You have got to give Lukaku some minutes at some point, don't you?
Manchester United vs Tottenham (Thu 25th July, 12:30 UK time)
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Except he plays on the left, and Pepe plays on the right. Plus we have James and Chong who are both left wingers. Enough competition there.
Chong is not ready yet imo. He should go for a loan somewhere to get more minutes
Won't be this game.
Ole insisted he's not fit at all.
Next game or.. after that, for me AC Milan is probably it. If he's still staying.
Anything interesting said? Guess it was about Lukaku not playing, and Pogba future again.
Nope, why give minutes to a player that clearly doesn't want to play for us...and that the manager doesn't see as part of his starting 11.
Clearly the club are fine with his "injury" to leave him out, which just means they are definitely not planning to include him in the first games of the season if he does end up staying, not because he wants to, but because Inter didn't meet the clubs valuation.
DDG
AWB
Tuanzebe
Lindelof
Shaw
Fred
McTominay
Pogba
Greenwood
Martial
Rashford
Please
AWB
Tuanzebe
Lindelof
Shaw
Fred
McTominay
Pogba
Greenwood
Martial
Rashford
Please
If we lose it doesn't matter, its just a preseason warm up, if we win we will clearly beat you to top 4. 
Just play Gomes at 10, that's all I want. Tired of Lingard and Mata doing naff all in that role. One is useless on the ball and the other useless off it.
Nothing interesting this time.
Usual Ole positivity and another Lukaku not playing.
No more Pogba future qs, that rumour is seemingly dying.
Hoping for
DDG
AWB - Lindelof - Tuanzebe - Shaw
Fred - McTominay - Pogba
Greenwood - Rashford - James
DDG
AWB - Lindelof - Tuanzebe - Shaw
Fred - McTominay - Pogba
Greenwood - Rashford - James
Yes please, surely our best line-up with the current squad..
Ah thanks.
Yeah the positivity is getting to some folks.
Well here's hoping we have a good game with no injury scares and some good chemistry going.
You'd think He'll be able to make his own football club in 18 years due to the amount of honeymoon He's had.
Do most rate Tuanzebe over Smalling? I know his terrible on the ball, but surely defensively better than the kid? Or is that just my tinted eyes that can't see shite for what it is...shite.
But I too would like to see if he can hold his own, but if we getting Maguire, his playing time will be limited even more.
But I too would like to see if he can hold his own, but if we getting Maguire, his playing time will be limited even more.
lots of papers saying we won't play him until either the Inter deal goes through or falls through
And I agree. Especially because its clear he won't be our main striker if he stays.
Looks good. Gomes to come in for Fred at Half time would be a nice move
Need a link between midfield and attack and that probably means Lingard is best placed.
- Smalling instead of Tuanzebe
- Lingard or Mata instead of Fred - we need a connection between midfield and attack. Would need the FBs to support McT in midfield.
Id have
- Smalling instead of Tuanzebe
- Lingard or Mata instead of Fred - we need a connection between midfield and attack. Would need the FBs to support McT in midfield.
Smalling is currently better imo - I think Tuanzebe will become the better though. He's already better on the ball but Smalling is very good defencively - unfortunately he's so shit technically people don't realise his defencive contributions.
Smalling is better than Tuanzebe.
So if Maguire doesn't come in, and we need stability at the back, would the choice be AWB Lindelof Smalling/Tuanzebe Shaw.
Being young, he will make mistakes, so not sure how viable it will be to through him in the deep end. So safer bet would be to stick with Mike until we can ease the lad in.
On topic though, hopefully we get him starting with Lindelof, would like to see him against PL opponents.
Smalling is better of course. Good experience for Axel in this friendly.
Fred will be the deepest midfielder as he was for Shakthar and where he had his best games last season.
Pogba is the link from midfield to attack.
That's what I would expect
I guess we will see a 4231 with almost our best setup. I doubt we try lots of new stuff
@Samid netting quite the haul today
Decent but not quite as many as this one during the Perth games:
That's all I want from today, 60/70 minutes of Gomes, whether at 10, 6, 11, 7, even in goal if needs be, if we don't start playing him we'll lose him.
Wouldn't Pogba be the link; playing in the hole?
----Fred----------Mct---------
----------Pogba--------------
--Mason---Rashford----Martial----
That's what I would expect too. Maybe Fred slightly deeper but that's roughly it.
United lineup
Ouch Rojo...surely that means someone from Spurs is gonna miss the first few weeks of the season
Either a 4-3-3 or 4-2-3-1 with Pogba in the hole.
Given everything we've seen Ole try to instil up until now, I'd guess that it's the latter. But that's only a guess.
Glad to see Greenwood on the right and James on the left again. They look like our best 'wing' options at the moment.
Rojo is still here
-----------------Fred-------------------
-------McT---------------Pogba-------
----Mason-----Rashford-------Martial---
Like this maybe??
Chong and James are far from ready to contribute regularly to a top 6 side. I reduce them to cameos is cup games mainly, and home games vs weak PL teams. Pepe on the right means Rashford/Greenwood can play left, thus putting Martial on the bench.
Greenwood looks like our best attacking weapon period - from what he has shown, I wouldn't be surprised if he scores a lot of goals this season
Gomes really should be starting, I'm a little miffed he isn't. Looking forward to seeing Martial, James and Greenwood link up.
Disagree with James - I think he would be excellent away from home. He is less likely to have an impact at home.
Smalling and Rojo, the International version of the chuckle brothers.