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TheLequte:
I remember some of us were a bit perplexed with the Mount signing. He wasn’t exactly the kind of profile that we needed. And paying 60m for him was crazy. He didn’t light up the pitch at Chelsea, he was injury prone, and to top it all, he had just one year left on his contract.

Ten Hang, the recruitment department and whoever the Glazer put in charge of the club’s purse poured 60m down the drain. Mind boggling.

The Manager specifically asked for Mount because he saw him as critical to his set up so what are you saying.

For anyone thinking it's going to easy against Spurs we have lost to them 3 times this season. They are definitely the favorite going into the final.

Without the away goal rule draws just feel useless.

engrelvis:
lf you like be the best in your forme league, if u can't transalate here then l will v problem with me. That is y most of us don't get excited about any new signing again until uv proven yrsef here. All this nonsence about United being a graveyard for coaches is all rubbish. Bruno is in ascendency. Get the right coach / players everytin will fall into place

All what you have said does not negate his point. Did United hire top and highly rated Coaches? Yes. Were all of them successful at the club. No.

engrelvis:
lol.. so ETH was gud with all his bad "buy".Not to talk of his technical deficiencies.No wahala Agenda must "Agendise"
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You all keep missing his point. Before Eth came to United he was one of the most sort after young managers in the game just like Amorim. Eth Ajax side was lauded for his achievement and style of play hence his point of United hiring managers that were good and highly rated. It didn't work out doesn't mean the club was wrong in considering and hiring him. You guys will read A and turn it to Z.

Leyqute:
Eriksen’s physical floor is well below 10% wrt other EPL players. If he gets involved in a physical duel with 90% of EPL players, how many of them will he win?

You don’t need to jump around the issue. An Eriksen-Fred combo will never protect their back 4 nor be a reliable platform to launch attacks.

Stop looking at things from your rose-tinted agenda perspective and deal with reality.

There's no Epl player with 10% physicality.

You have created a scenario of Fred and Eriksen in midfield which never happened. Like I said stop creating false narrative.

Have we bought different profiles of midfielder over the years. Yes or No?

Leyqute:
LooL.

So you’re part of those people that believe a midfield combo of Eriksen (90% technique , 10% physicality ) and Fred (20% technique, 80% physicality) is the best way to go?

There's no premier league footballer with 10% physicality. You need to stop missing the point on purpose just to create a false narrative.

Leyqute:
Lukaku is a decent striker. But he is above average in terms of technicality and physicality.
Ibrahimovic is elite. But like Cavani, age was not on his side when he came.

Good mix of physicality and technique una. Maybe before they came to United. Only a few have impressed in the United shirt. Na why rumors of all these shiny toys no dey do me again.

DJ YK mule

He clearly meant a good mixture of players that are technical and those that are physical. We have bought physical strikers and strikers that are technical. We have bought different varieties of wingers as well. Same in midfield and Defense.

Gyokeres release clause is £60M. I like Cunha but I prefer spending that amount on Gyok. Then we could add delap for £30M to bolster the attack further.

That Maino goal on Thursday was sublime. We need him match fit from here hence forth.

nitrogen:
I kuku said it here that we would beat Lyon. But we won’t win the Europa League, unfortunately. How do we plan to survive against Athletic Club and/or Tottenham? Not happening.

We can definitely win the Europa. Tottenham are just like us if not even worst in getting results and we will be meeting them in the final. Hopefully they get knocked out by Bodo. Athletic Bilbao over two legs will be tricky but doable.

patrickmuf:
You might not like the coach, but for the love of the club, we really need to win the UEL and qualify for the UCL...

Reports say we don't have money and only UCL qualification guarantees cash windfall of any kind coupled with the fact that we can players will be willing to come with the allure of UCL football so as a fan, this is not the time to pray the team fails just so you can banter those who you think are loyal to the coach. If we don't win the UEL and Amorim finally gets the sack, where will the new coach get the money to bring in players? Abi, you will start demanding he will somehow get this crop of players to start delivering consistently.

I really don't understand you lot. One minute the players are not good enough to win the likes of Ipswich and Fulham while the next you want the same below average players to win the Europa. How is that going to happen if the players cannot start for Southampton like some said. Like I have said countless times Amorim has performed below par with the players at his disposal. The squad is capable of winning the Europa league and even finishing at least in the top ten. When we ask for results to improve you all said it's short term gain for long term failure. I didn't see anyone complaining about the win we had yesterday.

