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2024-25 Performances

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4.9 Season Average Rating
Appearances
25
Goals
4
Assists
2
Yellow cards
1
No one can convince me he should be starting a game like this over Højlund. Pretty much everything Højlund is criticized for can be aimed at Zirkzee as well, and he plays with no intensity at all.

Really baffling signing.
 
Neither of them should be starting if Utd hadn't shat the bed for 10 years in the transfer market, this Zirkzee v Hojlund narrative shouldn't even be a thing.
 
He isn’t good enough, and he’s never going to be. Whether it’s January or the summer we need to make sure he doesn’t become another in the long line of players who make it readily apparent in their first few months they’re not at the races and then inexplicably stick around for 5 years.
 
Walked straight across the front of us when subbed off, like we do we everyone we applauded him regardless of his display. He didn't clap the fans or even acknowledge us.

That for me sums the guy up, just doesn't give a shit and plays like he doesn't give a shit. So we let Martial go who didn't give a shit and downgraded him about two levels!

Sack whoever put this joker forward as a potential signing.
 
He is so bad I would transfer list in Janaury. That is how ruthless we need to start being. The rebuild needs to start from now and not in the summer.
 
Mike Smalling said:
No one can convince me he should be starting a game like this over Højlund. Pretty much everything Højlund is criticized for can be aimed at Zirkzee as well, and he plays with no intensity at all.

Really baffling signing.
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Agreed. The ranking goes like this for our striker position

Hojlund
Bruno/Garnacho/random attacker as a false 9
A 10% interested Rashford
Zirkzee
 
kouroux said:
If you wanted to know what a useless striker is then just watch Zirkzee play
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The lack of intensity is just mind blowing.

He has had the odd decent cameo against tiring defenses, but I don't see a path for him to be a PL starter.

Hojlund really should be thrashing him, the fact he is not is telling of his level as well.
 
He shouldn’t be starting games at all. Amorim needs to realise this quickly because he keeps doing it.
Fine by all means bring him on with 15-20 mins if Rasmus needs a rest but other than that he should be seeing absolutely no game time:
A proper and true horrific player, doesn’t even have the endeavour and effort of previous horrific Dutch striker Weghorst. Puts very little effort in and is soft as shite:

Can’t actually quite fathom how after all the atrocious transfers pre Ineos. We managed to go out in the summer and get one of the worse ever deals done. Tragic.
 
Sorry to say, I’m just not seeing it with this guy. What must he be doing in training to warrant starting as our lone striker?

Completely ineffective. Heck, I’d rather another attacking midfielder rather than him up top.
 
You do wonder if he was scouted with any genuine scrutiny or did they just see a good age with low release clause and think let's go for it

If he's going to have any chance here he needs to up his aggression by about 500% - he plays like someone a quarter of his size
 
I was really hoping his touch and ability to play players around him in (like the Everton game) would be better than it is.
 
The most pointless signing United has made recently, and I include Antony in that. It never made any sense to go after somebody of his profile when we were clearly starving for goals, and needed somebody to take the load off Hojilund.
 
If you play Zirkzee you need one of the 10s to run behind and the only one we have that actually does that is Rashford.. He and Zirkzee had a good game against Everton and then for some reason we changed that when we should have built on it
 
The type of display that makes me never want to seem on the pitch for us again. Weak and meek. Slow, no intensity. Just poor in every aspect of the game. No idea why we brought him in or why Amorim started him. Awful player.
 
Devil81 said:
Walked straight across the front of us when subbed off, like we do we everyone we applauded him regardless of his display. He didn't clap the fans or even acknowledge us.

That for me sums the guy up, just doesn't give a shit and plays like he doesn't give a shit. So we let Martial go who didn't give a shit and downgraded him about two levels!

Sack whoever put this joker forward as a potential signing.
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Martial at least loved the club and definitely gave a shit, he just was a crock for his last 3 years.
 
Never seen such a big guy be so bad in the air. He was a good 2 feet from the ball with his eyes closed.
 
Ooof. That was bad today. Crowd getting restless with him.

Martial with no leg muscles left in his last couple of seasons was streets ahead of him.

Really really poor. No hope of him turning this around
 
What is he good at? He's never in the position you expect a centre forward to be. When we have the ball out wide or in the channels, he's about 10-15 yards deeper than he should be. He's big but he's losing physical battles to players half his size. His link up play is generally ok, but you'd expect that of any player in the Premier League so that's a low bar. He doesn't make runs in behind or into space off the ball. It's like he's not involved until the ball is at his feet. There's no urgency to win the ball when it's there to be won. He doesn't look strong, and he's definitely not quick. His record of 14 goals in 58 games at Bologna is poor for a striker. It seems unfathomable that someone scouted him and though "yep, this is the guy".
 
Quite impressive how a club who has such status and has spent so much money ends up with him upfront. Would be difficult to achieve even with deliberate sabotage.
 
BAMBI on ice again, he just seems to float about with the odd flick here and there and that is it. He does not seem to have any physical aggression in him,he certainly does not like making any runs or actually coming into contact with anybody. Whoever signed of this and several other transfers made during the Ten Hag period wants flogging with the birch.We have a long way to go.
 
Honestly struggle to see the point of him, he is as bad as Antony. Feels incredibly sluggish and about to lose the ball every time he has it
 
Think the talent is there but I think there are genuine concerns for his application and lackadaisical attitude on the pitch. He definitely doesn't look or behave like he gives a feck which has been thrown at other players who do actually give a feck but things are just not working out for them.

Saying that he does look like a misfit so far, but he's only started 6 games, the rest coming from the bench and has 2 less goals than Hojlund and more assists so we need to stop acting like he hasn't contributed

He deserves at least to the summer before he's completely written off. Hojlund went 14 games without scoring last season and all we heard was excuses blaming other players, blaming service and blaming tactics. There was a moment in the first half where bruno was avaible on the left and zirkee was unmarked in the box and mainoo decided to pass to bruno who fluffed his lines.

But I'm not going to pretend he didn't have a stinker and if he keeps putting in performances like this then it's best to be ruthless and get rid. The same with Hojlund because we don't have the luxury to wait x amount of years to see and find out if these dudes are average
 
I'm usually against writing players off in their first season, but it's really difficult to see him being an asset here.

We already knew he wasn't a great goalscorer when we bought him which was a red flag in itself, but to make up for that his all round play needed to be exceptional. His link up is mostly sloppy so we're in big trouble.

He's also one of the slowest attackers you'll ever see. You need an exceptional level of talent to make up for being slow, and exceptionally talented he certainly is not.
 
Wing Attack Plan R said:
No joke, whoever signed off on this transfer needs firing.
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Does it not amaze you the amount of people who must be involved in a signing like this, from scouts, stats analysts, football directors, coaches, and between them they've somehow concluded this is a good idea. The incompetence is baffling.
 
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