05 Dec 2025 19:41:16
Anyone else getting a bit tired of the repetitive excuses, the players don't get it yet, I. e. the System 12 months in We didn't control the game for the full game, no team does.
The simple issue for me is the work rate, tempo and constant passing backwards and sideways. More work rate, quicker tempo, and be more direct passing would great improve things for a start!
06 Dec 2025 08:15:29
Tell me which players we have, particularly in midfield, that are capable of controlling a game. We’ve not had any since Scholes hung up his boots. We don’t have a Modric or Vitinha. It’s certainly not Mainoo. His best position is a 10.
Midfield and wing backs are shockingly bad. Bruno, our best yet predictably most inconsistent player, should also be a 10. Casemiro wouldn’t get in any other top-10 side. The guy runs through treacle and can’t finish 90mins now. Ugarte is younger yet worse.
Up front isn’t great either. Zirkzee is awful. Sesko injured and needs a season to adjust. Cunha has hardly set the world on fire and Mbeumo is regressing amongst it all.
Beggars belief that this site blames this abject group of players for throwing managers under the bus yet still turns on every manager when results turn.
We don’t need to sack a manager (who has the guts to not give in to absurd media pressure to play Mainoo who is not the solution) we need to fix the squad problems. Mainoo isn’t great. He’s simply a tool to bash the manager with. If we’d bought him from another team 5-years ago rather than raise him in the academy there wouldn’t be any of this fuss. It’s all foolish romanticising void of any logic or reason.
Jeez.
06 Dec 2025 11:51:13
mainoo isn't great its just a tool to bash the manager with
Go ask other pages how many clubs would take him he's a young lad being mishandled by the manager.
I mean he's that poor he played in the england team to a final last tournament.
Lets bash a player because the manager doesn't fancy him its that simple
Rewind 18months we would all want him built round now he's a 10 and simply not good enough jesus!
06 Dec 2025 13:39:40
Utter garbage Treble
Mainoo simply isn’t good enough. And that’s opinion not a ‘bash’. He’s slow. Lacks physicality. Yet you want him playing in an area that demands that. He may have 2, 3 maybe even 5 good moments in a game. But that’s not good enough.
It staggers me how clueless some supporters are.
06 Dec 2025 13:46:03
Who decided Mainoo's besy position is as a 10? Amorim, that's who. That's not where he played in his breakout season for Unted or England, yet here you sre buying into a false narrative. His treatment has been shocking.
06 Dec 2025 14:43:12
AJH he's played in all but 4 games. Ok it's limited minutes but he hasn't taken his chances.
06 Dec 2025 15:39:43
BRD - Mainoo isn't that great? Okay mate ?.
07 Dec 2025 08:13:25
No he isn’t angel
Look at the long list of top clubs not interested in buying him. There’s your evidence.