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2024-25 Performances

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4.6 Season Average Rating
Appearances
52
Goals
10
Assists
2
Yellow cards
2
Berbasbullet said:
What was it 64 mil plus bonuses to make 72 (that you have to assume will never be met)? He’s been a shocking signing, I think we have been incredibly patient with the kid, but he needs to be dropped from the first 11 with short cameos for a while now. Very poor.
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I can't disagree but how many Zirkzee performances will it be until we say get him back in then rinse and repeat
 
He’s playing dreadful this season but his confidence looks sub zero at the moment.

His performances are nothing short of horrendous but there’s no way he’s this bad.

He doesn’t give off the air of someone who isn’t trying, and he is clearly limited in a lot of areas but he is better than this.

He doesn’t look fit either.
 
Not intelligent

Can’t hold the ball up

Doesn’t use his size well

Has zero impact in build up

Doesn’t make runs into the channel anywhere near often enough

Get beaten in every aerial dual

Isn’t technically gifted

Not exactly deadly even when a rare chance falls his way.

What in the world did our scouts see in this lad to justify spending 60m+ on?!?!
 
He is now getting to the point of being put into the conversation for one of our worst ever signings. That's not his fault of course, but he actually might be the worst starting CF in the league.
 
NZT-One said:
Quite concerning at this point. Our attack isn't giving him anything but he also offers absolutely nothing. Not sure if he suits Amorims system because he doesn't give us anything right now.
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The only thing he really does well in general play is the run behind down the left channel.

Diabolically one dimensional footballer, and by trying to incorporate him into the team that lack of an all round game directly negatively impacts everyone else around him. You can't play combinations with him or put anything in to his feet and make a run off him.

Create a chance and he will score but his movement is so blunt that rarely happens. He is not a threat and is terrible in general play.

Amorin has to try something different, neither of these strikers have enough. Don't know what it is though.
 
Deer in headlights at the moment.

He needs a goal but more than that he needs to decide what he wants to do on the pitch. He is a complete passenger at the moment.

I’m a fan of his as well, so I’m not just being negative.
 
I was avoiding this comparison but keeping Wout was way better choice than waste 70 mil on Hojlund.
 
JJ12 said:
I can't disagree but how many Zirkzee performances will it be until we say get him back in then rinse and repeat
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I always give players a season to find their feet ans zirkzee has only been here a few months ans looks a better option than a guy who.has been here for a year longer, nevermind paying 72 million for the privilege. He has to do better.
 
sammyhol said:
Not intelligent

Can’t hold the ball up

Doesn’t use his size well

Has zero impact in build up

Doesn’t make runs into the channel anywhere near often enough

Get beaten in every aerial dual

Isn’t technically gifted

Not exactly deadly even when a rare chance falls his way.

What in the world did our scouts see in this lad to justify spending 60m+ on?!?!
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You're doing the Michael Owen brochure wrong
 
I still maintain Maguire would outscore both him and Zirkzee if he played as an 9. Both are absolutely shocking.
 
Bwuk said:
I still maintain Maguire would outscore both him and Zirkzee if he played as an 9. Both are absolutely shocking.
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Neither are the answer so not defending them, can't deny that but would we create enough chances for Maguire.
 
He needs time away from this environment - it's taking a toll on him mentally. He wasn't this bad when he started out for us - he's regressing at an alarming rate. As if he is in a confidence spiral where a bad performance makes him more nervous which leads to more bad performaces which makes him more nervous ...

We should do whatever it takes to break this, maybe a loan away to a simpler side where he'll start and score some simple goals and rediscover his confidence before coming back to us. I don't think he's as bad as he seems to be now, because he wasn't when he had just signed. I am alarmed at what we're doing with this kid.
 
Believe there is a Queen song written about him!

Invisible man. The level of Premier league defences must be really good because he literally can't find space or creat himself anything. He must have the lowest average shot average of all Premier league strikers.

Both of our forwards are absolutely shocking. We need to address this problem this coming week!
 
I can accept the argument that Rasmus' confidence is on the floor but he is ghosting currently. Only saw one run of any real potential before he got subbed.

If its true that INEOS is giving everyone two years to show what they're about, it would be unsurprising for him to be moving on in the summer.
 
Fortitude said:
I don’t know if it’s us or the league, or both in combination; he looks broken and is regressing quite rapidly now. Not a PL-level player at the moment. Not sure what is for the best with him - continued playing is worsening him.
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He appears to have slowed down. Where is the burst of pace he showed against Sanchez, who is no slouch, versus Galatasaray?
 
He’s terrible. Genuinely looks no better than your average Championship striker.
 
We need to stop playing it into his feet as he clearly isn’t the best at retaining possession as a target man.

