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2024-25 Performances


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5.4 Season Average Rating
Appearances
26
Goals
5
Assists
11
Yellow cards
4
Red cards
2
Needs to be just as high up the list as most of the other “should be sold for the rebuild” guys.
 
Really hate to see his "frustrated" facial emotion and body language throughout the whole game.
He always overreact and complain even when it is just a little foul or throw in not in our favor, it makes ref get annoyed and be biased against us even more.

He gives his teammate nervy feeling too
 
We should do what Neil Warnock did with Adel Taraabt and fine every player who passes it to him in his own half. Let him do what he wants in the final third.
 
Same old story. While he does have his moments, more often than not, he flatters to deceive. When the team is desperate for a goal, his shots are off the mark, too often!
 
No.10 position was a luxury last few windows but should be a high priority in Jan.We need a player in the mould of KDB (prime) or odegaard to get where we wanna be.Who knows maybe the competition might put a battery in Bruno's back?
 
And play who?
In the short term it's not ideal but Garnacho is a better option on the left as he can actually go in behind/beat a player 1v1 without having to turn back into bodies constantly like Bruno because he lacks the pace/dribbling.

In the summer we should be moving Bruno on and replacing him with someone capable of playing the left 10 position properly as you can't count on Mount.
 
Really hate to see his "frustrated" facial emotion and body language throughout the whole game.
He always overreact and complain even when it is just a little foul or throw in not in our favor, it makes ref get annoyed and be biased against us even more.

He gives his teammate nervy feeling too
He started his moaning under 1min of play
 
Needs to be just as high up the list as most of the other “should be sold for the rebuild” guys.

Bizarre match to make that point. Although, of course, he gets crucified by the usual suspects after every game we lose

One of maybe 2 or 3 players in a red shirt who turned up today. Should have converted at least one of those chances but otherwise a really good performance.
 
Sigh...

I just don't want to see him start for few games, he is just not good AM or CM in a back 3 formation, his best position is the AM in a 4231 formation.
 
Really hate to see his "frustrated" facial emotion and body language throughout the whole game.
He always overreact and complain even when it is just a little foul or throw in not in our favor, it makes ref get annoyed and be biased against us even more.

He gives his teammate nervy feeling too
He's one of our worst captains ever. Can't beat the first man from a corner, shit at free kicks. Can't wait for the day this fraud is gone.
 
He’s been on the decline for the last 18mths, it’s been plain to see. He still gets into the first 11 on the fact we have a poor squad but I’d play him next to Ugarte I think.
 
His style of play is the big problem. There’s been a few goals this past year which have probably stemmed from his high risk passing game, which are worryingly becoming passes back to the opposition.
 
Piss poor and at this point the posters still defending his place in this team long term have no clue about football and deserve what they are watching.

I’m sure if you looked at raw stats, he possibly had a good game but in the context of his role and in the team performance he is such a liability.

Amorim cannot ignore this. He has no place in this side and if he plans on building this team with Bruno as a key piece then count me in Amorim out already. Based on how intelligent he comes across, I’m hopeful that he’s aware of the problems Bruno and is just using him as a short term solution.
 
One of maybe 2 or 3 players in a red shirt who turned up today. Should have converted at least one of those chances but otherwise a really good performance.

I agree, although I would not describe his performance as "really good". But he was certainly not an issue today, unlike pretty much everyone else.
 
Problem with him as a 10 is that we send him to run in behind a lot but he has neither the athleticism to get away from defenders, nor the dribbling ability to face them up and beat them. So he ends up just checking back and killing the momentum of the attack.

His shooting is also just completely done as a skill. He routinely gets our best chances game after game and I never feel confident in him scoring. Each shot is always either missing enough curl, placement or power to go in.
 
Sell high while you can, he still has huge value right now and many clubs would pay up for him but we won't get better with him. Appreciate all he's done but we just won't move forward with him.
 
Bizarre match to make that point. Although, of course, he gets crucified by the usual suspects after every game we lose

One of maybe 2 or 3 players in a red shirt who turned up today. Should have converted at least one of those chances but otherwise a really good performance.
He turns up every game, gives it his all which is his best trait and I love him for it, he also moans and whinges a lot too and I don't mind that.

But, the way he plays sometimes, one moment you'd think he's a Zidane with the way he manipulates the ball, and in another moment you'd question if he is not a Sunday league player, it is always like that with him.
 
