If everyone isn't match fit then base levels of match fitness come into play. Some players need more football to get their touch back than others. Given Rashford is a dynamic explosive player and Mount is an endurance focused player I think you can start to see the difference.
Sure enough I will. But only if there's another PR article out by that time. If not, I don't give a single feck how he performs outside of competitive games. I just want him to perform well without all the off field distractions he brings himself. If that's having an agenda then yea sure, I have a huge agenda against Rashford.
Again, you're not doing much to convince me. I still think you're just looking for excuses to have a pop at a player you dislike.
I don't intend to convince you, nor do I harbor any dislike for Rashford. My point is simply that I may judge him more critically due to the high expectations set by PR articles. If there were no such articles, I would judge him similarly to other players, especially since it's just a meaningless pre-season game. Of course, others are free to form their own opinions. I hope this clears things up, but let's move forward from this topic.
I wasn't asking you too, I was highlighting that the disingenuous nature of your criticisms is suggestive of someone who has a problem with the player and wouldn't be kept silent just because nobody writes about him.
I suggested ages ago that you check my posting history if you think I would act in this manner. Would have saved us a lot of back and forth arguments. While I have criticized him in the past and will continue to do so whenever applicable(playing poorly), it has not been as incessantly as you seem to assume.
I did check your post history, absolutely nothing in it made me think my assessment was incorrect. That's why I have maintained the position.I suggested ages ago that you check my posting history if you think I would act in this manner. Would have saved us a lot of back and forth arguments. While I have criticized him in the past and will continue to do so whenever applicable(playing poorly), it has not been as incessantly as you seem to assume.
Jesus. So was it all me criticising Rashford to no end in all the threads? I have a mere 24 posts in his performance thread from last year which reached over 225 pages. Now I can see I engaged in a pointless conversation.Have a good day mate.
It was you clearly holding players to weirdly different standards. Which is pretty much the definition of having an agenda. I'm sorry that you don't like my opinion but it's weird behaviour.Jesus. So was it all me criticising Rashford to no end in all the threads? I have a mere 24 posts in his performance thread from last year which reached over 225 pages. Now I can see I engaged in a pointless conversation.Have a good day mate.
Only Rashford and I already made it clear why. Weird that you see me as some kind of incessant negative moaner who has nothing good to say even if he performs well.
Well we spent the whole season and didn't figure out those elements, not sure why that would've changed now or in the preseason in general. It's all about the players hitting form, I don't expect major improvements in tactics anytime soon.
I'm pretty sure I've made it clear what my issues with your outlook is. I don't think your summary covers it especially well, but I think others will follow easily enough.Only Rashford and I already made it clear why. Weird that you see me as some kind of incessant negative moaner who has nothing good to say even if he performs well.
Have to hope the new assistants in the backroom can influence the style over the summer. Don't know much about Hake but I doubt Ruud would stand for such a style to be the norm and both were fairly successful as managers in their own right. But both have only recently joined so will take time for their influence to come through.To those saying it's just the first season game, I get it. I think the worry for me is the pattern and style we saw before Arsenal towards the end of the season played out again with remarkable similarity.
By all means be slow, even a bit sloppy, but we were blasting long hopeful balls and bypassing the midfield again only to have it come straight back (looking at you Casemiro, but could be the instruction, as Bruno wasn't doing that at the Euros), there was the huge gap again, we always seemed outnumbered wherever we were on the pitch, Rashford and company giving the ball away in dangerous areas trying flicks that were not on and we were conceding chance after chance just like we did during last season, the almost identical sequences brought back the trauma!
In my years of watching United, I've seen us have many an underwhelming first game in pre-season, but to concede 22 shots? Surely that's a first. If Rosenborg were any good, they could easily have hit us for 8.
Protest against VAR. Several teams are doing it each round
Quite ironic considering every single premier league team except 1 voted to keep it.
