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chrisley024:
about to say same

Even the commentator said it. He has been giving away passes this evening so far. But he gave an exquisite pass to Bruno

TheLequte:
Na to beat Tottenham for final remain

If Bodo scores 1 goal, it will be tough for spurs

Ugarte has scammed 2 assists already

Brunooooooooooooooooo

We need Mainoo and Shaw in the second ha

Harry Maguirree

What is Ugarte playing for God’s sake.

larride:
Why did this man decide to use Lindelof today?

He has no option

Our defenders plus Ugarte are Rubbish on the ball.

Ellexy:
Swedish lesbian

He just made a goal line clearance, but he is shaky so far

Mark my words we are winning the game tommorow.

afrodoc:
Amad and de Ligt both make the squad for the Bilbao game tomorrow. Mantato, Kone, Kamason, Obi are also in the travelling squad. Unsure why Obi is going when he is not eligible.

Obi and Kone is going as training contingents, They are both not registered.

afrodoc:
Yeah, you called it out earlier.

The lack of pressure at other clubs is what will make someone think 22yr old McAtee is a teenager. If he was at United our fans would have already hounded him out for not showing superstar qualities already.


Kamason, Mantato, Kone all made the 1st team training today. Maybe 1 or 2 of them could make the bench this weekend. I have been reading that Amorim is quite impressed with Mantato but his injury hampered his readiness to try for the 1st team. Mantato has stylistic similarities to Quenda but maybe not as quick. How good he can be in the senior game is to be determined.

Kamason has been dominant in his position since January and has made the bench before. Maybe he can get some minutes this weekend.

Kone has serious potential but i think he is still a little raw to play in CM for the senior team at this stage, but we will see.

We need to be careful with Montato, he just recently returned from injury, we may just need to leave him till the preseason. Apart from the Europa games we have just 4 league games.
Kamason is more mature, so could even start, I am happy that he is getting the recognition he deserves.
We may see the back 5 of Amass, Lindelof, Fredricson, Kamason and then split minutes for Deligt, and Yoro.
Honestly, my mind de cut with Maguire and Yoro playing in league games, these 2 are so important for the Europa.

As for Kone, I watch the full match of the U21 the last time, while his touches are top notch, he still needed to adapt to the speed and tempo of the senior game, he may eventually feature this season at some point, But I think the preseason will be the place where he will be properly integrated.

CrystalTiger:
Watching this game, all I can say is we have to discard Onana.. He doesn't makes these saves..

Lol. I have said it before, the most pressing areas we need to address in the summer is an experienced Number 9 and a decent GK. Any well taken shot on target against Onana is a guaranteed goal, which ussually changes the complexion of games.

afrodoc:
Amad back in team training.

Tears in my eyes.

I don't see him playing a part this week, he may get few minutes against Brentford and then may be start in the second leg at Old Trafford. Same for Deligt whom I am also very excited he is back, he solves a lot of the defence puzzle we have.
Again, I want to be proven wrong, but Dalot's injury is a big blow to us.

afrodoc:
The same people who want to rush teenagers into the senior team are the same people who will be the first to start dropping weekly attacks when the teenagers struggle and start comparing them to Yamal and Pele, and they are the same people who preach that all teenagers are not equal.

Make it make sense.

Thank you very much Doc. You know I mentioned something like this before and you understood it partly. I have carefully studied majority of the clubs that has newly purchased or promoted youngsters who are among the best. They don't usually put all the club's pressure on these youngsters even though they are really good.
But United fans will want an 18/19 year old who even though he is good is largely inexperienced and have several aspects of their games to improve on, including psychological strength. When that youngster fail to be 10/10 week in week out consistently, they say he is rubbish and start calling for him to be sold without considering their ages and their stage in development. When I point out that we should give these young players a chance as they are not even supposed to be automatic starters, a lot of our fans will see it as if I am defending the player.

For me, Obi is still completely inexperienced and he needs at least few more years to start starting games at all even few games. He is still 17 for God's sake, same with Amass and several other youngsters. Our fans have suddenly forgot that Kobbie Mainoo is playing in his second full season now, infact last season his season started around November, even Garnacho and they are still 20, but our fans wants them to lead us to UCL trophies. The pressure of playing for Man United is nkt the same with playing for even Chelsea. The scrutiny is mad, so the step up needs to be carefully managed. Even Dorgu, I see people already insulting him and pilling pressure on him, forgetting that he is just 20, coming middle of the season from a bottom team in Italy into a disfunctional team. This is really uncharitable and unfair. There are 2 fantastic players at Chelsea, Tariq George and Acheapong, these are players that even at youth level are significantly better than some of our youngsters these our fans are calling for the manager to start, yet despite the recent performances of these Chelsea youngsters, I dont see majority of Chelsea fans calling for them to be comfirm starters in high profile games. When some of us complain about these things some will see it as though we are overprotective the youngsters or we are stanning them.

afrodoc:
Apart from the shot itself, he was the one who put us under pressure from our own free kick by holding on to the ball and then passing it to a defender under pressure.

As in Onana is a net negative, we need to overhaul our attack and change the GK, honestly a lot will improve

We need to improve on Onana, any well deserved taken shot on target is a goal.

afrodoc:
If Shaw plays LWB for even 10 minutes he will be injured for at least 6 months. I think it will be Maz and Dorgu as WBs and Yoro, Maguire, Shaw at the back.

