Bojan11
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If only one of them knew how to make a run back post. Can't have both of them starting again.
I think Ole is trying to ease the pressure and/or limit the minutes for Greenwood, who is a teenager after all.What I don't understand is Ole taking off Greenwood when he was our best attacking player against West Ham, only to not start him today and persist with Rashford on the right.
Rashford should be starting on the left with Martial coming off the bench or rotating when needs be. Shaw and Rashford work well together and we're completely unbalanced without Greenwood on the right.
I have to agree with this. There's also a bit of a cultural shift with players wanting to be these winger/attacking midfielder/number 10 style players (aka a Messi or Ronaldo) rather than a van Nistelrooy. Imo, we're seeing this a lot with Rashford, who is playing in a few different positions and isn't really becoming an expert in any of them. We seem to value "versatility" a bit too much, imo. We really need these players to start nailing down their positions and to become better at that.Looks like our scouts/owners have a hard on for strikers that can play out wide and have zero creativity.
His effort is absolutely appalling, to the point that he's statistically one of the laziest forwards in football. He's quite literally in the bottom 1% of Wide Forwards/AMs from ALL of the Big 5 leagues combined, across multiple effort categories... and rarely even comes CLOSE to average across any metric.Rashy needs to stop the little flicks. But at least can't be faulted on effort.
yup. I totally agree. I hope we end up wrong but that’s the way its going at the moment. I’m also convinced Martial has pulled a strop again too because Cavani has came in. If you don’t like competition you’re at the wrong (right, sigh) club. Where is the competition for these lads? There’s no setback to them only performing like top professionals one game in five. Hopefully it’s just an age thing but I’m far from convinced. I like the manager and like the way he’s managed the egos and made us more likeable again. Recruitment is slowly turning around. Maybe not fast enough but that’s not on Ole. Give him the tools to win and let’s evaluate from there. He’s hanging on in there managing a squad with players from 4 different managers and youth graduates. I think if he got Haaland and a winger (not like he hasn’t tried!) we’d be much more convincing and aggressive in general.I have to agree with this. There's also a bit of a cultural shift with players wanting to be these winger/attacking midfielder/number 10 style players (aka a Messi or Ronaldo) rather than a van Nistelrooy. Imo, we're seeing this a lot with Rashford, who is playing in a few different positions and isn't really becoming an expert in any of them. We seem to value "versatility" a bit too much, imo. We really need these players to start nailing down their positions and to become better at that.
Who would you start over them?Both are squad players if we’re being serious.
Sancho and HaalandWho would you start over them?
I don't believe we own those players.Sancho and Haaland
DamningHis effort is absolutely appalling, to the point that he's statistically one of the laziest forwards in football. He's quite literally in the bottom 1% of Wide Forwards/AMs from ALL of the Big 5 leagues combined, across multiple effort categories... and rarely even comes CLOSE to average across any metric.
Somehow even Martial is putting up better effort stats. It's hard to overstate how little Rashford does off ball in a defensive sense. The only 'Green' in the entire image is from players absolutely blowing by him because he doesn't even attempt to tackle them.
I still think Rashford is clearly preferable to Martial, due to being more impactful on the ball, but that's much more of an indictment on Martial than a positive for Rashford. They've both become huge problems for us.
For now we dont have much choice, but going forward we need to bring in new players for their spots.Who would you start over them?
I'd say it would have the actual complete opposite effect. Who is going to take him on the kind of salary he's on? The only way to move him is to get a stretch of good performances and even then it'd be tricky to get him to take a pay cut with his next team since I can't see anybody who would even get close to what United is paying him.The more Martial keeps up his abysmal form, the easier it'd be to eventually be rid of him. I can see him being loaned out or something with a view to get rid next season.
Ah it's that easyFor now we dont have much choice, but going forward we need to bring in new players for their spots.
Agree. I would be trying to blend Amad in as soon as possible, not starting, but coming on. Hopefully not too late to make an impact. I would even put Greenwood up top to give Cavani a break now and again.The issue is not rashy and martial, its just martial
He is lazy, soft, miserable and disinterested.
Drop martial, move rashy to the left and greenwood to the right.
Oles perserverance with martial is totally unjust. Diallo should be given some game time
Holy...His effort is absolutely appalling, to the point that he's statistically one of the laziest forwards in football. He's quite literally in the bottom 1% of Wide Forwards/AMs from ALL of the Big 5 leagues combined, across multiple effort categories... and rarely even comes CLOSE to average across any metric.
Somehow even Martial is putting up better effort stats. It's hard to overstate how little Rashford does off ball in a defensive sense. The only 'Green' in the entire image is from players absolutely blowing by him because he doesn't even attempt to tackle them.
I still think Rashford is clearly preferable to Martial, due to being more impactful on the ball, but that's much more of an indictment on Martial than a positive for Rashford. They've both become huge problems for us.