How so?
Mason Mount's Misfortune
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Just change it to Cockney.Who keeps changing the thread title?
What former chelsea fan?
Whose fan are you now?And Sanchez, but we could do things in the transfer market then that no other club could...
Because they aren’t necessarily more knowledgeable than us. What sets us apart from them are things like ability to communicate, talent, confidence etc. Think about how much football we actually consume compared to lots of managers/players etc. You’ve had loads of players come out in the past and say they either barely watch football or even like it.Such a fecking weird signing
It was so blatantly obvious as well.
I remember being shouted down with ‘I think ETH knows a bit more about football than you’ etc - yeah, no shit, that’s why it’s so fecking odd!
How can a bunch of no marks (talking about myself here) on an Internet forum blatantly see certain things that skilled, knowledgeable coaches seemingly cannot..?
Football’s a weird game.
Harry Redknapp was a very successful football manager but it’s safe to say he wasn’t the most knowledgable. A lot of managers also leave their coaches to do a lot of their work. A lot of managers also used to play the game professionally. There also isn’t a significant route for people who weren’t talented enough to play the game to go on and get the opportunity to manage in the game.
As United fans I think we can safely say over the years our managers have not had this wealth of knowledge or been able to see the obvious. Otherwise things like spending 80 million on Maguire, spending 85 million on Antony. Playing Pogba and Matic as a two man midfield. Playing Casemiro by himself in midfield etc… simply doesn’t happen.
Jesus wept, its two games in.
He is a troll masterminding our feck ups, that's what he is.
The only time one of those rumours became a real possibility (sheikhs getting Cristiano and his army of social media followers) he started talking about quitting at the end of the season.
Huge sigh of relief when we signed him instead.
And if this shit isn’t sorted out soon it will be 10 games in and mid table at best. FFS.
I expected more at half time as there was no reason why United should have capitulated as they did in the second half.
It needs sorting, Carrington should be on over time this week.
Conte springs to mind straightaway
Well, perhaps things aren't so bad after all. We could have spent £115m on Caicedo instead.
Mount is almost the opposite to Antony as he is one of the most versatile midfielders in the PL.
He will not flop, provided the right accommodation is set up for him.
This means starting him in attacking midfield, be it in the centre (instead of Bruno) or on the wing (with Bruno as CAM).
The combination of Bruno and Antony in attacking midfield will keep on unsettling the entire team, as their risk reward game is too high.
He will not flop, provided the right accommodation is set up for him.
This means starting him in attacking midfield, be it in the centre (instead of Bruno) or on the wing (with Bruno as CAM).
The combination of Bruno and Antony in attacking midfield will keep on unsettling the entire team, as their risk reward game is too high.
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^ @duffer after getting smashed by West Ham.
When you buy a goal keeper to play out from the back, he;s going to get more touches on the ball than some of the team. He'll be playing short passes along the back line, sometimes in quick succession, I think we term that 'stat padding'
Amongst our starting XI, Mount has the lowest number of touches (57). Even lower than Onana (91), Garnacho and Rashford (72)
I also think Onana has been more threatening if I'm being honest. In comparison, the ex-Chelsea midfielder Kovacic has registered 181 touches this season.
https://www.premierleague.com/stats/top/players/touches
Except he's from Portsmouth......
That's what I thought then quickly checked Arsenal's GK's stats. Ramsdale is dead last in touches.
To be fair though I've since re-checked the stats (Man City & Brighton) and you make a fair point. However, my original point still stands.
Like I said someone in their right mind. Also he pretty much everything to get himself fired at Spurs. He could have easily resigned.
Pretty much did he wasn’t sacked it was mutual agreement
This is why he was a relatively unpopular signing from the moment we were first linked with him... People have watched him for England and Chelsea for years, and he just isn't involved in the game enough. All England fans were pleading with Southgate to drop him because he's always on the periphery of games, he's just neat and tidy the occasions where he does touch the ball. It's even worse when you consider the role he was brought to do which was Eriksen's role from last season, who was generally our highest volume passer, who has now been replaced by one of the lowest volume passers we could possibly get.
Amongst our starting XI, Mount has the lowest number of touches (57). Even lower than Onana (91), Garnacho and Rashford (72)
I also think Onana has been more threatening if I'm being honest. In comparison, the ex-Chelsea midfielder Kovacic has registered 181 touches this season.
Basically, we can dust off all the "no penetration" jokes we used to pull on Tom Cleverley. The more it goes the more it looks like the same stupid shit as with Cleverley.
Kovacic could have been perfect for us, im genuinely bewildered how we didn't even get linked with the fella.
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I guess some got their wish of a Mount-less midfield.
Wonder who EtH will slot in.
McTominay
He's the most fit option, isn't he ? I was thinking perhaps Eriksen.
i was all in on the onana and hojlund signings, this was the big one i was questioning. Really hope he comes back firing and this isnt another huge blunder. Feel like had we scouted well enough couldve found two midfielders for his price. Between this and the mainoo injury sucks that we lost two midfielders that were big part of EtH plans this season already
"I'm tired Haggy"
Shame. We needed an easy game at OT for him.
That’s McT’s free pass to stay here another year then.
Fell of a cliff!
Fell of a Mount-ain!
Probably offers us more than Mount does to be honest.
Nah think it'll be Eriksen in a similar set up to last year. It's Forest at home.
Probably a good thing. Takes the heat off him. He must know he's been shocking and fans are not happy, there's a risk of him being the lightning rod after the last few days. Have a few weeks out and slip back in when things have settled down.
Can't stand to watch Eriksen anymore. A pity for him and the club.
Scott, give it your best one more time.
Scott, give it your best one more time.