P.S I assume we are talking about the Bilbao 1st leg.

Honestly, I dont trust Shaw in that Back 3, he spreads panic in that backline. I will prefer Lindelof instead of Shaw. He can cone in Later. We lost our shape versus Lyon because of Shaw.
I just hope that Deligt will be fully fit for the second leg. So that we will have a back line of Deligt, Maguire and Yoro.

afrodoc:
Under-18 are fumbling the season away.

They came second behind city in the league. They fid not win, but they churned out few exciting players this year which is more important

afrodoc:
Kamason likely to make his debut tomorrow. Beneficiary of Dalot’s injury.

Good we need to rest our players. Even Bruno needs to chill for todays match

afrodoc:
He had already played the most minutes of any player for us this season before playing 120 minutes against Lyon. It made the most sense to rest him completely against Wolves, but we don't usually make sensible decisions.

His injury is a calf muscle injury, which is usually due to work overload.

The options are either to play Maz RWB and Dorgu LWB or play Dorgu RWB and Amass LWB.

I have pointed this out before, there are players we need to protect. There was no need playing him in that Wolves game.

Maguire, Deligt, Mazraoui, Casemiro, Bruno, Yoro and Dalot before his injury. These are our most strategically most important players.
Playing Dorgu and Amass is very risky they are too inexperienced. We just need to fast track the return of Deligt, So that we can play Maz as RWB and Dorgu as LWB. Amass, Lindelof and Shaw can come in later to see out games. OR. Shaw can start as LWB, play for 60/65 mins, then bring in Amass to see out the game.
Then in the return leg we hope Amad returns to play RWB.

The Injury to Dalot is a big blow I must confess

Oasis007:
......Jobe Bellingham! Get the boy and develop him as a proper CM.

Odiegwu. Impatient and unintelligent fans will not insult him and pile pressure on him, calling for him to sold.
Please I need experience players that will give us immediate results. If we want to develop, we can develop our academy players.

afrodoc:
You just dey clock am?

I think the fans have to now readjust our expectations now oo, I think we are now bottom half team now. Shikena

afrodoc:
From what i heard the club can't afford to buy both Osimhen and Cunha and it seems they have prioritized Cunha, hence the need to get a cheaper alternative in Delap.

The dividends of wasting 200m pounds on Mount, Hojlund, Antony have started to pay off.

Osihmen and Cuhna will cost combined £130m, is that what we cant afford? Even if we Scam Europa league and qualify for UCL? Jesus. For me instead of buying Delap, I rather we don’t buy any one. This guy is Hojlund 2.0. Another waste of space. If this man knew he doesnt have money why did he buy a stake at the club?

yemmight:
Good afternoon fans. Please any update on returning dates for Dialo, Martinez and Co?

Dialo is sometime in May
Deligt might be ready for the Europa league semis 1st leg.
Martinez will be out till at least November.

spillo1:
Osimhen comes with a lot of baggage plus a salary of at least 300k. Delap is a steal for just 30Million pounds.

What baggage? Osihmen is 200k not 300k. Moreover 200k is not big for Osihmen, how much is Arsenal paying Havertz and Rice? Are their levels bigger than Osihmen?

Ellexy:
So this club is really going for Delap instead of Osimhen....Like someone said, that Delap is screaming Hoijlund 2.0

The stupidity in the Idea of ignoring a world class striker like Osihmen and buy this Delap is an insult to the club. If we are going to buy Cunha, we must add Osihmen and another quality midfielder. This INEOS guy knew he has not money to run a club like Man United yet he went ahead to acquire a stake. This club is finished

afrodoc:
Do our scouts and board buy well?

Let's leave the confusion in your mind when the same board that according to you keeps hiring the wrong coaches is somehow managing to buy the right players.

We said no to Toni Kroos when Moyes wanted him and got Fellaini instead.

When Gabriel Barbosa and Gabriel Jesus were available, we tried to get Barbosa while Jesus went to City. Barbosa finally came to Europe and failed quickly before heading back to Brazil.

When Antony and Raphinha were available we paid 82m for Antony while Raphinha went to Barca for 50m.

We bought AWB (a RIGHTBACK o) who was obviously never going to be a top-level footballer for 50m. We bought Maguire a molue-slow CB from a lower level EPL team for 80m. This was YEARS ago, and even now top-level strikers are still going for 60-70m. But we bought 2 mediocre defenders for 130m.

If we have been appointing the wrong coaches for years, then we have also been buying the wrong players for years. People here keep talking about how the players can't be bad since they were doing well at their previous clubs before coming here. Well, that excuse can also be made for the managers. They also were doing well in their previous clubs before coming here.

My point was that fans should not get too giddy over any new signing based off reputation until they show us their quality in our club, but you and your coven of contrarian spirits must always find something to complain about.

The club is now looking to buy Delap, a bang average English 22 year old striker who scored 12 goals for Bottom side Ipswich. When Osihmen is available.

afrodoc:
Oh ok.

At this point I believe everybody on this forum agrees on that.

No more blind faith in the face of contrary evidence.

Are you sure nitrogen agrees, or he is lining up another manager to take over in the summer

afrodoc2:
I never said that was not the plan.

I was just highlighting the point that he won't get the whole of next season. Once he has a preseason and a few new squad additions he has to start next season well or else he won't see Christmas, like so many coaches before him.

I was collaborating your point.