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It's so strange to me that so many think the Amad we're seeing now is the player we signed. As if the years inbetween have done nothing to develop him.
Would people consider him playing as a 9?
If Rashford and Garnacho get their act together and play on their respective wings would Amad be a good 9 instead of Rashford?
I think he has more ability than Hojlund, albeit I hope Hojlund comes good. Basically Amad, for such a tiny guy, protects the ball better than Rasmus, defenders can't get it off him, has pace and can dribble past players and certainly has an eye for goal. Even his headed attempt, for such a small guy, was better than what I have seen from Rasmus or Rashford as 9.
Most importantly he makes runs and gets into positions which I don't see from Rasmus and Rashy.
I appreciate long term he should be a 10 and I have hopes Rasmus will come good but right now we need a goal scorer and this guy certainly has that. Thoughts?
If Rashford and Garnacho get their act together and play on their respective wings would Amad be a good 9 instead of Rashford?
I think he has more ability than Hojlund, albeit I hope Hojlund comes good. Basically Amad, for such a tiny guy, protects the ball better than Rasmus, defenders can't get it off him, has pace and can dribble past players and certainly has an eye for goal. Even his headed attempt, for such a small guy, was better than what I have seen from Rasmus or Rashford as 9.
Most importantly he makes runs and gets into positions which I don't see from Rasmus and Rashy.
I appreciate long term he should be a 10 and I have hopes Rasmus will come good but right now we need a goal scorer and this guy certainly has that. Thoughts?
No we need him cutting in from the wing - I feel a lot of that playmaking would be lost if he were shunted up top
My take on the Ranger's loan: GvB had expected the finished product or messiah when he got Amad. Even gave him the #9 shirt at Rangers. For a 17/18y.o loanee?
Didnt help that he scored in his first game up there. Naturally, the expectations shot up. Then the injury and was then thrown in the Old Firm upon returning. Was bullied off the park physically. I think that intimidated the poor lad and blew his confidence. GvB never really gave him a consistent run in or eased him back in again.
The loan to Sunderland was instrumental to his development. Mowbray knew he had a little gem in hands the first minute. Was very encouraging at every turn, despite average initial performances. I suspect the confidence was lacking, and the constant grind of the Championship was probably shocking to him.
Another factor for his lacklustre performance at the Sunderland start was that his teammates were not on the same wavelength as Amad. He eventually found his combinations with a couple of other players and started improving. Mowbray also started forcing him to shoot more too. (Reminded me of Ole yelling, 'Shoot, just feckin' shoot' moment.
You are seeing some of that sense of familiarity here at United now. He combines well with Bruno now. The other players are starting to understand his movement too.
So long may it continue.
I love this guy. For the pen, I was screaming at him to shoot when he rounded Ederson but he had the IQ to realise the chances are it would have been blocked, so turned back inside and won the pen. The first 9/10 rating I've given all season.
No mate, he'd be wasted as a 9.
He’s the player we all thought Sancho would be.
That’s such a weird take. He’s the player he is now because of the development opportunities he’s had until now (including those loans)
I do understand why most would say no. If nothing else I would want a 9 who was more than five foot and a fag end. And ultimately I think his position should be a 10 on the right.
I just love the little fella and his energy. His pressing alone has made so many goals recently. Pressing from the front which I don't see from Rasmus and Rashy to the same level. Every game they play I see Bruno waving and shouting at the to get to the goalkeeper or the defenders when opposition is playing from the back.
I already mentioned the hold up play, or lack of, that doesn't allow us to come up the pitch in numbers.
As long as his overall game doesn't suffer long term I just wonder if we would have more goals in us, something we struggle with, with someone as dynamic as him?
But yeah I get the no sentiment. I just want his energy and terrier like attitude in our forwards. Shame we can't clone the lad
An old article but nevertheless interesting:
The amazing Amad Diallo story: Smuggled into Italy by traffickers, a child 'phenomenon' and a dream move to Man Utd
Enzo Guerri, president at Diallo's first club Boca Barco, reveals incredible impact teenager made and how he had clubs battling to sign himIt’s not that weird. OGS basically didn’t bother with him the entire time he was here despite some encouraging early signs. Then we sent him to Rangers (horrid choice to develop a high technical teenager, and the manager didn’t really give a feck about him). So that sort of ended up being a waste of a year and a half before he went to Sunderland in 22/23 (which was ideal and absolutely aided his development). He comes back, gets hurt in the summer, then is fully fit by December but has a manager that largely hates him and refused to play him any sort of consistent minutes.
I don’t think it’s off base to say the club sort of fecked up his development some, considering his obvious talent early on (that we paid a big fee for) and especially last season and early on this season pre ETH sacking. I personally thought it was obvious he was the best RW at the club when he was still at Sunderland after watching about a half season of him there and comparing it to the atrocity that was Antony
Been our best player this season.
