Having so many youth teamers on the bench is something that makes me proud to be a United fan.
We should not look at that type of recruitment. It is not feasible economically (we are already in deep shit financially) and it likely won't work.
Exactly.
In fairness if we look at the list of players out how many can we trust.
Yeah, enough with the excuses. How about Notingham Forests bench
Literally nobody has used our bench as an excuse for losing against Forest. Not a single post in this thread has done that. But whatever. You do you.
Are we meant to account for 10 injuries and carry a squad of 40? Look how thread bare City’s squad is. They just don’t have injury issues like we do.
Somewhat surprising given that INEOS bought us.
Part of the reason is that our manager, despite facing the sack, refuses to find a professional way to reintegrate a player who he has fallen out with over a trifle.
Not remotely the point. Anyone pretending having all those guys fully fit and available to play Forrest makes no difference is either a liar or doesn't understand football at any level. End of story.
Trust them fully or not, you can't deny the possibility they'd make a difference. Casemiro instead of McTominay. Mount instead of Antony. Hojulnd up top with Rashford back to the left maybe.
Yeah when I watch us right now I can't help but think the man to help this is....Jadon Sancho.
The crazy thing with Blackett and McNair is they weren't even academy players who were particularly rated. Michael Keane was the highest rated at the time but got shipped out on loan, then Tom Thorpe, who I think did make one appearance before injury fecked him up. Fosu-Mensah and Tuanzebe were both younger but rated more highly, and came through a season or two later. It was egotistical posturing from LVG to be honest.
Yeah, quite shocking. Though tbf, it’s an injury ravaged squad otherwise the bench options would look somewhat better. Mount, Maguire, Lindelof, Shaw, Martinez, Casemiro, Amrabat, Martial, Hojlund, Sancho all unavailable for one reason or another (mostly injury). That’s an entire outfield 10, sadly. And I take it this isn’t even the worst the injuries have been for us this season?
If Hojlund was available he would have started. And less said about Sancho the better. All of which leaves Antony fecking Martial and no goals/no assists Antony as the most senior players we have available to try and turn the game, even if we don’t have a single injury. Our attacking depth is absolutely paper thin.
It’s even more infuriating when you think about what we’ve spent on Antony and Sancho (not to mention wages) and yet our attack is comfortably the worst of the big 4/6 IMO. Hell, our attack is currently competing with the likes of Luton etc. for goals scored
Yeah it’s nuts. 150m quid’s worth of attacking talent on our bench seems like an embarrassment of riches. But then you realise that all this investment = Antony and Sancho. FML.It’s even more infuriating when you think about what we’ve spent on Antony and Sancho (not to mention wages) and yet our attack is comfortably the worst of the big 4/6 IMO. Hell, our attack is currently competing with the likes of Luton etc. for goals scored
After everything we’ve spent on our attack, it almost defies belief that our front 3 would all have been academy graduates if MG wasn’t so vile.
Sums it up, doesn’t it
Bud I totally agree! Our bench was only that bad due to injuries, obviously. But my overall point was that our squad is in a depressing state vs money spent. We should have a far better squad for what we've spent, but we're run like a circus.
And here's to hoping that 2024 is the year that United sort their shit out.The really shocking thing is the lack of any reserve firepower that can be brought on to get us a goal. There were some good or at the very least promising youngsters for defence or midfield, but nothing we can call on to punch a hole through defences, even of a poor team like Forest.
McNair was decent to be fair. Could've been a squad player at least. The rest aren't good enough.
We can but dream of having strikers of the quality of Ole and Teddy on our bench. In fact, both of them would start every game for us this season.
Five of them would go straight into our first team now. Hojlund would become third choice forward.
Yeah, absolutely. I think a little further up in this thread Pogue and I had the same conversation about quality versus money spent/wages etc. It’s been absolutely shambolic and how it was allowed to get that bad - for a club of our stature - shocking.Bud I totally agree! Our bench was only that bad due to injuries, obviously. But my overall point was that our squad is in a depressing state vs money spent. We should have a far better squad for what we've spent, but we're run like a circus.
Anyway, happy new year Ish. Hope all is well with you mate
Wes Brown was just 20 y.o. And we only play with 1 striker. So probably only Ole from that list who is a definite starter. Who else a definite starter?
This also needs the context that we had 2 all time greats out suspended in Keane and Scholes plus Henning Berg injured.
Us having Hojlund, Casemiro, Martinez etc all out who would be the first 11 players doesn't count then atm? Because whoever mentions that we have feck ton of injuries is "not popular" to the lot who want to bash our manager for poor results only.
Classic Sniper007 post
