They finished 4th by the skin of their teeth.
Mason Mount's Misfortune
- Thread starter horsechoker
- Start date
-
In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
Any adult who cares about shirt numbers is weird.
The Athletic reporting a base wage of around 200k rising to 250k with bonuses.
Number 7 
No. Its 400k actually.
Maybe its time to move on from giving #7 to mercurial talents and emphasize the workman like, team first attitude Ten Hag seems to embrace. Good luck to Mason for he definitely has his best years ahead of him, despite being a CL winner at 21.
Martinez is a CB, he was only ever going to play CB. Mount is a 10/LW but you're saying he will play 8. Quite a different scenario. Let's see end of this season where he ends up/how he does - I don't doubt ETH might try it, I mean he played Shaw successfully as a CB but I don't see it working long term.
See above. I agree though, I don't see how it works but then I guess I trust ETH knows a lot more about football than me. Let's see end of the season. Hopefully I'm wrong and he's immense in there but I have big doubts.
When has wages ever been announced officially ?
I hope he does well, that No7 is a big shirt to fill, lots of history and legends have worn it.
Is he up to it ? Have to admit I have my reservations he can, hopefully he can prove me wrong, but hey it’s just a number.
Is he up to it ? Have to admit I have my reservations he can, hopefully he can prove me wrong, but hey it’s just a number.
I just came here to see the meltdown from Mount getting the #7 shirt. Exactly what I expected, incoherent and irrational posts over a fecking a shirt number.
Without being insulting I think you have a real misconception about the type of player he is and where he does his best work. It's really hard to quantify but I'd be glad to have a bet with you that he does very well as a number 8.
Welcome. Please be good, son.
Million a week and we have to let him have creative control over the design of his statue.
If we pay 60m for a midfielder and our strongest line up still has Eriksen there and Mount on the bench, god bless us
Well now you’ve just opened up another can of worms for the whinging and moaning mob.
Before I address this, because it's already massively flawed, what is the source of stats?
You're overthinking based on rigid ideas of what those positions mean, I think.
If you look at the position on the pitch Eriksen/Fred were actually occupying during a lot of games in the second half of the season, it was high right alongside Bruno as #8/#10 hybrids. As opposed to the start of the season, where they were taking up deeper positions more often.
The former is where Mount will play, and it's an area of the pitch he is already used to operating in. Whether that midfield works more generally I have no idea, but the role for Mount in it is crystal clear.
Average age in this thread is 7.
I mean we paid £75m for Sancho...god has not blessed our transfer dealings the last decade
Robbo?
5 mins onwards. Although given your logic that Eriksen will start and Mount is a left winger I'd say you thinking something about it is flawed is not going to be worth all that much to me.
Was Rooney a left winger? Was Eto'o?
Welcome Mason Mount.
From what I remember, Best wore #11, #10, #8 and #7, but mainly #11.
Change Beckham for Ronaldo and add Robson and Coppell.
Yeah but that was before the PL era. Basically a different law, like the warring states in feudal japan.
white text lest someone think 'tis not but a jest
Nice to see so many are happy we've made a signing that our manager desperately wanted.
That was unexpected and even though I don't care this will lead to even more drama if he turns out a flop. 55m fee, 250k wage, most symbolic back number...
Number 7?! Not gonna lie that’s a bit of a shock. Only shirt number I really care about at this club because I do think it has to be earned, and rightly so.. strange decision.
You must have been beaming with pride when Michael Owen donned the legendary shirt.
They owned the club when he signed.
Good to see him signed. While he's not someone I expected to see at Utd he's always struck me a good solid player that the fans will love. Not sure if he'll bring the right balance to our midfield but ETH knows what he wants a hell of a lot better than I do.
Him getting #7 isn't ideal for me, but it's also not as big a deal as some make out. Garnacho certainly shouldn't have been getting it yet, but I do kind of wish we'd just left #7 vacant for now and if Garnacho had kicked on he could have got it in two years or so. But like I said, it's not too big a deal.
Him getting #7 isn't ideal for me, but it's also not as big a deal as some make out. Garnacho certainly shouldn't have been getting it yet, but I do kind of wish we'd just left #7 vacant for now and if Garnacho had kicked on he could have got it in two years or so. But like I said, it's not too big a deal.
How do you know he's on 250k?
Also if he flops then we would have bigger concerns. When Sanchez was stinking out the place did you really care about his shirt number or did you just worry about the fact no one might buy him.
So ten Hag and SAF are dickheads now?
Should have told Robson that.
As fans, we can choose not to. But it is becoming increasingly important to players as it has a direct impact to their personal brand and therefore more money. Martial got our #9 jersey and launched a brand called AM9. For him to be suddenly made #11 in 2016, would've been a (quite unnecessary) kick in the teeth. Similarly, had Garnacho got our #7, his own profile for potential sponsors would've grown significantly.
SAF offered Owen the #7 shirt. Glazers have feck all to do with deciding on who wears a bloody shirt number.
That high?
It's just sad the way we've cheapened the significance of the no.7 shirt. Another symptom of football losing it's soul, shirt numbers are now irrelevant.