[Ekeke]

Weird examples to give. Mbeumo was bought 5 years ago when Brentford were in the Championship. Brentford just have a competent scouting department.

£36.5m is maybe too much to spend on a punt, but this is Manchester United. We spent more than twice that on Hojlund in the hope that he might be good.

No we didnt. We bought him because we fully thought he was going to be a top striker ala Haaland. You dont pay half of that for someone you are just hoping will be good.

Yes Mbeumo was bought cheap and is a proven premier league goalscorer now. Thats a punt

 

[Rex Banner]

No we didnt. We bought him because we fully thought he was going to be a top striker ala Haaland. You dont pay half of that for someone you are just hoping will be good.

Yes Mbeumo was bought cheap and is a proven premier league goalscorer now. Thats a punt

There was no evidence to suggest that Hojlund would be as good as Haaland. It was pure hope. Most clubs wouldn't pay that for a punt, you're right, but we did because we were run by incompetent clowns.

Mbeumo was Brentford's record transfer at the time, he was not bought cheap.

 

[marcus agrippa]

Yeah, the guy who's played a grand total of 3 games for Everton and hasn't scored a league goal for 2 years offers more than him.

Yeah, getting injured and playing for relegation fodder as a young inexperienced player will do that.

But he can hold up the ball better, can run the channels, can occupy defenders. Given as much time as Hojlund has in this team, and he'd do better I wager.

Hojlund isn't it.

 

[Lentwood]

He literally needs, and I mean this, someone to attach a device to his body in training which delivers a moderate electric shock and have Amorim zap him every single time he takes a 3rd touch of the ball.

His job is to bring the #10s and midfield into play. One touch to control, one touch to lay it off, spin and go for the return.

 

[Godfather]

He literally needs, and I mean this, someone to attach a device to his body in training which delivers a moderate electric shock and have Amorim zap him every single time he takes a 3rd touch of the ball.

His job is to bring the #10s and midfield into play. One touch to control, one touch to lay it off, spin and go for the return.

Plus whenever he is late to a cross

 

[marcus agrippa]

He literally needs, and I mean this, someone to attach a device to his body in training which delivers a moderate electric shock and have Amorim zap him every single time he takes a 3rd touch of the ball.

Forget the ball. His first instinct is to look for the defender and grapple.

 

[Lentwood]

Plus whenever he is late to a cross

To be fair, whilst I do agree, our crosses are so rare and so sporadic / unpredictable, its no wonder he's not expecting them

 

[Borussia Teeth]

he is so raw that you would think he is a 30m at most, but we paid 72m, let that sink in.

there are at least 12-15 strikers in the PL that are objectively better than him, yes he is young, but he was not ready at all to be brought in for 72m as the main striker for any club in the league, let alone for us.

his link up play, intelligence, positioning, and holdup are all severely lacking, he would need a season long loan to work it out and get better.

Edit: the bolded part I said it in jest, but when I thought about it, it could be true

Haaland, Isak, Solanke, Watkins, Duran, Evanilson, Jackson, Mateta, Wood, Jota, Pedro, Wissa, Delap.

Delap & Duran are the same age as Hojlund

My brother is a Fulham fan. Their strikers: Jiminez and Muniz are both better than him too

 

[Isotope]

He literally needs, and I mean this, someone to attach a device to his body in training which delivers a moderate electric shock and have Amorim zap him every single time he takes a 3rd touch of the ball.

His job is to bring the #10s and midfield into play. One touch to control, one touch to lay it off, spin and go for the return.

He also need to train his going down move when fouled. Not many ref would buy his lousy theatrical style.

 

[criticalanalysis]

For a players who is apparently pacey, he never ever runs in behind. Wolves pushed up with a high line today there was ample opportunity to run in behind and stretch them/turn them round, but no just stands Infront of his defender demanding everything to feet so he can 'control it' straight into trouble.

The players even played a few through balls and balls over the top for him and he wasn't even attempting to move for them.

He's a good wrestler who can kick the ball quite hard with his left foot, and that's about the sum of his talent.

Really really poor signing who would struggle in the championship.

That's not what I remembered in the first half as he made at least 3-4 good runs, that were missed/messed up by Mainoo and Amad. Wasn't paying much attention in the second half after Bruno's red card; it was always going to be an uphill battle to get on the ball and catch them out as they were sat deeper and had the extra man.

When did the examples you remember happen?

 

[Oscar Bonavena]

He’s not good in the air and never has been. It’s his one obvious weakness and it was known when we bought him.

He has more than one obvious weakness! He has at least 3 or 4.

- Heading like you'd mentioned.
- First touch and close control is very bad.
- Movement is bad (although as you mentioned, that could be down to having no idea what his teammates are going to do!)
- Goalscorer's instincts although this is probably linked to movement. When crosses do go into the box he's often on his heels and not in a position to attack them. Saw it again v Wolves.

His main strengths are finishing (when he does get the chances) and he's moderately fast (not lightning) but we rarely see it because he spends most of the time on his arse trying to hold up the ball!

I don't know why we don't try to get him to make more runs in behind to get on the end of, because the lad can't play with his back to goal, that's for sure!

 

[Litch]

My biggest issue is his movement is poor which makes him hard to find. I've noticed he's always a split second too late arriving to the chance and why Scott use to beat him to the ball all the time when he scored.

 

[Bondi77]

What coaching did RVN give to him when he was there?
He looks worse than he did last season!

 

[Hester_manc]

It was not long ago fans were sure that the young talents were our bright future, and we never should sell any of them. But fans seem to forget that young players have ups and downs and it would be stupid to sell players like Højlund, Garnacho or Mainoo. It was always made clear that Højlund was one for the future, and it is not his fault that we do not have or buy a striker he could learn from and Højlund could be back-up for.