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2024-25 Performances

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5.6 Season Average Rating
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He'll be a great sub for us and potentially starting games we expect to be 2nd best in. With Amads emergence and Zirkzee signing his minutes will be limited, but he's got a blend of qualities that no one else has in our attacking positions.

He rotates the ball well, presses great and has an eye for goal if he gets back to his best. The issue is, to get back to his best he needs an extended run in the side, but he's not going to get that once Hojlund is back or Zirkzee is up to speed.
 
CannibalSpectre said:
He doesn't have a place in our strongest starting 11 as he offers very little. Lingard offered just as much off the ball and more on it.

I hope he grows into his role after a difficult first season but I don't forsee much improvement from him.
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He set up 3 chances today that with a little more composure would have been 3 assists. Your Lingard comparison does not hold up.
 
Reading comments on here that shit on Mount after Fulham game proves how some people can watch football but at the same time not understand it.
 
Dunno why we used our money on him, thats not saying he is bad or anything just still makes zero sense to me, specially in our situation at the time.
 
He had a great eye for a goal in Chelsea. Tbf and despite everyone praising his work ethic and press at Chelsea am not sure he ever run as crazy as he does for us (looks like a man possessed at times). Maybe that has influence as well in terms of his goalscoring output.
 
he will become a fan favourite I hope. he needs a run in the team and a bit of luck to win the fans over just. he has all the right qualities to succeed,I'm sure of this.
 
Needs to keep his place next week, he's good for the tactics we are currently using.
 
CannibalSpectre said:
He doesn't have a place in our strongest starting 11 as he offers very little. Lingard offered just as much off the ball and more on it.
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A blind donkey could see that Mount is a vastly superior player to Jesse fecking Lingard.

The insane hyperbole from some on here makes the player forum an absolute cesspit at times.
 
GL21 said:
he will become a fan favourite I hope. he needs a run in the team and a bit of luck to win the fans over just. he has all the right qualities to succeed,I'm sure of this.
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I can't see him becoming a fan favourite without adding significantly more G+A to his game.
 
His best quality is his ability to press off the ball. The press looked less organised and aggressive when he went off, but I just don't rate the guy as a footballer in general.
 
Wing Attack Plan R said:
He set up 3 chances today that with a little more composure would have been 3 assists. Your Lingard comparison does not hold up.
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Halftrack said:
A blind donkey could see that Mount is a vastly superior player to Jesse fecking Lingard.

The insane hyperbole from some on here makes the player forum an absolute cesspit at times.
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I'm not saying Lingard is better, I'm saying Lingard demonstrably showed more for united on and off the ball than Mount has thus far in a red shirt.

Moreover, it's a continuation of his form at Chelsea while Potter was in charge. Mount performed best under Tuchel
 
- Why he's so weak on the ball? He gets knocked off it so easily. We have 19-22 year olds who are assured at shieilding the ball and Mount keeps allowing opponents to knick it off him. He should have worked on this by this stage of his career.
- Why does he always plat at a 100mph? He doesn't know how to slow things down and take time on the ball. Always looking for a quick lay off, or one two. It's good to have urgency but better to have balance.

Having said that, he is really really great off the ball and our press and solidity down the middle is really elevated with him in there. I don't think Bruno as a 10 gives us this much as a defensive unit which is often an issue and Mount's insane pressing helps compliment Mainoo and Casemiro. I hope he learns to pace himself through games and take more responsibility on the ball.

7/10 display - Decent, not great / bad.
 
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He's a pressing machine which definitely helped us in the first half, but unfortunately the rest of his game and attacking threat is still completely blunted at the moment. Getting knocked off it way too easily.
 
pratyush_utd said:
Yes but Bruno can do that. Zirkzee has to start over him. We need players to offer more in attack.
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Bruno cannot do that..Bruno is a presser but he is not a presser as a system..
But Bruno is better when we need to attack.
 
MinGin said:
Bruno cannot do that..Bruno is a presser but he is not a presser as a system..
But Bruno is better when we need to attack.
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Bruno can definitely do it as a system player. He did his role as false 9 in the same system.
 
I thought he was terrible, disposessed often, very weak defensively and that's him being clearly very fit. I think he's a good player on a bad spell but rather mentally than anything else. I remain optimistic because compared to other players with similar issues (Sancho, Rashford) Mount seems to have enough fight in him when it's not going his way, what I like.
 
Mount is a weird player that gets both heavily overrated and underrated on this forum at the same time. Reality is that he is solid, nothing more and nothing less. Will never be a starter level player for us and the 60m on him was criminal. But he'll be an okay squad player who can impact the game when needed - if he's fit.
 
Jesse Lingard 2.0 off the ball, Donny Van de Beek on the ball.

He is just painfully average. He is not doing what he is supposed to do as an attacking midfielder/player on the ball. Like Lindelof hates defending, Mount hates the ball. He only likes chasing the ball.

It is not difficult to find a player that presses well and is making something happen with the ball. To me he is a complete waste of money and another of the many expensive bad signings post Fergie. But that was obvious that he would be useless before arriving.
 
