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Well, now we know our next lineup and won’t argue with it

Jodera, is the match now interesting?

Odunharry:
Make una come buy Antony form ooo

E too cost for €100m

eph12:
Eriksen is not in this game

Case might come on for him around the 60th minute

Be like we don finally get Right-winger, after all these years. Tears inna me eyes

Bluelines69:
Anthony get ginger, e Dey needed for EPL

Had to be stopped from pissing off Arsenal fans

Why are they chanting Ronaldo’s anthem?

TeslaFC:
Well, not that I agree with his selection, but if he chooses to stick with the team that has given him wins so far + the bias of not letting a €100m player (who he has coached before) stay on the bench, it becomes quite justifiable.

Well...

LordAdam16:
The converse argument is that are we supposed to wait until McT drops a disasterclass before he is rotated with an objectively better player?

But it's not my kettle of fish. He's in charge and his job is on the line. If he wants to play 7 at the back, go ahead.

-Lord

Your second paragraph answered your first paragraph

Unlimited22:
Y'all no vex o
Casemiro needs time to adapt to the PL but Antony starts?
Ronaldo isn't starting because of a lack of preseason but Antony with little preseason plus skipping training starts?

Alright

Well, not that I agree with his selection, but if he chooses to stick with the team that has given him wins so far + the bias of not letting a €100m player (who he has coached before) stay on the bench, it becomes quite justifiable.

Illimitable:
That’s the luxury Alisson and Ederson have been getting for the past 6 years and they won golden gloves without getting their shirts dirty.

Ederson faced only 88 shots last season
Alisson faced about 103 shots last season

De Gea faced 181 shots because of Maguire.

See 19yr-old Meslier

Jodera:
Lol.. you never see Chon chin first


You're really looking forward to Man u Vs Man city??

Remember his last goal against Crystal Palace? Man pushed both defenders away and scored

United vs City will probably be the most interesting match-up of the season. Can’t wait.

Expert17:
His movements and positioning will beat the marker, just stop the supply/creators.

When you say “just”, the creators you’re referring to are KDB, Gundogan, Foden, Bernado Silva.

It’s not a “just” thing

patrickmuf:
Any chance Antony will feature today?

It's match day and deadline day, make una leave Haaland and Ronaldo matter.

Highly doubt it. Case didn’t start right away too

Jodera:
Exactly!!. And with time, there'll be two groups.

Pro-haaland and anti-haaland

Anti-Haaland? Except the person hasn’t seen him play. That guy is a bully.

Looking forward to Man Utd vs City. Na Casemiro we go appoint to mark am, because none of our CBs fit tbh.

Karleb:
I remember a particular moniker here calling Ronaldo all sort of names because he was going to join City but months later, the same fellow is now saying Ronaldo is our problem. It's funny how these people think really.

You see them posting their favorite starting XI with Elanga, Rashford and Martial and conveniently leaving out Ronaldo. If na Haaland abi Mbappe, at least I will understand but Elanga, Martial and Rashford? This thing is not funny.

Omo! I don tire.

Deliberately didn’t mention this just to avoid another round of back and forth.

odizeey:
Even people calling him snake then have turned their backs on him.

He would have easily won the highest goal scorer last season.

This is actually the bewildering aspect of it. Loyalty in the mud.

Nezzjnr:
Na Nottingham cause all these things

If Mancity lose the next match... Boys go calm down.

No be Manu fans again??

This isn’t a Nottingham thing, it just was more glaring in the match. And if you watch Haaland’s game, wallahi there’s trouble in the land.

Good thing Liverpool is struggling at the moment, but the competition is getting tougher.

Hope ETH gets all his boys and flush out the underperformers.

ChristoBam:
I don't think Mata has been at that level in years.

Nah, he still has it. It’s just age having the better of him.

Watched some of his matches last season, his ball-control was so beautiful, like a magician.

Somehow, he always managed to glue the ball to his feet even when under pressure.

McFred don’t need pressure to loose the ball. They pressure themselves, as per self-pressure.

eph12:
We only managed to get a DM this season, and we almost wouldn't have if not that casemiro became available all of a sudden plus the back to back loss we had.

I was really hoping we'll get a CM to partner casemiro in the midfield. Someone that's very comfortable on the ball and with very good work rate. It's much tougher to win anything in England now

ETH might use Eriksen & Casemiro as his base midfielders, with Bruno upfront.

