Mason Greenwood | Officially a Marseille player

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Disrespectful this thread even exists tbh, there may well be people who have partners/daughters etc that have dealt with such characters as Mason and are well aware of the actual conviction rate for such cases.
 
My actual point is the rating of the display was hyperbolic because there were still obvious flaws to his game and you've gone proven my point here.
Nearly every performance has flaws. But aside from him scoring or assisting he will struggle to top that as an overall display. Frankly very few players put in performances as good as that consistently. The critique for me would be he needs to do that more often, it wouldn’t be to nitpick an individual game. So out of interest what would you rate that performance out of 10? For me it’s at least an 8 flaws and all.
 
Your point seemed to be that he would get criticised for those things on this board, I agree he would because I saw it in his thread when he was here. However, that would be harsh considering that’s a very good performance. Could it be better yes, but he was probably the most dangerous player on the pitch so in context that’s an incredibly impressive display.

What I found interesting was that he actually seemed to grow in the match, particularly the 30 minutes. He has some nice touches in the first half, but in the second he grew and was dangerous everything he received the ball. Of course Atletico were down to 10 men, but I have rarely seen a Simeone side stretched that much.

There was an attack from the left hand side where Greenwood got the ball and put in a cross that excellently cut out by Molina (I think it was).

I thought Riquelme was decent for Atletico.
 
I'd hope people in the Greenwood thread when looking at a Greenwood video would be objective enough

Unfortunately, as we've learned, most of the people in this thread aren't adept at actually looking at videos or extrapolating events that took place in them. So I wouldn't hold your breath
 
What I found interesting was that he actually seemed to grow in the match, particularly the 30 minutes. He has some nice touches in the first half, but in the second he grew and was dangerous everything he received the ball. Of course Atletico were down to 10 men, but I have rarely seen a Simeone side stretched that much.

There was an attack from the left hand side where Greenwood got the ball and put in a cross that excellently cut out by Molina (I think it was).

I thought Riquelme was decent for Atletico.
I think he could smell blood and realised he had the beating of his opposite number. The difference with some Utd players is that he actually has the talent to capitalise on that.
 
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Just putting it here in case anyone missed @Dr. Dwayne 's post.

This isn't even every touch of his. 18 months out and already destroying one of the best teams in the league. So much so, he had Griezmann raving about him. Skinning player after player, passing with both feet, crossing the ball, creating chances for teammates and himself through individual skill, turning in his own half with multiple people on him instead of passing it back to the goalkeeper. Other performances where he scored, you could tell his general play was still lacking because he was still adjusting to a new team, a new country, and regaining his match sharpness and physicality back. This was the opposite.


Seems like one of his better performances. Our biggest issue has been a lack of striker and a general lack of ideas in near the oppo box so having this type of capability would be immensely helpful.
 
He completed 83% of his passes which included 3 key passes.
A great example of stats misuse.

The point a few were making wasn't about the 17% missed but the quality of some of the 83%.

Many balls go to the wrong player or, too often for my liking, behind the player rather than ahead of their run. I blame years of Martial wanting ball to feet for that :smirk:

He would still very likely start for us and improve us, but the point being made is valid: we would savage players like Bruno for those sloppy passes, while you are all defending the one not playing for us pointing out how it is a percentage game and not everything works out.

It's better than I expected after 18 months out but even if Atlético are quality oppo, you have to factor in they played with 10 for ~60 minutes. Getafe got at them quite a bit, not just through Greenwood.
 
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Just putting it here in case anyone missed @Dr. Dwayne 's post.

This isn't even every touch of his. 18 months out and already destroying one of the best teams in the league. So much so, he had Griezmann raving about him. Skinning player after player, passing with both feet, crossing the ball, creating chances for teammates and himself through individual skill, turning in his own half with multiple people on him instead of passing it back to the goalkeeper. Other performances where he scored, you could tell his general play was still lacking because he was still adjusting to a new team, a new country, and regaining his match sharpness and physicality back. This was the opposite.

Literally exactly what we need on the right. Shame he’s a cnut.
 
It really wouldn't be. She easily can blame a friend or say it's not what it seems to be, because it seems like attempted rape and abuse.

Amber heard is a dumb comparison
She accused Depp and went through the legal fight. Greenwood had a kid with his partner and they are together now. It is completely illogical for somebody to actively ruin your own life, cost yourself many millions, shun yourself from your country and ruin your future legacy, have your child grow up in a world where everyone assumes the kids dad abused and possibly raped the mom. It is entirely illogical and extremely bury your head in the sand energy to think that.
The other way to look at it is that reporting a public figure for rape leading to a rape charge is punishment itself even before you are found guilty hence there is a good number of women doing this.

Now assuming that is the case, which scenario do you think is better
1.their current one with so much ambiguity.
2. A clear statement that incriminates the wife as one of those women, possibly leading to prosecution depending on country laws.
 
