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Bang on!!
The problem with this line of thinking is assuming we are a club that exists solely for the purpose of developing young players. He specifically said Man Utd first choice striker so those numbers are obviously questionable.
Thank you. First one who noticed that part. Despite i wrote it in nearly every single post.
The problem has been that too many of the balls played to him have been in the air and he's wrestling with the CB rather than getting it to feet to lay it off and then run in behind for the 1-2 or the cross.
I noticed it but I think where people are reacting is to the notion that it is a criticism of the player rather than the club.Thank you. First one who noticed that part. Despite i wrote it in nearly every single post.
This makes no sense - we are developing him four ourselves because we think he's worth the patience of a season or two. If this is his base level in a bad team and with a couple of injuries, the future looks good.
It doesn’t make the original post any less dumb. With the possible exception of Bruno, which player this season has put up numbers good enough for a first choice United player in their position? None of them, because of the coaching, the injuries, the general quality of the team, etc.
Agreed. People are expecting way too much from a 21 year old in a very poor team. The better the team gets and plays the better he’ll become. You can see he loves the club when he gets frustrated at missed chances all the time. He at least gives his all. We can’t say that for some senior players.
For better context, will be good to show how many attempts they had too. Rasmus has been working with scrap the whole season.
For what it’s worth, I think you’re spot on in your posts. These same posters will be the most toxic about him and others when they realise they aren’t as good as they’ve been projecting.
What absolute bollocks. Højlund has been getting stick all season from a lot of posters. No less "abuse" than Bruno etc.
How come you ignored my post about Andy Cole?Thank you. First one who noticed that part. Despite i wrote it in nearly every single post.
If that's the case then its not an accurate interpretation of those offering a critique. The issue isn't one player, its Ten Hag's overall transfer strategy and the players he chose to buy last summer, relative to the results we've had this year. Hojlund could develop into a top player in a couple of seasons, but that won't mitigate ETH's 2nd season at United, which after splashing out record transfer fees, demanded that he improve from the previous year, but instead presented us with the worst league season in nearly 5 decades.
Ok, then I understand it a bit better, though he has still gotten a lot of unwarranted and ridiculously unnecessary stick.
There has been plenty of toxicity in here already with people writing him off in very unmistakable terms. I don’t get how you can’t see he’s extraordinarily talented. It truly baffles me.
Cole said his first instinct is always to fight the centre half and he just couldn’t understand why. That the goal of a centre forward is to find space, which involves not being close to the centre half.
I have a Chelsea supporting friend who said he would gladly have spent the 70mil on Hojlund instead of the 20 on Jackson. Says Hojlund reminds him of Diego Costa in how he didn't need multiple chances to score in a game.
He did say that along with the usual remarks around the awful service we are providing. I found that interesting and having seen a decent bit of Rasmus playing for Atalanta last season it is not something that he was doing before arriving here so it is presumably in response to some sort of instruction we have given him. I think someone has told him to play as a physical front man without properly defining it for him. His cameos in the last couple of games have been much closer to how he was playing in Serie A, much more of a freer role across the attack where he is facing the goal and can use his pace.
Andy Cole was a 5'9" poacher, his whole game was to find space and get in behind the defence.
This video is actually really good and highlights what I have been complaining about for most of this season. Our system is wrong for the players. There was zero reason to buy Rasmus if you where not going to use him to run in the channels and let him work with the wingers.
There’s so much Cole hate on this forum. Cole was far better at using his body to work defenders. He was taller than that too. He didn’t play anything like Inzaghi or Owen.
tell me you never watched Andy Cole play football without telling me you never watched Andy Cole play football
Who's hating Andy Cole? It's just that his body type dictated that he was a different type of striker. Yeah, it's an oversimplification to say he was just a poacher, but he was never going to be able to use his physicality to bully defenders in the way that Hojlund will be capable of if he continues his development, for his body type and skills, it made sense to be always looking for space.
Chris Wood like that, though
You’ll get used to him. Summer is when the bear comes out of the cave and roars a lot to the clouds
Fantastic.
And shits a lot in the woods
Because it was strawman argument on many different levels.
It’s a perfectly valid argument. You said Hojlund’s return this season hasn’t been good enough yet one of our greatest strikers who you are obviously a big fan of had a similar return in his first full season.Because it was strawman argument on many different levels.
Now, when @golden_blunder entered a chat, i am running away. Since Phil Jones debate, i always fear that he will be the one who will drop axe on my existence on Caf.
So....yeah, Hojlund man, he is great.
Different times, different system, different style of play.
Talk about double standards.
The summer following that we tried to get rid of Cole so that's a shit point to be fair.
The style of play is only a valid excuse when it leads to success, not when Championship sides are taking the piss out of it.
It’s hardly a shit point when he went on to have such a fantastic career, and his point is that Hojlund will never make it because he’s scored 10 league goals in his first season in England at 21.
