20 Sep 2025 16:54:05
At this point it feels like Amorim is desperately trying to get the sack. It didn't work out against City and yet he is repeating it. I am starting to lose my patience, not because i don't understand the gravity of the task but because Amorim is jist being too adamant by trying to fit wrong players in right positions. I can understand that he sticks to his formation but atleast fit the right players in the formation.
On Mainoo - is he not playing due to his contract situation?
20 Sep 2025 19:37:34
Certainly didn't age well this.
20 Sep 2025 19:51:35
I'm. Ot a fan, bit I thought today we started really well with a lot more aggression and energy. The sending off and the weather made it difficult to judge the game properly, but the players looked really up for it.
However Mainoo instead of Cas for me every time, bit it seems he prefers Ugarte as the option.
20 Sep 2025 19:57:20
Yet another insight based on sharp, analytical and well thought out reasoning. Oh, wait a minute!
20 Sep 2025 20:07:09
An unusual game whatever way you want to analyze things. We needed the points. Let’s see how we go next week.
20 Sep 2025 20:08:35
Thought we played well. Who knows what would've happened if they had 11 but we started well to force that mistake.
Always substituting defenders baffles me. Especially when they're settled and playing well.
20 Sep 2025 20:25:44
Great result. There’s context in the red card if he can win the next two I think that will buy him time.
20 Sep 2025 20:38:26
3 big points and buys him another loss to keep going. The least you can expect is 6 points from our next two games and anything less would be disappointing. he will need them as things get a lot harder after the break.
20 Sep 2025 21:05:26
I don’t think cas has the legs but playing one game a week probably will help him. I do think he brings a bit of calmness in the middle. I like mainoo but every time I see him he lacks intensity he just slowly jogs around which is why I don’t think he suited to playing instead of cas or ugarte and why Amorim sees him as a replacement for Bruno.
20 Sep 2025 22:42:19
Mainoo is not a Cas replacement . Neither is Ugarte, but he’s a better bet in game management to shore up the game.
It’s clear Amorim sees Kobbie as a proper No8, which he is. It’s just that he plays Bruno there right now.
Frankly I’d like to see an Ugarte/ Mainoo midfield and a Bruno in a 10 position and see how how it works….
20 Sep 2025 23:30:58
I could not agree more about Mainoo ambling around the pitch, he does, he doesn't see danger early and he doesn't bust a gut to nullify it onde he realises.
I have lost count of the number of football experts i have listened too bemoaning the lack of legs in midfield then in the next breath suggesting he is the midfield solution.
In 23/ 24 he was the slowest player in the United squad at under 30 KM/ H and at the Euros he was one of the slowest England players at 30.4 KM/ H.
With such a low baseline no ampunt of training isn't going to make him quick, he isn't the solution for Amorim, he doesn't even have the awareness defensively to compensate in part.
Kobbie doesn't start becsuse he isn't the solution amd he isn't going to be.
21 Sep 2025 05:56:51
I am sorry guys and def not trolling here but I said a year ago that Mainoo was overrated and got shot down in flames!
21 Sep 2025 08:47:26
I totally agree with oakbark re Mainoo.