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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 8:43am On Aug 20, 2024
Oasis007:
According to Florian Plettenberg; the deal structure discussed with Manchester United is straight loan with an option to buy. PSG offer is clear, take it or leave it.
Option to buy is different from obligation to buy. PSG wants to offload their dud on us. For them to give up so quickly on the guy in 1 year, one has to check the VIN number.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 1:19am On Aug 20, 2024
Oasis007:
Understand Manchester United are working on loan with obligation to buy proposal for Manuel Ugarte.

Negotiations to continue with this formula as Jorge Mendes’s leading talks with Paris Saint-Germain.

Ugarte wants United, pushing a lot after personal terms agreed in July.


- Fabrizio Romano
There should be no obligation to buy. Loan and see first. Like Amrabat.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 8:10pm On Aug 19, 2024
maik99:
Fair enough
Just, I’m regularly frustrated when he plays on d left
Not only you.

Just trying to correct the idea that some are getting that he is completely crap in the left.

If Rashford keeps messing up, Garnacho in the left with Amad in the right is a viable option.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 8:01pm On Aug 19, 2024
maik99:
The breakout season you speak of were his cameo performances off the bench against tired defenders
I maintain that personally I’m not a fan of his performances from d left wing
At least on the right he tries to create chances rather than his ineffective dribbling and average shooting on the left
He’s developing, tho
I am just reacting to you saying you have never seen him play well on the left. You are implying that he never had a good game in his life until last season.

That is just not factually true. You might prefer him on the right but he has had good games on the left as well.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 6:04pm On Aug 19, 2024
Oasis007:
......nah! He's more effective on the left than right.
He is more of a team player on the right. He is more direct and selfish on the left.
Play him on the left and he will go for goals more. Play him on the right he will go for assists more. Whether he is better on any side depends on his form and fitness at that moment.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 6:02pm On Aug 19, 2024
maik99:
I think Garnacho is better on d right tho which gives ETH another dilemma. Garnacho himself might disagree and prefer d left but personally I’ve never seen him play a good game there
You have never seen him play well on the left?

That means all through the 2022/2023 season when he broke into the first team and fans were calling on the manager to start him in matches, he played rubbish all through? Because he played on the left that season he broke into the senior team, and not on the right.

He started playing on the right for the first time in his career last season due to Sancho and Antony struggling to impress, and the manager not trusting Amad yet. Unless you are saying he never played well until last season.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 1:45pm On Aug 19, 2024
patrickmuf:
Can we play something like 👇👇👇

...........................................Mainoo........................................

.........................Bruno..............................Mount...................

..........................................Zirkzee..........................................

................Amad......................................Garnacho...............

Zirkzee is the striker but he will likely occupy that space in between the midfield and attack as per 9.5...

Juve had Pirlo as the deep lying playmaker alongside two combative midfielders in Marchisio and Vidal playing beside Pirlo. In Mainoo we have a player who is not as good as Pirlo but can get close to that level. We can utilise the energy of Mount and Bruno just like Juve did Marchisio and Vidal. We even have the advantage of Bruno being creative...
Mainoo, Mount, Bruno midfield is too lightweight and none of them has natural defensive nous.

We will face shots like last season.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by afrodoc2: 8:53am On Aug 19, 2024
hensben:
I have to be vulgar about this, na ogun go kee anybody wey criticize Enzo if we don’t sign Caicedo or a solid CDM beside him. If we get Caicedo and Enzo perform below par hold me responsible.

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by afrodoc2: 8:50am On Aug 19, 2024
BlueRayDick:
How did u go from this :













To this in the space of 2 years?



Hensben stay one place make u allow the thunder do it's work
No give am breathing space. Squeeze the neck wella.

