[Oscar Bonavena]

It's amazing how some fans expect Amad to be almost perfect in every game to justify getting a start, yet they'll tolerate Rashford and Garnacho stinking out the gaff on a regular basis before one of them is ever taken out of the team!

On a technical level, his close control is far better than those two. He's a better decision maker than those two also. Most of the time he will try to play the right pass. Although I have noticed in his last few games that he has tried a few uncharacteristic long range shots from low % positions. I've put that down to frustration at seeing Marcus, Garnacho (and Antony when he was playing) doing the same on a weekly basis and being rewarded with regular game time, so maybe he thinks that's the way to get ahead at this club. I hope it doesn't start to become a bad habit.

(Yes, I'm aware his 2nd goal came from a cut-inside and shot, but there were no other viable options so sometimes it is the correct decision!)

His workrate and tenacity is not even on the same planet as Marcus. Physically, Marcus is a unit but has anyone ever seen him fight for a ball and shrug off a defender twice his size, like Amad did last night? Wouldn't happen.

Garnacho to be fair has a good workrate, but I don't think he has the innate physical strength of Amad. Garnacho gets easily bullied out of games by physical defenders, I don't think that happens to Amad even though he's not a big guy.

He's probably not as fast as the other two, so he might not make the same eye-catching runs with the ball which a lot of United fans like to romanticise about. But most of those "eye-catching" runs they make lead to them running into a wall of defenders and losing possession, so I've had a bollocks-full of watching that the last 18 months!

Hoping this guy becomes an important player in Amorim’s system, gets some world class coaching, and gets a run of games in the team where he's allowed develop and not expected to shoot the lights out in every match in order to keep his place.

 

[The No.10!]

What a fantastic player, I absolutely love to see him play. He needs to start a lot more, a lot more.

 

[Jippy]

Yeah mate no one here is saying he’s fecking Ronaldo or Giggs you weirdo, he’s just the best option on the right wing and has been for a year, and he’s hardly gotten any fecking league games to show (we gave Antony a full year of them as reference who’s half as talented)

If we bought fecking Mo Salah or Yamal tomorrow I wouldn’t be saying Amad would start now would I?

There's no need for such an aggressive response just because someone disagrees with you. Quit the insults as well, it's completely unnecessary.

 

[AndySmith1990]

He looks good, but of course it wouldn't take much to look decent relative to the other wingers in the team.

Him and Gernacho are the only attackers we have who I have any hope for, and the only ones I'd keep

 

[Dannn411]

Should be playing far more than he has. No justifiable reason to consistently leave him on the bench. Hopefully this is the beginning of that.

 

[tenpoless]

He has always been good. I think at some point he might have walked into Ten Hag shaving his head so he stopped playing Amad.

 

[Gordon S]

It's amazing how some fans expect Amad to be almost perfect in every game to justify getting a start, yet they'll tolerate Rashford and Garnacho stinking out the gaff on a regular basis before one of them is ever taken out of the team!

On a technical level, his close control is far better than those two. He's a better decision maker than those two also. Most of the time he will try to play the right pass. Although I have noticed in his last few games that he has tried a few uncharacteristic long range shots from low % positions. I've put that down to frustration at seeing Marcus, Garnacho (and Antony when he was playing) doing the same on a weekly basis and being rewarded with regular game time, so maybe he thinks that's the way to get ahead at this club. I hope it doesn't start to become a bad habit.

(Yes, I'm aware his 2nd goal came from a cut-inside and shot, but there were no other viable options so sometimes it is the correct decision!)

His workrate and tenacity is not even on the same planet as Marcus. Physically, Marcus is a unit but has anyone ever seen him fight for a ball and shrug off a defender twice his size, like Amad did last night? Wouldn't happen.

Garnacho to be fair has a good workrate, but I don't think he has the innate physical strength of Amad. Garnacho gets easily bullied out of games by physical defenders, I don't think that happens to Amad even though he's not a big guy.

He's probably not as fast as the other two, so he might not make the same eye-catching runs with the ball which a lot of United fans like to romanticise about. But most of those "eye-catching" runs they make lead to them running into a wall of defenders and losing possession, so I've had a bollocks-full of watching that the last 18 months!

