Scott McTominay | Transfer discussion not performance discussion

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Surely McTominay is playing because ETH knows he is the leak in the dressing room? He's calling his bluff. After the analysis videos of mctominay being a lazy cnut he is just hanging him out to dry. Prett much what he did with ronaldo at villa
 

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Absolutely. Very good game today looking at defensive side of his game. Him and Casemiro shut down that dangerous area from where we have been letting goals in last couple of games.
 

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Absolutely. Very good game today looking at defensive side of his game. Him and Casemiro shut down that dangerous area from where we have been letting goals in last couple of games.
Ha. If Burnley had an establish high-calibre CF and.or a little more precision in the final ball, we'd have been toast, even with a three man midfield behind Bruno and Hannibal offering energy. McT was getting the run-about from a newly promoted side, even if Case's accelerated physical decline /early season sluggishness wasn't helping.

Whatever else he is, he shouldn't be mistaken for a United CM , much as he sadly suits the technically-sloppy, disjointed rabble our passing-play has degenerated into since LVG left and we moved away from his tidy but zombie-ball style. Lots of reasons why that is, and none of them absolve the managers, but one is the promotion and retention of McT, who largely lives off his Scotland performances (in a different position, under different pressure) and a few backs to the wall Ole-era performances against City and rusharound games against Leeds...
 
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The moaning in here is straight up idiotic. We have a side very low on confidence that had been hemorrhaging points because a passer like Eriksen was being repeatedly used in deep midfield. Our manager exchanges him for Mctominay, a functional squad player, not only do we keep a clean sheet. We grind out a morale boosting result, with our first away win in ages and all some you puerile lot can do is moan that Scott didn't pass or show for the ball like he was a god damn Scholes. You should be ashamed of yourselves....:annoyed:
 

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Ha. If Burnley had an establish high-calibre CF and.or a little more precision in the final ball, we'd have been toast, even with a three man midfield behind Bruno and Hannibal offering energy. McT was getting the run-about from a newly promoted side, even if Case's accelerated physical decline /early season sluggishness wasn't helping.

Whatever else he is, he shouldn't be mistaken for a United CM , much as he sadly suits the technically-sloppy, disjointed rabble our passing-play has degenerated into since LVG left and we moved away from his tidy but zombie-ball style. Lots of reasons why that is, and none of them absolve the managers, but one is the promotion and retention of McT, who largely lives off his Scotland performances (in a different position, under different pressure) and a few backs to the wall Ole-era performances against City and rusharound games against Leeds...
We should be playing with a 4 man midfield
 

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Ha. If Burnley had an establish high-calibre CF and.or a little more precision in the final ball, we'd have been toast, even with a three man midfield behind Bruno and Hannibal offering energy. McT was getting the run-about from a newly promoted side, even if Case's accelerated physical decline /early season sluggishness wasn't helping.

Whatever else he is, he shouldn't be mistaken for a United CM , much as he sadly suits the technically-sloppy, disjointed rabble our passing-play has degenerated into since LVG left and we moved away from his tidy but zombie-ball style. Lots of reasons why that is, and none of them absolve the managers, but one is the promotion and retention of McT, who largely lives off his Scotland performances (in a different position, under different pressure) and a few backs to the wall Ole-era performances against City and rusharound games against Leeds...
If we had different referees we would have won against Arsenal and Tottenham. But here we are.

You can talk about him in negative way all day and night. I know how it works. People pick a player and regardless of his preformance they try to find something bad about him. The fact remains that when he was put in a position where he can play and where we can use his qualities he helped our team a lot. Clean sheet. No danger at all infront of our backline and did a great job together with Casemiro to shut down that motorway we have been having in that area.
 

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Absolutely. Very good game today looking at defensive side of his game. Him and Casemiro shut down that dangerous area from where we have been letting goals in last couple of games.
You just enjoy going against popular opinion. He was his usual poor self and Burnley were walking through our midfield.
 

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You just enjoy going against popular opinion. He was his usual poor self and Burnley were walking through our midfield.
Popular opinion doesn't mean you are right. We know that from history of mankind.

McTominay was good today and you give credit to them who deserves that. Even if it is one game. Criticism is good. But hate is bad.
 

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Popular opinion doesn't mean you are right. We know that from history of mankind.

McTominay was good today and you give credit to them who deserves that. Even if it is one game. Criticism is good. But hate is bad.
He wasn't 'good'. Better than he has been lately, and he had some good moments in the second half, but overall he was at best 'ok'.
 

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I haven't visited this thread in a while but it's quite clear that it offers the most unique takes on anything football related currently on the caf.
And by unique takes I mean some people really should do way less drugs before they post.
 

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Popular opinion doesn't mean you are right. We know that from history of mankind.

McTominay was good today and you give credit to them who deserves that. Even if it is one game. Criticism is good. But hate is bad.
I'm very far from a McTominay hater but he really wasn't good today. Especially not first half. Second half improved defensively quite a bit but was a 0 on the ball still. He's not suited to that position and needs to be essentially where Hannibal was, give him license to roam forward from midfield and get in the box, press forward but don't put responsibility on him to initiate plays, pass forwards, be a key tracking back role (he has loads of lapses of concentration with that)... and I think he was probably the single biggest reason for our lack of control in the game. Just didn't know where to move and how to receive the ball in there.
 

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If another club offers £30m for him in January then we should really snap their hand off, Amrabat, Hannibal, Mainoo etc, we wouldn't miss Mctominay, there's enough bodies for the midfield now.
 

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He should be behind Mejbri and Amrabat

Can't wait to never see him play for united again

When he broke through at least he showed some aggression and fight, now he is all hide and the three times I noticed him in the first half was when he gave the ball away in his own half of the pitch
 

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Surely McTominay is playing because ETH knows he is the leak in the dressing room? He's calling his bluff. After the analysis videos of mctominay being a lazy cnut he is just hanging him out to dry. Prett much what he did with ronaldo at villa
I highly doubt McT is the leaker. Doesn't seem like that type of character.
 

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STOP USING THE TRANSFER FORUM FOR PERFORMANCE DISCUSSION.

use the correct thread - performance thread.

this thread will now be closed until there is actual transfer rumours again
 
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