Oasis007:


Maz, Maguire and Yoro over Chalobah, Tosin and Colwill?! Peak fooling LOL!

Mainoo over Enzo?! Another peak fooling. LMFAO!

I don't even wanna talk about Onana and Sanchez, coz its so disgusting to pick Onana over Samchez.

Even Chelsea fans will not pick those clowns you just mentioned. Chalobah, Tosin wtf. If you truly believe those guys are better than Maguire, Yoro, De ligt, Martinez etc then forget about it.

On Enzo Its Ibime I will call to educate you. Enzo in a midfield two is a receipe for disaster.

Like I said Onana and Sanchez are in the same boat with onana just slightly better. Sanchez is called a chronic gambler on the Chelsea thread for a reason. Onana has won multiple trophies and even played a champions final, Sanchez highest level is mid table which is why I gave Onana the nod.

Amoto94:
It is greed and avarice not ignorance per say that's driving Nigerians into ponzi schemes, I remember warning some of my colleagues who were better off financially than me about one scheme last year or so- one of them she know it will crash definitely but she wants to cash out before the crash. I told her to invest in me at least she's sure of seeing me if anything were to happen to her investment unlike the guys behind the scheme.

At least she's smart. Did she cash out?

Oasis007:


......Just imagine Amorim laying his hands on Chelsea's squad! Chei! Liverpool would likely find themselves trailing rather than getting closer to another EPL title. LOL!

Amorim would definitely set up a 3-4-2-1 formation, and the lineup could possibly look like this:

GK: Sánchez

CBs: Badiashile, Wesley Fofana, Colwill

WBs: Reece James, Cucurella

CMFs: Caicedo, Lavia

AMFs: Palmer, Neto

ST: Jackson


Now, compare this lineup to whatever best Manchester United can offer at the moment. Name just one Man U player who could displace any of these Chelsea players.

Let's even set aside stats because they beat us hands down. Chelsea fans go just dey laugh us bruh, coz their second team still better than our best XI.....LOL!

Cc raumdeuter

Sanchez and onana are in the same bracket. Onana might even be better going by the comments on the Chelsea thread.

Badashille? I am convinced lindelof is better than that guy. Fofana is injury prone and colwill is not better than Maguire or De ligt. We have better center back options than Chelsea.

They have better fullbacks and that's only because of Amad injury.

Lavia is injury prone so we can't judge his level. Caicedo is definitely better than all our midfield options.

Bruno is better than Palmer or at least on the same level. Garnacho is definitely better than Neto.

Jackson is definitely better than Holjund.

Combined first Eleven

Onana

Maz. Maguire. De ligt/ Yoro

James. Caicedo. Maino. Cucurella

Bruno. Palmer

Jackson

delkuf:
Amorim problem is when we had lots of injuries he didn't look at the academy. Use those young fresh boys. A good coach would have discovered one or two good players from the academy that he would integrated into the main team.

Look at what flick is doing at Barca. He has integrated lots of 17 to 18 years old player into the main team. Look at what they are doing for them

I am certain this is inaccurate.

Onana said absolutely nothing wrong. Matic should stop being a baby. Believing in your team and saying you are better than the opponent is the kind of mentality we need and in no way is that disrespecting the opponent.

Jamiuokolaa:
You get time o

The man clearly cannot comprehend simple English - e don tey wey i don notice am.

Thats why I said i wouldn't engage him any further

Make e focus on his "interview copy and paste" work, e dey do strong head dey shook mouth for wetin pass him limited intellect

Smh

No need for insults bro. Let's keep it mature. At the end of the day we all want the same thing.

Oasis007:


....cc Bombblacks. This is one of numerous. LOL!

That's not calling for him to be sacked. Go and take a look at the post he was replying to. No one here has asked for Amorim to be sacked, only for him to improve on the bad results we were getting which is a reasonable ask.

Oasis007:


.......you still ain't making sense! How many years Ten Hag was in charge by the way?! You keep on blabbing gibberish and you think its making sense.

When Ten Hag was appointed, I fully supported like other sensible fans that do use their brain well.

We didn't call for his sack less down a year. We were patient enough until its obvious he is taking us nowhere!

Dig further to enlighten yourself bruh. I hope the ila didn't affect your brain?! LOL!

Can you show one person here that has called for Amorim to be sacked?

