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

Really looking forward to Licha's return. That's if he can stay fit and regain his first season's form (and those are big "ifs" in fairness).

As has been said before, while the recent record against Brighton has been horrendous, it is a home game which United needs to be winning. If Brighton at home is a big test after spending a quarter of a billion Euro this summer, then we are in a lot of trouble. I don't care if it is 1-0 with the winner scored by OG in the 109th minute, we need 3 points.

Between now and January, we need to be winning the vast majority of games if we want to talk about the team threatening top 4. And in fairness, I recall there is a United fan who for a year has sworn not to cut his hair again until United have won 5 games in a row. Tomorrow needs to be 3 in a row to give this lad some hope.

Brighton have an unbelievable record against big clubs home and away. They're unbeaten in their last 12 league games v Arsenal, Liverpool, City, Chelsea, Utd, Spurs and Newcastle combined.

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Brighton 2-1 Newcastle

Chelsea 1-3 Brighton

Brighton 2-2 Spurs

Brighton 2-1 City

Tottenham 1-4 Brighton

Brighton 3-2 Liverpool

Brighton 1-1 Newcastle

City 2-2 Brighton

Brighton 3-0 Chelsea

Man Utd 1-3 Brighton

Brighton 1-1 Arsenal

Brighton 2-1 City

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I think people need to reign in their expectations a bit. Utd are at home and rightfully favourites but it's far from a slam dunk and the same goes for any team that plays them. It's not a disaster or worthy of a meltdown if you don't beat Brighton.

They aren't real expectations people are making ones they don't actually believe so they can rage when they don't happen because That's easier then enjoying a couple of wins

I'll agree with this much it is silly That's for sure, silly to set wild expectations like winning every game until January just so when it downs happen you can keep saying everything is a let down just in case Amorim turns it around.

Must be wild to be hoping against hope he won't turn it around and not be able to enjoy any wns

Record not great against Brighton but we've overhauled our attacking lineup that are starting to look well, should be a different game.

Cuhna and Mbeumbo are machines and give us a totally different dynamic than when we've met them previously.

Our goals vs against are pretty identical so could go either way.

Home win for us, Cuhna to get his first.

Crowd to be rocking in support. Would be a game id love to go to at OT.

We can potentially go 3rd of we win.

Still find criticism of him as a person/character/leader baffling. Absolutely love that guy. Always ready to play and run himself into the ground for 90+ minutes. Never seems to complain off the pitch. Ultimate professional.

I see a draw here too and not a bad result being honest, especially if it's with a good performance

How does the Brighton line ups compare? The stat amuses me. 3 visits to Old Trafford, 3 different Brighton managers, 3 wins.

I'm expecting Baleba to show why he is wanted at United today, big chance for him to cover over his shite performances this season.

If Mount is available I am confident we can get it done today, if he does miss out I'll be a bit more apprehensive. Hopefully Cunha gets off the mark but the main thing is a 3 points, good performance would be nice but I'd settle for whatever way it comes at the moment. The team lurches week to week from crisis to optimism, that has to stop - just putting a little run together whatever way it happens would be huge for this squad

You’re absolutely spot on, it’s so predictable and boring at this stage… you get the feeling one or two on here are happier when we lose.

I said we would easily beat Fulham, and when we didn't I had about 1 post the following week. I barely posted after Brentford game. My actual posting doesn't actually follow this narrative at all.

You think I am waiting to stick the boot in? Waiting for what exactly? The performance over the past year has been so poor that all the boots went in a long time ago and its just waiting for godot at this stage.

If Amorim went on a tear now and qualified for CL I would happily give him praise and credit for doing so, but I suspect I would then get called a flip-flopper or something like that. No matter, I'll do it anyway if he now goes on a run.

Do you know who are most worried about people sticking the boot in? Those who were loudest about disagreeing, but who now start to realise they may have been wrong.

You need to look at some of the posters who are talking up up our expected result against Brighton, some imo are talking it up in the hope to knock it down later.

*i see this has been discussed already