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Amad Diallo signs for Manchester United
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If you can afford 250 quid I’m game I just didn’t want to make it silly but I’m game if you are.
Thinking about it, AWB may just be the sole reason for the poor form of all our wide players this season.He's gradually broken their spirits in training so much so that they have no confidence to run at anyone and when they do, they second guess themselves so much that they get easily dispossessed.
Eureka! We solved it - sell AWB and make our wide players great again
To be fair any one would have played mason he was killing at the u18s and 23s by the time he was 17. Any manager who wouldn’t have given him a run would have been stupid. The kid has insane talent. As for Diallo, if Dan janes can get game time Diallo MUST get game time. James can finally watch a real wide player at work
Wait what! Noo. I was playing devils advocate between yourself and the guy you were arguing with.
My gambling days are over!
Any manager who played Greenwood would have played Martial too.
That's a fact!
Every time James plays everyone unanimously agrees that he's terrible, yet if you wait two weeks until we play a big club like Liverpool, half the Caf wants him to play because he'll stretch the game and look dangerous with his pace, despite never actually stretching any game nor looking dangerous with his pace at any time. It's pure faith at its best.
There's almost no risk in dropping James for Diallo or even Pellistri because I refuse to believe that they could be any less effective than he is.
Is it not simply that he's the best winger we have for tracking back. In fairness to the lad, he does work hard in both ends. Completely agree he's not near United level offensively but I do still like him for his efforts and can at least see intellectually why you might play him in bigger games where you might surrender possession dominance.
It would be a good start for journalists to stop saying we paid £37m for him in their click bait headlines?
They have to cover the misquoted figure first, so they can fabricate articles and the narrative that people are angry we paid too much, so that if and when it falls through they can cover the news of why it's actually not such a big deal after all. I don't understand people who read media at all in 2021, they've been garbage and the integrity of the profession has been long gone, so how people still entertain and engage and act like they aren't simpletons if they do is beyond me.
If he's getting past AWB regularly then just pop him straight into the FIFA world XI.
I know, can't remember the last time I clicked on any article really, journalists are just click wh*res these days, and most of the news is either misinformed rubbish, deceitful or just plain bad writing.
The amount of self important sports journalists these days are at an all time high too, they really are insufferable tools.
The general consensus is that journos don't write the headlines..
I was thinking this exact thing, every journalist acts like we have paid almost 40 million up front, it’s ridiculous.
I wrote for a football website a fair few year a go now. We we're told to make click baity SEO titles for all our articles.
I think it was Andy Mitten who once said that we don't choose the headline for our articles.
Hack. Us professional part time writers know more.
I love the use of the word ‘barren’ as if everyone else is signing worldies
He's gradually broken their spirits in training so much so that they have no confidence to run at anyone and when they do, they second guess themselves so much that they get easily dispossessed.
Eureka! We solved it - sell AWB and make our wide players great again
I'm starting to think there might be some truth to this
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I think he's using the term to describe the general inactivity in the transfer market and it isn't aimed at United specfically.
You are of course right! My bad
They don't even write the subheadings these days.
Some intern twat tasked with shaping your article into a dumbed-down and clickbaitish form will mangle it - in spite of your best intentions.
Not defending certain journos - who are both dumb and clickbaitish per default. But even decent journos (freelancers, not least) will have their work fecked with these days (much more so than before).
ETA
In some cases (I speak from some experience here) you can't write a sentence like, say:
He's hardly Yashin, but he's done surprisingly well as a stand-in for De Gea.
The editor will suggest you go with:
He's hardly Lev Ivanovich Yashin (1929-1990,) legendary Soviet era goal keeper, but he's done surprisingly well as a stand-in for David De Gea (b. 1990, Madrid, Spain), regular Manchester United goal keeper.
Which - kind of - takes any possible joy out of reading the sentence. But there you go. At least everyone (including your granny, who isn't interested in football, and probably won't read the feckin' article anyway) won't be confused as to who you're talking about.
An extreme example, of course - but not too far fetched (actually).
Alright - bit of a tangent there, do carry on.
But modern
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Indeed.
He is very young and has been brought in for the future, just like Dalot was a few years back.
I remember when Dalot, a 17yr old player who had hardly any senior games under his belt for his former team, in Portugal, was expected to waltz into the MUFC first team and perform like a 27 yr old, in his prime. This was never going to happen and when he failed to achieve this, he was tossed aside by fans.
Similarly, I am not expecting anything Earth shattering from Diallo for at least 3-4 years. And the odds of him becoming a 1st team regular are very very low. Remember, the vast majority of promising teenagers don't make it at the highest level and Diallo (and Dalot) are no exception.
We've recently seen Gomez and also Chong, fail to make the grade. And IMO, these players were several levels above Diallo (Chong and Gomez were both doing well in England, against other English youth teams).
In 3-4 years, we'll know if this guy is good enough to play for MUFC, in the EPL.
Conversely, players like Cavani, Teles and Bruno were expected to make immediate impact, as they are either in their prime or just past it (in the case of Cavani).
Unless he's lazy or got the basic things wrong all the time, I don't think any Caf regulars would write off a 17/18 y.o. new player.
Did you enjoy it and what made you leave?
I agree, generally the majority of our fans are quite supportive. If anything it is probably the hype that is too much rather than a lack of support.
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Not sure where you're getting this from at all. Diallo is a far brighter prospect than Chong and yeah, Gomes is an extraordinarily gifted footballer but his physical limitations really held him back from the United team. He seems to be thriving in Portugal. Diallo isn't tall but he's very good at using his body to protect the ball. He also has pace which Gomes doesn't have to any great degree.
Also, not sure why you think the English youth teams are any more valid a benchmark than the Italian ones. Diallo is considered to be one of the brightest prospects in that age group.
It’s brilliant when you see a terrible post made by someone you have on ignore, it makes you feel really vindicated.
Clearly you don’t remember that because we signed him when he was 19.
And the fans played no role in him not being played. His managers did.
That should be the goal!
I take it you do know the role of a winger?
You’ve not been around here long have you?
Maradona or Bebe. Nothing in between .
He’s going to tear Robertson a new one at the weekend.
Don't worry, Greenwood is away from Iceland so Diallo doesn't have a bad influence. Right now we only have honest and hardworking people at the club.
Good thing Van Gaal isn't the manager anymore otherwise he'll be telling Diallo to get horny when all he really mean is more crosses to the box.
I see we have 5 matches between the 30 Jan and 13 Feb so think there is a slim chance of him possibly making the squad for West Ham game in the Fifth Round, however that is only if he can get in front of Mata & James who still look to be ahead of him in the wide area backups pecking order.
Think he'll make the bench on Wednesday if Rashford is out.
I think he’ll make the bench regardless.
Yeah it does feel like he may only make the bench in a league game if we have a wide forward out injured
Assuming that Rashford is rested/for recovery then Martial on the left, Carvani in the centre with James on the right.
Then on the 70th minute, take out Canavi (can't expect a 33y.o to play two full matches within 56hrs), shift James to the left-wing and King Amad onto the right-wing and Martial at the top. Two blood twisting wingers in their own ways.
United wins 1-0.
Where's Mason in all this? Waving at the camera from the bench?