Bruno - will he ever hit form again?

Think he needs dropping for a few games. He hasn’t been great but he’s still one of the top creators in the PL and CL.

Donny should’ve come in for him earlier.
Getting the Pen, bailed him out on a woeful miss with the header.
He can’t keep performing like that. He was pants.
But we’ll take the win. But their bad habits have to die

Short answer no.

Bruno used all his brilliance over a 15 year career into 1 season for us.

Should be grateful lurker the sacrifice he made.

He needs to benched. Is it not part of the man management handbook again? If a players form is the absolute pits, you give him a rest. Give him a talk.

I do not get it. Why he does not Sub him out at half time as a statement.

Ronaldo
Rashford
Fernandes
Maguire

They should all be in a prove it if shut it window.

Just what is it that all these professionals see in Bruno’s ability to play every game that we mere armchair speculators can’t?

comment by The Process (U20671)
posted 22 minutes ago
Think he needs dropping for a few games. He hasn’t been great but he’s still one of the top creators in the PL and CL.
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I agree and that'll be the best thing for him. Since CR7 returned he's been awful, but he did start the season well. I think when he missed the pen, it did in his mental game, and he's been pushing uphill since. Ole overworked him last season, and he didn't need to. Bruno may just return well, if rested.

I think Ralf has stuck with Carrick's team as he hasn't had much time to train them—it's a team used to each other. I think he will now start to make changes—I hope so.

comment by Fred's Shooting Coach (U18999)
posted 20 minutes ago
comment by The Process (U20671)
posted 22 minutes ago
Think he needs dropping for a few games. He hasn’t been great but he’s still one of the top creators in the PL and CL.
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I agree and that'll be the best thing for him. Since CR7 returned he's been awful, but he did start the season well. I think when he missed the pen, it did in his mental game, and he's been pushing uphill since. Ole overworked him last season, and he didn't need to. Bruno may just return well, if rested.
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He was great against Leeds. Wouldn’t say he started the season well other than that.

He was excellent off the bench against Villareal. Maybe try the same in the 2 games next week.

i've said it before, he's been ludicrously overrated by a lot of united fans, who seemed weirdly desperate to lay 120% of the credit for our apparent improvement at his door, and ignore the contributions of others.

this seems to have got so lodged in the minds of some that his poor form over the past 9-12 months has been overlooked, apparently due to his "insane productivity". now that he's not on penalty duty his productivity is good, but by no means great enough to make up for the general sloppiness or his play, or the general whininess in his demeanour.

in my opinion he will never be a key player for a top team, which is shown in his lack of silverware at both club and international level (and for all his goals/assists, he didn't improve sporting one bit in his time there, whilst they improved hugely the season after he left).

now that he no longer appears to have the luxury of doing whatever he wants, as he did under ole, it is debatable what role there is for him in the team, and arguable that if he plays anywhere at all it should be as a false 9, where his many flaws would be less of an issue.

Like a lot of our players over the last few years, Bruno’s game hasn’t developed and his flaws haven’t been ironed out. It’s difficult to really point to players that appear to have improved through changes to their game in recent seasons.

Bruno very much looks to me like he’s still stuck in “play the passes you see” mode, which is how Ole let him play. Rashford is similar in that he seems to be in permanent free-style mode without ever having refined his game or improved weak areas.

Whether or not some of these players can adapt and tighten up their games remains to be seen. But it’s going to require time to kick old bad habits.