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He is a lot smarter than Dalot. I wonder what ETH will make of him. For me, he should be first choice.
Dalot is beginning to be placed in the same bracket as AWB in the manner Fred is placed in the same bracket as Mctominay.
Laird at the moment is nowhere close to either. He is a good prospect, who hopefully can get a chance this season to build up his experience if we move on AWB, but he is definitely not better than either at this moment. Maybe in a couple years if he keeps developing.
Infinitely better than Dalot? At what sorry because it's not football...
I suspect being his United debut he was told to keep it simple.
That isn't not simple I'd say and I dont think ETH would consider that as simple football. It only served the purpose to keep possession but that's not how he likes his teams to play.
Better than Dalot based off what?
Yeah, but I can imagine he was playing within himself. I think a key thing that differentiates the youth teamers that step up and stake a claim (rashford, greenwood), they very quickly start to try to impose themselves or get involved in games. Whereas the majority of youth teamers come up and never really get out of the be safe dont make mistakes mindset. So still some way to go for Laird but he does seem like a confident kid so hopefully he can start to show more in his next appearances.
Any full game or extended footage of games that I have gotten to see of him. I just don't really rate Dalot and it is probably due more to my bias' than anything else.
Different game today than liverpool, Melbourne defended deep and there was little space for guys like him and Chongy to run into. Clearly looks off the pace but encouraging to get through a half of semi competitive football at the senior level unscathed.
Yes, yes it is football
Needs another loan and not to be 3rd backup here and then take stock at the end of the season. Dalot is currently really far ahead of him. If we can’t move on AWB there won’t be enough games
And rightly so. Neither have shown anything to be considered better than the other.
And it’s those 45 minutes we are appraising.
ETH can be incredibly ruthless. Laird is not going to get many chances with these kinds of performances, even in pre season, especially when we have 3 RBs.
He was way worse than Malacia. The Dutch player showed a lot of reading the game, as well as much more explosive recovery pace than Laird.
Agree to disagree. Laird was very safe but so was Malacia and I don’t remember Laird ever being beaten so not sure why he’d need recovery pace.
Im sure ETH will be assessing him in training more than 45mins in that game
Devyn Rensch probably disagrees. Immensely talented RB that was next in line after Mazraoui. One and half bad games and was nowhere to be seen for the remainder of the season.
Maybe he wasn’t showing said talent in training
I highly doubt it. He's just that fecking good and put in great performances the season prior.
I'm sure Rensch disagrees with you as he has 55 appearances in two years at only 19. He was also seen on the pitch as he featured right up until the end of the season too, so that never happened.
