If someone's opinion is a disease, you need your head checked.
Fecking hell, did you read the post? I was referring to the tweet in the post. Get your fecking facts right if you want to have a pop. What is a disease around here is that people can't go any time without having a pop at players instead of just enjoying the performance. Being delusional enough to think we can drop two of our best players including our captain. It resembles Twitter and that is a cesspit.
That’s the hope. But we comfortably won only a game in the League Cup.
Liquid total football. It was glorious.
343 in possesion but 433 without the ball. Amrabat was basically playing cm fom lb when we had the ball but dropped in at lb when we had to defend.
But at the same time, we're only 4 consecutive PL wins away from being back in the title race.
Rashford may well be one of our best players, but in terms of the team he is a weak link. There are plenty of examples over time where teams play better without their so called "best players", and unless Rashford decides to follow instructions and do what is asked like the youngsters last night then this will be another one.
A bit like City, with Amrabat playing the Stones role of being a CM in possession and a full back when we were defending. To be fair, he was mostly a CM cause we did not need to do any defending.
If the other lot draw or lose 4 on the bounce then sure.
Palace b team in the Carabao Cup mate. We would’ve won 5-0 if it was Rashford and Bruno instead of Garnacho and Pellistri.
Maybe but the ball retention looked much better. Hard to judge anything from an almost friendly.
Bruno is by far our best player, when Rashford isn‘t on form. We lacked creativity yesterday without him.
We are at least 4 years away from being in a title race
The problem is teams know not to press Onana high up the pitch, however as soon as we pass it out we don't have a player in the first phase who can be an effective outlet into bringing the ball forward. I'm very optimistic that Amrabat will help with this.
Why? People not allowed to have an opinion? I was going to come in and say its refreshing to see the team play without Rashford or Bruno stinking the play up all the time. Do i need to feck off as well because I don’t rate them?
The tweet called them 'enemies of progress' do you agree with that? We played against a weakened Crystal Palace team and people are getting on their high horse because Rashford and Bruno weren't playing. Quite frankly if you don't realise how important those two players are and were who were two of our best players last season are and think we can get rid of them or the manager is suddenly going to drop them and this will make the team stronger then yes you are deluded. They were really 'stinking up the place' last season weren't they? I truly despair sometimes.
Drawing the press is part of our strategy and Amrabat certainly helps in bringing the ball forward with his press resistance.
People just love to make cheap exaggerating comments for cheap likes on social media.
all true but that hasn't stopped us before and is our formula
It would pump us up the table, sure, but you do realise that's not quiet how it works...
I was being tongue in cheek, but 4 years is too long. There's no way ETH is in the job if it takes him another 3/4 years to just be in a title race. And if we have a new manager the timer resets anyway.
Of course, I was exaggerating. But my point is that one of those 4 is against City and if we win all four including that, the optimism will be back. In that sense we would be "back in the race". Not necessarily in terms of points, as so many have kindly pointed out.
If you're not challenging or at least on the verge of challenging by year 3 then you'll likely be gone.
I dont agree with enemies of progress no, it’s not their fault the manager picks them. More the fact people having an opinion where Bruno and Rashford arent the b all and end all.
There are valid concerns around Bruno's influence in the phases of play over chance creation. Bruno is the best player in the squad when it comes to chances created but he's arguably one of the worst in the phases of play due to his concentration and the amount of times he loses possession. It's the only area of criticism I feel is warranted when you assess his performances over 90 mins consistently.
Tbh I don't think we're that ambitious. Things might change if we have new owner else a top 4 and he's safe imo.
So you think your post makes sense? Are you a "sense-meter"? For measuring sense in people's post?
Bruno is by far our best player, when Rashford isn‘t on form. We lacked creativity yesterday without him.
Having opinions are fine, cheap digs are not. I can see where people are coming from, they are entitled to their opinion. I'm of the belief they are two of our most important players and last season underlines that. As for Rashford not starting for England, I really wouldn't read too much into that with Southgate in charge.
I'm really lost now and I might as well be talking to a brick wall. You seem insistent on comparing Bruno with Maguire even though that's two different players and scenarios. You want to drop both players but don't want to spend any money. You think dropping them will help us win the PL and UCL. You then are referring to some hypothetical arguments with Greenwood and Antony. If you are going to make an argument, at least make a competent one.
It’s because he doesn’t do what’s asked of him. If he did, he would play. He isn’t some Messi type or Mbappe where they’re allowed to do as they please for their international teams as simply he‘s not good enough to get away with it.
Nah as far as Southgate is concerned, he picks his favourites. It's not just Rashford who has that issue/
Because you have more posts than me, I will agree.
I'm confused by this post. You say you can't win the PL by being a transition team, but the best transition team of the last few years was Liverpool, who won the PL and CL (and probably have won more but for the ludicrous standards set by Pep). Chelsea under Tuchel were also very much focussed on transitions, and they won the CL. So I don't know why you'd say you can't win like that. If you think that the more dogmatic possession focussed game of Arteta and Pep is a better bet overall for log term success, fair enough, that's a good debate to have. But to say you cannot win as a transitional team?