I've banged on about him in the match threads but seriously - this guy is a high risk/high reward player who is no longer worth it in the long-term.
You live and die by the sword with him as our focal point.
When he used to score regularly for us, it was worth it.
Now ,it's not overall.
There should be many takers for him if we sell him in the summer.
 
Reverted back to his usual self by forcing play way too often, we haven’t been able to control the game and we absolutely need our star player to step up and follow instructions.
 
I'm just so done with. I've defended him through the years, but just watch him constantly feck up chances in key moments, completely lose his head when we're a goal behind is knackering.
 
Apologies re the language thing, I didn't realize and you speak much better English than I speak any other language.
Thats actually very kind of you to say, so thanks and it is appreciated. Have to attribute that to Redcafe as well, reading and writing here played a big part.
He started his moaning under 1min of play
Agree, it started early today and I guess, it is those games where we are battled from the first minute onwards. I think, he struggled today and this, as on other occasions brought out some of his worst features, exemplary his shot from 25meters away despite a packed box. I have to acknowledge him positively though, actually made him man of the match given there were no real alternatives, because while I thought he'd go completely rampant he managed to get it together in the 2nd half and in a deeper position, kept a little calmer, played a little smarter. Really think, taking Ugarte off set us off to handing the midfield over to the opponent today, it was always going to be chaotic from then on.
 
Cost us the game today with two big misses while the game was open, and I am sure we would be back in the game if he scored just one out of those two. So many times he has cost us in last two season with shite finishing.

Rooney who played similar role would easily score over at least 25 in both last seasons. It's amazing that player with so many flaws in his game is considered anywhere near world class.
 
He was actually ok today, one of our better players. But he should have scored in the first half
 
Bizarre match to make that point. Although, of course, he gets crucified by the usual suspects after every game we lose

One of maybe 2 or 3 players in a red shirt who turned up today. Should have converted at least one of those chances but otherwise a really good performance.
What strange observation. That not what I call average for United player, never really good. In comparison to some Bruno games start of season maybe you have a point
 
Bizarre match to make that point. Although, of course, he gets crucified by the usual suspects after every game we lose

One of maybe 2 or 3 players in a red shirt who turned up today. Should have converted at least one of those chances but otherwise a really good performance.
Yep I also thought he was one of few players who turned up today, just needed to bury one of those chances. Other than him, Ugarte and Amad it was slim pickings, which in itself is surreal for a United 11 starting at home.
 
Very good today, everything went through him but has to take that chance at 0-1. Massive moment in the game.
 
Problem with him as a 10 is that we send him to run in behind a lot but he has neither the athleticism to get away from defenders, nor the dribbling ability to face them up and beat them. So he ends up just checking back and killing the momentum of the attack.

His shooting is also just completely done as a skill. He routinely gets our best chances game after game and I never feel confident in him scoring. Each shot is always either missing enough curl, placement or power to go in.
Yet all he has to do is come deep push the ball forward into space when the game is stretched and pass a through ball that comes through 50% of the time for some United fans to cream themselves over how creative he is. It really is sad that we've had such a limited(physically, mentally, technically) footballer as our captain and main attacker.
 
It was a typical Bruno performance. Make things happen and awfully sloppy with the ball. Needed to do better with his chances, but so did everyone in the team.
 
He misses so many chances. Awful corners, terrible free kicks, always whinging. Might be our best player but needs to leave.
 
He misses so many chances. Awful corners, terrible free kicks, always whinging. Might be our best player but needs to leave.

Not to mention simply does not fit into this system. That being said, we have far bigger issues with the starting personell.
 
Gave the ball away (as he so often does) for their 2nd or 3rd, I can't remember anymore which. Had some moments, but had too many feck ups too.

He's really a creative player and has an engine on him, but he's got the burden of this underperforming team on his shoulders and has done since he arrived. He can no longer play without believing he's the one who has to do everything, try everything, everything everything, but this team would be better of without him and I think he'd be better off somewhere else where there's less pressure on him, where his tantrums might not have such a toxic effect on his teammates and where he could win something, or at least contend, which for the talent he has, would be right.
 
Wrong side of 30 and less influential than he used to be. It may be worth cashing in this summer, can't see us getting much for him beyond the next few windows.
 
Was way too trigger happy but he was the only player on the pitch along with amad who looked like a threat for our attack. Their goalkeeper was in good form, another day bruno bags at least 2 goals

Don't get the drama with people acting like he was the worse player on the pitch