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He never has and never will be telling the truth about what we are actually planning to do, don’t know why anyone reads into it at all.

I was very wrong about not expecting Howe to move Bruno up, as I didn’t think he saw him as physically capable of being an 8 for extended periods of time. Its great how integrated Tonali is already, where would we be if the ban never happened? Mental how one player in and one position change has seen us go from looking like a badly coached mess to very solid performances.

This guy is so good at the moment.

Mourinho in

Pep’s done a good sort of management 101 job of this terrible run and made it all about him taking the focus off of the players, but some of these individual performances are terrible this season. Somethings gotta give.

Does anywhere track post hits? I’d love to see his numbers on that

I’m with you, at the start of the season I’d expected us to lean back to full on press we had success with but we arnt heading in that direction anymore. We need more creativity in wide areas. Olise (although never likely) would have been a perfect signing for this season.

Not many I’d suspect. He’s not a system player, so he’d be useless to Howe.

He is the furthest thing from a system friendly player, I don’t see any serious side wanting him. Like others have said, PSG seems to be the move. They can carry him in that league. One of the sole reasons Man United signed Weghorst when they did was to cover for Rashford off the ball imo, says enough really.

Deeming Grealish shite is obviously on the more extreme end of hyperbole but he has dropped off massively since their treble His whole persona and attitude never seemed a great fit for a top side to me

This is a fair point, when you consider his size also. Not an easy injury to recover from.

There isn’t much chance he lost that much pace over a single summer. It was far more to do with Popes injury and not being protected by Joelinton on that side, and being a mainstay in a largely unchanged back 4 for 22/23. Edit: something I forgot to add that others have mentioned, the back injury was a massive part in him looking like he’d lost something physically.

Surprised there hasn’t been more posts in here recently, he is consistently solid

Leicester were absolutely useless but we did what we had to do today, not much else to say really.

It was a bit of a broad comparison I’ll admit, but my point is they are both best used as pressing wingers.