Time to get rid. Fantastic player but hardly ever fit. We need a reliable LB who will consistently play 30+ league games per season.
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) and Jamie (@Vault Dweller) are here to talk about United's dreadful home defeat at the hands of Big Ange's Tottenham Hotspur. Should this have been the end of Ten Hag? How long does he actually have left? And does Nik finally want ETH out?!
I don't think it mattered much. He would have got injured in our opening couple of games instead.
Yeah that injury proved to be career shortening, shame really because he was flying when it happened
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He was injured for 120+ days in 2014/15. So there is no guarantee he would have been injury free later in his career. The sample size of the games where he was flying in 2015/16 is really small to say anything.
Jeez was he injured for that long
Time flies when you're not having fun
Wonder if we'll look at a left back in the winter window, as Dalot gets injured and we're playing Collyer there or Antony?
Luke Shaw will end up having not been available for almost two entire seasons, while Malacia is still out and the club didn't even entertain replacing him, and people put all the blame on Ten Hag. These results that have gone against us were fine margins this season, we have played good in general. Had we had a proper leftback on sunday and not Dalot maybe that goal doesn't go in, and I guarantee the entire complexion of that game would change, to me, that performance was down to the shellshock of giving up that goal.
Amass should get a couple of games. Youngsters sometimes surprise us.
Evra cursed the leftback position when he licked that raw chicken.
Running back has nothing to do if you are left back or right back. The amount of time Dalot was actually watching Johnson is baffling to me. He simply did not care in that instance. He knows that he will be picked up next week again. No repercussions, no matter how he plays.
I'm not against it but I'm also a bit worried about how we treat some youngsters. Look at the likes of Mainoo and Garnacho, they play an insane number of matches and long term it could be detrimental.
That’s only cause we have ETH who refused to rotate last year. Either he plays the youngsters he likes in every game or he won’t play them at all. Example is Wheatley was on the bench against Barnsley. Think we were up 5-0 when Rashford came off and he brought on Zirkzee and Bruno.
I don't know when his contract expires but this should be his last for United. No +1 extensions, and certainly no new offer.
We are done here.
We are done here.
Something like 285 games missed in a decade is spectacularly bad for him. I still think he’s your best fullback when fit though. I’ve always felt that he can attack effectively down the left whilst still actually doing his job as a defender. I think Dalot is a bit of an either/or - he can attack but he takes risks and makes significant errors in the process. Mazraoui may end up being better value for money for to his transfer fee, wages, injury susceptibility, but a fully fit Luke Shaw is the better player.
When it comes into Shaw he is either Buttner or Roberto Carlos. Nothing in between.