I have more confidence in his finishing/delivery than Antony’s.
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
I'm looking forward to seeing what Diallo can do and he deserves his chance. Antony isn't shooting the lights out either
Absolutely.
Was he press resistant?
Not excuses. Just calling a good performance when I see one. You can see me criticising Rashford in his thread very often. I also did criticise Antony earlier this season fearing he may not come good. I'm not as partial to some players as you seem to think I am.
Thats not Pellistri's problem. He has a lack of end product, Amad showed last season theres goals and assists at the end of his good play. Pellistri needs to go out and show the same
I think he'll get "sustained" sub appearances simply because Antony doesn't typically complete 90 mins.
One complication though is that Rashford is now considered an option there, and being English, if he stays out of the team for very long, the noise from the press will grow steadily.
He's also an option for Bruno but we all know that guy is an energiser bunny!
One complication though is that Rashford is now considered an option there, and being English, if he stays out of the team for very long, the noise from the press will grow steadily.
He's also an option for Bruno but we all know that guy is an energiser bunny!
Last time I can really remember seeing him play he was scoring against Milan under Ole. I'm looking forward to seeing how he's developed. Maybe a few minutes against Bournemouth?
You laugh but we are crying out for those types of players. Dude, if we one day eventually build a team consisting of these players, all of us will be like kids on Christmas day, not just me.
Shame the Wigan game is in Jan because he won't get a chance till then and since it's Jan we'll probably plan him out.
Terrible timing with injuries for him
Terrible timing with injuries for him
You understand why people laugh at you surely?
You obsessively focus on one flaw in a team that is literally full of problems to the point that it becomes a caricature.
Of course I do. The problem is that one flaw, unlike many, has been an issue for over a decade. It's the one flaw we've never actually attempted to address. Name any other and, even if we haven't fixed the issue, we've attempted to.
When we do prioritise that issue, we won't be perfect because, as I've said, it's not the be all and end all, but we'll be soooooooooooo much better off for it.
SYS. Save your self Amad. Get a loan or something in Jan mate.
I agree with you mate, but you talk about them all the time.
I have no hope for a player with his injury luck.
Our great hope at RW. If he doesn't make it we're going to be paying alot of money for another RW in the next year or two.
I forgot all about him, to be honest. Is he injured? Is there a return date?
I’d like to see Amad given a chance. Not a Donny Van De Beek 85th minute cameo chance, but a proper run of 5-6 matches to see what’s he all about. If that’s too much to ask then let the man go and carve out a decent career somewhere.
Reasonable
He will look as shit as everyone else under the fraud in charge.
He's probably going AFCON right?
He'll be hyped up like Mainoo and everyone will want him to immediately start games, because we're all desperate to see the back of the regulars in the team
I know... I'm desperate
What makes it worse is that I genuinely thought ten Hag would be the one to bring in these types of players. So, seeing who he actually brought in made it even worse compared to previous managers.
I do think Amad will face the same struggles as Antony and, to a lesser extent, Garnacho do because he thrives on linking up with other technical players rather than beating them through his dribbling alone. His best stuff on the right last year was when he had an attacking full back overlapping in Hume and Patrick Roberts drifting over to interchange with him.
You see how we play and, when our wide players have it, they're usually isolated and expected to beat a player or two by themselves before putting a ball into the box. If we throw Amad into the same setup, I can see him putting in performances similar to Antony.
I still have hope for him, though, and am excited to see him play for us because I really enjoyed his performances last year. I'm just not expecting anything amazing in this current setup.
The worst thing about it is that it is just common sense given that every team, including our own, places such a huge emphasis on pressing. If every team is being instructed to press, you can’t help but wonder why we haven’t yet had the bright idea to try to resist that press!
Our manager literally punishes his players and makes them run 13km for not running enough and closing people down, yet he seemingly doesn’t have a plan for what McTominay and Bruno will do when they themselves are being closed down. There only seems to be a concern that our defenders, and fecking goalkeeper, can evade a press. If they can’t do that, they’re out. As for the rest…
We all saw, not only the reaction to watching someone like Mainoo in midfield from our fanbase, but the impact it had on the team as a whole. No, he alone didn't change us into a great team because we still had/have a lot of issues, but his composure under pressure and ability to play in tight spaces just naturally elevated our general game in terms of building it out from the back. That was a teenager playing his first ever games at senior level. Now imagine if we brought in multiple players of this ilk but closer to their prime in all different positions. We'd be giving ourselves a great platform to build off of. Like Arsenal under Wenger after 2006, even if we were lacking in other areas to truly compete at the top, we'd at least have the foundations of a good football team. We wouldn't be bored silly like the majority of this past decade when it came to watching us.
