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2024-25 Performances

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5.5 Season Average Rating
Appearances
53
Goals
10
Assists
9
Yellow cards
4
Back to shooting from range today hopefully not a preview of more to come because was just a waste of time. Looked knackered so no idea why he played the full game in such a meaningless match.
 
He is really poor. Has only one way of crossing which is a cut back along the ground and it probably gets blocked 90% of the time. Always seems to get about five shots a game and he only gets that much because he has no other ability in semi dangerous positions.

It’s either a cut back or a shot. Doesn’t have the ability or intelligence to do anything wiser with the ball. If he was Harry Kane I wouldn’t mind him shooting so much but he can’t.
 
Hard working but very limited side score with their only shot on target whilst we look completely toothless going the other way.

Basically the story of our season. Bad in both boxes.
 
Quagmaguire said:
Played more overlapping balls with the wingback.

Shots were a bit better and not too drastically off target.

Not sure he has the ability to play through balls, but I really like his cut back crosses.
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Most of his shots were blocked and it seems he's lost the ability to make space for himself to get one off in tight spaces. His decision making remains poor. Very frustrating player
 
He's just rubbish unfortunately, this was a better performance in terms of stats than his usual, yet it was still really ineffective. He took 8 shots, got 1 on target, 0% crossing success rate, created nothing.

The sooner we can get him out of the staring lineup the better
 
Valencia Shin Crosses said:
Just isn’t very good. Wouldn’t look out of place at Ipswich or Leicester headed for relegation. Does a nice thing or two within a game but the overall performance is just constantly wasteful and inefficient/ ineffective n
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If he was playing like this at 25 he probably wouldn't be looking too out of place at one of our fellow PL strugglers but at 20 he'd be attracting a lot of attention. This is always the thing with him - for a player with the best part of a hundred league games he's not all that but for a twenty year old he is. Which one of those you choose to pay more attention to is gonna decide whether you fancy him to come good or not.
 
At this stage in his career he should be getting loads of sub appearances and the odd start to allow him to express himself and develop. He's a cracking prospect who works really hard but is obviously not ready to be the most important player in our attack every game.
 
He’s not cut out for this role at all. He’s an out and out winger been asked to play a role he’s clearly not comfortable with.
Selling him to support this system will be a bold move, given I think Amroim will be gone next season.
Garnacho needs to be playing a formation similar to ETH to get the best and most productive out of him.
Will shine next season at a different club unfortunately.
 
soapythecat said:
He’s not cut out for this role at all. He’s an out and out winger been asked to play a role he’s clearly not comfortable with.
Selling him to support this system will be a bold move, given I think Amroim will be gone next season.
Garnacho needs to be playing a formation similar to ETH to get the best and most productive out of him.
Will shine next season at a different club unfortunately.
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He is not cut out for the roll, yet he is constantly getting into dangerous positions. The role is not the issue, he simply needs to improve his decision making and composure
 
DOTA said:
If he was playing like this at 25 he probably wouldn't be looking too out of place at one of our fellow PL strugglers but at 20 he'd be attracting a lot of attention. This is always the thing with him - for a player with the best part of a hundred league games he's not all that but for a twenty year old he is. Which one of those you choose to pay more attention to is gonna decide whether you fancy him to come good or not.
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How is he all that for a 20 year old exactly?
 
soapythecat said:
He’s not cut out for this role at all. He’s an out and out winger been asked to play a role he’s clearly not comfortable with.
Selling him to support this system will be a bold move, given I think Amroim will be gone next season.
Garnacho needs to be playing a formation similar to ETH to get the best and most productive out of him.
Will shine next season at a different club unfortunately.
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He doesn't look like he has any of the technical aspects of a winger at all.
 
DOTA said:
That would be because very few 20 year olds are as good as him.
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I would argue he's in no way stand out, I think without rose tinted glasses we would be saying don't go near if he played elsewhere.
 
Amorim needs to make a fuss and get him protected. He has been systematically targeted in a few games now and the oppo are using multiple players to take chunks out of him up to getting booked and rotating the fouler. Bilbao will be at it as well. Amorim cannot be passive about it.
 
Hammondo said:
I would argue he's in no way stand out, I think without rose tinted glasses we would be saying don't go near if he played elsewhere.
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I'm staring at his fbref card and his progressive carries and touches in the opposition box stats are really high for anyone in his position, regardless of age. That adds to my belief, that stems from having the misfortune of watching him 52 times this season, that he does excel at getting the ball in threatening areas, both through his movement and through his ball carrying. That is a way in which he stands out and quite an important one I think, though sadly not as important as being good at either scoring or setting someone else up, I am quite willing to concede.

He's a deeply flawed player at present and I wouldn't cry if we accepted a decent transfer fee for him this summer (which I suspect is possible, because of the him being very good for his age thing) but there is some impressive stuff in there despite how frustrating watching him start every game is.
 
MonkeysMagic said:
If he knew where the goal was, he'd be one hell of a player!
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That one in the 1st half with his left and no one around him and still manages to not get it on target. I’d love to know what he does for the shooting drills in training . He must stand in goals or something
 
I don't think he's very good but the club deserve the full blame.

In the summer they looked at Garnacho, Hojlund, Rashford, Antony and Amad who they clearly didn't rate accurately. They decided that adding a player who scored a handful of goals in Serie A (decent player though he is) and thought we would have enough goals.

