The Manchester United Thread

Legend Incredible said:
Again, he just signed a new contract. You really think Ajax will just let us take their CEO after signing 2 of their best players, their transfer targets, their manager and coaching staff? Might as well sign their chefs, kit men, security, ball boys, goal posts etc.

Just buy the Johan Cruijff arena while we’re at it
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He actually hasn’t signed the contract yet. And won’t till another 3 weeks due to some clause about it having to be done at the shareholders meeting as reported by De Telegraf writer Mike Verweij.
 
Legend Incredible said:
You say that like it’s easy benching a player of Ronaldo’s reputation, let alone carrying out disciplinary actions on him. His petulance isn’t anything new and he’s gotten away with it, especially in the Portuguese NT but managers have always been wary to take action on it.

I am most impressed by the fact that he doesn’t buckle under external pressure with certain ex-players stating Ronaldo simply “has to play” no matter what.
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That's on the shitshow that is Utd under the Glazers that he's got away with **** for too long. And the halfwits that let him run the National side.

But any manager who garners an ounce of respect in the dressing room can't have what Ronaldo did the other night whatever the F his reputation is. Or that respect he has in the changies is gone.

This isn't open to discussion with top managers.
 
Since those awful first 2 games, United have P9 W6 D2 L1 and in that time played all of the rest of the big 6. Great effort.


We are close. The tactics were perfectly fine and we were able to go through there midfield with ease when we had the ball. Funnily enough today, we needed a little bit more aggression from Bruno and especially Sancho during the first half, their passing in the last third was a bit too conservative. The short corners consistently displaced their defense but the players didn't go for the low on target crosses that I'm pretty sure were instructed.

In my opinion we are very close, an actual striker, the same Bruno that we have seen during the last two games, Rashford on the left and we are in business.

Slightly worried about amount of injuries though. That celebration and passion by Casemiro at the end had me choked lol.
 
What are Utd 'close' to again?

Not even interested in debating what the answer is. I've had enough of football chat this weekend.

Just curious as I'm sat here reading with a brew and thought the answer might cheer me up.
 
Scouseinthehouse said:
What are Utd 'close' to again?

Not even interested in debating what the answer is. I've had enough of football chat this weekend.

Just curious as I'm sat here reading with a brew and thought the answer might cheer me up.
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Close to being a slightly entertaining watch when you've got the time.
 
I’m a bit nervous about Varane’s injury but I can see an actual structure starting to take place.
Again, I love how we can actually go toe to toe with some big teams compared to ole-ball
 
Theatre of Dreams83 said:
In my opinion we are very close, an actual striker, the same Bruno that we have seen during the last two games, Rashford on the left and we are in business.

Slightly worried about amount of injuries though. That celebration and passion by Casemiro at the end had me choked lol.
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One injury in each department and we are messed up.

We need another CB who can actually step in to play properly (worried about Maguire and Lindelof stepping in now). Another RB, as its wan Bissaka if Dalot gets an injury. Malacia is good, but has zero attacking output, but hoping he will improve that. An injury to Eriksen is a major problem in midfield, as the alternative is Fred (who can be useful situationally). Our wide options are good, but need to improve further and the less said about a striker, the better. And then, there is the keeper situation.

We need atleast a couple of windows more to get a proper squad together and be properly competitive, as it's never just about the first team.

The only reason we are seeing an improvement is because there is finally a system at play - the team is playing like a team, they are learning the basics of pressing, positional play and implementing that - basically, we finally have a manager who knows how he wants to play and can get the squad to follow it.
 
kitchin75 said:
we do but hes a toxic pos who when its not going his way takes ball home to cry about how hard it is for him right now
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Unfortunatly, Ronaldo this season is shedding and all United got is his shell. It's slow, weak, taking bad positions, bad finisher and tactically awful fit.
United are better without him.
 
Sherkey said:
One injury in each department and we are messed up.

We need another CB who can actually step in to play properly (worried about Maguire and Lindelof stepping in now). Another RB, as its wan Bissaka if Dalot gets an injury. Malacia is good, but has zero attacking output, but hoping he will improve that. An injury to Eriksen is a major problem in midfield, as the alternative is Fred (who can be useful situationally). Our wide options are good, but need to improve further and the less said about a striker, the better. And then, there is the keeper situation.

We need atleast a couple of windows more to get a proper squad together and be properly competitive, as it's never just about the first team.

The only reason we are seeing an improvement is because there is finally a system at play - the team is playing like a team, they are learning the basics of pressing, positional play and implementing that - basically, we finally have a manager who knows how he wants to play and can get the squad to follow it.
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Was talking to my friend who's bent on United getting a top4 this and a title next seasons.

Yeah, its a clear shift in culture with EtH, but the squad he has is not good and really thin.
Is there a single position where you can trust a sub to make an impact? Maybe McTominay and Fred, with Malacia (who's an alright backup and interesting tactical choice, unfortunatly he's too slow for most PL games) and thats it. Everyone else is subpair or injury prone.

And then the first team. I said multiple times that De Gea is more then good enough for ten Hag. Not perfect, but he'll do for a couple of seasons.
Not convinced on Dalot, but he's getting there. Quick, strong, tall and has a functional brain, all the tools to be a good fullback.

Varane is injury prone, unfortunate because if not he'd be amongst best defenders.

Sancho, don't know what to think about him. One thing for sure, at the moment, he's not pulling his weight.

Rashford is not a striker and cant be a left forward because of his techical ability with a bad football IQ.

A lot of work still to be done.
 
Well early news on Varane out of France is that it’s his hamstring not knee like was early geared let’s hope that’s true.

We definitely need to improve on our squad to make the bench stronger and to have players ETH actually wants at the club to be able to bring on and make an impact. Still need a STR and a CM in the starting 11 imo.

It’s great to see we can all pretty much agree the huge difference ETH has made at his short time at the club on all levels on and off the pitch.

Just finished watching the game again from yesterday. Not the most exciting but a great tactical game. That first half from us was just as good if not better than against Spurs. Going to Stamford dominating them in their own half having 63% possession and forcing Potter to rip up his tactics after 35 mins was very impressive. Playing through them with ease and should have been 3 up at HT. more of the same please.

Now let’s start doing this against these lesser fixtures which we have struggled with in the past. And we really need some depth back.
 
Raphaël Varane's injury is less serious than first feared. He has a lesion of the femoral bicep (hamstring). If he is selected for France's World Cup squad, he would probably miss the first match against Australia [@ddubras]
 
No one wants to talk about volume four of Tubby Shaw’s rebirth? These only get released when he has genuine competition.
 
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