Manchester United Thread 25/26 - Teamtalk/Transfers/Gossip Mod Note in OP 12.02.26

Awful match, awful team. Relying on moments constantly, week in and week out. No semblance of progress or coaching what so ever.

I'd say he was a problem alright, he isn't clinical enough by half. That there was more problems than him? Naturally. No arguments.

Thankfully the ref blew it up and we got the point from the game. Big result for us considering the team we had out. Title charge coming

Yeah Sesko is not looking great so far. Cunha the only real threat today, you are at nothing without threats from other areas. Mbeumo, Bruno, Mount and Amad are massive losses for a team as poor as this.

Not absolving the manager of blame but the team has a complete dearth of creativity and craft.

Not at all. I pointed out the exact same tactical ineptitude against Newcastle and pointed out that it woupd catch us out again because nothing had changed in terms of Amorims ability to coach a team. I did point out that at least he was starting to show some tactical flexibility in setting up at start of match, but he abandoned that until he decided a 18 and 17 year old and another CB sub, as well as removing the midfield screen would work

It’s been a long time since you could go to Old Trafford and be guaranteed something worth watching. My last game was the derby and it was 0-0. Haven’t bothered to go since.

And yet he found a way around it in the first half against Newcastle, before reverting to type.

I genuinely don't know what he's watching. He clearly wants the 3 at the back to work and it's complete and utter arrogance and stubbornness at this stage that he reverts back to it.

The fact he went to a 4 when he needed something tells you everything. Even he knows it's not working but he's determined to make it so.

Sesko should have been played through one on one twice. Dorgu with the easiest pass you'll ever see early in the second half but shoots and Casemiro just dawdles on the ball. For the second game running he was probably our best player going forward.

I will say this about Amorim, he got his shape wrong tonight. Think he was trying to be too clever. We are not going to be winning many games of football with Casemiro and Ugarte in midfield. It's just going to be too easy for teams to shut us down with them in the middle.

Awful result and real momentum killer.

I'm not sure we're actually taking a step forward. The start of the season was pretty bad, but after 8 games - including Liverpool, City, Arsenal and Chelsea - we had 13 points from 8 games. We had a run of games which were on paper, much more winnable.

We've played 11 games since then (19 total) and we've taken just 17 points from those games. We're actually on a worse run results wise against weaker teams than we were at the start of the season. This when we're just playing one game a week, no cups, no distractions, plenty of time to recover etc. So we're just bobbing along and if anything getting slightly worse.

I don't think Amorim is going to be sacked any time soon, but there has to be conversations going on between Wilcox, Berrada and Amorim about the performances and the needed fixes. A big decision is needed if the club goes out and tries to recruit wingbacks, or prioritises midfield. We wont need wingbacks if Amorim isn't here next season.

There really should be a discussion at board level about Amorims future going into the January window.

Wolves have 3 points in total this season. 2 of them against Utd.

It has gotten to the stage where we now measure our CF on things like not losing the ball or managing to get the odd shot away... Judging a CF by their ability to score goals is a distant past.

And Sesko isn't the problem, I completely agree with that. The problem is that a player like Sesko should be, at the minimum, an understudy to a proper experienced CF.

Part of the leeway Amorim is getting imo, is that he probably wanted an experienced striker and the new football guys thought it best to go down the Hojlund route again.

but they got a winner there's the difference

We were absolutely shite against Newcastle for 45 mins. Worse tonight. Lucky Amorim has Afcon to cover him.