Feels like the U22 game the other day was a missed opportunity to give him some much needed game time. Feck knows when he’ll next get a chance to play some football.
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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'd surprised if we see him this season, he needs a loan. It doesn't help we only have two games in January.
I was hoping to see him over Christmas.
Not socially down the pub, but making a sub appearance.
Why? Have I missed something?
He's just coming back from knee surgery, he needs regular gametime.
Oh I thought you meant he won’t play again this season
I keep seeing rumours about him going to Leicester. I think that'd be a bad move, personally. They're flying this season so I can't see him suddenly showing up and getting the starts needed.
There have been links to Sunderland, too, and I know the fans would love that because he became a fan favourite there, but I don't think that's as likely with Tony Mowbray just being sacked. Amad seemed to really love working with him. Still, I'd much rather he went back there than Leicester as I'm sure he'd play more.
I'd rather we integrate into our first 11 than loan him out again, though. He may not end up being good enough but I think we're in a place now where it's worth giving him a shot.
There have been links to Sunderland, too, and I know the fans would love that because he became a fan favourite there, but I don't think that's as likely with Tony Mowbray just being sacked. Amad seemed to really love working with him. Still, I'd much rather he went back there than Leicester as I'm sure he'd play more.
I'd rather we integrate into our first 11 than loan him out again, though. He may not end up being good enough but I think we're in a place now where it's worth giving him a shot.
I'd prefer him putting pressure on Antony's position
Agreed, we haven't been strong in attack this season so I think Amad has a good chance to get minutes. Antony is hit and miss, Pellistri is a decent bench option and Rashford isn't good on the right.
I also think Amad is good cover for Bruno at AM and has also played as false 9 in the past so provides some options there. I feel the style of play Amad has is something we have been missing as he is very good at making the right decisions in the final third and would probably help to create more chances for Hojlund.
Problem is he likely won’t be match-fit before the turn of the year and we only have 2 games in January. A loan seems very likely, unfortunately.
Why do people still talk like this? Pellistri needs a loan...Amad needs to displace Anthony. We have no RW (Anthony is more like a second RB...I could be wrong but I suspect Dalot has better dribbling and assist stats in comparison to Anthony). If Amad goes out on loan, we may as well sell him because if he can't get a game when we have horrible players like Anthony and Rashford, he will never make it
Loaning him out with our current rw situation would be madness.
His bad luck with timing of injuries is outrageous. First there was the injury that ruled him out of a loan. Now he comes back from an exceptional loan with Sunderland, only for an injury to rule him out of the whole of the first half of the season. Then returns to fitness at the exact moment we crash out of Europe, thus meaning much less fixtures for everyone. Oh and only two league games for him to potentially get minutes in the whole of January. Total fecking disaster for him.
I have this hope that he does a Mainoo and goes straight into a match and just owns that right wing.
I think, or hope more like, that he will get some minutes in the matches around Christmas, perhaps 10/15 minutes against Villa, 20/30 minutes against Forest, possible start in the FA cup against Wigan and 20/30 minutes against Tottenham, then ETH will have a bit of an idea on his fitness and also his ability to play against premiership teams.
That would be great but I don’t see how he gets those minutes after zero football, at any level, over the last several months. Mainoo timed his return a lot better, as he got to play a lot of football for our U21s and England underage teams to get some match sharpness before he featured for the first team. Diallo hasn’t kicked a ball in a game of football since pre-season. Don’t see how he gets any PL minutes any time soon.
Is he going to AFCON? If so, that may put off potential loan options if he's going to miss all of January, but it could potentially benefit us if he comes back match fit.
His weight of pass is sublime. A real technician.
He puts a little backspin on the ball.
Entirely depends on ETH's plans for him before the injury. Like with Mainoo we can see that ETH was quick to give him minutes immediately after his return from injury. If he was part of ETH's plans before the injury I won't be surprised if he given sub appearances immediately.
Great news if he is. Because he won’t be getting match fit if he stays here.
He hasn’t played for his country in almost 3 years
March wasn’t 3 years ago. https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/spielbericht/index/spielbericht/4043292He hasn’t played for his country in almost 3 years
Wiki needs updating
It’s highly unlikely he gets called up to the squad regardless of when he last played . He hasn’t played competitively since May.
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They can have Pellistri instead
Or Antony.
I don't think we should be loaning him out when we can't score goals and have nobody creating anything from out wide in the final third. The challenge is obviously to get him match fit as some have mentioned but he's been out for that long that he'll probably be slowly introduced anyway so if we can get him up to reasonable speed with sub appearances gradually increasing so he can make a proper claim to start in about 4-5 weeks time. If we're planning very little business in January we need something to change so he's about all we've got
It defies all logic to loan him out, which makes me think it's nailed on to happen going off the recent decision-making at the club.
Personally, I would loan him out. He's missed a lot of football. Get another half season under his belt and he can come back in the summer as first choice (potentially).
No just play him like we are doing with Mainoo
If he can't break into a team that has no creativity then he might as well be sold. It doesn't take that long to get match sharpness back, Antony isn't pulling up any trees anyway, so we may as well build Amad up for the remainder of the season.
Reckon he’ll get his chance, he’s clearly not ready yet. For sure he’d be on the bench if he was. He’s still young and is coming back from a bad injury, no rush.
If he isn’t going to get a chance now when we are beyond a shit show with absolutely nothing on the RW, he’d be as well as pushing to leave.
He’s a far better footballer than Antony.
He’s a far better footballer than Antony.
We have to give him a go before we loan him out!
I think ETH will be under too much pressure to get results now to chance it with Amad and playing him into match fitness & form.
Plus, ETH by nature, is a pretty cautious manager when it comes to changing formations/starting 11s and developing young players.
Do not loan him!
May as well throw him in the starting 11 now he is training because the current lot ain't working. No harm in giving him a few consecutive games to see what happens.
Worst case scenario is he plays shit and we lose but that happens most games anyway so we have nothing to lose
May as well throw him in the starting 11 now he is training because the current lot ain't working. No harm in giving him a few consecutive games to see what happens.
Worst case scenario is he plays shit and we lose but that happens most games anyway so we have nothing to lose
exactly what i’m thinking of.
Exactly. On the right hand side we have our 80m+ star Anthony with zero goal involvement, Sancho as a meme, Pellistri who i personally rate the highest but isn't tearing it up when he gets minutes, and Mount who is constantly injured but played a little there to squeeze in another expensive square peg but also played bobbins there too.
Amad played with high energy and quality there in preseason and last year on loan. We might as well give him a go before shelling out stupid money on the next shiny misfit.
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About time to start him today. It won’t be worse in any case
My only disappointment today is that he didn't even make the bench. I think a loan is inevitable at this point.