Chelsea away – Saturday night – 5.30

I know I’m probably Rashford’s biggest critic and I make no apologies for that, but fuck me it doesn’t matter whether you are wearing blinkers or not you can still clearly see that only scoring 7 PL goals in the last calendar year are the numbers that only a 3rd or 4th rate player would be putting up. He’s also currently on yet another one of his many non scoring runs when he goes several weeks or even months without scoring a goal, his last PL goal was way back in early September against Arsenal. It’s just totally unacceptable to keep ignoring these facts with our heads in the sand if we are to be anywhere near successful under ETH in the future, simple as that.

Bit of a joke how easily ex Utd players now criticise Ten Hag when they said fuck all about Ole for years. In the last week Evra, Ferdinand, Scholes, Keane and Neville have all had a pop at him in some way. Yet Ole blew fucking crazy amounts and played shit football, and it was never him it was the board and players. Fucking hypocrites

Keano was talking utter bollocks last night, never had him down as a Ronaldo fanboy, but that’s how he came across. We have to put an end to this absolute farcical circus surrounding Ronaldo now, it’s completely overshadowing what ETH is trying to do on the pitch, and the improvements he is slowly bringing about.
Fact is, Ronaldo is just acting like an ageing diva who refuses to accept that his time as the leading man is well and truly over, it’s pretty pathetic stuff from him and his bunch of sycophantic fucktards, simple as that.

I thought the performance yesterday was again at a very high level and it appears we are finally getting to a place where the eleven on the field fully understand what is required in all phases of play. Big respect to Ten Hag, he’s the real deal in terms of tactical coaching.

We now have a foundation to build off which needs more quality and squad depth, especially at the sharp end of the pitch. If we had a striker who could make the same runs as Rashford but finish like Ronaldo we am would be in serious contention.

So, all in all I’m very happy with our progress under Ten Hag and am particularly impressed with how he has handled Ronaldo. Now we need a goalkeeper, two central defenders (one to cover for Varane’s injuries and one to replace Maguire), two midfielders (depth/competition for Casemiro and Eriksen), a winger to replace Sancho and a top class striker to replace Rashford/Martial/Ronaldo.

Oh and I can’t leave this post without mentioning how chuffed I am with having Casemiro in the team – finally a world beater in midfield!!

@happy – We all know you’re a fucking numpty mate, no need to keep doubly underlining it every time you come on this page! What I actually said was that in my opinion we are the “3rd best team” in this division, but until that is confirmed by our final league position it means nothing. Just because you beat a team on any given day it doesn’t automatically mean that you are better than they are overall, and I think it’s fair to say that City and Arsenal have both been comfortably better than us so far this season, although I do think that this talk of Arsenal being title challengers is complete and utter bollocks. Hope that’s okay for you!😂😂

It’s all relative to what the opposition are doing in comparison to us matey, don’t rate Spurs or Chelsea and Liverpool are all over the place so far, simple as that.

The big shame is our atrocious start against Brighton and Brentford because if we won those two we’d be right up there right now. A shame we didn’t get off to a good start but there’s lot of time left to build on current good performances and push for a Top Four finish.

@sympathy, in hindsight those 2 losses were important in letting both ETH and board see that drastic action was needed. We’d have neither Casemiro nor Antony if we’d won those games

What’s a shame is that if we had a decent striker or if Martial could stay fit, that opportunity that Rashford hit straight at Kepa might have been a goal and changed the game, we might actually have won and be sitting in 4th instead of 6th.

Rangnick wasn’t wrong, we’re just undergoing the longest open heart surgery in history.