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[Gingers Dad]

Of the youngsters only perrone and palmer is ready for the first team. everyone else needs to go on loan. and so our clueless board should pull their fingers out of their ass and start behaving like a big club and buy the necessary players.

Fishing

 

[Gingers Dad]

Name the six!

Are you worried you won't get in?

 

[oldius]

Pure guesswork, but I think Pep would want ideally to have a 'proven' replacement for Mahrez and then keep one of Palmer, Bobb, Mcatee - in that order.

I'm not so certain of that: Bernardo was given the Mahrez role in the big games at the end of last season. I suspect it was because Bernardo is more diligent defensively. We will see, and I suspect we will have players coming in, even though I would like that front line augmented with the academy rather than a new buy.

 

[Gingers Dad]

Never ever show your hand early, let them think problems are happening in the camp, Get the media to hype up how good United are and what a great new signing they found for peanuts,

Next week in the media they will do their annual poll for who will win what and where teams will finish
title winners UNITED

The only flaw in your theory is I can't see the press hyping up utd.

 

[Gingers Dad]

We never look good until the season starts.

I'm predicting we get leathered 3-0 in the Charity Shield too.

We don't even try to hit top fitness early. Which is why we "miraculously" look so much better at the end of every season when other teams start to tire.

I thought it was because we have a bigger squad than everyone else. Two world class players for every position.

 

[Tricky_Trev]

Very tough opponents today, incredibly well organised and probably just what was needed.

Slightly disappointing perhaps for the 64,000 (new) City fans in South Korea …. I never thought I’d be saying that in my lifetime.

They’re all Atletico Madrid fans now.

 

[oldius]

I re-watched the whole game late last night and the first-half was perfect preparation - fast, competitive, niggly, and possession vs counter-attack, which is exactly what we will face in most PL games. We were absolutely at it and Jack, Kyle, Alvarez and Phil looked really sharp and ready.

The second half was not as good, and the eight changes disrupted our flow and created some vulnerabilities. The biggest take from me is that Kyle is invaluable to the way that we play now, and Cancelo's presence took from the defensive solidity that allowed our creators to shine, last season, and allowed a CB to shift in to midfield to help it dominate. Cancelo is a different type of player, who regularly wants to take the space in midfield, and that exposed us to the counter - he doesn't have the pace or desire to get back so we were exposed, Rico especially.

It was a great game to watch, and to learn from, and perfect preparation. I hope to see Perrone and Palmer but I believe that the latter had a knock that prevented that.

 

[its a Barm]

Vin left. We survived and then some. Merlin left. We survived and then some. Kun left…

Yes I was going to add something similar to that.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

I re-watched the whole game late last night and the first-half was perfect preparation - fast, competitive, niggly, and possession vs counter-attack, which is exactly what we will face in most PL games. We were absolutely at it and Jack, Kyle, Alvarez and Phil looked really sharp and ready.

The second half was not as good, and the eight changes disrupted our flow and created some vulnerabilities. The biggest take from me is that Kyle is invaluable to the way that we play now, and Cancelo's presence took from the defensive solidity that allowed our creators to shine, last season, and allowed a CB to shift in to midfield to help it dominate. Cancelo is a different type of player, who regularly wants to take the space in midfield, and that exposed us to the counter - he doesn't have the pace or desire to get back so we were exposed, Rico especially.

It was a great game to watch, and to learn from, and perfect preparation. I hope to see Perrone and Palmer but I believe that the latter had a knock that prevented that.

Good summary.
I'd add something that virtually none of us can see. From a neutral's perspective, I believe that was quite a pleasant game to watch.

 

[Heath Park]

Didn't see the game, but that was shit. We need to be worried going into a new season with that 11. We were poor. Foden is that overrated he could be a Rag academy product. Dias has too many mistakes in him for a top notch centre back - you wouldn't see Martinez/van Dyke make those simple errors. Haaland needs to get more involved, he got away with it last season because of his goals but it won't cut it in his second season, he needs the same work rate as a Nunez or a Hojlund.

Arsenal will batter us next week. I won't be watching that game either but I'll make sure to put a decent post match report on here......

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