₦airaland Forum

Dantedasz:
I hope fans will start to give Bruno Fernandes his rightful flowers. What Bruno brings to this team is immense. In his favoured position no player in this league comes close to him and without his assists and overall contribution, I just wonder where United would be.
Going forward Bruno has to be a pivot of whatever United are going to do this summer.
Kapitan and leader.

From next season we need to build towards moving to a 3 man midfield to dominate games more. Yesterday performance was embarrassing especially the 2nd half.

engrelvis:
l will pick Zirkee over Sesko for now.He shud continue his super sub role.We paid 74m for this guy and this is what we get? Obi can do better than this.He was balling in his last club

Sesko has 7 goals in his last 13 games despite not being played to his strengths and being a sub most times. Amad has zero goal or assist in his last ten league games. Mbuemo has 1 in his last 9.

Jamiuokolaa:
We are definitely not at the standards of them Bayern, PSG etc...atleast for now.

Shey na this Sesko wey dey count leg...Na im go top strike for us?

It might take like 2-3 summer TWs sandwiched between consistent CL football before we can compete

You don't need to be at the standard of Psg or Bayern. Tottenham that are fighting 18th finished top 5 In the league phase. Atletico are in the semis and they are 4th in la Liga. Bodo Glimt knocked out Inter Milan, defeated atletico and City. The Arsenal we defeated at the Emirates are also likely to be finalist. Cup competitions doesn't care about your level.

adebayo201:
Yes nah. We're playing on in average one game per week and it seems the performance of each player is diminishing if we're now playing two to three matches per week I couldn't imagine the attitude if these crops of players.

You don't know if it's the manager that's instructed them to relax or they just feel like why the need to, as if nothing is at stake.

I saw Musiala, Olise, Guler, and many young players yesterday and day before and I was thinking about my own players. I just smh.

Where exactly are you people seeing attitude issues from or unseriousness? I am genuinely curious to know. I saw a team fighting even with ten men to get something from that game.

The last game they played was nearly 22days ago which showed in the first half. Leeds were faster and not suffering from rustiness like us. Without the red card we don't lose that game.

I hate this unwritten rule that the player of the tournament has to come from the winning team. Lookman or Dias were the only two contenders for player of the tournament.

So why was Dorgu struggling at wingback yet flourishing as a winger when he's getting into similar positions. Yes I know he does more defensive work as a wingback but still his performance is night and day.

If we're clinical enough we will definitely make the top 4. We are always creating chances but not finishing. Glad today didn't hurt us.

We are never clinical when dominating which will likely bite us in the 2nd half.

Can you see why I keep emphasising on us being clinical. How did we finish that half without a scoring a single goal.

MRTA7:
I agree with everything except Haaland. Do you have evidence that Haaland rejected? I believe the reason we didn't sign him was because we wouldn't agree to his contract demands which included several clauses the club were not happy with. Which is why he went to City for around £55m and some hefty fees for his father and agent. This came from Ole because he said he was the one to told the club about Haaland before he was even our manager.

Yes, you are right. He wanted to add some insane clauses into his contract like payment to his agent and father, a very low release clause, guaranteed first eleven game time etc and we said no. Raiola also came out and said haaland rejected us.


“Clearly he felt that at this moment it was not the right step in his career. There is nothing against Manchester United or Ole.

“If he wanted to go to Manchester United I would have been obliged to take him to Manchester United, but he did not.

Leyqute:
This guy don answer you.

That post is full of misinformation and revisionism.

*Haaland rejected us and chose Dortmund instead.

*We were the highest-spending club in the entire league during Ole’s tenure.

*Ole himself prioritized Sancho over Grealish.

Twitter is a cesspool of agenda ridden post and am surprised you swallowed it.

odizeey:
You said which midfielders. Them mention midfielders you dey vex. 🤣

Yes, I assumed I was talking to adults not kids. Midfielders that are attainable you are listing Caicedo, pedri and Bellingham. Why not add Yamal and haaland to players United should sign in July.

odizeey:
Pedri, Rodri, Caicedo, Bellingham.

Oya. Let them start working.

Why stop there. Add Rice and Vitinha to your list since you have decided to entertain us with a bit of comedy this morning.

eph12:
So your point is that we should get more attackers? If that's your point, I'm fine with that o.

My point is literally in the last sentence.

patrickmuf:
and all,


Today, there were a lot of instances where we tried to build from the back, but Welbeck, Rutter and the other Brighton players didn't let us, but for the majority of the game, they could easily play through haphazard press. There was a particular instance where Sesko, Mount, Bruno and Mainoo thought they had Brighton cornered, but a simple ball was played to the Brighton LW, and he was all alone because Dalot was not in sync with the rest. I am not sure the playing personnel alone will change this. Rather, the setup has to be right, and the players have to understand their roles on the pitch when we attack, press and defend. This is not clear when you watch our games, at least from what I see, and this is down to coaching and constant practice...

No matter how good your press is there's no way you expect to play Brighton that they won't beat it on multiple occasion. We actually did ok in containing them today. Even the best pressing team in the league conceded 5 big chances to them on Wednesday here. When they played Arsenal they had 47% possession today it was 40. Infact all Epl teams are now comfortable playing from the back that your press no matter how coordinated it is will always get breached and played through on occasions.

eph12:
We're on the same page then. A 1-0 or 2-0 solves this easily

Same with 2-1 or even 3-2.

