[MrBest]

7 goals under Carrick, 2 under Fletcher, 9 since Amorim. Add in he probably started half of it the games, he has done well. Looking forward to see how he grows next season, I personally rate him highly.

 

[Borys]

7 goals under Carrick, 2 under Fletcher, 9 since Amorim. Add in he probably started half of it the games, he has done well. Looking forward to see how he grows next season, I personally rate him highly.

You can't argue the numbers, but to be fair he was starting to hit a good form already under Amorim latter stages, just unclucky with the finising. He was getting at the end of chances already then, this is a consistent pattern.

 

[flameinthesun]

If he could get a bit more aggressive in his play and personality on the pitch I think he'd have a very high potential. Still feels like he's a bit shy and not a fighter. He's a big boy he should be looking to start to dominate defenders. His link up play has definitely improved.

 

[AneRu]

I think he is developing nicely and, fitness permitting, he is on the up. Next season we should improve in CM, Kobie will grow into his own, we will get a LB and Mbeumo/Amad will be back in form. All those things will increase service into him and also take pressure of him. Not worried about him, with more confidence we will see those long range wonder goals too.

 

[GGMUFinest]

Starting to come good. Young striker at a big club was always gonna take time. Love how he’s been managed taken out when struggling, brought back in right. That’s how you build confidence.

Rasmus was handled horribly, confidence destroyed. Painful to watch. Glad lessons have been learned. (Yes, he isn’t the standard but was massively let down by management)

 

[Toshey]

Starting to come good. Young striker at a big club was always gonna take time. Love how he’s been managed taken out when struggling, brought back in right. That’s how you build confidence.

Rasmus was handled horribly, confidence destroyed. Painful to watch. Glad lessons have been learned. (Yes, he isn’t the standard but was massively let down by management)

Rasmus was a big victim of Garnacho I reckon.
Can easily recall at least 5 times where Garnacho could have passed it to him for a tap in, instead he chose to shoot from stupid angle.
These are 5 goals, and they would have changed his numbers and possibly boost his confidence.

Don't think he is good enough, but he has 20 goal contributions in 40 games for Napoli, so we clearly made him look worse than he is.
A young striker playing with morons on both wings, being managed by clowns.

 

[BorisManUtd]

He strikes me as the kind of CF who will only ever score 12 or so goals a season.

There will always be mitigating factors like injury, or first season, or new manager who doesn’t get him, or extended run of poor form which gets in the way of his season.

I really want to like him and hope he does well here, but just can’t escape the thought he’s our new Martial.

I get what you're saying but he hasn't failed and has done good enough to earn 2nd season. Tbh I said the same about Hojlund after 23/24. Back then Hojlund scored 10 league goals in 30 matches + 5 goals in 6 CL games. CL form definitely made his season look better as in league he scored 7 goals in 6 games between December 26th and February 18 and only 3 in other 24 games.

 

[RedEarth]

He's doing ok, a decent goals/min record, and yesterday scored a Proper Striker's Goal. Doesn't matter how they go in, just that they do.

The attack before that passage was poor though. He was offside all the time, didn't make much of an effort to get back onside, even though the ball was breaking through to BF on the right. Decent ball in and there came the flag. And a defender nipped in ahead of him anyway to get the first touch on the ball. Neither of those points would ever have happened with Cavani up front, the gold standard of striker movement. He'd have sprinted to get back on, then got to the ball first to touch it in.

 

[Dan_F]

That's my small hill I'm willing to die on. Funny thing is that I don't even mean that as criticism of him as a player. I just think he put his tools together quite young quite good. To spin this into a real compliment: he learned much faster than other strikers.

Since then he is a good "classic" striker who regularly scores a bunch of goals. That's actually quite good, I just don't think he has a much hugher ceiling than this.

Fair enough. I personally think it’s easy enough to see the improvement in his all round play since joining us, let alone since playing in the Austrian league.

