Do you think Rooney offers more than Martial?So by your logic Mourinho doesn't know much about football? Why don't you write him a letter to play Martial up top and then Rashford, Lingard, Rooney will suddenly start scoring loads, simple.
I didn't say Rooney was better, just that Martials form has been that bad this season that Mourinho thinks Rooney offers more at the moment.
Is Zlatan holding us back at the moment?
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Has Ten Hag been sacked yet? We're not sure and we hope not, but it's looking more likely as the days pass.
Who should replace him and why is it taking so long to make a decision?
Seeing as Zlatan is here for only a season or two, short term struggles have to be taken into account.
Martial and Rashford aren't as good as Walcott and Pedro at making late runs into the box and exploiting spaces in the channels between CB and FB.
Mkhitaryan is a better player, but the latter two would be better fits alongside a target-man, imo.
At this point in Rooneys career considering his struggles, Martial should always be ahead of him if you take last season into account. But on current form I would agree with Mourinho.
How do you rely on someone that's shown pretty much nothing all season let alone drop Zlatan in favour of him?
Walcott and Pedro both have approx. 400 first team appearances in their careers, Lingard about a hundred & Rashford less than 50. How about we give a couple of our own academy players a bit more time to see how good they can become..? Edit: Looking at the context a little more, I understand what you’re saying. Don’t agree though, I’d rather have Lingard than Walcott although Walcott atm is more effective. Rashford will become a striker and while he’s struggled especially on the left wing, I think this experience will make him a better player in the future, fans have to be patient. Regarding Pedro, I’d much rather have Mata/Mkhi.
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Only a matter of time before a dipper gets sniped in the box
Is Matip not playing?
It's a thread about hypotheticals.
I'm not saying we should drop anyone. 3 points is the important thing. You're being hypersensitive.
Well, obviously. What's your point?
Edited the previous post. Point being that I prefer our current wing/inside forward options to Walcott & Pedro.
Totally disagree we have Miki Martial Rashford id rather any of them before the massively overrated Walcott
I think that Mkhi T was showing the goalscoring form we need from the wings before Rose sat on him. If we can get somebody from the left to contribute the same then the goals will take care of themselves.
Don't all teams rely on their top players?
Spurs rely on Kane. They don't sub him. They keep playing him.
Madrid rely on Ronaldo.
Barca rely on Suarez.
Bayern rely on Muller.
Dortmund on Aubameyang
Arsenal on Sanchez
MCFC on Aguero
...and so on.
Now obviously if the star player gets injured, the manager needs to reshuffle his players (which will inevitably make the team less effective), but when your star striker is available, you play him.
It would be lunacy for teams not to play their best players.
And with that you highlighted the difference between those 3 teams and the rest. They don't rely on any one player, because they have multiple game-winners who can take their place. Real Madrid don't struggle without cristiano ronaldo. Barcelona don't struggle without Messi, Bayern don't struggle without lewandowski. Take away the most important player from any other team, and they would struggle
Of course, winning is all that matters, and we need the optimal configuration of players on the pitch to achieve that. People are free to speculate and find a solution to our goal scoring difficulties and I appreciate the fact that you have come up with a different theory but I can't help but feel it was inspired from playing alot of Fifa.
Just give martial more freedom and let him play closer to zlatan. That's all you need to do
I've not played a football game in about 10 years. You're proving to be even less insightful than you'd shown thus far. I didn't think it was possible.
I can't help but feel your fanboy agenda is blinded by nationalism.
Maybe you should take up gaming again, you would always have the best formations.
I don't see anyone agreeing with your reason to why we haven't scored that many goals this season? Are they all Swedes?
I'll see how we break the shackles then.
Martial's struggles are typical of young players. This too shall pass
Need to close this thread and move onto the next scape goat.
Close the thread? Just as we get the opportunity to test the idea in the OP? I imagine there'll be some stuff to discuss in here over the next few weeks, one way or the other.
It was a stupid thought and will be proven in the next few games when we will miss Zlatan. Rashford is good but his last two good performances have come against teams trying to attack us and leaving spaces behind for him to exploit. Now teams can simply pack their defense, and we will have to rely on the likes of Fellaini to do what Zlatan did for us.