The No.10!
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What a fantastic player, I absolutely love to see him play. He needs to start a lot more, a lot more.
There's no need for such an aggressive response just because someone disagrees with you. Quit the insults as well, it's completely unnecessary.Yeah mate no one here is saying he’s fecking Ronaldo or Giggs you weirdo, he’s just the best option on the right wing and has been for a year, and he’s hardly gotten any fecking league games to show (we gave Antony a full year of them as reference who’s half as talented)
If we bought fecking Mo Salah or Yamal tomorrow I wouldn’t be saying Amad would start now would I?
I agree, his quality is painfully obvious, if anyone deserves the benefit of doubt it`s him.It's amazing how some fans expect Amad to be almost perfect in every game to justify getting a start, yet they'll tolerate Rashford and Garnacho stinking out the gaff on a regular basis before one of them is ever taken out of the team!
On a technical level, his close control is far better than those two. He's a better decision maker than those two also. Most of the time he will try to play the right pass. Although I have noticed in his last few games that he has tried a few uncharacteristic long range shots from low % positions. I've put that down to frustration at seeing Marcus, Garnacho (and Antony when he was playing) doing the same on a weekly basis and being rewarded with regular game time, so maybe he thinks that's the way to get ahead at this club. I hope it doesn't start to become a bad habit.
(Yes, I'm aware his 2nd goal came from a cut-inside and shot, but there were no other viable options so sometimes it is the correct decision!)
His workrate and tenacity is not even on the same planet as Marcus. Physically, Marcus is a unit but has anyone ever seen him fight for a ball and shrug off a defender twice his size, like Amad did last night? Wouldn't happen.
Garnacho to be fair has a good workrate, but I don't think he has the innate physical strength of Amad. Garnacho gets easily bullied out of games by physical defenders, I don't think that happens to Amad even though he's not a big guy.
He's probably not as fast as the other two, so he might not make the same eye-catching runs with the ball which a lot of United fans like to romanticise about. But most of those "eye-catching" runs they make lead to them running into a wall of defenders and losing possession, so I've had a bollocks-full of watching that the last 18 months!
Hoping this guy becomes an important player in Amorim’s system, gets some world class coaching, and gets a run of games in the team where he's allowed develop and not expected to shoot the lights out in every match in order to keep his place.
No, he shouldn't be in rotation with Garnacho on the right. Garnacho is decent on the left (on his day) but he's not a fraction of the player on the right. Just goes almost completely out of the game there.Second goal should have killed off the talk that he cannot handle the physical side of the game.
We know now (some have known longer than others) that Amad is different class from Sancho and Antony so I hope it will be rotation with Alejandro on the right and we offload the dross.
To me Amad is one of the most interesting potentials in the squad. I don’t think it helps him making up myths about him. He hasn’t always been this good. Last year he was even injured. And there is no evidence Ten Hag had it in for him. In fact also Darren Fletcher, who was tasked with bringing him into the first team, said he was in several ways not quite ready during last season, and he was in on the decision of bringing him in slowly for the better of his own development. Also Ruud, having seen him at his best form at the club ever, took five games to give him a start ahead of a sub-par Rashford and a sub-par Garnacho.He has always been good. I think at some point he might have walked into Ten Hag shaving his head so he stopped playing Amad.
Ruud says he's exceptional in training and always asking to do more
RvN: "he's always saying Ruud let's do more! Ruud let's do more!"
Scholes: "you mean Boss let's do more!"
RvN: "it's only been 'boss' for a week. We've done a lot of work prior to that"
Garnacho is a bit strange. Last season he was actually better on the right. In fact most people tend to forget that he was quite poor in the first half of last season until ETH moved him over to the right, and it was only then that his form really took off. The odd game that we moved him back to the left tended to be poor games again, bar a few exceptions.No, he shouldn't be in rotation with Garnacho on the right. Garnacho is decent on the left (on his day) but he's not a fraction of the player on the right. Just goes almost completely out of the game there.
Amad should be the first choice on the right, with Garnacho and Rashford alternating on the left.
Although I'd be open to selling Rashford and Antony at any half decent price.
He's small but that's deceiving I'm not saying he's a strong player but he's definitely not a weak one.Second goal should have killed off the talk that he cannot handle the physical side of the game.
We know now (some have known longer than others) that Amad is different class from Sancho and Antony so I hope it will be rotation with Alejandro on the right and we offload the dross.
