08 Mar 2024 14:08:31
Hojlund named Premier League Player of the Month for February.
Bit of a surprise but a welcome one, and a great turnaround to probably be at a stage where we're weaker without him considering only a few months ago he had a pretty terrible strike rate for our main striker.
Onwards and upwards!
08 Mar 2024 14:56:21
Delighted for him. Seems like a level headed lad eager to do well.
08 Mar 2024 15:35:56
Remember when Ten Hag was manager of the month.
08 Mar 2024 16:21:48
He done very well after a terrible start, hopefully he kicks on more, I’m not sure we should go into next season with him as our main number 9 though, I think he still got a lot to learn and would like to see him learn from a more experienced number and share the load, hopefully it’s not a sign though at his age missed first month or so with back injury, now missing again, does anyone know what injury is this time?
08 Mar 2024 16:47:35
It would be fantastic to have an excellent back-up in every position like City, but specifically up front as a few have suggested we need someone who can replace Hojlund when required without being a big name. Avoiding the big guns like Osimhen/ Toney as they'll expect to be the main guy. More of an experienced player without busting the bank although there's a strong shout that they should go for a similar younger player like Sesko / Brobbey.
08 Mar 2024 17:17:43
I'm not sure his play was terrible to be fair to him. He was not missing loads of chances.
I can imagine how frustrating it was for him to see Antony rashford and garnacho cutting inside and shooting as often as they do.
Moving garnacho to the right helped them both no end imo.
He has great attributes imo and will be a top striker I think.
We need another starting no9 to rotate/ share the load. Very few cf start more than 35 games a season so lots of games and starts for both in a 60 game season.
He displays a real hunger and wants to score goals and puts himself in positions to maximise that.
Imo him and mainoo are the brightest things in our season closely followed by garnacho and the 3 of them are on a very steep learning curve.
All 3 are still very young and inexperienced and have a great chance to have great careers.
To a large degree the 3 of them have been our best players this season as far as I'm concerned.
Dalot has been more up than down also but the rest have been 5 out of 10 over the course of the season at best.
It's been a tough season on the injury front but we do field at least 9 or 10 current full internationals nearly every week or the retired int varane.
08 Mar 2024 17:20:44
I think it needs to be other way round, Rasmus not be the main man at this moment in time, he got lot of learning to do, he not ready by a long shot to be main main…. See some said he will be a legend, hold the horses someone even compared him to Van Nistleroy, in reality he is a youngster with great potential and to realise that potential he needs good coaching and someone to learn from, his runs are not the best, his hold up play not the best and his finishing not the best, his strength not the best, plus we know he had back problems when we bought him and now another injury which is a worry.
08 Mar 2024 17:34:54
No he was not missing loads of chances because not many chances were being presented/ made for him, must be a nightmare being our number 9 in this team but in the same vein he was not actually making great timed runs either, yes he is very willing and hopefully becomes very able, but atm he is not of the quality to be our leading number 9 there is a lot still to work on, I agree Mainoo and him been our only shining light, Garnacho in patches but I have reservations with him, I think in his own head he is much better than in reality, that’s a concern, but I fear for all 3 of them unless we get some proper coaching done, because it just seems to be down to natural ability at the moment does not appear too much great coaching going on, that’s as much to blame on all the coaches as well as ETH, which is why I would like the lot gone, McLaren seems to not moved with the times was a good coach 20 years ago.
08 Mar 2024 18:07:04
He was making excellent runs. He was often in the best place. But our over elaborate team choose option 3 or 4 rather than option 1. I don't blame them, rashford and Martial have been avoiding making strikers runs for 6 years. Why would anyone expect a striker to be were they should be?! ?.
09 Mar 2024 08:28:18
Strangebloke that was me you're referring to. But I was not and he was not compared to RVN at all. Yet again you choose a snippet from a post and use it to suit your agenda. I posted a quote from Paul Scholes who said he 'sees a little bit of RVN in the lad. ' Quite different really!
09 Mar 2024 15:06:58
The kid has been excellent since he came on against arsenal .
We have had a right touch getting him.
09 Mar 2024 21:21:11
Probably not used to a striker making runs after having Martial for years.
10 Mar 2024 15:55:57
Promising player, has a great potential. I’d like to see him have some real competition though. Someone like Toney, Osmihen or Sesko.
Is see a potential Centre Forward in Garnacho and love to see him get some minutes in that role. A bit like Rooney.
10 Mar 2024 16:53:10
Terrible start? Absolute troll you are, I don’t think he’s actually had 1 terrible game never mind a terrible start. Is proving to be a good signing, hopefully will be a great one.
10 Mar 2024 19:11:44
Tbf it was a poor start in terms of goals in the epl but I was looking beyond that at that time.
I think we need to strikers that can start. Competition is vital.
Obviously the thought was rasmus martial and radhford as 3rd option given the financial restrictions it looked OK however martial should never have been considered a viable option imo. But I'm sure finances dictated that nobody else could come in unless martial left.
Who replaces martial is really important imo. I don't see us going for a really big name but someone who can compliment rasmus and compete with him.