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by afrodoc2: 6:06pm On Aug 18, 2024
Meanwhile Colwill is a senseless guy. Soft as wet tissue on that Haaland tackle.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by afrodoc2: 6:02pm On Aug 18, 2024
Unlimited22:
Lol he removed Lavia

Chineke
Lavia was limping a few minutes before the substitution.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by afrodoc2: 5:24pm On Aug 18, 2024
Take out Gbenzo, move Palmer to AM, and put Neto on the right.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by afrodoc2: 4:52pm On Aug 18, 2024
Which kind mumu camera angle VAR dey show us?
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Nairaland Fantasy Premier League 2024/2025 by afrodoc2: 2:55pm On Aug 18, 2024
raumdeuter:
15m Haaland?
How market?

E be like say na you i go take get my first points this season. grin
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by afrodoc2: 2:09pm On Aug 18, 2024
Jodera:
The thing even shock me when I saw it now.

Some Resident fans were saying he'll start for Brighton after he scored in their preseason and we're taking digs at Arteta.

Now same Brighton didn't even see him as a squad player in their team. It's so sad
Loaning him out does not mean they don’t rate him. Brighton have a very good development program. Much better than most clubs in England.

He is still 19 and is playing in the one position where Brighton are loaded. They are loaning him out to give him minutes as part of his development, rather than leaving him to rot on the bench. What he needs now at 19-20 is regular senior minutes.

I remember after we lost out to them for Caicedo’s signature and some United fans were lamenting, other United fans started mocking those ones when Brighton loaned him out to the Belgian league of all places (thinking that meant he was not good).
Only for Brighton to sell him for 100m pounds 18 months later.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 1:00pm On Aug 18, 2024
LostMyZeal:
Is it just me or is anyone courageous enough to give mount his flowers and admit to the fact that Fulham regained control and became more audacious after Mount and Amad went off.

I don't know if that was a coaching instruction or confusion but as long as mount was on the pitch, Fulham were playing premium rubbish

Maybe we need more of this confusion when we meet teams that dare to come at us.

Confusion or not, it worked like magic especially in the first half
It was a combination of factors.

1) Mount went off and was replaced by a half-fit Zirkzee, so instead of Mount and Bruno pressing centrally we had a tiring Bruno and Zirkzee.

2) Casemiro and Mainoo tiring.

3) Amad going off and being replaced by Garnacho. Amad comes short more than Garnacho and is better suited to possession and control. Garnacho prefers to stretch the defense and is better suited to transitional football.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by afrodoc2: 12:11pm On Aug 18, 2024
obainojazz:
Do we even need to keep engaging Okpa in this discussion…. Make he go NK or Russia, who cares grin

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 12:26am On Aug 18, 2024
Ellexy:
We have a buy back clause though
I don’t think so. We have a selll-on clause not a buy back clause.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 12:03pm On Aug 17, 2024
Lana1:
Rashford did the right thing for once and passed even if it was a terrible pass. However, Garnacho holds 100% of the blame. No way he should be missing this
grin grin grin

Garnacho messed up.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 10:27am On Aug 17, 2024
Oasis007:
grin


..........great job here by Maguire.
Credit to Maguire for sticking out his leg at the right time but that was also wretched play by Andreas Pereira.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 10:19am On Aug 17, 2024
Leyqute:
The summer break didn’t do him that much good tho. He was with the Argentina squad for the Copa and even though he trained with the team till the final, he barely played 30 minutes for the whole of the tournament. Then the break he had wasn’t enough.

Even Mainoo is still struggling for fitness.
Yeah Mainoo, Bruno, Garnacho, Zirkzee, de Ligt have not really had full preseasons. Their minutes should be managed with wisdom.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 10:17am On Aug 17, 2024
Leyqute:
I’m not blaming the miss 100% on the pass, I just think it played a bigger role in the miss. Had Garnacho been left footed, it wouldn’t have mattered.

It was just wrong timing on the part of the pass and yes, Garnacho should’ve done better as well. I’d say 60-40, in favor of Rashford.
90-10 for Garnacho.

