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2024-25 Performances

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5.3 Season Average Rating
Appearances
37
Goals
2
Assists
1
Yellow cards
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Mainoo doesn't seem to have any pace.
Best things he has done, he did in attacking midfield. Should be developed as number10/support striker.
I reckon he'll be fine in midfield 3 with 2 fast and strong midfielders.

If we sell Bruno (we should for 100 mil), I'd try Mainoo in his role. Has the skill set and he is not as erratic and hot headed.
 
Toshey said:
Mainoo doesn't seem to have any pace.
Best things he has done, he did in attacking midfield. Should be developed as number10/support striker.
I reckon he'll be fine in midfield 3 with 2 fast and strong midfielders.

If we sell Bruno (we should for 100 mil), I'd try Mainoo in his role. Has the skill set and he is not as erratic and hot headed.
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There have only been 9 players in transfer history who have gone for £100m or above, it seems crazy to think there's even a remote chance of that for a soon-to-be 31 yr old.
 
NicolaSacco said:
There have only been 9 players in transfer history who have gone for £100m or above, it seems crazy to think there's even a remote chance of that for a soon-to-be 31 yr old.
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We have an offer of 100m from Saudi reported today
 
Toshey said:
Mainoo doesn't seem to have any pace.
Best things he has done, he did in attacking midfield. Should be developed as number10/support striker.
I reckon he'll be fine in midfield 3 with 2 fast and strong midfielders.

If we sell Bruno (we should for 100 mil), I'd try Mainoo in his role. Has the skill set and he is not as erratic and hot headed.
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Well this isnt true at all

The first thing where he caught the imagination for us was taking the ball cooly under pressure in the 6 role when teams were pressing. This season he's taken a step back with decision making not being as good, but he's vastly improved his ball winning to a good level for his age. If he improves his decision making back to what it was last season, or hopefully better then he'd be good as a deep midfielder.

He has also shown ability to finish chances and score some goals, also being cool in that situation yes. I remember when we were playing a young McTominay as a deep midfielder he wasnt impressing there but he would get a handful of goals, more than some of the DMs he would be compared with. Obviously we've seen him develop that in the past 2 seasons to be a very good goal threat. And that may also be the case with Mainoo, but he's also already looking a better deep midfielder than McTominay ever did.
 
NicolaSacco said:
Interesting- the highest ever to Saudi was £75m and that was Neymar. Next highest was £64m. Seems unrealistic to me.
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They offered 100+ for Salah last summer
Neymar was past it when (injuries) when he went
 
Cassidy said:
They offered 100+ for Salah last summer
Neymar was past it when (injuries) when he went
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There’s a significant difference between Salah and Bruno, I certainly wouldn’t use him as a comparator.
 
IRELANDUNITED said:
There isn’t really. Both would walk into most teams in the world.
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While I agree with you, I think the main difference lies in Salah being a muslim and would be the crown jewel in the Saudi league because he's very influental in that part of the world. Hence they were willing the pay obscene amount of money for him.
 
Cassidy said:
As there is between a past is Neymar and Bruno
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He scored 24 goals in 35 games for club and country in the 22/23 season, his final season before he went to Saudi. At the time he was just a player who’d had an injury, rather than a crock.

The fact that he only made 3 appearances the season after he went there is kind of irrelevant- the fee had been agreed and paid, and he’d already signed a contract by that point.
 
People, please cut out the squabbling.

Agree/disagree and move on if you can't engage amicably with one another.
 
Teja said:
I can't for the life of me understand why we never fix the midfield in this club. It goes back to the McFred + Pogba days and probably before that all the way back to Scholes coming out of retirement and Fergie's no value in the market comments. There was one, proper, functional midfield for about 6 months in the last 10 years with Matic, Pogba and Herrera and they played like 5 games with each other.
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They played 20 games together. Lost the first one, drew the second, then went on to win 17 and draw 1 of the remaining 18 games.

Herrera then got injured then left at the end of that season, but you'd think we would have looked at that success and though 'hmm, maybe we should aim to build a midfield with that same balance'. But nope, that was too easy. Over the last 12 years of incompetence, that is one of the things that blows my mind the most as it was so blatantly staring us in the face.
 
Frank White said:
Garnacho and Maz form seemed to drop off from the start of the season.
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Garnacho has been equally poor all season. Indeed his best period was a couple of months ago when Amorim started playing him on the right and his form picked up for a month or so (then dropped right back off).

For most of the season Mazraoui was just as good at RCB under Amorim as he was at RB under ETH. His form has obviously dropped off significantly in the last two months or so though, but not sure I'd put that on Amorim. He has struggled when Amorim has played him at RWB though.
 
DepaysCowboyHat said:
While I agree with you, I think the main difference lies in Salah being a muslim and would be the crown jewel in the Saudi league because he's very influental in that part of the world. Hence they were willing the pay obscene amount of money for him.
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Oh I see, I wasn’t thinking of the religious aspect of it at all. Was thinking purely of their footballing ability.
 
