A team without functional midfield will find themselves blaming everyone from right back to left back to strikers.

This is what we Chelsea fans were going through in the Emenalo years while some Chelsea fans go dey blame every other position without focussing on the real Koko.

Now some confused people on the thread are blaming everyone from AWB to Maguire to Rashford and Martial. Una no know ball!

What makes you think Man City can play midfielders like Delph, wingers like Zinchenko at left back, talkless of midfielders like Fernandinho and Rodri at CB? Not to mention useless defenders like Stones and Otamendi?

Simple - once your midfield is functional, a lot of other positions will be covered. A good midfield covers a lot of sins.

What made OGS think AWB and Maguire are his priority, without touching the midfield. So he thought the likes of Fred and Perreira will keep him competitive? Never mind the fact he lost Herrera who was probably the only thing resembling a half-decent option in that midfield.

This is 80% of your problem. Any other talk is confusion. Long may your confusion continue!!

raumdeuter:


Facts alone. Let Martial play under a better coach and you will see

Not these NYSC coaches

How many coaches has he played under now?

I hope he won't become like Hazard where his fans always blame the coach.

Ibime:


How many coaches has he played under now?

I hope he won't become like Hazard where his fans always blame the coach.

He played well under LvG. His next 2 coaches were Mourinho and OGS

spillo1:

Selling Lukaku has nothing to do with Ole.
He asked to leave since he was no longer first choice .Do you want Ole to keep an unhappy player? He was even sulking all through last season. Nor could the club also refuse a 70million bid , when we Massively overpaid for him in the first place. The problem is lack of replacement

What made him unhappy in the first place? Ole was obviously going to bench him for Rashford. Ole was coming to interviews to sing praises of Rashford. All those comments Ole made a lot of fans think Ole would turn Rashford to a Ronaldo.

It's a necessary Break from this Forum, and it's worth it to be honest. All these Epistles won't change anything, as far as we are still parading fura-de-nunu Midfielders.

The Team lacks creativity in the Midfield. None of our Midfielders presently is capable of making decisive Passes - bar Pogba. None can hold and drive Ball forward to free the Attackers.

The worse of it is; as far as Young is still starting for United, we are going nowhere.

One more thing, I will take Tuanzebe over Lindelof at the moment.

KingTom:
The thing I highlighted was Ole's stupidity and I agree with any post that mentions that

We both agree on that

BARAJ92:
When Playing against supposed small teams will need at least two creative Midfielders which sadly we don't have and also an attacking full back, Dalot can be use against suppose small team while Bissaka should be use against the big team.

The work of the midfielder is to give the ball to the attackers. The problem is the attacking players who are not creative and skillful breakdown defence

Ibime:
A team without functional midfield will find themselves blaming everyone from right back to left back to strikers.

This is what we Chelsea fans were going through in the Emenalo years while some Chelsea fans go dey blame every other position without focussing on the real Koko.

Now some confused people on the thread are blaming everyone from AWB to Maguire to Rashford and Martial. Una no know ball!

What makes you think Man City can play midfielders like Delph, wingers like Zinchenko at left back, talkless of midfielders like Fernandinho and Rodri at CB? Not to mention useless defenders like Stones and Otamendi?

Simple - once your midfield is functional, a lot of other positions will be covered. A good midfield covers a lot of sins.

What made OGS think AWB and Maguire are his priority, without touching the midfield. So he thought the likes of Fred and Perreira will keep him competitive? Never mind the fact he lost Herrera who was probably the only thing resembling a half-decent option in that midfield.

This is 80% of your problem. Any other talk is confusion. Long may your confusion continue!!

A midfield of Pogba and McTominay is not creative?

spillo1:

This is so wrong. I just checked and last season

Martial 10 Premier league goals in 1623 mins. Lukaku with 12 Premier league goals in 2130 mins

So wrong yen yen yen and you conveniently left out Rashford who was the one his replacement at CF.