He is a professional footballer not a carpenter. If he can’t hit target from 12 yards with his left foot then there is a problem. We are not asking him to take a left footed free kick or corner kick.

It is not until the pass is perfect before you score.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 9:54am On Aug 17, 2024
larride:
He usually struggles on that left side.
Garnacho played on the right yesterday.

And he does not struggle on the left. That is where he has played all his life, right from academy and including his first senior season with us in which he was lauded for his performances as a super sub.

The difference is that he is more unselfish and makes better decisions on the right, since the option to cut in and shoot (which he and Rashy like to do on the left) is not there.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 9:49am On Aug 17, 2024
Oasis007:
grin

Jez appealing to fans ni jàre. Make we give am chance this season, perhaps he has learned his lessons.
He has no more excuses. He will be fired if things remain the same as last season.

He is the last major culprit left in the club out of the group that contrived to waste last season, the transfer money and the transfer windows.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 9:36am On Aug 17, 2024
Oasis007:
grin

Make we cut ETH some slacks. He ain't the reason Bruno couldn't score two clear chances. He ain't the reason Mount couldn't score either. He ain't the reason Garnacho couldn't score a tap-in.

The misses are on players not him.
But nobody is blaming ETH. People have been blaming different players for missing chances.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 9:34am On Aug 17, 2024
Leyqute:
That Garnacho miss is more on Rashford than on Garnacho.
The pass made the tap in way more difficult than it should’ve been.
Nah. The pass was not perfect but it should still have been converted. Even if it made it a bit more difficult, it did not make it impossible, and definitely should not have ended with Garnacho missing the goal by several yards.

Imperfect pass. Horrendous miss.

Despite the assist Garnacho did not play well yesterday. I don’t think he is fully fit yet.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 9:19am On Aug 17, 2024
Ellexy:
ETH and his boys need to start taking this GD stuff seriously, they should be taking their fvcking chances. Last season's GD shouldn't repeat again.
If they keep doing the right things the goals will come. They need to develop good habits. Passing to the open man. Understanding that an assist can be as important as a goal.

The kind of chance Mount nearly got against City, and the one Garnacho got today, or even the one Bruno got from Case. That kind of chance is hard to miss consistently.

However if it is the type of chances Antony and Rashy were missing last year, where they are trying to beat the keeper from an angle, those chances are easy to keep missing.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 8:47am On Aug 17, 2024
main24:
Please let's not even go into this argument.

- There is no way anyone should be mentioning Rashford in that miss. Assuming it was Rashford that missed that ball, the whole media (including me), would have finished him.

- Garnacho's fanboys, take the loss. We all have our bad days, that was Garnacho's.

Wishing him all the best.
Yeah. Garnacho fluffed his lines.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 8:33am On Aug 17, 2024
Amad and Mount against City.

Rashford and Garnacho against Fulham.

The idea and decision making was on point. They need to keep doing it and working on their execution.

City and Liverpool have been scoring loads of tap ins off across goal passes for years, while our wingers keep ignoring better placed teammates just to shoot from difficult angles.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 8:29am On Aug 17, 2024
ChristineC:
Rashford should be scoring that on his own. that was his chance to build his confidence.
Take a shot against an onrushing in form keeper rather than give your teammate a tap in? This is why City and Liverpool score nearly 100 goals every season while we hustle 50 goals.

Rashford needs to pass that ball 10 times
out of 10. The only change is he should execute it better, and place the ball slightly in front of Garnacho so he can step into the ball and tap into the empty goal.

Selfish wing play and worrying about individual stats and confidence will often limit the overall team performance.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 8:23am On Aug 17, 2024
odizeey:
If he no pass, them go say he no pass.

He did the right thing. Gbanacho Gba for there.
100%.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 10:04pm On Aug 16, 2024
We were able to play fast-paced football for longer periods than at any time last season. Our press was more coordinated. The midfield donut was very small this time around.

Thankful for small mercies.

Building up from the back is still a problem. Not made easier by having a right footed LB.

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