NicolaSacco said:
He scored 24 goals in 35 games for club and country in the 22/23 season, his final season before he went to Saudi. At the time he was just a player who’d had an injury, rather than a crock.

The fact that he only made 3 appearances the season after he went there is kind of irrelevant- the fee had been agreed and paid, and he’d already signed a contract by that point.
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He had major injury issues before he went.
 
I don't know what the answer is as I really like Mainoo but I watched him closely when he came on against Chelsea and he looked like a kid chasing his dad around the garden, I don't think he hit 15km/h and he had come on fresh in the 80th minute. His mobility seems a serious problem.
 
Man Utd 2:0 Aston Villa New
Mainoo just looked so nimble, more dynamic, and much faster.
 
Isotope said:
Mainoo just looked so nimble, more dynamic, and much faster.
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People, including the manager have to play the long game with him. We talk about the importance of pre season for the club, Mainoo hasn't had a full pre season as a senior player, injured in his first and England duty last Summer meant a late start.

He could take big steps next season if he puts the work in this Summer.
 
I mean hard to tell with it being 10 men but didn't quite look like he had concrete bags attached at least
 
If we can get his athleticism up he will be a mainstay in this system for years to come in my opinion, he's just very technically sound.
 
Bobski said:
People, including the manager have to play the long game with him. We talk about the importance of pre season for the club, Mainoo hasn't had a full pre season as a senior player, injured in his first and England duty last Summer meant a late start.

He could take big steps next season if he puts the work in this Summer.
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Yeah. Admittedly I've been really harsh on the kid, compounded with our shit season. So it's always good to read post like yours for reminder once a while.
 
Don’t know what game you guys was watching.. he was still treading in cement. He nearly got outrun by the keeper for that ball to Hojlund for that penalty claim.

He’s got to get a hell of a lot fitter in the summer. However pace he just doesn’t have.
 
Hope we see more of him playing at a better level next season than this one. It's been a very humbling season for him. A reality check.
 
He played well today. Within a few years he could be our best player.

That is if we are smart enough to keep him.
 
Lunar Rock said:
He played well today. Within a few years he could be our best player.

That is if we are smart enough to keep him.
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I’d say he had a decent game when he came on, I’d love him to be our best player in a title challenging side but I don’t see it.

Best player in a team of our current level isn’t anything to get excited about.
 
Rough second season, broken up by injuries.

Slightly better performance today.

Hopefully comes back fully fit for the start of next season. He is going to be a really good player.
 
He has two options, both include building up muscles and stamina.

First he can try to build up as a ball winner in Casemiro style, reading the game well and get stuck in, while being kinda slow ( but can't be slower than Case tbh) while also being excellent option for a pass in the build up as he's already press resistant. Sure lacks passing especially long range but he can carry the ball forward well and being able to destroy the play and win balls would add a lot of value to his game.

Secondly as a CAM, he's got good awareness, so he could help to hold the ball up and use his quick turns and neat play around the corner to create. I think Amorim will still want faster players there, but if he works hards to his limits, he can help to win the ball up the field and could be a good alternative to Cunha in more defensive games.

Fingers crossed his fitness can go up quickly, might not click right away because he will be tried in different positions but hopefully he's still too young not to end up like Andreas Pereira, who was also a jack of all trades.
 
Looked a better #10 than Mount to me. Mostly a sure touch and found his teammates

At just after 50:58 against Villa I also made note of him making a run after passing the ball and it showed that he had decent speed for a midfielder when he actually bursts into a run instead of jogging
 
If Kobbie is not sold this summer, I do wonder where or how he fits into an Amorim side without having a serious improvement in his stamina. He’s clearly not viewed as a #10 by the manager so all he has left is the #8 or #6, which makes you wonder if he’ll be given a shot in either position.
 
Fortitude said:
If Kobbie is not sold this summer, I do wonder where or how he fits into an Amorim side without having a serious improvement in his stamina. He’s clearly not viewed as a #10 by the manager so all he has left is the #8 or #6, which makes you wonder if he’ll be given a shot in either position.
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He has apparently been given a strength and conditioning coach to work with him in the off season, to improve stamina, and acceleration
 
Cassidy said:
He has apparently been given a strength and conditioning coach to work with him in the off season, to improve stamina, and acceleration
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It’s a given and a necessity - it really needs to pay off or he’ll have no place in the team.

Talk about a pressurised preseason!
 
Fortitude said:
It’s a given and a necessity - it really needs to pay off or he’ll have no place in the team.

Talk about a pressurised preseason!
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Certainly pressure, but he has a lot of talent, also he is only 2 years into his senior career. I think it will work out for him, he seems like the type to put in the work
 
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