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PDPGuy:
Nawa oh… The bar keeps getting higher for us 🤣

Kids of nowadays. What’s her OnlyFans, let me go and warn her vigorously.

Leyqute:
Afrodoc Trafford starts again.

Thad good for him. He is a potential England No 1. The Donnarumma reports are quite surprising for a Pep team.

Ellexy:
Looks like Amorim values tenacity above technicality. That can only be the reason Ugarte is ahead of Mainoo in the pecking order but gim gim without sense is a net negative for the team. I really hope we get to see more of Mainoo and less if Ugarte as the season progresses.

The 2 CMs in Amorim’s system need a base level of physicality for it to work. You can’t play 2 midfielders against 3 midfielders and have 1 of your 2 midfielders having low work rate.

The onus is on Mainoo to improve in that work rate aspect. We all noticed it when we were using 3 midfielders so one can only imagine how it can be when it’s only 2.

Having said that, your summation on senseless tenacity is correct.

Leyqute:
Just dropping this here for those who would like a bigger view of the situation.

Link to Goal.com article - https://www.goal.com/en-gb/lists/ruben-amorim-admits-manchester-united-issues-kobbie-mainoo-contract/blte3c462dbf73a80c9#csca4324d6cfa82629

This is the full interview. The Mainoo part is from 6:50


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9AR9ql1LV8&pp=ygUXYW1vcmltIHByZXNzIGNvbmZlcmVuY2U%3D

This is mainly political talk. We are chasing a game and the manager had 5 changes to make and didn’t believe Mainoo should be one of them. He does not trust him in one of the 2 CM positions. He just can’t come out and say it.

Only consistent poor performance from the preferred choices or Mainoo seriously lifting his game can enable him get regular game time, especially this season in which there won’t be much need to rest players.

Ellexy:
Mainoo's development has really stunted the past 2 seasons. I really don't know what happened but I pray he picks it up, I love the boy. He could have been our Baleba.

He has only really played 2 full seasons na so I don’t think you can say his growth has tinder over the past 2 seasons.

He had an excellent season 2 seasons ago which culminated in him making his England debut and then cementing his place in the starting lineup.

Last season he came back unfit from the Euros and then had a number of injuries during the season that wrecked it for him.

His biggest problem though is that he is not a natural fit for this 3-4-3 with the 2 man midfield. At least not at EPL pace.

Even Bruno is not a natural fit but is benefiting from “my captain must play” and Portuguese parapo.

When Amorim first got here I stressed that some regular players would not fit the system while some fringe players might benefit.

Mainoo has to improve on his stamina/work rate and passing range. I think he has it in him but he has to go get it. If Amorim has any sense sha Mainoo has to be the 1st name off the bench going forward and not Ugarte.

Oasis007:


......let's say 2 more Doc.

Hehehe. Ok na. Na here we dey.

Leyqute:
It’s so refreshing to see a positive comment from you 😁

Hehehe.

GloriousGbola:
you want to deny daddy mobad his chance to blowup on SM?
a once in a lifetime opportunity?

With a father like that, Mohbad tried in this life.

BlueRayDick:
Well, whatever hate Naira Marley gets from the mohbad incident; majority of it stemmed from his relationship/association with Sam Larry who actually bullied Mohbad few months before his demise.

Sam Larry bullied Mohbad to the extent that the boy had to petition the Nigeria police alleging threat to his life. He was even alleged to have remarked that if anything happens to him, they should hold Sam Larry responsible.

Most Nigerians assume whatever Sam Larry was doing to Mohbad has the blessing of Naira Marley going by how Mohbad departure from Naira Marley's record label was made their relationship sour.

The utterances and innuendos from Naira marley and Sam Larry following Mohbad's death also made them persona non grata. More like they just deliberately attracted more bile to themselves thy period with their actions and inactions. That video of Sam Larry going to Mohbad's video set Zlatan in which Sam Larry was seen threatening Mohbad with a cutlass will always haunt him forever.

That being said, it was always obvious that the only way to know what actually killed Mohbad was to carry out an autopsy and analyze the result of the autopsy. Any other thing na just emotion and sentiments. Even the fatter of the boy refused to accept the autopsy result and chose to be chasing clout everywhere online.

Exactly. How doing an autopsy became rocket science is what I don’t understand.

Everybody involved in that circus was in it for dubious reasons. Most of them preferred the unending scandal and continued social media engagement rather than finding out the truth about what happened to the boy.

When you consider the behaviour of even his family members after his death you will conclude that the boy was dealt a bad hand in life.

Ellexy:
I understand difficulty in selling the likes of Rashford and Sancho cos of their high wages, but you see the others wey their salary no even big I can't understand. Antony is a 50 million pounds player easily in this market.

Antony is not. It is only in EPL that you will readily find clubs that have such money to spend on a single winger. Unfortunately, he is an EPL flop so EPL clubs don’t want him.

Clubs in continental Europe don’t have that kind of money outside Real, Bayern, PSG etc.

Garnacho is the one that could have gotten us 50m easily but he messed us up by declaring he wanted only Chelsea.

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🧠 Does Bruno Fernandes have the discipline to play as a CM in this system? pic.twitter.com/GvEXrMJDag

— The United Dose (@TheUnitedDose) August 18, 2025

. Exhibit A.

He lacks the tactical discipline to play that role. Someone who does not understand football will blame Casemiro for tracking back slowly in the first place not realising that it was Bruno’s wandering that opened up the lacuna in the midfield.

Another game, another time, Casemiro doesn’t catch up and we concede a shot or goal. Dalot and Casemiro immediately understood the assignment while Bruno didn’t. It’s not about ability as a footballer but suitability for a role.

