Pizy

I could maybe understand it from our club’s perspective if Osimhen and Gyokeres were like 29 years old and they were concerned about them falling off after 3 years or something. But these guys are both just 25/26! They may not have even peaked yet and are each available for LESS than the £80m+ that Frankfurt are seeking for Ekitike! Buying Osimhen or Gyokeres would be like when we bought Kante/Fabregas/Caicedo/Diego Costa. Players you just knew with certainty before they even touched the pitch that they’d work out perfectly. Why would we instead go for a striker that is such a risk? It’s just nonsensical to me.

If he can pass a medical, maybe. Even then any prospective club will probably only want a loan to protect themselves with us covering his wages.

I don’t think anyone is taking Mudryk or Fofana after they’ve gone months without playing. We’re almost certainly stuck with both.

People here keep mentioning Murillo. But we've just watch Colwill finally start to display some serious growth and leadership as the season has gone on. Murillo is a left footed, left sided CB so wouldn’t make any sense with Levi there. What we need is a right footed/right sided CB.

Saw a stat somewhere showing Ekitike has very similar chance conversion to Jackson. And that’s in a weaker league. Apparently he misses a lot of chances and underperformed his xG for whatever that’s worth. Again, for me he’s not the striker to come in and be our main man. Not even close yet. He’s someone you have in addition to someone top tier. I see he is linked with Liverpool as well. Think he’s more suited to them where he wouldn’t have the bulk of the goal scoring burden on him.

Feels like a risk for sure. He looks like a striker who thrives in space and running onto through balls. Coming into our team where he’d be playing against parked buses and packed defenses could really hamper his effectiveness. Not to mention he’s pretty lightweight. The same can be said about Delap when it comes to playing style but at least Delap is a big guy who loves a physical tussle.

I feel like they’re pretty similar level. Neither are coming in and scoring 20 goals which is the level we need.

Cunha is a pretty strange signing for United imo unless they cash in on Fernandes. Those two operate best in the exact same role/area of the pitch in that #10 area behind a striker. He’s not a natural wide player and he’s not a forward. Playing those two together would have any top team licking their lips at how easily you’d be able to carve through them defensively.

Will say, in a summer where Osimhen and Gyokeres will both be on the move, us still being linked with Delap and Ekitike and ending up with one of them instead would be really underwhelming/disappointing. These are not the sort of striker that comes in and takes us to Liverpool’s level or scares any of the elite teams in Europe.

These days, sure. The United of past years would’ve gone out this summer and sounded huge money on some superstars and offered monster wages. Now they’re skint and have to shop at smaller clubs for players who would jump at the chance to move to a big club.

This business of him playing miles away from the box needs to hopefully never happen again from the start of next season. Seeing him dropping all the way into basically the Caicedo area of the pitch to pick up the ball is ridiculous.

Cunha + Delap is not scary at all for United if that’s what they end up with. Both good players but not ones to take them back to challenging for anything important.

Less competition for Osimhen and Gyokeres then.

Yeah, I like the look of him. Not saying I’d have him as our main forward signing but I wouldn’t be upset if we got him as an option in addition to an Osimhen/Gyokeres.

What do you guys think about Mbeumo from Brentford? Had an amazing season and is always an absolute pain in the ass for the big teams, oursleves included.

Ah, thought you meant the Barca Araujo. Yep. Sanchez has shown just enough for Maresca and the club to keep him as our #1 unfortunately. He wasn’t a complete disaster down the stretch so he’s staying for sure.

Isn’t Araujo injured all the time?

And exhale. Now we sit back and pray that Clownlake seize the opportunity to get this club back where it belongs.

We really going to shut this down and not even try to play football? Just inviting all the insane pressure on to us for 30 minutes?

Madueke is so incredibly frustrating. Can’t wait until he’s hopefully nothing more than an impact sub next season. Kills so many promising attacks with his terrible decision making.

Man, I hope this is just one really long blip for Palmer that he’ll snap out of and be right back to his best next season. Because how he has gone from the most dangerous player in the entire league from anywhere in the opponent half to completely on the periphery of most games is extremely strange. He’s not injured, he doesn’t look fatigued. He’s just woefully out of form I guess. And without his magic we look extremely poor in attack.

This is pathetic, man. We can’t even get the ball, never mind complete a few passes. WTF have we been working on all week?!

We’re being completely dominated just like the first half of the Newcastle match. Our players look completely soft and lost. Forest look dangerous with nearly every attack.

They look like they have a clear plan and idea in the final third whereas we’re just playing sloppy, hopeful passes.

Complete lack of urgency from us again. Just passing it slowly across the back and not causing them any trouble at all in their half.