Can Bruno break the PL assists record? | 4 more to go in 6 games | officially overtakes Nani and Becks

Saw some cretin on Ben fosters podcast say he’d have Odegaard ahead of him. Purely because he’s a better presser… apparently.

Arsenal would’ve won 2/3 titles if they had him.
 
5 to go with 8 matches left...

I reckon he has at least one more multi-assist match in that span
 
Imagine where he'd be if the first half of the season wasn't spent as a CM in a dysfunctional side.
 
Mike Smalling said:
Imagine where he'd be if the first half of the season wasn't spent as a CM in a dysfunctional side.
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He is preposterously good. Imagine if he was in that centurion City team instead of us right now - he’d probably be on twice the assists.
My favourite united player since Rooney
 
Mike Smalling said:
Imagine where he'd be if the first half of the season wasn't spent as a CM in a dysfunctional side.
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I'd argue that the year of playing in midfield has made him a better player.

He's now more patient and varied in his play, doesn't go for the first time killer pass every time, and is much better at turning away from pressure with the ball than he was.
 
He really needs to be in with a shout for POTY. I hope people start raising this shout.
 
V.O. said:
I'd argue that the year of playing in midfield has made him a better player.

He's now more patient and varied in his play, doesn't go for the first time killer pass every time, and is much better at turning away from pressure with the ball than he was.
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Genius from Amorim. He has truly laid the foundation for this current success.
 
Thread title updated!

Overtakes Nani and Becks. 5 more to go with 8 games remaining.

arnie_ni said:
Mathematically hes on course to break it.
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I've posted this a couple of times:
Yagami said:
(Anyone can feel free to correct this if I'm wrong)

It took him until our 8th game (Liverpool) to get his first assist. Including that game, he's done 12 in his last 14.

He's not slowing down under Carrick either. 12 chanced created in the last 3 games.

If he keeps that form up he could well break it but we've seen with the likes of Ozil, Fabregas and De Bryune that you can look on course to doing so and falling short.

It would be an incredible achievement. As @ManhattanRed says above, look at the teams Henry and De Bryune were in compared to Bruno. If he breaks the record in this team then he deserves extra Yorkshire pudding on his Sunday roast forever.
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Yagami said:
So he started slow, but the rate he's been going at since the Liverpool game has been impressive. Since that Fulham game he's only got 2 in 5 but he's still creating so many clear cut chances.
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Since the Liverpool game, I believe that's 16 assists in 20(?) games.
 
We’ve got home games against Leeds, Brentford, Liverpool and Forest and I wouldn’t be surprised if Bruno broke the record in those games alone but when our away games are Bournemouth, Chelsea, Sunderland and Brighton it’s very likely Bruno does break the record although it’s a shame he spent half the season wasted by Amorim.
 
Scandi Red said:
16 assists. The United record is his alone now.
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Yeah, I saw some sites having Beckham down for 16 but it seems that 15 was the official number

davidmichael said:
We’ve got home games against Leeds, Brentford, Liverpool and Forest and I wouldn’t be surprised if Bruno broke the record in those games alone but when our away games are Bournemouth, Chelsea, Sunderland and Brighton it’s very likely Bruno does break the record although it’s a shame he spent half the season wasted by Amorim.
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The great thing is Bruno's assists are pretty even in terms of home and away. 9 away and 7 at home.
 
V.O. said:
I'd argue that the year of playing in midfield has made him a better player.

He's now more patient and varied in his play, doesn't go for the first time killer pass every time, and is much better at turning away from pressure with the ball than he was.
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Interesting viewpoint. I did think that a few times watching him today.

You could be on to something!
 
I’m of the inverse opinion — we took the most lethal no.10 in world football and decided to play him deeper and deeper for no specific reason. Fernandes did well - relatively speaking - in central midfield because of his natural ability as a footballer.

If we left him further forward with two midfielders behind him under ten Hag and Amorim I’d have no doubt he’d have hit the 100+ goals and assists club far earlier
 
I'd love to see him do it. Probably would've got there already if Amorim didn't spend half the season playing him holding mid
 
DWelbz19 said:
I’m of the inverse opinion — we took the most lethal no.10 in world football and decided to play him deeper and deeper for no specific reason. Fernandes did well - relatively speaking - in central midfield because of his natural ability as a footballer.

If we left him further forward with two midfielders behind him under ten Hag and Amorim I’d have no doubt he’d have hit the 100+ goals and assists club far earlier
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I cannot understand why anyone would play him somewhere other than no. 10. There's no one in the world better than him there. He's the kind of player you build your team around.
 
V.O. said:
I'd argue that the year of playing in midfield has made him a better player.

