Forfeiting the season is the only sensible thing to do now. To be fair the writing was on the wall when we lost to QPR, now this? Forget about it. Sack Ole, let a true footballing man take over. Mick McCarthy makes the most sense. Treat this season like a long pre-season. 22/23 is the one.
Friendly v Preston called off due to suspected covid cases | None within first team group
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Not oles biggest fan as a manager but trying to blame him for this is joke. Catch a grip ffs
I am sure a good number of them will be cleared and then join up with those who will most likely start against Leeds. Non covid comprised 11 if the situation got desperate.
Manager : Sir Alex
De Gea
Lindelof Varane Maguire Bailly
McTominay Fred
Amad Pogba Sancho
Cavani
Shaw and Rashford are considered injured.
Manager : Sir Alex
De Gea
Lindelof Varane Maguire Bailly
McTominay Fred
Amad Pogba Sancho
Cavani
Shaw and Rashford are considered injured.
So who has got it then?
Need to know for fantasy football purposes.
Need to know for fantasy football purposes.
woooooosh
How are people blaming Ole. Yes preparation isn't great, but the players who were in tournaments over the summer are told to have a set amount of time off, if they came back early and picked up an injury Ole would then get the blame for that as well? Why are people presuming that someone caught covid because they were out partying. You can catch it through no fault of your own just going about normal everyday tasks.
Unfortunately not.
As the WC is being played from November, through into December, the Premier League are looking at the 2022/23 season starting at the beginning of August and finishing in late May 2023.
That’ll mean the next two summer breaks will be drastically shortened.
I’d avoid United players like the plague for the first few weeks of the season.
I reckon Cavani is a good pick but if he's impacted by Covid the way Havertz was, then probably not for a couple of months.
Will we ever get a pre-season again? What the hell?
The seasons usually run until mid May anyway, the only difference will be no season break inFeb/March I'm guessing, to facilitate the WC in the winter. So the players will still get 4 weeks off before starting pre season again.
The league season used to kick off on the very last weekend in August ( bank holiday weekend in the UK)….
….and finish at the end of April, with the FA Cup final being played on the first or second Saturday in May (with a proper 3 pm kick off).
That gave almost a 4 month break in competitive competitions, allowing plenty of time for a good long break, pre-season training and pre-season tours and matches.
It also gave more time to fit in the WC and Euros.
We’ve had a gradual erosion of that summer recess, with the start of the season getting ever earlier and more recently, the league season creeping into May.
Playing the WC in the winter months is the last thing the game needs.
Im always making typos but I can definitely spell
I was trying to be funny 'cos the thread was getting a bit 'shouty', I hope I didn't offend you (I'm also quite new here too).Im always making typos but I can definitely spell
How do you know that the club has no plan/scenario what to do if certain members of the team would be infected?
How do you know that the club has no plan to reduce chances of covid to happen?
You'd hope we're able to get another game on then, even if it's behind closed doors or whatever.
Wonder if they'll end up playing this behind closed doors tomorrow or Monday instead.
That's a relief, honestly thought we were going to get derailed for the first 8 games or so again.
Ole saves pre-season! Genius!
Dont worry man all good humour is sometimes hard to spot in writing nice tp meet you feellow newbie
Hopefully they will be able to get a behind closed doors friendly in at least. As they say, no training drill can come close to the test of real 11v11 match.
Will need to keep an eye out for any of Bielsa's agents hiding in the bushes though
Will need to keep an eye out for any of Bielsa's agents hiding in the bushes though
ha ha
So we had 9 false positives? Not a great advertisement for the lateral flow tests.
Did someone mix some Coca Cola in with the saliva samples. What a joke- massively relieved though
Your posts smack of wanting to make an Ole out issue out of something beyond human control. The planning is there for all to see. We’re staying local rather than going on tour BECAUSE OF COVID. The regular lateral flow testing is in place BECAUSE OF COVID. Protocols are in place to confirm suspected cases via PCR testing. The manager simply does not manage the players and staffs private lifes nor should he. There is no blame to be apportioned here.
And you can guarantee this won’t be the last outbreak this season.
As for players not being back soon enough after Euros/Copa America its only fair that the players get reasonable downtime. They have played 2 seasons back to back with a Europa League finals in between and then thrown straight into an International competition finals. It is not the fault of Manchester United that England got into a final and our players are late back. Likewise Brazil. We were pretty lucky with injuries last season, (or shock horror - well managed by the staff) would be fairly reckless to expect them to play a 3rd straight season without rest.
Agreed. From what's been reported from both inside the club and outside of it, preseason appears to have been well organised. I'm sure the players are quite pleased to not have to travel to the other side of the planet for a change as well, seeing as tours to the United States, China, Australia, or wherever, aren't possible. If anything, COVID has given the players a chance at an undisrupted preseason (players returning late from international tournaments aside).
Unsack Ole unsell Sancho!
Genuinely don't see why the game can't be played. Its a game in Preston not Poznan.
Unbreak my heart!
Behind closed doors would be my guess.
Surely the friendly against Preston or any other team can be held behind closed doors then.
Why behind closed doors? No one has covid, they should've made the decision today.
There would need to be stewarding, police etc. organised for a match at a stadium with supporters. Presumably, those have been cancelled, and reinstating them at short notice isn't possible?
So our season isn't ruined then?
Pretty gutted this got cancelled. I was all set to go with afew mates and I haven’t seen Utd in ages now I live down south. Going to watch Salford vs Lincoln instead now.
Thats why the decision should've been made today
Too late.
If police are warned of rest day duties (as much football policing involves) with less than 5 days notice they are entitled to enhanced payments which adds a lot to the costs.
That you Rafa?
You worried we will pass covid onto your Everton players? Doesn't matter. You still not finish in the top 10 this season, that's a facht.
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