3 hours ago, RIP Mourinho said:

Ideal player to bring on at the 60th minute against tired legs. Imagine you've been chasing the ball for 60 minutes then this Jack Russell comes on to chase down every opportunity, would be horrible. 

My Westie has, um, a bone to pick with you.

 

5 hours ago, RIP Mourinho said:

Ideal player to bring on at the 60th minute against tired legs. 

Needs to improve his retention or we will see more of the same as we had under Potter. 

23 hours ago, Scott Harris said:

The Premier League was not competitive at the time? What are you talking about?

I said the premier league is more competitive now than then. Please read a comment well before replying. And those people happy with your comment, those people laughing, they are people like you.

1 minute ago, hephzibah said:

I said the premier league is more competitive now than then. Please read a comment well before replying. And those people happy with your comment, those people laughing, they are people like you.

Probably more quality throughout the entire league now than it was then but I'd argue the Top 4 then was a lot stronger than the Top 4 now. 

23 hours ago, Nibs said:

And yet they still play Antony........................!!

Do you watch Antony every week, do you see how good a dribbler he is, he is a good goalscorer too.

4 minutes ago, hephzibah said:

Do you watch Antony every week, do you see how good a dribbler he is, he is a good goalscorer too.

https://youtube.com/shorts/fR3O4j3aN0Y?feature=share

 

Pffffft. At least Cleopatra had a right foot.

1 hour ago, hephzibah said:

Do you watch Antony every week, do you see how good a dribbler he is, he is a good goalscorer too.

Antony scored 1 league goal more than Gallagher last season, a player you don't think is good enough. Antony didn't have the excuse of not playing in his best position either. I understand the criticism of Gallagher, he must improve this season if he is going to have any future here, but let's not pretend that United's "quality" is what we should be aiming for. McTominay, Fred, Maguire, Van de Beek, Sancho, Martial, Antony, I wouldn't take any of these players.

1 hour ago, hephzibah said:

I said the premier league is more competitive now than then. Please read a comment well before replying. And those people happy with your comment, those people laughing, they are people like you.

No you didn't. Not in the bit I highlighted in bold.

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 In the days of Drogba and Lampard, we could afford to have average players in the team because the Premier league was not that competitive at that time, but now the competition is very high.

 

4 hours ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Probably more quality throughout the entire league now than it was then but I'd argue the Top 4 then was a lot stronger than the Top 4 now. 

Maybe, but that's not the point here, the premier league is more competitive now than then.

2 hours ago, Scott Harris said:

Antony scored 1 league goal more than Gallagher last season, a player you don't think is good enough. Antony didn't have the excuse of not playing in his best position either. I understand the criticism of Gallagher, he must improve this season if he is going to have any future here, but let's not pretend that United's "quality" is what we should be aiming for. McTominay, Fred, Maguire, Van de Beek, Sancho, Martial, Antony, I wouldn't take any of these players.

No you didn't. Not in the bit I highlighted in bold.

 

But I'm saying it now, the premier league is more competitive now than then. The entire engine of a team is it's midfield, and once we get the midfield wrong in any match, you lose the match. I don't want a situation when we will be playing Gallagher and doing badly next season.

Well I watched Antony at the world cup, he's a good player. Meanwhile, I see Sancho playing in his position in this pre season. United had a top player playing that position before. I'm talking of Greenwood, but since he had his issues, they wanted to sign a good player, but Antony was the only player available at that time and they spent a lot of money to get him, maybe that's why they've not got another player.

But you can be sure that if United wants to get a good player, they will get a good player.

8 hours ago, hephzibah said:

But I'm saying it now, the premier league is more competitive now than then.

But you didn't when I replied to you, so next time, don't be all sarcastic and tell me and others that we didn't read your post properly.

11 hours ago, hephzibah said:

But I'm saying it now, the premier league is more competitive now than then. The entire engine of a team is it's midfield, and once we get the midfield wrong in any match, you lose the match. I don't want a situation when we will be playing Gallagher and doing badly next season.

Well I watched Antony at the world cup, he's a good player. Meanwhile, I see Sancho playing in his position in this pre season. United had a top player playing that position before. I'm talking of Greenwood, but since he had his issues, they wanted to sign a good player, but Antony was the only player available at that time and they spent a lot of money to get him, maybe that's why they've not got another player.

But you can be sure that if United wants to get a good player, they will get a good player.

'had his issues' he tried to rape his girlfriend, suppose that's one way to sugar coat it though.

Utd's squad is absolutely littered with overpaid, under achieving players. 

Edited August 1, 20232 yr by RIP Mourinho

Anthony will be a bigger flop than Sancho. 

Gallagher is looking like a starter this season. His touch is a trifle off occasionally but so was Kante;s. Gallagher’ s work rate is just what is needed. Don’t think he lost the ball once against Dortmund and I don’t recall a missed pass. 

Edited August 3, 20232 yr by ozboy

He seems to have added some discipline to his boundless energy. Less of the "headless chicken" as someone here described him. Good thing. Presumably Pochettino's influence.

