comment by Malachi Boateng (U1734)
posted 1 hour, 30 minutes ago
PSG are interested as a replacement for Mbappe when he goes to Real Madrid. They paid over £200m for Neymar so I imagine they would be willing to play over £300m for Rashford given inflation and the current market with Saudi Arabia lurking in the background. The Saudis would be willing to pay £350m to give them their prime star to really announce themselves on the world stage. £350m would get us Bellingham, Kane and Haaland so good business for us.
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Don't know about the price tag, but almost certain PSG will be looking for an upgrade on Mbappé
comment by it'sonlyagame (U6426)
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by Malachi Boateng (U1734)
posted 1 hour, 30 minutes ago
PSG are interested as a replacement for Mbappe when he goes to Real Madrid. They paid over £200m for Neymar so I imagine they would be willing to play over £300m for Rashford given inflation and the current market with Saudi Arabia lurking in the background. The Saudis would be willing to pay £350m to give them their prime star to really announce themselves on the world stage. £350m would get us Bellingham, Kane and Haaland so good business for us.
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Don't know about the price tag, but almost certain PSG will be looking for an upgrade on Mbappé
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An upgrade on Mbappe? Who is that then?
Massively over rated, gets a free pass because he campaigns for school dinners
comment by Elvis (U7425)
posted 27 minutes ago
comment by it'sonlyagame (U6426)
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by Malachi Boateng (U1734)
posted 1 hour, 30 minutes ago
PSG are interested as a replacement for Mbappe when he goes to Real Madrid. They paid over £200m for Neymar so I imagine they would be willing to play over £300m for Rashford given inflation and the current market with Saudi Arabia lurking in the background. The Saudis would be willing to pay £350m to give them their prime star to really announce themselves on the world stage. £350m would get us Bellingham, Kane and Haaland so good business for us.
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Don't know about the price tag, but almost certain PSG will be looking for an upgrade on Mbappé
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An upgrade on Mbappe? Who is that then?
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Rashford, obvs. [This was an argument Robb tried to push for a while but somewhat mystifyingly it never quite got off the ground.]
comment by Cesario (U22905)
posted 1 hour, 19 minutes ago
comment by Culér (31/07/2011 - 11/06/2023) (U9489)
posted 1 hour, 52 minutes ago
Pathetic knee-jerk articles like this are embarrassing. Rashford is a world class player, proven over a number of years, who we would be insane to sell. Only Mbappe and Vinicius can dine at his table.
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World class?
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Have you not met Ulcer before?
He is certifiably, clinically insane. It's a sad indictment that they are allowed in the community nowadays.
comment by Diafol Coch 77 🏴 (U2462)
posted 2 hours, 43 minutes ago
Talking of wingers that don't seem to be effective at present I've just seen an analyst on Twitter stating this about Antony:
"Ever since the signing of Antony, he has been given a lot of stick from everyone. Especially #MUFC fans. Whilst most of it is deserved. Having watched a lot of him at Ajax, it's frustrating to see.
He plays a completely different role at United. He has very little movement around him. Which is a big issue for him. He's a player that plays off of others, he's more of a linkup and sit deep, wide creator, rather than a traditional winger.
A lot of people have joked about his being a "defensive winger", or basically a wing back. Whilst that isn't correct, it isn't far off.
He is a player that likes to bait opposition and then play the ball into space. Whilst, he's okay at exposing space, he's far better at creating it.
He plays that pass before the assist. At Ajax, he held his width and played the ball to an inverted runner. At United that is only Dalot.
Too often at United, he receives the ball and is completely isolated. He isn't great 1v1, that was never his game. He wants to constantly be involved. His game isn't output, it's feeding the system, he's incredibly functional.
We see it a lot at United, he receives the ball, does his ball roll, or stands on the ball and baits the opposition. Which looks to have slowed the game down. This is something that he did often at Ajax. But, there he would have runners that would expose the space he created.
At United, no one makes that run and so he has to turn back and recycle. He's the definition of taking 1 step back to take 2 steps forwards. But right now, due to the lack of runners, all he does is the 1 step back.
That being said. I can't defend his wayward shooting. That isn't good enough."
I think there's a lot of truth there. On Wednesday I thought he was our attacker most likely to make something happen. That's not saying much but I thought he showed some nice touches and played some nice passes. If ETH does turn this around it wouldn't be the biggest surprise to me if Antony was more part of it than Rashford. Not that I think he's better than Rashford but that he understands what ETH wants better and executes it more often.
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Good read and I think we've come to understand Antony's highlight real of tricks and stuff isn't really his game at all. He's not going to terrorise a FB by running at him all game. He wants to draw people in and pop little passes off. Similar to Sancho in that he's also not going to spend 90's minutes running at people like a prime Ryan Giggs.
