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Oasis007:
Both will make it at United.

Januzaj
Macheda
Will Keane
James Wilson

and many others with superior talents didn’t make it.

Some people are used to failure on this thread.

This supposed-to-have-been-aborted feral animal is actually calling a perennial failure a golden boy while the one that won a treble and a serial A title a season later is washed up.

This idiocy is irredeemable.

SammyFX:
Man utd is closing in on varane deal check Fabrizio reports...feel it a done deal already

Since Ole was hired, he has signed

Ighalo(31)
Cavani(34)
Heathon(35)
Varane(28).

Nobody is talking about how any of these pensioners would stop the development of Greenwood, Rashford, Henderson and Tuanzebe respectively.

I remember a certain manager wanted to sign Perisic, the media and some idiötic fans were against it because Perisic was too old for United at 28 years of age plus he was going to stop the development of Martial.

Perisic has gone on to win a TREBLE since then while the protected golden youths have won nothing. The hypocrisy of United fans is highly disgusting.

There’s no shame whatsoever.

Oasis007:
Amad Diallo: 19yrs
Jadon Sancho: 21yrs
Anthony Elanga: 19yrs
Mason Greenwood: 19yrs
Shola Shoratire: 17yrs
Marcus Rashford: 23yrs
Facundo Pellestri: 19yrs

Future is bright attacking-wise.

Only 2 or 3 players will make it from that list.

Shoretire and Elanga would be playing for West Brom by 2024.

GloryIsaac:
No need making a mountain out of a molehill for a player that hasn’t even joined the team.

Perspectives don’t have to align. Let him get signed first.

Neves is shït!

He falls short of what United need in that midfield. United need a specialist DM/enforcer that would mow down anything in front of the back four.

Neves will be another Van de Beek. He would play 3-5 games at the start of the season and football fans would realize he’s not the guy United need to fix that midfield.

Spy360:
I am more interested in the welfare of the players. Again even the advantage of bringing in a 55m sub can still be utilised in the next game which will even be more affective. It makes no difference, since like you pointed out, they hardly use it.

The players will be fine. This season will be starting in August so it won’t be a mad rush like last season when the season started like 6 weeks late.

The smaller clubs don’t have the luxury of bringing on five £50m players to win a game or grab an equalizer. I remember Klopp was crying about 5 subs last Christmas - trying to convince everyone that players need protection.

Guess what he did in the next game against Spurs at Anfield…..He made no substitutions throughout the game. If you don’t use any of the 3 subs available, why need 5?

Spy360:
I think it's needed now due to the stress footballers go through these days. There are too many games and too many competitions. The advantage small teams gain from playing fewer matches the big teams will make up using squad depth.

They should keep it the way it is.

3 subs are more than ok for a 90 minute game. 5 subs would aid big teams like Man City who can afford to bring £55m signings from the bench to change the the tide of a game.

Then again, the managers of the big clubs crying about 5 subs are just capping. That Norwegian fraud didn’t even use any substitute in the Europa final in normal time. So why does he need 5?

Many of the managers in the top 6 didn’t make use of the maximum allowed 3 substitutes in some of the biggest games last season. One can hardly argue for 5 subs when they struggle to even make use of the 3 available.

eph12:
From the way we played in the first half, I already knew this was a waste of time. These boys are not learning anything in training, it's just vibes. They should just give everyone new massive contracts

The boys cannot learn anything from a dullard.

raumdeuter:
Congrats on the Ole extension

We Ole fans are happy

One must know he’s in big trouble when rival fans are happy that a manager signed an extension.

This is going to be the longest drought in the club’s history.

Joezinho:


Ole gollum at it again.

Failure is in his DNA.

If Ole was the manager of that Italian side in the Euros, he would have crashed them out in the group stage.

LostMyZeal:
You didn't even get my point and you're mentioning SAF.

What I meant was simple; NO FVCKIN BODY IS BIGGER THAN MUFC!!!


And again, you'd be very mistaken to think I don't know that OLE is the biggest problem we have.

I have said that's countless times but then it's obvious that the club want to stick with him. So, Pogba must have done his assessments and come to a decision - which is to leave the club.

