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2024-25 Performances

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5.1 Season Average Rating
Appearances
49
Goals
7
Assists
2
Yellow cards
3
Must've used up all his energy and skills in that first sub appearance.

Since then it's like he's having a stroll along the beach daydreaming, emotionless. Even if he can provide the odd link in our buildup, it would be massively offset with how he plays.
 
Looks pretty woeful. Still early days for him here but the signs aren't good.
 
Reminds me of Berbatov and Firmino, without the positives.
 
afrocentricity said:
Did you watch the game that was played, or the game that you think was played? It was no walk in the park mate...

He is struggling but expectations in from those that rush to post here.... are a bit unrealistic
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I saw him boot the ball out of play under next to no pressure...
I'm sure you saw that.
Fener was extremely poor, they're full of has beens.
He is that shite at the moment. It's on him to improve.
 
His attitude is poor. Thats the most dissappointing part. Hes very laid back and lethargic so you cant even see him trying, at least then you could expect some good luck eventually. Right now he looks like a player who doesnt care and is biding time till he moves on

He's big and fairly strong but when he plays at the moment thats about all you see. He's looking like Fellaini without the effort
 
He’s tripe and I’m been generous. A replacement for Martial in more ways than one .
 
afrocentricity said:
Yes he's been ineffective
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When you take into consideration certain actions (offside goal v Brighton, performance tonight) he's actually been worse than ineffective. It's like watching Bebe and the early days of Forlan.

Hopefully he turns it around but, as mentioned, I don't think we have the right tools to bed him in gradually/allow him time to settle. We need him impacting now.
 
groovyalbert said:
No one is expecting a goal a game striker. I wouldn't even expect him scoring/assisting every other game. But he can't win a header, can't pass a ball, can't shoot and can't really dribble. His assist was fortunate and he has had a shocking start here bar his debut.
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Yes, it’s quite hard to tell what he’s actually good at. I’d expect at least, with a frame like that, he could be physical and hold the ball up….but he doesn’t seem able to do that at all
 
groovyalbert said:
When you take into consideration certain actions (offside goal v Brighton, performance tonight) he's actually been worse than ineffective. It's like watching Bebe and the early days of Forlan.

Hopefully he turns it around but, as mentioned, I don't think we have the right tools to be him in gradually/allow him time to settle. We need him impacting now.
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Nah Folan was full of effort despite is shortcomings. He actually used to try and score
 
kouroux said:
I saw him boot the ball out of play under next to no pressure...
I'm sure you saw that.
Fener was extremely poor, they're full of has beens.
He is that shite at the moment. It's on him to improve.
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It obviously wasn't an easy game it's fenerbache away and we are where we are, so I don't know why you expected him to show up any moreso than anyone else? I'll take the point in Turkey and move on

He's gotta get better that's true, but he has time it's a few months in ffs
 
afrocentricity said:
It obviously wasn't an easy game it's fenerbache and we are where we are, so I don't know why you expected him to show up any moreso than anyone else? I'll take the point and move on

He's gotta get better that's true, but he has time it's a few months in ffs
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There is showing up moreso than anyone else, which I never said nor implied and there is the crap he displayed.
It was fairly easy to know quickly that Wout wasn't good enough and Zirkzee has been worse.
Only upside is his age, otherwise the footballer that he is now, is extremely shocking.
 
kouroux said:
There is showing up moreso than anyone else, which I never said nor implied and there is the crap he displayed.
It was fairly easy to know quickly that Wout wasn't good enough and Zirkzee has been worse.
Only upside is his age, otherwise the footballer that he is now, is extremely shocking.
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The baffling thing for me about Weghorst was how deep he was playing when we didnt have the ball. He was chasing around in midfield like a DM. He might actually have worked if he was up front on the end of crosses

Somehow Weghorst was playing deeper than Zirkzee and his false 9 role
 
Ekeke said:
The baffling thing for me about Weghorst was how deep he was playing when we didnt have the ball. He was chasing around in midfield like a DM. He might actually have worked if he was up front on the end of crosses

Somehow Weghorst was playing deeper than Zirkzee and his false 9 role
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Please don't remind me this abomination of a tactic :lol:
 
We’d have been better off taking a punt on a League 2 striker. Would have saved 95% of the cost and quite likely have a better GD.
 
kouroux said:
There is showing up moreso than anyone else, which I never said nor implied and there is the crap he displayed.
It was fairly easy to know quickly that Wout wasn't good enough and Zirkzee has been worse.
Only upside is his age, otherwise the footballer that he is now, is extremely shocking.
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Bro you're just moaning. You think he's gonna be worst than Wout?
 
I feel sorry for the lad, as nothing is work for him and he looks lost, but can he not run?
He hasn’t got any pace, any short distance burst or acceleration, can’t get back behind the ball quick enough, and seems stuck in a slow jog, like he’s wearing lead boots.
You can’t play in a forward line in top level football and not be able to run.
 
kouroux said:
Again, you're interpreting things.
At the moment, he is worse than Wout for me. What will happen in the future is that he will hopefully improve because he is still fairly young.
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Amen.... He has skills he just needs to adapt his game, improvement is a given

Watching Wout was fecking painful... Apart from that time he scored and cried, that was nice
 
Some of you celebrated the departures of Martial and Sancho but in this lad we’ve signed a shite combination of both those players. Throw in a bit of Van de Beek too.

The worst thing is you can see other players in the team slowly losing trust in him.
 
Not sure i get all the hate. Really think he needs to play a bit deeper and closer to a midfielder, use him for link up and arriving late in the box.
 
Can't pass or run. Not a good look for an attacking midfielder/striker/whatever he's supposed to be.
 
The worrying thing is it looks like a lack of application rather than having good technique. 12 games into your Man United career and you're already sulking and jogging around - it's not looking good.
 
I thought he was fine to start the season, but he's been poor lately.

I honestly worry we've wasted a lot of money this summer yet again on him and Ugarte.
 
NotChatGPT said:
Not sure i get all the hate. Really think he needs to play a bit deeper and closer to a midfielder, use him for link up and arriving late in the box.
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He isnt Eriksen and his passing and general play is even more infuriating than Bruno at the moment. He's just showing poor ability at the moment
 
I rarely write players off so early until their United career, but my god this lad is nothing near the quality of player that should starting games for United. Looks like another waste of money.
 
Genuinely think if we played any one of the strikers from the Under 21s they couldn't be as ineffective. He offers nothing.
 
Ekeke said:
He isnt Eriksen and his passing and general play is even more infuriating than Bruno at the moment. He's just showing poor ability at the moment
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I doubt anyone has ever claimed he’s the dutch Eriksen, my only point was that i think we’re setting him up to fail when playing him as a lone striker in a setup like tonight.
 
I suspect Ugarte will come good under our new manager but with this guy, I'm just not seeing it. I feel like the player I was told we were getting, and what I'm watching are 2 completely different things.
 
He seems to be 2 seconds behind the speed of play. Slow, lethargic, overhits easy passes, totally not aware what is going on around him and where his players are. Not looking good bruv.
 
Hasn’t looked great overall, but does show glimpses of ability.

He’s young. Has time. He shouldn’t be expected to lead the line in a new league for Manchester United at his age. That’s the managers fault for not buying a more established striker, leaving the young ones (Hojlund and Zirkzee), time to develop.

The expectation on these two is ridiculous.
 
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