271: Amorim's BIGGEST Weakness! Time To Speak UP!

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0:33I'm Mark Goldbridge and this is your latest Manchester United news. As we use the comments section as a notice board as to what your issues are with Manchester United. Because I, for one, am tired of just being labelled negative for not jumping through cartwheels or doing cartwheels about how great things are for Manchester United. And we've got the data analysts, you know, we've got Data Dean. I mean, statistically, we're second in the league for XG and therefore we're doing a lot better than last season and we might win the Champions League. We won't win the Champions League because we're not in it.

1:05And the eye test surely is the number one test in relation to the mood that you have around Manchester United. And we've got to stop telling people they're just negative without listening to what they're talking about. So that's what I want to do, because I have a huge list in front of me of all the issues I have with Man United at the moment under Ruben Amrim. And that doesn't mean they're insurmountable. That doesn't mean I don't want him to be successful. But in the words, letters of P, V, R, performance, vision, results, he has to achieve those three things for me to be optimistic about the future.

1:40I want him to have the season. But in that time, I don't want us to just get to the end of the season with the vision he's showing at the moment. I want an evolution of that vision. So look, the first problems I have are that the positives are short-lived. You know, Bruno Fernandes in the midfield, we'll talk about that in a moment, but even if you like Bruno Fernandes in the midfield, this is a guy that's not a midfielder. This is a guy that doesn't have the discipline to play as a midfielder. This is a guy that doesn't track runners. This is a guy that when you play him in the midfield, he is going to cost you goals.

2:15Now, people will say, well, you balance that off with the fact that he gets your goals, but he'd still get, in fact, he'd get you more goals if you played him as a 10. Where I have an issue is, is that yes, Bruno Fernandes in the midfield does get his goals and assists, but he also costs his goals. So if we played him as a number 10, he'd get more goals and assists and he wouldn't cost his goals in the midfield. So to me, that logic is just very, very easy. Also, he's going to be 32 next year. So this is not long term either. What is the evolution there? Because all I ever hear is Man United want to buy a midfielder.

2:53Man United want to buy two midfielders. Well, let's bring Casemiro into it. Casemiro is even older. I think he's 34 very soon. His legs have been gone for two years. He's more short term than Bruno. So Bruno and Casemiro in that midfield playing every week, what are we supposed to do with that? What's the vision with that? And people say, well, they're just a short term until we bring two players in. What two players? Are we bringing two players in? Are we bringing one in? Is it next season Bruno and the new signing? In which case, that's a problem. So this is what I'm talking about. It's not negative to ask questions.

3:27Some people get in a queue. You wouldn't believe this. Some people will see a queue and get in it and you'll say, what's the queue for? Don't know. And I think that's what some United fans do. They get in the queue, but they don't know where it's going. Whereas some of us go, where is this going? What am I queuing up for? And that to me is obviously the biggest area, but what are we doing with the midfield? It clearly isn't going to be Maynou. It's clearly not going to be Agate. So they need replacing, but so do Bruno and Casemiro. So what's your vision there? How long is it going to take? How much longer am I going to have to look up?

3:57Are we going to have a bad midfield next season? That's the big question, because I think there is a chance that we would. I also think that when you look at the team and the way we're playing football, is that going to change? Like, are we going to change the way that we're playing football or are we going to play like this? That never gets answered. We know what he did at sporting and it was a lot easier on the eye, but has he ever at any point said, I don't really like the way we're playing football. I don't really like throwing long throw-ins. I don't really like hitting long balls. He hasn't said that.

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4:57So, you know, I know what Pep Guardiola is. I know what Mikel Arteta is. I know what Hansi Flick is. I know what a lot of managers are. I know what Sean Dyche is. But I don't actually know what Amrim is because he doesn't tell us. We know what he was at Sporting, but at what point has he said, we're not playing the way I want us to play. You know, I want it to be, I want to have 70 % possession. I want to create 20 chances. I want to get down the wings, put crosses in. I don't actually know. I think that's a fair point. I don't actually know what this manager's vision is at Man United and what we're working towards.

5:29Or is it this? You know, I also, as part of the vision, don't really know what the evolution of this team is because I look at this team and I go, well, Casemiro and Bruno, we've mentioned. Mason Mount and Luke Shaw. Very unfair to compare them because there is an age difference. But Luke Shaw is playing well at the moment. Let's pretend or let's agree. How sustainable is that? Is it because it's a World Cup year? We've already done the stats. Last season, he hardly played. If there's not a major tournament for England, he hardly plays. When there is a major tournament for England, he plays a lot more.

