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Season Average Rating
- Appearances
- 42
- Goals
- 5
- Assists
- 2
- Yellow cards
- 7
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Nik (@Rood), Jamie (@Vault Dweller) and Ed (@That'sHernandez) give their end of season awards out! They celebrate the best players, goals and moments of the season (there were some, honestly) and also give out awards for the worst and most disappointing players/moments of the season.
They then discuss all the latest transfer rumours and get into the potential ins and outs this summer at Old Trafford.
Yeah very hard to argue with any of that!
Doesn't matter, it's quite clear that he doesn't want to go to Saudi
I'm not sure. He's not the type to just sit out and come in from time to time. He needs momentum and fitness. We just need to manage his minutes carefully.
When he's poor, he's awful, but when he's good he's a joy to watch.
I'm glad that Amorim is actually using him more now. He had played him in a midfield with Eriksen (against Newcastle in OT if I recall) and he had a very poor game, and Amorim put him in cold storage for a few months.
Which I thought was exceptionally harsh, because if you want to get anywhere near the best out of Casemiro, you put legs around him, you do not pair him with Eriksen!
And also foolish because of the paucity of the squad, you cannot have a player of Casemiro's experience and quality languishing on the bench, even if he's not in your long term plans.
Yes, if a decent offer comes in for him, it's a good business decision to move him on, but might as well use him as best as possible while we can!
I'm glad that Amorim is actually using him more now. He had played him in a midfield with Eriksen (against Newcastle in OT if I recall) and he had a very poor game, and Amorim put him in cold storage for a few months.
Which I thought was exceptionally harsh, because if you want to get anywhere near the best out of Casemiro, you put legs around him, you do not pair him with Eriksen!
And also foolish because of the paucity of the squad, you cannot have a player of Casemiro's experience and quality languishing on the bench, even if he's not in your long term plans.
Yes, if a decent offer comes in for him, it's a good business decision to move him on, but might as well use him as best as possible while we can!
Love it
3 assists in like 8 minutes
First of all, he was brilliant. He masterminded a ridiculous comeback and he played well throughout.
Anyone thinking he wouldn't have got the penalty in the EPL? Gary Neville on comms would be immediately, 'Nah, never a pen, poor old Kovacic has simply kicked him accidentally and hurt his tootsies. As you were, lads.'
Anyone thinking he wouldn't have got the penalty in the EPL? Gary Neville on comms would be immediately, 'Nah, never a pen, poor old Kovacic has simply kicked him accidentally and hurt his tootsies. As you were, lads.'
feck me. No wonder Madrid won 5 Champions League with him. Even their Defensive Midfielder is this creative.
Doesn’t look finished yet does he
Yup. No Saudi club will make any move until 2026 and Casemiro is happy to collect one more season of massive wages. Next contract will be much less generous.
It’s the most worrying part of his reign for me, he alienated his best CM after not seeming to realise what Ruud had literally just shown him. Put legs around him to not expose him and you still have a very good midfielder on your hands.
Good that the manager wasn’t so stubborn with personnel as he is with his formation, without reintroducing Cas, we’d have bern fecked.
He's proven before that he's a criminally underrated creator.
We will need his experience in this game against Bilbao, he did well to avoid getting booked with suspension looming over him.
We will need his experience in this game against Bilbao, he did well to avoid getting booked with suspension looming over him.
There’s always ignore powder….That fleas bit made me chuckle
His comeback is less surprising when you consider the context around his poor form. He returned from injury to find ten hag c9mpletely lost the plot and wanted him to cover ground like prime kante
Casemiro of course.
Nah, we just have to move away from buys like this if we ever want to be a top team again. I get it when a team misses on a young player, scouting mis-evaluations happen. But Case's deal was obviously poor process; even a relatively uninformed person like me with no history in scouting could see that. I expect much better from highly paid professionals, and good grief if INEOS can't even realize that was a bad purchase we'll be in a load of trouble moving forward.
Absolute don! Still has plenty more to give he just needs to be managed correctly. What’s surprised me most since he joined is his ability in an attacking sense, has chipped in plenty with goals and assists and progresses the ball really well. Has shaken off the tag of being a pure destroyer DM which he was known for at Madrid, although he never needed to showcase his attacking talents when he had Kroos and Modric alongside him. You can tell he loves the freedom he has to go forward and play more progressively at Utd.
We can all moan about his wages, but there aren’t many midfielders in the world who can do what Casemiro did for us yesterday.
