He’s good at one thing: getting in the box and scoring. He’s poor at almost everything else which should disqualify him from ever starting for us.
39
Season Average Rating
- Appearances
- 39
- Goals
- 10
- Assists
- 3
- Yellow cards
- 3
Fair enough, personally I don’t see much difference in the alternatives, but it’s not a point worth discussing too much.
Mainoo 46 touches
McTom 30 touches
Amrabat 17 touches
^ Hardly a kid in a sweet shop for options.
He's played for United at least a couple of hundred times. That says it all. Shit player.
When he got a quick ball by Reguilon near the end it just summed him up. He didn't even want the pass, hadn't a clue what to do with the ball and couldn't make a simple pass to a team mate no more than 10 yards away from him. He is not even Premier League level and he has way over 200 apperance for us. Mental
I am absolutely sick of seeing this guy start every game. Yes he bags the odd goal but absolutely stinks at everything else
Is he? The most goals he's ever scored is 4 in the league. Hardly Frank Lampard levels.
He scored some goals, important ones mind you, which now means he is starting every single game, despite the fact he is an abysmal midfielder. You are never controlling a game with him and Bruno Fernandes on the pitch together. Somehow this manager fails to realise this.
First name on the team sheet the past couple of months… if that doesn’t say everything about our current plight then I’m not sure what else would?
He is not even trying to control a game, forget McT for a moment, Ten Hag said it himself, he wants to be the best transition team, midfield control is not part of anything we have seen from him at Utd, no matter the player, it is all launch it forward into the channels and force mistakes high up the pitch.
Long ball shite and opportunistic football, if he hadn't come from Ajax with their storied history he would have called on this much earlier.
I remember hearing a commentator call him a ‘goal threat’ (probably based off Scotland) but he averages 1 in 10 for United and he has 5 goals in his last 64 league games but Ten Hag seems to be treating him like peak Frank Lampard. He’s not even good at that, never mind other midfield stuff.
Yeah he isn't a squad player pal. Pep would laugh at the thought of haivng McTominay rotate with his other midfielders.
Brilliant work rate on this "local lad" btw. Loves the club so much he chooses to keep his badge clean out of respect.
Been on to this guy right from the beginning. 6 years or so now, and never once been good enough.
I miss Fred
Wowzers that was bad.
Yet another bizarre choice by ETH choosing to keep this cnut and get rid of Fred for a paltry fee (considering McT could have fetched 3x as much most likely).
He's experienced PL player, scores regularly (more for national team though), British, so hope we'll still be able to get some solid money for him next summer.
Also he's my least favorite type of player: a ghost. Yeah he's popped up with a goal every now and then but mostly all he does is try not to be noticed good or bad in games, similar to Lindelof. His work rate is shockingly bad, he hides from the ball constantly and never tries anything when he actually gets it.
Fred got far more hate but at least good or bad he had the fecking balls to try things.
Fred got far more hate but at least good or bad he had the fecking balls to try things.
Signed Amrabat & Mount, promoted Mainoo & Mejbri, just to end up playing McTominay after two huge windows of spending.
This football club just can't let go.
This football club just can't let go.
Exactly this. It’s a complete myth propagated by his fan boys that he’s some kind of goal threat. As I’ve pointed out plenty of times the most goals he has ever scored in a Premiership season is 4. Steve Bruce had a better record than that. He’s simply not good enough to play for Manchester United as a regular midfielder as that’s what he is. If he was actually a squad player who got the occasional 10 minutes now and then fine but he’s not as he starts regularly. Again when he was apparently up for sale in the summer there was literally zero interest in him apart from one half hearted bid by that dinosaur Moyes. Speaks volumes to his utter lack of quality.
The joke that Mourinho played has manifested into this 
The joke that Mourinho played has manifested into this
He is also good at defending corners. I don't see why fans don't see this. People on twitter are calling for a midfield of Mainoo, mount and fernades. Who is going to head the ball? How many corners did Newcastle have today? Who is going to defend them? We don't have Ibrahimovic anymore. We don't have Cavani anymore. We can't leave it all to Maguire, we need tall strong physical players. Yes we want them to be good on the ball, but a team of midgets doesn't cut it. Best team in the league City have Dias, Gardiol, Stones, Rodri and Haaland to head the ball away. Who do United have? Today maguire and McTominay. Shaw too short, martial too short ( and not arsed) , Rashford not interested. Are we relying on Mainoo? Casemiro badly missed.
Singling players out is never nice. However, McTominay is a terrible player to have in the team. The things he does are not even that bad; it’s just that 98% of the time he doesn’t do anything. He doesn’t show for the ball, he doesn’t even press or make tackles, just jogs around.
Twitter is not representative of public opinion.
Most of the people on the CAF could tell you Mount is a #10 playing dress up as an #8, and we should've bought a proper box-to-box midfielder in the summer.
At this point I think the majority would take Amrabat next to Mainoo. Not that Amrabat is great. However, he at least shows some willingness to receive the ball in the middle of the park.
Teams with great midfields don’t give away as many corners though. Having players like McTominay loses our control, and we concede more corners because of it.
literally this. Amount of times I’ve thought to myself finally the end of mctomminay over the years
Should have sold him and kept Fred.
Yes. We’ve paid heavily for those injury time winners, since he’s contributed precious little else.
How and why McTominay was left on all game was mystery, Joelinton breezed past him numerous times tonight like he wasn't there and didn't bother chasing back.
It’s one of those unknowable situations as well with McT. He scored a few goals this season but then how much better overall would the team be if we had a good CM? We might just be winning games without needing these lat gasp winners.
I think the caf is pretty united on him and has been for some time though, he’s not good enough and should it start.
Caveman football, some of the fans here call for. I don't think Mount should be a CM either, but Newcastle show that you shouldn't have to play frail players in order to also have intelligent, hard-working, technical ones. There are tens of mct replacements with a good spring and some upper body strength who would bring more to the table in terms of...pretty much everything else. An odd goal here and there during chaos football or when playing like lampard (except with a bad concussion) in the attacking 8 position , leaving huge space behind you for the Cm to be swamped by opponents, isn't enough
Why the shock, its pretty standard
Even top transition teams need to control games. Look at us under Fergie, Klopp's Liverpool, Real Madrid during their recent CL domination. All of them considered one of the best, if not the best, counter-attacking team in the world, but all of them actually controlled games more often than not.
To be fair, Scott always has been a fairly good goal threat when he actually gets around the box. However throughout most of his time here we haven't had him getting into the box very often, something that ETH has changed recently which is why Scott is suddenly scoring a few goals. It's arguably the only aspect of Scott's game which is above average.
we are still going to have to defend 5 or 6 corners per game. With a team of midgets that pretty much confirms conceding 1 or 2 per game. Mc tominay is a massive downgrade on Ibra or Cavani but its what we have left, Should never have let Garner leave
Garner wanted to go. And this will be the same with other academy products because why would you wait when watching Scott McTominay hid on the pitch and you can't even get 5 mins of playing time?
I'm not shocked at all. I was emphasising how bad it was.
That is a fair point and realistically its not on ETH as he wanted to leave before ETH joined. Its more of a reflection on our (lack of a) footballing structure.
Should have sold both and not just watched with our junk in our hands while players like Lavia, Caicedo, MacAllister, Gravenberch, Kovacic etc moved clubs, all the while buying yet another #10 in Mount, just to sit next to our other number #10s Eriksen and Van de Beek, as back up to our main #10, Bruno, who is rarely ever unavailable.
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