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He wasn't great on the individual level, but the team as a whole got significantly worse once he went off. While his sub wasn't the only reason for that (Mainoo and Casemiro tiring, Amad also going off), he probably was the main reason. We completely lost control of the match at that point.
 
criticalanalysis said:
Elite pressing and as I said in the match day thread, so unlucky to be taken off when it should have been Bruno (who didn't have a pre-season and was shite in this game).

He's a good team player and very decent on the ball. People are rating him with a harsh and different lense imo and this comes from someone, who was very critical of his transfer last year.

I'm impressed with his technical qualities and general game intelligence.

We live and die by the Bruno sword. I for one want to see more of Mount ahead of Bruno, not necessarily permanently but at least rotation and when ending games.
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Agreed with all that.
 
I don’t really no what to make of his performance. He ran himself in to the ground and his pressing and energy levels were fantastic, however I don’t recall much involvement in controlling the play or creating. He had that one pass to lay it off for Casemiro and then that chance he should have finished.

I do think he played well but again first game of the season so can’t be overly critical of people and generally I feel like he was decent.
 
pratyush_utd said:
Bruno can definitely do it as a system player. He did his role as false 9 in the same system.
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Bruno is more than happy to press, but his positioning and decision-making about when to do it (plus the fact he's physically slower) means he's not as effective at it as Mount showed in this match. It'll work sometimes and create good chances, but too often he gets easily bypassed then the opposition just play straight through the area that Bruno left.
 
He looks like he doesn't want to have the ball. His pressing is fantastic. The perfect Jose player.

When he had the ball, he has no clue what to do with it. Not sure what to make of him.
 
To be honest, never heard of this "Presser Midfielder" position in football! Glad we bought a specialist PM in Mount. Dandy good eh!
 
He's just an utter waste of a player. Other than running around doing a bit of pressing he literally brought nothing. No quality on the ball, no end product, he simply cannot start in our 11 and truthfully should be sold. He won't go this summer but I hope we offload next year.
 
We have more control when he’s playing AM. There’s just more presence and defensive responsibility when he’s playing there instead of Bruno, a fact highlighted by the difference in control once the change was made. He’s just less of an instinctive player.

He needs to bring more quality and creativity when has the ball and that was his shortcoming in this game. Should probably have scored with the chance he had.
 
He played quite well, but I don't think he will feature as starter often. I think we should try him on the flanks more often.
 
Gave you some good things but let’s be honest there’s so many players you could have instead of him that would do more both in our team and at our rivals. It’s still all very tame stuff from him.

I get Kagawa vibes from him. A good player but one that would probably look a lot better in a team that fits his style. When all the other forwards return or are back to full fitness, I can’t see what role he’ll play here.
 
He'll never replace Bruno, a player that is rarely injured too. He'll have his uses at times and can play a few different positions when we have injuries or ETH decides to do some different tactically. Ultimately he was just the wrong profile of player for us to sign imo. If he was fit all of last season, I genuinely don't think there would have been much difference.
 
I think he was fine and most of the hate comes from narratives around him rather than that performance itself. We were notably worse when he went off

Going forward, I think that performance will end up his bottom level and be interspersed with some more decisive moments.

I think we'll see more of him when he builds up relationships with other players, in particular him and Bruno don't look like they currently have a clue how to play in the same side as each other.
 
Needs to work on his finishing a bit. He gets in good positions, but not able to convert them yet. Once he starts doing that, his confidence will grow, and so will his performances.
 
MadDogg said:
He wasn't great on the individual level, but the team as a whole got significantly worse once he went off. While his sub wasn't the only reason for that (Mainoo and Casemiro tiring, Amad also going off), he probably was the main reason. We completely lost control of the match at that point.
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But the team wasn't good before he came off anyway, nothing was happening and individually he couldn't hold on to the ball.
 
Mount.. I can't quite work him out. He looks dynamic, decent short passer, makes very good runs off the ball but lacks something.. he lacks that punch that elevates you into a top player. He needs to add decisive goals and assist to his game and definitely needs to gets stronger or think faster. There were moments when he would make a good run and then get muscled off the ball. The solution is to think faster, sharper and be more decisive. I'm not sure if he has it in his locker but he needs to show significant improvement this season

All in all, he played well enough against Fulham but he must improve.
 
Excellent in his pressing, and made a big contribution to keeping our approach and structure functional. Just see how we collapsed when he went off.

He looked rusty and sort of out of sync with his teammates at the start. But I thought he grew into the game in that regard as well, and I'm convinced there's more to come from him. Positive signs, either way.
 
Borys said:
I thought he was terrible, disposessed often, very weak defensively and that's him being clearly very fit. I think he's a good player on a bad spell but rather mentally than anything else. I remain optimistic because compared to other players with similar issues (Sancho, Rashford) Mount seems to have enough fight in him when it's not going his way, what I like.
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He was dispossessed 10 times.
Same as Mainoo!
 
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