Fair play to Mark and United Stand, great interview.
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Season Average Rating
- Appearances
- 39
- Goals
- 11
- Assists
- 2
- Yellow cards
- 2
Lot of speculation about him having a release clause in his contract after his answer, is that a concern?
That goal yesterday was so good, love the way he hit the shot.
I don't think United does Release Clauses , would be very surprised if United made an exception for Hojlund very much doubt that .
Would have made headlines if that were the case, you can't keep something that juicy about United under wraps.
Never seen anything remotely legit regarding this.
Back when he signed, it was speculated that he would have a buyout clause because Haaland (with whom he was constantly compared) apparently had one with City.
Nothing substantial whatsoever.
I am too old to follow, but what is this Sean Mills and Hojlund joke spreading around on social media?
I've no doubt would gladly stay at United for life if we pull our act together, so I wouldn't worry about a release clause
Why would they have included a release clause in his contract? The only reason we never signed Haaland was because his agent asked for a release clause to be included in his contract.
I still have my doubts but using "only 4 goals" is stupid because it's factually false, he has 10 goals. He's quite likely to finish on 15 at this rate if not a couple more.
He still didn't get great service, he fashioned that chance himself.The boy seems to be finally getting the service he needs
Never had doubts in the lad. Was always a case of him getting the service
He clearly will be a 70 million striker which is how player's worth are evaluated.
It took some time, but now he doesn't always stick to opponent CBs which made him on the losing end of duel in the past. It 's more tiring for him to run around, but now he has a lot more game involvement.
Three consecutive excellent games as Center Forward for him.
Three consecutive excellent games as Center Forward for him.
100% but if people want to go that way then lets give Rashford's 30 goal a season the same treatment...that becomes 16.
Either way its just so called fans putting a negative spin on anything remotely positive about the club...gets very tiresome.
His celebration looked like he cocked his leg up and wafted out a fart?
What do you think is a realistic league goals target,also who would be the ideal striker we could bring in to help his developmentWe've updated the goals scored
15-20 goals for the season is looking a very reasonable target now. Love the progress he's making.
There are fifteen games left, i think if he can get to 8-10 league goals it's a pretty decent return for a young kid in a struggling season, especially if it's something like 15-20 goals in all competitions.
He supposedly is a lookalike for Rasmus
Personally I think it would be stupid to bring in another striker to really compete with him. If anything a veteran that is happy to play second fiddle is a smarter option, or just a versatile forward that can play across the frontline (a la a Jota type)
When a young player (especially a forward) is figuring it out and gaining more and more confidence the last thing he needs is to be rotated constantly.
Been the case for a fair few of his goals honestly
I'd like this but Ten Hag's a stickler to the requirements for each position. It doesn't matter who the personnel are, every position has one task they're doing and they're supposed to do that. Regardless of whether it's Mount / Mainoo / Eriksen / Fred, the #8 is supposed to do what the #8 is supposed to do.
The only time I've seen him change things was who the middle CB is in the 3 we build up with. He wants it to be Martinez but tried to accommodate Maguire in that role sometimes.
e.g., instead of
---- Maguire --- Martinez --- Shaw
------------------- Casemiro ---------------
he swaps it around to
--- Dalot ---- Maguire -- Martinez ----
--------------- Casemiro ----------------------
Hojlund‘s boyhood club is man united, there was pictures of him wearing united shirt when he was kid. I have no concern.
Which experienced striker or versatile forward should we looking to bring in this summer?
Callum Wilson is the first name that came to mind in my head without doing much research. Joao Pedro can play across the line but is going to cost a bomb and we need to invest big money into our defense. Taremi is another shout but he might not want a reserve role.
To be quite frank I don't give a flying feck what Ten Hag wants as of now. Unless we turn in title challenger form in the run in he could very likely be gone anyways.
Loads of people in these threads say he's technically terrible. As well as the goals now he's taken plenty of good touches, dribbles, passes on top of his strength and pace
Really good compilation of his game outside the box:
https://x.com/fuadyabz23/status/1754974170650120644?s=46
https://x.com/fuadyabz23/status/1754974170650120644?s=46
@devilish made good shout in one of the other thread about Ben Yedder out of contract in summer still scoring goals he might be worth a punt for year or two won't demand starting spot , but if he could maintain decent level for even another season could be shrewd piece of business .
He's like a pacy Harry Kane
It's criminal how so few of those translated into goals
Seems like the backheel and receiving of the ball with his back instep/heel is becoming bit of a textbook move for him.
Was just going to post this. There are some pretty moments in there. He can definitely be more than just a goalscorer.
But he isn't! May be that's the joke...
It was the fanbases of other teams on Twitter who were posting clips of the guy because Rasmus was on a poor run, as every fanbase seems to do to any player who isn't playing well, they find or post a 'lookalike' that is often considered to be less than them as a means to say how shit they are. Basically it was initially done to mock both Hojlund and this Sean Mills guy, but to be fair to the guy he's taken it in his stride and he seems like a good person
I don't think he's changed this at all? Look at his goal versus Dawson, leans into him, gets his arm across him and reaps the reward with a goal. This is what we haven't had in yonks, really since Ibra and he wasn't very mobile, a CF who is able to overpower big PL CBs in those 50/50 situations. His goal versus WHUM was just made by Case and both West Ham CBs drop off him which allows him to turn and drive at the goal.
He's still not a big target man who will win loads of header and hold it up, he's a poacher and he will stick on CBs to allow him to run off them and across them. I don't think he'll score many like the goal versus WHUM but I think he'll get a lot more like the one versus Wolves.
I think he will learn to pick his battles a bit more carefully as he matures. Against Bayern he was trying the same tactics and was losing all his physical battles because of who he was up against. He’s going to get even more powerful over the next few years (which is great) but he’ll be a better player when he starts to realise that he might need to mix things up in certain fixtures.
Bayern though I'm not sure he ever got the run on Upamecano or Kim, it was all him trying to shield the ball and getting boshed around, usually completely isolated from a long ball (that's my memory anyway, thinking particularly when he got it down on the left hand side and was just pushed out by Upamecano). Agreed though, there are certain defenders he would get a lot more joy against and the big fast physical units aren't them.
Will be intriguing to see who Villa play this weekend given they have so many CBs out injured, Konsa and Mings I think would do well versus Hojlund but I quite fancy Hojlund against Lenglet, in particular.
Well it's not just 4 PL goals, it's also he was joint top goal scorer in the CL group stages with Haaland and he did it on 9 shots. Very clinical. Haaland on the other hand he scored 5 on 27 shots.
Confidence is a ridiculously undervalued thing to most fans it feels like.
You could see what it meant when he got his first PL goal and you can see everything about his play has improved now he's firing.
I think this is a good example of the overuse of statistics and small sample sizes. Still, he's definitely looking better, but agree with the poster not a £70m striker. Maybe in a couple of years but who knows.
What about the £64m we've actually paid for him, so far?