Yeah I know what a squad player is do you? In this season he’s played what 26 times. That by any definition isn’t a squad player he’s a first choice midfielder.
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Season Average Rating
- Appearances
- 39
- Goals
- 10
- Assists
- 3
- Yellow cards
- 3
I Agree. Asking him to control the midfied, or play as an anchor is a total misuse of him. He’s good as the 3rd midfielder arriving late into the box but if your not creating chances regularly he is unlikely to have any affect on the game.
Squad players need to be good at coming in and filling in for players. McTom either scores which papers over a poor performance, or he has a poor performance. He's our goal poacher who provides little to nothing else when hes on the pitch. But we cant/dont pick him as a 9 so we cant still have 10 people behind the ball if needed. We get 9 people behind the ball, 1 in the striker position to occupy and battle with defenders and McTominay is a lost number in there somewhere and doing nothing
The very worst of McTominay on display tonight. Just an empty kit. Can't believe he was allowed to play the full match.
He deserved to start after Liverpool but should have been subbed off after 20-25 minutes.
Nobody is asking him to control midfield or be an anchor. But it should be expected to win a bunch of 50/50s, scrap for the ball, make yourself available and influence the game if you are playing as a midfielder. Do something. Because you have 7 goals not 70, you arent going to score a goal every game
I guess the justification would be tjat we were facing a lot of set pieces but obviously if we had someone who offered some control in midfield we might not need to defend so many set pieces
Midfielder's job is to create chances and to dictate tempo of the game. That "arriving late" is just a bonus to player's game.
All these talented players and then we have to put McTominay in the center of them.
You might as well be playing with 10 men.
You might as well be playing with 10 men.
Only thing I'd use him for is if we badly need a goal in the 90 odd minute and we put him in instead of a CB.
He's the first we need to sell in the transfer window
Non midfielding midfielder.
Sold Fred to keep this dud
Absolutely usless today.
The fact Ten Hag still thinks he works in midfield is baffling
Never seen a man run forward without actually going anywhere. He needs to be studied.
He would be the first name on the transfer list if I was in charge. I'd make him available at any price. If we don't get any takers after a month I would release him.
The most annoying player. Technically inept tactically non existent, would never give a top class performance but would score every now and then to make sure he survives at this football club.
His touch in 98th minute was 
. He tried to control high ball and ball just bounced from his leg.
. He tried to control high ball and ball just bounced from his leg.Find it hilarious people refer to him as versatile and being able to cover multiple positions. He’s pretty useless at majority of aspects of any midfield role. It’s ok when he scores but rest of the time it’s like playing with a man less in midfield and he just does same limited things over and over.
Would be crazy for turn down 30m but we have so many players to offload may have to keep him for another year, he was dreadful tonight from the start.
Would be crazy for turn down 30m but we have so many players to offload may have to keep him for another year, he was dreadful tonight from the start.
just...how has he had a career here? its beyond comprehension
Not in the game as per usual.
Hes an impact sub at best but as a midfield starter he should be no where near the team.
Hes an impact sub at best but as a midfield starter he should be no where near the team.
Dreadful performance, the worst of everything that is bad about his game on display.
I'm tired of watching us play with him in the team. Starting him is giving the opposition the comfort that we won't even attempt to control the game and would rather rely on a scrappy counterattack to get our goal.
Not a starting player at all. More of an impact sub
Clearly only in the side for his height and goal threat. He just can't be starting for us next season.
Bruno and him in midfield together makes me want to cry
Sell
He’s a fecking ghost when he starts
its the calibre of teams he is a spectator against regardless. its really mental
Had to check the team sheet after 30 mins to find out who was playing with Mainoo.
Putting McT in from the start is mental. Amrabat must be really terrible than he can't take more minutes off of invisible McT and liability Casemiro
Putting McT in from the start is mental. Amrabat must be really terrible than he can't take more minutes off of invisible McT and liability Casemiro
They also call him a hard worker and a team player, but he is often missing defensively, doesnt touch the ball much or have any noticable impact on how the game is going.
For example if his running led to us playing balls down channels for him to chase and win lots of the ball far up the pitch fair enough but he does invisible running that might amount to a large metric but wasnt beneficial to us.
Its like he's just running up and down the pitch ignoring that a football match is going on, unless the ball might come to him around the box and then he switches on and tries to score
This - has some value if you’re chasing a goal. Has zero value if you want control. Was 100% convinced he’d be coming off at half time after the battering first half, staggered he played the full game.
This - a squad player is someone who can come in when needed and give a steady, reliable 6 - 7 / 10 performance. McT isn't that.
"I did the 0 part, thats half of 10 right?"
He does run around aimlessly, the only time he breaks into a sprint is to run into the opposition box, rest of the time it’s a lot of ball watching and pointing.
He should have been subbed at half time but because he is our impact sub he just stayed on the pitch for entire game. It’s lazy and cowardly management.
When Ten Hag was appointed I said that I will first judge him by what he does with McTominay. The fact that he wasn’t immediately sold in 2022 raised the first doubts that he didn’t have the plan I/we had hoped if he didn’t see Scott as an antithesis of it. Here we are almost two seasons later and he is still starting him in midfield where he has 5 options available. It shows that we after this long we are still just winging it from game to game with no evidence of any plan. If Mount can easily be swapped out for Scott McTominay, then the manager doing the selecting has no philosophy.
They say in modern football it's not enough for a centre forward to just score and contribute nothing else to the team. So by that logic it must definitely not be enough for a midfielder to prance around, contribute nothing in midfield and just try to get on the end of things in the opposition box.
Why do we keep playing him when the oppsosition can saunter through our midfield and have a field day popping off shots at our goal?
Makes no sense, he has 9 goals great. But how many more would others have scored and how many less would we have conceded if we didn't play so many games with virtually 10 men on the pitch?
Why do we keep playing him when the oppsosition can saunter through our midfield and have a field day popping off shots at our goal?
Makes no sense, he has 9 goals great. But how many more would others have scored and how many less would we have conceded if we didn't play so many games with virtually 10 men on the pitch?
Just feck him off to Everton or west ham
He can be effective as an impact sub but that just seeks to result in him starting and playing like shit
He can be effective as an impact sub but that just seeks to result in him starting and playing like shit