6:05So how long is this going to go on for? Or will he get injured again? What happens next season?

6:13Luke Shaw can stay. He's got a long contract. But like, I like a player in a team where I think they're going to be here for the next two or three years. It's short term. Mason Mount, arguably one of our best players this season. Statistically, over the last three years, when you take into account his last few months at Chelsea, ridiculously injury prone. Can we say with any confidence that this good player is part of our future? Or is he just a player that's going to go in and out and in and out? And I don't care whether you're prime Messi. If you can't play every week, you become a problem. So again, what's the vision with some of these players?

6:50You can say the same about Deleu. Deleu, left wing back. Don't think he's a particularly good right wing back, but he'd be better there than left because he isn't bloody left footed. Is he our left wing back now? What vision is that? You know, why did you buy Dorgou? Are we going to buy somebody else? Are we going to develop Dorgou? I don't know. So again, these are all questions and the list gets longer and longer. on the case of Dorgou. Dorgou, Lemens, Yoro, Sesko. All very exciting, I believe. But how many of those will actually be Man United first team players in three years? Even two years?

7:24When you statistically look at how we've developed players over the last 10 years and new signings, are all four of them going to make it? Are two of them going to make it? We need all four of them to make it. How are we going to make that happen when Dorgue already is on the bench for Deleu, where Jorre seems to be on the periphery a little bit? You know, do we buy a goalkeeper in Lemenses out of the team? Sesko, is he going to be in the team? The question there is enhanced by the point of how do we develop players and why do we buy so many young players? Why is it every morning show we're being linked to some 17, 18 year old who's going to be the next Caicedo or the next Jamal, but we've not developed a player in 10 years.

8:05How is that part of the strategy? I look at that Man United side at the moment and going back to what I was saying about Casemiro, Bruno, Harry Maguire, you know, these are players that are ridiculously short term. I then look at the Yoros, the Dorgus, the Sescos, the Lemens. They are prospects. Where's the in-between? Where's the filling for the sandwich that binds it all together? because in the short term, these older players are fine, but in the long term, they're useless. And in the short term, the young players need to be developed to be good for the long term, but who's going to develop them?

8:41I look at that United side and it's quite... I look at the squad and it's quite imbalanced in the sense that the older players are going to need replacing and probably need replacing now. The younger players are going to need developing. Who's going to develop them? And when you look at the squad...

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9:38How fit can he stay? Mason Mount. Again, he's got his own fitness issues. How reliable is he to nurture players? De Ligt stands tall as having a good season, been a captain before and the right age profile. So De Ligt could be part of the future in being a staple of the team, but also developing players. Masraoui could as well. Embermo could. Kunya could. Ahmad could. The problem is Kunya, Ahmad and Embermo are still going through their own development at Man United. Ahmad partially because he's still a little bit young. Embermo and Kunya because they're new signings. And I look around this team and I go, well, we're lacking performance and we're lacking vision.

10:22and I don't really know where the development is coming from across that team because it's massively imbalanced and yet the big thing that we keep talking about is buying younger players and yet we don't really have a volume of players to actually develop these prospects. I mean, take for example recruitment. If we did bring Balaba in, he's basically Sesko. He's basically Lament. He's basically a prospect that will need people to develop him and I look at the people are going to do that. And they're either too old or ridiculously inconsistent themselves. And that becomes a problem. So look, I think that we have a lot of conversations about, oh, it's good.

11:05Oh, it's bad. But that's just some of the things that I wanted to express that I think sort of jump out at me straight away is that when I'm talking about, I definitely want Amram to get the season. I definitely want us to get better. But it's not just for moaning's sake. Look, I could talk about the financials. I could talk about the financial reports. I could talk about the fact that we're still massively in debt and they're still talking about not signing players. We can talk about we've got to build a stadium. We can talk about how Liverpool and Arsenal spent ridiculous money in the summer and we'll probably do it again.

