it every time he plays.

He also stopped sprinting back at one stage for that Brentford goal which is again not good enough effort wise, whatever about losing the ball with a sloppy pass track back and make up for the mistake.

Tbh Mount is ahead of Mainoo also, I'd let him leave on loan in January.