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2024-25 Performances

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5.1 Season Average Rating
Appearances
26
Goals
7
Assists
1
Yellow cards
1
He's so bad...

Hojlund 70m
Zirkzee 40m
Antony 80m
Mount 65m

£250m spent on absolute rubbish
 
He's got some good traits but doesn't seem to use them at the moment. Got bullied by Jan Bednarek for christ sake. If we had a better squad he'd be worth keeping on for development but given what we need I'd be tempted to ship him out and bring in a more experienced replacement.
 
I wouldn’t be too harsh as I do think he will eventually be a good goal-poaching CF but he’s not ready to be a starter yet at this level of club. Add to that he’s better suited to play like Chicarito but being asked to play like a Berbatov.

His performances are down to a concoction of bad form, being too raw and a put in role he doesn’t have the attributes for. We can’t keep starting him and expecting much better as he’s not yet capable of it.
 
Absolutely stinking up the gaff this season
 
Take a break, please. Zirkzee should start after what he's just done.
 
Attila said:
He's so bad...

Hojlund 70m
Zirkzee 40m
Antony 80m
Mount 65m

£250m spent on absolute rubbish
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And that's why we are in a hole both financially and attacking wise.

Where would would be without Amad right now.
 
Just lost his place to Zirkzee.
 
Huge track record defending him, showed real promise last season. That was a criminal performance.
 
I thought he wasn't better than James Wilson at first, but then saw some hope. Hope is a strange thing.
 
He would do well at an Everton. I maintain he does have some good attributes, he's very strong and is good playing with his back to goal. He is not mobile enough to excel in this system. Zirkzee should start ahead of him.
 
kouroux said:
One of the players in terms of first touch I have ever seen at United. If he ain't running with space, he's fecking tragic
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It amazes me how little some expect from a striker.

People ask why he doesn't get passes and ignore the obvious answer that is staring them in the face, because his teammates know his touch is shit, they pass to Zirkzee just fine.

A striker who can actually play and be involved in the general play positively makes a massive difference to overall attacking cohesion and Utd should not be looking at one dimensional strikers.
 
FrankDrebin said:
Unfortunately both Hojlund and Zirkzee are making the point of being good options from the bench.
We really need a first team ST.
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How exactly Hojlund making that point? Because he scored 2 goals against Plzen as a sub? When else he had impact from the bench?
 
Finished here in my eyes after tonight.

Zirkzee is nothing special but you saw the difference between him and Hojlund in the two halves.

Zirkzee can do basic things like control a ball, swivel and pass it on to start a move. He did it numerous times. That seems completely beyond Hojlund.

He's young, and I'm sure he's lovely and will work hard but we can't persist with such a poor footballer. We are not good enough for sentiment.
 
Attila said:
He's so bad...

Hojlund 70m
Zirkzee 40m
Antony 80m
Mount 65m

£250m spent on absolute rubbish
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Don't know how you could watch that game and conclude that Zirkzee was rubbish. 40m for a young striker is really not that bad either. And it's not even 40 if you're comparing to Hojlund. It was 40m euro, £35m, Hojlund was £70m I believe.
 
Just imagine we would have spent that 70m on any half-decent striker back then. I like Hojlund and of course I feel sorry for him, but it's 100% clear and evident that he was horribly overestimated. Arguably he's among the 3 worst starting strikers in PL.
 
So weird how some games his hold up play is decent, but other times he makes Lukaku look like prime R9
 
Bobski said:
It amazes me how little some expect from a striker.

People ask why he doesn't get passes and ignore the obvious answer that is staring them in the face, because his teammates know his touch is shit, they pass to Zirkzee just fine.

A striker who can actually play and be involved in the general play positively makes a massive difference to overall attacking cohesion and Utd should not be looking at one dimensional strikers.
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Most people on here don't actually play football.

He's an awful player.
 
bosnian_red said:
Yeah I don't think he would stand out in the championship. What the feck did we spend so much money on, my god. He can't receive a pass under the slightest bit of pressure.
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The real worrying thing about this one is it's against the de facto worst team in the league against the worst CB's and he can't shake them with any frequency at all. He made a few clean breaks and should have had an assist, but that's not enough for a PL striker, let alone a United one.

His confidence is at rock bottom and that has to affect his game, but it's reached the point where he should be out of the team now and Zirkzee given a run of games. Hojlund is making everyone else's job multiple times harder because he can't hold up the ball and doubly, isn't making enough runs of worth to be a distraction that others can run in off or behind.

Don't know where the kid goes from here because this was the gimme game and he was mostly anonymous in it. Doesn't help that Zirkzee came on and was our key player until the first goal went in, either.
 
He's poor. That much is established. But the way he is used is also just totally wrong. He does positive things when he runs in behind, or if he receives the ball with room to turn. When we continue to play the ball to his feet with a defender in tight coverage, we just lose the ball again and again. It's clear limitation of Højlund - it's not good enough - but it's made worse by the situations he is constantly put in.

In an ideal world, he is not in the squad next season, unless he takes some really unexpected strides in the next months.
 
Its not surprising we look so shit with him on the pitch, it's like playing with 10 min from the first minute. Sell him for 10m.
 
KeanoMagicHat said:
Don't know how you could watch that game and conclude that Zirkzee was rubbish. 40m for a young striker is really not that bad either. And it's not even 40 if you're comparing to Hojlund. It was 40m euro, £35m, Hojlund was £70m I believe.
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Was going by the entire season not just today
 
KiD MoYeS said:
He would do well at an Everton. I maintain he does have some good attributes, he's very strong and is good playing with his back to goal. He is not mobile enough to excel in this system. Zirkzee should start ahead of him.
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He is awful with his back to goal. Defenders get tight to him and he can't keep it under pressure. Despite being a strong lad any touch from a defender puts him off balance and he can't do anything.
 
Giggsyking said:
Its not surprising we look so shit with him on the pitch, it's like playing with 10 min from the first minute. Sell him for 10m.
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We can get 40-50 million euros easily for him. But if we sell him on time (this summer).
More he stays, more his value will drop.
 
Think a year in the championship would do him the world of good like Diallo. He's just not top 10 premier league quality. New Striker is a must.
 
He had 1 good moment early on when he rolled the defender and used his speed before cutting it back to Garnacho but apart from that he was poor again. I know some people have convinced themselves that because Gyokeres is very good at rolling defenders and running in behind that Hojlund can basically become what he was for Amorim at Sporting, ignoring that Gyokeres' hold up is way better and that he scores loads of goals unlike Hojlund. It's looking more and more like he's just not up to it and we'll have to be in the market for a number 9 for the third year in a row.
 
When the ball passed to him, you know he’s likely to lose it because he has no ball control, no balance, and no strength to hold the ball when defenders are onto him. He also bad aerially so either passes on the ground or long ball towards him, the ball will go straight back towards opposition.
 
soapythecat said:
Hard to see what his strengths are. He needs to be in a team like City as a tap in merchant. Disastrous season from him so far.
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He doesn’t get in the right positions enough to even be a tap in merchant.
 
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