He's small but that's deceiving I'm not saying he's a strong player but he's definitely not a weak one.
but I thought others were doing more than him in training? Was the clearest case of a manager (who isn’t very good) not rating a player for no real rational reason
Alejandro did well on the right late last season when called upon and seems to be the more versatile out of all our wide playersNo, he shouldn't be in rotation with Garnacho on the right. Garnacho is decent on the left (on his day) but he's not a fraction of the player on the right. Just goes almost completely out of the game there.
Amad should be the first choice on the right, with Garnacho and Rashford alternating on the left.
Although I'd be open to selling Rashford and Antony at any half decent price.
The Bernardo comparison is a valid one but it is early days.He's small but that's deceiving I'm not saying he's a strong player but he's definitely not a weak one.
Spot on. He's on the shortest leash on this platform while the rest of the team stink up the joint on a match-in, match-out basis and keep getting infinite chances. Baffling to say the least.It's amazing how some fans expect Amad to be almost perfect in every game to justify getting a start, yet they'll tolerate Rashford and Garnacho stinking out the gaff on a regular basis before one of them is ever taken out of the team!
On a technical level, his close control is far better than those two. He's a better decision maker than those two also. Most of the time he will try to play the right pass. Although I have noticed in his last few games that he has tried a few uncharacteristic long range shots from low % positions. I've put that down to frustration at seeing Marcus, Garnacho (and Antony when he was playing) doing the same on a weekly basis and being rewarded with regular game time, so maybe he thinks that's the way to get ahead at this club. I hope it doesn't start to become a bad habit.
(Yes, I'm aware his 2nd goal came from a cut-inside and shot, but there were no other viable options so sometimes it is the correct decision!)
His workrate and tenacity is not even on the same planet as Marcus. Physically, Marcus is a unit but has anyone ever seen him fight for a ball and shrug off a defender twice his size, like Amad did last night? Wouldn't happen.
Garnacho to be fair has a good workrate, but I don't think he has the innate physical strength of Amad. Garnacho gets easily bullied out of games by physical defenders, I don't think that happens to Amad even though he's not a big guy.
He's probably not as fast as the other two, so he might not make the same eye-catching runs with the ball which a lot of United fans like to romanticise about. But most of those "eye-catching" runs they make lead to them running into a wall of defenders and losing possession, so I've had a bollocks-full of watching that the last 18 months!
Hoping this guy becomes an important player in Amorim’s system, gets some world class coaching, and gets a run of games in the team where he's allowed develop and not expected to shoot the lights out in every match in order to keep his place.
As in ETH’s secret was he wasn’t bald?He has always been good. I think at some point he might have walked into Ten Hag shaving his head so he stopped playing Amad.
I don't think he's amazing but I'm lost on what either Garnacho or Rashford are doing to justify him not starting games.
Garnacho's main contribution is costing us games with awful finishing/decision making, and Rashford's contribution is that he might nearly break into a sprint at some point.
At least Diallo is effective
There are no fairy tales being created. Amad just wasn’t a player ten Hag truly fancied. You can tell me he played 386 minutes out of 898 that ten Hag managed this season, or whatever, I don’t really care.You’re talking about one match. And that was coming off the bench with 5 minutes to go. ETH consistently rated Diallo above Antony all season long. Let’s not create fairy tales here.
I think we have an option of a +1.Apparently his contract expires next June. Doesn’t that mean he can sign a pre-contract agreement to leave on a free from the end of this year onwards? Surely not?!?
Apparently his contract expires next June. Doesn’t that mean he can sign a pre-contract agreement to leave on a free from the end of this year onwards? Surely not?!?
Omari Forson hasn't been a United player all season, not all that relative to why Amad was given a chance and then dropped this season...Ten Hag played Omari Forson over him… not sure it’s debatable at all that he didn’t rate Amad (not surprising considering ETH had some of the worst talent ID I’ve ever seen from a manager)
Ten Hag started him 7/8 first games of the season. It's becoming a bit of a myth that he didn't play him.Ten Hag never played him despite having players that are arguably worse ahead of him.
We have an option for an extra year but he's expected to sign a new deal anyway, this is from half hour ago
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cvg7nvvvgn0o.amp
There is no way he’s available on a free next seasonApparently his contract expires next June. Doesn’t that mean he can sign a pre-contract agreement to leave on a free from the end of this year onwards? Surely not?!?