Why another, because it involves more than him.
Which two positions are most dependent on confidence, goalie and striker imo.
So Rasmus first. Did hé look like this earlier, no. He has most, but not all the attributes. He's, fast, strong, composed when in form, and a worker. Poor dribbler and in the air.
But I'm sure most realise that in a team in form, better service, a couple of goals under his belt he would look a different player.
Onana the same, but not quite, he is prone to errors.
But both of the above get dogs abuse on here, on social media, and they are hardly encouraged by the crowd.
Maguire in articles before the game was slated, he scored the winning goal, but that won't stop it happening next week.
It's the same with practically all the team, including Bruno, our best player.
They are not sheit otherwise they wouldn't be pulling the red shirt on, but they maybe not quite good enough or low on confidence.
I never remember anything like it when I was s regular, well except for the opposing players of course.
Social media has a lot to answer for.
Rasmus 2.
posted on 27/2/25
comment by scholayScholes (U13961)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Elvis (U7425)
posted 19 minutes ago
comment by scholayScholes (U13961)
posted 8 minutes ago
comment by Tyranny of the majority (SE85) (U21241)
posted 1 hour, 25 minutes ago
52
Sorry mate but I think you're losing the plot man. You defended ETH and was proved wrong. You defended Onana and been proven wrong and now it's Hojlund.
In dark times for the club you're trying to be overly positive and it's completely transparent mate and nobody is buying it. It's okay to call a spade a spade. We are an absolutely awful football team full of players who struggle to do the basics.
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I am glad I am not the only one seeing this trend. 52 is sometimes not capable of just admitting he got it wrong. Some of us have been here for donkeys years and believe you me, we all get it wrong. There's no shame in this.
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I think that one of the biggest problems on this site is that you can't defend anyone even a little, if some posters have made their minds up about that player/manager. So many people on here only deal in black and white and can't see or accept the many shades of grey in between.
52 for instance might have said that ETH deserved more time. Then later down the line, after ETH is rightly sacked, the narrative from these posters becomes that 52 was a staunch ETH supporter. Its pretty tiresome.
And to be fair to 52, I'd say he is one of the best on here at holding his hands up when he is wrong and also not taking his own opinions as gospel/the truth.
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He has been shown to defend ETH right up to the end essentially when he was sacked and held his hands up. In two years time he will hold his hands up and say Rasmus is not it. I suppose by your metric that is considered "one of the best" at one holding his hands up.
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Obviously I don't read every conversation he is involved on on here, but I have regularly seen him hold his hands up when he has been wrong about things. Most posters never admit when they are wrong.
As for Rasmus, I am confident that he will develop into a very good striker. Whether that happens at United I am not so sure. It might be another Forlan situation.
Had he come into a club that was more settled, then I am sure that he would have done much better. But we have been all over the place for most of the time Rasmus has been with us. There was no real style of play under ETH and no service into the box. Now we have a new manager and pretty much every player is struggling to understand his system or not capable of playing it. Yet everyone is piling on a young striker trying to find his feet.
He needs to work on his game to create more chances for himself. At the the same time, we create next to nothing for him. He has had just 16 shots in the PL all season. Its pitiful. Haaland in contrast has had 97.
One of our main problems since Rasmus arrived is that our wide forwards have been too greedy and wasteful. Rasmus has actually been pretty clinical when he gets chances.
You mentioned Nunez earlier and him being a better player, but I genuinely believe that if you stick Rasmus in the LFC team he would outscore Nunez. He is a much more clinical finisher.
posted on 27/2/25
You mentioned Nunez earlier and him being a better player, but I genuinely believe that if you stick Rasmus in the LFC team he would outscore Nunez. He is a much more clinical finisher.
Rasmus with his hold up play is not going to play for that Liverpool side. Rasmus will not start ahead of Delap.
we are notorious at this club thinking near every player is going to come good. Newsflash Elvis, some players are not cut out for the big leagues. Rasmus is not going to be another Forlan situation, and I am happy to bet my mortgage on that.
We paid a ridiculous amount for a player worth no more than 25 million in my opinion.
posted on 27/2/25
comment by scholayScholes (U13961)
posted 1 minute ago
You mentioned Nunez earlier and him being a better player, but I genuinely believe that if you stick Rasmus in the LFC team he would outscore Nunez. He is a much more clinical finisher.
Rasmus with his hold up play is not going to play for that Liverpool side. Rasmus will not start ahead of Delap.
we are notorious at this club thinking near every player is going to come good. Newsflash Elvis, some players are not cut out for the big leagues. Rasmus is not going to be another Forlan situation, and I am happy to bet my mortgage on that.
