He'll be benched if we buy Watkins or Sesko. If we don't buy a new striker, then we are screwed.
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Ditto
He was not a prolific goal scorer in all his previous clubs. Copenhagen, Strum and Atalanta. Why would he suddenly become one in United?
The only thing that I find odd about the 'bomb squad' is the fact Malacia is in there, I can understand all he rest, but what has Malacia done to deserve to be in there?
Hojlund is terrible and has no right to be at United, but not sure advertising the fact is really the approach to take, so I am hoping we sign Watkins or Sesko and then quietly move him on loan to Italy.
He's an awful player. Atalanta scammed us so badly with that fee of 70 million pounds. I am not sure why he is still in our squad. If I were the coach of Man Utd, I would definitely sell him.
He was better. Certainly wasn't 'fine'. The hope is that he continues improving a bit each game, and perhaps he'll become 'fine'.
Some genius at United saw the potential. Probably the same genius that saw Mount and Onana's quality.
Our scouting team has some seriously poor judgement still, needs to be sorted or we're fecked.
Probably because of his relatively low salary and the fact we don’t have a straight replacement. He’s also not detrimental to the squad environment in the same way as the others. He’s clearly on the chopping block though. If he survives this summer he won’t survive the next.
Is that same genius now manager some club in Bundesliga?
Would worry me. One-named Brazilians don’t usually go well in the Premier Legaue.
Malacia fell out with the staff over his injury treatment. Wanted to get surgery elsewhere, United wanted him to get it in the UK. Then when he came back he has looked poor. He has also shown nothing to suggest he will work as a wingback for us
Looked sharper again and actually scored a header. Good signs
He has looked sharper and there was that 1 sequence where Dorgu should have played him in. Glad he scored too.
But he's just so bereft of general quality compared to others in the team.
He absolutely can't be the starter.
But he's just so bereft of general quality compared to others in the team.
He absolutely can't be the starter.
He's been low on confidence. If he gets that extra second and a bit of luck here and there I think he's a good player. Bags of potential.
Nice header! Battled well today and looked more confident.
Maybe he's the striker version of Luke Shaw and will only play well when we sign a replacement.
Well you took the words right out of my mouth
Looking shaper and scored, we got to see the good, the bad and the ugly tonight.
Sometimes that’s what’s needed. Players can get too comfortable if they know the squad doesn’t have a replacement or lack of for your position then you assume that your safe.
I thought he wanted Kane but we didn't want to pay and instead suffered for the last 2 years because of it
He definitely didn't look comfortable last season
He will be better as a backup though, he clearly doesn't have the mentality to be relied upon. The hope is he'll have less pressure as a sub. I'd still send him out on loan though.
I heard he also wanted to link him up with Mbappe. We really did him dirty, with those two we could've challenged for top 5.
That can lead to complacency in some cases (I think that was the case for Rashford at times), but in Hojlund's case, I think it led to added pressure. Knowing you're the only #9 in the squad, that you have the burden of scoring goals at a massive club, can put a big load on a player's shoulders, particularly if they're young and still learning.
A Prem loan would do wonders for his value and reputation.
2 season at Everton (or similar club with an experienced manager)
£3-5M loan fee per season
If he manages to hit 15-20 goals + lots of effort points (tackles, headers etc) in those two season that’s a £30-40m player about to turn 25.
We get a better, more seasoned player or £40m+ (a good chunk of what we paid)
Everton just lost DCL (17 goals in 4 seasons), they’re cash rich and are struggling to make signings. This could be their Lukaku 2.0 project.
2 season at Everton (or similar club with an experienced manager)
£3-5M loan fee per season
If he manages to hit 15-20 goals + lots of effort points (tackles, headers etc) in those two season that’s a £30-40m player about to turn 25.
We get a better, more seasoned player or £40m+ (a good chunk of what we paid)
Everton just lost DCL (17 goals in 4 seasons), they’re cash rich and are struggling to make signings. This could be their Lukaku 2.0 project.
I like bearded Rasmus Højlund....
He’s at least looking like a PL striker the last couple of games, still goes down too easily at times (bit of a habit with a few of our players), and his control isn’t always great but his runs off the ball are good, both Dorgu and Amad should have played him through on goal last night if they’d had their head up or played the ball earlier.
Really? C'mon mate, those can't be the standards.
Well taken goal, but didn't really offer anything other than that. He was fouled a few times and the ref was blind, but nothing to show he can lead the line this season.