Hoping this guy becomes an important player in Amorim’s system, gets some world class coaching, and gets a run of games in the team where he's allowed develop and not expected to shoot the lights out in every match in order to keep his place.

I agree, his quality is painfully obvious, if anyone deserves the benefit of doubt it`s him.
I don`t agree that he shouldn`t cut inside and shoot from outside the box. He actually has the ability to shoot on target with some venom. And he doesn`t need much time to release it either. I don`t remember many attempts from him going way too high and or wide. He gives the ball a chance almost every time.

 

[Squeaky_Bum_Time]

I am not sold on him but fair play he was good today and deserves to stay in the team over the weekend. He looks after the ball a lot better than Nacho, that’s for sure.

 

[Bondi77]

Second goal should have killed off the talk that he cannot handle the physical side of the game.
We know now (some have known longer than others) that Amad is different class from Sancho and Antony so I hope it will be rotation with Alejandro on the right and we offload the dross.

 

[D. Grayson]

Amad played well last night, running all over the pitch, and taking the attacking initiative. I just hope he’s not injured and can maintain this performance.

 

[Oscar Bonavena]

Second goal should have killed off the talk that he cannot handle the physical side of the game.
We know now (some have known longer than others) that Amad is different class from Sancho and Antony so I hope it will be rotation with Alejandro on the right and we offload the dross.

No, he shouldn't be in rotation with Garnacho on the right. Garnacho is decent on the left (on his day) but he's not a fraction of the player on the right. Just goes almost completely out of the game there.

Amad should be the first choice on the right, with Garnacho and Rashford alternating on the left.

Although I'd be open to selling Rashford and Antony at any half decent price.

 

[Grande]

He has always been good. I think at some point he might have walked into Ten Hag shaving his head so he stopped playing Amad.

To me Amad is one of the most interesting potentials in the squad. I don’t think it helps him making up myths about him. He hasn’t always been this good. Last year he was even injured. And there is no evidence Ten Hag had it in for him. In fact also Darren Fletcher, who was tasked with bringing him into the first team, said he was in several ways not quite ready during last season, and he was in on the decision of bringing him in slowly for the better of his own development. Also Ruud, having seen him at his best form at the club ever, took five games to give him a start ahead of a sub-par Rashford and a sub-par Garnacho.

 

[Nep77]

It feels like what’s happening here is similar to how Mourinho handled Martial back in the day: Martial had to score in every game to earn consecutive starts, or Rashford would immediately take his place. The reverse, however, never held true.

If Rashford had a performance like Amad’s yesterday, he’d be virtually guaranteed a starting spot for the foreseeable future. That’s part of the frustration for some of us. How can a player go from being named Player of the Month to not even getting 20 minutes off the bench after just two quiet games?

 

[DevTheRed]

He’s a very good player, technically he’s probably one of the best in the squad. I think if he was a little bit physically better and had the same pace level as Marcus he’d honestly be a bit of a world beater. Deserves a little run in the squad and let Marcus and Garnacho fight over the LW spot to give them both a kick up the a*se.

 

[sdb4884]

Magnificent game, what a goal that second one. Should have been playing a lot more for us in recent times. ETH was useless though at almost everything.

 

[DWelbz19]

Ruud says he's exceptional in training and always asking to do more

RvN: "he's always saying Ruud let's do more! Ruud let's do more!"
Scholes: "you mean Boss let's do more!"
RvN: "it's only been 'boss' for a week. We've done a lot of work prior to that"

but I thought others were doing more than him in training? Was the clearest case of a manager (who isn’t very good) not rating a player for no real rational reason

 

[Woodywizz]

The difference in attitude between him and Rashford is night and day.

 

[MadDogg]

No, he shouldn't be in rotation with Garnacho on the right. Garnacho is decent on the left (on his day) but he's not a fraction of the player on the right. Just goes almost completely out of the game there.

Amad should be the first choice on the right, with Garnacho and Rashford alternating on the left.

Although I'd be open to selling Rashford and Antony at any half decent price.

Garnacho is a bit strange. Last season he was actually better on the right. In fact most people tend to forget that he was quite poor in the first half of last season until ETH moved him over to the right, and it was only then that his form really took off. The odd game that we moved him back to the left tended to be poor games again, bar a few exceptions.

