We need a striker.

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If there is one positive to take from this game, it is that it has made it absolutely crystal clear to absolutely anyone with an interest in United that we need a striker.

Not a false 9 (Zirkzee), or two attacking midfielders playing up front (Fernandes and Mount), or an injury-prone novice (Hojland) or a goal and workshy winger disguised as a striker (Rashford).

We need an out and out experienced striker that can guarantee goals. I would say this is even more important than the Ugarte signing, and will be the difference between top four and Europa League once again.

What are the options?
 
We need wingers too, our attack isn't anywhere near good or productive enough.
 
AltiUn said:
We need wingers too, our attack isn't anywhere near good or productive enough.
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I think Amad and Garnacho are productive enough. We just need ETH to have the balls to drop Rashford, and have someone who can lead the line in the truest sense of the phrase.
 
We need controlling midfielder and wide attacker to replace Rashford.
 
Goals win games and we don’t even look like scoring. No control of the game, ah it’s going to be a long season again.
 
We create barely nothing, due to poor wide play, lack of control and poor final third passing. I still struggle to see how a striker fixes that massively.
 
Judas said:
We create barely nothing, due to poor wide play, lack of control and poor final third passing. I still struggle to see how a striker fixes that massively.
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This. I'm puzzled how someone can watch the game and think a striker was the problem. We also haven't seen Hojlund. Striker ain't solving anything, particularly with the budget we'd be able to alot for it.

Have to get better performance from the midfield and the wings.
 
We need a midfielder who can bring people into the game, Mainoo, Casemiro and Bruno didn't come back from preseason
 
Irrational. said:
If there is one positive to take from this game, it is that it has made it absolutely crystal clear to absolutely anyone with an interest in United that we need a striker.

Not a false 9 (Zirkzee), or two attacking midfielders playing up front (Fernandes and Mount), or an injury-prone novice (Hojland) or a goal and workshy winger disguised as a striker (Rashford).

We need an out and out experienced striker that can guarantee goals. I would say this is even more important than the Ugarte signing, and will be the difference between top four and Europa League once again.

What are the options?
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We've needed one for ages. I just don't think ETH is a manager who favors a classic striker.
 
I couldn’t understand the period at the end of the title and then I saw your name and it all makes sense.
 
Irrational. said:
If there is one positive to take from this game, it is that it has made it absolutely crystal clear to absolutely anyone with an interest in United that we need a striker.

Not a false 9 (Zirkzee), or two attacking midfielders playing up front (Fernandes and Mount), or an injury-prone novice (Hojland) or a goal and workshy winger disguised as a striker (Rashford).

We need an out and out experienced striker that can guarantee goals. I would say this is even more important than the Ugarte signing, and will be the difference between top four and Europa League once again.

What are the options?
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This is irrational. Pun intended :)
 
I wish we could just get an RvP level striker.

There's some many holes in the squad, you sign a striker and you can't fix another position.
 
A coach who can teach our attackers to do the basics might save us a few quid.
 
I like Hojlund but he's someone you buy for the future when you have a top striker around. It was obvious from last season that we needed a reliable 9 but we went ahead and bought another young player with potential who isn't a 9. Hard to see how are we going to close the gap without scoring much more.
 
TheNewEra said:
We need a midfielder who can bring people into the game, Mainoo, Casemiro and Bruno didn't come back from preseason
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100% agree.

Also, Bruno didn't have a good game today but subbing him for McT was pure idiocy. You need to connect back line with front line, you need somebody to create chances, Bruno may had been doing that poorly but McT is completely incapable of doing it, so we lost any and all structure
 
I don’t understand the calls for another striker. That would be 3 strikers vying for one position. It’s fine to say you don’t think Zirkzee or hojlund is good enough and they need replacing but to add to them makes no sense.

It’s not like our strikers are getting hatful of chances which they are wasting. If anything I would say we are in desperate need of a goal scoring winger.
 
Even when it is tempting, adding more and more players into the equasion isn't always the best solution. Obviously we have to play with a striker but we did well in the first half today. And I am pretty sure we would have scored sooner or later. The improvement has to come from within the team - we have to adapt to playing higher up and make more of the chances we get. When we bring on a striker and the tender flower of our pressing scheme gets damaged, we are back to square 1.
 
I really like the look of Zirkzee and I was pretty negative about his signing.

We need a manager who knows how to coach us, more like.
 
I don't quite see what a different striker would have done for us today. We didn't create a boatload of chances.
 
We need to be ruthless. If you can't stay fit or you can't create and score goals, you'll be replaced. Goals would cover up a lot flaws and take the pressure off.

It's a joke that Hojlund has started this season injured. And we can barely compete when he is fit.
 
Last two seasons we have been crying out for an out and out goalscorer.

Instead we sign a youngster for the future last season and a false 9 this season.
 
Saying "we need a striker because we don't score enough goals" is like saying "we need a new CB because we concede too many shots". But the root cause is the same, non functional midfield and whatever is happening between attacking and defending formations. We have plenty good attackers and defenders.
 
Irrational. said:
I think Amad and Garnacho are productive enough. We just need ETH to have the balls to drop Rashford, and have someone who can lead the line in the truest sense of the phrase.
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The very best "wingers" can beat a man, go inside and outside. Any club with any ambition needs 4 of these players. We just have Garnacho and Amad.

We need at least two more ala doku or sylvinho. But that's for next summer maybe.
 
We struggle to create clear cut chances in every single game, signing a striker won't magically make them create anything.
 
Seriously strengthening the central midfield should be the top priority, as everything stems from there.
Until we do, the goals will continue going in at the wrong end of the park.
However, it’s still true that we desperately need more firepower up front.
In the circumstances, it’s all about priorities under our tight budgetary constraints and keeping within the financial regulations.
 
Freak said:
We need a striker to do what exactly? Stand beside the opposition goalkeeper because he won’t be getting chances from our team that’s for sure.
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I'm going to guess to score goals. Think of having a proper striker capable of scoring off the cross Dalot sent to Amad for instance.
 
Raoul said:
I'm going to guess to score goals. Think of having a proper striker capable of scoring off the cross Dalot sent to Amad for instance.
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We have players that can score a chance like that. We don't play in a way where we generate those chances for our strikers.
 
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