Greenwood the player - would love him back. Never understood his critics when he was being “selfish” under Ole. He was clearly doing what he was asked to by the coach…you don’t score if you don’t shoot kind of stuff.
No, incorrect.
No manager is going to tell a player to shoot like a maniac even if there's someone in a better position which Greenwood used to do. This is why he had 4 assists in the equivalent of 49 full league games for United.
Even worse considering we scored 120 something goals in 20/21 (the most in 15 years). You play in a team like that and you finish the season with 2 assists in the league. Rashford (and for the record, I would have sold Rashford last year to PSG and I posted it in his thread) had 9 league assists only in 20/21.
The fact that we had Ronaldo in 21/22 and the set-up was clearly moulded around him made it even more obvious that MG is a selfish prat who doesn't have any respect for any system, tactics, players or consensum of any kind. He's the equivalent of an anarchist on the field.
The previous season (20/21) Bruno had 3.3 shots per game, Rashford 2.1, Martial 2, Cavani 1.3.
When Ronaldo joined he became the main reference with 3.7 and the rest changed like that:
Bruno (went from 3.3 to 2.5)
Rashford (from 2.1 to 0.9)
Martial (from 2 to 0.6)
Cavani (from 1.3 to 1.2)
The only player who increased his shooting rates in the "Ronaldo-system" was Greenwood, who went from 2.2 to 2.7. He shooted the same amount per game as Rashford, Martial and Cavani together.
I never wanted Ronaldo nor enjoyed that approach but I understood why. Ronaldo is a legendary goalscorer, he's done it all in football, our prodigal son coming back. Ronaldo scoring at United also boosted us commercially, so it was agreed that he would be at the top of the hierarchy and the rest had to take a step down. Everyone did except the little clown.
We often saw Ronaldo making gestures to him and after one of his first games where MG completely ignored him, Ronaldo gave a post-match interview for an american channel taking digs at "the young players" who doesn't respect the experienced ones, unlike what he did when he was starting and so on. He said such things repeteadly during that season.
While I despised every minute of Ronaldo's 2nd chapter at least I understand his sense of entitlement. Ronaldo earnt his status on the field after many years at the top, which everyone in that team understood and respected. Greenwood took licenses that he shouldn't have taken and he basically isolated himself from the group and the system playing on his own, as he keeps doing and he'll continue to do.
This is an anti-system who also used to arrive late to training, shat on his first senior call by England in calamitous fashion and, in general, didn't have respect for anything or anyone. Hell, he even broke the rules at Getafe when it comes to diet and stuff like that and he's been there for 5 minutes. He doesn't care about anything.
When all the shady stuff emerged we saw players posting pictures on the social media with their girlfriends in a friendly manner, subtly (openly) taking a dig at him. This is not the response of a group that respects someone, believes in his innocence and enjoys playing with him. More like people celebrating that a rotten apple has been caught and dropped to the bin.
He isn't welcome there, he can't be trusted with a new contract considering his anarchic and unpredictable nature and he's not coming back. Ineos won't start a new chapter giving a contract to this rat-kid with the noises and division that it would bring because he isn't worth the headache.
Greenwood to Real Madrid? Barca? Such a disrespect for such giant clubs to even suggest it. Talent alone (even in big amounts) doesn't make you a good player for a top top club. He's so far from it is laughable, and he carries some serious flaws in his game. If somehow this happened one day he's lasting like 10 minutes there.
