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

PARlance · 04-12-2025 08:47PM

There's some movement up front, a fair bit on the right side, but it's just movement for movements sake, there's no real cutting edge and we just end up whipping in a hopeful ball to the box.

Caustic · 04-12-2025 08:48PM

Not great far from another very slow start but we grew into the game well, probably could and should be in front, need to be better second half and Heaven needs to come off

pjohnson · 04-12-2025 08:49PM

We should be attacking the right as Soucek isn't exactly mobile but AWB is being Gandalf so that side is dead to us.

weemcd · 04-12-2025 08:50PM

Why do we still have Dalot in the team and AWB was sold??

Father Hernandez · 04-12-2025 08:53PM

Another half of muck. This West Ham team are garbage and we're making them looking like a half decent side.

Dalot non existent, midfield poor, Bruno won't stop moaning and unable to affect the game from that deeper position Amorim is hell bent on continuing with.

All so predictable. Massive trouble when Amad and Mbeumo are gone.

BenK · 04-12-2025 08:53PM

Pretty forgettable 1st half. Very pedestrian for large parts and not threatening enough. Similar in ways to the Everton game.

BenK · 04-12-2025 08:55PM

I'm not having the revisionism about AWB either. He's grand for a club like West Ham who are on the back foot a lot but he offered absolutely nothing in an attacking sense at United. Teams actively set up to let him have the ball, he was that bad in possession.

DataDude · 04-12-2025 08:59PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124043054#Comment_124043054

Bang on. Never seen a player kill a team like he did. Got to a point where every team gave him 20 yards of space and that gave them an extra man in the press against the rest of the team.

Great back to the wall defender. Never near good enough for a top half team.

FourFourRED · 04-12-2025 09:03PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124043063#Comment_124043063

Still have flashbacks of teams regularly switching play to his flank and him being miles out of position and a man free. Lacked the football intelligence required. Nice that he was able to get back and make beautiful sliding tackler but how many times was he making up for his own mistakes when doing so.

Seattle · 04-12-2025 09:03PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124042749#Comment_124042749

Well in general it's different because if you're in Europe, there's so many matches and the intensity of the game has gone up quite a bit in the last few years so you really have no choice but to rotate.

I just think in the past you could rest 3/4 players v relegation fodder and still win comfortably but these days it's a lot tougher.