Recent content by King Azaz the Unabridged

Rashford has been in the team for 8 years now. I keep hearing how he hasn't developed as a footballer since he was a teenager, is way too technically limited, strolls around the pitch, can't be arsed to work, gets put on a pedestal just because he's a local lad, and we'll never get anywhere by...

One of the most tiresome things about a heavy loss here would have been the "these same moaning gutless players don't put in any effort and have thrown yet another manager under the bus!!! No point replacing a coach until we get rid of ALL OF THEM" nonsense we've been hearing for close to a...

Get in, lads. This lot is even worse than we are, let's win this.

That's because, with respect, you have a very different interpretation of "evidence" than the many users disagreeing with you on this topic. And when you're given evidence for why not everyone else is as firmly Ten Hag in (for example, again, we've won league games in 2023/24 at just about the...

The reason people are making out that we've been bad is because our win-rate for the season, which is now 28 games in, is 54%. Klopp's career PL rate, which I'm assuming is what you're talking about with this comparison, is 63%. We've been much closer to Moyes (who managed 50% as United...

We're at 58% after 63 league games under Ten Hag. 60% (23 wins in 38) last season and 54% (15 in 28) this season. 70% is a pipe dream, and I'm sure the last time we actually managed it in a league season was in Fergie's last year. On the subject of benchmarks and what is acceptable, I spent...

I don't disagree with the first bit - the gap between the top sides and the rest is even higher now - but the points totals to win the league aren't as different from our CL-winning era as I thought, it's just that Liverpool and City had a couple of mad recent seasons (2018/19 and 21/22) where...

Was going to say exactly this. Never understood why so many people say this, about Mourinho in particular - easy to forget we came back from 2-0 down to save a game literally a week before he was sacked. Not too long before that we came back to beat Bournemouth in the last minute, and again...

Winners, for sure. That team won 3 titles in a row and a CL (plus another CL final and semi-final) in an era where the other Prem teams were top quality and consistently threatening in Europe too - Chelsea and Liverpool regularly made it to the CL semis (and one final each) in that timeframe...

I remember him playing every single league game in 2011/12, so that's definitely not true. At the time we signed Van Persie, he'd been pretty much injury-free for 18 months. And he made it another 12 months until the issues started again under Moyes - I doubt the much-discussed change of...

Outrageous, isn't it? The last time we signed a player whose strongest position was the right wing, used him primarily on the right wing, and actually got top-level performances out of him, was Antonio Valencia in 2009. And he was a fullback by 2015.

These posts would be more constructive if you suggested alternatives, instead of jumping straight to saying everyone putting them in the team is doing it because Real Madrid. Both these guys (and Martinez) are automatic picks for me because last season's team was the second-best one we've put...

With the seasons that earned everyone's nomination: De Gea (17/18) Valencia Varane Martinez Shaw (16/17) (22/23) (22/23) (20/21) Casemiro Pogba (22/23) (16/17) Greenwood Fernandes Rashford (19/20) (20/21) (22/23) Ibrahimovic (16/17) Could throw Blind 15/16, Martial 19/20, Herrera 16/17...

Bailly is being done a disservice being named in nearly everyone's team. We've only won 4 trophies all decade and he was key in two of them, started the League Cup final under Mourinho and was in the Europa team of the season if I'm remembering correctly - generally looked very good that entire...

:lol: Seriously though, I get that we're complete shite right now but "a better DM [than Casemiro] would probably make Dalot better" might just be the worst take I've read on the internet this season.