However this season he's been better on the left and has struggled on the right. So right now there's really no way to say for sure which side he'll be better at long term.

 

[GlazersHater]

Second goal should have killed off the talk that he cannot handle the physical side of the game.
We know now (some have known longer than others) that Amad is different class from Sancho and Antony so I hope it will be rotation with Alejandro on the right and we offload the dross.

He's small but that's deceiving I'm not saying he's a strong player but he's definitely not a weak one.

 

[Grand Vizier]

I find him to be such a strange player. I absolutely love his technical qualities, first touch and close control, but he goes from being brilliant to very poor in the space of minutes. Loved his goals yesterday, though, the second in particular was brilliant.

Hope to see him given a proper chance under Amorim, but he needs to improve his decision making. Wish he had Garnacho's fearlessness. He is a better dribbler than Garnacho, but for some reason he slows the attack down and often passes backwards instead of having a go at the defender, and when he does, he tries to dribble 3-4 players in the box. Hopefully some more experience will improve on that.

 

[Pogue Mahone]

He's small but that's deceiving I'm not saying he's a strong player but he's definitely not a weak one.

Reminds me a bit of Salah in the way he punches above his weight, physically. He’s also way better in the air than he should be for someone his size. More likely to win a flick on than Rashford or Hojlund.

 

[Pogue Mahone]

but I thought others were doing more than him in training? Was the clearest case of a manager (who isn’t very good) not rating a player for no real rational reason

You’re talking about one match. And that was coming off the bench with 5 minutes to go. ETH consistently rated Diallo above Antony all season long. Let’s not create fairy tales here.

 

[Swiss_Red89]

Was really good yesterday expect for some sloppy moments.

Have to say I love to watch him play even though I'm still note sure if he has de physicality to cope with the PL. But he definitely deserves a start on sunday and afterwards I assume it could well be the case that Amorim will use him regularly.

 

[Bondi77]

No, he shouldn't be in rotation with Garnacho on the right. Garnacho is decent on the left (on his day) but he's not a fraction of the player on the right. Just goes almost completely out of the game there.

Amad should be the first choice on the right, with Garnacho and Rashford alternating on the left.

Although I'd be open to selling Rashford and Antony at any half decent price.

Alejandro did well on the right late last season when called upon and seems to be the more versatile out of all our wide players

 

[Bondi77]

He's small but that's deceiving I'm not saying he's a strong player but he's definitely not a weak one.

The Bernardo comparison is a valid one but it is early days.

 

[Lash]

For me, it's just absolutely imperative now he follows this performance up against Leicester. Great goals and a top performance, but all of our forwards seem to be capable of the odd very good performance. We need him to start being consistent as he has unique qualities.

 

[Dannn411]

It's amazing how some fans expect Amad to be almost perfect in every game to justify getting a start, yet they'll tolerate Rashford and Garnacho stinking out the gaff on a regular basis before one of them is ever taken out of the team!

On a technical level, his close control is far better than those two. He's a better decision maker than those two also. Most of the time he will try to play the right pass. Although I have noticed in his last few games that he has tried a few uncharacteristic long range shots from low % positions. I've put that down to frustration at seeing Marcus, Garnacho (and Antony when he was playing) doing the same on a weekly basis and being rewarded with regular game time, so maybe he thinks that's the way to get ahead at this club. I hope it doesn't start to become a bad habit.

(Yes, I'm aware his 2nd goal came from a cut-inside and shot, but there were no other viable options so sometimes it is the correct decision!)

His workrate and tenacity is not even on the same planet as Marcus. Physically, Marcus is a unit but has anyone ever seen him fight for a ball and shrug off a defender twice his size, like Amad did last night? Wouldn't happen.

Garnacho to be fair has a good workrate, but I don't think he has the innate physical strength of Amad. Garnacho gets easily bullied out of games by physical defenders, I don't think that happens to Amad even though he's not a big guy.

He's probably not as fast as the other two, so he might not make the same eye-catching runs with the ball which a lot of United fans like to romanticise about. But most of those "eye-catching" runs they make lead to them running into a wall of defenders and losing possession, so I've had a bollocks-full of watching that the last 18 months!

