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To be honest it's deserved, whoever sanctioned 50 million on Martinez should be sacked.
That'll be ten Hag then!
Apparently they kinda had, he was someone looked at previously and deemed not the right fit by the scouts and was removed from any CB list. Pau Torres was supposedly the clubs number 1 CB target but ETH over ruled it. The Martinez move has been ETH driven.
It’s genuinely astonishing how in every corner of the internet Murtough is escaping blame for our transfer window, even though he is DoF.
Are you serious?please point out ANY moments that were a worry?
I genuinely want you to pick out a moment you saw him in trouble today?
I've seen some posters saying he was a worry and he got bullied, when he barely lost any challenges? at one point he ragdolled Toney to the floor and Mbembo bounced off him too.
Yes he is small but he leaps very well.
Martinez and Mee slipped and it bounced off Mee's head into the goal. He wasn't beaten, but that entire set piece was ridiculous anyway.
He was bullied out of it before the header, he tried pushing Mee and it was like a ant trying to move a wardrobe.
How scary is that though. Spend 55m, the majority of the summer budget on a CB you could argue wasn’t even priority anyway then shift out of of position after a few games because he’s not good enough.
Oh its a potentially hilarious disaster, more so when Hag was quoted in the past commenting on the PL's height and physical rough-and-tumble nature and how you need to adapt to the the league if you want any form of success.
Yeah, none of that is actually Martinez’s fault though is it. How he “deserves” it is baffling.
Have you read the rest of the forum. Looked in any other player threads?
Not worst idea…….doesn’t he play there for Scotland?
He doesn't deserve it, the idiots that sanctioned the transfer deserve it.
Exactly as predicted, teams are targeting high balls into his area and looking to profit of the scraps. Essentially making any attempt at us high pressing null and void.
He was not awful, he had one error but otherwise looked fine and in control.
Yep, and there's very few teams in the league (no big guy up front) where this won't be a fruitful tactic if we don't take measures (eg. tall DM, 3 at the back) to negate it.
He played 45 minutes in which we conceded 4 goals and was generally one of the worst half’s of football in our history. He was at fault for at least 1 goal if not more.
there wasn’t a player on the pitch fine and in control palManager’s shouldn’t just be selecting players they want to sign. At Ajax he had a great team around him and clearly their scouting system is set up for identifying players that can play in a system that has been defined for decades.
Agree.
He's not shite, he just isn't a good fit for current United side.
2 games does not make anyone right.
As I said apart from that error, where he was already handicapped by a lot of the actions preceding the header that went in, he was in control of what he had to do. He was in the heat of the battle and more often than not was winning themHe played 45 minutes in which we conceded 4 goals and was generally one of the worst half’s of football in our history. He was at fault for at least 1 goal if not more.
Fine and in control?
It does make people right actually, those who said he will be targeted because of his size and keeper afraid to leave the line. 2/2, experts and managers already admitting so I very much doubt that will change.
Being targeted and being a problem are 2 different things. He won duels against both Toney and Mbeumu but that doesn't suit the narrative. We didn’t concede a goal from the left channel being targeted but that doesn’t fit the narrative.