Rashford 2345 mins 10 goals
Lukaku 2130 mins 12 goals

Alaye jor jor jor

elampiro:


A midfield of Pogba and McTominay is not creative?

How many match has Pogba started? How many teams still make use of 2 midfielders?

I thought you said Pogba will slow down the pace of the game and he’s not hardworking enough?

larride:


So wrong yen yen yen and you conveniently left out Rashford who was the one his replacement at CF.

Rashford 2345 mins 10 goals
Lukaku 2130 mins 12 goals

Alaye jor jor jor

Martial is supposed to be the replacement and you know this. Who plays top 9 when both are on the field?

Oasis007:





One more thing, I will take Tuanzebe over Lindelof at the moment.

Apart from Lindelof's wife and Ole, I don't think there's any United fan against this

larride:


If last season was the reason we got rid of Lukaku, what exactly is Rashford n Martial still doing at this club since Lukaku outscored both of them even while playing less minutes?

larride:


So wrong yen yen yen and you conveniently left out Rashford who was the one his replacement at CF.

Rashford 2345 mins 10 goals
Lukaku 2130 mins 12 goals

Alaye jor jor jor

LMFAO .....This is one of the most stupid behavior on nairaland. Your post has been proven wrong instead of accepting you made a mistake on the Martial part and move on Una go still one claim right and form stubborn head. Can you show us were lukaku outscored martial playing less minutes last season?

elampiro:


A midfield of Pogba and McTominay is not creative?

Is not even functional. Pogba is not a midfielder, and McTom is a bum.

raumdeuter:


He played well under LvG. His next 2 coaches were Mourinho and OGS

He didn't play no well under LVG

Lukaku again?! You and I know Lukaku ain't gonna make any Difference if at all he's at the Club presently. Infact it would have gone worse with his calamitous first Touch.

How do you expect him to thrive when the other Team park the fuckin Bus?!

AWB is the best we've got now. What do you expect from him?! To cross into the Box with no one to nod or make an Attempt?!

How many Corners we've played so far in all Games?! How many were nodded, even off Target, by our Players?!

If AWB crosses into the Box, to whom exactly?! Let's be fair pls! The Lad is doing his best both offensively and defensively

I always wanted Perreira to play 10, I did believe he's gonna be a Bomb in the Position.... Hold and behold, I'm wrong 100%.

The Mofo should be sold or relegated to a squad Player.

Ole made big Mistake by relying on Mata, Lingard and Pereira as creative Players for the Team.

We need to buy at least 2 creative Players who are damn good Dribblers as well in January.

BTW.... Is there any possibility to get any?! Can't really think of a possible Name right now....

spillo1:

LMFAO .....This is one of the most stupid behavior on nairaland. Your post has been proven wrong instead of accepting you made a mistake on the Martial part and move on Una go still one claim right and form stubborn head. Can you show us were lukaku outscored martial playing less minutes last season?

If you are not stûpid you will see I wrote Rashford first, how you magically skipped Rashford that his name came first to Martial alone is the stupid behavior of the year.

And Yes Lukaku still outscore Martial.

Gtfoh

eph12:

Martial is supposed to be the replacement and you know this. Who plays top 9 when both are on the field?

Martial is “supposed” to be the replacement? Martial is still at the club so happened to the supposed replacement? Are we not suppose to be doing better since we have that replacement we wanted?

Wailing and Utter Confusion. More to come!

Omo this one enter o.

Good morning

When I was 15 I was on a date and we wandered around Chinatown in London and went into the most authentic place we found.

The menu was characters with very poor English translations underneath.

One of the dishes was “Egg with the meat bird” so OBVIOUSLY I had to order it.

It arrived and it was a big round earthenware dish with a gelatinous beige layer of vindictive evil flobbling around on top, like Satans lemon curd but the colour of a hearing aid and the consistency of misery.

I pushed my spoon through this travesty and broke through to the meat bird layer with a damp organic sound as the membrane was pierced, similar to when the eggs open up in Alien.