A feature of our attacking play is that our players often seem very far away from each at times, forcing the man in possession to either turn back safely, or try a difficult pass over distance.
We've seen Antony play that diagonal/reverse pass to an underlapping players to good effect many times - to Rashford for a goal in preseason, to Dalot last night and also Bruno last night (our only proper chance all game), to Casemiro (against Reading last year was it?).
I think Antony is too limited ultimately - crossing and shooting is poor, precision and decision making typically poor and he's not a one v one threat. But nevertheless, it makes no sense to sign him and then not play to his strengths. It's another example of a player coming in and looking worse then they really are due to not playing in a way that gets the most out of them.
Antony legs are short. It affects his power and range of passing
Berba. You could ultimately be right about Antony but I guess we'll never really know his ceiling of not used properly.
Getting things wrong, sadly, isn't a shock at Utd at present!
comment by Cesario (U22905)
posted 3 hours, 6 minutes ago
comment by Culér (31/07/2011 - 11/06/2023) (U9489)
posted 1 hour, 52 minutes ago
Pathetic knee-jerk articles like this are embarrassing. Rashford is a world class player, proven over a number of years, who we would be insane to sell. Only Mbappe and Vinicius can dine at his table.
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World class?
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80 goals in 9 years is world class now apparently 😂
It's when u see he is on more money than Silva at City and every Liverpool player bar Salah. That shows just how badly United are run, on and off the pitch.
comment by FootyMcfootfoot (U21853)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Cesario (U22905)
posted 3 hours, 6 minutes ago
comment by Culér (31/07/2011 - 11/06/2023) (U9489)
posted 1 hour, 52 minutes ago
Pathetic knee-jerk articles like this are embarrassing. Rashford is a world class player, proven over a number of years, who we would be insane to sell. Only Mbappe and Vinicius can dine at his table.
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World class?
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80 goals in 9 years is world class now apparently 😂
It's when u see he is on more money than Silva at City and every Liverpool player bar Salah. That shows just how badly United are run, on and off the pitch.
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Culer thinks muller and carter is high end world class… nuff said
He was being compared to Mbappe a couple of years ago. With many saying he was better. Can't just delete history
comment by Malachi Boateng (U1734)
posted 1 minute ago
He was being compared to Mbappe a couple of years ago. With many saying he was better. Can't just delete history
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Sancho was compared to messi
comment by Malachi Boateng (U1734)
posted 3 hours, 25 minutes ago
comment by JimmyTheRed (U1682)
posted 9 minutes ago
At the present time, he would struggle to sell himself for a fee, any fee some, if not many at ManU would like.
On his day he is a fantastic player, well worthy of his shirt. Unlike some of his team. His confidence is shot.
If nothing else than to stop the panic, you’ve got to stick with ETH. But he has got to start earning his corn. Playing the likes of Hannibal, a permanent, almost bolt-on certainty for a red card against Newcastle, was embarrassing. The club have got to have someone else better than that, even if it’s the dinner lady!
Sadly for this Red, Rashford will come good. That’s provided he focuses on football, to the exclusion of all else.
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How the HELL are we supposed to know who made this comment?
MalachiBoateng
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"The England international has scored nine Premier League goals this season, six of which have come since Solskjaer took over in December.
Such has been the form of the 21-year-old that his manager believes he can be considered in the same bracket as World Cup winner Mbappe."
If a club had someone who was seen to be as talented Mbappe, with PL and England tax as well, leading him to being the most valuable player of all time, I think you'd put him on decent wages to keep him. Just a shame that most of those wages went to feeding needy little brat kids instead of feeding my need for glory.
comment by Malachi Boateng (U1734)
posted 12 hours, 38 minutes ago
"The England international has scored nine Premier League goals this season, six of which have come since Solskjaer took over in December.
Such has been the form of the 21-year-old that his manager believes he can be considered in the same bracket as World Cup winner Mbappe."
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Well, at least there's one thing Robb would've sided on with Ole.
comment by Malachi Boateng (U1734)
posted 18 hours, 12 minutes ago
If a club had someone who was seen to be as talented Mbappe, with PL and England tax as well, leading him to being the most valuable player of all time, I think you'd put him on decent wages to keep him. Just a shame that most of those wages went to feeding needy little brat kids instead of feeding my need for glory.
