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2025-26 Performances


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5.1 Season Average Rating
Appearances
30
Clean sheets
5
Goals
0
Assists
2
Yellow cards
4
Thought he was ok today, but there was a moment towards the end where he turned in towards our goal and sent a clearance straight up the middle back to Leeds. Sums him up perfectly.
 
Finally given up on this fella.. Tired of watching him play his own game away from the rest of the team.
Have always been a fan but from this day on, we are over. He seems to lose the plot in moments and I’m fed up of that. Work rate, always fit, determination, moments here and there, athleticism all there but the fact that he is growing up is bugging.
 
I absolutely hated that Lindelof somehow managed to be here for 8 years despite being mediocre from the very beginning. Dalot is following suit and will have been here for 7 seasons by the end of the season.
 
first 20 minutes, he lost possession 4 times with his poor touches/clearances during "build up from the back"

his "long throws" can't get past the first defender

he is obsessed with shooting with his laces which makes him skyrocket his shots all the time

get rid of him next summer
 
I’ve defended him for a long time but my god he would struggle to make any starting team in the bottom half.
That's key there: which team would be looking for a player like him? None of our rivals. Maybe Wolves or WH?
Mediocrity being rewarded again. The club has really lowered its standards since SAF left.
Everyone that's not up to scratch should be binned. There are a few left including Dalot that fit that bill.
 
I struggle to think of a worse RB in the club's history other than Diogo Dalot himself. He can't be depended on defensively, always seem to have a mistake in him. Can't cross, cant defend, cant pass. How is he still at this club is beyond me.
 
we can never build up from the back when it is a clearance every time the ball goes to his feet in our own half
 
Only just hit me that he probably goes back to being first choice right back now with the likely system change and Amad is no longer required to be there.
 
That's key there: which team would be looking for a player like him? None of our rivals. Maybe Wolves or WH?
Mediocrity being rewarded again. The club has really lowered its standards since SAF left.
Everyone that's not up to scratch should be binned. There are a few left including Dalot that fit that bill.

I maintain we only sold Wan-Bissaka because no fecker wanted Dalot.
 
He had only a year left on his contract, and all the chat was he was refusing to sign another. Meanwhile Dalot finished that season as players player of the year.

I wouldn't sign a contract if I was being told I was sharing game time with Dalot either. Wan-Bissaka was actually good at defending, and I always thought his lack of attacking ability was always overstated (not that he was ever particularly good at it). In comparison, Dalot's never actually been good at anything, but he was noticeably shit at defending, and he's Portuguese, so people just pretended he was good going forward, despite not showing any actual signs of being any good at that either.

I'd say he also only got players' player because he was basically the only fecker not to get injured that season and kept his head down while was being shunted around the back four. He certainly didn't pull up any trees with his actual performances.

At his best, he's a 7 out of 10 player, but even those performances have pretty much always been few and far between. He is regularly a 3 or 4 out of 10 player because he's so frequently prone to making massive errors.

I don't particularly rate Mazraoui either, for what it's worth. He's always felt very "squad player".
 
I struggle to think of a worse RB in the club's history other than Diogo Dalot himself. He can't be depended on defensively, always seem to have a mistake in him. Can't cross, cant defend, cant pass. How is he still at this club is beyond me.

I'd still have Darmian as worse.
 
I'd still have Darmian as worse.

Darmian was tragic, but he was at least moved on fairly quickly. Dalot's in his eighth season. He could have a testimonial if he hits the end of his contract (if we stuck to the old "10 years" thing).
 
I wouldn't sign a contract if I was being told I was sharing game time with Dalot either. Wan-Bissaka was actually good at defending, and I always thought his lack of attacking ability was always overstated (not that he was ever particularly good at it). In comparison, Dalot's never actually been good at anything, but he was noticeably shit at defending, and he's Portuguese, so people just pretended he was good going forward, despite not showing any actual signs of being any good at that either.

I'd say he also only got players' player because he was basically the only fecker not to get injured that season and kept his head down while was being shunted around the back four. He certainly didn't pull up any trees with his actual performances.

At his best, he's a 7 out of 10 player, but even those performances have pretty much always been few and far between. He is regularly a 3 or 4 out of 10 player because he's so frequently prone to making massive errors.

I don't particularly rate Mazraoui either, for what it's worth. He's always felt very "squad player".
No he wasn't, he was (and still is) very good at last ditch tackling that he needed to do because his defensive positioning was terrible
 
No he wasn't, he was (and still is) very good at last ditch tackling that he needed to do because his defensive positioning was terrible

He was far better at the defensive basics than Dalot, even if positioning was iffy.

There's not a club in the Premier League that would want Dalot as their first choice right-back.
 
I wouldn't go as far as say he is like the worst right FB we ever had but he is just so unremarkable in every aspect. He is decent defensively, he has the occasional but very rare moment in attack where you say "Oh look at that, he can actually contribute to attack". But is that what we want from a Manchester United player? I don't think it is.
 