True. But I think that PL might be to "fast" for him now. The same with Eriksen.
Sorry, just seen this. Yeah, he was excellent, my MOTM last night, and to be honest that was *before* their red card, and his assists, which were the icing on the cake. The media have focussed a lot on the 30mins extra time (for obvious reasons, it was absolutely crazy!), but he was already having a fantastic game. I'd still be quite surprised if that kind of performance becomes the new normal though, but we'll see. He's definitely got that kind of in-built mindset about him.
I might be mis-remembering, but I'm sure there was a lot of chat when he first joined about how he grows into a season; often rusty at first but getting better and better in final third.
Indeed. Proven to be an effective treatment
Casemiro and Eriksen are on different planets. Lyon was a very tough opponent and Casemiro came up huge. Eriksen was a nonfactor.
If we do strengthen the squad this summer and start playing good football Casemiro will still have an important role to play for us. Unless it’s all about getting rid of his wages, we would not be wise to throw Casemiro into the trash heap.
Eriksen is still a really good player and one of our most technically strong players. But, like Casemiro, he is too slow for the PL. I have seen Eriksen play for our national team, and here he performs quite well - most recently in the games against Portugal, where he scored and quite frankly should have scored a hattrick. So he still works against good teams that do not play at the same pace as most teams do in the PL.
Aye, all the Madrid fans on here banged on about it and it’s proven to be the case here also.
I guess it’s why some fans are worried what will happen if he’s rested too often before the semi finals, as he seems a player who needs to find his form/rhythm.
In reality I think the market will decide what happens with Casemiro.
If a bid comes in for him, I don't think there's even the slightest chance we opt against taking that opportunity to shift him and his insane wages out of the club. If there's no bid, then we have no choice but to try to get as much as we can out of him for another season.
And at the very least he's shown he can still offer something in certain games and with certain players around him. And (as Amorim pointed out after the Lyon game) the lesser physicality in other competitions compared to the PL can be quite telling.
If a bid comes in for him, I don't think there's even the slightest chance we opt against taking that opportunity to shift him and his insane wages out of the club. If there's no bid, then we have no choice but to try to get as much as we can out of him for another season.
And at the very least he's shown he can still offer something in certain games and with certain players around him. And (as Amorim pointed out after the Lyon game) the lesser physicality in other competitions compared to the PL can be quite telling.
Christian Eriksen is an absolute legend of the game, not just for Denmark. But although he came back brilliantly from a heart attack and had a very productive first season for us, he should seriously consider retiring. But if he finds another club in Italy or Spain more power to him and his family. But we are here to discuss Casemiro, whose impact on what so far is the most important game of our miserable season cannot be overstated. I agree with the assessment that he has lost the athleticism that made him a dominant central midfielder at his peak but he is still a class above midfielders in the PL. We won't want him starting in most PL matches but when we're in the barrel against all but the very top clubs I would want Casemiro to help us climb out of it, as was the case this week.
However, his wages are a legitimate objection to his continued employment by the club,
He’s fantastic in possession, has unfortunately lost so much physically.
Casemiro will decide what happens to Casemiro not the market
I think this is very respectful and fair, they have both been great players but past their best by a distance.
He was excellent on Thursday night. 3 assists are obvious but he also had flicks and back heels which genuinely opened up space and created threats rather than just showing off. And to provide 3 assists so late in the game when he was dead on his feet!! What a leader.
He works well paired with Ugarte who has the legs to compensate for his declining physicality.
He works well paired with Ugarte who has the legs to compensate for his declining physicality.
They don't allow players to have pacemaker installed, reason why he lest Italy.
Play him as a 10 with Fernandes CM.
Athletic Club 0:3 Man Utd
Is it just me or he looks a lot fitter recently?
Another great performance.
Another great performance.
Very good again. You can feel he really wants this
He brings us the winner DNA in the European games
Immense today. As close to a perfect march as they come.
Let him ball once a week.
He’s absolutely ridiculous.
Madrid fans told us he ALWAYS gets better as the season moves on.
Took the piss tonight, looked like he has his loafers on.
Madrid fans told us he ALWAYS gets better as the season moves on.
Took the piss tonight, looked like he has his loafers on.
Superb performance. We’ll need him playing at this level if we’re gonna win the thing.
A class player and pure winner. Shame his legs have gone, but he's finding a way to make it work when it matters.