21 hours ago, hutchslongthrow said:

Played together at Man City, so knew each other already.

D'oh, I completely forgot about that.

 

Cheers bud

I know the final decision was a bad call, but that run where he did the keeper twice, and ball seemed glued to his feet, was quite excellent.

He can be a very predictable and limited player at times. He shouldn't be playing in any game where teams sit deep and put everybody behind the ball. He wants too many touches and it kills attacks against these types of teams. Save him for the Tottenham, Liverpool, Brighton, Bournemouth, City, Arsenal and some of the bottom teams that play open. Those are the games where he can hurt the opposition with his touch play and passes in behind the defence. Keep him away from the likes of Everton, he's too ineffective.

Poor today, it is what it is

33 minutes ago, Deino said:

Poor today, it is what it is

He just isn’t an elite winger. I know fans like having a pop at Madueke, but Neto & Sancho aren’t wingers that will win you the PL. Good enough as options but long term we will need to spend big on an elite winger 

2 minutes ago, ducavis said:

He just isn’t an elite winger. I know fans like having a pop at Madueke, but Neto & Sancho aren’t wingers that will win you the PL. Good enough as options but long term we will need to spend big on an elite winger 

Hopefully he will be arriving next season from Brazil.

4 minutes ago, ducavis said:

He just isn’t an elite winger. I know fans like having a pop at Madueke, but Neto & Sancho aren’t wingers that will win you the PL. Good enough as options but long term we will need to spend big on an elite winger 

I mean Kendry and Estevao will be arriving anyway. Wingers aren't really a concern

4 hours ago, ducavis said:

He just isn’t an elite winger. I know fans like having a pop at Madueke, but Neto & Sancho aren’t wingers that will win you the PL. Good enough as options but long term we will need to spend big on an elite winger 

None of them are really, although i think there is room for them to contribute though. Personally I would trade Madueke on and Kulusevski would be great in our side. That'd never happen of course.

No good enough. He wants way too many touches, doesn't put in the workrate defensively, and just doesn't perform well consistently enough. He's a one good game in 5 (at best) player. He doesn't help out at all defensively either. He has a nice first touch, probably thinks he's Ronaldinho or something, but he does f**k all with it unless he's playing against suicidal defending like the way Tottenham played.

I can see why United never really played him, and that was before he fell out with ten Haag.

Needed to score the game winner at 1-1.

17 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

Needed to score the game winner at 1-1.

He wants another 10 touches before taking a shot. He wants to beat a player, then beat them again, and beat them again. Sancho, we all know you have good close control and a great first touch, but it's absolutely useless if you don't do anything with it.

2 minutes ago, Scott Harris said:

He wants another 10 touches before taking a shot. He wants to beat a player, then beat them again, and beat them again. Sancho, we all know you have good close control and a great first touch, but it's absolutely useless if you don't do anything with it.

Aye. Set up perfectly for his right foot to place in the far bottom corner, just as Muniz did for Fulhams win.

It is the PL boys you get punished by a lot of teams if you waste your best chances.

You cannot waste the chance Cucu did at 1-0, and Sancho did at 1-1, and be a contender for top prizes. You add that to the two sitters Nico missed vs Everton, and it is not clinical enough.

Is fine against Southampton or Spurs, miss several chances you will get many more to score 4 or 5. But not Everton, not Fulham, not Forest. Even Arsenal and the leagues best side, Liverpool, showed this.

My MOTM yesterday. 

At the risk of repeating myself but he's so smooth on the ball it's a stark contrast to the rest of the team outside of Palmer. Pretty much perfect technically with his quick little 1-2's and ability to squeeze a pass through anywhere into the box regardless of how many bodies there are. Not just that but his decision making on the ball is very good too.

Defensively he seems to be getting better as well, worked extremely hard last night. Chuffed to bits we got him after initially being very sceptical and props to him for working hard.

Edited January 5, 20251 yr by Remodez

6 hours ago, Remodez said:

My MOTM yesterday. 

At the risk of repeating myself but he's so smooth on the ball it's a stark contrast to the rest of the team outside of Palmer. Pretty much perfect technically with his quick little 1-2's and ability to squeeze a pass through anywhere into the box regardless of how many bodies there are. Not just that but his decision making on the ball is very good too.

Defensively he seems to be getting better as well, worked extremely hard last night. Chuffed to bits we got him after initially being very sceptical and props to him for working hard.

Good game yesterday but way overboard in that overall assessment. In some games he has been practically anonymous. Though, like our other more direct wingers, I think he would also benefit from having a proper centre-forward up front.

1 hour ago, just said:

Good game yesterday but way overboard in that overall assessment. In some games he has been practically anonymous. Though, like our other more direct wingers, I think he would also benefit from having a proper centre-forward up front.