I didn't think it would be this bad but I looked at the squad in the summer and knew the season was a write off cause we just didn't have enough goals.

Viewing Garnacho as some sort of talismanic wide attacker was blind hope at best and more likely just incompetence. He is now recieving the brunt of the frustration for that when he should have been a squad player at best.
 
Cassidy said:
Personally feel it would be good for him to be backup to Cunha next season
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I think it would be, but with PSR and the fact he just isn't suited to the 10 role because he can hardly make a 5 yard pass - he's ripe for selling.
 
Highfather_24 said:
If he leaves we need a replacement for him. Cunha doesnt count.
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Remember the geese said:
Why doesn't Cunha count? I imagine we'll sign Cunha and a young prospect.
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I think the reason is we should see Cunha as a replacement for Rashford, Antony and Sancho i.e. we need to sign Cunha even if Garnacho is staying.

If Garnacho leaves, we need Cunha + another.

I'd be content if our options at 10 next season are Cunha, Amad, Garnacho, Bruno and Mount. Keeping in mind Bruno can play some games at CM and Mount may get the odd runout in CM too.

If you gave me the option to sign two 10s or two strikers, I'd sign two strikers and get rid of Zirkzee and Hojlund.

I wouldn't be devastated if we sold Garnacho, but I do have a feeling at some point he'll probably end up a productive attacking player given the dangerous positions he gets in to and the chances he gets on the end of. It wouldn't surprise me if one season he just starts putting it all together and his finishing gets better and starts putting up impressive numbers.

Having a season where he's rotated rather than automatic first 11 every game is probably what we need.
 
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For all the talk about him not suiting the current formation, whilst partly true, a change of formation won't solve his finishing. He's getting into dangerous positions and getting on the end of chances, a change of formation won't help him finish those chances. Experience and development might though.

If he could actually finish he could be on an impressive number of goals and the talk about the formation ruining him wouldn't be so prominent.
 
His finishing is hopeless. It's almost like he's just glad to be getting at the end of the chance.
 
I always kind of liked Garnacho but he doesn’t particularly excel at anything. He isn’t very fast so he can’t outpace most fullbacks, he has some very questionable decision making and he isn’t a very good goal scorer which sucks because he is always getting in good positions but his finishing is terrible.
 
Garnacho is not suited for this role. He is a winger. He played well last year especially when he was shifted to right wing. This style of play is not for him and although he has shown some adaptation to the system, he is still far off what we need on that position. Probably selling him is the best option especially that Napoli seem to want him and return we are interested in their striker. Let’s have a deal
 
Red00012 said:
That one in the 1st half with his left and no one around him and still manages to not get it on target. I’d love to know what he does for the shooting drills in training . He must stand in goals or something
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None of the Bournemouth defenders closed him down either. Surely not, but the thought crossed my mind, were they told "if Garnacho cuts in on his left, give him enough room so he'll be tempted into another one of his powder puff shots that will either dribble wide or straight into the keeper!'
 
KD6-3.7 said:
I always kind of liked Garnacho but he doesn’t particularly excel at anything. He isn’t very fast so he can’t outpace most fullbacks, he has some very questionable decision making and he isn’t a very good goal scorer which sucks because he is always getting in good positions but his finishing is terrible.
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He is one of the fastest players in the league.

https://www.premierleague.com/news/4107032
 
The thing is that you want attackers that are getting chances. He's obviously hugely frustrating, but he's also incredibly raw still. There are any number of paths to a footballer, but I can absolutely see one where he takes another leap up the progression ladder, and suddenly is an absolute monster in terms of sheer productivity.

He's undeniably one of the best players in his age group in the world already. His numbers are still good, even this season. And honestly, he could easily have 10 more goals with some composure. That's not something that's easy to find out there.

The ONLY reason I'd consider selling him is if it's the absolute only way to keep our club solvent. Fine, that's ridiculous if it's true but needs must. But in terms of the footballer and the potential - I don't think we'll be able to 'replace' him with someone in his profile that is any better.
 
He should watch some Harvey Barnes highlights. Barnes isn't an exceptional dribbler, but he mixes his play up with really good one-twos so it's easier for him to pull off a dribble because it's not so obvious what he's going to do.
 
The fact is we even sold Ronaldo for the "right" price".

Juventus sold us Pogba for the "right price" too.

Barcelona sold Neymar for the "right price".

The right price is a transfer fee in correlation with or over a players value.

If Napoli came with a 50-65 million offer then most likely it would be regarded as something that matches Garnacho's value to us.

Whether he fits the system or not doesnt matter, you can't sell a Porsche for the price of a Suzuki just because it doesn't fit in your garage.

If the right offer comes he can go, but otherwise he stays.

Its not that complicated but the way some people talk about him is like he is a worthless 20 year old who we should sell as soon as possible to the first bidder.

He is a valuable asset and if another club meets his valuation to the point its hard for both the club and player to say no then he can go.

The level of hate and analysis the kid get with "supporters" trying to almost force him out of the club is evil and people feel like this can't be felt because they are just typing behind a computer.

My biggest regret of falling in love with Manchester United is there's a real lack of family and support. I can even sense it in players commentary like Scholes, Keane & Neville - people I like less and less as I hear more and more.
 
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