Stretford End is still largely legit, the other stands a right mix tbh..

I don't disagree but the co-incidence that followed with poor form, poor attitude, poor work rate also allows this narrative to exist that fans are turning on him for stuff other than football..

Indeed but all that most were wanting was to see him put in a shift..I just keep coming back to that because it's the truth..

Utd were really struggling and he was jogging around like it was the warm up or indeed just waiting and watching (a la Messi, etc) and fairly clear that wasn't the ask of the manager....both he and Garnacho got an early warning for attitude..one of them responded in training so got a lot of minutes (despite later fallouts) the other didn't..and so was sacked off..pretty sure Amorim would have loved a motivated, responsive, Marcus....he didn't have a lot else..

well quite possibly regarding man management techniques...though going back to an earlier point - when it's going well the whole dynamic and power base is different..

he asked for a positive reaction from a senior player who claimed the club was in his heart and got a poor response (presumably)..

so far as a manager he's shown nothing (very difficult takeover mid season) so he'll need to prove himself pretty rapidly, though on departures only Garnacho would worry me for the longer term and of they get anywhere around 40-45m that would be ok (less if they have significant sell on)

yep - bad times as it for Utd seeing the EPL so competitive is definitely good and should be celebrated..no leagues like it frankly..

Rashford played 6 games for amorin.

what is the league average for a LW in a 4-3-3  as that's what he was typically playing ?

Almost certainly when UTD finished third they'd have controlled more games that in itself leads to less running as you have the opposition pinned at times..I doubt typically Grealish as an example would have spent more than a few mins in his own half when they won the title the previous season...so probably didn't hit big numbers on running as a result...

The gap between the distance with the ball and without varies strongly according to the position played on the pitch. With a difference of about 550 metres per match, centre backs run logically more when the opposing team is in possession. Although the difference is reduced, midfielders (376 m) and full backs (341 m) follow the same logic. For wingers, this gap is much less, while it is actually slightly positive for centre forwards.

In taking into account the distances covered in high intensity, the difference between having or not having possession becomes slight (76 m), but the variations between positions increase. With possession, wingers cover four times more distance in high intensity than centre backs and 1.7 times more than midfielders. Conversely, in phases of the game where the team does not have the ball, these efforts are much more evenly distributed, with a maximum distance for full backs.

From

https://football-observatory.com/IMG/sites/mr/mr68/en/

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not entirely sure what tells me tbh..

Yeah maybe the case but doesn't alter rashford upping his effort
and being highlighted as lazy, and fans jumping on comment
rather than stats.

Ah, I read that Newcastle might be interested in Rashford.... that explains a lot.

Now that we have establised that contrary to popular belief, Rashford is in fact a hard working player I think that he would be a good fit for a side like Newcastle, he could replace Isak when he moves to a bigger club.

We ain't established that, we have established that he increased his work rate whilst being branded lazy. Having not been branded lazy at lower work rate until he annoyed
the gutter press by campaigning to feed kids from hard up families.

He'd fit in well at Newcastle and thrive on the love he would get but until Liverpool pay 100 mill for Gordon and Barnes is swapped for elanga....

he'd then compete with grealish
for left side spot if pep loans him to us and pays 75% of wages and man utd pay 75% of rashford wages.... Never say never

pool aint going in for gordon

izak defo on the cards

money talks

PIF might be but in terms of PSR, PIF is not Newcastle, in terms of PSR, Liverpool are the Goliath and Newcastle are the minnow.

The one thing they can do to keep him there is pay him,in their favour is that there are very few clubs that could pay the fee needed to get him but you would think that one way or another one of the biggies would find a way.

Eventually they will have to sell him and use that money to try and build from, they will probably have to do a Ronaldo/United deal where they ask him to give them one more year in the CL and go next year.

PIF have the advantage of total secrecy in Saudi. They can pay players anything they want off the books and no one will ever find out.

Ditto City in Abu Dhabi

I expect PIF are not the only owners who now do deals with good old fashioned handshakes

That was obvious from day one. He was being paid almost 1.5 times Villa's top earners and another 100k a week by United. He wasn't worth what Villa were paying him and it would have instantly lead to 3 or 4 Villa players looking for an extra 50k a week, which they can't afford. Also trousered 1m in wages from Villa while crocked at the end of the season.