Oh I see. Garnacho was also late but he's now just fine I think. Imo that's not a big issue unless it happen regularly but based on the article it's like a couple times that's probably why I haven't seen those.

Regarding the bold part hell no Ronaldo was utter crap by that point. He could not hold the ball, could not pass, could not dribble, refuse or unable to press. He's too slow to chase the ball in a counter. The only thing he's still good was finishing. Hard to tell between the two who was a better finisher but I'm absolutely sure Greenwood was a much better footballer.

And tbh I start to get the impression you just hate him and thus is very biased against him. Of course you're totally entitled to being so but tbh I don't like to discuss with too biased people. It'd be just a wasting of time so let's agree to disagree then I think.



I see my bad as well.
It's the totting up of lateness, poor application in training, attitude and then the off the field issues. That is also fine if you want to overlook it, but it's quite clearly a pattern of behaviour.

Which is Greenwood's schtick, he's always not had the best all round game, so it was incredibly rich to be trying to call out someone like Ronaldo who'd just outscored him in the previous season. I'm not sure how you don't as a normal human or professional (I assume you work), see it as a disrespectful way to act.

That's fine if you think that, just because I'm not showering him with praise doesn't mean I'm biased. I don't hate him, I think he's extremely talented and I'm extremely impressed at the level he's come back to being out for so long. Let's not pretend he was the finished article when he was suspended - far from it.

Nearly every performance has flaws. But aside from him scoring or assisting he will struggle to top that as an overall display. Frankly very few players put in performances as good as that consistently. The critique for me would be he needs to do that more often, it wouldn’t be to nitpick an individual game. So out of interest what would you rate that performance out of 10? For me it’s at least an 8 flaws and all.
Yeah, I would give it an 8 as well. Is that an incredibly impressive display? My critique is he needs to be a more rounded team player with better decision making, which that display wasn't a sign of. No one doubts his individual qualities in dribbling and shooting, but that only works if you are absolutely elite at it, which he's not right now.
 
For some reason I had this deleted by a mod earlier. I thought it was a great summary. Pictures and 1000 words, etc.

Yeah, I did. Should have explained it was due to not having images in the FF (despite it being funny) :lol:
 
I have never seen a player slow an attack down as I have in Antony. He has this habit of spinning back inside allowing defenders to track back.

For obvious reasons. He's incredibly one dimensional and defenders know it. Once his trick has been mitigated there's little else to do. To his credit he is has in recent weeks been tracking back and defending a bit more, but from a strictly attacking perspective, he's pretty limited.
 
I'm curious how much it would cost Getafe if they buy him permanently.
 
I'm curious how much it would cost Getafe if they buy him permanently.
If he plays like this and keeps improving, I doubt they could afford him. Some other morally dubious club with a bigger budget will come in.
 
OK, I'll indulge. I am impressed at his ability to go past a man and close control - something we don't seem to have. He's may be pulling it into dangerous areas, but he's also not looking up and finding a team mate - the bar isn't providing 10 clear cut assists in a game. Even his involvement in the first goal was because he took a shot and fell to his team mate. He also was playing against 10 men for 60 minutes, so let's not forget the context of playing against one of the best teams in the league.

Our wingers can do that - That is actually Antony's biggest strength. Our wingers can't seem to regularly go past people, which Greenwood appears to do easily.

I don't get that point? Is that a negative?

He's one of the best I've seen at hitting the targets regularly with power. This in itself causes all sort of problems, either via goal or a rebound for a team-mate.
 
Disrespectful this thread even exists tbh, there may well be people who have partners/daughters etc that have dealt with such characters as Mason and are well aware of the actual conviction rate for such cases.
I mean it's fair that the thread exists, whether we like it or not he is a professional footballer and a very good talent unfortunately. And he isn't and won't be found guilty of any crime with whatever happened. So there are debates to be had and it generally just comes down to how much somebody cares about the morality of professional athletes if they want him at United or not. Can't just shut down the conversation about it though you can choose to stay out of the conversation if it bothers you!

I just find it tedious and circular. I was hoping he wouldn't be very good and gives us an easy win to get rid. As it is, going to be a tough choice for the new owners. Do the moral thing but sacrifice a 100m talent, or do the one that will help the football team more by bringing him back to help our attack which is in dire need.
 
I would definitely give him a chance At United. Definitely! I mean come on even Murderers get the chance to rehabilitate and learn from their mistakes.
 
I do that regularly. Dyche has been excellent in the past few weeks but still has his flaws and I'll do well to acknowledge that, as everyone should when they're assessing players.

I'd hope people in the Greenwood thread when looking at a Greenwood video would be objective enough to look at a performance and be able to highlight both positives and negatives of said performances if there are any (which there were of both) instead of it becoming a celebratory wankfest or otherwise.
Your innocuous and balanced comment about his performance has produced so much backlash because people have become overly protective of Greenwood in the hopes of seeing him return to United, and perhaps for some more disdainful reasons too.
 
