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Chinchy98

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Tough half for a striker given the team performance. Ultimately was poor and deserved his hooking.
 

Lee565

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It's rinse and repeat where we find ourselves looking to either sub him or move into a different position every game because of how awful he is as a striker, I don't carr about this whole he's the only striker we have available excuse, try one of wingers as a false 9, they can't be any worse than him
 

RedPed

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Sorry Weggers but you're absolutely shit! We should have had Aboubakar and you should have stayed at Besiktas.
 

hobbers

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He's got to be some kind of secret competition winner. Or ETH lost a bet or something.
 

DarkXaero

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I don't know about you guys, but for me, he's the worst player I've seen play for this club in my lifetime.
 

kundalini

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Completely out of his depth. Doesn't possess the strength, speed or technical ability to hurt PL defences.

There is no understanding between Weghorst and his team-mates.
 

bosnian_red

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He's a charity winner. Not even premier league level. Getting to the point where it's actually questionable if he is actually bringing more than what Ronaldo did, which is impressively bad.

Ten Hag really needs to open his fecking eyes here. He's a garbage footballer. Play Rashford through the middle. fecking put McTominay there even. Weghorst is pathetic.
 

Rozay

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It's rinse and repeat where we find ourselves looking to either sub him or move into a different position every game because of how awful he is as a striker, I don't carr about this whole he's the only striker we have available excuse, try one of wingers as a false 9, they can't be any worse than him
He’a the only striker we have available because we brought him here. He wasn’t available for us when he was at Besiktas. There is no justification for him ever being brought here in the first place, and the manager needs to be overruled if he tries to sign him this summer.
 

Red Rash

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Wasn't good today. We need to go for an Osimhen or Kane in the summer. We have seen what a positive impact a world class player can have (Casemiro) and we need to do the same upfront.
 

Roboc7

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Watching him and Mctoninay as our 9 and 10 was surreal. I hope we can at least get some games out of Martial so we see less of Wout but wouldn’t bet on it.
 

SungSam7

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Still wondering why we haven't tried Sancho as false 9, his link up play isn't even up for question... could actually be useful in that position more so than Weg
 

Flying_Heckfish

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At this point it's obvious that even the players are boycotting him. No one wants to even pass him the ball anymore because he is nowhere near requiered level.

Edit: just 10 touches in the entire game, 4 successfull passes.
This is it. Why pass to him?

Even if he has managed to keep up with play - he cannot trap the ball, he cannot take a first time shot, nor can he make a first time pass. And he isn't quick enough to meet a through ball, either. Any momentum just dissolves if you pass to him.
 

MalaysianRed7

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I’ve watched and supported this club since the 2008-09 season - he is hands down the worst player to play for us in that time. It’s not even a debate. People love to laugh at Bebe’s story of going from a homeless man to playing for United, but he scored 2 goals in 7 games.
 

Sylar

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I can't even blame him. He's living out a dream of playing for us and being started. Hopefully martial stays fit and we don't see him start again
 

SAFMUTD

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It's sad because he seems to care but it's gotten beyond ridiculous now how a player of his quality keeps starting for us. I don't think he's even premier league level, he can't score, can't retain the ball, doesn't win headers, it's not a target man I really don't get what he brings to the team besides effort which is the bare minimum you expect from professional players.
 

Bobski

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Doing an amazing job of making me have serious doubts over Ten Hag.
 

Siorac

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I don't get it. I really don't. At this point even the 'he's the only striker we have' excuse doesn't wash, simply because it doesn't matter who we put in that position, they literally cannot be worse than him. What's the point? We could have saved some money by playing Elanga there. He can also run around and press players if we ask him to.
 

ClassOf'99

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I don't get it. I really don't. At this point even the 'he's the only striker we have' excuse doesn't wash, simply because it doesn't matter who we put in that position, they literally cannot be worse than him. What's the point? We could have saved some money by playing Elanga there. He can also run around and press players if we ask him to.
This.

We have players that can play false 9, we have players to cover the wings so Rashford can start there, even at this point of be open to Elanga over him if Martial can't stay fit.
 

FerociousCorgis

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I'm well past martial fc because he clearly will be injured before end of April but holy hell was it obvious the diff in quality from the two
 

Gordon S

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I don't know about you guys, but for me, he's the worst player I've seen play for this club in my lifetime.
We`ve all seen our fair share of below average players at our club. Gibson, Buttner, Powell, Bebe, Obertan and many more.
But as far as trusted starting players go, it is hard to come up with anyone else tbh. There is probably a few posters on here that could play instead of him today without us losing much.
 

V.O.

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I really wanted this to work. Even on a "bit of a naff player but does a job and works hard" kind of level - but it just isn't going to unfortunately. Can't run. Can't head the ball. No particular physicality for a bloke who's fecking massive. Can maybe do simple short pass link up play, but can't hold the ball up long enough to even get the chance to do that.

It's cute that he won a trophy with us and all, but the jig has to be up now, surely.
 

Lay

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He seems to have zero ability. Falcao was atrocious for us but give me Falcao over this guy
 

ScholesyTheWise

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Looks like his playing like a man possessed in the early days works against him currently,
as he looks quite spent, and to begin with he doesn't offer much more than enthusiasm and the ability to press (whether or not he presses effectively is a different matter. I'm not that impressed but I'll leave it to Erik).

I hope he's not going to get a permanent deal.

Wonder what's Erik's rationale behind keeping him in the starting XI, as he surely sees that our attack is nonexistent and he's the focal point of it.

I really really appreciate ETH and the last couple of weeks don't change that one bit.
But with that being said, I really hope that he doesn't aspire to be playing with a #9 who isn't expected to mainly score goals,
but rather "improve the shape of the team" or whatever the fanciest way to put it is.

For such a good (if imperfect and seemingly sometimes naive) manager, I refuse to believe this is actually a possibility.
 

Dan_F

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I don't know about you guys, but for me, he's the worst player I've seen play for this club in my lifetime.
Think it’s definitely exacerbated more because he plays upfront, but he’s giving it a good go.

Imagine being a billion in debt and this is your striker :nervous:
 

Valencia Shin Crosses

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"Martial...He's isolated Skrtel here..."
He seems to have zero ability. Falcao was atrocious for us but give me Falcao over this guy
Falcao was just washed up but you could see his ideas even if they didn't come off. Similar to Ronaldo before we binned him off, you could see what he's trying but his body wouldn't let it happen anymore. This fecking clown doesn't even have good ideas, that near post shot from that angle was just daft not to mention the execution terrible anyways.
 
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