United Thread - 2021/22

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Good article I read, quite accurate description of how fucked up Utd have become

"Nobody has a clue what they’re supposed to be doing. Virgil van Dijk had the ball at the back. Mason Greenwood, perhaps stung by the implication in much of the coverage of the past week that he is lazy, felt the need to close him down. But at first he was alone. Van Dijk knocked the ball outside him to Andy Robertson. Aaron Wan-Bissaka, reacting late to Greenwood’s movement, went to close him down, but in doing so left Diogo Jota unmarked. Robertson played the ball to Jota who, unmarked, helped it on to Roberto Firmino, by which point it was already too late.

Last season United would have sat deep against a side like Liverpool. They would have packed the midfield and looked to strike on the break. But this season they cannot do that because of Cristiano Ronaldo. He has to play, because he is Cristiano Ronaldo. He offers almost nothing in the defensive phase because he is Cristiano Ronaldo. He is not mobile enough to play as Solskjær often previously had his forwards play against high-level opposition in a sort of 4-4-2 diamond with two wide strikers because he is 36.

And now he’s not just a tactical problem but a personnel issue. This is a player who in the past three years has cost Max Allegri, Maurizio Sarri and Andrea Pirlo their jobs. Any team he plays for inevitably becomes FC Ronaldo and, whatever that may do for shirt sales and social media profile, that is not conducive to playing the sort of fluent integrated football that wins trophies."






Thank god we didnt buy Ronaldo, in fact I suspect we faked out interest in him. And this is the result, a hollywood team of stars with no substance
 
Best bit for me was the tactic board being shown to Cavani when he was coming on as a sub.
Getting humped by 5 and out comes the tactic board.Fucking brilliant.
Still thought they could win it the United way obviously. After all the aged quality and pace of Ronaldo and Cavani up top, frighten most CB pairing.
 
I think a number of United players have talent, one key item they miss is football intelligence which is replaced by personal arrogance. Changing the manager will not fix these issues in the short term, requires a lot of coaching, strong manager leadership and time.
 
Bruno Fernandes is a cock!

just watching his behaviour with the ref. Hope city are 3 up in 2 weeks bring fern on with 10 mins to go to teach him a lesson. Happily take a red now

Utd really do attract a certain type of player
Bruno is one of the most garbage characters in the PL right now. You can tell that just by this behaviour alone
 
Good article I read, quite accurate description of how fucked up Utd have become

"Nobody has a clue what they’re supposed to be doing. Virgil van Dijk had the ball at the back. Mason Greenwood, perhaps stung by the implication in much of the coverage of the past week that he is lazy, felt the need to close him down. But at first he was alone. Van Dijk knocked the ball outside him to Andy Robertson. Aaron Wan-Bissaka, reacting late to Greenwood’s movement, went to close him down, but in doing so left Diogo Jota unmarked. Robertson played the ball to Jota who, unmarked, helped it on to Roberto Firmino, by which point it was already too late.

Last season United would have sat deep against a side like Liverpool. They would have packed the midfield and looked to strike on the break. But this season they cannot do that because of Cristiano Ronaldo. He has to play, because he is Cristiano Ronaldo. He offers almost nothing in the defensive phase because he is Cristiano Ronaldo. He is not mobile enough to play as Solskjær often previously had his forwards play against high-level opposition in a sort of 4-4-2 diamond with two wide strikers because he is 36.

And now he’s not just a tactical problem but a personnel issue. This is a player who in the past three years has cost Max Allegri, Maurizio Sarri and Andrea Pirlo their jobs. Any team he plays for inevitably becomes FC Ronaldo and, whatever that may do for shirt sales and social media profile, that is not conducive to playing the sort of fluent integrated football that wins trophies."






Thank god we didnt buy Ronaldo, in fact I suspect we faked out interest in him. And this is the result, a hollywood team of stars with no substance
Great article and so true. Who wrote it?
 
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