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2024-25 Performances

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5.8 Season Average Rating
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I wonder if he still will be here next season. He is 30, if he wants to win a major trophy this summer is his last chance to move to a top club and given the wages he is on Ineos probably won't think twice about selling him.
 
JP77 said:
One of the last people who should be singled out tonight.
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Nah. He's the fecking captain of the squad and put out a genuine 0/10 performance. I get that we're over-reliant on him, but he's the first that needs to be singled out.
 
JP77 said:
Absolute nonsense. Has shown up in plenty of big games over the years. Our problem is we constantly rely on him to bail us out and it’s just not realistic for him to constantly do it. Wasn’t very good tonight but sometimes others need to step up. One of the last people who should be singled out tonight.
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What big games? A cup final against City when we were rank underdogs? He is not a United top level player. Lacks the mentality to play for the favoutites.
 
SER19 said:
Ya and miles behind city and Liverpool. It sounds like a telling statement but it isn't. Pretending Liverpool wouldn't win the league this year if you swapped fernandes for szobozlai is just nonsense. We're a completely broken club and he should leave and win something elsewhere.
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Truth is he will always have performances like he did today, it's in his DNA. I feel another reason why he's had a very good season this year was also because we have a lot of players that stink, and he was shining.

To win a PL this team is going to need better, even better than Bruno, and that's my opinion. I know they'll be many here that may think if there's a lot of quality around Bruno he can win the PL because many love him here and rate him highly, I've just never believed that for many years.

He'll leave soon anyways, because he'll know we won't be close to achieve the big trophies.
 
NoLogo said:
I wonder if he still will be here next season. He is 30, if he wants to win a major trophy this summer is his last chance to move to a top club and given the wages he is on Ineos probably won't think twice about selling him.
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Which top clubs have been interested in him over the years he’s been here.
 
The worst captain in United history. We are 16th on the table and he was nowhere to be found in the final tonight. He was completely atrocious and had so many misplaced passes. Yet so many United fans were glazing him.
 
Didn’t show up, sadly. Don’t think the set up helped at all, with all 4 of Dorgu, Maz, Amad and Mount pulling wide, making the passes very predictable and Sarr pounced on pretty every mistake he made. Also spent too much time on the ref’s case for the opening hour.

Hilarious how many of you have climbed out of the woodwork with ‘I told you so’, though.
 
It was a very poor game from him but I can't blame him. It's on Amorim for me.

Having that said, I'd take any reasonably large transfer for him.
 
gobertan said:
Nah. He's the fecking captain of the squad and put out a genuine 0/10 performance. I get that we're over-reliant on him, but he's the first that needs to be singled out.
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No, the first that need singling out are players like Onana, Hojlund etc who are costing us week in and week out, not a guy who has bailed us out week in and week out.
 
He's been our best player by a country mile this season. Thing is, we finished 17th in the league in what is undoubtedly the worst United side in over 30 years. Being the best player of the worst bunch is no flattery.

Tonight he had a stinker, but he can't be blamed for it. The whole team is just shockingly bad
 
There are two Brunos: one is the leader who never stops running that we saw in the FA cup final last year and for most of this season, the other a petulant guy who never stops whinging at the ref or his teammates (Sadly that Bruno turned up tonight).
 
We can stop the whole legend talk now. He was atrocious.
 
Pass completion in European final, chance to redeem season 68% 36 success pass from 53.

Possession lost 27 times in CM…twice in a row leading to goal that cost us game.

There’s bad…and there’s this.
 
lost7 said:
He's been our best player by a country mile this season. Thing is, we finished 17th in the league in what is undoubtedly the worst United side in over 30 years. Being the best player of the worst bunch is no flattery.

Tonight he had a stinker, but he can't be blamed for it. The whole team is just shockingly bad
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Yes he can be blamed for being probably the worst player on the pitch bar Shaw albeit being our captain. In a fecking EL final
 
He isn't a central midfielder, and shouldn't have been played there. It was his sloppy passing that led to the goal for Spurs, but that's always been a feature of his game, he should have been further up the pitch so those passes can't cause so much damage.

Not very good today, but hard to blame him too much, although he really should have taken his header with his feet instead.
 
He was too wound up from the start. Back to all his bad old habits: whingeing at the ref, falling down holding his head when he was barely touched, trying stupid Hollywood passes, and even the "simple" passes he tried were going straight to Spurs players.

The occasion got to him. Hard to believe from a player playing in his 5th major final for United.
 
His form dippped at a terrible time. If we’re honest he’s been poor in our last few games before this one. So this performance was not unexpected. Obviously the real problem here is that when he’s not on his game we’ve nobody else capable of doing what he does when he’s on form. And that’s a disaster.
 
We can't start him as a CM, he needs to be involved a lot more and can then drop deep when the oppo team tires.
 
Poor today but some of the reactions are way OTT. Everyone was poor today, including him.
 
