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Rasmus Højlund | Manchester United Player | Shirt Nr 11
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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.
Something tells me you are taking this conversation a little more seriously than is necessary!
Bet he doesn't. Some key numbers are a mess at the moment. A striker with the no.17, a CM who was given the no.7, ripped from the clutches of Garnacho (why oh why?) and the club's no.9 barely features.
Not in the slightest, I will keep this thread on track as it feels like your posts are aimed purely at what I have said rather than about Højlund, but this signing should be exciting for fans. Not a guarantee of a success but a signing where it's the right mindset of the club
I am indeed, and also have this ability to read also, hence the thread title stating his shirt number
Congrats. You clearly also have a great grasp of sarcasm as well…
The sarcasm app on my phone is broken, so sorry I didn't clock on! Moving away from the fun insults , bring on Højlund!
You're not wrong!You checked this a couple of times before posting, didn't you?
You're not wrong!
You clearly never played Championship Manager.
You could reassign numbers every year to reflect changing squad status and it was all hunky-dory, so long as you didn't inform the player of said change in status and just waited for it all to dawn on him months later.
AI at its finest, why would the caf operate differently?
Or Cristiano. We have form in the tell-a-first-team-player-to-feck-off-and-make-room department.
So, how far is he?
Not in the squad for tonight’s game
How bad is the injury? He’s training we’ve all seen the pictures I was hoping he would make the bench tonight
How bad is the injury? He’s training we’ve all seen the pictures I was hoping he would make the bench tonight
Forrest or Arsenal game going by reports.
We are keeping him out of the spotlight.
6 months. Got his second scan coming up. Due in November. Family are all really excited. Hoping for a girl.
The Arsenal game is the one that’s been mentioned for a possible debut. He’s training but I think he’s still doing individual stuff at the moment, hopefully he’ll begin training with the rest of the squad next week.
Arsenal game off the bench maybe. But surely that can't be his first start.
Yeah hopefully joins team training next week
He'll either end up scoring 200 goals for us or end up on loan at Everton within 2 years.
Similar to how we bedded in Casemiro last season then, except last season we had McT going on a hot streak to plaster the cracks. Hopefully Martial can play a couple in the meantime.
Think there is a real possibility of him making bench next Saturday if he joins in next week
Dimitar Berbatov talks about Højlund. The video is in English.
https://www.tv3sport.dk/sport/fodbold/nyheder/eks-stjerne-om-hojlund-i-united-glem-prisen
https://www.tv3sport.dk/sport/fodbold/nyheder/eks-stjerne-om-hojlund-i-united-glem-prisen
Can't play in the UK
The club, manager, and his new teammates are doing a cracking job of cranking up the pressure on this young lad.
Let's hope he's got the mentality and talent to cope with that - even if it's a unfair ask, he can't really look to big personalities around him can he?
Let's hope he's got the mentality and talent to cope with that - even if it's a unfair ask, he can't really look to big personalities around him can he?
He'll do a grand job by just being in the side right now.
Rashford can go back to his position, Garnacho can drop on the bench.
Rashford can go back to his position, Garnacho can drop on the bench.
As shit as we are, we shouldn't throw the lad into the deep end before he is fully fit..if that means 2-3 more games without him then so be it.
The boy doesn’t stand a chance. Purely because we are so shite there will be too much expectation on him to do well. He should be coming as a rotation player really.
He's got an incredibly difficult job on his hands with tons of pressure. We can't create chances at all, and he's not going to create them himself. Seeing the first two games, I've downgraded what success looks like for Højlund from approx. 15 to 10 goals.
Problem is who's gonna score for us then? We where 6th top scorers last season.
And Rashford won't get near is equalling his tally for last season.
So at best we are looking at scoring a similar amount but if that's the case we will be in a fight for 5th or 6th imo
I couldn't tell you. I think we will probably be around 6th to 8th top scorers this season. I feel certain we will be behind at least City, Arsenal, Liverpool, Newcastle and Brighton. Potentially also Chelsea and Spurs.
It's just not looking good.
We are fecked then in truth. No way around it. 6th top scorers won't get us in the top 4 this season
Unless we end up having Chelsea 2005 levels of defense than yeah you'd be right.
We probably should have gone all in on kane, hope it doesn't cost us too much.
I think the Club where planning for MG to be our other striker, and rightfully so that doesn't look to be happening now.
Then the problem becomes we need to sell to buy and MG won't fund another striker. Would need to be loaned to get his value back up first.
Doesn't really seem to be a way to solve our goalscoring problem unless the club find another 60-100 million in their back pocket
Perhaps but even then that wouldn't have been a perfect plan either, that certain someone himself is still a prospect after all, not a veteran.
Assuming we're going for a top class striker and not just stop gap we have to either shell out 150 mil for oshimen (not happening) or wait a tear and hope other options become available.
A very undesirable situation to be in.
It would be take big improvements from several players to turn this around, in my opinion. Rashford needs to go on a streak similar to last year, Højlund needs to be effective from the start, Antony and Garnacho need to take it to another level, Mount needs to chip in with goals and assists. I'm not sure how much I believe in these though.
Having an actual striker who is a threat will open up spaces for our other attackers
It should. But are players needs way too many chances to score. They miss way too many decent chances
He is meant to be a really confident player so hopefully we've made the right judgement and he can handle the pressure and hit the ground running.
Again having a top striker would have helped. When you have pressure taken off you by a top striker its easier to score. I really think people are underestimating how much we needed to go for a top level striker this summer above all else.
Top 2 priorities this summer should have been a top level striker and a keeper.
We signed Mount first with a large amount of the budget. That just a massive mistake right there
He's being set up to fail. He will be tossed into a failing team and will be under massive pressure to turn things around.
If fans expect Hoijund to make a huge difference will be disappointed, I think he will need 8-10 games to understand the intensity of the Premier League. He will be probably coming on as a sub or coming off in the 60-70 mins. Sorry, Hoijund will not be a savior of this club looking at how funds are misuse. After Alex retire, we have spend billion on our squad and quality remains the same. Every manager that we had seems to play will monopoly money from Fellani, Di Maria, Maguire, Fred, DVD, Pogba, Mata, Matic, Sanchez and etc. What a joke this club is? Letting the managers decide their shinny new toys without asking the manager if it is the right player.