If the rumors of RB Leipzig wanting him are true, I'd snap at that opportunity.
Particularly when the team is not set up to your strengths and functioning horribly overall. Credit to him this preseason. To come back and put in good performances shows some real mental fortitude.
Absolutely agree that I haven't seen anything that indicates a massive leap in all round performance that warrants a complete shift in opinion. Great that he hit the post the other night, and got on the score sheet last night. But at the end of the day, I want 10 games with consistent performances and more importantly, goals! We need goals. It was our biggest problem last season, and needs to be rectified.
If we can somehow get Rasmus to properly kick on and become a PL striker, then fantastic! But so far, I just don't see it at all. Still looks like the player from last season. Any credible offers that come along should be absolutely considered. Seems like a good lad, but just doesn't have the level of talent we need for a top striker.
If we can somehow get Rasmus to properly kick on and become a PL striker, then fantastic! But so far, I just don't see it at all. Still looks like the player from last season. Any credible offers that come along should be absolutely considered. Seems like a good lad, but just doesn't have the level of talent we need for a top striker.
Luke Shaw is a very, very high quality footballer.
Happy he got a goal, and a header which I'm not sure he's ever scored in a United shirt? however one glancing header and resembling somewhat competent overall doesn't mean that we should give him another chance. We desperately need a striker in the door.
He is not the solution to our striker problems.
The issue is coming up with an improvement which makes footballing and financial sense. I could realistically see him bettering Šeško’s numbers at RB while the latter struggles with us were we to go ahead with this “swap” deal. That would be such a stark and disastrous failure that I’d rather us not even entertain the possibility. When there is no clear option you go with what you have and hope it improves. That’s where we are with Rasmus at the moment.
Weirdly I think that because he is doing marginally better than the abortion of last season, he might actually think he deserves to start and will consequently dig his heels in on any potential transfer or loan out to a.n.other club. Whilst this is not an issue if we can sign a Sesko without the need to sell, it could very well be an issue if we do need funds in, we have a concrete offer for him, and he refuses to move.
Whilst I get your point, I can’t agree. He’s shown all of last season that he lacks basic football awareness and skills to be a number 9 for us. In fact all of the evidence from his time with us and from at Atalanta and Copenhagen suggests strongly to the fact he’ll not better Sesko’s numbers in the Bundesliga. Also, just because Sesko could potentially end up the same, and - the evidence points to him not being - then that’s no reason to just stick with Rasmus as our starting centre forward.
Not saying we shouldn’t sell and replace with better but there were at least 3 clear runs he made that should have led to a goal scoring chance if the player on the ball had made a simple pass. He can’t be blamed for his teammates not doing basic passes at the right time.
His hold up play was a bit better today but the his passing was also sloppy at times which is a theme of the team for years now.
I’m gutted about Hojilund last season. So poor. I’ve flipped and flopped with this but after watching the last two games I feel we should keep him. Get Sesko but keep him.
At 22/23 Zlatan scored 12 goals in the Dutch league, he the went on to score 20 for Juventus in 70 appearances before becoming a beast at Inter.
Salah was deemed not good enough for Chelsea and shipped to serie A where he scored 6 goals.
Shearer scored 13 in 41 games.
RVP scored 5 in 24 pl appearances for Arsenal.
He was unbelievably poor last season but I feel he works hard enough for one more chance.
Just to add that he’s been dropped into a Man Utd squad as the main man at the worst point in our PL history. With Rashford and Gernacho thinking they are better than the rest of the team and shooting at every opportunity rather than passing the ball.
Who did he have as a striker to look up to? Benni McCarthy?
At 22/23 Zlatan scored 12 goals in the Dutch league, he the went on to score 20 for Juventus in 70 appearances before becoming a beast at Inter.
Salah was deemed not good enough for Chelsea and shipped to serie A where he scored 6 goals.
Shearer scored 13 in 41 games.
RVP scored 5 in 24 pl appearances for Arsenal.
He was unbelievably poor last season but I feel he works hard enough for one more chance.
Just to add that he’s been dropped into a Man Utd squad as the main man at the worst point in our PL history. With Rashford and Gernacho thinking they are better than the rest of the team and shooting at every opportunity rather than passing the ball.
Who did he have as a striker to look up to? Benni McCarthy?
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Looking sharper in the last two games. Fingers crossed for the lad.
His positioning is looking more competent at least, but all of his other deficiencies remain. He still needs to be moved on.