By Burt The Samurai Go To Postnot sir jim?Jimbo will be ours in time.
Not having Jota is definitely rough. With him injured and Nunez in the stupid-box, we’re low on attacking options.
By Burt The Samurai Go To Postno friend, the other jim.That's who I meant, all Jims are Jimbo to me.
harry potter's father or whoever he is
Attention superbru players
Expert advice. Liverpool United are going to draw please select draw for the game.
Expert advice. Liverpool United are going to draw please select draw for the game.
By Laboured Go To PostRomano says we're still going back for Antony.
Fucking hell don't pay 80 million for an Eredivisie player
By Laboured Go To PostRomano says we're still going back for Antony.Indeed:
By Plasma Go To PostSlaent sellers in bits - @Clegg and co.
Saka <3
By Andrew Go To PostSlaent sellers in bits - @Clegg and co.He'll leave if Arsenal don't get regular CL football. But he's young enough that he's better off where he currently is.
He's dead in about this. Some of United's players clearly don't give a shit and refuse to put in the effort required to win games.
City and Liverpool are two of the best teams in Europe and they work their bollocks off in possession and out of possession.
City and Liverpool are two of the best teams in Europe and they work their bollocks off in possession and out of possession.
Respect for Casemiro not going to PSG, the easy money route, bossing that league until he's 40. Big loss for us, on and off the pitch.
United is $$$ too but going to be a challenge at least, I dig it.
Not many left now...
United is $$$ too but going to be a challenge at least, I dig it.
Not many left now...
By Frustrated_me Go To PostRespect for Casemiro not going to PSG, the easy money route, bossing that league until he's 40. Big loss for us, on and off the pitch.Dis the La Decima team?
United is $$$ too but going to be a challenge at least, I dig it.
Not many left now…
By scently Go To PostDis the La Decima team?No but still similar, from La Decima: Modric, Carvajal and Benz are still there. Kroos didn't play, Di Maria was the MOTM but then we sold him that summer lol.
By Perfect Blue Go To PostWTF is this?
This is killing me
By Frustrated_me Go To PostNo but still similar, from La Decima: Modric, Carvajal and Benz are still there. Kroos didn't play, Di Maria was the MOTM but then we sold him that summer lol.Oh yeah lol. I remember.
By Cleff Go To PostBig day for striking players.
Apparently Anthony didn't train today. Vinagre is getting depressed at the thought of being in the same league as Anthony.
By Daz Go To PostWTF is this?Marina Hyde piece in Brooklyn Beckham https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/17/brooklyn-beckham-career-high-profile?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
By Daz Go To Postthats a bad shop.His shop for all Utd transfers has been bad.
Watching Arse AoN Ep7. Love Saka so much. Just a genuinely nice bloke.
From Miggy D:
From Miggy D:
Manchester United have been looking at Lisandro Martinez in a defensive midfield role over the last week, with a view to potentially playing the new signing in that role against Liverpool. Erik ten Hag knows he has to change something within the team, to try and start changing everything else around the club. Even a stuttering Liverpool, however, could ensure it gets worse before it gets better. Maybe much worse.
That is an ominous thought, given how bad it has been. Ten Hag has been left “utterly stunned” by the opening two results. He just didn’t see any of it coming, especially with how promising pre-season had seemed.
The Dutch coach has held a series of meetings with staff and officials about how to get out of this, although some of those have only reflected another rising concern for Ten Hag. That is his accompanying shock at the club structure, amid so much uncertainty about the future of the ownership.
Ten Hag is now beginning to fully understand what some football figures warned him about, as well as just how challenging the Premier League is. He has been struck by how high the quality of bottom-half sides is relative to their equivalents in the Eredivisie. This is very different to Ajax.
Take one of the most contentious stories of the summer. That is the status of a megastar in Cristiano Ronaldo. It points to one of the major reasons pre-season was so different. There was a fresher mood around the camp. Players like Harry Maguire, Jadon Sancho and Marcus Rashford looked more vibrant, both in play and behaviour. Ronaldo’s return has greatly suppressed the mood, though. It has changed the chemistry. He is more intimidating for some players than the manager.