I wouldn't go as far as say he is like the worst right FB we ever had but he is just so unremarkable in every aspect. He is decent defensively, he has the occasional but very rare moment in attack where you say "Oh look at that, he can actually contribute to attack". But is that what we want from a Manchester United player? I don't think it is.

He's a bit like Lindelof in that he's never been close to the biggest problem, so he's just managed to hang around for ages while we put out fires elsewhere.

He's not here on any footballing merit.
 
Darmian was tragic, but he was at least moved on fairly quickly. Dalot's in his eighth season. He could have a testimonial if he hits the end of his contract (if we stuck to the old "10 years" thing).

Yeah he's the turd who won't flush.

If Berrada sticks to his 2 year policy then he should be gone this summer.
 
He's a bit like Lindelof in that he's never been close to the biggest problem, so he's just managed to hang around for ages while we put out fires elsewhere.

He's not here on any footballing merit.
Dalot is tier above that pussy of a player Lindelof. Darmian was garbage with decent mentality. Dalot is similar just a bit more ability. Lindelof terrible mentality and average ability.

Dalot was actually very good one season when he was voted POTY, when he played as a RB. Unfortunately for him that was one off and he was played around the pitch till his form dropped massively. Should be sold and his place taken by Maz and covered by Amass even though he's a leftie. We need to move on. His terrible crossing and composure cost us many goals forward. Just imagine a player who can control the ball, cross or dribble there, we would immediately upgrade if we didnt have to see mr. Dalot. Think we should still be able to shift him for some 12m if tried hard. And that could cover the next RB signing. Hell if we are smart enough and get James Garner, we could play him there and he ill do better than Dalot.
 
Burnley 2:2 Man Utd
One day he will be gone, and we must endure until that day
 
He needs a better brain somehow. I haven't been as harsh on Dalot as some other users here but i don't understand how comfortable he is constantly delivering mediocre performances. He's shown better in his time here and somehow he just seems to despise playing well.
 
He actually did the unthinkable and stopped a cross after about 6 minutes, that was about as good as it got.
 
Surely finds himself on the bench when Maz returns.
Surely in the next match he'll do better when he remembers that he can be a fullback again now :lol:

And to go against the grain for me: part of why he looked so flat today was that he absolutely no support from his "winger" - if that was the plan for Cunha. The first goal we conceded was him facing two or three Burnley players on his own.
 
Surely in the next match he'll do better when he remembers that he can be a fullback again now :lol:

And to go against the grain for me: part of why he looked so flat today was that he absolutely no support from his "winger" - if that was the plan for Cunha. The first goal we conceded was him facing two or three Burnley players on his own.
The first goal was because Casemiro completely switched off and didn’t track his man. But I will agree Cunha was a lazy sod not running back and needs a kick up the arse for it.
 
Surely in the next match he'll do better when he remembers that he can be a fullback again now :lol:

And to go against the grain for me: part of why he looked so flat today was that he absolutely no support from his "winger" - if that was the plan for Cunha. The first goal we conceded was him facing two or three Burnley players on his own.

Casemiro was about 5 yards away from him and both of them stood and watched the player play a runner in behind, but neither of them could stop ball watching to track the runner.
 
Surely in the next match he'll do better when he remembers that he can be a fullback again now :lol:

And to go against the grain for me: part of why he looked so flat today was that he absolutely no support from his "winger" - if that was the plan for Cunha. The first goal we conceded was him facing two or three Burnley players on his own.
Haha....

But yeh agree. The wide forward decisions from Fletch seemed very odd initially. I was frustrated regarding both flanks, but to be fair to Dorgu, I though he looked very good, and the left footed wide left approach actually seemed to really suit seskos movement. Quick balls in before the defence set.

But Cunha just looked lost on the right.

It might have just been the fact that Dorgu was basically playing that role, but I thought Shaw also looked pretty leggy to me in terms of getting up and down.

Maybe the best setup you end up with long term is Dorgu playing in the Valencia style FB role on the left overlapping Cunha.

With Maz doing the same for Amad or Mbuemo on the right.

Overall, it wasn't quite the bog standard square pegs, square holes 4231 approach I was hoping for. But 30 shots. 10 on target. And the lowest xG against all season.

Im chalking that up as a moderate success for the first attempt, a game that we win 99 times out of 100, but the footballing gods just weren't going to allow it unfortunately.
 
Casemiro was about 5 yards away from him and both of them stood and watched the player play a runner in behind, but neither of them could stop ball watching to track the runner.
Nah, I don't think so. Look at it - when the move starts, out wide a player starts a run down the flank while the player in front of Dalot starts to dribble, Hannibal also in the mix but strangely uninvolved. Casemiro was the closest but not close enough so Dalot could take care of the wide run. And when Casemiro finally gets there and the move seems to die, the Brazilian fecks it up again by sleeping at the run of the player directly in front of him.