Premier league predications thread 2024-25

[weasel]

Well…..yeah, BUT that's like saying you're the best looking fella in the burns unit.
Looking decent compared to that steaming pile of isn't difficult lol

In their defence, I always give a player a full season before passing judgement on him. Fabinho was so **** in his first few games Klopp had to drop him for a few weeks. Andy Robertson couldn't get games ahead of Moreno for a few months.
And coming into the cluster **** that is Utd is hard for any player. It's different if they join a settled and sensible club like ehhhh anyone else in the PL, bar possibly Chelsea.

 

[theforceuk]

Problem is we never get rid of the crap completely so eventually the new players become intrenched in the same crap. It's frightening that Amorim was bought in knowing he plays a certain system with a back 3 and already it's looking like he's going to have to make do with majority of players he inherited. Of which have failed under 3 previous managers. Makes me lough when the main stream bang on about Amorim needing to change the system to suit the players he has. I'd love these pundits to come up with a system that works for these players, perhaps a sit on your arse blaming everyone else system?

 

[weasel]

Hard to argue with any of that. He ain't helped by the Board and the daft prices they put on players.

Though, 40m for Rashford is actually a fair price.

Not sure on Cunha. He is a huffy temperamental sod. Much much much better than Hojlund, but then so is my granny and she's been dead for 20yrs.
But is another huffy **** what Utd need?


Come on Betis!!!

 

[theforceuk]

You're probably right on Cunha, let's face it though their is 6 other clubs with more money and Champions League football next season. Utd have to take what they can, he's a decent number 10 and will probably end up being the number 9.

As for Rasmus, I feel for the kid and he's a classic example of a new signing being intrenched in the ****. His first season he scores 18 goals from scraps, factually Utd create fewer chances for their striker than pretty much every PL team. But he's 22 I think? So from the age of 20 he's been thrown into a struggling team as the main striker week in week out. What the hell does anyone expect is going to happen???? Probably been about 10 players in my life time that could handle that situation at such a young age. Most strikers don't even get picked every week until they're 23/24.

Pretty much everything about Man Utd is how not to run a football club and destroying young talent has become one of our specialties. Look at Mainoo, same is happening to him.

It's got worse since Chelsea fan Jim bought into the club for his own vanity. He's trying to rebuild Man Utd on the cheap. It's not a business you bell end, it's a top flight football club with the 3rd biggest fan base in the world competing with super clubs that have billionaire owners that do anything possible to pump money in. Worryingly this seems to be an INEOS tactic, buy young and cheap and hope they cook!!! Utd's biggest problem is scoring goals, the preferred front 3 this season has been Amad, Rasmus and Garnacho. All below 22, insane. Put Rasmus in the Liverpool team and he would get 15/20 goals a season. And yes most strikers would, I'm not saying Rasmus is the next Shearer, he's just not the terrible player everyone is nailing him on as.

 

[Michael Sith]

Agreed on Rasmus, feel for him, like you say put him a decent squad and he will score goals.

Letting Garnacho go is a mistake as well

 

[weasel]

I do feel a bit sorry for him. No arguments Utd are a shambles and he is asked to feed on scraps, and his confidence is rock bottom. But right now he literally offers nothing. Even Andy Carroll when he was at Pool woild hold the ball up and or be a threat in the air. Hojlund is just a balck hole. The ball goes ip near him and 5 minutes later you get it back from the other team.
I would assume Utd have sat him down and showed him videos of what he used to do and or what they want him to do, but it hasn't done any good. No idea how you fix it.
Loan him? Given how low his confidence is, dropping (or "resting") him will only destroy what's left of it. Playing him back into form isn't working either.
It may well be a move away is the least bad option all round.

He'll never be a world beater, or worth the 70m Utd paid, but he isn't actually as bad as he is playing ATM.