Despite that, Sporting and Atletico Madrid would be willing to take him on a free. The United hierarchy are currently insistent he stays. Joel Glazer, who virtually every decision at the club has to go through, is especially unwilling to sanction it. He greatly values Ronaldo’s commercial profile.
Take some of the names of the past few days, right up to a Jamie Vardy who many at Leicester City consider spent. Danny Welbeck, who has been broached at meetings, is undeniably one of the better options.
Ten Hag has insisted on a striker by 1 September, as well as a midfielder and another full back, while he continues to bring up Frenkie de Jong. He is likely to be disappointed. Many now see De Jong’s signing as impossible.
Ten Hag has a dilemma, which is where it is impossible not to have considerable sympathy for the manager, if also some reservations.
The Dutch coach’s opening two games show a manager that has been ideologically dogmatic on one hand, but making far too many compromises on the other.
He has been insistent on United playing exactly the way he wants, but with fundamental roles filled by senior players who can’t or won’t play that way. De Gea doesn’t have the ability to play with his feet to that level. Ronaldo doesn’t have the will to press like that, having again argued against it in training. And these are the two bookends of his team, the pillars.
Compare that to Pep Guardiola, when he attempted a similar approach at Manchester City. Joe Hart wasn’t even given a chance. Guardiola just knew he couldn’t do it from training. Sergio Aguero was meanwhile made to change his entire game.
Guardiola was ruthless. The City manager, however, could afford to be ruthless. Can Ten Hag? It does feel like there is an obstacle almost everywhere he turns.
He could drop De Gea, but United don’t currently have a suitable replacement, it would significantly eat into their limited budget to get one, and even then the Spanish goalkeeper is on £350,000 a week. That is a lot of money to leave on the bench in a summer when United have been so frugal.
Incredible coup, any PL club would be jealous of this transfer. Finally a world class DM, something United have been missing for over a decade.
Now need to push for Antony, the final missing piece of the puzzle. Whatever it takes, this is the forward ETH wants so give it to him.
Now need to push for Antony, the final missing piece of the puzzle. Whatever it takes, this is the forward ETH wants so give it to him.
Ten Hag sounds way out of his depth judging by that piece tbh. How do you not know the lower sides in the PL are still really good football teams?
By Perfect Blue Go To PostTen Hag sounds way out of his depth judging by that piece tbh. How do you not know the lower sides in the PL are still really good football teams?Sounds like a La Liga fan
By Perfect Blue Go To PostTen Hag sounds way out of his depth judging by that piece tbh. How do you not know the lower sides in the PL are still really good football teams?
because frustrated_me has spent years telling us the bottom of la liga is far better than the epl and ten hag exclusively reads slaent for his news
Some of ETH's early decisions have been dodgy tbh. All the Glazer stuff aside...not a good start regardless
ETHeria won't be built in one day. It's normal that ETH couldn't see this coming but he'll adapt promptly, he has McLaren besides him, someone well versed in British football. He needs to stick to his guns, remember Pep and Klopp's first seasons in charge, a disaster. It would be ridiculous of him to turn Martinez into a DM after just one game. This is the Butcher of Amsterdam we're talking about, height is just a number when you have his skillset.
By Cleff Go To PostI feel like there has to be some sort of Casa Amor joke with Casemiro. It's close enough that something could work.
If nothing else, the logo should be photoshopped.
By n8 dogg Go To Postbecause frustrated_me has spent years telling us the bottom of la liga is far better than the epl and ten hag exclusively reads slaent for his news
By Pedja Go To PostSounds like a La Liga fanLmaooooo
Literally this meme
stunned how? he thought all those previous managers, as shit as they might have been, were this awful? not the club being a shitshow?
I don't exactly know what caused the fall out with Dest and Xavi, but he's a pretty solid player ultimately and can play both fullback positions. Maybe he isn't working well in his system, I'm not sure, but he has familiarity with Ten Hag obviously and I think he'd be a good signing especially at under 20m which I think has been mentioned. He's a major upgrade over Dalot and quite a few other fullbacks Utd have.