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Barry, the black mirror of 606
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posted on 3/11/23
comment by Malachi Boateng (U1734)
posted 1 hour, 30 minutes ago
PSG are interested as a replacement for Mbappe when he goes to Real Madrid. They paid over £200m for Neymar so I imagine they would be willing to play over £300m for Rashford given inflation and the current market with Saudi Arabia lurking in the background. The Saudis would be willing to pay £350m to give them their prime star to really announce themselves on the world stage. £350m would get us Bellingham, Kane and Haaland so good business for us.
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Don't know about the price tag, but almost certain PSG will be looking for an upgrade on Mbappé
posted on 3/11/23
comment by it'sonlyagame (U6426)
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by Malachi Boateng (U1734)
posted 1 hour, 30 minutes ago
PSG are interested as a replacement for Mbappe when he goes to Real Madrid. They paid over £200m for Neymar so I imagine they would be willing to play over £300m for Rashford given inflation and the current market with Saudi Arabia lurking in the background. The Saudis would be willing to pay £350m to give them their prime star to really announce themselves on the world stage. £350m would get us Bellingham, Kane and Haaland so good business for us.
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Don't know about the price tag, but almost certain PSG will be looking for an upgrade on Mbappé
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An upgrade on Mbappe? Who is that then?
posted on 3/11/23
Massively over rated, gets a free pass because he campaigns for school dinners
posted on 3/11/23
comment by Elvis (U7425)
posted 27 minutes ago
comment by it'sonlyagame (U6426)
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by Malachi Boateng (U1734)
posted 1 hour, 30 minutes ago
PSG are interested as a replacement for Mbappe when he goes to Real Madrid. They paid over £200m for Neymar so I imagine they would be willing to play over £300m for Rashford given inflation and the current market with Saudi Arabia lurking in the background. The Saudis would be willing to pay £350m to give them their prime star to really announce themselves on the world stage. £350m would get us Bellingham, Kane and Haaland so good business for us.
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Don't know about the price tag, but almost certain PSG will be looking for an upgrade on Mbappé
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An upgrade on Mbappe? Who is that then?
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Rashford, obvs. [This was an argument Robb tried to push for a while but somewhat mystifyingly it never quite got off the ground.]
posted on 3/11/23
comment by Cesario (U22905)
posted 1 hour, 19 minutes ago
comment by Culér (31/07/2011 - 11/06/2023) (U9489)
posted 1 hour, 52 minutes ago
Pathetic knee-jerk articles like this are embarrassing. Rashford is a world class player, proven over a number of years, who we would be insane to sell. Only Mbappe and Vinicius can dine at his table.
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World class?
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Have you not met Ulcer before?
He is certifiably, clinically insane. It's a sad indictment that they are allowed in the community nowadays.
posted on 3/11/23
comment by Diafol Coch 77 🏴 (U2462)
posted 2 hours, 43 minutes ago
Talking of wingers that don't seem to be effective at present I've just seen an analyst on Twitter stating this about Antony:
"Ever since the signing of Antony, he has been given a lot of stick from everyone. Especially #MUFC fans. Whilst most of it is deserved. Having watched a lot of him at Ajax, it's frustrating to see.
He plays a completely different role at United. He has very little movement around him. Which is a big issue for him. He's a player that plays off of others, he's more of a linkup and sit deep, wide creator, rather than a traditional winger.
A lot of people have joked about his being a "defensive winger", or basically a wing back. Whilst that isn't correct, it isn't far off.
He is a player that likes to bait opposition and then play the ball into space. Whilst, he's okay at exposing space, he's far better at creating it.
He plays that pass before the assist. At Ajax, he held his width and played the ball to an inverted runner. At United that is only Dalot.
Too often at United, he receives the ball and is completely isolated. He isn't great 1v1, that was never his game. He wants to constantly be involved. His game isn't output, it's feeding the system, he's incredibly functional.
We see it a lot at United, he receives the ball, does his ball roll, or stands on the ball and baits the opposition. Which looks to have slowed the game down. This is something that he did often at Ajax. But, there he would have runners that would expose the space he created.
At United, no one makes that run and so he has to turn back and recycle. He's the definition of taking 1 step back to take 2 steps forwards. But right now, due to the lack of runners, all he does is the 1 step back.
That being said. I can't defend his wayward shooting. That isn't good enough."
I think there's a lot of truth there. On Wednesday I thought he was our attacker most likely to make something happen. That's not saying much but I thought he showed some nice touches and played some nice passes. If ETH does turn this around it wouldn't be the biggest surprise to me if Antony was more part of it than Rashford. Not that I think he's better than Rashford but that he understands what ETH wants better and executes it more often.
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Good read and I think we've come to understand Antony's highlight real of tricks and stuff isn't really his game at all. He's not going to terrorise a FB by running at him all game. He wants to draw people in and pop little passes off. Similar to Sancho in that he's also not going to spend 90's minutes running at people like a prime Ryan Giggs.
