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

Anyone else think Mainoo's body language looks quite poor these days? Might be just his manner in fairness but he doesn't seem to look too interested when he's coming on.

I wouldn't be in any way confident of 6 points from West Ham and Wolves. We've shown we can lose to absolutely anybody these days. I'd actually say it's unlikely we'll win both.

Good win in the end v Palace but it wasn't exactly convincing overall. There are problems in nearly every area of the pitch.

Agree. West ham and wolves are also much improved of late. Villa found it tough at the weekend

Keeping the guys for the Bournemouth match would be brilliant

Heaven knows, he's miserable now.

(Almost want him to push for a loan just to see the headline.)

We'll have to wait and see. This is a team who couldn't score 1 goal against 10 man Everton for nearly 90 mins at home (who subsequently got hammered by Newcastle in their next game). This is a team who lost to Grimsby.

We're still a hugely inconsistent team so, no, I wouldn't be confident of the 6 points at all.

They haven’t had a bounce under Edwards though. Two games, two defeats, zero goals scored. No goals scored in the last 4 games. We should be going to Wolves and taking 3 points, new manager or not.

Scholes has quit punditry.

And what do people want them to say. Yoro was great in every aspect of the game and Antony was exceptional and fully justified transfer fee?

True, they were hugely improved against Villa (away from home too) though and were unlucky not to take something from the game. Of course I agree we need to take all three points from this one but the point still stands.

I’m watching a discussion about City on Sky sports with Jamie O Hará who thinks City haven’t got enough goal scorers in the team 🙈

suppose it depends.

players who ARE scoring goals, maybe not.

but players who SHOULD be? Absolutely. Marmoush, Doku, Savio, Foden, Chekri. Silva and Reijders should be popping up too.

he was told he was only an alt to Bruno, and then sees bruno never dropped or subbed (really).

Its speculation he'd have played more if he just kept his head down. We don't know. We don't know if Bruno would have been moved or dropped. I feel it unlikely, tbh.

How has he made it clear he doesn't want to be here? IMO specifically looking for a loan rather than a transfer indicates he does want a future at United, just doesn't see a path to playing while Bruno is here, which is fair - there is clearly zero path to playing while Bruno is here.

Maybe in the summer he thought Bruno would be played at 10 a bit - and then saw that wasn't going to be the case when he wasn't played there at all with Sesko not ready (and Cunha played up front). Further cemented by Amad being moved there rather than Bruno when Cunha and Sesko were both not available.

Why would he sign a new contract now? He'd be mad to. Why would he sign a new contract when he is getting 3 minutes a week. Why would you commit your future to a club that are showing they have no faith in you, or at least the manager has no faith or interest in you.

We saw Bruno and Case stink it up in central midfield vs Spurs in the EL final, with Mainoo coming on in the 90th.

Maybe he should have seen the writing on the wall early in the summer, but imo it wasn't obvious Bruno was always and only going to start at 8 and play 85+ minutes every time.

Whatever about mainoo wanting to leave on loan for more game time, it should not have been leaked it wasn't the club doing the leaking so that could only come from one side.

It just adds my drama and pressure on the club at a time when the club is doing it best to stabilize and actually reduce the drama

It's a major mark against mainoo tbh and I say that as someone who wouldn't mind seeing more of him in games. But if it was a different player who did it and we have seen it in the past they wouldn't be getting such an easy time from the fan base.

There is space in the team at the moment and the manger has said he is picking players based on how they are performing in training so it doesn't exactly bode well from that perspective either

But all the evidence before Amorim arrived was that Mainoo looked like a great player. He got a run in the team aged only 18 and quickly made himself undropable.

Surely he deserves another run in the team. He's still only 20.

How can he be "not a good enough athlete" given Amorim selects Casemiro to start in midfield every week.