Sancho on the left, Antony on the right. Ronaldo or Martial upfront.

Or use Bruno as a False Nine, with a midfield trio of Fred, Eriksen, and Casemiro.

All them underperformers should be locked to the benched and shipped out as soon as possible.

Competition in the league is getting extremely tough. Even Arsenal dey put body

Watching Bernado Silva today and remembering McFred was just so annoying, even Bruno is not excused tbvh.

Then there’s Foden.

ETH has work to do sha, hope he succeeds. Can’t take another round of this sh!t club.

odizeey:
Ronaldo with harmful decisions. Na him do himself. Stupid challenges. See messi na. Kai. Ororo you do this one

Honestly, in hindsight, it was a wrong decision.

But I remember how he was dragged when news broke that he might join City.

Man was dragged across every major social media platform. Was called a snake and whatnot. Even here on Nairaland.

eph12:
With the way we played last season, struggling to control the game and create very nice chances, Haaland may have struggled. Our strikers have been feeding from scraps compared to what strikers enjoy at City

With first-team midfielders that don’t have a good first-touch. Some things amaze me at this club.

Just look at the way Bernado Silva carries the ball at Man City. Nobody in Manchester United is on that level, bar Mata.

ChristoBam:
His situation would be worse cuz he'd be competing with Haaland for the starting spot.

No, Haaland joined this season. Ronaldo’s transfer was last season.

He would have had a whole year to rack up goals before any potential arrival of Haaland.

Illimitable:
Haaland has 2 PL hat tricks already.

The same number of hat tricks as Bale, Mane, Hazard and Heung-Min Son.

It only took Haaland 5 PL games to achieve what took 9 seasons for the aforementioned to achieve.

Release Clause has shamed many Man Utd fans.

Imagine Ronaldo went to City.

Now, Man’s here trying to prove to United fans why he should start ahead of Martial and Rashford.

Sometimes, this “looking for a challenge” and “respect Sir Alex” thing is not worth it sha

Pegasus01:
This has gone past playing hardball.

United should focus on other targets. Antony will force a move.

Expert17:
An injury to De Gea will leave us with just Tom Heaton as the only Senior GK.

With 55+ games ahead of us, I think we should get a GK.

True. But isn’t the new goalie supposed to put DDG on his toes?

DDG won’t see Dubravka as a threat to his spot in the slightest.

These are the things that should have been sorted out since, not late into the transfer window.

Expert17:
Trapp rejected the deal. It will be difficult for a GK bidding for a World cup spot to accept bench role.

As for Dubravka, he will surely join as it is better to sit on the bench in Manchester United than Newscastle.

There really is no need for him, except for Europa and Carling Cup matches. Man’s not a competition for DDG at all.

larride:
Martin Dubravka that cant bench Nick Pope is who we want to buy to bench DDG.

Some jokes write themselves.

I don’t get how the Kevin Trapp news just phased out.

Dubravka can’t challenge DDG for that spot.

Oasis007:



Jungle don dey mature...... we gonna cook this season.

This team looks quite solid. Just hope De Gea & Martial actually do their jobs.

With Casemiro here, Fred might just turn out a great 8 for us, constantly swapping with Eriksen.

afrodoc2:
So PSG has terminated Herrera’s contract with 2 whole years left?

Ammunition don land

glimpse33:
If Erik Ten Hag gets De Jong & Antony in this window before the end of deadline day this is how we will line up

Formation: 4-2-3-1

Line up
(GK) De Gea
(RWB) Dalot
(CB) Varane
(CB) Martinez
(LWB) Malacia
(CM) De Jong
(CDM) Casemiro
(RW) Antony
(AM) Fernandes (c)
(LW) Sancho
(ST) Martial

Subs
Heaton
Wan Bissaka
Shaw
Maguire
McTomaniy
Eriksen
Rashford
Ronaldo
Elanga

The most beautiful aspect of ETH getting his men is the ability to quell any potential rebellion.

So far we’ve got:

• Martinez
• Malacia
• Casemiro
• Eriksen

To an extent, Varane.

With potential additions in De Jong (highly doubt this) and Antony, that’ll be 7 sure men for him.

Won’t be business as usual for the oldies. There’s hope after all. The club can finally be redeemed.

Next issue will be the media yapping on how English players are falling out of favor in Man Utd but e no concern me.