In our last 4 games we have created 12 big chances according to sofascore and only scored 2 of those. 16% conversion rate. I will keep on banging on it. Our players need to be more clinical in front of goal.

eph12:
What else are they doing that we're not?

Outscoring their opponents.

eph12:
We're already doing fine if we're the 3rd highest goal scorers in the league. Arsenal in first position have only scored 4 more goals. We're seriously doing very badly at the other end of the pitch.

Arsenal are over performing their xG we are not.

eph12:
Are you aware we're the 3rd highest goal scorers in the league?

And yet we are underperforming our xG. Now imagine we were outscoring ours like City.

larride:
Shebi na me go help them scout Bruno Fernandez

If you don't have anything meaningful to say, please jump and pass.

I see how you just stylishly trying to dodge the question. No one is asking you to be a scout. As a fan what quality midfielders would you want United to go for in the summer? It's a simple and straightforward question but because you are scared of scrutiny if you list names you are trying to feign ignorance. At the end of the day we all know what we are doing.

larride:
I can see the sense you are making that's why you listing Semenyo as part of our players.

See as you stylishly remove Foden from City attack and added Semenyo to our own

If sleep dey worry you go sleep.

That was a mistake. It still doesn't change the overall point.

Foden is an attacking midfielder. If we include Foden then I would add Mount and Fernandes to ours so once again you are really not saying anything tangible to prove your point.

eph12:
Defending is also part of the game. We can't be letting in an average of 2 goals per game and expect the attackers to bail out the team everytime. They could be trying their best and boom the defense concedes a useless goal. That kills morale. Their work now becomes twice harder. While the attackers are doing trying to do their jobs, the defense should be doing same. We can't expect to score 3+ goals every game.

If there one aspect of the team that has improved from last season, it's the attack. Do you agree?

This is the premier league, your opponents are always going to get chances. The attack has improved from last season yet we are not clinical enough. They are soo many games this season where we should have been out of sight but we couldn't take our chances and that puts pressure on the defense to be perfect and hold out the opposition. Take a look at city over the last 3 games they dropped points. They created numerous chances against Chelsea and Brighton to go 2 and even 3 goals up yet they fumbled and their opponents capitalized. When you are not clinical your opponents still believe it can get something from the game and will continue to push to achieve it.

larride:
They sold Alvarez and bought Marmoush, Cherki, Savinho, Doku and now Semenyo

This season we offload Hojlund, Rashford, Garnacho, Antony, Sancho and replaced them with Sesko, Mbeumo and Cunha, please tell me how 3 players can effectively replace 5 players without thinning out the squad.

Take the mic

City went into the season with haaland, Marmoush, Doku, Savinho, Bobb and cherki as attackers playing in 4 competitions.

We went into the season with Sesko, Zirkzee, Semenyo, Cunha, Mbuemo, and Amad playing two competitions. Once again you are not making sense.

larride:
Is it my job to scout players?

So you have zero idea of quality midfielders you would want United to sign?

larride:
Don't worry, next match you will still swear for Dalot.

Go to Barcelona section and you will see them swearing for their players on match day. Go to Madrid, Arsenal, Manchester city etc its the same thing. It's not something unique to only us.

larride:
Last January City bought Marmoush who was 2nd highest goalscorer in Budensliga, he hasn't lived up to it, this January they bought Semenyo.

No telling the manager no manage whatever he has, they are giving him the necessary tools to dominate and win.

Since the time of Mou, we have been complaining of Dalot and Shaw, since then we have appointed Ole, ETH and Amorim, thats almost 8yrs and both of them are still here.

Imagine complaining about Dorgu, which replacement do you have Malacia

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How is marmosuh different from us buying zirkzee and then buying Sesko in back to back windows and they sold Alvarez for huge sum so they needed a replacement. That ur example makes zero sense. How many strikers/attackers have we bought over the last 3 seasons alone?

larride:
Right now we need quality midfielders and probably a backup striker.

Once we actually have quality midfielders it will reduce how many attacks our defense is open to.

You can't be parading Case, Ugarte and Mainoo as your CMs in big 2026 and be expecting miracle.

List those quality midfielders you have in mind.

eph12:
What about stats for goals conceded? Not important?

We create enough chances to outscore our opponents. Barcelona conceded 2 today yet won. We need to be more clinical. Today game we should have been two nil up in the first 15mins of that game and Brighton spirit would have been broken.

larride:
These same people blamed the 3-4-3 formation and not the players missing simple chances.

You are blaming 3-4-3 but want to use the stats line from the same 3-4-3

Make Una no go buy better players

Which same people? Please don't rope me in with your agenda. I dont care about all that.

adisaaowala:
Bros, i think say na only me o

People watch our last 2 games still dey shout Midfield as if it was the reason why we didnt win

Smh

Our average possession is very good but take a look at our xG difference and big chances created. We are massively not taking our chances when dominating.

All these midfield talks are just distractions. Our main issue remains converting the chances we create. We created much more than Brighton today, controlled the game yet we couldn't score from our numerous opportunities.

eph12:
At what position did Amorim leave the club?

He left the club 3 points from 12th.