A feature of our attacking play is that our players often seem very far away from each at times, forcing the man in possession to either turn back safely, or try a difficult pass over distance.
We've seen Antony play that diagonal/reverse pass to an underlapping players to good effect many times - to Rashford for a goal in preseason, to Dalot last night and also Bruno last night (our only proper chance all game), to Casemiro (against Reading last year was it?).
I think Antony is too limited ultimately - crossing and shooting is poor, precision and decision making typically poor and he's not a one v one threat. But nevertheless, it makes no sense to sign him and then not play to his strengths. It's another example of a player coming in and looking worse then they really are due to not playing in a way that gets the most out of them.
posted on 3/11/23
Antony legs are short. It affects his power and range of passing
posted on 3/11/23
Berba. You could ultimately be right about Antony but I guess we'll never really know his ceiling of not used properly.
Getting things wrong, sadly, isn't a shock at Utd at present!
posted on 3/11/23
comment by Cesario (U22905)
posted 3 hours, 6 minutes ago
comment by Culér (31/07/2011 - 11/06/2023) (U9489)
posted 1 hour, 52 minutes ago
Pathetic knee-jerk articles like this are embarrassing. Rashford is a world class player, proven over a number of years, who we would be insane to sell. Only Mbappe and Vinicius can dine at his table.
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World class?
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80 goals in 9 years is world class now apparently 😂
It's when u see he is on more money than Silva at City and every Liverpool player bar Salah. That shows just how badly United are run, on and off the pitch.
posted on 3/11/23
comment by FootyMcfootfoot (U21853)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Cesario (U22905)
posted 3 hours, 6 minutes ago
comment by Culér (31/07/2011 - 11/06/2023) (U9489)
posted 1 hour, 52 minutes ago
Pathetic knee-jerk articles like this are embarrassing. Rashford is a world class player, proven over a number of years, who we would be insane to sell. Only Mbappe and Vinicius can dine at his table.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
World class?
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80 goals in 9 years is world class now apparently 😂
It's when u see he is on more money than Silva at City and every Liverpool player bar Salah. That shows just how badly United are run, on and off the pitch.
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Culer thinks muller and carter is high end world class… nuff said
posted on 3/11/23
He was being compared to Mbappe a couple of years ago. With many saying he was better. Can't just delete history
posted on 3/11/23
comment by Malachi Boateng (U1734)
posted 1 minute ago
He was being compared to Mbappe a couple of years ago. With many saying he was better. Can't just delete history
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Sancho was compared to messi
posted on 3/11/23
comment by Malachi Boateng (U1734)
posted 3 hours, 25 minutes ago
comment by JimmyTheRed (U1682)
posted 9 minutes ago
At the present time, he would struggle to sell himself for a fee, any fee some, if not many at ManU would like.
On his day he is a fantastic player, well worthy of his shirt. Unlike some of his team. His confidence is shot.
If nothing else than to stop the panic, you’ve got to stick with ETH. But he has got to start earning his corn. Playing the likes of Hannibal, a permanent, almost bolt-on certainty for a red card against Newcastle, was embarrassing. The club have got to have someone else better than that, even if it’s the dinner lady!
Sadly for this Red, Rashford will come good. That’s provided he focuses on football, to the exclusion of all else.
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How the HELL are we supposed to know who made this comment?
MalachiBoateng
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posted on 3/11/23
"The England international has scored nine Premier League goals this season, six of which have come since Solskjaer took over in December.
Such has been the form of the 21-year-old that his manager believes he can be considered in the same bracket as World Cup winner Mbappe."
posted on 3/11/23
If a club had someone who was seen to be as talented Mbappe, with PL and England tax as well, leading him to being the most valuable player of all time, I think you'd put him on decent wages to keep him. Just a shame that most of those wages went to feeding needy little brat kids instead of feeding my need for glory.
posted on 4/11/23
comment by Malachi Boateng (U1734)
posted 12 hours, 38 minutes ago
"The England international has scored nine Premier League goals this season, six of which have come since Solskjaer took over in December.
Such has been the form of the 21-year-old that his manager believes he can be considered in the same bracket as World Cup winner Mbappe."
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Well, at least there's one thing Robb would've sided on with Ole.
posted on 4/11/23
comment by Malachi Boateng (U1734)
posted 18 hours, 12 minutes ago
If a club had someone who was seen to be as talented Mbappe, with PL and England tax as well, leading him to being the most valuable player of all time, I think you'd put him on decent wages to keep him. Just a shame that most of those wages went to feeding needy little brat kids instead of feeding my need for glory.
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Barry, the black mirror of 606
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