"incredibly impressive display", "ridiculous performance", "destroying one of the best teams in the league"... Already running out of room for the hyperbolic cringefest to grow after a single notable performance.
 
Disrespectful this thread even exists tbh, there may well be people who have partners/daughters etc that have dealt with such characters as Mason and are well aware of the actual conviction rate for such cases.
That's very silly.
 
"incredibly impressive display", "destroying one of the best teams in the league"... Already running out of room for the hyperbolic cringefest to grow after a single notable performance.
Cmon, hyperbole is pretty standard on football forums. Are you going to police every performance thread?
 
I don't get that point? Is that a negative?

He's one of the best I've seen at hitting the targets regularly with power. This in itself causes all sort of problems, either via goal or a rebound for a team-mate.
It's not a negative at all, I'm just saying despite him getting in behind, in the box, etc. the main way he created an opportunity for a teammate was from himself shooting. Repeatedly said throughout this thread, shooting's never been the part of the game that needs improving, but against 10 men, I want him to be finding his team mates better, which he wasn't.
 
I didn't quote 'Rood'. I quoted you.

Your post (in it's entirety):



Whataboutery.

This rhetorical device has been answered, anyway. The subsequent decision of parents/victim is not conducive to United's decision making, as it'll set a precedent.

You cannot await subsequent reaction. You have to establish proof of innocence.

Of course, the attempted rebuttal here is that United's infamous 'internal investigation' supposedly established innocence, and rested the decision on 'Mason accepts responsibility for unspecified bad behaviour'. This is controversial as neither the police nor CPS established innocence.


Quite clearly, they daren't sack him as they'd risk a lawsuit for unfair dismissal but cannot justify taking him back, due to the obvious backlash. Ergo decision.





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You can't truly be remorseful until you admit what you did. Like an addict, your treatment begins when you disclose the reality.
Don't be purposely obtuse. Your post I responded to was a response to Rood.

The bolded complete nonsense. You would like him to establish his innocence based on selectively acceptable (not the club) and impossible (a police department that closed the case) terms. I don't care if Greenwood plays for United again but this is a bad take.
 
Disrespectful this thread even exists tbh, there may well be people who have partners/daughters etc that have dealt with such characters as Mason and are well aware of the actual conviction rate for such cases.
Err. Put the thread on ignore maybe?
 
Does anyone believe he is innocent?

Im not talking about from the legal perspective as we haven’t had a trial.

But does anyone having seen what is in public domain wholeheartedly believe he is innocent?

If so why?
This is a fair question, and my honest answer is that I don't know what to believe.

On the one hand, the evidence looks damning. However, it lacks context, and I can't image her family (let alone her father) standing behind him if he were abusing their daughter. I think it's possible they abused each other and didn't want to admit it, but it's all speculation at this point.
 
I'm curious how much it would cost Getafe if they buy him permanently.

Quite a bit. He's also a big club player and although this 6-12 month training and rehabilitation project seems to be working, his skills and future potential suggest every big club will be tracking him closely and he will eventually end up at one (which doesn't exclude United).
 
That's a terrible decision. The other thread was readable and sometimes informative. This one is garbage.
I wish they had kept the performance thread. I just wanna read people's thoughts on his performance against Atletico and now I feel like I've gone back in time to when the whole debate about him playing for the club again started.

We can never have a good thing in this place.
 
I wish they had kept the performance thread. I just wanna read people's thoughts on his performance against Atletico and now I feel like I've gone back in time to when the whole debate about him playing for the club again started.

We can never have a good thing in this place.

There's plenty of performance chat in the past few pages. It will depend on whether Getafe played recently, which they have.
 
that was like watching a soccer porn video for how a winger should play....feck me

he didn't look any different than when he was banging in goals for United on the right wing and helped make the front three of rashy, martial and greenwood arguably the most dangerous front three in the premier league

his ability to go either direction and shoot really well with either foot makes is so difficult to mark him 1v1

ffs...after a week the BS stopped in spain about all that transpired so bring his ass back in the summer, take that additional year extension and put him back in the fecking squad
 
Nope. I think that regarding GW, a lot of fans have the idea that something worse happened than what actually happened. For example, a lot of comments speak like it is a fact that he raped her or he beat her up...stuff that has no other evidence behind it beyond the clips. The moment someone asks genuine serious questions, a section of the fan base drowns them out with "Domestic violence happens" or "Abusive relationships always begin like this"...but we are not doubting those facts...we are only interested in this case...in knowing what exactly happened here and why there is no other evidence outside the 10 min. Crazily enough, a lot of the facts outside the video clip point to a different conclusion.

