We don't have an attacker capable of scoring 20 goals this sesaon

ifightdragons said:
I knew it, thanks for correcting me!

It boggles the mind how so many of our own fans can't even spell the names of the players from their favourite team, when their names are literally everywhere. On the back of the shirt, countless daily articles and tweets, in match day line-ups... you name it.

Erickson, Ericksen, Ericsson, Ericson, Erikson
Hojland, Hjulland, Hjalund, Højland, Højlland
Casimero (Ironically, his real name is Casimiro, but he adopted the misspelling of Casemiro because Brazilians don't give a f*ck and will misspell basically everything. Look it up, it's a cultural thing.)
McTomminay, Mctominay, MacTominay
MacGuire, Macguire McGuire, Mcguire
Anthony (Instead of Antony. Extra confusing when we actually had an Anthony.)
Varene
Eric ten Hag, Erik ten Haag
Classic: Lindgard, Lindegaard (Confusing Lingard with our Danish ex-goalie?)

Eriksen is the worst though. Seems 50% of the people on YouTube can't spell his name to save their life. I'd get it if you've never seen it written before. But you literally see these names spelled correctly multiple times a day, and again, on the back of their shirts every single match. But f it, his name is still anything but Eriksen. I don't get it.

I see those on a daily basis on social media. There's probably loads more funny examples I'm forgetting.

What is happening? Is there something in the drinking water?
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I guess we have a striker who could score 20 goals, Hojlund. He's strong, tall, fast and understands the game, had a good run last season, with literally no support from the wingers. With better support, assists, he could have lot more goals. And he is only 21. Zirkzee is different though. At 23, I don't expect him to improve his game too much and currently he is simply mediocre, never understood why INEOS signed him, especially for this huge amount.
 
We had a good window but not signing Olise or another goal threat other than Zirkzee is going to cost us in my opinion. Maybe something to look at in January, we really are going to need to get a tune out of Rashford this season
 
I am struggling with the title of this thread.
I personally think Rasmus, Alejandro and Rashford are capable but I would need to see a bit more of Zirkzee and see how he adapts but am hopeful.
So what is the point of the thread??
 
Hoping for:

Hojlund - 15
Bruno - 12
Rashford - 10
Zirkzee - 10
Garnacho - 7
Amad - 5

in league goals

That should give us just below 60 goals, the rest (15-20 goals) should be coming from:

Mount - 3
Casemiro - 2
Antony - 2
De Ligt - 2
Mainoo - 2
Mazraoui - 1
Martinez - 1
Ugarte - 1
Dalot - 1
Shaw - 1

Total: 16

60 + 16 = 76 is enough for top 4? We scored 57 last season - Aston Villa made top 4 with 76
 
I think Hojlund can get 16-18

Garnacho 12-14

But only if they are starting like 30 league matches each so they need to stay fit and be picked in the lineup
 
I think the most likely would be Hojlund, but we don't play a system that suits the striker our manager (who also chooses the system) spent so much money on...

We also have a very poor overall attack with two wingers who are good but certainly not on the level that most top teams have (Garnacho and Amad) in terms of providing chances for the striker, with two very poor wingers as backup in a squad where injuries are a very regular occurrence.

This problem wasn't addressed at all this summer and I think it'll be our main problem this season. Lack of chances leading to lack of goals.
 
Our attacking options are severely lacking at the top level. Think it will especially cost us away from home this season.
 
Ekeke said:
I think Hojlund can get 16-18

Garnacho 12-14

But only if they are starting like 30 league matches each so they need to stay fit and be picked in the lineup
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The only player in our squad I trust to physically cope with 30 games is 30 year old Bruno, sadly. The rest are made out of glass.
 
Jacob said:
The only player in our squad I trust to physically cope with 30 games is 30 year old Bruno, sadly. The rest are made out of glass.
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Dalot had 35 starts and Garnacho 30 last season. And the goalkeeper obviously. So for Garnacho I'm just expecting the same again... For Hojlund he had 25 starts and 5 sub appearances in the league. So not too much more than last season if he starts instead of coming off the bench.
 
