13 Aug 2022 13:27:19
Long time follower. First time poster. Hope you guys are all keepin well. Thought I'd try get involved in the action as a lot of you talk good football sense.
I'm hopin for a change around today, the world and his wife knows that the combination of Mcfred is a joke. Fred, although technically below average has a good engine and good work rate and I'd stick him in the holdin midfield role to cover the frailty in defense, certainly maguire anyhow.
I'd be inclined to give both Eriksen and Bruno a role infront of Fred although Bruno has to be close to getting dropped frm the startin 11 on his form of the last 6 months or so.
Up top start with Ronnie, Sancho and Garnacho either side of him.

Last weeks performance wasn't upto scratch and I had high hopes. But it's only the first game of the season and ETH is still tryna find his feet with the players he's got, who let's face it, aren't upto scratch for where we need to be. Let's hope we can have some enjoyment from today's game and talk about football in a slightly different light. Recently United has been very doom n gloom and rightly so. I'm jus hopin to see the players put a shift in and have a bit of hunger and fight as a team. Surely things can grow from there.

Enjoy chaps, V.

1.) 13 Aug 2022
13 Aug 2022 14:50:43
Hi V and welcome to contributing via posting, I am a relative new poster too but I am sure the long-term posters will also welcome your thoughts.

I agree with you regards to the performance last week being far from satisfactory. However I disagree with putting Fred as a Holding Midfielder, we need someone who can read the game, tackle and take the ball off the defenders and link the forward line (i. e. pass), unfortunately I haven’t seen any of that consistently in Fred. The problem is who can do that in our current squad? Hence why previous managers have chosen to use McFred - two players to do one job (terribly! ) .

We are clearly going to have to be patient this season and treat it as a transition, with any positive (cup run or finishing top four) a bonus.

2.) 13 Aug 2022
13 Aug 2022 15:02:04
Maybe it is tiem to try Garner and give him a run in the team if we don't buy a DM.

3.) 13 Aug 2022
13 Aug 2022 15:35:11
Totally agree. But with Erikson and Bruno infront of him I'm sure Fred can put a shift in. The rest we just don't know do we and it's a gamble in itself.
Thanks for the warm welcome :-) up the Reds today!

4.) 13 Aug 2022
13 Aug 2022 16:10:51
Always encourage long time readers to post. The page is better with more opinions and comments, there are only so many Shappy essays a guy can read ?

I wonder if he will play eriksen holding mid playmaker. It looked much better last week when he dropped deeper when we were pushing. a lot of our issues last week stemmed from being awful with the ball in CM.

Interested to see how we play today. In some ways if EtH plays the same team but gets a reaction from the players I would be just as happy as if we change 4 or 5.

So over to you Erik, we expect much better than we were in the first half at home.