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Also just because young player did well as 9 for youth team doesn't mean they can be great for senior team in the same position. Right now he looks very good as right wing forward and looked lost as a CF as he didn't have physicality to deal with CBs.
My mate thinks that most of the team is dross, except for Auba, Torreira, Tierney, Saka, Laca, Leno and Martinelli.
Greenwood will have chances to go after defenders similar to his goal yesterday except it will happen through the middle over longer distances. It happened all the time for the youth sides. Greenwood isn't some player who wants to dribble past players from a stand still or anything. He's great at running at defenses when on a counter where he can decide which foot he wants to strike the ball with. He's not like Rashford.
Of course my take is a speculative one, but it's a transition that many players undertake. Martial just did it.
That's the thing, I don't think that playing wide means being shunted, in the modern game inside forwards are the headliners among attackers with one exception being Lewandowski. To me having Greenwood wide in a position where I could see him become one of the best player in the world isn't shunting him but putting him in the best situation for himself and the team. Maybe he will be even better as a striker but I'm currently seeing an exceptional talent who is playing at a high level as an inside forward.
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It’s incredible how easy he has taken to first team football. That was last season, he played under 18 a little over a year ago! I’m going to enjoy this journey.
Remember when people thought Greenwood was slow
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Naah, Pogba is.
Think he'd have gone this year if it hadn't been postponed.
Mason use to represent Manchester in Athletics so it’s something he’s comfortable with. You can see his running style/technique is very good too.
He is an accomplished sprinter. So its not really a surprise if you know his background.
He absolutely does. He is a much more rounded player than what you have seen so far going by his academy years.
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Yep. I always said he just looked like he was struggling a bit stamina wise. I think these 3 months off to build his body and put in some fitness work will be the making of him.
Credit to the coaches? I am sure someone must have been in his ear about getting muscle.
Nature also of course, we forget these boys are literally growing in front of our eyes.
Exactly. Wait till he showcases how well rounded his game is. This is most definitely not him. An inside forward who cuts in and shoots? There is so much more natural game in him.
While he could be like Ronaldo from left or Salah from right, you see how Mbappe gets played as a 9 and RVP did. That's how I see Mason too. You'll get more out of his game imo.
Yeh, watching the goal on Tuesday I was surprised at the pace on him! I thought he was slow!
But Mbappé started professionally as a striker, that's where he performed at 17 years old in Ligue 1 even though he was a wide player. It's basically the opposite of Greenwood. To me you are making it a lot more complicated than it should, play him where he performs at a high level which until proven otherwise is as inside forward. There is no need to fix what isn't broken.
Fair point abt Mbappe. Either way I think it will be a natural transition at some point into a 9 for Mason. It will happen naturally. Lot of time for that to happen.
I don't understand why people are so desperate for this to happen. He looks so much dangerous as a right forward. Also this is our weakest position. Finding goal scoring right sided player has been the biggest challenge for us since SAF retired. Greenwood can make that position his own and with how he is playing he will end up with #7 too.
That would be a huge bonus if he can make the position his own, he has already scored 14 goals without being a regular so the odds for him doing better than this are good. But I think we need someone more creative than him for that role, maybe he has it in him I don't know but I guess we will see during the remainder of the season.
That's where adding Sancho or Grealish would be valuable, we don't imperatively need someone more creative because the creative hub is Bruno-Pogba but sometimes we may need something different than Greenwood-Rashford and in general we should rotate our attackers in order to keep them fresh and on their toes. So to me Greenwood should be seen as the incumbent and long term right inside forward but we should still bolster our attack, if he somehow ends up playing up front, so be it but we shouldn't try to force something that isn't a necessity when he is performing very well in his current role, individually and collectively.
This is his first season and for most part he was playing reserved role, still ended up contributing around 16 goals. With more freedom and more familiarity with the role and teammates, he should score even more goals.
Agreed but I still think Sancho coming in as the starter and Mason continuing his development without the pressure of expectation will serve us and him very well. Continuing the reserved role will allow him to develop without pressure whilst Sancho would take us a level up as an attacking force.
Yeah, like Ole said at ManUtd there should be always competition for positions and that's how it should be. Take any big club, they will have good quality players fighting to play regularly.
Agree with this. Rashford, Martial, Sancho, Greenwood, Ighalo and James is a pretty good and versatile forward selection to pick from.
I think (and hope) that Greenwood will take the number 9 from Martial before we know it. Not because I dislike Martial, I’m enjoying the form he’s in this season.
He played with Falcao in pair. Huge diference.
Huge difference to what exactly? Mbappé was a wide player at youth level who started his professional career upfront and he didn't start with Falcao who was playing for Chelsea.
