Come again? See for yourself..
https://www.caughtoffside.com/2021/...e-wrong-picture-for-amad-diallo-announcement/
Amad Diallo signs for Manchester United
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) is joined by CEO Duncan Drasdo and Financial Director Andy Green from the Manchester United Supporters Trust for a special episode on all things behind the scenes at Old Trafford including a brief history of MUST and their aims today, views on INEOS and Sir Jim Ratcliffe so far, and the Old Trafford regeneration.
https://www.caughtoffside.com/2021/...e-wrong-picture-for-amad-diallo-announcement/
No where near as good as Amad no but in the youth ranks he looked good enough on the ball.
You never know with youngsters what they'll do but the fact Amad looks to make good decisions and has a creative instinct (it seems) should put him in good stead.
Excited to see this kid play. We could finally have creativity from the right wing if all goes well
I'm talking about your stretch to somehow connect it to the Cavani situation. fecking bizzare mental gymnastics
Same here. It's been like foreeeeeeeever that we haven't had any decent RW. But the kid is just 18, can't and should not expect much I think.
4231 with a proper winger is going to be interesting
Apparently he's landed in England.
Who was responsible for tracking the fecking flight?
Whoever was responsible did a terrbile fecking job. We can't expect to become champions again with that kind of ill discipline. I say sell him, sack Fergie.
How did we mess that up?
He reminds me a lot of Mane.
Has the same burst of pace, low center of gravity and even his ball running technique seems a bit similar.
If we are getting 50% of what Liverpool got out of Mane, its worth the investment. Just saying
Has the same burst of pace, low center of gravity and even his ball running technique seems a bit similar.
If we are getting 50% of what Liverpool got out of Mane, its worth the investment. Just saying
He’s an elusive player. This bodes well. (Unless he is Liam Miller style elusive)
True, the most likely scenario is he spends next few months getting used to the first team, with game time in the reserves
It’s not the most likely scenario - our need for RW reinforcement is dire, and it’s very likely that Ole will start to use him at least occasionally (having threat from the right is simply more important than giving a youngster more time to adjust).
Also, he does track back and provide support to his full back. Far better in one on ones and link up play than Greenwood and stays out wide which will suit AWB for the underlap.
It will be nice to see more of a creative player on the flanks because at the moment Rashford, Martial and Greenwood all have similar mindsets when playing there: take the ball to feet and get the shot in as soon as possible. Mata has the creativity but is an old 32 and now has too many physical deficiencies which impact his game.
I think it's mostly annoying that he has more than doubled the fee for clicks and suggesting that singing a player for potential like this is some sign of incompetence.
We could have got mbappe for the money we paid for diallo + the Sancho money£110m for this kid and we passed on Sancho
I just meant racism in general, the cavani incident which is no ones fault, now someone on the social team lazily picking any old black dude cos “they all look the same”. Not that’s that’s what I think happened, just that that’s how it will be construed..
Took his time, lazy cnut
Did anyone watch this vid? The guy in the studio is really hyping him up to the high heavens. Hope he's right..
Let's see how he goes on, no need to have high expectations until at least he shows something in competitive games
Said the same a week or so back. The more highlights I see of him, the more I think it.
I remember the arrival of Ronaldo: he started playing well right from the start. So why not Diallo as well?
Sell him in the summer. Can't have more viruses at the club.
I don't think I'll ever forget that cameo against Bolton, with the fancy stepovers. It would be extremely unfair to put that level of expectation on Amad though, let's just see how gets on in these strange times and update our expectations after seeing what he can do in the first team.I remember the arrival of Ronaldo: he started playing well right from the start. So why not Diallo as well?
I think he will not go into U21 like Pellistri. Should be a squad player straight away.
Wonder if he’ll be in the stands tonight, might get a sneaky wee glimpse of our new golden boy
I would like to see this kid play. His movement reminds me about Messi. No one knows how good he will be but i like the idea of signing technical dribblers like him. These are the players which can make miracles to happen. Doesn´t mean they always success though.
Yeah I am very curious to see how he adapts to this league and still hopeful he makes the squad in a couple of weeks time
Google Sadio Mane Metz and look at his thighs and core, you can see that Mane could play as a 9 (or hell a fullback or DM) whereas Diallo is much smaller, not gonna be near as strong. I think we''re looking at more assists but less goals if hr's everything we could realistically hope for in a RW. Mane is a 1 in 2 goalscorer on the wing and not a huge assists guy (though healthy number back in Austria).
I see Diallo as more of a playmaking winger without the power or goalscoring ruthlessness of Mane, and his second position being a 10 and not a 9.
So yeah, hopefully he's our opposite wing Ribery or that sort of high assist dribbler who does better out wide and links play on the right for us where our less creative but hard working and good athletes capable of making runs in McTominay and Wan-Bissaka play, and that he has the dribbling and passing to pick out Bruno and Rashford to his left and far left and whoever is up top.
Papu Gomez compared him to Messi and you can see why (small wonderful dribbling and creative left-footed right winger), so my guess is that will be the stylistic comparison, but obviously we can't expect that level of player because it's not how the natural laws of the universe and math work, but my expectations are high, I think he could be the long-term answer at RW, though we really should have picked up someone like James Rodriguez on a free this past summer or another ready to play RW to be that guy for this year and the next one or two and ease a guy like Diallo in til he wins the job clean.
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I like that Ole put him in his place in one press conference recently. Think he asked some banal completely unnecessary and frankly stupid question relating to transfers or individual game tactics which everyone knew was never going to be answered and Ole just went, "what sort of question is that?" in an annoyed tone and just dismissed it out of hand.
Tbh, it's the least Ole should do considering some of the frankly borderline disrespectful stuff Ogden has said about him on the record (i.e. "that lad from Molde" as if he was the fecking work experience kid). There's having doubts and then there's being a cnut unnecessarily. It's weird seeing how he is now because up until then, I didn't really have an opinion either way on Ogden and he generally struck me as someone who was at least professional in his conduct.
Wasn't it Ogden who got caught mocking Harry Kane recently? He seems like one of the least professional journalists if anything.
Yep, the one and the same.
Wonder if he's arrived yet.
Yeah, he's a monumental bellend.
I didn’t want to say, but I remember watching Messi in the B team and his very early Barca days and they are very similar in terms of ball control, touch and pass (handling) and his pace and directness. I think Messi looked stronger but he was also growing from the steroids/HGH.
I think Ahmed will be good and I think a few U23 games will be good but get him in-for the Liverpool game on the bench and give him 15.
Hope we get to see a front four of Bruno, Rashford, Cavani and Diallo at some point this season.
Doubt it. 4 forwards?
Not unless we are desperately chasing a game but we’ve seen this before where players just end up taking up each other’s spaces.
This lad can actually assist from the right. Cant wait. Cavani should thrive with danger either side. Also the 3rd left footed player in the squad. We need one more I think. Even a left footed prospect to rotate on the left or provide width instead of constantly cutting in. Maybe diallo can do that some games but he seems to be a lot more comfortable on the right cutting in...
He's posted Rio's interview about the comparison's to Ronaldo on his instagram story.
He's certainly aware of the hype around him, and he isn't hiding away from the fact that he knows about it too.
Excited to say the very least. Some players could shy away from that comparison and saying that he's his own player etc etc. He seems to embrace the fact people are referring to him as the second coming of Ronnie.
He's certainly aware of the hype around him, and he isn't hiding away from the fact that he knows about it too.
Excited to say the very least. Some players could shy away from that comparison and saying that he's his own player etc etc. He seems to embrace the fact people are referring to him as the second coming of Ronnie.