**Official** English Football Season 2024/25

[andruid]

I wouldn't want Dalot or Bruno but I'd wager he keeps them both (that's based on both being Portuguese and that he's relied on both so far).

Mainoo was definitely overplayed last season, reminds me a bit of Bajcetic where the injuries caught up with him. It's a tricky situation.

Ragnick hit the nail on the head a few seasons ago, the entire place needs to be gutted and Amorim needs to be ruthless. Of the current squad I think only Yoro, Mainoo and Diallo should have long term futures at the club.

United suffer shock relegation, City banned from football activities for a decade please.

 

[Niall]

Yes, and not just a second season but one that follows a summer with the Euros. Throw in injury and maybe uncertainty about his role in the 3-4-2-1 and he looks out of sorts for sure. Quality will come through I'm sure but a poor environment for a young emerging talent.

Never rated Dalot. As for Bruno, he's had to single-handedly be the creative force for United pretty well since he arrived. The down side is that he has never developed a simple game that fits in with a team model. When faced with a simple pass to a team-mate or a glory ball with a 80% chance of failure he'll go for the latter every time. And given who he's got to pass to a lot of the time who can really blame him?

Yeah I do have sympathy for Bruno because their has been instances where he has fizzed in some lovely passes and nobody has got hold of them which must be infuriating, another reminder spending so much on two unproven strikers wasn't the best idea.

I do think its time to have a look at how they line up without him though, because heh it can't be much worse.

It can't be great for team morale that everyone is getting rotated/dropped bar the new manager's fellow countrymen who are consistently dropping 3/10 performances.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1872542271444513103

Mainoo is good but I am a little concerned, this version of Utd is not ideal for developing especially as he has been played into the ground.

 

[Tangles]

Mainoo looked tired at the start of the season so agree that he was overplayed and then went to the Euros.

Dalot has been horribly defensively for years. Fans and managers wanted his forward play over his defense. Now even his forward play has relapsed.

Bruno has to create everything outside Amad this year. There is so little coming from anywhere else. I’m not worried about his temper because it shows he cares. The team could do with more of that. His temper leading to multiple bad challenges in a game is a problem. I do think playing him deeper and having too many others not willing to make a challenge at all puts him in positions he should not be in. That’s on the club for the mess of a squad and the managers who don’t know how to handle it.

 

[Furball]

Watching the game now and that 1st card was laughable given the amount of contact the ref was allowing. But once you’re on a yellow you can’t make a challenge that gives you a 2nd.

Keepers used to be protected from being impeded and blocked. Has that changed this year. United are bad but teams are clearly putting a man in front and behind.

His first yellow is as clear a yellow as you could wish for.