 

[VivaJesperBlomqvist]

If he could get a bit more aggressive in his play and personality on the pitch I think he'd have a very high potential. Still feels like he's a bit shy and not a fighter. He's a big boy he should be looking to start to dominate defenders. His link up play has definitely improved.

I’m starting to see the personality growing tbf. He’s going to be a monster. Love him.

 

[RedRover]

Very good first season. Has found his feet this year.

Has a lot of potential and has all teh tools to become a top centre forward. You could see the difference yesterday when he went off.

 

[Woziak]

Lewandowski is 37! Player-coach, maybe, but he would expect to come over as a starter. But 37 in our league?

No he doesn’t start for Barcelona, he’d be perfect for 1 year and he’s as fit as anything 36 to 38 now is like 32 to 33 especially when you’ve lived as clean as the pole has, he’s a fitness fanatic!

 

[Rozay]

He strikes me as the kind of CF who will only ever score 12 or so goals a season.

There will always be mitigating factors like injury, or first season, or new manager who doesn’t get him, or extended run of poor form which gets in the way of his season.

I really want to like him and hope he does well here, but just can’t escape the thought he’s our new Martial.

All he’d need to do is take penalties like most ‘leading goalscorers’ do for that to be a consistent 18 goals a season in the league alone. That is how it is done for almost all top strikers. There are next to no 25+ strikers who do not supplement with pens, and it’s something I’ve raised on here a number of times as an issue with our 10 taking our penalties. It has an adverse effect on our strikers - we are asking all of our strikers to get 20 open play league goals a season to move into the respectable bracket of a 20 goals striker. It is something that could have REALLY benefited Hojlund at his worst, for example. Sesko took pens for Leipzig and scored the one he took for us this season, while Bruno has missed 2 this season. Rooney would have never made it to our leading scorer without them, and he didn’t always take them either (nor was he particularly great at them). Salah isn’t a great penalty taker either, but Liverpool recognise the importance of keeping him scoring goals.

 

[LukeTheRed]

I think his performance in the first half yesterday was his best since being at the club.

He seemed to be using his size to bully Van Dijk & Konate.

Shame he had to come off injured

 

[Betson]

I think his performance in the first half yesterday was his best since being at the club.

He seemed to be using his size to bully Van Dijk & Konate.

Shame he had to come off injured

Good to see some aggression from him , it is something that has been lacking in his game for such a big athletic lad.

But yesterday he was well able to mix it up.

Overall it has been a decent satisfactory debut season , hopefully we see more progression next season.

 

[Hernandez - BFA]

If he could get a bit more aggressive in his play and personality on the pitch I think he'd have a very high potential. Still feels like he's a bit shy and not a fighter. He's a big boy he should be looking to start to dominate defenders. His link up play has definitely improved.

Agreed with this. Definitely less shy than before, but still some room/confidence to grow.

 

[El Jefe]

Top season for him. I looked at him as someone who would be a project of sorts. The first two years were to be his time getting used to the league and United's No.9 but also developing the all around game and finishing qualities required for the role.

I think the first year has been a big success. Next year is another challenge and he'll have to deal with more games and the added expectations. If he continues and doesn't have the second season slump I can really see 27/28 being the year where everything pays off for us. We just need to keep patient.

You look at strikers like RVP and Drogba, their first couple of seasons as strikers in the PL weren't perfect but they were learning the role and how to achieve it in the PL. Like them, I feel Sesko has the height and frame but also the ability to receive the ball with his feet which is a great platform when learning the goalscoring aspect.

 

[Late In May 1999]

He’s been a revelation this season. The first proper centre-forward we’ve had since… probably Lukaku in his first season?

It’s just a completely different game when you have a guy up top who can be physical and put defenders under pressure. Pace is good, but when pace is all you have, you become too one-dimensional. You need scrappy goals from the six-yard box, you need someone to attack crosses, you need someone who’s capable of hold-up play.

Looking forward to next season to see if he can improve.

 

[GaryLifo]

Very promising first season. I'm hoping they work with him on his hold up play a bit as there's room for improvement there for sure.