Bondi77 said:
I am struggling with the title of this thread.
I personally think Rasmus, Alejandro and Rashford are capable but I would need to see a bit more of Zirkzee and see how he adapts but am hopeful.
So what is the point of the thread??
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Rashford is finished as a high level player.
 
Bondi77 said:
I am struggling with the title of this thread.
I personally think Rasmus, Alejandro and Rashford are capable but I would need to see a bit more of Zirkzee and see how he adapts but am hopeful.
So what is the point of the thread??
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Rasmus is the only one who can and should be there abouts. I agree that we have to see with Zirkzee, although he seems to have a bit of presence in the box more so than expected.

Garnacho will get goals, but I don't think as much as 20. I'd be pleasantly surprised if he hit 15.

Rashford as we all can see is a broken player, we will be made to pay for putting faith in him as our wide attacker.
 
Bondi77 said:
I am sure those with a half of a brain can.
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Honestly unless you’re his brother or mother I cannot understand how you can see anything in his game.

He’s bone idle, he’s no longer got the pace or strength he had, he dribbles with his head down and constantly fecks our attacks up, his whole demeanour is the complete opposite of the rest of the squad, tactically hes a burden as the rest of the attackers press aggressively in sync in packs while he stands off and refuses to track back.


I’d love to hear what you see that’s so different to everyone else and the stats will tell you.
 
pcaming said:
Rasmus is the only one who can and should be there abouts. I agree that we have to see with Zirkzee, although he seems to have a bit of presence in the box more so than expected.

Garnacho will get goals, but I don't think as much as 20. I'd be pleasantly surprised if he hit 15.

Rashford as we all can see is a broken player, we will be made to pay for putting faith in him as our wide attacker.
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The thread poses the question if we have any that are capable and we clearly do.
Just because they haven't done it yet does not mean they are not capable.
It is just a stupid thread.
 
With the numerous injury problems we have we will be lucky if we get to 50 goals scored this season with our current squad. It is absolutely paramount that at least one striker becomes a headline scorer and keeps fit, however I can’t even think of one that will knock in 20 goals across all competitions.
 
I don't have confidence in our attacking players but at least they started well - Garnacho scored in CS, Zirkzee vs Fulham and Amad at Brighton (Garnacho got unlucky there as well).

Think Sterling on loan would be decent solution but now it seems it won't happen.

Memphis is free agent :p
 
Bestofthebest said:
With the numerous injury problems we have we will be lucky if we get to 50 goals scored this season with our current squad. It is absolutely paramount that at least one striker becomes a headline scorer and keeps fit, however I can’t even think of one that will knock in 20 goals across all competitions.
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I am surprised that Ashworth is willing to go through this season with one legit no 9 only. (Joshua is a 9 1/2 as he indicated himself.) Its way too much pressure on the young shoulders of Rasmus.
 
Absolute gaff not getting Toney in at £40mil to address last seasons woeful GD.
Hodjlund has potential but is raw. Zirkzee looks in the same boat.
It’s not hard to predict we will struggle for goals again this year.

Its a disgrace a club of our stature goes into a new season with those 2 rookies as the only strikers. SAF always had top class 4 strikers.
 
Chicharito_ said:
Title says it all, out of the top clubs in the league we have the worst forwards/wingers by a distance. The only player capable you would say is Rashford because he has done it before but going by the past year it looks like he has no chance, compare this to other top clubs in the league:

City - Haaland, Foden
Liverpool - Salah, Jota
Tottenham - Son, Solanke
Arsenal - Saka, Havertz
Villa - Watkins
Newcastle - Isak

If you look at front 3s then I wouldn't pick Uniteds over any of the above teams either and without that individual quality you are going to struggle.
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For the 3rd season in a row. Plus we've said goodbye to a fairly certain 9 or 10 a season (McTominay). It's done my head in how obvious it's been before the start of these last 3 seasons.

A worse goal difference than last year will definitely see the manager sacked. It's absolute madness. To not address that for 3 seasons is guaranteeing a struggle to get into the top 6.

I hope Hojland can start firing them in (when he's fit), same for Zirkzhee. Garnacho and (maybe) Rashford will chip in, Bruno, Mainoo ... but it's a gamble. Liverpool took a punt on the Nunez lad, and that hasn't worked out, but they've had Salah who's a guaranteed scorer.
 
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