In light of recent events I'm against selling him. With Nkunku gone we need players who have a knack for scoring goals more than ever and whatever you can say about his technical deficiencies he's a player who'll get you some goals. Selling him and getting Lavia wouldn't be a good move imo. Yes, Lavia is easily better technically and also a better passer, but he's not somebody who will get you goals.

A midfield of Caicedo, Enzo and Lavia wouldn't offer much in terms of goals and up front we have Mudryk, who's more of a playmaking winger than a goalscorer, Jackson, who looks brilliant but it's to early to call him a reliable goal source and Sterling, who's a goal scorer in profile, but it remains to be seen how much of the prime version City had for many years is still there. Our other options are Madueke and Carney, who are skillful, but haven't had a lot of end product in their careers so far, Broja who's been injured for more than half a year and hasn't ever scored 10 league goals in a season and Maatsen, who's originally a left back. 

Swapping in a player who loves playing for this club and can chip in with a few goals, for an admittedly more talented player, who'd rateher be in Liverpool and doesn't really fill our most urgent need, isn't a good idea imo.

Don’t want to sell him.. but seems the only one others want to buy.

2 hours ago, True Blue23 said:

In light of recent events I'm against selling him. With Nkunku gone we need players who have a knack for scoring goals more than ever and whatever you can say about his technical deficiencies he's a player who'll get you some goals. Selling him and getting Lavia wouldn't be a good move imo. Yes, Lavia is easily better technically and also a better passer, but he's not somebody who will get you goals.

A midfield of Caicedo, Enzo and Lavia wouldn't offer much in terms of goals and up front we have Mudryk, who's more of a playmaking winger than a goalscorer, Jackson, who looks brilliant but it's to early to call him a reliable goal source and Sterling, who's a goal scorer in profile, but it remains to be seen how much of the prime version City had for many years is still there. Our other options are Madueke and Carney, who are skillful, but haven't had a lot of end product in their careers so far, Broja who's been injured for more than half a year and hasn't ever scored 10 league goals in a season and Maatsen, who's originally a left back. 

Swapping in a player who loves playing for this club and can chip in with a few goals, for an admittedly more talented player, who'd rateher be in Liverpool and doesn't really fill our most urgent need, isn't a good idea imo.

We are very unlikely to start a game with Enzo, Lavia and Caicedo as our midfield.

It will be 2 from the 3 unless Enzo plays much further forward and starts scoring for us.

13 minutes ago, 19seventyone said:

We are very unlikely to start a game with Enzo, Lavia and Caicedo as our midfield.

It will be 2 from the 3 unless Enzo plays much further forward and starts scoring for us.

I think there will be certain games we might, away games against teams like Liverpool and City where we want to pack the midfield a bit more we'll give Caicedo a bit more attacking responsibility with Lavia in front of the centre backs.

45 minutes ago, 19seventyone said:

We are very unlikely to start a game with Enzo, Lavia and Caicedo as our midfield.

It will be 2 from the 3 unless Enzo plays much further forward and starts scoring for us.

I sure hope so. The price tags of these players (55 mil is quite a lot as well) puts pressure on Poch as well. Also at the moment there is a bit of a lack of options for Poch if we don't sign another attacker. If we sell Conor there's only really Chuk who is a number 10 with Nkunku out, so I guess we'd see a lot of that midfield 3 as well. 

Another reason I don't want us to sell Conor is that Poch seems to like him (there are also reports saying so). He'll already be unhappy with the loan of Kepa, who he basically called his number one for the time being just yesterday, so let's not anger him further.

3 hours ago, True Blue23 said:

I sure hope so. The price tags of these players (55 mil is quite a lot as well) puts pressure on Poch as well. Also at the moment there is a bit of a lack of options for Poch if we don't sign another attacker. If we sell Conor there's only really Chuk who is a number 10 with Nkunku out, so I guess we'd see a lot of that midfield 3 as well. 

Another reason I don't want us to sell Conor is that Poch seems to like him (there are also reports saying so). He'll already be unhappy with the loan of Kepa, who he basically called his number one for the time being just yesterday, so let's not anger him further.

agree with that. Absolutely pointless to sign Lavia and Caicedo. I'd rather we signed a decent alternative to Jackson, say Jonathon David or at the very least a goal scoring no 10 as competition for Carney. I have great hopes that Carney can be 10 goal, 15 assist style player but they are just hopes and with Nkunku out it's far more important to have central attacking options than two no 6s. Santos is sitting in reserve and could easily play in those games where we need to pack the midfield.

On 02/08/2023 at 00:05, Sconnie Blue said:

Anthony will be a bigger flop than Sancho. 

Anthony for 100m is kinda similar to  cucu for 60m. You are at lost  searching why these players worth that much. You are not even sure they are worth half of their transfer fee. 

Edited August 13, 20232 yr by Bob stark

Conor's best game for us today.

I was really hard on Connor today for first 20-30 mins, but stand corrected for the way he grew into the game. Still concerned by how often he gives the ball away, and that he can’t do the simple things like lifting his head. 

But, well played. Some smashing tackles - hope he stays 

Great performance as a ball-winner, covered the ground behind Fernández magnificently. Was a big part of why Enzo was so effective today.