I'm bringing my little man who is slipping the cracks on his United fandom of late due to external influences, so I'm really hoping for some starters
Manchester United vs Athletic Bilbao (Sun 6th August, 16:00 UK time)
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Last year I thought it was clear we played a strongest possible team in the firat game, and then kids together with a few recently injureda or just boughts who needed a run out. But it’s funny to see those line ups a year later: Of a current expected first eleven, that time there were two against Madrid and two against Vallecano.
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No he’s saying the squad tomorrow is weak
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What a line up! Reckon that be the team against wolves next week. Hojlund maybe on the bench.
Heaton
Wan-Bissaka
Maguire
Lindelof
Fernandez
Hannibal
Eriksen
Van de Beek
Pellestri
Sancho
Forson
Wan-Bissaka
Maguire
Lindelof
Fernandez
Hannibal
Eriksen
Van de Beek
Pellestri
Sancho
Forson
Bonus is you might get to see Hojlunds debut.
Nearly £300m worth of players there. Just over if Martial starts instead of Forson
Maguire is nearly a third of that, not as much as a consolation to our resident Dubs.
For some reason I'm reminded of the ghost estates that littered Ireland post financial crisis.
Most of them are on the bench today - feck knows who plays tomorrow
I would guess today's starting eleven will play pretty much a full game if possible, so I would guess the bench players will be able to play tomorrow? Manchester to Dublin is pretty close.
Yes. That's what happened last season. A couple of them will play maybe 15 minutes today then start tomorrow.
For now I'll close this thread so people don't get confused
He's never been to Dublin isn't a problem though.
https://www.athletic-club.eus/en/news/2023/08/05/squad-for-friendly-against-manchester-united
This is the travelling Bilbao squad.
This is the travelling Bilbao squad.
Gonna be a lot of unhappy United fans at the Aviva tomorrow.
Would not blame them , seems very underhand to sell the tickets for this one before mention of today's match 24 hours before . They done similar on the US tour with the Wrexham match.
You only get away with those capers once , i doubt they will sell out in Dublin again after this.
Wrexham was always billed as reserves.
United have dropped the ball yet again. Ridiculous entitlement and awful communication with what is probably the most passionate non-domestic fanbase.
Pathetic stuff, really.
Pathetic stuff, really.
WTF has Ten Hag not been to Dublin before got to do with anything
On a more serious note I am royally pissed off with this. Had an idea they might have had a game at OT as well but assumed they'd spilt the squads with a mixture of first teamers and reserves and have some of the big guns playing in OT and some others playing in Dublin
On a more serious note I am royally pissed off with this. Had an idea they might have had a game at OT as well but assumed they'd spilt the squads with a mixture of first teamers and reserves and have some of the big guns playing in OT and some others playing in Dublin
I'd be very chuffed to see some of our lads potentially last ever game for the club. Imagine being able to tell your grandkids you saw the great VDB's last game! They simply wouldn't believe you.
Yeah I thought they might do that tooWTF has Ten Hag not been to Dublin before got to do with anything
On a more serious note I am royally pissed off with this. Had an idea they might have had a game at OT as well but assumed they'd spilt the squads with a mixture of first teamers and reserves and have some of the big guns playing in OT and some others playing in Dublin
I really hope so because we need Amrabat this week ideally but don't see it happening
Would be good to have Martial fit for this, but that's more likely to happen in my dream tonight 
It's a pre-season friendly which means it's always going to be a bit of a crap shoot in terms of how strong the team will be and which players will feature.
Might be a possibility of a couple of starters being on the bench to bring on.
Massive risk? Come on....
There'd feckin want to be. Would take some of the heat out of things for the club from a PR perspective
He might well start this team ;
T Heaton, AWB, H Maguire, V Lindelof, A Fernandez, S Mctominay, C Ericsen, DVB,
F Pellistri, J Hugill, Sancho
And he’s just using both games to get players fit, it’s clear now he has an idea of his first 11 in a 4-1-2-3 formation which is fine at home but this formation will lose too many away from home as it’s far too open.
T Heaton, AWB, H Maguire, V Lindelof, A Fernandez, S Mctominay, C Ericsen, DVB,
F Pellistri, J Hugill, Sancho
And he’s just using both games to get players fit, it’s clear now he has an idea of his first 11 in a 4-1-2-3 formation which is fine at home but this formation will lose too many away from home as it’s far too open.
Not too bad that line up.
I predict:
Heaton
AWB Maguire Lindelof Williams
Mctominay Eriksen
Pellistri VDB Sancho
Hugill
AWB Maguire Lindelof Williams
Mctominay Eriksen
Pellistri VDB Sancho
Hugill
Oh boy
Yeah, I can there being see a lot of unhappy Irish fans tomorrow. Not on really. No problem with the club sending the 2nd team but it needed to be communicated when tickets went on sale.
apparently tickets (€90) went on sale for this before the Lens game was announced which would’ve made it our last pre season game and perfect timing for a full strength side. Safe to say it’s understandable why so many people are pissed off. I know people travelling from all ends of the country with their kids to see the match.
Wasn't expecting a full strength squad but at the very least would have been nice to have seen 2 or 3 of the big guns (Cas,Bruno, Martinez, Varane etc..) in the squad.
Was the promo image always the same for this?
MEN reported that we would play 2 games this weekend on 6th June.
MEN reported that we would play 2 games this weekend on 6th June.
AWB, Eriksen, Sancho and Lindelof ended last season as starters. Maguire was the captain until 4 weeks ago. If Martial returns from the dead that’s arguably our starting striker when fit. Fred/Mctominay have been key squad players for 4 years. It will be nothing like the Wrexham game where Hannibal, Fernandez and Jonny Evans were the most senior players.