Don't think it's overboard, those are all qualities he is undeniable great at.

Needs to be bit more be more direct at times like yesterday for the Palmer goal but he's still adapting and he's still one of the first names I would put down on the sheet for 90% of games. 

He’s the only other attacker I trust at the moment to create something other than Palmer.

His ability to keep hold of the ball and move it in tight spaces is something to behold.

44 minutes ago, Remodez said:

Don't think it's overboard, those are all qualities he is undeniable great at.

Needs to be bit more be more direct at times like yesterday for the Palmer goal but he's still adapting and he's still one of the first names I would put down on the sheet for 90% of games. 

He's not though. He has been terrible against teams that have played a bit more defensively this season, so saying he can squeeze a pass into the box regardless of how many players are infront of him isn't true. I think Sancho has been as frustrating as all of the other wingers at times. He was rubbish against Everton and Fulham and I don't think he was all that great yesterday. He had a decent first half in patches, but was rubbish in the second half.

We need more consistency from all of our wingers.

Edited January 5, 20251 yr by Scott Harris

21 minutes ago, Scott Harris said:

He's not though. He has been terrible against teams that have played a bit more defensively this season, so saying he can squeeze a pass into the box regardless of how many players are infront of him isn't true. I think Sancho has been as frustrating as all of the other wingers at times. He was rubbish against Everton and Fulham and I don't think he was all that great yesterday. He had a decent first half in patches, but was rubbish in the second half.

We need more consistency from all of our wingers.

I mean he’s not going to make the pass all the time, not even Palmer does but more often than not he does.

I agree he’s had bad games but this is usually cause of his lack of directness not him stinking up the place with misplaced passes, etc. 

In regards to consistency I agree, it’s the main problem with our wingers. 

I think by now we can all agree that he is an absolute bargain at 25m.

I’ve really enjoyed watching him so far and can’t wait for him to have his purple patch, he’s going to be some player.

Our cheapest winger and by far our best. 

Other than Palmer, sancho is the only attacker that should be in every match day starting 11. 

11 hours ago, Ukraine Bolt said:

Our cheapest winger and by far our best. 

Other than Palmer, sancho is the only attacker that should be in every match day starting 11. 

 Not for me. He is the best of a bad bunch of wingers and jury is out if he is even better than Madueke, since numbers says different. What he is benefiting from is he is starting every game, but 2 goals & 4 assists is abysmal. 

8 hours ago, ducavis said:

 Not for me. He is the best of a bad bunch of wingers and jury is out if he is even better than Madueke, since numbers says different. What he is benefiting from is he is starting every game, but 2 goals & 4 assists is abysmal. 

Abysmal? Goal contribution every 120 minutes since joining Chelsea. I'd hardly say that's abysmal lmao 

He's been in 18 matchday squads since joining and started 11 of them. So he doesn't start every match, he starts about 60% of our matches. 

He will never make it Premier League level, he doesn't know how to adapt to different styles. He wants to play one way, he's the player version of Maresca. Once plan A doesn't work, he's useless. The problem is that his plan A isn't really very good. A few nice touches, but he's weak, has no shot, can't dribble passed players. If he can't play a pass through defences, he doesn't have anything else.

I'm tired of saying I told you so, but he's another one I said we shouldn't sign but we went and did it anyway. I actually watch football, unlike the ones that sign our players it seems. They would rather look at sh*tty data that is about as much use as judging a player off his FIFA stats.

Abit harsh on Sancho there Scott. He’s very capable of beating players with skill and he’s pretty good at finding players.

I’m impressed with what I’ve seen so far this season and unfortunately we got to this point where I can say, under a proper manager and better attackers we’d see the best of him.

If we sign a striker that’s good enough to convert simple chances then Sancho’s G/A will rise.

5 minutes ago, dansubrosa said:

Abit harsh on Sancho there Scott. He’s very capable of beating players with skill and he’s pretty good at finding players.

I’m impressed with what I’ve seen so far this season and unfortunately we got to this point where I can say, under a proper manager and better attackers we’d see the best of him.

If we sign a striker that’s good enough to convert simple chances then Sancho’s G/A will rise.

I don't think it's harsh at all. 18 games, 2 goals, he should be blamed just as much as our other low goalscorers in this team. He's incapable of even getting into positions to score because he's weak and too slow. He's piss easy to defend against in most games. He does a bit of showboating on the half way line with a nutmeg, but looks completely hopeless in attacking positions with defenders standing up to him.

I'm not willing to give the guy excuses. A lot of United fans tried that and it didn't work for them either. Why do we think it's going to work out for him here if it didn't work out for him at United? It's no different than Arsenal signing Havertz and Tottenham signing Werner.