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Quite specific praise there!
Signing Haaland would've been mental, with Martial being 24 and Greenwood 18. 2/3 our front 3 are on double figures with Greenwood being 1 off so it's not like we were crying out for a goalscorer, if we were going to sign a striker then it should've been an older more experienced player who won't be expecting a ton of gametime because there's serious potential for our front three.
Exactly this.
Everytime he shoots I think he's scuffed it but then it rolls into the bottom corner..
My brain can't compute
It's not scuffed but more like a tennis top spin shot. The little backlift means he takes the shot a mili-second before/after what you expect, which evades defenders and with the ball 'spin' gliding across the grass, it make it's difficult for the keeper to reach near or far post.
That'll come with confidence, he's playing within himself at the moment but for the youth teams he displayed an incredibly varied skill set, it's why I've always been so confident he'll succeed here.
Yep, you can see he's playing within himself right now and just keeping it simple. Once he really feels comfortable he will be even better.
If you have 10 mins watch this video below. Then make your mind up
Neither are bad, I've never seen a player score two free kicks in a single game using two different feet, yes it was a youth game but it's something that's so rare it makes you take notice.
Technically, his right is his "bad" foot, however, his right foot is 9/10 and his left is 10/10, so, for all intents and purposes he's more or less ambidextrous.
Ah right, I understand. And I think he does right. He doesn't look fazed though, I think he fancies the job.
This is going to seem like an odd analysis but left foot is his ball carrying foot that he feels more comfortable dribbling with, right foot is his set piece and penalty shooting foot.
I hadn't copied, honest.Seems like an odd analysis but left foot is his ball carrying foot that he feels more comfortable dribbling with, right foot is his set piece and penalty shooting foot.
Shooting wise, he looks great with either but seems to favour the left slightly more.
I think we're on the same page.
We've said virtually exactly the same thing.
Similar to Ousmane Dembele, except Dembele can dribble with either if he wants, but prefers the left as well.This is going to seem like an odd analysis but left foot is his ball carrying foot that he feels more comfortable dribbling with, right foot is his set piece and penalty shooting foot.
Shooting wise, he looks great with either but seems to favour the left slightly more.
What kind of anime have you been watching?
I don’t think that can be said definitively based on his first team outings yet. The sample is too small, and mainly consists of him playing as a right sided forward, which requires a certain type of movement. If he occupied different areas, then I suspect he will deploy different movements.
We've got plenty of exciting young talent but they're all quite young, a lot of the players who should have really bridged the gap between the first team and the current U23s weren't up to par and we had to let a lot of them leave last January. This current generation we have is the most talented I've seen at the club in a long time, but some of them aren't quite ready for first team football.
When he pops up on the left, he still dribbles inward with his left foot which makes me think definitively that it's his preferred dribbling foot. Ousmane Dembele when cutting in from the left uses his right to dribble, and vice versa on the left which is very rare among footballers, at least that I've seen. Only other players I can remember being as comfortable dribbling with both like that are Pedro and Cazorla.
Apart from CB, the current crop if the most talented at FB, keeper, striker, and midfield. Compare Goss to someone like Levitt and it's no contest. Garner is a better Pearson. Gomes is a much more talented Larnell Cole. And we've lost O'Connor to top it off.
Yeah it's an insane team you can build from the kids at United at the moment.
Hmm, we’ll have to see I guess. I share the view that we have some real talent at the moment, but we’ve been here many times before, with a ‘best generation since...’. You mention Pearson who I recall a massive Redcafe campaign to get into the team and had declared him all sorts, meanwhile McTominay was a nothing player in the academy and look at him now.
Absolutely, what impresses me is how evenly distributed the talent seems to be throughout the squad and the talent gap from player to player isn't nearly as big as it has been in the past which is a testament to the players' quality.
He's created more chances in 5 starts and 7 appearances than anyone this season and is 2nd for passes completed into the opposition box. What more do you want? Get off the fecking agenda against him it's fecking ridiculous. If you think we're better off without him you're seriously deluded
Them making it is a different discussion. I'm only talking talent. Pearson was rightly getting praised. However, Garner is the superior DM talent. I thought my take was pretty measured. Hence why I didn't include all positions for this generation's superiority, and also recalled the 2011 side as they each have their strengths with some high end talent. It's no contest that CB is probably the weakest out of the generations. I regard Tuanzebe as our best CB talent, but he was in the Rashford generation along with TFM, Gribbin, etc... 2011 had Thorpe and Keane. I rated Thorpe > Keane, but as a duo are much more talented than our current crop of Bernard + fill in.
Heinry once scored a free kick with one foot, got ordered to retake the free kick, switched legs and still score!
He does not have a bad foot Video link. He even takes set pieces with both feet which is incredibly rare. In fact i cant remember a single player that ever did that.
Only against Astana I think. The rest of his first team goals have been with his left AFAIK. Left is definitely his preferred foot but he has the ability to switch it onto his right if need be.
