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

As of now there is no rush whatsoever, Dalot and the rest of the defence have been pretty damn good last two games so as long as that keeps going I'd be leaving it as is. Maz is a very good defender too but he hasn't been fault free either.

I think he needs to wait his turn once back, if he comes back anytime soon. Given his injury issues you don't want to be throwing him back in ASAP. Plus Maguire has been good since coming back in. Could see Carrick possibly perefeing Maguire a little more than DeLigt for being better with his passing.

Maguire is a player that has needed his minutes managed for a while.
would be interesting to know if that isn't needed cause he is fitter and we have eff all games.
Or if Carrick will just push him more

Already said he was supposed to only use maguire for 60mins vs City, but kept him on for the game.

IMO there will likely be an argument to rotate Martinez and Maguire out a bit, due to fitness concerns - but you can also understand why Carrick might be loathe to disrupt the team any more than he absolutely has to. we're in a CL fight a lot of people didn't think we would be near, so you could understand if Carrick wants to go 100% 'first choice' for as many minutes as possible.

Title fight, Mitch.

It's a hard one to gauge. With Amorim being so systems based it was probably hard to let lads sit out training for chunks of the week but the switch to a back 4 should mean the focus is elsewhere so there may be the opportunity to manage load in training and maximising the bodies available for match day.

Plenty of examples across sport of veteran players not touching grass from Monday to Friday and putting in a MOTM performance on a Saturday

Ah look I don't think either are world beaters or ever will be but I just feel we gave up on Rasmus too early. There's a good player with a bit of a brain in there

Henderson too maybe? Without the Covid issues he likely stays as number one and doesn’t get sold at all. Elanga’s season at Forest. Even with those three, is it the case that they’ve improved or it’s just been the right environment for them? Maybe a bit of both.

McTominay was scoring for us but Bruno was in his best position at the time, he didn’t look good in a midfield two. (seems like he plays there for Napoli now but in a different system). Very happy for him though because he’s United through and through. Henderson seemed a bit salty, I didn’t like his attitude. If he stayed on, we probably would never have seen Onana. That alone would have been worth it.

Actually forgot about them two. I'd say you can say they've improved but all three left because they were squad players and wanted/needed the game time. Especially McTominay and Henderson given their ages. Elanga was young and we had options out wide.

If you were to look at players who we spent money on because they were playing well for their previous clubs like Donny, Sancho, Onana will be the next one. Can't think of others but it does get blown out of proportions the whole United kill careers stuff.

I hope in time Rasmus absolutely smashes it in his career. He was given a raw deal being thrown in as Uniteds big money CF at such a young age and having no other CFs to help him out.

Surely Napoli will come calling :)

I don't think Rashford will end up at a PL team cause I don't think a PL team he'd be happy to play for will come in for him.

I actually think he'd be a good squad signing for Arsenal, but he'd need to lower his wages (….to barca levels…) for it to make any sense as a squad player; and he' have to be happy being a squad player.

If Barca don't trigger it, i still reckon bayern would show interest - with BL high lines Rashford would be good for them.

Milan or Inter maybe - he'd likely do well in Italy and it would be a cool place to live.

I think the most likely out come thought is another crap (for us) loan at Barca. He'll want to stay, and Barca know they will be able to low ball us into another crap deal cause Rashford will reject any other offer as long as Barca are telling him they want to bring him back.

I think Newcastle makes sense in terms of their squad not bless with great wide players, newcatsle want to make the next step up and he would be a big name English signing, not short of cash and potentially a way for rashford to play regular football and possibly champions league.

Yeah I can't see him having any issues with being a squad player at Barca. The big issue will be even if Barca wanted him to come back to start for them they'll low ball United with offers or push for another loan deal.

Hard to compare both. Sesko isnt functioning in a massively improved attacking setup. Hoylund had Rashford one side and Antony the other. I dont see the £110M upgrade Sesko is supposed to be on Hoylund. He has Amad, Cunha and Mbeuno as supporting attacking options and for me isnt delivering. Hope he does but I'm not seeing this upgrade

"They want to find a way", 9 goals + 12 assists and he'll only cost you €30M. They truly are cheap bastards.