He needs the ball played in behind the defence where he can run on to it, but he needs to be better at making those runs too and our players need to find him.

It doesn’t help that in this system, that ball in behind is most often gonna be played by the wingbacks and we don’t have any top ones.
 
Asking because transfer market is still open for a few days: Does Odion Ighalo still play?
 
"We don't need a CF, because we have Hojlund. He's just not getting the service"

No. He can't win headers, he loses the simplest duels, his passing is not good and technically he's so poor.
We couldn't know when we signed him, but he looks like another poor signing unfortunately.
 
Bobski said:
The only thing he really does well in general play is the run behind down the left channel.

Diabolically one dimensional footballer, and by trying to incorporate him into the team that lack of an all round game directly negatively impacts everyone else around him. You can't play combinations with him or put anything in to his feet and make a run off him.

Create a chance and he will score but his movement is so blunt that rarely happens. He is not a threat and is terrible in general play.

Amorin has to try something different, neither of these strikers have enough. Don't know what it is though.
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I agree. It becomes more and more clear that being so blunt in the striker position is just another factor that robs Amorims ideas of a gameplan to shreds because many of the upsides are negated. Our attack is abysmal altogether and thats mainly down to playing to fullbacks as wingbacks who are shit at attacking and having next to nobody who is able and willing to turn a player in the middle of the park. Playing with beton boots like Garnacho, Bruno and Hojlunds is always a disadvantage even though I think Garnacho played alright today and Bruno also wasn't sticking out. There was a small little interplay between Amad and Kobbie, thats the stuff we need...
 
A truly dreadful performance. I can't in all honesty see where his game is going. He has regressed massively and it's got nothing to do with formation. He simply cannot lead the line and even if we bring a 35 year old striker on loan, I'd rather start with him than Hojland.

Not saying we should discard, I'm willing to give him one more season, but I simply cannot be seeing him starting games anymore.
 
I'm not even going to criticize. Feel bad for the guy. United should loan him next year. He needs a change of scenery. Perhaps that will help him evolve.
 
Most strikers try and seek out the space, he seeks out the defender to wrestle with and loses virtually every time.
 
Arguably the worst striker in the league at the minute and I don't even think that's hyperbole.

Feel bad for him because it's true that he doesn't get much service but his hold up play is abysmal. He just can't be starting games when he can't hold on to the ball.
 
I genuinely don't think he'd start at any other PL team other than Southampton and Everton. I even look at Mateta at Palace with envy.

Not his fault but he just isn't good enough.
 
So outside of his purple patch when he scored 7 in 6, he has 5 goals in 42 league games. Obviously you can't completely ignore the purple patch, but that was about a year ago now and he's been getting worse and worse at the basics this season, considerably worse than when he first joined.
 
I'm not even trying to be a dick in saying this because I don't hold anything against Hojlund but, although a lot gets said about him needing a loan (which I don't entirely disagree with), I equally think it's entirely feasible that he just doesn't have what it takes to make it here.

I quite agree with people who aren't overwhelmingly impressed by Zirkzee's performances thus far either but the difference is at least with him I think there is a functional if somewhat unimpressive attacking unit you can build with him up front. Although he's entirely lacking the goal threat you'd expect from a Premier League striker, he's actually quite good at holding the ball up and with the right players around him he's smart enough to create chances using this.

Hojlund, as shit as it is to say, just isn't really offering anything right now. I'm not sure it's really an attitude thing because he does try. He just doesn't have the nous to outmaneuver even the lowest level Premier League centre backs, and doesn't have the technical ability to be in anyway useful in the build-up either.

The reason, though, that I bring up that he may just not have what it takes is that he was signed off the back of essentially half a season's worth of strong performances for Atalanta. Now, development isn't linear, and at Hojlund's age it'd be unfair to just entirely write him off but what I would say is that it wouldn't exactly be out of character for the godawful era of Arnold, Murtough and Ten Hag transfer windows for us to have spent an inordinate amount of money on a player who just doesn't have it.
 
He's better than this. Confidence is completely shot.

We need to get him doing the stuff he's good at. Get him facing the goal more, using his speed, getting shots off.
 
He seems like a nice boy but he's just not cut out to play at the EPL level; I think we can all admit that this much is clear at this point.

Yet another big money transfer that we absolutely bombed.
 
Atalanta must be thanking their lucky stars every single day. 72 bloody million for this guy!
 
He plays like he has input lag. Always looks like he's trying to do too many things at once and ends up doing nothing. He really really needs to improve because at this rate he'll be transfer listed before the season is over. Amorim won't take much more of this. He just looks like he's a level below Zirkzee in terms of actually understanding how to move the ball and interpret space. Can it be taught? I don't know.
 
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