23 Aug 2026 10:33:08
Wow. There is a lot of whining going on here. ?
Don't you all get that it's going to take another couple of seasons to get a good enough squad to actually challenge for the league?
We don't have to players!
Doesn't matter who's coaching.
23 Aug 2026 11:27:10
It's a combination of not having the players and many of our best ones being young and inconsistent.
Once players like Heaven, Yoro, Mainoo, Santos, Amad, Lacey, and Sesko reach their full potential, then we will be in a place to challenge.
Yesterday, I think, can mostly be chalked down to missing a few key players, while some of the players who played didn't have a full pre-season and maybe aren't quite fully match fit/sharp yet.
23 Aug 2026 11:29:43
They lost against Hull City, not Man City. ??♂️??
23 Aug 2026 11:41:28
It wasn't the loss being whined about pre se. More the manner of the loss and the players' attitude, again/still.
23 Aug 2026 11:54:34
Well said, Fizz.
23 Aug 2026 12:28:05
It's 1 game, the first game. Still new players that need time. Come on lads.....
23 Aug 2026 14:17:29
What's the problem with attitude, Fizz? They simply couldn't run more, with more intensity.
23 Aug 2026 15:27:53
Nothing is wrong, it is all part of the plan. We will be better in a few years. We just need a few more weeks to be up to speed. What is everyone worried about? We did some good things in the game. The players tried their best. Stop being negative. Stop it. Just stop it, okay?
Terrible start to the season, we need to get better quickly. We can and should expect better from the club.
I agree we are a few seasons away from the reset we so desperately need.
Odd then that Barada is claiming we are trying to win the league for our 150 year anniversary, when our eyes tell us we are still laying foundational bricks for the future.
We need to move some players out. We have too many average squad players happy to hang around. We need another leftback and a recognized striker. We are regularly playing Cunha and Mbuemo at 9, which is not working.
23 Aug 2026 16:57:10
I do think we'll improve massively after this blip, starting next weekend.
I do have a bigger concern over the centre-forward situation: when I first began supporting United, the selection was Hughes and McClair, with Davenport in the wings.
Since then, I've seen them all from Cantona, Cole, Ollie, Yorke, RVN, Rooney, Tevez, Berbatov, Owen, Chico, RVP, Ibra, Lukaku, Rash, Martial, and I can honestly say if they could all be ranked then the current pair of Sesko and Zirkzee would be sat right at the very bottom.
You can say Zirkzee isn't a centre-forward and I'd agree, the fact no-one can hold their hand up and say what he is sums it up.
And I'm sure many will point at Sesko being a young, developmental player bought in to coach and mould into one of the greats.
Please. His name was being banded about for years across Europe before we bought him. I know he's been out and not at match fitness (is anyone apart from the Brentford squad, who've been on some kind of miracle grow all summer?). But seriously, we're not winning anything with this selection of attacking players. We need a bread and butter scrapper of a centre-forward that the opposing defenders are petrified of. Of course they're not going to stump up for one of those, but if they can pull out a crazy loan for the likes of Osimhen/Endrick I'd love it. Even Nicolas Jackson, the player with the lowest shot to goal ratio I've ever seen, would be an upgrade.