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07 Oct 2025 09:54:30
Possibly not a popular thing to say on here but Haaland is awesome this season so far. I love watching him.
1.) 07 Oct 2025 10:39:14
Ban Joe! ?.
2.) 07 Oct 2025 12:11:02
Don't see why it would be unpopular to say mate. Great point he is awesome. I played as a cf so I enjoy him and my fav united cfs are mark Hughes and rvn but this guy is streets ahead.
3.) 07 Oct 2025 13:30:01
Hojlund and Rashford are also having good starts to the season, u can watch them :P.
4.) 07 Oct 2025 13:59:33
He’s a goal scoring machine. In some ways he feels like a throwback to traditional strikers because he can bully defenders, but he combines that with athleticism. I think it’s telling that Pep has adjusted City’s style of play to play to Haaland’s strengths.
5.) 07 Oct 2025 15:26:20
He is so strong and accurate especially 1v1 with the keeper.
He often looks a bit awkward but his footwork is great.
Your right Danny he often cut a frustrated figure with very few touches games but the style more suits him better and he has matured into a real leader for his team.
But he is so good that he could play in any team in any style and still get his goals.
Needs a haircut though?.
6.) 07 Oct 2025 15:34:55
That’s where his power comes from Ken.
7.) 07 Oct 2025 17:34:44
I've no hope then Danny?.
8.) 08 Oct 2025 23:48:07
Woodward fumbled Haaland so badly.
Ole wanted him when at Molde and Salzburg.
Haaland, Bellingham, Rice - Ole had the eye for a player. Woodward unfortunately not.
21 Sep 2025 09:45:35
This will be an unpopular opinion but I prefer the team with Maguire in it. I know he gets caught out of position, he doesn't have the pace of Yoro either but right now I think he understands the system a bit better than others and is vocal through the game in getting others where they should be. I also think DeLight is better with him. Yoro is great too but I just prefer Maguire at the minute, the team needs experienced players who have dealt with the pressure of playing for Utd on the pitch.
1.) 21 Sep 2025 11:29:34
Whatever the back 5 is, Amorim just needs to stick with it now.
I haven't seen many teams if any that are successful that change their defence every week.
2.) 21 Sep 2025 11:40:07
Yoro is far better than Maguire. He should have done better for the Chalobah goal. It was a simple header for him. He just stopped and spun round.
He needs to learn and move on.
3.) 21 Sep 2025 11:41:09
He has to play against Brentford, their long throws are a nightmare to deal with.
4.) 21 Sep 2025 11:53:18
He plays for the badge. Not a bad trait to have in the lineup despite probably not being the best in his position.
5.) 21 Sep 2025 12:09:43
I think Yoro is class, mad hatter and when the team is doing better I would have him in before Maguire. I just think we need a wiser head and a bit of leadership right now. Harry's head doesn't drop as quick as some of the others when things get tough. It is nothing to do with the goal yesterday for me.
6.) 21 Sep 2025 13:09:51
The solution is quite obvious. Firstly you must play Leny, he is very much part of our defensive future, let's not forget he is still only 19 and learning his trade.
As to the solution, if you want to play Harry and Matthijs (who was excellent yesterday) then Leny should be the left sided centre back. His best performances last season started when he was moved to the left side and he has stated that he prefers playing there.
Not sure Harry and Mattijs is the way forward though, lacking in pace and athleticism.
7.) 21 Sep 2025 16:44:58
I like Yoro, hope he stays for a long time and Maguire has always been a professional. De Ligt turning up too.
Do question replacing a CB without reason, hard position to get up to game speed quickly.
28 May 2025 16:41:43
Seasons over and we're still losing?.
1.) 28 May 2025 18:24:08
Just read that ?.
2.) 28 May 2025 19:18:22
Least we are consistent ?.
19 May 2025 18:49:17
I hope this time next year we aren't loaning Cunha to the Portuguese league?.
21 Oct 2024 12:56:48
I watched a few games over the weekend and I didn't enjoy any of them, including utd. I think it's finally happened, my long term relationship with football is ending.
1.) 21 Oct 2024 16:33:14
I enjoyed our game, at least the second half when we played some nice football against a poor defense.
For me, watching City, is a chore when they're playing inferior opposition. They are relentless. It's the same pattern again and again, and their superior ball handling abilities and positioning allow them to trap their opponents in their own half. It's admirable but it's hardly exciting to anyone who doesn't support them. It's just dogged defense for virtually 90 minutes. Yawn. All you hope for is that the opposition can somehow hold out which they can rarely do.
I think it's going to be interesting to watch what happens to the EPL in the future. My feeling is that it's peaked, witnessed by a general decline in the value of transfer activity. With all that's going on in the world, it's getting harder to put football at the top of ones list of important things, especially when the owners of these clubs are generally so unsavory. I'm definitely watching fewer games overall.
2.) 21 Oct 2024 16:55:25
I think it's oversaturation shaw. It's too much now. Every ex footballer with a podcast, ex refs reviews, endless pundits. The same discussions again and again. And I always preferred football where wingers/ full backs ran and took on players. It's happening less now, probably because they will be crucified if it doesn't come off. Anyway, football is more popular than ever, so it's just the opinion of this old fella.