Pogba will definitely leave the club and that's no breaking news because myself I can't advise my enemy to play under OLE except if there's a hope that the idiot will be sacked.

My problem is the fallacy that if Pogba leaves our own dun finish.

That's like the biggest BS I have ever come across either by reading or hearing

Zlatan left and una own don finish.

Pogba’s departure would lengthen the drought. Nobody was bigger than MUFC(Fergie era). That narrative has changed now.

If a big player of Pogba’s status leaves, United would struggle unless he’s replaced with a similar quality and there are few players in the world that are as good as Pogba.

BlueAngel444:
ahh, I think say na only me think am o. I just no talk when some of una fans dey hype the shirt

United fans on this thread will hype any shït. To them, everything is club rivalry. This has beclouded their senses to even speak the truth.

This is why they also hype Ole and some of them stupidly think Ole can finish above Pep, Klopp and Tuchel in a PL competition that has 38 games.

If you give Ole the United squad of 2007/8, he still wouldn’t win the PL.

GloryIsaac:
It’s the logo. We aren’t yet familiar with it.

Maybe a darker red would have made it better too.

It’s not the logo, guys. That shirt is ugly.

The neck, the fit and the sleeves. Look at how the sleeves are loose on Sancho’s biceps. United can’t even quality shirts from Adidas again under Ole.

Have you guys seen Inter’s shirt? United’s shirt looks like a rag next to it.

This is the worst football shirt in history.

Everything under this Norwegian plonker has gotten worse. Shirt looking like what a roadside tailor made in Onitsha.

Expert17:
After series of errors in the 2018/2019 season, his salary was raised from 200k to 375k. (not 250k not 270 or even 300k but 375k)

175k increase.

A stupid decision from the board.

Rooney was paid £300,000 per week as far back as 2014.

All of a sudden, Pogba at £375k/week in 2019 is a blasphemy.

World class players command world class wages. Pay up or replace Pogba with another fraud like Schneiderlin or Pereira(£150K/week).

LostMyZeal:
Imagine the audacity to spew such blasphemy.
Are you kidding me?
Beckham left, e no be for us
CR7 left, e no be for us
Rooney, Giggs and co have left as well and we're still hanging there

Some Pogba lovers dun already tell us say Pogba can hardly thrive in the spotlight

And then you contradict them by saying the team's formation should be set up around Pogba's abilities.


Pogba's Lovers abeg make una clarify oh. Me I dun confuse

It’s this nonsense arrogance from United fans that makes me laugh.

You haven’t won a spoon since Zlatan left.

You are comparing the era of Alex Ferguson when United would have had 5 Pogba replacements in their squad to the present idiöt that doesn’t know how to build a team?

When will you people learn? This lunatic sold Lukaku and replaced him with Ighalo when he had the opportunity to sign Haaland & you are talking about Beckham?

When you finish 6th next season, you would be throwing tantrums like someone that lost his bride to the best man. You can see a problem right before you and you are unperturbed because Beckham & Ronaldo left under Ferguson and United still won.

Ferguson and Ole are the same, right?

melodyogonna:
We won't know until Pogba leaves now would we? You say this as if we won the league with Pogba here lmao. If Pogba leaves we only need to replace him with somebody just as technical ... and hopefully more serious on the ball.

I don't understand why you think we should reward him based on his performance for France, I won't comment on that but I can't think of many things less likely.

Even Keane or Scholes wouldn’t win anything with McFred - that’s the point.

The midfield is the most important area of any team as they are responsible for shielding the defence and also supporting the attack. Yet, United have the weakest midfield in the top 6 by a distance.

Why would any serious team pay over the odds for Pogba and not get him an elite supporting cast that would free him of too much defensive responsibility? It’s insane a player as creative as Pogba is stuck in the DM position in a club as big as United.

Pogba has hinted several times he has more freedom in France but the idiotic manager at Man Utd feel differently. Pogba said “We were already playing with three midfielders [at Juventus], in 5-3-2. I had the freedom, I had to be in the box, to attack. It was an obligation. In Manchester, I have the freedom to go into the box, but the priority is to play and defend.”