Great attitude and a proper striker's build

 

[Hit It]

Rasmus was a big victim of Garnacho I reckon.
Can easily recall at least 5 times where Garnacho could have passed it to him for a tap in, instead he chose to shoot from stupid angle.
These are 5 goals, and they would have changed his numbers and possibly boost his confidence.

Don't think he is good enough, but he has 20 goal contributions in 40 games for Napoli, so we clearly made him look worse than he is.
A young striker playing with morons on both wings, being managed by clowns.

Yeah it didn't help we had wingers with tunnel vision to just shoot and no creativity. Hojlund didn't help his cause at times playing touch tight with the defender instead of looking for space to exploit defenders. The whole thing was a shitshow for those two awful seasons.

 

[L1nk]

Rasmus was a big victim of Garnacho I reckon.
Can easily recall at least 5 times where Garnacho could have passed it to him for a tap in, instead he chose to shoot from stupid angle.
These are 5 goals, and they would have changed his numbers and possibly boost his confidence.

Don't think he is good enough, but he has 20 goal contributions in 40 games for Napoli, so we clearly made him look worse than he is.
A young striker playing with morons on both wings, being managed by clowns.

I would argue a few years ago, playing in the same league, Rasmus actually looked a bit better than Sesko from what i've seen. I don't think he will ever go on to be a world beater, but I think he will go on to have a solid career. I wanted us to sign Sesko for a few years, but when we signed Rasmus I was happy with that too because I thought he had potential, but you're right I think what happened with Rasmus is in stark contrast to what we have now with Sesko. We might have actually seen a better Rasmus this season if he had stayed, but I think by that point we'd already moved past him. I was happy with his first season all things considered, but his second season was diabolical and you can't even lay all the blame on the management and other players, because at times he didn't help himself, he looked all at sea, but I absolutely do believe he was way too raw and yet we still decided to throw him into said sea with no backup, no boat, lifejacket, nothing, with players like Garnacho for company, we were asking this rookie to carry us on his backs, its no wonder he failed.

It's also a difference in advice and mentality though. Rasmus immediately came here as soon as we came knocking, now whilst I can't blame the boy (especially as he is a big United fan) I think the better thing for him as a player was for him to stay and develop with Atalanta for another season or two before making a big move, you could see he had the attributes but he was obviously very very raw. In contrast with Sesko who recognised this in himself, but also under the advice of his agent, that even when we and other teams came knocking multiple times, he decided to stay and develop first, believing he would still go on to get that big move, and that is what has happened. If Rasmus had stayed at Atalanta and developed as he should, we might have even been in for him this summer over Sesko, its funny how things work out.

Regardless, I was sad for Rasmus that it didn't work out here knowing he was a big big fan of the club, but I do think we currently have someone who will go on to be the better player with a better career in Sesko, and Rasmus himself has landed on his feet regardless at a club like Napoli, so it hasn't ended too badly for him regardless. I'm just glad we've learned from the Rasmus situation to not make the same mistakes with Sesko. If we can get a more senior backup option for him this summer that would be perfect and i'm happy to see how he kicks on next season.

 

[goldenboy]

Any words on his injury? We'll be missing him with the "form" Mbeumo currently is in...

Hope he’s OK for the final 3 games. On a great scoring streak and needs to keep that going until the end.

With United having qualified for the CL already now, it doesn't matter that much. So long as it's not a serious injury which will keep him out for a long time.

 

[surf]

He's had a promising first season. The attack is more functional when he is on the pitch.

Think he's still acclimatising to the physicality and intensity of the league, hence the various niggling injuries and spells out of the team. He's only 22 and will get stronger over time.

