that would benefit him too probably, my point is he's nowhere near as bad as some on here claim
Rasmus Hojlund - Linked to Inter on loan
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Nik (@Rood), Jamie (@Vault Dweller) and Ed (@That'sHernandez) give their end of season awards out! They celebrate the best players, goals and moments of the season (there were some, honestly) and also give out awards for the worst and most disappointing players/moments of the season.
They then discuss all the latest transfer rumours and get into the potential ins and outs this summer at Old Trafford.
He’s on ~4m£ a year plus a loan fee. That’s an instalment on a striker be that Ekitike and then the following year his wages are removed totally plus the PSR write off is cheaper.
So it does make sense.
I honestly don't think he's as bad as last season's performances however I don't think he'll ever be more than a poor man's Lukaku. At best he may be a bottom half-level player or a decent mid table bundesliga striker but we need someone much better to compete in this league. His first season gets massively overrated here, he really struggled at 1st in the league, had a 6 game purple patch then was back to struggling when he returned and was dropped for the cup final. Plenty of people were concerned then saying he has really poor technique but were shot down as negative. He seems a nice kid and says he's a United fan but that doesn't make him any better as a footballer. These rose tinted specs remind me of Liverpool fans in the late '90s and early 00's, overrating every player like they're just waiting to be unlocked then will be world class when in reality they had signed a lot of dross
Not sure he's good enough to even be deemed a poor man's Lukaku.
Needs to point more
A poor man’s Carlton Cole or Nicolas Bendtner would be fairer.
I’m sure I just heard Laurie Whitwell on TOTD say that he’s more likely than not to be sold to Inter at this stage…
Disappointing.
You mean he is going to be sold or not?
It looks like he's being sold, according to Whitwell
Ruthless, I like it
Even slightly promising news about us selling a player turns out to be fake
I can’t tell what he actually said after reading this thread and the Transfer Tweet thread.
What did he actually say then?!
What did he actually say then?!
The quote he is denying is about Mbuembo. It supposedly reported him sayimg that Brentford asked for £70m for Mbuemo telling United to match the Spurs bid.
I have no idea what he said about Højlund…
Has anyone actually watched the video?
It's in the first 10 minutes of the podcast. He says it's more likely than not he goes, and it will be a sale not a loan.
Yup just listening now. Laurie definitely said its more likely that Rasmus will be sold with inter in the frame.
Yup just listening now. Laurie definitely said its more likely that Rasmus will not be sold with inter not in the frame
Wasnt he refering to something about mbeumo when he said this?
Stop it there's muppets lives at stake!
Might explain the recent links to Watkins
Lukaku and Hojlund are very different in their flavours of s**tness.
I remember a 3 on 2 counter we had against Arsenal; ball got played to Lukaku in the centre circle and the pass to play was to Martial on the left. Berba, Van Persie, Cantona, Ibra et al would’ve played it first time. Saha, Ruud, Cavani and co may have taken a touch then played it. Big Rom’s first touch bounced 3 yards off him. Second touch to control his miscontrol, then played the pass, by which time Martial had to check his run to stay onside. Didn’t lose it, did the right thing but his dreadful touch tapped the brakes on the move. He was awful in a very subtle way.
Hojlund just engages whichever centre half he’s playing against in a physical tussle, immediately loses, falls over and appeals in vain for a free kick that’s rightly never given. It’s all very obvious. Possibly the worst balance I’ve ever seen in a player; always on the floor.
Atalanta might be interested in taking him back now that Retegui looks like he's heading to Saudi Arabia.
Lukaku is one of the most lethal strikers in last decade. How he is constantly thrown into comparison with Hojlund is mind blowing.
Lethal? I’d suggest watching the highlights of Belgium vs Croatia.
The previous decade maybe… Cause he’s been quite average over the last 5 years and has not had a season with 15 league goals since 2021…
I've seen many words used to describe Lukaku over the years. Lethal, has very, very rarely been one of them
I remember every second of that game, believe me.
My point about "lethal" was; people are comparing a striker who scored over 400 goals in his career with striker who scored 60 goals.
I’ll be honest, he’s a player I never wanted and generally just can’t stand; huge amounts of bias against him on my part. I just think he’s dreadful, despite his flat-track-bully number padding.I remember every second of that game, believe me.
My point about "lethal" was; people are comparing a striker who scored over 400 goals in his career with striker who scored 60 goals.
He was good in a counter attacking team (Everton) and he did well in Italy because they couldn’t handle his physical attributes (see McTominay, Scott), but he was middling to poor for us and reeked the whole place out at Chelsea. Plus he’s a whiny c**t.
To be fair, Lukaku's first season here was fairly good. Hell, he was arguably our best player in the first half of it where even his all-round game was looking quite good (I remember in either November or December he was probably our best player despite not scoring much).
His second season was absolutely disgraceful though. Especially the first half of that, where (up until Hojlund last season) he was probably the only Utd player to ever be the worst performing player in the entire PL. Combine that with him pointing the finger at everyone else (both on the field and in interviews) and the teacher's pet thing he had going on with Mourinho, then his snide comments after he left, and it's not a surprise that Utd fans generally can't stand him.
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He’s lethal in killing Inter’s chances of winning.
Lukaku was always what he was at Everton. A good to occasionally very good striker who wasn’t quite good enough to reach the truly top level and so kept failing whenever he got there. A footballing Peter Principle essentially.
He was never a donkey, just an alright striker over promoted in an era of not many amazing strikers.
He was never a donkey, just an alright striker over promoted in an era of not many amazing strikers.
Something that annoys me is how his record with Belgium always gets brought up. He’s had no rivals and been in a pretty top team, with top supply (Hazard AND de Bruyne) for a decade, so of course he’s absolutely filled his boots against the Andorras and Macedonias. Any half decent striker would’ve done; Robbie Keane got nearly 70 international goals.
As I’ve always said, he’s just Darren Bent if he spent too long in the gym. Like you say, Everton standard.
I actually think it's one of the few cases he's as bad as people make him out to be. He genuinely looks completely hopeless at everything except his finishing. He's failed to score in over 80% of his games for us and thats including his first 'good' season where most of his goals were in a one month purple patch. It's even worse because scoring is the only thing a player like that can offer. His hold up play is non existent, his first touch is one of the worst I've seen from any professional level footballer, his passing is sub par. He loses an overwhelming majority of ground an aerial duels. He can't dribble. His movement is beyond terrible.
The last bit I mentiond is the most damning thing. A striker with such piss poor movement also limits the impact of any of our attacking players because he's so easy to mark/defend against. This gives the others around him much less space to work with. With Hojlund, all you have to do is send one defender to go play WWE with him and he's out of the game.
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They never make it easy for the club to sell do they
Can't blame him for wanting to stay, I mean he's crap and will never play for such a famous club again.
But damn, another season of this guy leading the attack. It's a depressing thought
But damn, another season of this guy leading the attack. It's a depressing thought
Look at it from his point of view right now, why would he leave? As it stands he's still starting, he's the starting striker for one of the biggest clubs in the world. The chase of a top striker is looking increasingly difficult with Gyökeres committing to Arsenal and the Sesko/Osimhen/Ekitike deals being very complicated financially, the other options like Ollie Watkins or DCL shouldnt scare him (even though they're clearly better).
He probably realizes he's starting by default and by lack of a better option but he's probably willing to prove he can do it.