We play in a diamond in France. I am a little more in the transmission, in the construction. But I have more freedom than in Manchester to enter the box, to make runs forwards..

Any sensible manager would mirror France’s set up in the midfield at his club if he wants to get the very best out of him. Instead of that, the möronic Solskjaer went to buy Van de Beek who he had no need for. He wasted funds when all he needed to do was to get an elite CDM with the same combative attributes like Ngolo Kante.

We won’t know until Pogba leaves, right? We saw this happen when Lukaku left. The question on the lips of every Man Utd fan was why was Lukaku allowed to go or why wasn’t he replaced with the same quality. Some of you guys are already addicted to feeling remorseful after the fact.

I reiterate, United will go another 50 miles further from the PL title if they sell Pogba. Pogba is the heart and soul of that team that Ole is misusing because Ole is clueless. Elite managers know what to do with Pogba. That Ole is mentally incompetent has nothing to do with Pogba.

I would leave this quote from Wijnaldum here….

Oasis007:
If Pogba wanna leave this Season, he should be freed to leave for at least €50m. Ed and Co would be stupid to accept his 400k per week demand (if its true by the way.

If we lose Pogba, it means nothing..... absolutely nothing, especially as far as OGS is still on the Wheel. Hence why holding on a Player who wants himself out of the Club?

Every TW, it's always about him leaving or staying. Enough should be enough. I like PP a lot, but won't be disapointed if he leaves this Summer.

If you lose Pogba, you will not win the PL till 2026.

Pogba is a world class player. After his last showing at the Euros, he deserves £400,000 per week. De Gea is on £375,000 per week. Putting an extra £25,000 per week on top of what De Gea earns for Pogba isn’t a big deal.

Retain Pogba, sign Ndidi and forget all those bums the media are parading lately. Neves, Goretzka, Rice, Camavinga, etc have nothing on Pogba. If Pogba leaves, it would be 1 step forward, 9 steps backwards. And this is why I keep saying Solskjaer is a möron.

Man Utd fans don’t deserve Pogba.

Pogba left the competition in the round of 16 and no other midfielder was able to make more through passes than Paul Pogba.

Pogba is too good to be playing for United.

raumdeuter:
Doing this(waiting for the last minute) unsettles the shooter unlike if you just jump like a frog hoping to get lucky

I remember Cristiano also pausing doing his run up against Cech in Moscow. Cech didn’t move an inch. By the time Ronaldo kicked the ball, he had lost momentum and the shot was a bit weak, Cech smartly saved it.

Another kicker with that technique is once the goalie doesn’t do what the shooter expects from him, the shooter becomes lost or confused and he’s more likely to miss his shot. I have seen this happen more than 100 times.

TheLequte:
Yes, actually. Dive left or right. You just have to wait until he picks his spot before you dive, and Fernandes will prefer you pick a spot and wait till the last moment for you to do so before he kicks it in the other direction.

And when you’re diving, note that when he kicks it to the right the ball hardly leaves the ground and it’s a little bit in the air when in the other direction.

So, just dive left or right and you may be lucky, you just shouldn’t do it early enough.

Jorginho uses the same technique but his execution is way poorer

Jorginho has scored from 29 penalties, missed 4.
Fernandes has scored from 41 penalties, missed 3.

It’s clear as daylight that Bruno is deadlier at taking penalties.


It would be interesting to see Bruno’s hopping technique versus Donnarumma’s waiting game.

Expert17:
He can, but might miss just like Rashford.

Players are aware of the planted foot rule, so they use it sometimes to deceive goalkeepers.

True.

That is why I recommend following the note, any change of style/run-up/placement from the player might result in him missing.

The note is a guess. It’s highly unreliable.
Donnarumma has saved 13 penalties in Serie A out of 32 he has faced. He’s not saving them because of coach note. He saves them by waiting until the very last second before making his move.

If he’s relying on coach note, he would be diving way before the kick. Rashford kept his eye on him in the run up to see if he would make his move early. Donnarumma waited and waited and waited for Rashford to make his move first.

