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2024-25 Performances

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5.1 Season Average Rating
Appearances
23
Goals
7
Assists
1
Yellow cards
1
I don't want to be too harsh on him, but it feels like we're playing with a man short when he's on the pitch. He doesn't get involved enough. The one time he showed good movement in this game was the chance where he really should have scored. He hasn't got the presence we need up front to play this particular role. Ironically, when Zirkzee came on for him, I instantly thought that this is the exact time I would introduce Hojlund into the game. He should have been the sub coming on for our new first choice striker.
 
He did quite okayish today that chance aside. He is not ready and that’s why we need a senior striker
 
He’s a waste of a shirt most of the time to be honest. He’s young yes but so are youth team players and having one of them up front wouldn’t look much different.
 
MUEricTheKing said:
Now the world is starting to realize what we Danes have known all along. Højlund is in no way at the level required to be a striker in the Premier League, let alone at Manchester United. FC Copenhagen chose not to invest in him because they believed he was simply too poor technically and tactically. He then went to Austria without much success and later ended up on the bench at Atalanta. How anyone can pay £60-70 million for a player and hand him the No. 9 shirt at United is the greatest mystery. I think this could make it into the top 10 of the worst transfer deals of all time.

How he has gotten so much playing time after one anonymous performance after another is beyond me. His lack of ability has long since been exposed, and there must surely be another player in the club who is better. It’s outrageous that he has been given so many minutes on the pitch.

A new striker in January must and has to happen.
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Thank you for this—he really frustrated me today. He couldn’t finish his chances, struggled to hold onto the ball, and seemed to lose his balance at the slightest contact. He was second to every 50/50 ball, and his runs were so ineffective that they visibly annoyed his teammates. Both Martinez and Bruno were caught on camera giving him an earful, and I wouldn’t be surprised if others did the same off-camera, to be honest.

We desperately need a striker in January—ASAP.
 
Apart from the chance i thought he was decent. I was surprised at how much trouble he caused their 2 center backs.

He's struggled with much worse.
 
Watching this guy drives me insane. Can't wait for us to buy a CF. Manchester United needs a CF that the opposition actually has to worry about, not someone that opposition center backs can bully every game without breaking a sweat.
 
If we can get a starting CT plus a good one on the cheap, I’d loan him out to work on his game because that’s his level right. Hopefully he’s a bench player soon because his overall game is extremely weak. What disappoints me most is his lack of dynamism / athleticism. You rarely see him capable of a burst of pace to create a shooting chance or look a genuine aerial threat.
 
Awful movement. Guy doesn't have any sense for positioning in penalty box. And where is his amous finishing? Last two games he missed to one on one chances. For a player who can't get into chance it is even worse to miss that.

Anyway, i would sell him next summer. He is not and never will be United quality.
 
Fortitude said:
Sorry, that's absolutely not the case, and there's a whole transfer thread of proof that this signing carried a lot of uncertainty with it as well as a load of prescient posts about him not being ready to be the leading man at a club like ours, but as an understudy with potential for the future, the same posters were OK with him coming in.

Saying there was blanket excitement is a distortion of the reality that his thread prior to even getting here is riddled with. There was cautious optimism and obvious happiness that, apparently, we finally had recruiters we could trust - 'football men' - who could pick out supreme talent for the future. That's where euphoric leanings would come in; a blind hope that our new guys were so much better than the old ones that faith could be placed in their hands. You're always going to have a certain amount of delight at new signings/things coming in, but some carry a lot more doubt than others, even if that gets drowned out by the positivity of not seeing a player or recruitment team in action before cheerleading for them.

I'm not shitting on the player here, but there were so many posts warning against exactly what has materialised that it cannot be swept under the rug. Those posters voiced concern and were so spot on it makes those paid enormous sums of money to get our house in order look utterly inept. Those who are supposed to safeguard both the club and the player left him - and us - in the lurch by piling on responsibility and a role he was, evidently, nowhere near ready for. That a whole load of randoms on the internet could say they warned of exactly this beforehand is actually alarming because those that are supposed to be professionals should be light years ahead in assessment to the point they don't feck up and cost the club 10's of millions a pop, yet they've left us in the hole to the tune of well over half a billion pounds in godawful recruitment. That is objectively awful. Just awful. And it keeps happening - they keep making poor signings for the most part.

The stance with Hojlund rarely changes and most say he's raw and shouldn't have this kind of burden on him. Some want him sold, some want him to be understudy to a main man and others would be happy to see him loaned to round out and improve his game, but what we all know, even the majority who are behind him, is that he isn't ready to be the leading striker here and something needs to be done about that immediately.

There's been a rather massive swing of late because we're in a position precarious enough for relegation talk and threads to be pumped out with consistency. With that comes uptake in urgency for someone to come in and deliver "main man" performances that get us back to mid table mediocrity in the meantime and have us bemoan just being our usual level of bad and not this level where relegation talk has any legs whatsoever. If we're talking alarm bells, they're starting to rattle a bit now and people are getting antsy, frustrated and some are genuinely of the belief we could get relegated. You can see why, under such circumstances, watching a very raw and undercooked main man look questionable as a PL-level performer is going to amass posts of discontent.

