Man crush. Very good. How old are you? 12?
The point is we have alternatives. There are XI’s ETH could select that don’t involve Weghorst. Yet he chooses to play him. So he provides some value to the team in the eyes of a manager who obviously knows what he’s doing. My money’s on that value being based more on what he could provide for the team than what he has provided so far. Time will tell. It’s still early days.
Whatever, he’s a stop gap loan signing, is clearly a limited player and literally nobody is saying we couldn’t upgrade him in the summer so I’ve no idea why you need to make shit up to try and make whatever point you’re trying to make.
I haven’t made up anything, in this very thread plenty of people expressed their support for keeping him as a squad player and contended that what he provides is good enough as a squad player and we can’t aspire for more since better strikers than Weghorst wouldn’t be content with a bench role at this club, imagine that. You don’t even have to look that far back, it was pages upon pages of twerking for it after the cup final.
And in case you haven’t realized, we are more than half way through March and by the time club football is back, it’s April, so if that’s ‘early days’, when can we actually judge him? For a loan signing? And it’s not like he’s been used sparingly so we can default to argument about lack of game time/chemistry, man played near enough every matches.
I have nothing against you Pogue, I have been on here enough to know that you are generally a sound poster, but you have a pretty big blindspot here regarding him. It’s not the guy’s fault that he’s not good enough for United, but just as with Dan James or Lingard, some people are willing to overlook glaring faults in a player because they’ve taken a liking to him based on attitude.
Re: EtH. I simply disagree that he’s playing Weghorst on unseen value for supporters, because he’s been public about what he brought to the team e.g pressing and link up. The problem is, for him, the likes of Elanga and Pellistri simply aren’t alternatives, just as as bad as McTominay has been, he considers him the only back up to Casemiro because we’ve seen how bad Fred was there when he tried early on in the season. So Weghorst is starting due to the constraints put on EtH by the board, rather than some mysterious quality that’s gone unnoticed by the football plebs.