11:40How do we compete with that? But also, So I think that there are questions around the manager and some of it is because his hand is tied behind his back. But also, more importantly, it would be nice to be working towards a style of play, which I don't think we are. And if we are, I don't like it. I don't like long throw-ins. I don't like long balls. I don't like counterattacking football. That's not what Man United should be. Are we evolving into something else? It'd be nice to be told that because we haven't been told that. I want to see a vision I want to see a vision for the starting lineup it's not just about how we play it's about what are we building like yeah we want a midfielder do we want two midfielders are you going to buy one midfielder and keep Bruno at the football club are you keeping Casemiro what's happening with Maino Nogate do you technically need four players and you're going to get one in the midfield when I look at the attack why did we buy Sesco are we actually going to put crosses into the box or was he all you could get we don't know the answer to that when Sesco's played we've not really pumped crosses into the box.

12:41Are we going to do that? How are we going to utilize him? Is he going to be a bench player? Is he going to be a starter? In relation to the wingbacks, massive part of your system. Are you going to keep the low there? Is it going to be our middle season? And like big questions about why are we so focused on youth when we can't nurture? And why are you so obsessed with older or injury prone players who have no future in the long term? And... Moto Casino, America's social casino. Welcome to Moto Casino, where the excitement never ends. With thousands of the hottest free-to-play social casino games, fastest payouts, and the best promotions in the industry.

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13:53But if you can't give a vision and a performance, then results become survival. And survival is not what we need. We need vision. We do need a vision. We need to know what we're transitioning towards. because all we actually get is rumour and prediction, but we don't actually get statement and conviction. I want to know what we're evolving to. Like, who are our wide players going to be? How are we actually going to play? What are we going to do if we get a midfielder or two? What are we going to do with Bruno? What are we going to do with Casemiro? I mean, are they out? Are they in? And there's a lot of young players.

14:29Look, honestly, it's not about Bruno Fernandes, but he's not a nurturer of talent. Players look up to him. They admire him. You know, he's the best player at the club, but he's not a nurturer of talent. He hasn't got the personality for it. So who's going to nurture these players? And why are we not prioritising bringing players like that in? Why are we trying to follow a Chelsea model where we're nothing like Chelsea? Why are we looking at young players all the time instead of looking at... And why are we ignoring players over 27? I mean, for me, we could probably do with two or three players aged between 25 and 30 tomorrow who are leaders and experienced and can play every week because I think that would massively help the Yoros and the younger players.

15:11We don't have that though. And which is why we're probably clinging on for dear life to the likes of Maguire and Casemiro because their experience, albeit it's the end of their career, and look at how injury-prone Maguire has been the last 18 months as well, but we're desperate to keep these players simply because they're experienced. They might not be experienced at Man United in winning things, but they're experienced players. So let's keep them. So why are we not looking for players over the age of 27? Maguire's approaching his mid 30s. So is Casemiro. With those so desperate for leadership and experience, I'm sure there's a player who's 27, 28, 29 that we could look at and bring in.

15:47And that's where I think we're really short. I think we're really short. And that is why I talk about vision and performance, because I want to know what that vision is. I want to know what that performance is. People can tell me about XG and they can tell me about shots in the box. and all this but to the eye test i'm not seeing it i'm not seeing performance and i'm not seeing um look you can use wolves but we can't break down a low block we've not been able to do it for years way before amrim came in we're a counter-attacking team who do really well when we play against crap defenses that open up against us that's not going to happen every week so what have we got what more have we got to our game and if we're going to play also as well as part of the vision if we're going to play a back five is it ever going to be a back three because i see a back five a lot and that makes us have to counter attack a lot are we ever going to be a side that has 60 70 possession in the other opponent's half with two wide players that actually stay forward and allow us to you know probe be patient and you know overload or is it always going to be try and exploit the space and if we can't do it let them attack again in the back five.

16:59All these things are very relevant, in my opinion. So look, it's a bit of a free-for-all. It's a bit of a notice board. Get your comments in. Interact with each other. What are the things that are important to you at the moment that you want to get off your chest? What are the things that people frustrate you with by saying you're being negative, by not being happy, happy, joy, everything's great at Man United. For me, it is a multitude of things that just make me go, I don't really know what the plan is. I don't know what the style of play is meant to be. Are we working towards something? I don't really get your team selections because a lot of these players are injury prone or old.

17:41How many of them are you actually going to change or are you building for the future with them? In which case, I'm worried, you know? Get your comments in below. make sure you smash the like on the video and subscribe. I will speak to you on the next one. Take care.

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