Especially as injuries heal 3x faster in the summer off-season. No excuse really.
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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?
Exactly! Soft, lazy fool.
Sure, but unless we know what injury it was specifically and medically, which the club only provides generic answers to at best due to patients privacy, we cannot speculate when players should be back fit and playing.
A hamstring injury for example can heal in 2 weeks or 3 months. A player has to fully heal, rehab, get fit, get match fit, then wait for the manager to reselect them. All while hoping not to get injured again since the most vulnerable time for a player to get injured is when they are returning from injury.
Sounds obvious to me but we have essentially crossed into conspiracy theory when it comes to Martial injuries at this point.
It's not this specific injury that's the problem here - its the amount of them. He can't play because they are worried he'll be injured again, same reason they left him off the pre-season tour.
If he had a serve hamstring injury he wouldn't have been training for the last few weeks and in the gym prior to that. Even when fit - they don't trust him.
This isn't a conspiracy theory - this is history repeating itself over and over again.
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He's our successor for Lingard. People still see him as a young player with lots of potential despite the fact that he will be 28 at he end of this year.
Whenever this thread gets bumped, one can't help but wonder whether it's new injury news
Starts.
This is very likely his last season here and I don't even care if he's good or consistently fit throughout. Just please stay fit enough that we don't have to play Rashford at CF when we're not playing Hojlund. All I'm looking for is him to physically take up space on the pitch, sometimes.
This is very likely his last season here and I don't even care if he's good or consistently fit throughout. Just please stay fit enough that we don't have to play Rashford at CF when we're not playing Hojlund. All I'm looking for is him to physically take up space on the pitch, sometimes.
I always feel more confident when he's in the team. Even with his never ending injuries he typically slots back into the team well and knits everything together in attack. He's one of the few attackers we have who's intelligent on the ball and tends to make the right decisions. Equally it means Rashford back out to the left which is a certainly better than him being up front. Still not convinced by the midfield but it should be more balanced with Erikson in over Mount even if he's less mobile.
Man Utd 3:2 Nottingham Forest
That is the worst I have seen him look athletically, sad.
Good training match for him.
Hopefully his last game for us.
You wouldn't even realised he was playing offered nothing.
We seriously need Hojlund fit soon and start ahead of him.
I thought he looked ok for someone who’s been injured for the last year more or less. Will need games and he’s going to get plenty of them as long as he can stay fit.
He turns almost as slow as Maguire these days.
What the feck was that from him when he was clean through? It's like he couldn't be arsed. We should bin him off for that alone.
He has no acceleration.
His athleticism is completely gone. We would have been better off starting Sancho. He isn't that quick, but is surely more mobile than Martial now.
Done. Dusted. Enough is enough.
Surely some random academy striker will do much more than him?
Utterly dreadful again but sadly that’s normal for him these days, I’ve never seen anyone look so bored playing in front of 70k + fans
Bring back Weghorst.
He was poor as a 9 but just having a proper striker in the team helped us so much. Our attacking game was so much more structured than last two games. Also helps to get Rashford on his favoured position. Hopefully between him and Hojlund we will be able to field one striker every game now.
Absolute waste of time. Bordering on a disgrace to be honest.
Shouldnt be playing him, it will scare the Saudi's away.
Horrible player. But nothing we didn't already know
Straight swap for Benzema with Al Ittihad paying the salary balance.
Not so fast now
Deserves to be sacked
He'd lose a race vs Juan Mata
Played like 40 years old drinker who really hated football. I don't know wtf anymore. He was supposed to be United's Pele.
Can any Saudi team sign him up?
Can any Saudi team sign him up?
His bottom is bad, like depths of the abyss bad
First game back in ages. Give the lad a fecking break. He’s been ripped to bits because of his fitness record. And clearly he’s being replaced by Hojlund. But any player coming back off a long lay off is going to look rusty.
Pay him off, waste of squad place.
Just occasionally when you forget about the game and just watch a specific player you realise just how little they help. I just don’t get it either. Strikers live to score goals and making a few runs here and there increase your chances infinitely. He just doesn’t seem to care.
That’s looking at it in a purely selfish way as well. If he moved about a bit it’d help the team massively as it opens space for others. We’re crying out for an intelligent striker pulling defenders about. Really hope Hojlund is that and he can stay fairly healthy otherwise we’re going to be half the team we could be.
That’s looking at it in a purely selfish way as well. If he moved about a bit it’d help the team massively as it opens space for others. We’re crying out for an intelligent striker pulling defenders about. Really hope Hojlund is that and he can stay fairly healthy otherwise we’re going to be half the team we could be.
He looks fat and unfit now.
Hopefully just a lack of game time and he gets better as the game pile up, and he stays fit.
He's absolutely fecking shit.
That was like watching weghorst except with less effort and mobility
That was like watching weghorst except with less effort and mobility
He should be 3rd choice absolute emergency sub or even 4th choice. But he we so sort of strikers.
He was present