He's now more patient and varied in his play, doesn't go for the first time killer pass every time, and is much better at turning away from pressure with the ball than he was.
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I agree with this, there's less misplaced passes from Bruno. His ball retention is so much better after his stint in midfield and I'm not speaking about just the killer passes.
 
Passitlikescholes said:
I agree with this, there's less misplaced passes from Bruno. His ball retention is so much better after his stint in midfield and I'm not speaking about just the killer passes.
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It’s why we are playing so well now. Amorim played pretty much everyone in positions they were unfamiliar with an unsuited for. Amad at wing back, Yoro in a back three, Bruno, Dorgu, the list goes on and on. Also worked for Mainoo, he’s been se well rested - It’s made them all better players. Feel sorry for Lammens, imagine how good a goalkeeper he would be now if Amorim played him as left wing back.
 
The thing that is telling about Bruno is that for basically any other player, 5 in 8 would sound like a big task.

For him it feels more like something he could do in the next 3 or 4 matches.
 
ClaytonBlackmoorLeftPeg said:
It’s why we are playing so well now. Amorim played pretty much everyone in positions they were unfamiliar with an unsuited for. Amad at wing back, Yoro in a back three, Bruno, Dorgu, the list goes on and on. Also worked for Mainoo, he’s been se well rested - It’s made them all better players. Feel sorry for Lammens, imagine how good a goalkeeper he would be now if Amorim played him as left wing back.
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That's great, I didn't say it was the right decision to play him in midfield. I did say his ball retention has changed since playing there.
 
OverratedOpinion said:
The thing that is telling about Bruno is that for basically any other player, 5 in 8 would sound like a big task.

For him it feels more like something he could do in the next 3 or 4 matches.
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I think, he'll do it. We have gained quite a bit of momentum when it comes to scoring from set pieces and he takes most of them. That alone should be enough. And considering who we will be playing against, there is a good chance, that we'll see more of this deep block hit it long style performance that suit Bruno to a tee.
I am pretty sure, he'll do it.
 
NZT-One said:
I think, he'll do it. We have gained quite a bit of momentum when it comes to scoring from set pieces and he takes most of them. That alone should be enough. And considering who we will be playing against, there is a good chance, that we'll see more of this deep block hit it long style performance that suit Bruno to a tee.
I am pretty sure, he'll do it.
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You must be buzzing for him!
 
Really hope he makes it. Best player in the league at the moment and one of the best creative passers to play in the prem. Oh, and he works like a Trojan.
 
ifightdragons said:
Yes he will.

All the while not making us any better as a team.

Every time he plays, there is a giant hole in our midfield because he is all over the place.

And everytime we have the ball, everything needs to go through him.

Look at United before and after we bought him.
He has made us no better.
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Username makes sense.

Away with the fairies and dragons.
 
V.O. said:
I'd argue that the year of playing in midfield has made him a better player.

He's now more patient and varied in his play, doesn't go for the first time killer pass every time, and is much better at turning away from pressure with the ball than he was.
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Yeah, agree. And fair fecking play for continuing to grow and develop as a player at his age.
 
I think the record is on everyone's mind as well so it might be we see a push, if we're comfortably in the UCL spots, from the players and Bruno to get the record towards the last few games of the season.
 
DWelbz19 said:
I’m of the inverse opinion — we took the most lethal no.10 in world football and decided to play him deeper and deeper for no specific reason. Fernandes did well - relatively speaking - in central midfield because of his natural ability as a footballer.

If we left him further forward with two midfielders behind him under ten Hag and Amorim I’d have no doubt he’d have hit the 100+ goals and assists club far earlier
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I mean... Isnt that obvious?

Yes of course his end product is going to be higher playing as a #10 instead of as a CM. However he can also be very good as the player starting moves early and finding the #10s who can then create for the forwards. The problem is we don't have anyone at even half of Bruno's creativity to play in the #10 spots. We bought players who scored a lot of goals last season and we have Amad as well who was mostly a goalscorer last season. And assists are a bit more celebrated than progressive passes and passes into the final third so while he was competing with Anderson for the most in the league of those this season while in CM, posters didnt care about it.
 
If he gets the record then surely POTY is guaranteed. I don’t see how they can give it to somebody like Rice just because Arsenal shit housed their way to the title.
 
Resonance said:
If he gets the record then surely POTY is guaranteed. I don’t see how they can give it to somebody like Rice just because Arsenal shit housed their way to the title.
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First half of the season version of Rice he wins it. On balance Bruno has been the best player in the league. BUT you can see how the best player in a title winning side of a team who haven’t won a league for more than 20 years gets given the award. It should purely be based on performance but these things do always have a bit of context around them. It’s not always merit.
 
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