Surprised about Varane and Amrabat, maybe not fit enough? did feel Mount might be a week or so longer but whoever travelled don't have high hopes

Maguire being scapegoated now. Disgrace

Bayern aren’t that good, bunch of snivelling pieces of Tory $hit

I know we've got injuries but it's still mental a club our size can take a squad that crap to play in the CL.

Could get brutal.

If Martinez pulls up with an injury, god damn, that's some back 4

It's at the back where the problems are. Without AWB, Varane and Shaw we look really weak.

Kane is gonna have a field day

Jonny Evans
A signing that made no sense other than his wife works at United

Could have promoted a youth player

We just need to summon the spirit of Paris, Tuchel’s head would explode if it happened to him again

Evans was an odd signing, do we really not have someone in our youth team who's better? He wasn't good enough for a relegated Leicester but he's good enough for us to take and rely on.

Our youth system isn’t the best as it is, but I think cb is a really weak position from what I can gather. But generally you’ll find it rare for cbs to come straight out of the youth teams into a premier league team, it’s not a position that people want to rely on youngsters for.

4 goalkeepers?

Is ETH hoping he can play 3 at once?

The pragmatic line up for tomorrow (because we'll lose anyway so we may as well not risk our main players getting injury)

Altay Bayindir

Diogo Dalot
Victor Lindelof
Jonny Evans
Sergio Reguilon

Scott McTominay,
Dan Gore
Hannibal.

Omari Forson.
Anthony Martial
Alejandro Garnacho,

Darren

Are you confident relying on Evans though?

comment by Diafol Coch 77 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 (U2462)
posted 1 minute ago
The pragmatic line up for tomorrow (because we'll lose anyway so we may as well not risk our main players getting injury)

Altay Bayindir

Diogo Dalot
Victor Lindelof
Jonny Evans
Sergio Reguilon

Scott McTominay,
Dan Gore
Hannibal.

Omari Forson.
Anthony Martial
Alejandro Garnacho,
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That team would get battered.

As opposed to our first team that would also get battered.

comment by Diafol Coch 77 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 (U2462)
posted 2 minutes ago
The pragmatic line up for tomorrow (because we'll lose anyway so we may as well not risk our main players getting injury)

Altay Bayindir

Diogo Dalot
Victor Lindelof
Jonny Evans
Sergio Reguilon

Scott McTominay,
Dan Gore
Hannibal.

Omari Forson.
Anthony Martial
Alejandro Garnacho,
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as bobby said, summon the spirit of paris, buy waving the white flag, and inviting the germans to walk all over us

Or the let’s play without fear line up and give it a go:

Onana

Dalot
Lindelof
Martinez
Reguillon

Casemiro
Hannibal
McT

Pellistri
Hojlund
Garnacho

comment by manutd1982 (U6633)
posted 1 minute ago
Darren

Are you confident relying on Evans though?
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No, but I’d be more confident than relying on Will Fish.

Can Will Fish run?

Maybe, but he’d still look like a Fish out of water playing premier league football. Slow, old cbs with lots of prem experience are better than the vast majority of players that come through the youth system of a prem club. There’s a reason he’s played non league and Scottish league. Youth players are generally shiiiiiit, which is why they don’t play. They get overhyped too much by football fans just because youth.

But Evans is one of those players who's never instilled me with much confidence because he looks a nervous wreck half the time. I'm all for experience and technically he has that but he's often one of those players where you expect a mistake to happen any moment. I guess he got accused of r-ape once so fits into the squad well.

Really disappointed to hear about Amrabat's exclusion. We are getting battered if we don't take a pragmatic approach, we can't go toe to toe. Pride and reputation at stake here. We can't afford individual mistakes although the culprits who make them game after game always make the final cut!

Which is fine, and I’d rather have better. But if the question is around youth players then I’d rather have Evans. Evans isn’t even the issue here anyway, the reason we may have to rely on him is. Generally if you’re having to rely on your 5th choice cb you’re facked, and you need to question why that’s ended up the case.

comment by Kobbie The King Mainoo (U10026)
posted 58 minutes ago
Could get brutal.
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suboptimal