 

[Davie Moyes]

All he’d need to do is take penalties like most ‘leading goalscorers’ do for that to be a consistent 18 goals a season in the league alone. That is how it is done for almost all top strikers. There are next to no 25+ strikers who do not supplement with pens, and it’s something I’ve raised on here a number of times as an issue with our 10 taking our penalties. It has an adverse effect on our strikers - we are asking all of our strikers to get 20 open play league goals a season to move into the respectable bracket of a 20 goals striker. It is something that could have REALLY benefited Hojlund at his worst, for example. Sesko took pens for Leipzig and scored the one he took for us this season, while Bruno has missed 2 this season. Rooney would have never made it to our leading scorer without them, and he didn’t always take them either (nor was he particularly great at them). Salah isn’t a great penalty taker either, but Liverpool recognise the importance of keeping him scoring goals.

Very much this.

 

[USREDEVIL]

apparently a bang on the shin where he was already ailing. doesnt seems serious but considering the situation he might not start for the next couple of games

 

[Fahad Jawaid]

He needs to become a tough bastard, he certainly has the size and frame for it. Sometimes, I feel he can be easily bullied. The instance where he went sliding down the touchline, after that occasion, he should have made more of a presence or left a challenge on Konate to show he can not do that again.

 

[Escobar]

You see an improvement and I feel there is not much missing so ue breaks through big time. Hopefully he has a top next season

 

[caisenma]

He needs to become a tough bastard, he certainly has the size and frame for it. Sometimes, I feel he can be easily bullied. The instance where he went sliding down the touchline, after that occasion, he should have made more of a presence or left a challenge on Konate to show he can not do that again.

Agreed, but it’s unlikely to happen as it’s just not his character. Can you imagine Rooney with this frame? Frightening

 

[hellhunter]

Sesko - Anyone following his story knows he’s always been expected to be a later bloomer with huge potential. A good buy that will require patience to see his true level.

Putting this here not to derail the other thread - what makes you think Sesko is regarded as late bloomer?

I'd argue it's rather the opposite. He showed a lot of promise from a very young age but maybe hasn't developed quite as much since then as people would've hoped. At least that's my impression of him from his time in Germany

 

[Fortitude]

Putting this here not to derail the other thread - what makes you think Sesko is regarded as late bloomer?

I'd argue it's rather the opposite. He showed a lot of promise from a very young age but maybe hasn't developed quite as much since then as people would've hoped. At least that's my impression of him from his time in Germany

He's been expected to put his whole game together and become the rounded player instead of the moments one for a long time.

You're referring to the promise that would one day be actionable and fully accessible by him when and as necessary, which he's not close to harnessing yet.

 

[Shark]

Still doesn't sound like he's ready to come back, which is real pain. Whatever we do please don't throw Zirkzee in again. Anyone else literally.

 

[horsechoker]

Still doesn't sound like he's ready to come back, which is real pain. Whatever we do please don't throw Zirkzee in again. Anyone else literally.

Mbuemo up top to see if we can get a tune out of him?

 

[Shark]

Mbuemo up top to see if we can get a tune out of him?

Either that or somebody from the academy.

 

[Rozay]

Another unfortunately timed injury for him. He could have got to 15 this season I think, and he’s getting at least 2 today if he’s out there.

 

[Tom Van Persie]

Expected to miss the final game. And just a reminder that the referee didn't even think Konate fouled him.

 

[Rozay]

It’s annoying because numbers shape narrative for a centre forward. There were definitely goals left in this last few games for him. In another life, he’d also be on the pens and could be coming off the back of a 16-17 league goal season next term.

Gyokeres has used a bunch of pens to change the narrative about him in the e second half of the season. Every goal counts.

 

[IrishRedDevil]

Still a solid first season.

Double digits, in a stop-start season with injuries and having to play under Amorim.

22 years old and a good platform to push on from. Will need to build some muscle and strength over summer, but all the natural ingredients are there.

 

[ClaytonBlackmoorLeftPeg]

Expected to miss the final game. And just a reminder that the referee didn't even think Konate fouled him.

Those aren’t fouls that are given. It’s the slope that’s caused the issue.

 

[Tom Van Persie]

Those aren’t fouls that are given. It’s the slope that’s caused the issue.

He shoved him in the back. It's a textbook foul.

 

[groovyalbert]

Looks like he's taken the number 9 for next season. Well deserved if so.