We paid a ridiculous amount for a player worth no more than 25 million in my opinion.
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No-one is 100% successful with transfers etc (Fergie has had some real shockers in his time). But it really feels that apart from Bruno, no-one else could be considered a success in recent times. That's just really poor.
Part of me still feels that Rasmus can be a good player, although whether that will be with us is another matter. The fee was crazy, but just like with so many, that's not the player's fault.
posted on 27/2/25
comment by scholayScholes (U13961)
posted 8 minutes ago
You mentioned Nunez earlier and him being a better player, but I genuinely believe that if you stick Rasmus in the LFC team he would outscore Nunez. He is a much more clinical finisher.
Rasmus with his hold up play is not going to play for that Liverpool side. Rasmus will not start ahead of Delap.
we are notorious at this club thinking near every player is going to come good. Newsflash Elvis, some players are not cut out for the big leagues. Rasmus is not going to be another Forlan situation, and I am happy to bet my mortgage on that.
We paid a ridiculous amount for a player worth no more than 25 million in my opinion.
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We will see. Rasmus has shown that when the team has some balance (when Shaw was fit) and we were actually creating chances, that he can score goals. But for the most part he has been feeding off scraps whilst the wide forwards (mainly Rashford, Antony and Garnacho) wasted opening after opening shooting every time. There is something very much broken with the system when your wide forwards are taking 2-3 times more shots than the central striker. Until that changes, any striker at United is going to struggle. It is a shame that Amad got injured, as he is less greedy than the others. And there have been signs that Dorgu will provide some service from wide.
I do agree that we overpaid for Rasmus though. But we always overpay.
posted on 27/2/25
I have my reservations with Amad now.
That's two huge injuries in the space of two years.
He's another crock.
posted on 27/2/25
comment by Ali - 🇪🇦 🏴 (U1192)
posted 29 minutes ago
I have my reservations with Amad now.
That's two huge injuries in the space of two years.
He's another crock.
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So not reservations then, he's a crock.
posted on 27/2/25
comment by Tyranny of the majority (SE85) (U21241)
posted 4 hours, 42 minutes ago
52
Sorry mate but I think you're losing the plot man. You defended ETH and was proved wrong. You defended Onana and been proven wrong and now it's Hojlund.
In dark times for the club you're trying to be overly positive and it's completely transparent mate and nobody is buying it. It's okay to call a spade a spade. We are an absolutely awful football team full of players who struggle to do the basics.
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He also has a whole ton more perspective than you, which I'd encourage you to consider rather than patronise.
It's telling that you're arguing about someone being overly positive. A person, who, by the way, has absolutely no impact at the club. Nothing he says or does reaches the players or anyone even remotely connected.
So to sum it up, you're getting annoyed and arguing with an older gentlemen, who has followed the club decades longer than you have, because it's 'transparent' that he's 'overly positive'?
Our fan base is problematic. I'd argue we need more painters and fans exactly like 52. We can't simultaneously claim that football is losing it's soul and magic but then look down on the generations that basically created that.
posted on 27/2/25
comment by manutd1982 (U6633)
posted 8 hours, 20 minutes ago
Onana is a strange one, there is a decent keeper in their somewhere but he's just so inconsistent and unreliable which are pretty major attributes for a top level keeper.
Yes he's probably low on confindence but even when he seems to be doing well you just know there's a mistake in him waiting to happen. His unorthodoc movement and saving style doesn't help, the way he constantly parrys the ball back into danger areas drives me mad.
The whole reason we bought him was because his distribution was supposed to be top notch even if other areas of his game not so much. But his distribution has been terrible, to the point where he often passes the ball to the opponent.
But yeah, confidence throughout the whole team is shattered. Add to that the team seem to lack strong characters and we seem to be stuck in a rut. If the payers aren't going to take risks and take the game to oppenents then we're never gonna go anywhere.
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I still maintain we should have went for David Raya when we had the chance. He didn’t sign for Arsenal until late in that window when we signed Onana.
posted on 27/2/25
De Ligt has the same number of prem goals (2) and shots on target (8) as Weghoijlund. That is pathetic.
posted on 27/2/25
comment by manusince52 (U9692)
posted 4 hours, 44 minutes ago
comment by Ali - 🇪🇦 🏴 (U1192)
posted 29 minutes ago
I have my reservations with Amad now.
That's two huge injuries in the space of two years.
He's another crock.
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So not reservations then, he's a crock.
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