Do we have enough goals in the squad?

One of the worst attacking units in the Premier league. Amad might have improved it with an extended run in the team as the wide right attacker, but if he's been moved to right rwb, the attack is now utterly shit.
 
Just saw a list of the top 32 top scorers in the league and not one United player in it. It's disgraceful really.
 
Until we get some better forwards, there isn't much any manager can do. Antony, Garnacho, Rashford, Højlund, Zirkzee, Amad. Even though I have hope for a couple of them, not one of them is good enough in their current state. Wouldn't surprise me if we end in the bottom third of goals scored this season. Sad state of affairs.
 
Ole'sgunnarwin said:
Just saw a list of the top 32 top scorers in the league and not one United player in it. It's disgraceful really.
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It’s fecking disgusting. Rashford needs to be fecking moved on. He’s hit his peak and he’s not good enough. He has his moments but he’s nowhere near good enough for a title challenging side if that’s what we want to be.
 
And people didn’t want Harry Kane. A guaranteed 30 goal a season striker that would have elevated our attack to a level we haven’t seen since we signed RVP.
 
Garethw said:
And people didn’t want Harry Kane. A guaranteed 30 goal a season striker that would have elevated our attack to a level we haven’t seen since we signed RVP.
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Harry Kane in this team under ten Hag would look like a clown. RvP under SAF is a whole different story.
 
Big mistake from Amorim to take Amad out of the attack yesterday as he's our best attacker by a mile.
 
Look at the balls into the striker stats and that’s your biggest problem. We simply do not pass or cross to the strikers anywhere near any other team does. Kane wouldn’t get anywhere near 20 here.
 
Last season was bad, but this season is dire.

McTominay was a decent foil for Hojlund last year. He could occupy a defender and stop the striker from becoming isolated. He was a goal threat.

Why we were happy to get rid of him I will never know. He was a very useful player to have around and a product of the youth system.

One of the problems that we constantly see is how isolated the strikers are. It's not just the lack of service but the lack of support.
 
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LDUred said:
Last season was bad, but this season is dire.

McTominay was a decent foil for Hojlund last year. He could occupy a defender and stop the striker from becoming isolated. He was a goal threat.

Why we were happy to get rid of him I will never know. He was a very useful player to have around and a product of the youth system.

One of the problems that we constantly see is how isolated the strikers are. It's not just the lack of service but the lack of support.
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Mctominay was home grown so pure profit according to FFP, so to allow other transfers, he was sold. ETH went on record that he didn't want him to go.
 
Can’t think of a worse set of forwards. Every single one of them are just average. We needed goals today and brought on Zirkzee and Antony to replace Mount and Hojlund who pretty much offer nothing in attack.

If it isn’t Bruno, Rashford or Garnacho then it’s nothing for us and all three of those have very very questionable general play outside of goal contributions.

We need a complete overhaul of our attack, we are going nowhere with this batch. Amorim is not a magician.
 
This has been the main issue from a squad perspective since SAF retired.

We just don't have enough players to contribute with goals.

We've never scored 80 league goals since he retired. We broke the 70 goal barrier only once.

We need to score way more goals.
 
El Jefe said:
Can’t think of a worse set of forwards. Every single one of them are just average. We needed goals today and brought on Zirkzee and Antony to replace Mount and Hojlund who pretty much offer nothing in attack.

If it isn’t Bruno, Rashford or Garnacho then it’s nothing for us and all three of those have very very questionable general play outside of goal contributions.

We need a complete overhaul of our attack, we are going nowhere with this batch. Amorim is not a magician.
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Completely agreed. For all I care, we could keep Amad and maybe Garnacho based his performances for the rest of the season. The rest of our attackers should be sold and then we should look at bringing in replacements and hope to hit the jackpot with a few of our academy players.

I mean, our luck can't possibly be worse than it's been for the last 10 years.
 
Going to be interesting how many survive from our attacking players under Amorim. I've long suspected we need an overhaul but as well we have some young players with potential and big issues with build up play from midfield to create those easy goals.

We're hoping Rashford will be our senior player but he seems to have lost his edge so there isn't much else. Do we go for his Sporting striker and some other more technical wide player in the summer.
 
I'd keep Hojlund as he has the qualities to be great (speed, strength, skills) and Amad as a backup winger, the rest of the attackers should go. With Zirkzee and a totally unreliable, inconsistent Rashford we will never score enough goals. Look at Chelsea. They are brilliant lately. Their starting striker, Jackson isn't even a class player but he's got a lot of support from the wingers and midfielders and scored already 8 goals. Wingers like Madueke for instance. We've got Hojlund who also could score, but we don't have our Madueke. That's the real issue. And I'm afraid the overhaul process will talke long as it won't be easy to get rid of our attackers and replace them, due to their high wages or/and no demand.
 
Our forward are not great, granted. But are they getting any service?

The biggest issue for me is they we struggle to progress the ball from front to back. If the opposition is in their rest defence, in their own half, like Arsenal were several times, or even Everton on Sunday, it is rare that we create a chance from it.

We need space in behind, which is why we scored 4 against Everton.
 
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