What followed was a smell unlike anything I’ve ever known to be associated with food. It was an oily pungent stench that leapt to the back of your throat and nostrils and coated itself over them.

It was both rancid meat and rotting eggs and thousands of years of repressed hatred of the white man all at once.

Wiping tears from my eyes I was aware in my peripheral vision of my date gagging and recoiling, and a spreading circle of horrified silence moving rapidly away from our table as the smell hit the other diners, followed closely by a second spreading circle of scraping chairs and a quietly desperate rush for the door.

Under the layer of what I now knew to be biohazard protective eggy depression was a layer of bird embryos that had been fermented in what I can only assume was the acidic urine of the offspring of a jar of sulphur and a carton of primary school milk left in the sunshine on the last day of the spring term and not discovered until September.

Tiny whole bird embryos, beaks half open, eyes glazed, drowned in the liquid Jabba the Hutt orgasms.

That was the worst stench I’ve ever experienced, until I watched United’s midfield display against Bournemouth.

Rashford against Chelsea

Rashford against smaller teams

larride:


If you are not stûpid you will see I wrote Rashford first, how you magically skipped Rashford that his name came first to Martial alone is the stupid behavior of the year.

And Yes Lukaku still outscore Martial.

Gtfoh [/s]

larride:


If last season was the reason we got rid of Lukaku, what exactly is Rashford n Martial still doing at this club since Lukaku outscored both of them even while playing less minutes?

LMFAO....Don't be a coward and show us how lukaku outscored Martial while playing less mins

League goals last season

Martial 10 Premier league goals in 1623 mins. Lukaku 12 Premier league goals in 2130 mins.

But According to larride who can't accept he goofed badly lukaku outscored martial while playing less mins when reality is he had over 500 more mins than martial and only had 2 more goals...LMFAO.

ChristoBam:


What made him unhappy in the first place? Ole was obviously going to bench him for Rashford. Ole was coming to interviews to sing praises of Rashford. All those comments Ole made a lot of fans think Ole would turn Rashford to a Ronaldo.

Can you really blame Ole for binning lukaku for Rashford? I just saw from a post that from 10th of August to December 16th when Mourinho was sacked last season lukaku only scored 6goals. That's 6 goals in almost 5months. He even also had about a period of 3months were he scored 0 goals from the middle of September to December 1st. Is it not reasonable for manager coming into a club and meeting lukaku in that kind of situation to bench him.

spillo1:

LMFAO....Don't be a coward and show us how lukaku outscored Martial while playing less mins

Dont be a dunce and show us anywhere Martial outscore Lukaku.

Rashford: 10 goals in 2345 mins
Lukaku: 12 goals in 2130 mins

Dolt.

spillo1:

Can you really blame Ole for binning lukaku for Rashford? I just saw from a post that from 10th of August to December 16th when Mourinho was sacked last season lukaku only scored 6goals. That's 6 goals in almost 5months. He even also had about a period of 3months were he scored 0 goals from the middle of September to December 1st. Is it not reasonable for manager coming into a club and meeting lukaku in that kind of situation to bench him.

How many did Rashford n Martial score in those period?

larride:


Martial is “supposed” to be the replacement? Martial is still at the club so happened to the supposed replacement? Are we not suppose to be doing better since we have that replacement we wanted?

So we have someone better than Lukaku at the club and we still dropping points all over the place, how will Lukaku do better?

larride:


Dont be a dunce and show us anywhere Martial outscore Lukaku.

Rashford: 10 goals in 2345 mins
Lukaku: 12 goals in 2130 mins

Dolt.

What exactly is your problem? Like really is comprehension that hard for you. You made a post about 2 players (Rashford and martial), I didn't have a problem about the Rashford part of it because it's true but I called you out for the Martial part and showed you how it was a blatant lie but instead of accepting your mistake and moving on you still dey form strong head. Just Get out from my Mention you are confused.