Manchester United

[RUHRLYASLEEVESUP]

42 minutes ago, Froggy said:

 

Even Bruno who's already one of the best in our history, is getting a lot of stick now. That was extremely stupid from him last night.

Agreed, his worst performance for nearly 4 days 

[Pixelphish]

I'm normally a fairly optimistic guy but the seminal years of my life have conditioned me to expect the worst against this lot and LFC no matter their situation. 

 

Most of me expects another Tonali and Bruno show this time. 

[Lotus]

 Bruno F is fantastic player and any team would miss him. 
 

I think his petulance is just due to him feeling his career has not gone the way he wanted. He could have done so much more at a competitive club. 
Still, I’m sure he’s been very well rewarded financially. 

[Shak]

I do think it's gonna be a challenge for Amorim and their recruitment team to build the team he wants, given his system is very different from what most teams do and most of their current squad don't seem a good fit for it.

 

Seems their PSR situation isn't great and the big earners on their books could be hard to shift. Ideally you'd want a clear out and bring in a lot of young players to build your new culture and system, but I suspect Amorim is going to have to make do with some less than ideal pieces for quite a while.

 

Obviously the people in charge will have known all of this before giving him the job so you'd imagine they plan to give him plenty of time. He seems a decent fella who wants to play good football so outside of the fact that he's the manager of one of our more direct current rivals I don't wish him any specific ill will.

 

Would love to see Brexit Jim forced to pay him off early and look like a complete tit again, mind you

[Nucasol]

4 minutes ago, Shak said:

 

 

Would love to see Brexit Jim forced to pay him off early and look like a complete tit again, mind you

I’m really hoping that Doper Dave Brailsford is the next Brexit Jim casualty.

[The Butcher]

Watching this back. And they gave the cunt a new deal

 

Heart completely gone. He's finished and he's career will end like Dele and Lingard.

[The College Dropout]

1 minute ago, The Butcher said:

Watching this back. And they gave the cunt a new deal

 

Heart completely gone. He's finished and he's career will end like Dele and Lingard.

This was after the contract no?

 

The lack of work rate is astounding. It’s Kyliann Mbappe levels. At least Mbappe knows he has to do something to justify that lack of work rate. Even when it’s going bad for Mbappe you can see the weight of expectation on his face to deliver.  Rashford could not give a fuck.  
 

 

[geordie john]

Just watched that. The guy shouldn't be anywhere near a football pitch. He's just completely lost interest. £300k a week? Seriously? That's 15 years of an average persons wage. Utter disgrace.

 

[Dr Venkman]

13 hours ago, The College Dropout said:

I liked Amad since Sunderland  days. 

[Erikse]

1 hour ago, The Butcher said:

Watching this back. And they gave the cunt a new deal

 

Heart completely gone. He's finished and he's career will end like Dele and Lingard.

 

And then he goes on to complain about people having anything critical to say about him. Everyone else is the problem. Classic victim role.

 

 

Edited December 27, 2024 by Erikse

[The College Dropout]

 

The comments are funny. Particularly The Shield reference.  
 

 I think it’s not sustainable with European football. But being overpowered physically is a good way to get ahead of the pack. We do need to increase the technical floor of the team but that power, athleticism, aggressiveness should remain as our identity. Someone like Hall might not be a natural to it but he’s grown into that. 

[The College Dropout]

34 minutes ago, Dr Venkman said:

What’s the point in this?

[Sibierski]

5 hours ago, Froggy said:

 

 

We knew this would be the case though didn't we? Has Amorim not made it perfectly clear all along that his system will take time to implement. He said he won't go back and play a pragmatic system because in a year we'll just be in the same situation. 

 

People have talked about "open heart surgery" for a while. Is this not the way? The same players have got managers sacked over and over again. 

Rashford could get another manager sacked by not even playing. So powerful.

 

Saying it’s going to take while and be painful, then losing loads, will only last so long for Amorim. Has to show improvements as I doubt he got the job by saying “I will need to spend £100m+”. So if he starts to ask for players because the ones can’t work in his system, why did the club hire him?

 

Feels like club knew ETH was a busted flush, had to take the L, and just went with the manager who’s got the biggest rep and willing to join mid season. I don’t think Man Utd hierarchy have thought anything longer term.

[Lotus]

Rashford is a very talented player. I think his issues stem from the lack of support from the ‘fans’ tbh…..

Same thing happened with Sancho. 

[Astroblack]

Board is a mess from top to bottom. Apparently they were all set to sack ETH but he won the FA Cup and they decided on the basis of that ONE GAME, he could stay. He stayed and did even more damage in the summer.

[TaylorJ_01]

I can never believe how average the Man Utd line-ups are considering they constantly are signing expensive folk. Its just full of mid-table crap. Their position isn't really far off the level of their team, but the expectations are based on history of course.

[RodneyCisse]

They’re lucky EtH got them as many points as he did. Looking close at the bottom…

[The Fountain]

5 hours ago, Froggy said:

 

There's no pressure on Amorim, which is important to note. We trust him and want him to do his thing.

 

The players are in bother mind. Old Trafford will not be nice if Monday goes as expected.

Howe turned Newcastle from the 2nd worst team in the league to the 5th best in 7 months. The pressure will be on Amorim to do similar.

[James]

6 minutes ago, The Fountain said:

Howe turned Newcastle from the 2nd worst team in the league to the 5th best in 7 months. The pressure will be on Amorim to do similar.

I think there is a significant difference here however, we had a bad team, but we liked and supported our players which allowed for many to be rehabilitated.

 

As alluded to by Froggy in your quoted post, the Man Utd players have lost the fan base.

 

If Wolves and one of Leicester or Ipswich can grind out some results then Man Utd could get relegated

[mouldy_uk]

Can’t believe we are even discussing Man U getting relegated, they will be fine. 
 

Feel free to quote this in the event of them getting relegated as I’ll be so happy I won’t give a toss 

[RodneyCisse]

Just now, mouldy_uk said:

Can’t believe we are even discussing Man U getting relegated, they will be fine. 
 

Feel free to quote this in the event of them getting relegated as I’ll be so happy I won’t give a toss 

They’re lucky for how tripe the few bottom bottom teams are.

[Froggy]

23 minutes ago, mouldy_uk said:

Can’t believe we are even discussing Man U getting relegated, they will be fine. 

 

Quite fun how fickle fans are mind. 

 

A few games ago half the board were Howe out. Now he's God again and we're getting relegated because we're 7 points behind you.

 

Can't wait to win the Europa League and knock you out of the Champions League when you finish above us again.

[madras]

3 minutes ago, Froggy said:

 

Quite fun how fickle fans are mind. 

 

A few games ago half the board were Howe out. Now he's God again and we're getting relegated because we're 7 points behind you.

 

Can't wait to win the Europa League and knock you out of the Champions League when you finish above us again.

Half ? Really ?

[Froggy]

3 minutes ago, madras said:

Half ? Really ?

 

Alright 75%. I was being kind. 

[The Fountain]

8 minutes ago, madras said:

Half ? Really ?

In my group of 20 odd lads, 2 thought Howe had had his time