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He has played all of his career coming inside on his favourite foot from the right. It reminds me when Sanchez was signed and Mourinho moved Martial to the right. Some players can only play on one side and Amad is one of them.Maybe I'm misremembering the amount of times switched. Felt it was more than a couple.
He should be fine playing on the left. He didn't complete a single cross or dribble today. That's not an issue with where he was on the pitch, that's just him being poor. He was shite against Grimsby in his favoured position as well, he just needs to buck the feck up.
It will take some time for them to figure stuff out. And since our attacking play is as unorganized as it is, it will depend on their natural ability to find synergies. I am not sure about form - last season Amad had his first real PL season. He isn't an unknown entity anymore, opponents know him, are prepared for him. He has been hyped up to a degree as well I guess by a lot of United fans, just like Garnacho and Mainoo. But it takes more than just talent alone to thrive in the PL for more than a season. Young players have to adapt, evolve. Not all of them are able to do that and we can't tell how it will be with Amad. But he'd probably look better in a more organized side, thats for sure.His form has dropped off a cliff as has his confidence, I'm sad for him. I'm not sure he and Mbuemo can play together, they got in each other's way a few times.
Of course he is, he's moving positions every other match.I'm worried about his progress. Seems to be regressing.
He's played one game there because we're short. He's played wing back mainly, where he's gotten the absolute freedom of the wing and has every opportunity to attack and get into the box. He's just not been very good so far.He has played all of his career coming inside on his favourite foot from the right. It reminds me when Sanchez was signed and Mourinho moved Martial to the right. Some players can only play on one side and Amad is one of them.
It's not a problem if a player has a bad game but they need the best platform to succeed and Amorim is insistent on on not helping his players.
This.....wants to the guy....and he isn't. Buying into his own hype ala Rashford/Garnacho. He just needs to use his head and make smarter plays.A very unnecessary and audacious attempt at goal in the first half, perhaps I’m being a little too harsh, but at times it feels like he’s chasing Instagram highlights. His arrogance and cockiness are becoming excessive, especially considering he’s still far from consistent in games.
I'm worried about his progress. Seems to be regressing.
They all are. I don't think we should judge players too harshly given what they have to work with. Let's see how he goes under the next manager in October.
His best games for us have been as a 10, so maybe it's on you?I don't really recall him having a good game as a 10.
Agree with those worried about his attitude. Right from pre season the signs were there.
Not sure about comparisons with Rashford but he annoyed me yesterday with some of his hands in the air when a teammate didn't connect with the ball or do something wrong.Anyone feel there is a huge sharp drop in his attitude, it is just like Rashford 2 years ago?
I felt something wrong already by seeing his demeanor in Thailand this summer
His best games for us have been as a 10, so maybe it's on you?
The December derby that he had won for us. Or a hat-trick against Southampton that he had scored when he was moved to a number 10 spot, despite starting out as a right wing back.
Well, if you want to be technical, we don’t play with number tens at all, we play with two inside forwards behind the striker. And his best games for us came in this role. We don’t play with right wingers, our inside forwards do have the freedom and are encouraged to peel out wide.Wherever it said he was on paper for the hat trick against Southampton he was basically playing as a right winger with us throwing everything forward.
Re watch the goals. Remind yourself.
Can you think of a game where he did much for us in central positions, as its what's required for a 10 in this system?
To me everything decent he does is in or around the right hand edge of the pen area.
Well, if you want to be technical, we don’t play with number tens at all, we play with two inside forwards behind the striker. And his best games for us came in this role. We don’t play with right wingers, our inside forwards do have the freedom and are encouraged to peel out wide.
Just to reiterate — I do think that his best position is a right sided forward in a 4-3-3 but he hasn’t had played as one for us after his return from the loan.
It isn't. It's exactly how those faux number 10's are supposed to operate in Amorim's system. That's why we've signed another right winger, Mbeumo, for that spot.Like I said, re watch the Southampton goals and tell me his isn't in a classic right sided forward position in a 433.
Forget what's on paper and look where the players actually are.
When he's tucked in, playing in more central areas, he just doesn't bring us anything. He doesn't link with the CF like a 10 should.
It isn't. It's exactly how those faux number 10's are supposed to operate in Amorim's system. That's why we've signed another right winger, Mbeumo, for that spot.
So when you say that he isn't a number 10, that's fair enough, in a strict sense of that word, he isn't. If he says that he's not a number 10 in Amorim's system, you seem to misunderstand the role of a number 10 (or, better, an inside forward) in Amorim's system, which often tends to overlap with wide attacking roles in its functionality. Especially when he decides to go with a more defensive wingback option (in general, our left wingback overlaps way more, pushing left-sided inside forward centrally, while our right-sided inside forwards usually operate closer to the wing).
I think he is overrated, no elite pace and very small. Great technical ability obviously but overall not a top 4 player.He's been poor this season so far but he was a shining light last season when most of the team were rubbish.
Personally I think he deserves the benefit of the doubt to some extent but it's true if he doesn't up his performance in the next few games he may see himself on the bench.
That being said there are a lot of players underperforming right now.
What Amad looks like to me is a young player struggling to find his identity due to the encroachment on his position(s) by a similar player who likes to do similar things at similar junctures in a play. It was either going to be a perfect, superfluous harmony or two like-minded players getting in the way of one another.
Amad’s young and hasn’t come up here schooled in combination play. In fact his career to date is the exact opposite, rubber-stamped by him being a solo maverick turning heads and winning games with moments of self-generated brilliance, not silky combination play that could go on for as long as a match lasts.
Our attack has been an embarrassment since Ole left; nothing cohesive and rarely a bunch of players linking up effortlessly to provide chances for one another. That’s the environment Amad has made a name for himself in and now that Mbeumo is here, Amad has to figure out how to play with him and reprogram the vast majority of his game. It will count for nought given Amorim is not long for the chop and the next manager almost certainly won’t ask the same of him.
Unfortunately, with Mbeumo and Amad 2 is likely to become 1 in a more conventional manager’s eyes. Who that 1 ends up being is a question in itself.
Making the wrong pass or decision is literally part and parcel of what I said. His mindset has to change from one thing to incorporating what he’s basically not known here, which is any semblance of continual, clever and synergetic movement and interplay. With people in his way who weren’t part of the thinking/execution process before he has variables to contend with that are likely to be foreign to him.I don't think it's that complex there's been loads of situations where he's basically in the same position he was last season but he's making the wrong pass or decision.
Just looks like a typical second season drop off, young players go through this it's not a big issue. He benefited from us playing on the transition, now we're pushed higher and space is more congested he's struggling but he'll develop that side of his game in time.
Creating competition for places from a position of strength is a legitimate strategy. But if you are starved for quality in multiple areas of the pitch it’s a genuinely strange one.Funny these negative comments about us having competition for places again on a day where 2 "marginalised" Arsenal forwards came on and turned the game for them only the day before. Competition isn't the issue, coaching and/or application and/or time to gel are the issues.
He's never once looked like he's playing fullback. For all the flaws in the system, stopping Amad from being high up the pitch isn't one of them.One of our best players last season. A big uproar amongst fans when Ten Hag wasn't playing him. Now we are seeing him being forced to play wingback....which is effectively fullback in this system. A complete waste of his talents.
