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2024-25 Performances

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5.6 Season Average Rating
Appearances
42
Goals
5
Assists
2
Yellow cards
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Absolutely stunning performance. Honestly think that's the best performance he's put in for us at such a crucial time. Fair play Casemiro, I have written you off so many times
 
Needs to be wrapped in cotton wool. If we do go on to win the EL, he would no doubt have a massive part to play.
 
Amorim has been using him well, particularly in Europe, even with his legs being gone. His experience will be important for us to have a chance in the final, but I do dread seeing him up against a physically dominant Spurs team.
 
Andy_Cole said:
Love him and glad we have him for another season. Hag’s biggest error was to not allow him to play into form.
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I honestly don’t think prime Kante would have found form in that Ten Hag setup of his last 18 months. Leaving one midfielder to try to stop counters was suicidal, even more so when it’s a player of his age and mobility. It was just ridiculous and even the fans could see it was an issue. I don’t know what he was thinking by persisting with it.
 
pocco said:
I honestly don’t think prime Kante would have found form in that Ten Hag setup of his last 18 months. Leaving one midfielder to try to stop counters was suicidal, even more so when it’s a player of his age and mobility. It was just ridiculous and even the fans could see it was an issue. I don’t know what he was thinking by persisting with it.
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100% this.

I argued all season long on Casemiro’s behalf that even prime Keane or Robbo would’ve been fecked in there.
 
Massive. Slower games are no bother to him at all, just picks his moments.
 
ten Hag hung him out to dry with his tactics. He's looked a lot better in Amorim's system.
 
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Been saying it all season, we need to build round him and cover his pace issues. Technically aside from Bruno he's in another level to everyone.

The fact he's not played most of the season is benefiting us now as he's full of energy.
 
Not sure where it’s come from but he oozed class tonight and for the last couple of weeks.
Can’t work him out right now but hope he keeps it up!
 
Great tonight. Can still thrive in certain games, just lacks the physicality to do it week in week out in the Premier League in a team wanting to play on the front foot, though you can say that for half our players.
 
He loves these stages. Seeing him makes me feel we are winning this whole thing
 
Pogue Mahone said:
He’s not just been good in Europe. Been one of our best players in the league too, recently. Not quite sure why but it’s a nice surprise end of season bonus.
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Amorim mentioned a month or 2 ago that he realized he had to adapt to get the best out of Casemiro and just make some tweaks, out of necessity at first but it's been for the better all around. Its what I was so critical of in Ten Hags system.. there was no way a player like Casemiro just became useless. He's never been that type to just phone it in either and sit back and take the cash. Managers have to tweak their systems to who they have and find out how to get the best out of their players, and Ten Hags midfield was just asking too much from him with no changes. Amorim took a couple of months but he's certainly adapted it to suit Case more and he's found his form again.
 
IF (Still a big IF I know) we win this competition, will his transfer be seen as a net positive? I don't think we'd be in this competition still without him, and if we win it we'll make over £100m from CL football...
 
Annihilate Now! said:
IF (Still a big IF I know) we win this competition, will his transfer be seen as a net positive? I don't think we'd be in this competition still without him, and if we win it we'll make over £100m from CL football...
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I was just spacing out and the thought passed through my head too.

It's probably still a no given we could've spent that money so much more effectively but the extra 100m we'd make makes it a lot more palatable.
 
Annihilate Now! said:
IF (Still a big IF I know) we win this competition, will his transfer be seen as a net positive? I don't think we'd be in this competition still without him, and if we win it we'll make over £100m from CL football...
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In terms of providing moments of pure majesty, I’d say definitely yes. I know his legs are gone but he’s such an intelligent player and I’ve lived having him at United.
 
AndyMUFC said:
Great tonight. Can still thrive in certain games, just lacks the physicality to do it week in week out in the Premier League in a team wanting to play on the front foot, though you can say that for half our players.
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You could’ve said the same for Scholes at his age but Fergie prolonged the life of his best players by putting others around them with legs. Exactly what had happened now with Cas instead of hanging him out to dry.
 
Annihilate Now! said:
IF (Still a big IF I know) we win this competition, will his transfer be seen as a net positive? I don't think we'd be in this competition still without him, and if we win it we'll make over £100m from CL football...
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I’d say in that case he’d be extremely responsible for 2 CL qualifications, a league cup and a Europa League from his 3 seasons.

For me he was a undoubtedly a good buy, had we followed it up the following seasons with strengthening around him. Sadly it took too long to do & all we got was a shite loan from Fiorentina and eventually Ugarte, when we should really have 2-3 new CM players now since his signing to help him out, manage his minutes etc.
 
Annihilate Now! said:
IF (Still a big IF I know) we win this competition, will his transfer be seen as a net positive? I don't think we'd be in this competition still without him, and if we win it we'll make over £100m from CL football...
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For a regular team, I'd say it would be positive value if we get back in the CL, and for United post-Fergie it was already positive value just from how important he was in us making the CL, in that it was only slightly negative value, and if we got say 60 cents on the dollar from all our buys (so Sancho would have cost 44M and make 60% of his wages, for instance, we obviously didn't get even close to that value from him, for that sort of thing you'd want like a Nani level of winger) we'd have a solid Villa/Newcastle kind of team.

Eriksen and Casemiro are old and limited, but they haven't been the problem here at all. In terms of this season, we've got almost no production from Sancho, Antony, Hojlund, Mount and Onana and that's a combined 360M, that should have bought more than the 15th best keeper in the country, useless cameos from a #10 and a #9 with 9 goals in almost 3000 minutes (and that's with a decent Europa league campaign). If we'd gotten 200M worth of value from that 5, we'd be pushing for the CL in the normal way.
 
Casemiro is getting better and better. He was our MOTM yesterday. He was excellent against Lyon as well. He is becoming our key player in Europa League along with Bruno Fernandes. His first season in Man Utd was excellent and it's like he's returning to that kind of form again.
 
Brilliant performance last night. Ten Hag hung the guy out to dry in his midfield, I’m glad he’s starting to show his class again under Amorim.

I don’t mind if he hangs about for another season because his experience is invaluable but not sure you can keep him as a bit part player, think he needs games in his legs to be effective.
 
Pogue Mahone said:
He’s not just been good in Europe. Been one of our best players in the league too, recently. Not quite sure why but it’s a nice surprise end of season bonus.
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He looks more fit. I don't know how to explain but he moves better. Playing in this system he don't need to run and cover everything. That helps a little I guess.
 
A changed man after he gave that interview. Getting off first time passes so well and even the long rangers. Positionally excellent and chipping in with the goals. Undroppable right now.
 
Pogue Mahone said:
He’s not just been good in Europe. Been one of our best players in the league too, recently. Not quite sure why but it’s a nice surprise end of season bonus.
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Even in our horror group stage last season in the CL, he was one of the best performers despite his league woes. The man has played so many European games in his career his blood is just automatically up everytime he walks out on the pitch on an European night.
 
He looks to have found a new lease of life under Amorim.

When on form like last night he is a joy to watch.
 
I was saying that I wouldn't mind him staying a few months ago. More and more, I think it's actually very important that he stays.

The way he holds his teammates to a standard is too important. We only really have him and Bruno who seem to do this vocally. De Ligt and Maguire a bit maybe but Casemiro seems stronger.
 
golden_blunder said:
If we get to the champions league, I believe that we should keep him around for his experience. Our squad is young
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I don't disagree in principle as he appears to be a good professional to have around, however we pay him way too much to be just a squad player.
 
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