26 Jul 2024 08:49:56
Andreas Georgson joining United coaching staff. Was a set piece coach at Brentford, Southampton and Arsenal and worked with Jason Wilcox previously. Hopefully another positive appointment.
26 Jul 2024 10:00:13
Especially if Toney comes too.
26 Jul 2024 11:20:13
Toney won't be coming thank God. He is a poor man's lukaku.
Good to have a set piece coach and I think Brentford were decent in both attack and defence on set pieces last year. Our lack of aggression in attacking and defending set pieces last season was evident. It would help if Bruno didn't have 29% of his corners cut out by 1st man. Our delivery was so poor that 22% of our corners were short corner routines that produced zero goals. Bruno involved in all but 2 of those. ?♂️.
26 Jul 2024 11:25:01
Given how poor we have been on set pieces at both ends of the pitch this seems like a sensible move.
While that resume is impressive when you consider that Brentford and Arsenal have been amoungst the best sides at scoring and defending set pieces over the past 5 years or so.
26 Jul 2024 12:50:22
When you look at the profile of the players we are signing and looking at, not only young and talented footballers but also tall players. Might suggest we are looking at tightening up this area of the game which certainly is needed.
26 Jul 2024 13:01:23
If i'm not wrong we recently had a season where we scored like 1 goal from set pieces in the entire season, not sure if it was under Ole or ETH.
But suffice to say this new guy doesn't have a particularly high bar to beat in the set peice department.
26 Jul 2024 13:20:13
Our crossing is atrocious dsg.
A high class player like bruno can't take a decent corner it's farcical.
26 Jul 2024 15:49:06
Is it though Ken? Or do we or have we lacked some desire to get on the end of a cross? Genuine question because truthfully, Fernandes is one of the most technically gifted players we have so are his corners bad? Do we lack some b*#@cks when crosses are in the box?! Maybe a mixture of both?!
26 Jul 2024 16:04:48
Ports definitely a mixture of both. No plan and a lack of attention to detail but 29% of our corners didn't beat 1st man. That is not world class delivery.
22% were taken in a short corner routine involving the 'world class ' Bruno to no avail.
Bruno is miles better passing in motion than he is from a deadball situation and his stats back that up. Someone needs to tell him to steer clear from deadball situations his stats read like ronaldos for free kicks. Useless.
26 Jul 2024 16:19:13
Toney a poor man's lukaku? Are you on crack?
26 Jul 2024 17:28:57
Ha you’ll get used to the fishing Greg.
26 Jul 2024 18:00:48
No Greg I don't think he is as good as lukaku. Do you think he is better? His stats are no better. He is slower and less mobile than lukaku. Doesn't score as many goals.
26 Jul 2024 18:27:53
I saw somewhere that one of the first things arteta did when joining Arsenal was to pinch city's set piece coach, who he had worked with previously. Arsenal instantly jumped to the top of goals scored and least goals conceded from set pieces and started challenging for the title.
It is a hugely underestimated part of the game by utd. We can't take corners, we a poor at defending them. And we surely must be the worst team in the league on our own throw ins. The number of times we lose possession with 5 seconds of our own throw in is disgusting.
26 Jul 2024 18:47:48
That's coaching DB. I agree with you. The coaching has been non evident.
26 Jul 2024 21:54:44
Toney would be a backwards step. He is at his lever where he is.
27 Jul 2024 00:08:13
A backwards step?
27 Jul 2024 11:32:15
Ivan Toney might not be an elite striker, but he's certainly a far more proven and consistent striker in the EPL than either Højlund or Zirkzee presently.
In his last full season of EPL football he scored 20 and got 4 assists in 35 games.
For context the last Man Utd player to score 20 EPL goals in one season was RvP in 2012/ 13. Over a decade ago.
Strikers to play for us who haven't managed that since 2012/ 13 include Falcao, Cavani, Ronaldo, Lukaku and Zlatan.
In fact in the past 10 years only 18 other strikers across all the teams in the league have managed to score 20 league goals in a season.
He wouldn't be a bad signing for anyone in the league.
Given that we don't have anyone who has matched his achievements in our squad I fail to see how he would be a backwards step.
I do wonder how we would fit all of Zirkzee, Højlund and Toney into a team or give all of them the playing time they would be happy with or need to develop. I'm definitely in the camp that we would be better off spending money on players for other positions rather than buying Toney.
But he certainly wouldn't be a bad player or take us backwards if we did sign him.
27 Jul 2024 13:49:15
Poor man's John fashanu.
27 Jul 2024 17:15:34
We are fine with the striker options.
We need to ensure the full back positions and CM position is resolved as soon as possible. Should we be able to add some much needed quality and depth, we will have a decent squad for the upcoming season.
27 Jul 2024 23:02:30
Tony works hard can hold the ball up allowing the team to uold attacks and relieves pressure of opposing attacks being in relentless waves he also is good at bringing others into play and has a good passing range. Ally all that with hso goalscoring and he would be a good addition to our team.
28 Jul 2024 12:32:16
Poor man's mick hartford.