You're joking. Luke is once again checking in considerably fatter than everyone else. It's a piss take. It's not his so-called broadness, or his natural shape, or his gait. Once more he's checking in pre-season playing catchup. I wish for once he'd show some professionalism, maintain himself in off-season and show up with reasonable figure. A belly protruding through a shirt as an elite PL athlete is absolutely shambolic.
Are the lads back in training yet?
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik and Imran hold a long overdue conversation about United's awful league form with 1 win in 7. They discuss a disappointing draw at Bournemouth, a not so disappointing draw against Liverpool and a crushing defeat at Chelsea - Is time nearly over for Erik Ten Hag?
Then in a special second half of the pod, Nik welcomes Natalie ( https://twitter.com/natalie_17) to discuss the fortunes of Manchester United Women as they booked a place in the FA Cup Final after a historic first ever win vs. Chelsea.
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You could have just copied and pasted the whole article rather than post the whole article in tweets.
The feck is an enhanced mood?
Your Viagra gives you the same thing
An Eriktion?
Ten Hags hard training sessions eh
I never thought we could be better than the previous season were we finished second, I felt the Ole-Pep gap was to wide, I was excited to see our new signings but I didn't think they without a top manager could get us over the line even though I didn't see us having the disaster of a season we had. I felt we could improve point and performance wise and even finish third.
What matters at the end would be the results and performances at the end of the day.
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Doesn't help that we have defenders who are not comfortable on the ball so that kind of playstyle would be difficult to implement but I do agree with your post which is why a ball playing CB is important in such a setup. I don't see that currently in Maguire and Lindelof. Maybe Varane
Both Lindelof and Maguire are better on the ball than Varane from what I've seen. Lindelof in particular is actually really good on the ball - I think it's twice that I've seen him split the entire opposition and pinpoint a pass to a striker.
Varane is probably the worst in that regard amongst the three.
All of Lindelof, Varane and Maguire have good ball playing abilities, its the system that don't make them thrive.
Throughout their time here you can see there is no structure to our play in possession.
Martial looks gassed
I disagree with this massively. I actually think our defenders are all very good on the ball. It's their actual defending that has been questionable
This is clever. Well done.
Very encouraging quotes from Melissa Reddy
God I hope we've got it right this time
God I hope we've got it right this time
True they're all not very comfortable but it might be that the system that they're asked to play as per the below post.
Agreed.
Oh man these training updates sure make me very happy
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Bravo. Very good.
The obsession on this forum with another man’s body shape is beyond belief. Get a grip people
And Donny and Luke look to be carrying some weight.Martial looks gassed
I love that. A little touch of contact with a regular worker's reality has never hurt anybody.
Yeah, he loves to assist Rashford by those Hollywood pass.
Sancho definitely looks leaner than when he first got here last summer.
I suspect he only resorts to Hollywood passes because our midfielders constantly fail to make themselves available, or because previous regimes have expressly told him to go direct. I doubt if any of our defenders will be allowed to do that now.
Whoa. Well played.
Video anyone running, zoom in and then go forward frame by frame and you will find an unflattering frame that you can then tweet sooner or later- it is the way of the world now......I would imagine the backroom staff will be more interested in things like aerobic endurance, oxygen saturation, BMI etc. than someone looking to maximise their views on twitter.
She's got it leaked to her by one of the players. That's still a leak.. imagine if we start the season badly how much Melissa Reddy (Mane's girlfriend by the way) will get leaked about it?
Training Ground F.C is all well and good but I'll judge it on actual matches thanks.. all players will have smiles and be eager to impress (like they was under Mourinho, Van Gaal etc) but it's in October/November where the true character of these players will be judged (and we know a lot of them are snakes, backstabber and leak more than a sieve). Let's see if Ten Hag can get these jokers to implement the high-press and high-line tactics he's famous for. Playing like City. Since so many people think these players are good enough and we don't need a major rebuild of new players.
The 3 most important questions for me that will determine if Manchester United will have a successful season under Erik Ten Hag;
1. Can De Gea can play or be coached to play as a sweeper-keeper without making loads of mistakes?
2. Can Harry Maguire play or be coached to play high-line football?
3. Can Rashford, Ronaldo and Sancho actually press or be coached to press as part of a team?
If 1 of those above is a no then the whole TenHagBall and philosophy fails. It's a machine and all cogs need to work for the whole system to work.
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I'm sorry did I ask for your opinion?
By all means post what you want but don't do it by quoting me so I get the annoying little notification that makes me then read it
Are the lads in today or did they get the day off for Canada Day?
Mate Shaw looks in pretty bad shape for a footballer. And it's been that way after almost every summer.
He does! Very good to see.
Only if we had signed Jonathan David. Out of respect.
The info will 100% have come from Murtough or Arnold. It's designed to get people excited about the new manager, make the hierarchy look good and get fans excited again.
Why would a player even bother to leak something so positive after about two days of training?
Yeah but it’s OK because of body positivity and how some people are fat etc etc. I would love to come back from my holiday and take a few months to get back up to speed because I couldn’t be bothered to keep myself interested enough in my profession. They are professional fecking footballers. There is zero excuse for coming back to training tubby. That’s just pure laziness and not giving a feck. I pay more attention to my weight than a guy getting paid more in a week than I earn in a few years and my weight isn’t part of my job.
How people defend him I will never know. Eat less, eat better and move a bit. Weight really is that simple for 99% of people. Especially people who could hire someone to do the vast majority of the hard/time consuming bits.
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