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Rasmus Højlund | Signed for United
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
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It’s not even that, he had a few years on his contract and all of PSG, United and Atalanta clearly rate him extremely highly.
What incentive did Atalanta have to sell for example to PsG for 50m eur now when then could instead have kept the player for a year, benefited from that, possibly even with CL football, and then flog him for 70m next Summer?
3 clubs knew exactly what talent Atalanta had on their hands, PsG were willing to risk 50m on that potential, Atalanta were willing to lose 50m, and United were prepared to pay Atalanta what they could reasonably expect to get for next Summer if he has a massive breakout season.
If he has signed the contract, does this suggest he has already received his Visa and he will presumably take part in training tomorrow and ready to start or come off the bench on Saturday?
I can't see us announcing him and starting him in same game.
Best case scenario, he plays some minutes against Bilbao.
I haven’t declared him better than anyone, he’s a youngster who clearly will need time to develop. I’m simply adding a quote I read which justified the price. The truth is that time will tell.
Personally I think Jesus is great but he got 11 pl goals in 26 games, Izak got 10 in 22, Gapko 7 in 21, Nketia 4 in 30.
pedro 11 in 30.
I think you need to look at what I quoted. I quoted something which justifies his price tag not something that proves he’s superior. Of course he needs time to develop.
You’ve also quoted a lot of forwards there many of whom Nketia, Gapko, Izak, Ferguson, Pedro, don’t have better stats last season.
Please no kick ups
Please let him play vs Bilbao at least? I am itching for some action like a crack addict. I want to see Manchester United again with an actual centre forward.
Given that he’s a United fan and was itching for this move, introducing him before kick off at old Trafford has to be the stuff of dreams. 12 months ago he was playing for Sturm Graz.
He’s gonna be buzzing!! Only 20 years old. What a dream come true
This is clearly a Woodward deal, signing us a R9 two decades later. ffs
Yeah that’s fair. Thought he looked a bit cumbersome over short distance but fast when he gets going - would think Garnacho for example is much quicker off the mark.
As said above, he doesn’t look explosive in the slightest but given 4 or 5 strides he picks up his pace considerably. Will always judge it as I see it.
Big guys obvious take more to get going.
What kit number is he even going to use? Fred still around hogging #17, and Pellistri hanging on to #28.
If true, he may spend the whole of tomorrow training then and play on Saturday or on Sunday
He’s doing 100m in 11 seconds which puts him at just over 22mph, Walker is the fastest player (according to the stats) in the pl at 23mph. So in conclusion Hojilund is pretty quick and probably the second quickest player in the league.
He will play I'm 90% he needs to integrate into the team
Gareth Bale as a CF if developed properly
I'm 100 % sure he needs to integrate into the team. In fact I think all our players should.
If he scores a couple against Bilbao, expectations will rise…
But…
So, you did claim that only Haaland and Kane are better CFs than Højlund in the PL.
You also added that ‘in the near future’, you think he’ll be better / as good as either of them.
"Fast when he gets going" isn't that useful, to be honest. Lukaku was fast when he got going but it took him 10 minutes to get going.
His opportunities to eat up ground in a race with a defender over 60 metres will be rare. It's all about being quick off the mark and darting in behind.
Hojlund is very very quick. Pace won't be an issue
I think you need to re read my post. I’m sure it started with ‘I have just read this, I haven’t fact checked it’. Therefore I didn’t claim anything.
So there are 20 players in Italy who had a better scoring output just last season but in England, it's only Kane and Haaland?
If you expect him to be better than the likes of Toney, Martinelli, Mitrovic etc. right now you really have to ask yourself what you are basing this on. Other than just pure hope.
Would you rate it similar if Liverpool had bought him?
The one thing that doesn't seem clear from the videos is his shooting or striking technique. I suppose we'll find out soon enough but most of the goals I've seen didn't really require too clean of a strike to score. There was one outside the box for Atalanta that looked really good though.
One of the things Kane is so good at is hitting the ball true and hard, especially from angles. This is something many strikers struggle with but the best strikers all seem to have. RVP had it and you could see it when he was 19/20 at Arsenal.
Rashford is our only forward who has a varied shooting technique, the rest are all side foot merchants and it limits your ability to score. I'm excluding MG but he has the best shooting technique at the club.
One of the things Kane is so good at is hitting the ball true and hard, especially from angles. This is something many strikers struggle with but the best strikers all seem to have. RVP had it and you could see it when he was 19/20 at Arsenal.
Rashford is our only forward who has a varied shooting technique, the rest are all side foot merchants and it limits your ability to score. I'm excluding MG but he has the best shooting technique at the club.
Faster than any United player.
Clocked at 35.97 kmph.
Rashford done 35.95 last season.
Clocked at 35.97 kmph.
Rashford done 35.95 last season.
Who are you quoting then? Where did you read it?
Why not post it as a link / embed?
Is literally the entire thing something you read elsewhere? And if so do you disagree with the points I highlighted from it?
Watching his individual match highlights he really does look like a bit of a donkey. I wish I could get more excited. Would help if we didn’t have a near 100% hit rate on big money flops.
For reference, Haaland's at 36.04km/h according to this site
https://speedsdb.com/erling-haaland-top-speed
It was taken from a Man Utd fan page on Facebook, I do disagree with some of your comments and agree with others. I agree we should not over expect of a 20 year old. I also agree that we are being told we are overpaying due to Hojilunds lack of goals which isn’t an issue when compared with others and the fact we are buying potential. I don’t agree with some of those players you quoted as being better.
If we were buying proven we’d have to pay 120m for Kane who’s 30. Yes spurs will sell abroad for cheaper, 250m for Mbappe and we couldn’t afford Haaland. So actually I think the Hojilund fee is ok on paper. If he reaches his potential it’s a bargain and if he doesn’t, I’m glad the Glazers aren’t pocketing the money.
9 goals and 4 assists in the equivalent of 20 Serie A matches says he isn't. You should check out his most recent Danish game against Slovenia. Very exciting signing.
Waiting for the meltdowns here when he doesn't score against Athletic and hearing about how we should have spent the mythical "extra £20million for Kane" or gotten Ramos instead.
Lukaku scored 27 goals in his first season at OT. Can’t think of a better first season for numbers other than Ruud. We couldn’t get past the poor close control and first touch, which this guy is displaying in so many of the big Italian matches last season.
He’s only young so let’s hope for the best, and I’m probably scarred by so many flops so please feel free to ignore me and get excited.
I just want us to have technically exquisite, composed players as I’m sick of watching us be so wasteful. When you think about Cantona, Yorke, Ruud, Rooney, RVP they were so fecking good on the ball and at retaining the ball on top of the goal scoring numbers - that’s what we need. It’s a shame Greenwood turned out to be such a cnut as he really is a sensational technical talent.
There was a YouTube vid with just tons of his shots from last season, he's got a very good striking technique with his left foot and can get lots of power on it and accuracy. His right foot seems average at best.
I for one am very excited to have a young number 9 who wants to be here.
I think the Sancho at 9/false 9 worked pretty well. I could see Hojland coming on for the final 30 minutes of our first few games.
For better or worse, I'm almost certain Greenwood is coming back into the fold at this stage, mostly because we've left it far to late to sell or loan him and while I'm not a lawyer, I dont think we technically have grounds to terminate his contract. So I think that competition will be there...
Yeah and even that is looking a long stretch
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