Humiliating mothers on benefit might feel fair game by him but he better not ask the average united fans whom they think is a burden on united's finances
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So because a player is 'always injured', he's 'stealing a living' and 'an absolute waste of space'?
You and others are having a dig at him miming to a stupid viral song on social media cos of the 'your mum's on benefits' line, but the crux of it is that you mainly despise him for being injured so frequently. Sure it's frustrating -clearly for him and the fans- but the sheer level of hatred and bile I find baffling.
Shocking injury he suffered when he had the world at his feet. However, in 2024 he chose to put his national team before his club. Fair enough but then maybe announce you are going to focus on club football to repay the club’s loyalty until he has consistently proven fitness and form. Failure to do this speaks volumes.
Even the national team criticism I find overblown. It's not like Shaw unilaterally decided he would play. He was obviously scrutinised by both the England and United club doctors, both of whom approved him travelling with the squad and later playing. He also only played 177 minutes over three matches, so 29.5 mins per match on average. That's not loads and there's no evidence it contributed to his injury in pre-season.
Great if he had forgone the chance to play in the Euros to rest up more, but naturally players are going to want to be involved, given England had a genuine chance of winning the tournament. I'm pretty sure if he'd made a statement after saying he's going to now focus on his club while he rebuilds his fitness he'd have been slated for that too.
Clearly we can't rely on him as a first choice leftback, so do need to sign a quality replacement, but I just think you can come to that conclusion pretty easily and without the weird level of hatred that repeatedly injured players get, eg Phil Jones and how Darren Anderton and Ledley King were mocked.
Luke you earn £12m a year for doing nothing, maybe start repaying those wages first before you mock a woman on £90 a week trying to feed her kids you utter cnut. What a despicable thing to do.
A player who has found a club run by idiots that have handed him extension after extension.
He is so lucky that we never cared about merit and good mentality because he would have left the club 6 years ago.
He is so lucky that we never cared about merit and good mentality because he would have left the club 6 years ago.
Tik tok, time to go
I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt and assume that he is too thick to have drawn parrelells between the 'benefits' line of the song and his own financial situation.
In his head, he probably thinks that as an athlete who does a bit of rehabilitation during the day and orders a few takeaways in the evening, he is not scrounging a living in the same way as a mother on universal credit.
Still, if I was him I'd keep my head down and avoid courting social media attention until I can string a few consecutive appearances together for the club that pays my wages.
In his head, he probably thinks that as an athlete who does a bit of rehabilitation during the day and orders a few takeaways in the evening, he is not scrounging a living in the same way as a mother on universal credit.
Still, if I was him I'd keep my head down and avoid courting social media attention until I can string a few consecutive appearances together for the club that pays my wages.
It doesn't matter if he didn't draw parallels between himself and benefits, as a multimillionaire, he still felt it was appropriate or funny to both mock and degrade a single mother. Not to mention these players are given a ton of training on how to handle themselves with the media and what they can and can't say. He was born in Kingston upon thames and raised in Surrey, a world away from anyone who would be on benefits, let alone a single mother. He was a season ticket holder at Chelsea. He has always been privileged. The guy is an utter bellend.
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I don't despise any United player. None of my criticisms of any United player are ever personal. I don't give a shit if a United player is the nicest person on the planet or a complete arsehole. My first, last and only consideration for a United player is what their contribution is to Manchester United Football Club, and how seriously they appear to take their (highly remunerated) obligations to the club.
Fair comments mate. I wasn't aware that he was from Surrey and had a Chelsea season ticket. It does begin to paint the picture of a privileged little Tory. My only counter argument would be that he is maybe too thick and oblivious to properly comprehend what 'benefits' even are. As daft as it sounds, Premier League footballers are so out of touch with reality, especially those from a privileged background growing up, that I wouldn't rule it out as a possibility.