Expert17:
Illimitable,

Planted foot rule in the mud.

How so?

Planted foot
Hip swing

You can’t go wrong with those two indicators.

raumdeuter:
See what Pirlo said here

https://j.gifs.com/16WE9m.gif
and what he did to Joke Hart

https://j.gifs.com/BrNOnY.gif

So Pirlo changed his mind as he ran up to the ball? Another knife stab to GK coach note.

raumdeuter:
From those two frames Sancho planted his foot and shot to that side, Saka planted his foot and shot across the body

Saka is left footed. He ran from the right to approach the ball. His run up gave his intention away.

Expert17:
Just Saka, Sancho can still play to the other side.

He couldn’t - look at the direction of his planted foot. You can try it at home. The direction you pick would be revealed by your planted foot.

Expert17:
He did the same to Rashford but was tricked.

That was why Rashford missed. If you try to cheat nature by going the direction of the planted foot, you would lose shot power and accuracy. It’s a very difficult skill to attempt. You could even kick your own foot and slip like John Terry in 2008 CL final.

Expert17:
@bolded......E sure for you oo

Waiting and following the kick is fvcking hard.

That was what Donnarumma did to Sancho and Saka.

He waited for the planted foot before the kick and was able to see the direction of the hip/planted foot. He saved them with class.

raumdeuter:
I was actually thinking about one of our Nations cup exit on penalties and how Enyeama was missing all the kicks and guessing the wrong way, He got lucky with this and became a philosopher, I will find that video clip for you. 6 penalties Enyeama was sold for 5 of them. It was only the last one that he followed the kick.

Below


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMZQpiYmnRA

Enyeama the philosopher - he couldn’t save any one of the penalties. The last kick was the funniest, Enyeama left his line and tiptoed forward and still failed to narrow the angle.

Expert17:
Guys, this is easy.

Just like you stated, nothing is certain.

We work with what we have, STATISTICS

For example: If Kane plays 50 % of his penalties to the left, 15 % to the right, and 35 % straight down the middle.

With this, we would surely dive to the left

That is the moment Kane would think I need to get my percentage of shots to the right up and sell you to Cotonou.

Karleb:
Since you asked. https://www.thecable.ng/enyeama-explains-bifouma-penalty-save/amp


'It takes a player with big balls to change the direction where he normally plays his penalty kicks, especially under pressure"



"When a player is under pressure like that, with their team a goal down, the crowd behind them and needing to score, he tends to go for his comfort zone, which is his best spot."

Hahahahahahaha - This is so untrue.

raumdeuter:
When you are trying to sell the keeper bad and leave him no chance, the chance is that you want to pick an extreme side and that opens the window of missing or hitting the post. If it enters nothing you can do

Good point with the Fernandes penalties. I also checked other players too and none has a specific way of shooting or angle, If they do, then they are fools and anyone will stop their penalty

Below is Ramos'

Expert17, so what will your GK coach note say here?

As for taking penalties, I don’t think players should be too cute or overthink it. If they pick a spot and take a fierce shot, the possibility of a goalkeeper saving it even if he dives in the right direction is very slim. The ball would have breezed into the net before he makes a dive.

Rashidi Yekini has the best technique for penalties as far as I am concerned. All those hopping techniques of Bruno Fernandes and Jorginho would soon be found out. Pickford humiliated Jorginho in that shootout and that could have cost Italy the win.

Expert17:
This one no follow, Jorginho and Fernandes style is different.

You wait for them to play before diving.

You are just waffling at this point. No GK coach note can ascertain where a taker would put the ball.

Bukayo Saka has never taken penalty for Arsenal or England. So what did Donnarumma’s coach note say?

Football isn’t exactly science. Penalty takers put the ball left, right, middle, top bins, etc. It’s as the spirit leads.

Expert17:
10 great penalties?

Watch it again.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kC_oYKL8zg



Pickford would have saved at least 3 penalties.

Unai Simon benched the flop at EUROs



Watch where those players play their penalties when it mattered most.

So why didn’t Unai Simon save any of the penalties taken by United’s outfield players?

He didn’t read his GK’s coach note?