Hoping this guy becomes an important player in Amorim’s system, gets some world class coaching, and gets a run of games in the team where he's allowed develop and not expected to shoot the lights out in every match in order to keep his place.

Spot on. He's on the shortest leash on this platform while the rest of the team stink up the joint on a match-in, match-out basis and keep getting infinite chances. Baffling to say the least.

 

[noodlehair]

I don't think he's amazing but I'm lost on what either Garnacho or Rashford are doing to justify him not starting games.

Garnacho's main contribution is costing us games with awful finishing/decision making, and Rashford's contribution is that he might nearly break into a sprint at some point.

At least Diallo is effective

 

[tomaldinho1]

He has always been good. I think at some point he might have walked into Ten Hag shaving his head so he stopped playing Amad.

As in ETH’s secret was he wasn’t bald?

 

[romufc]

I don't think he's amazing but I'm lost on what either Garnacho or Rashford are doing to justify him not starting games.

Garnacho's main contribution is costing us games with awful finishing/decision making, and Rashford's contribution is that he might nearly break into a sprint at some point.

At least Diallo is effective

We dont need players to be amazing, just do the basics.

What I do like about him is when we play out or we play football, he can receive the ball and keep it, rather than treating it like a hot potato which is what the others do.

Apart from Amad, none of our forward like can receive the ball under pressure the way he does and he is the smallest of them all.

It helps the team build from the back so much because the RB can play it down the line and have confidence that the ball will stick rather than start a counter.

 

[DWelbz19]

You’re talking about one match. And that was coming off the bench with 5 minutes to go. ETH consistently rated Diallo above Antony all season long. Let’s not create fairy tales here.

There are no fairy tales being created. Amad just wasn’t a player ten Hag truly fancied. You can tell me he played 386 minutes out of 898 that ten Hag managed this season, or whatever, I don’t really care.

In a bit of a perverse way, I wouldn’t even blame ten Hag that much (well I do, but at the same time I don’t) — every manager ever is the same. There’s always player(s) they just don’t really rate and won’t use as frequently, or when they do have shorter fuses in performance allowance before they’re back out of the team.

Grand scheme though it doesn’t really matter — that guy has gone and I think the new manager will hopefully have eyes and utilise one of our best attackers better.

 

[Pogue Mahone]

Apparently his contract expires next June. Doesn’t that mean he can sign a pre-contract agreement to leave on a free from the end of this year onwards? Surely not?!?

 

[DWelbz19]

Apparently his contract expires next June. Doesn’t that mean he can sign a pre-contract agreement to leave on a free from the end of this year onwards? Surely not?!?

I think we have an option of a +1.

 

[Santos J]

Apparently his contract expires next June. Doesn’t that mean he can sign a pre-contract agreement to leave on a free from the end of this year onwards? Surely not?!?

We have an option for an extra year but he's expected to sign a new deal anyway, this is from half hour ago

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cvg7nvvvgn0o.amp

 

[JJ12]

Ten Hag played Omari Forson over him… not sure it’s debatable at all that he didn’t rate Amad (not surprising considering ETH had some of the worst talent ID I’ve ever seen from a manager)

Omari Forson hasn't been a United player all season, not all that relative to why Amad was given a chance and then dropped this season...

All that aside - let's hope he can kick on from this because we are absolutely desperate for 1 of the 3 to start performing consistently.

 

[JJ12]

Ten Hag never played him despite having players that are arguably worse ahead of him.

Ten Hag started him 7/8 first games of the season. It's becoming a bit of a myth that he didn't play him.

He benched him possibly unfairly after the Porto game.

 

[Pogue Mahone]

We have an option for an extra year but he's expected to sign a new deal anyway, this is from half hour ago

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cvg7nvvvgn0o.amp

Sweet. I love his attitude. Every time he talks he only ever says exactly what you’d want to hear.

 

[Red00012]

Apparently his contract expires next June. Doesn’t that mean he can sign a pre-contract agreement to leave on a free from the end of this year onwards? Surely not?!?

There is no way he’s available on a free next season

 

[Red00012]

Delighted for him last night I hope his injury isn’t serious

 

[Rolaholic]