3.) 21 Oct 2024 17:27:52
I love watching city and love the way they play Shaw.
Fantastic technical ability and patterns and they all can manipulate the ball and the space so well that it's hard for the opposition to get on the ball.
Their work rate and ability to regain possession and force the opposition into turning the ball over again is second to none. If that bores you then fine but ones mans thrash is another man's gold
I bet you liked watching united dominate for 20 years. But guess what city fans thought we were boring then as did every other neutral.
Banjoe I take your point and agree with the over saturated state of the market. I don't watch much if any of the pre and post match stuff and don't follow any football on any of the social media channels as most of it is pure nonsense imo.
Even post match now is mainly about refs decisions which infuriates me.
Football fans are unique and more tribal than in practically any other sport. Fans are incapable of sitting alongside opposition without wanting to punch them. It's pathetic.
{Ed025's Note - im with Shaw Ken, passing for the sake of it bores me to tears mate, i thought the same about Barcelona actually, United in their pomp played with cut and trust and that was more attractive to me..
4.) 21 Oct 2024 18:36:04
I really like and admire it Billy. As I said one man's thrash is another man's gold.
I played to a decent level but their tecch ability and ball manipulation is off the charts imo.
I'd rather watch that style than United in their pomp.
5.) 21 Oct 2024 21:48:45
I admire City but I don't love watching them. Klopps Liverpool on the other hand were just brilliant fun. Amd as much as it pains me to say they were the best team to watch in the last decade in the EPL. I also really like the guy, it should not be like this as a United fan.
I promise you this though, once I have invented the time machine and bought United before the Glazers get a hold of it, Klopp is replacing Fergie.
6.) 22 Oct 2024 21:16:15
Hell no i'd never watch city compared to the way united used to play. Ken your deluded to think citys way is more attractive. They bunch of cheaters and boring as anything to watch.
7.) 22 Oct 2024 21:18:49
Im with oakboark as well liverpoola style was way better to wqtch then the way city play.
Klopps a way better manager then that sacrcastic looking Guardiola.
Everytime he does his presentations he comes across so rude and arrogant and extremely sarcastic!
He thinks he's the best ever but he ain't even in the top 5 coaches of all time.
Recently he waas saying Fergies is the best ever and even then he was saying it in a very sarcastic manner.
I can't stand him!
8.) 22 Oct 2024 22:35:30
Watching City is like death by a thousand cuts. Pep maybe the hest manager around, but his brand of football doesn't really get you off your seat.
On the plus side I do spend more time watching my local NPL West team since United's declined. Football is rubbish but very entertaining to watch.
9.) 22 Oct 2024 23:45:44
City bore me to tears, the whole thing is soulless and the passing teams to death is boring, I don’t enjoy watching the way they play. Good games of football are between 2 good teams both going at each other not one keeping the ball and not letting the other team have a touch, just isn’t for me and it annoys me that we try and play this boring possession game at times too. Everyone obsessed with passing out from the back, defenders passing goal kicks backwards to the goalkeeper, just all bores me.
I thought the same about Barcelona as well Ed25, I’m looking forward to Pep going as I think it will open up the league a bit and the top teams will have some good games and be challenging each other properly.
{Ed025's Note - absolutely GDS, its the same with the national sides as well who bore us to tears with passing to death when our strong suit is high tempo full in your face football, give me Fergie/Klopp style football that gets you off your seat any day mate..
03 Jun 2025 16:59:20
I'm not a fan of Sancho but "greed and delusion" does not come into it. Utd gave him that wage and that contract and why would he take less. He has also had a disagreement with the club so why would he make things easy for them.
19 Aug 2024 09:54:44
Welbeck would be great around the place, ports but like quite a few other ex players, he was hurt with the way he felt united treated him. I doubt he would come back.
26 Jun 2024 05:53:09
Morata doesn't want to live in England.
12 Jun 2024 17:05:25
To be fair weed, I'd say the review would have been a lot harder on him had he not won the fa cup. I'm glad he's staying but I don't want any whinging about injuries or anything else next season.
03 Oct 2025 17:42:46
How many more players need to get get sold because they don't fit the system.
29 Sep 2025 21:02:48
I think your post Ahmad sums up exactly how I feel about things at the minute. They are an awful watch, even on the rare occasions when they do win. It doesn't matter who he picks or where he plays them because the players can't believe in someone when they can't win two games in a row.
27 Sep 2025 20:55:33
Football wise I think it's the worst start to a season for a very very long time. At this stage I'm indifferent to it now. It doesn't seem to matter who he plays or where he plays them the performance is always terrible and we usually lose.
27 Sep 2025 19:35:01
I get that you are playing devils advocate here but Cunha has not been great as if yet, Mbeumo has looked good at times but this was Brentford today who lost Wissa, Mbeumo and Frank and could have scored five. The team need confidence and see a manager that looks defeated on the bench. He had week to plan for this game but it didn't look it. I think most PL managers will find a way to beat this team as they are currently set up.
21 Sep 2025 12:09:43
I think Yoro is class, mad hatter and when the team is doing better I would have him in before Maguire. I just think we need a wiser head and a bit of leadership right now. Harry's head doesn't drop as quick as some of the others when things get tough. It is nothing to do with the goal yesterday for me.