No his passing and decision making at times is crap. Don't get me wrong some of his first time sweeping balls are great. But the straight forward passes in the final third, the through balls into the box, the 2-3 yard simple passes... all are ****, never find their man, easily cut out by an oppo player, or simply lack the quality to find the intended man. On top of that he chooses flicks and back heels when the straight pass is the one he should play.
A bit? You surely can't be that generous to the situation. Just call it what it is. Playing them together has been a foolish experiment.
I've just listened to some twat from the Sun giving an interview, slating our whole squad without once mentioning our injuries or the fact our problem is in defence which is predominantly where our injuries are. And the interviewer doesn't mention it either. If that was any other side they'd be the first to be making excuses. The footy media really don't like us
Treble, that was a very strong team out there today and on the bench. To continue to talk about injuries is somewhat insulting to every other team that also need to manage their own injuries and still compete. Injuries are far from the problem, the system is the problem! It simply isn’t balanced! Character of the players is also a problem. Both of these are down to the manager to manage. That’s his job and he simply isn’t living up to the bill. Let’s stop the nonsense about the unfair media. Since when has the media been on United’s side? Sadly, we have nothing to stand on when you look at the results and that’s really the only thing that matters and we simply don’t have it at the moment.
I don’t think Mount is a bad player, I think the team struggles to understand where he fits. Hopefully it doesn’t take a full season to figure out. Before buying players, you would think that thorough analysis is done to know precisely how they will fit and be utilized.
I take it your analysis is what you've read somewhere? They don't even play in the same position (other than both being in midfield). Mount is not a '10' , as the narrative dictates. That's not where he plays, this is where Fernandes plays. Mount is not that player. If anything, the one showing no discipline and getting in people's way is Bruno, as he's all over the place. If he sticks to his role, the others can do their's. Ultimately, once we've a left back and Amrabat can play alongside Casemiro, Mount is right of a midfield three.
Ppl may think I'm being alarmist when I say Onana shouldn't play for the club again and got rid at first opportunity. In reply to that I give you Tim Howard. One fck up in a CL game and his United career was over. And Howard was 10x the goalie Onana will ever be. To think this imbecile had the gall to have a go at Maguire on the pitch in his first game.
We were led to believe that his greatest skill was playing the ball with his feet - on the evidence of last night that is clearly bollocks, and his shot stopping is questionable too..
He was defended last night by saying he didn't trust his defenders to pass to. Utter bollocks, the bloke is a shambles. He literally costs us games. Games, not just goals.
I made a point of watching him throughout the game when he had the ball. Most of his kick outs to the half way line or beyond were either to players who were heavily marked or to nobody in particular. He's great at passing to the full backs in his own half though. Who'd have thunk a goalie could do that.
No Chief! I don’t come here to regurgitate someone else’s ideas as my own. I watch the games, I analyze the results and avidly connect the dots. They have both not worked out well playing together. This whole thing about what Mount is and what he’s not is also false. He has all the tools to play behind the strikers if allowed. But Bruno occupies that space, or all over the place. Either way, there isn’t a clear indication how the two of them fit in defined roles and responsibilities on the field. So yes, no discipline or simply no clear workable direction given by the manager.
You simply have to ask the question if Sir Alex would have kept him in the lineup. The answer to that is absolutely not! Cut your losses and move on. But I don’t think ETH is that type.
I still maintain there were some positives last night and that once we have at least one full back fit it will improve. We can't go 4 3 3 as I firmly believe that all four of Amrabat, Casemiro, Mount and Fernandes have to play. They are first team midfield players. Which means it's 4 2 3 1. Cas and Amrabat would be a fine 2, with Amrabat the actual defensive element. The three in front is Fernandes middle, Mount right. Not sure on the left? Rashford is still the golden boy but he, along with Onana, contributed to costing us the game last night with that, frankly, pathetic effort when 2 on 1 with their keeper. That's not worth £350k a week, sorry. There are other options in Antony and Garnacho of course, or Martial. Hojlund is obviously the centre forward. The defence is ****e though. How anyone can play Lindelof ahead of Evans or even Maguire is completely beyond me? Dalot is ****e too, always has been, but needs must currently until AWB is back. Maybe Lindelof would be better off at right back temporarily? Genuinely don't know. I also don't know why the Laird, Williams, Mengi, Tuanzebe's of the squad were just allowed to leave. To be replaced by Evans who doesn't play. I get Martinez and Shaw are injured, but the defensive shambles is on Ten Hag really. He's only signed Martinez and Malacia and Onana, it should have been sorted.
I still haven't got my head around the whole Mount issue, it seems to me to be almost a Woodward-like decision. Our absolute priority going into the window was a bang em in striker, no question, the rest could wait, but we needed a world class striker - so what did we do? We spent £65m of our limited transfer budget on Mount....WTF??? We should have spunked the budget on a striker first and foremost, perhaps dangled most of it in front of Levi to try and prise Kane away, or taken our pick of the other top strikers available (no offence to Hojlund). To waste almost half our budget on such a low priority position was a disgrace - who was responsible I don't know, but ETH seems to be having problems fitting him into the system so I doubt it was his idea. Mount is a problem signing, end of.