It is strange that we don't prioritise them for the first team for multiple reasons. You already pointed out two with the everyone presses point, and the fact that we actually do prioritise it for our back 5, which, on the one hand is great that we value it there, but makes it even weirder that we don't elsewhere. Like, our most composed players in possession are probably Onana, Shaw and Martinez, with Maguire and AWB being competent at their best, too. Then, you move forwards to our midfield and attack, and it's filled with lightweights.
The other reason it's so strange, and I've said this a few times, is that, for our youth teams, we do prioritise these types of players! In the past, I don't know, 8 years, I've noticed we've made it a priority to recruit talents who showcase press resistant attributes, and have made such players a focal point of our youth teams. Yet we still neglect them at senior level. It honestly baffles me.
Didn’t he play CAM at Sunderland ? Definitely can be used there too
He should to get playing time. But knowing his luck he will pick up covid or some plague there.
I hope not. After missing half a season it seems a bit much to immediately go off to an international tournament once fit. Especially when you consider his previous injury record as well.
At some point he has to get his Manchester United career going.
While that is spot on, even on here you have a ton of people who think even the idea of press resistance is some sort of hipster bullshit.
And then at the same time they wonder why we keep losing the ball cheaply.
Hopefully, he'll remain fit till the end of the season and we can find out his actual quality. With the way things go, the less a player plays, the better he gets. The suspense is only building up his reputation. It would save us a lot of money and pain if he can turn out to be good for us. We have spent close to a Gbp 200m on four right wingers in the last 2-3 seasons and he is our last remaining hope.
The bullshit is when people (including some in this thread) think footballers exist in binary states of a) press resistant and b) not press resistant. We all know McT isn’t good enough on the ball. It isn’t some great insight to categorise him as b) not press resistant. We also know the manager wanted to move him on in the summer, because he isn’t good enough on the ball. And he’s only getting games now because he’s one of only two players in our squad who is scoring regularly.
Diallo is a good footballer and will hopefully improve our team. But again, proclaiming that he is b) not press resistant isn’t some amazing insight. And he has plenty of other qualities that are important too. His goal scoring record at Sunderland is probably the most important, considering how goal shy we are this season.
That we’ve spent 200m on four right wingers, none of whom may be good enough for the PL, boggles the mind.
Of the four, Amad intrigues me the most. When, someday, he’s fit I’d like to see him get a run of 6-8 games and not the moronic 85th minute cameos.
Of the four, Amad intrigues me the most. When, someday, he’s fit I’d like to see him get a run of 6-8 games and not the moronic 85th minute cameos.
It is indeed not some great insight. Yet people push against this term, despite it being the best way to describe how a player handles being under pressure while having the ball.
The issue is we have to many on our team who are b.
Bruno our main creative force is extremely NOT press resistant. The same goes for someone like Eriksen. Now you have two of our mainstays, before Eriksens injury, in our midfield who crumble under pressure, in a league where the pressing is extremely intens.
I dont think its a problem when Bruno is the 10 as long as we have midfielders who can cope with the pressure, which is also why Kobbie looks like such star already.
Id argue Diallo is more press resistant than Antony, especially after he has bulked up. He is composed on the ball and doesnt treat it like a hot potato.
What the hell has happened in this thread
This must be the most active performance thread for a player that hasn't actually played a single minute!
It's now just disintegrated into random chat!
This must be the most active performance thread for a player that hasn't actually played a single minute!
It's now just disintegrated into random chat!
You tell em ChampWhat the hell has happened in this thread
This must be the most active performance thread for a player that hasn't actually played a single minute!
It's now just disintegrated into random chat!
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i mean the sancho thread is pretty active considering he has been on his little temper tantrum fit. I see nothing wrong with people excited for amad coming back. Hes a talented youngster who can help out in the attack hopefully. Why shouldnt people be excited for itWhat the hell has happened in this thread
This must be the most active performance thread for a player that hasn't actually played a single minute!
It's now just disintegrated into random chat!
He's definitely going to get his chance after watching Antony the last 2 games.
with us going back to one game a week I can't see him playing much. It'll be Antony/Rashford on that right wing until ETH is here.