Feels good to see his form after asking for him to be played more for so long now.
Sancho is tailor made for the left side 10
role incidentally, although that ship has obviously sailed. But I am confident that under a good coach in a performing side, he would very easily be our best option in that position if he were still here.
Mowbray was such a instrumental figure for Amad's development.
yeah I can’t help think sancho would do a job in that role under Amorim. Instead we’re stuck with rashford instead.
The only one player that I would not sell for 100m.
His energy level is just off the chart. He still has fights in him and making those runs near 90 min. mark.
His energy level is just off the chart. He still has fights in him and making those runs near 90 min. mark.
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Been saying for a while now that he's an Olise level talent or better on the right. We just mismanaged his development (outside of that wonderful Sunderland loan which is our best loan move in the last decade) and he has had some shit injury luck. In another timeline he'd have been accepted as the 3rd best RW in the league as early as last season.
Thankfully he's finally showing why so many believed in him. He's already unbelievably productive. I will be shamelessly putting him in Saka debates next season if he continues progressing.
Thankfully he's finally showing why so many believed in him. He's already unbelievably productive. I will be shamelessly putting him in Saka debates next season if he continues progressing.
Technically I agree, Sancho's limitations with driving past his man would be less apparent in an inside role and his linkup around the box is class. Don't know if his physical limitations/workrate and cowardliness in challenges would've worked for Amorim. But to be fair, Sancho has been working harder in the recent Chelsea matches I've seen, the git. Either way he's far more suited to the role than Garnacho and Rashford and maybe we'll be wondering what could have been. Just never warmed to his personality and don't appreciate the way he acted towards the club.
Would Ten Hag still be here if he played him?
No. ETH issues were bigger than the mismanagement of one player.
Without him there is no attack. Everything flows to him or through him. Maybe that Bruno chance was the only time Amad wasn't involved. We need better balance in our attack so that Amad finds more space. He was 2v1 for so many parts of the game
We will waste his assets such as his passing and dribbling and also his creativity if we play him as a 9.
One thing thats been made clear to me is that people on this forum don’t know talent even if it’s infront of them they can’t spot it. Is it because they haven’t played the game themselves to a certain degree, is it because goals cloud their judgement on a players real contribution and atributes or is it that they just can’t stand a player being better than their favorite player ?
Not to mention, he doesn’t look at his best playing off the defender’s shoulder. Much better when he gets the ball deeper and can progress with it.
The clearly obvious very talented player FINALLY getting his deserved chances.
ETH is a bald clown. Send him to jail.
ETH is a bald clown. Send him to jail.
And the ability to move with the ball in tight spaces
I don't wanna see him as a RWB. His true potential is at a 10
I for one am glad Eth didn’t play him because Amad would probably have saved his job singlehandedly.
I'm very happy to see Amad coming along nicely because his talent was always obvious to me and it required some patience from the club and coaching staff to develop his game.
There was quite a few of us who wanted the club to prioritise the development of Amad rather than sign Sancho. But it seems Solskjaer and the coaching staff prioritised Sancho and John Murtough and the scouts prioritised Amad who was their signing. Murtough ends up signing Amad but Solskjaer isn't on the same page and this is how we end up wasting money as a club. Rangnick then comes in and prioritises Elanga over Amad and that again was a mistake imo.
So we can blame Erik ten Hag but the development of Amad was stalled way before he arrived at the club and if it wasn't for John Murtough who reportedly kept telling the coaching staff about how Amad could develop into a first team player then I think he would've been moved on by now.
Fantastic picture! The joy on the players faces are crazy
No, but he’d still be here if he spent the Antony/Mount money on Caicedo and Kudus or something. And then had Amad as the RW
Lovely chant
That’s also a weird take - none of us have the slightest clue where he’d be now if his development opportunities had been different.
If he’d have been given more opportunities at Utd earlier on, he may well be ahead of where he is now. Or not. We’ll never know, but his talent suggests giving him more opportunities at an earlier stage would have been a perfectly reasonable thing to do.
Consistent end product now as that was my only criticism of him from earlier in this season and didn't felt it was undeserved if he was dropped. In this form though when he's basically scoring/assisting every game, he's our best attacker by a country mile as he's technically way ahead of both Rashford and Garnacho and has much better workrate than them both.
I just hope this isn't a case of a player playing out of skin for a new contract or a purple patch and that he can show this is his normal level going forward.
I just hope this isn't a case of a player playing out of skin for a new contract or a purple patch and that he can show this is his normal level going forward.
It's the faces of the veterans that makes it, they love the kid. Beautiful.
He is what a Manchester United player should be. Didn’t throw tantrums when he was unfairly benched. Kept pushing, went on loans to find his way into the XI. And the very least, quality.
The club rightly get criticised for their transfer spending but spending big money on a teenager seems to have worked this time. Such a good player who plays with his head up
