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Mason Mount's Misfortune
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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.
Redcafe to be director of football?
In fairness to Erik & the club only absolutely everyone could see this coming
Cant get into this United side. He'll be on loan at Nice by the end of 2024.
He was a priority for the club, so was renewing DDG.
I'm OK with it as long as there's a plan for him. There are lots of examples of big players who needed almost a whole season before they became key. Grealish being one example.2nd of March 2024?
You know I had to do this to you mateIf you don’t laugh you’ll cry.
Bedding into Pep’s City & EtH’s United are 2 totally different propositions, I understand you’ve chosen this hill to die on but it’s not looking good for Mount at all.
See you in a year when mount is a key player in our treble winning side
And they gave him the number 7 shirt
imagine the scenes if he comes on and scores the winning goal…
Ive not chosen any hill to die on. Players can often take up to a season to bed in, I just gave Grealish as a random example. If you want to ignore it that's fine too.Bedding into Pep’s City & EtH’s United are 2 totally different propositions, I understand you’ve chosen this hill to die on but it’s not looking good for Mount at all.
See you in a year when mount is a key player in our treble winning side
Something seriously wrong if your showpiece signing and no7 can’t get a game in the biggest match of the season. Chelsea laughed all the way to the bank, and then wasted it in shite players themselves of course
I'll never understand how our manager thought:
He was a good player
He'd compliment our current midfield regardless
He was worth over £50m in the last year of his contract
He would be a better signing than Maddison
This signing, on top of an already appalling track record of transfers, is going to cost him his job. At least the other signings made sense. Antony, Eriksen, Casemiro, etc, are all crap signings but they were at least bought to address actual holes in the squad. Mount was as pointless as they come.
He was a good player
He'd compliment our current midfield regardless
He was worth over £50m in the last year of his contract
He would be a better signing than Maddison
This signing, on top of an already appalling track record of transfers, is going to cost him his job. At least the other signings made sense. Antony, Eriksen, Casemiro, etc, are all crap signings but they were at least bought to address actual holes in the squad. Mount was as pointless as they come.
Would Chelsea take this joke back? Or has he burnt all bridges
Sad state of affairs when Liverpool fans were happy that they were not signing him, some level headed Utd fans thought about how this signing made no sense but the management and the clueless manager couldn't.
Please tell me we kept the receipt
Difficult to judge Mount as I am not smart enough to understand what he is supposed to do. Was his task to run around up top and press City? Surely out coaches aren't that stupid.
99% could see he was a nothing player when he was at Chelsea. How can a manager not see the same?
what a transfer
Why didnt he play today? It felt we played 10 vs 11 after Amrabat got taken off.
90% of our fans raised an eyebrow higher than Ancelotti when they heard we were getting him, now we understand why.
The irony is you’re ignoring the fact most players don’t go on to have Grealosh’s trajectory at a club aswell as the fact that integrating into Pep’s city as opposed to cracking our woeful midfield is barely comparable.
I’ll bring supplies up the hill for you again in a few weeks. . .
Never rated him. Rate him even less I see him week in week out.
He does nothing of note. May as well have kept Fred
*pokes Mount with a stick*
He doesn't do anything.
He doesn't do anything.
Did he play? Where? When? Is he the invisible man?
The "plan" was to field Casemiro, Bruno and Mount as a 3.
But we were absolutely run off the pitch by all sorts so had to immediately bin it and get Amrabat in.
I’m far from his biggest fan and seriously questioned this signing but from seeing him up close I can’t help but think he could do a far better job than he’s showing so far. He’s one of them signings that if Liverpool had made everyone would be saying why the feck didn’t we just spend the £60m on Mount. The problem is the environment for the most part.
Szoboszlai is 2-3 times the player he is and was bought for a similar fee. We have been robbed. Mount is a painfully average Lingard replacement. ETH should never be given authority over transfers again.
I swear I miss the old jokes about Tom Cleverley providing no penetration from midfield whatsoever. Mount is a lot worse than Cleverley at providing feck all from midfield.
Gotta hand it to Erik though he managed to convince everyone at the club that Mount could be our 8.
He doesn't play as #8. Bruno sometimes plays as #8, Mount had been deployed very high up and as part of attacking formation.
He may not be suited for that midfield role anyway, it's just we have not seen him in midfield yet. What probably adds to the mystery of this transfer.
Klopp wanted to sign Mount though. I've no doubt if he'd gone to the scousers he'd look a lot better in their well oiled machine. There aren't many players who would shine in our dysfunctional mess of a team
Money well wasted, not even Mount as his best Chelsea form is what we needed. If us, armchair fans can spot this issue a mile away, wtf are the guys responsible for this pointless transfer doing ?
Next time we want to sign one of these flashy 'system players', it would be good to remind ourselves that we don't have a working system.
This and Antony are sackable offences really. How can you trust him to spend anything more when literally everyone man and his dog saw this coming in the summer.
I'm convinced the only reason United signed him because he was only 8-10-ish that available and could've signed him quickly for the tour. ETH wanted to play high pressing formation so he wanted someone fast.
The fecking issue is neither club nor ETH considered player's other skillset to be an important factor. As long as it's "attainable and can be done quickly" it's all they needed, system comes later
Signing just highlight how absurd we do business, really...It's like a kid playing Football manager
The fecking issue is neither club nor ETH considered player's other skillset to be an important factor. As long as it's "attainable and can be done quickly" it's all they needed, system comes later
Signing just highlight how absurd we do business, really...It's like a kid playing Football manager
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I said this in the summer. This move stank of one that was doable instead of whether or not it should be done
Fair play and decent banter for the ghost impression in the second half.
It's not gone very well so far has it. I wanted to believe I'd got him very wrong as a player, and I'm not going to write him off yet, as I have seem glimmers, but he like many others, might as well not have been on the pitch today.