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Season Average Rating
- Appearances
- 46
- Goals
- 15
- Assists
- 12
- Yellow cards
- 11
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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?
I’ve written enough essays on this for today. Some get it, some don’t. Although based on the arguments I’ve seen, I don’t even think many of them are being honest with themselves anymore. It’s just arguing to argue. One even said a late misplaced pass today was ‘probably his one bad pass of the night’. In a game where he gave the ball away repeatedly.
It is good that no one in our team tries to outplay the other
One of the worst performances Bruno has put in for some time. Games like this is why people think he chokes in high stakes matches.
He has always been sloppy. He was sloppy for Sporting and we were warned by the scouts. This myth that he's sloppy because he runs so much needs to die.
Whereas ordinarily, he isn’t sloppy at all.
He needs dropped. Been piss poor lately.
This thread is surreal. Just the same Groundhog Day loop as the last two.
I'm appreciating these Bruno to basketball player comparisons. I think Westbrook is probably the best comparison so far.
Of course the guy not in the team is the better player.
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This post summarizes our issue with Bruno perfectly. He was shit and costed us the chance to return to the game with his turnover, but he got his assist and is basically a stat merchant. He would always end games with good stats but these don't benefit us at all.
He and Rashford are supposedly our best players but imo this is the reason we will never be a good football team. Both are just stats merchants that care about their stats more than the actual team.
What do you mean by surreal? Do you think he had a good performance?
All the similarities that you describe applies to all players not named Lebron James and even then most do. It's insulting to Harden to compare him to Bruno, Harden has been a consistently elite offensive player in regular season or the playoff, it would be insulting to Lillard to be compared to Bruno and he has generally been a lesser player than Harden. Harden was nullified by no one in his prime.
There is giving the ball away because you take risk (which is his usual self) and there is sloppy today where he just looks very leggy
I personally think he is doing too much and needs to be given a strict role in the attacking third
Well if Musiala plays for us, it means he won't be playing against our colander of a midfield, so will probably look very average.
We have the ability to make players look like prime Zidane.
Harden has done nothing for the last few years except fall out with everyone, including the manager "he was desperate to play under".
He's a bluffer and a hype merchant.
Why would he look average with his set of skills? He is one of the brightest talents in the world and already one of the best in the world in his position.
He is one of the major reasons for the poor run of form and deserves to ride pine for a few games. Only Carrick had the balls to drop him and we looked more coherent when he was dropped.
I mean if you took ‘23-‘24 off the title, you wouldn’t know what season we’re in because the loops are always the same.
Just waiting for Pogue to call us all twats and tell us how great a game Bruno played today.
I honestly don't get how people haven't accepted reality with this guy at this point.
Has there been any information about him being needed to focus on other things or is this just your take? I think, he is a smart player and he knows, that fans appreciate a player who at least looks busy. Kudos to him to make that work for so many games without any pause, seriously thats extremely impressive but it doesn't change the issue. He isn't alone, the whole team seems to be so scared of the ball, Bruno isn't the only one to always look like rushing the play. He should manage his energy better, even today he went on runs to pressure their deepest CB or GK in acres of space. Don't tell me that the plan was that Bruno should do that alone and without support. Its bullshit, there also isn't real conviction behind it. He looks busy without actually achieving anything with it other than wasting his energy and creating room in behind him for others to cover.
Statman Dave at his best... Using stats to paint the wrong picture.
He might be the most uncontrolled and emotional player I can remember. Sometimes it’s good but it’s like he’s a dog that sees a squirrel and can’t not chase it. He sees a stupid Hollywood pass and he can’t not try it. We scored that goal and there was a surge of hope/momentum and he just turned into a pinball machine.
Seriously? At number 10… Mount. Eriksen?
You missed the joke.
There was a moment after our second goal where we'd won the ball back, and he had several opportunities to play it to Garnacho out wide or McTominay in the middle. He seemed to panic, unsure which to choose, and in the end passed the ball almost perfectly equidistant between them which was picked up by a Bayern player and led to their 4th goal.
He's not the only one guilty of panicking on the ball, we have more high turnovers than any other team in the league but 0 goals from any of them, and so it seems to be an issue throughout the team that we're getting on the ball in great areas and falling to pieces.
He's not the only one guilty of panicking on the ball, we have more high turnovers than any other team in the league but 0 goals from any of them, and so it seems to be an issue throughout the team that we're getting on the ball in great areas and falling to pieces.
So many posts already written before he kicked a ball.
Bruno wasn't wasteful tonight guys. That one ball out to Garnacho was probably his one bad pass all game.
That's not to say he was good but all these very predictable moans about him giving the ball away all game. It just didn't happen.
Looking forward to his possession stat. Will be around 65% looking at the comments here.
Bruno wasn't wasteful tonight guys. That one ball out to Garnacho was probably his one bad pass all game.
That's not to say he was good but all these very predictable moans about him giving the ball away all game. It just didn't happen.
Looking forward to his possession stat. Will be around 65% looking at the comments here.
Its my take from watching the games
What? Harden consistently disappeared or dropped his performance levels in playoffs. It's the biggest stain on his career in fact. Would you say Bruno *hasn't* been an elite offensive player for us?
So Harden is defined by the last two years and not the entirety of his career?
Genuinely laughed at this. It's exactly what he does
I would urge you to wait until an ‘all touches’ video comes out before you take this stance. It wasn’t close to being his one poor pass of the game, and you even saying that paints the exact story of you that you are trying to paint of others with this post.
Shocking, really.
That fire emoji as well was slightly triggering after watching this performance
71% actually, with 58% accuracy in the opponents half
That pass to gift Bayern the ball to score their 4th is just typical of what is wrong with this team. Absolutely shocking ball retention constantly costing us goals conceded, and breaking down of promising attacks because we can't complete a simple pass and retain the ball.
Every goal we concede we should rewind 10 seconds and look who gave the ball away and whether it was avoidable. 95% of the time it's completely fecking avoidable, the same for their 3rd goal where Eriksen decides to spend 10 minutes on the ball until he gets tackled.
Every goal we concede we should rewind 10 seconds and look who gave the ball away and whether it was avoidable. 95% of the time it's completely fecking avoidable, the same for their 3rd goal where Eriksen decides to spend 10 minutes on the ball until he gets tackled.
Watching a different game, didn't you?Close enough. It was 72%. Fantastic in possession today.
It's even a bad comparison based just off that. Harden had huge and clutch games in the ECSF last season, Bruno can barely put a good performance in against a top team.
Once you bring in his Houston days it completely falls flat. Bruno is like Bradley Beal on the Wizards post Wall.
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How about playing Bruno there rather than everywhere but there? Neither of those two are fit to lace his boots.