The fact of the matter is none of us were there...but guess who was there...the girl.. and she has declined to file charges..in fact from the start she didn't want to do so
Even the father of the girl said the whole thing was being misunderstood
Keyword father of the girl

The police would have loved nothing more than to go to court....the public wanted it, and the clips were there...if this girl was in this abusive relationship with Mason...at least a few neighbors would testify..at least a few friends or schoolmate would testify...at least the father or the mother or grandparents of the girl would testify...at least a sister or brother would speak up...at least some relatives would talk, at least the manutd players or staff would speak up...somewhere somehow somebody would speak.

Even if the police fail...the media scrutiny on this issue would have been so intense...they would be willing to pay 10 times whatever GW and his lawyers are paying to get someone to speak on record (or in secret) regarding this abusive relationship.

The police have gone in...looked at everything extensively for several months...gone to the crime scenes...spoken to hundreds of friends...spoken to all relatives....seen all the WhatsApp and Instagram messages and they have decided that there is no case to prosecute without key witnesses...furthermore Manutd did an investigation of their own into the same issues...they must have also gone through a lot of the same evidence...they concluded in their statement that basically says the same thing "he did not do the things we think he did"

We have a 10-minute clip and a bunch of people who investigated this separately and they both concluded, that there was not enough evidence to convict him for the stuff we think he did...but there are a bunch of fans for whom no matter what statements are shared, they will still ask that he doesn't continue at manutd...So if his innocence doesn't matter, then it was never about Justice. "some people just want to watch the world burn"
You argue no-one knows what happened because none of us 'were there', yet say a 'lot of fans have the idea that something worse happened than what actually happened' with an unfounded certainty.

The bolded point is particularly stupid. The police did try and pursue the case, it was the Crown Prosecution Service that dropped .
You say 'they have decided that there is no case to prosecute without key witnesses' like it's some kind of gotcha, rather than a turn of events that would have a deleterious effect on any case.

People's decision whether to support a player or not does not have to meet the same threshold as a court case. Your 'if his innocence doesn't matter' comment reads like parody.

What I actually do find interesting is a point someone raised about United being pressured to get rid because he was contracted to them at the time of the alleged offence. If Arse or some other prem team did come in for him at the end of the season and the media went for some redemption arc line, that would be bizarre and two-faced, showing how little they really care about domestic violence.
 
I'd take him back personally

I’m 50/50 but with performances like that a big club will come calling soon enough. I don’t think it will happen but why not back at United if he is allowed to go and play for another top team.

I understand the argument that United should have higher standards but football lost its soul a long time ago.
Don't be purposely obtuse. Your post I responded to was a response to Rood.

The bolded complete nonsense. You would like him to establish his innocence based on selectively acceptable (not the club) and impossible (a police department that closed the case) terms. I don't care if Greenwood plays for United again but this is a bad take.

I’m 50/50 if I think Mason should play for United again but somebody correct me if i’m wrong. But in the UK every person should be presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty. Unfortunately as the CPS dropped the case they obviously did not have enough evidence for a conviction. If they don’t have enough evidence then maybe he should be free to continue his career no matter how messed up that might seem to some.

Everyone on this planet could believe he is guilty and think he is a scumbag with no morals but unless he is actually found guilty in a court of law we should presume innocence.


As much as most don’t want him to play for the club I
 
Please bring him back. It's just football. Everyone has moved on. Him playing doesn't mean that we support domestic violence. This cancel culture needs to stop. Everyone does shitty stuff, ALL OF US. Who are any of us to judge another person. Especially if the court didn't.

It just means that we are giving a young man another chance. Think about the victim and their child and what will be best for them. Move to a random country or stay close to family. The club can actually use him to drive awareness and impact with domestic violence and positively impact society.
 
Richard Arnold's open letter tells us there is more to the audio than what was posted online, that's why.

A new statement is also plausible. Perhaps both things are true as well.

Arnold's statement only said that a longer version of the clip exists, something we have known all along. He didn't say anything about what the rest of the clip implied, or even that the club have heard it.
 
There is no need to apologize. And yes I'm one of those who think he's innocent. However you quoted the wrong post. We were talking about his character.

Ahhh, so that is what I meant though. The whole situation isn't known either way so declaring him innocent is indeed a strong stance.

Not that it's a problem to me, at least you are outright saying what you think.


Though having said that:

Please bring him back. It's just football. Everyone has moved on. Him playing doesn't mean that we support domestic violence. This cancel culture needs to stop. Everyone does shitty stuff, ALL OF US. Who are any of us to judge another person. Especially if the court didn't.

It just means that we are giving a young man another chance. Think about the victim and their child and what will be best for them. Move to a random country or stay close to family. The club can actually use him to drive awareness and impact with domestic violence and positively impact society.

Christ almighty. Sometimes it's probably best not to :rolleyes:
 
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