Englishisamust:
Bayindir still look like someone that can improve...

You are whining yourself. Mentally and physically fragile keepers don’t improve in that area.

Let him go and improve at another club.

So many sinners on this thread.

engrelvis:
Mazoroui in our second team ?.. are you kidding me. Yoro is not up there yet.

Unless you are kidding yourself, Yoro is ahead of Maz.

izzou:
[color=royalblue]Ahn Ahn

A little bit harsh, my doc[/color]

The truth can be harsh.

90% of the Assanal fans on this thread have never seen Assanal win a league title. None of them has seen Assanal win the Champions League but all of them have big mouths like hippos.

That is why this 3 points trophy they just won will go into their trophy cabinet.

akwesenana:
No sha finish second.

LOL allow them.

Assanal fans coming to gloat over their first trophy of the season. The “We got the 3 points” trophy.

Na their shameless way. The pikin wey dem born the last time Assanal win league title don dey born pikin.

maik99:
Yoro and Shaw were excellent too
Hope they all stay fit and consistent throughout the season
Shaw was so composed on the ball

Yeah the 3 of them were really good. That looks to be our best lineup for now and like you said the hope is that they stay fit. All 3 have a dodgy fitness history.

I guess the 2nd team would be Maz, Maguire, Heaven. That is not terrible as a bench option

Another thing I noticed is that we were able to pass out from the back better in this game, mainly due to improved spacing at the back and because Arsenal could not press us in numbers because of the threat of Mbeumo and Cunha.

The next few games will show if this is a false dawn or building blocks to a push towards the top half of the table. We must start clocking 3 points on board sha. Faith without works is dead.

Shout out to Matthijs de Ligt. He was probably the best player on the day. Snuffed out a lot of moves and covered up errors in the defence.

Theflint1:


That's a lot of homos in just one event.

Homo erectus and Homo sapele.

Lobatan.

maik99:
What's the issue with Amad
Thought he added even more bite to the attack when he came on
Could have done better with his balls into the box tho

He has serious talent but he often holds on to the ball for a tad too long in the bid to make things happen himself. That is affecting his decision making.
He is not helped by the fact that the Old Trafford fans are always buzzing whenever the ball gets to him. Makes him think he has to do something special every time.

odizeey:
Agenda has eaten him up.
I pray he doesn't get to a place of no return. The sickness is now too deep

LOL I tried to tell him but he is stubborn.

odizeey:
Oga get out of here with this nonsense

larride:
Thoughts on the game?

Yoro, MDL, Shaw were great.
The WBs were decent. The 2 10s were exciting.

CMs did okay but we need more athleticism and aggression in that area. And better passing.

The GK was criminal.

The next few games will show if we have turned the corner in terms of performance.

CapitalCee:
Heaton can stay but Onana and Bayindir should be Offloaded if we are a serious team. Ferguson had Tim Howard for just 1 season or thereabouts, immediately, Carrol too couldn’t cut it, be binned both of them, and got VDS and Kusczaks immediately. Going into a season with a suspect GK will cost you a minimum of 15/20 points a season.

As for Bruno. He is still good and can win games on his day, but we need to cash in now and restock all these loyal and leader thing doesn’t count. Get good players and win games. Yamal at 17 is still winning games on his own. We have enough leaders in the team. Man United as an institution is an albatross of itself. Always pandering to emotions rather than pragmatism.

Of course I don’t agree with the decision.. I am just theorising on the thinking behind it. From Amorim’s point of view, he wants as many of his guys as possible in the locker room so that players won’t down tools or throw him under the bus if things start to derail.

In other news, Yoro, MDL, and Shaw were imperious today.

Mbeumo and Cunha will perform well this season.

It seems Amad has Starboy virus. They should better treat him on time before it becomes permanent.

patrickmuf:
Always knew Reijnders was going to do well. He is very progressive with the ball...One of the bargain buys along with Cherki...It's such deals I look forward to us completing...

I watched Stiller yesterday against Bayern, he is such a wonderful player...His passing ability is right up there. He looks a bit like Hitler sha...😂

He had a birth defect which is why his face looks like that. They call him the new Toni Kroos.

Reijnders is a very good player and Cherki is very talented. I suspect Cherki would have struggled with us to though.

He probably went to the best club for his skillset. Reijnders is plug and play.

patrickmuf:
Rashford has been registered.

Back to the crux of the matter, you definitely have a point but then, it's not like we are asking for too much.

The wages are key just like treble said.
Each of those players will cost clubs between 8 million and 12 million more in wages per year than Doak for instance. That is 40-60 million more over the course of a 5 year contract.

Doak is also younger, with good potential, possible high resale value, and little to no disciplinary baggage.

Nigeria’s men’s basketball team has started thrashing opponents at the Afrobasket championship.

Another 100k dollars loading. Na Tinubu go tire last last.

TrebleChamp:
I believe we can get a good DM from France if they look well...

Of course but when have we ever looked well?

Instead of getting a Kante we will go and get a Bakayoko or Ugarte.

TrebleChamp:
Martinez and Yoro can do this if the Manager give them the instructions, just sad that Martinez is injury prone...

It’s the CCB that’s meant to step out into the midfield. Martinez can’t play CCB as he would be dominated aerially. Also when they tried him at CDM in the Dutch league he struggled with the pace of the game there, so I am guessing he would not find it easier in the EPL.

Yoro is the one that is well suited to that CCB stepping into midfield role. Another one is Heaven who was a CDM until he turned 16. Mazraoui can step into midfield easily but I am not sure he will find the CCB part of the role easy.