BlueRayDick:
The point is Madrid was't even trying to score Arsenal with just 3 attempts at goal compared to Arsenal's 11. If Arsenal was lucky to have scored 3 out of those 11 (two of which are free kicks and one from open play), the Madrid was luckier to have conceded just that 3. Madrid didn't even put in work to register goals in their name.

Whether Rice scores direct freekick every week or once in a lifetime is irrelevant . I wonder when scoring a freekick suddenly became a thing of luck and not about hitting the ball right to out it behind the post

Your first two goals were setplays from a player that hasn't scored one before in his entire career. When we say lucky it doesn't mean Arsenal were getting dominated and managed to sneak a win like Liverpool did against Psg. Lucky in the sense that a player did something he may never repeat in his entire career. Calm down and stop being defensive.

BlueRayDick:
That's not luck bro. Arsenal had 11 shots on target to Real Madrid's 3.

Arsenal had the most possession(53% to Real Madrid's 47%).

If anything, Real Madrid were lucky to have ended the match with just 3 goals deficit; they were completely outplayed in the middle of the park; Timber locked Vinicius down and Saliba frustrated his old friend Mbappe each time he tries to make a difference.

Possession and shots has nothing to with someone who hasn't scored a freekick in his entire career scoring two in one night. Without those freekick goals Arsenal would have been lambasted for wasting their opportunities.

Panther7:
You are talking like Madrid bought those players and threw them into the starting 11 like United does. Those players you mentioned weren’t thrown into the main team, they had Ramos, Kroos, Benzema, like come on na!

They were all part of the main team and were given significant game time to develop.

Onkoolos:
Man u should stop all this academy nonsense.. look at the likes of Madrid.. They only go for ready made players... Players that will take 4 years to developed man u should avoid them...

How many academy players you see for real Madrid or PSG...

Are you joking or what?How old was Vini and Rodrigo when Madrid bought them and how many years did they give them to develop. How old is Endrick, Diaz and Guler? Valverde
plus Fran and Ascensio who broke into their first team this season are from their academy. Even Bellingham was 20 when bought and wasn't already made.

Jamiuokolaa:
The victories don dey sweet am

Bros is now buzzing with confidence - international break is now a problem

That's what getting results does and I am glad he's now getting more out of the squad despite recent Injuries. Our remaining fixtures from here on are tough so the international break comes at a good time. Maguire, Mount, Yoro, Maino and others should be back for Notthingham.

Great finish. Nice pass as well

Same thing we said here on this very thread and was castigated. Good thing Amorim is paying attention. Use the players you have to get results,that's the bare minimum. Look at everyone smiling and cheerful after the draw to Arsenal and win over Sociedad. No one is talking about short term gains bla bla bla.

kizolo:
That’s if they actually offer to sign him. Same thing with Sancho at Dortmund, after so much hyping of they being the only club that understands his game, they still didn’t sign him lol….These guys know these players are sh!t and aren’t distracted by their temporary form. After the loan they’ll send him back to United with the excuses that they can’t afford him

Dortmund actually wanted to sign Sancho but didn't have the money. They requested another loan but we refused.

iamoyindamola:
You claimed both feet touched the ball, that mean the ball moved before the penalty was taken
Even though I didn't see any movement from the ball, but this is the law guiding such situation

The ball didn't move before the penalty was taken. You are saying something else. He hits it with his right foot but falls and it clips his left foot before going in. That's where the double touch comes in.

iamoyindamola:
The video wasn't conclusive, even at that he was supposed to replay as the penalty entered the net
If he had missed that's a different thing

It doesn't matter the outcome. As long as its two touches it gets cancelled. Mahrez and Mitrovic scored their penalties yet both were cancelled for the same reason.

BlueMann:
The way Alvarez landed shows that if anything, he must've slipped

But my main issue is this: Even if he did touch the ball twice, why cancel the pk outright and award it as a miss? Why not order for it to be retaken?

If the goalie saves a pk but doesn't have a foot on or behind the line, or some of his teammates encroach before the kick is taken, is a goal awarded to the opposition?

I've never liked that rule. Too harsh

It would be like asking a penalty to be retaken because the taker slipped and then misses. If a
penalty taker slips when taking a penalty should he also retake it?

iamoyindamola:
Simone is a terrorist but they were robbed, Alvarez PK didn't touch his other leg

It clearly touched both foot. It has happened to Mahrez before for Leicester and mitrovic. It's not a new law so I don't understand why people are shouting robbery.