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Stinky sub appearance this from Wilson. More interested in battles then doing the basics ffs.

“Don’t get complacent”.

So many options on bench to make and change momentum, how about using them?

Time to take the dog back out…

Took dog out after 15 mins, come back at HT and pleasantly surprised. Good job the players have a better mentality then me

We won’t win now. So bad at coming from behind.

Pope positioning

Have people finally cooled down on Aston Villa summer business? Their main best players still ones that were there under Gerrard, Rodgers aside IMO.

Typical lucky Man Utd.

Another impressive game from Hojlund.

He didn’t. He wanted a prem based manager, because they likely could hit ground running. And not Amorim, because of more time needed to see if squad would fit without needing massive changes (to accommodate he’s rigid 3-4-3).

He sounds like he’s going to cry.

Some finish by Beto. Gone from a donkey to R9 under Moyes.

Hate Rio. Come on Moyes, make the prat look glum again.

They were last season, but then played 2 of the relegated 3 and pulled away.

Leicester so bad. Mbuemo tasty though

My reservations last summer was he needed another season learning, so was happy to sign if it was a loan out. Just never could start him from word go. He's now having that extra season and is improving his game.

Think all these contract extensions are with a view of getting a few £million for them in summer.

Hojlund just doesn't shoot anywhere near as much as a striker should. It's an easy cop out to say lack of service, but he's a contributing factor to it too. For me, if both were available, Nunez would be preferred option even if I don't rate him because he's shown more in his career that he can create stuff on his own. Hojlund can't and often needs space to run into to be most effective. Don't think age is really relevant when it comes to a striker if they haven't got the fundamentals, it's just the consistency that comes with age. Like as Haaland has got older, nothing about his game has improved since he was at Dortmund.

He was also way out performing his xg which does raise eyebrows. When someone does that, you want to see another season to see what the mean is, instead of jumping the gun and thinking it's a Messi type player that's got to be snapped up before others come.

PSR for me isn't about getting close to the levels of Arsenal/Manchester/Liverpool, it's about getting to levels of Spurs at a minimum. Operating on sums that Spurs have, you should be regularly challenging top 4 and having the odd title challenge if you've got the right manager and set up. At those funds, you can sign players at the good end, maintain your superstars and have depth that's experienced. Beyond those levels, you are just simply overpaying to keep players, having your depth on bloated deals and can spend bigger sums on players that are no more a success strike.

Ineos will be taking out similar payments in future years too, giving their cost cutting across all over divisions.

Signed Ugarte, Hojlund, Zirkzee, Yoro all young, got rid of overpaid passengers in Varane, McTominay, Martial, AWB and the needle hasn’t moved. Do think Man Utd fans get themselves too tied up in thinking ‘Young signings = the way to go’, just because some of their other signings have been average at best. A younger side can just mean the floor drops further, so when it’s not working the results are even worse. Like Doug looks energetic, but quite limited on the ball. Early days, but doesn’t really much difference in their technical play compared to AWB.

I don't think it's even the players learning it. For me, they're doing what's being asked and it's showing how poor a system it is. Doesn't matter if you replaced Casemiro with Ugarte yesterday, or even had the best CDM in the world, when they're on their own because Fernandes is being asked to go far right, teams will exploit it. Wing backs are then easily pinned back because every side in this league will have wingers that are capable of exploiting the space, so it's then three attackers often isolated up top. The attackers are probably the one area I can give some credence that it's the players, because Hojlund is regularly shit at most things to do with football, Zirkzee as wonderful his touches are, moves like Casemiro and then it's a clearly out of form Garnacho. Better attackers, they score yesterday and win, but it completely masks the fundamentals that are broken. Something that was obvious under ETH for like 12+ months to the majority. People in media will fall over themselves by blaming the players, manager needs backing etc. rather than actually argue the fundamentals are wrong. There's been no upturn in performances after like 20 games which you'd really start to expect by now. He needs a good final 25% of season, otherwise I do believe Ratcliffe will want some heads to roll if there's no Europe. Guy took over with them 4 points of 3rd, and I highly doubt it was with a remit of "This season can be write off, don't worry if you don't get Europe, it's all good".

What’s key for our games, is getting the first goal. We don’t seem very good at coming from behind at home to get a win.