The disparity between his top level and bottom level is enormous. And there's no in-between. He's either brilliant, or he's shite.

He's still been our best player this season, but he can be tough to watch on nights like this.
 
Pogue Mahone said:
His form dippped at a terrible time. If we’re honest he’s been poor in our last few games before this one. So this performance was not unexpected. Obviously the real problem here is that when he’s not on his game we’ve nobody else capable of doing what he does when he’s on form. And that’s a disaster.
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Yeah was going to say the same.

Was hoping he was just saving himself the last few games but tonight just carried on that poor form.

No excuses. It wasn't playing 10 yards deeper in CM as opposed to AM. He just didn't play well.
 
lost7 said:
He's been our best player by a country mile this season. Thing is, we finished 17th in the league in what is undoubtedly the worst United side in over 30 years. Being the best player of the worst bunch is no flattery.

Tonight he had a stinker, but he can't be blamed for it. The whole team is just shockingly bad
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He has not been our best player by a country mile, Amad is.
 
Sell him for £150m. Who cares? He had a very bad performance and his mannerisms on the pitch is poor when things go wrong. He just yaps and that effects his game as he doesn’t concentrate.
 
Valencia Shin Crosses said:
Pretty terrible tonight, picked a bad night to have that sort of game but you also have to have more than him able to win these games and that starting XI was only going to create anything if he did it or Amad did.
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Meh, for me it’s the same as it generally is with Bruno: I don’t expect him to consistently win us matches, i just expect him to prevent things from completely down the shitter by limiting the amount of stupid possession losses when things aren’t going his way. The silly floated long balls, the losses of possession that turns into a counter attack, just keep it at a minimum and put in a 6/10 performance rather than forcing everything and bringing it to a 2/10
 
Marwood said:
Yeah was going to say the same.

Was hoping he was just saving himself the last few games but tonight just carried on that poor form.

No excuses. It wasn't playing 10 yards deeper in CM as opposed to AM. He just didn't play well.
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Same for the team as a whole. You don’t just turn it on and off. When we stink out the league as badly as we’ve been stinking it out recently you have to eventually expect a similar performance in Europe. It’s all about rhythm and form coming into big games like this. Bruno (and the team) had neither. You could see this coming.
 
DownRiver said:
Sell him for £150m. Who cares? He had a very bad performance and his mannerisms on the pitch is poor when things go wrong. He just yaps and that effects his game as he doesn’t concentrate.
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To which club? The only way he leaves for even half that is if the Saudis want him. He's 31 in September and will demand huge wages. No serious club is going to buy him.
 
Roy Keane will be licking his lips after that display.
Always remember Keane's performance against Juve and what Bruno served tonight.
That's what captains do.
 
Amazing the number of posters that have just been WAITING to jump in and shit all over our best player. Yes, he was poor today, bit this thread shows a very unedifying side to our fanbase.
 
Mad that he’s been touted as a starting CM for us going forward.
 
Good player, but too emotional for big games, showing signs of ghosting big games. I dont think this club will win anything major if he is a leader or the most important player.
 
Love the bloke but that was awful. The amount of times he'd give away possesion on a virtually uncontested pass or cross was pathetic. I can't watch another season of his corners hitting the 1st man either.
 
Are half the posters in here AI bots hired by City? That's the only logical conclusion to the reactions.

Did Bruno have a great game? No. Did he still create most of our chances? Yes.

We only have 2 players who consistently create chances for us, Bruno & Amad. So let's not criticize what works. Then there's the 2nd tier with inconsistent Garnacho, often injured Mount, the immobile Casemiro. This group should probably do better.

Then there's a group actually responsible for finishing chances consistently. I think that group again is only Bruno and Amad. With the strike force nowhere to be seen. That is the problem.
 
Very poor and probably confirms the thought that he’s not a central midfielder against PL opposition. Which leaves us in a conundrum
 
Footyislife said:
Are half the posters in here AI bots hired by City? That's the only logical conclusion to the reactions.

Did Bruno have a great game? No. Did he still create most of our chances? Yes.

We only have 2 players who consistently create chances for us, Bruno & Amad. So let's not criticize what works. Then there's the 2nd tier with inconsistent Garnacho, often injured Mount, the immobile Casemiro. This group should probably do better.

Then there's a group actually responsible for finishing chances consistently. I think that group again is only Bruno and Amad. With the strike force nowhere to be seen. That is the problem.
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Pass completion in European final, chance to redeem season 68% 36 success pass from 53.

Possession lost 27 times in CM…twice in a row leading to goal that cost us game.

There’s bad…and there’s this.
 
He’s the poster boy for this United era. Rises to the small occasion. Would not have made the bench under Fergie. Not all his fault of course but, as talismen go, he is decidedly average.
 
If there’s decent money available for him this summer we need to just take it and rebuild. I can’t decide on Amorim but I think we need a major clearing of players including Bruno.

We can’t build the future around him and he has too many of these shockers.
 
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