It's really unprecedented in my lifetime that a United strikeforce can be compared directly to relegation fodder, and yet that's what we have right now. People are able to ask how the likes of Ipswich's main man are better than what we have. They have a #9 who looks better than our own. It can be fluffed up and talked around in many ways, but watching Liam Delap and then watching Hojlund, it is clear who is the superior PL-level talent at this precise moment in time. Without a hint of arrogance, questions have to be asked of how the winningest PL institution, who spend 100's of millions on players, is in a position where its strikeforce is in competition with relegation candidates for worst in the league. Hojlund, Zirkzee, Antony, Rashford and Garnacho have a sum total of goals between them that is alarming. Amad's position keeps getting dicked around with so it's debatable whether he should even be classed as a forward when so much has come from him dumped at wingback.

Anyway, I digress, and this post could continue to highlight our woes and legitimate concerns, but even with well meaning hope for the future Hojlund, there's simply no grounds to state what he's putting forth is adequate, whether the team is flailing as a unit or not. As an individual, a PL striker of any merit does a lot more. Liam Delap isn't even the benchmark of expectation for a PL striker that the likes of us would be eyeing up for the future, and yet there's no doubt there's a chasm between he and Hojlund right now, or are you saying we're even bereft compared to Ipswich? Cunha is another, who whilst not a striker, you see performance level in that you immediately understand has value to it, enough to interest top clubs in the division. If we offered a swap of our #9 for Delap or Cunha, do you think they'd take it? If Hojlund was in the predicament of either player, would he outdo them? This, and a plethora of other really obvious, and painfully clear questions can be asked that wouldn't come out favourably for our young Dane. We're in a SOS state for good reason.
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Great post mate
 
100 said:
Apart from the chance i thought he was decent. I was surprised at how much trouble he caused their 2 center backs.

He's struggled with much worse.
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I think that's true for the first half. Thought he was pretty much invisible in the second until subbed.

The finish was awful. He's lucky the game didn't end 0-0 or 1-0 Liverpool.
 
A very average player, who is getting increasingly exposed. He isn't sharp, at all and he doesn't seem to know his own game or attributes.
He is definitely a liability. Awful signing, just way, way out of his league.
 
Was ok today, some good moments, some bad ones, but should have finished that chance.
 
I really think you guys are too reactionary about him. He's not performing at the level that justifies selling him — we do require a different starter in that position though.
 
Not good enough. We need to get a reliable striker ASAP.
 
Today they all get an A for effort.

The team played well and Rasmus was a part of that, so I'm not gonna criticise.

Rest and get ready for Arsenal in a week.
 
Basso said:
His run for the 2nd goal created the space for Dialo.
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That movement is actual a good example, if the ball does come across the 6 yard box his run is too late and he has no chance of getting on the end of it, it is a passive run again, the same as the one in the first half where he needed to go near post for Bruno and just ran beside VVD doing nothing.
 
harms said:
I really think you guys are too reactionary about him. He's not performing at the level that justifies selling him — we do require a different starter in that position though.
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I don't think we need to sell him. We're going to need options in the squad and having him on the bench to come on in games and freshen things up is a very, very useful option to have. But, to ask him to be the leading striker and the main source of our goals is not going to be the way forward.

Dare I say it, I'd actually bring in two forwards. One to lead the line, and maybe another who can play in either that number 9 position or who is flexible enough to play as one of the 10s.
 
Did ok but he was the weakest link today. We need a striker so he can develop without pressure
 
Oo0AahCantona said:
He’s not a hold up striker, he’s a run in behind man, which we aren’t doing.
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Who isn't exceptionally fast or particularly potent at finishing.

Call a spade a spade, he isn't good enough and age/experience isn't the issue.

Would be a decent third choice striker.
 
He might become important for the club in the future, but he's clearly not ready yet. He'll come up with the great goal here and there, but he isn't ready for this level. We need someone at his peak.
 
Mike Smalling said:
I think that's true for the first half. Thought he was pretty much invisible in the second until subbed.

The finish was awful. He's lucky the game didn't end 0-0 or 1-0 Liverpool.
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He was a weak link in the first half. Every time the ball went into his feet with his back to goal he lost it. In the second half I think we simply stopped passing it into him and just played it down the wings.
 
Still young and learning. One thing I will say is he will always give you 100%.
I love his potential, and he doesnt give the ball away. He missed one that he should have not missed today, but it happens.
I'm sure he will come good!
 
Jev said:
Unfortunately this is not as hyperbolic as it sounds. Still, we all know he isn’t good enough. He plays with what he has, and I think he did okayish with that today.
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We don't all know that though, there are many who continuously blame his teammates and state how a better forward would do no better.
 
thisisnottaken1 said:
I’ve been one of his biggest defenders but from what I’ve heard he wasn’t that good today. We need to improve on him.
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It was a 5/10 performance from him, the type he's given multiple times already for us. He's honest, he'll put in a shift, but he just doesn't have the quality to be a starting cf for United. Missed a 1v1 in the first half too, shot straight at Allison's stomach when it was crying out for a low zipper along the wet surface.

A top quality cf improves this team by 50% overnight. We can still keep Hojlund for another season or 2 as an "impact sub" and see if he improves, but I have my doubts.
 
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