I've never been one to criticise players for what they get up to in their personal lives, especially if it's some lip syncing on social media. However, I do agree that when said lip syncing is mocking mothers on universal credit, then you deserve some stick for it.
Anyway, I'm not going to waste any more time offering meagre defences to a bloke who has done very little to repay his wages over the past few years.
Whens he back?
can’t play, won’t play
Sounds like a game show hosted by Luke shaw
Sounds like a game show hosted by Luke shaw
Apparently he is with the team and so is Mount, so not far off.
I heard Mount was March at the earliest
Granted, most men look good in a suit, but Luke looked fit and in good shape in the pics from the funeral today. That’s something, I suppose.
He's just singing along to lyrics in a video. The song is shit and the tiktok video is tasteless, but let's not exaggerate now.
I'm not sure anyone is "triggered". (Do you also use the word "butthurt" by the way?)
It's just an absolutely pathetic, tone deaf, lack of intelligence thing to do when you're paid millions and don't really earn most of them.
How far down that road do you go though? Singing along to some rapper's misogyny or racist language and broadcasting that to millions. Is that ok?
All we ask with our players is they give stuff a second's thought and grow up from past mistakes.
Geez it really, really isn't that big of a deal
stop taking yourself so seriously. His inability to get fit on the pitch has absolutely nothing to do with miming the lyrics to a song on camera for 5 seconds.I’m triggered by how ass the lyrics are, aside from people lip syncing I couldn’t care less. If he’s fit and playing he can lip sync anything he wants
christ.
Yeah, I don't really care about the TikTok thing, he mimed lyrics to a shit song. Whatever.
Its just another pile on when we already know he just isn't reliable enough to be a part of this team and that's all that really matters. Fluff, it's just fluff.
Its just another pile on when we already know he just isn't reliable enough to be a part of this team and that's all that really matters. Fluff, it's just fluff.
He truly is thick in every sense of the word.
People are making a mountain out of this lip sync thing. He's possibly my favourite United player and would suit that LCB role perfectly but his fitness just can't be relied upon. He should go but this noise about him slagging off mums on benefits is nothing really, I doubt he wrote the song or came up with the idea for the video.
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Luke Shaw is on the caf!
That’s the video everyone has been kicking off about?
What an anticlimax.
What an anticlimax.
Ya got me.
It's a shit song and a bit stupid from him to do it but the levels of scrutiny and overreaction from United fans in response have been equally stupid.
It shouldn't come as a surprise mind, it's standard discourse when it comes to Shaw. The obsession with his weight on here and across social media over the years has been completely bizarre.
Nah it needs calling out, lets keep the same energy because we know if Rashford did a lip sync to a song mocking single mothers, it would be national front page news everywhere and everyone would be foaming at the mouth calling him every name under the sun
Or maybe let's learn not to pile on our own players at every opportunity...
When is Englands next big tournament....
Around this time next year would be my guess, when his agent will look to negotiate a new contract.
I don’t care about TikTok too much, it speaks to me to show a persons maturity or not if they use it. No surprise footballers are all a bit childish.
It’s a bit more crass of him to be choosing to mime a song that has him doing lyrics about your mum being on benefits whilst he earns tens of thousands a week. Not a good look, Luke.
It’s a bit more crass of him to be choosing to mime a song that has him doing lyrics about your mum being on benefits whilst he earns tens of thousands a week. Not a good look, Luke.
That's what surprised me most, he's nearly 30 isn't he - isn't he a bit old for that? I get these guys live in a bubble and probably don't even think about how such things can be perceived but why even risk it, like what does he gain from that?
What is he currently out injured with? I thought he was near coming back about two months ago yet still hasn’t been near a 1st team squad. Has he missed the entire season so far?
He won’t suit Amorim style in my opinion. Too slow since the injury. Still a very good player though.
He would be fine as Licha's understudy as left of the back three, for the fifteen or so games he's fit a season.
If you see that as unfair criticism (the Rashford example), then why would you lay into Shaw?