Hojlund or Zirkzee as first choice striker?

Zirkzee may have done more than Hojilund yesterday in terms general play, but we're talking about strikers here. Neither are good enough for United in their current states.
 
Hammondo said:
From the eye test I would say he's average speed for our team, I never see him beat a player with the ball.
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Him vs Van der Ven last season should show he's not average speed.
I don't think his initial burst is super quick though.
 
Shark said:
Zirkzee may have done more than Hojilund yesterday in terms general play, but we're talking about strikers here. Neither are good enough for United in their current states.
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True but given that they are the 2 options, right now...I start Zirkzee.
 
antsmithmk said:
Starting? I'd be worried if we spent 7 million on him. 70?! We've been had.
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The insane transfer fee aside, we all expected a difficult adjustment for Hojlund. But he's been here long enough and should be firing on all cylinders by now.
 
I really like Hojlund but not seeing the consistent development in his play. On the contrary lots of the things I liked about him last year even when he wasn’t scoring he doesn’t do anymore.

So basically. While I’m all for giving young players time to become world class. I think by the end of the season the club should start assessing whether Hojlund still has the potential to become a world class forward. Not ruling him out just yet but probably my most disappointing player this season.
 
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Ideally neither but I doubt we bring in a proven striker in January. I would go with Zirkzee since he has earned a start given his last two cameos.
 
It's a hard one to decide but for me Zirkzee is a lot better in possession so for the majority of the games i hope he starts.
 
Can we try a 3-5-2 formation and put both Zirkzee and Hojlund as front two and Bruno in behind? I feel both sort of complement each other a bit and neither are good enough as lone striker for us.


We could push Amad as RWB again where he has been excellent and Mazarouli can be back as LCB/RCB where he has been great.
 
Pronewbie said:
Neither. We need to bring in a 1st choice striker sooner rather than later.
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Pretty much this.

Out of the two we have I'd only pick Hojlund on the basis he's an actual striker and not some bizarre '9.5' hybrid, but he's pretty pants otherwise.
 
Hojlund is shit, I think that's becoming obvious. We were absolutely daft to spend that much on him. A few windows of gentle low key interest in him while we signed a proper striker would've resulted in us getting him for 30 million or so, not 70. And even at 30 it's a gamble.

He doesn't really do anything. He's never in position to score, he can't control a ball, he offers no threat and doesn't really help in the build up.. He's not very useful. Zirkzee might be a little more aloof as a player, but he's shown he can hold up the ball and play people in. I'd give him a shot, especially at home where we're beginning to dominate possession.

But obviously buy someone else.. I'm not sure the Coventry guy is the guy though. We could end up with 150 million spent on two very average players.
 
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