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There was a time we were buying over the hill players, then all of a sudden they've gone the opposite way. Buying potential, unfortunately that hasn't worked either. You can't rely on 20 year old to lead the utd front line, with the pressure that entails. I find Hojlund hold up play really poor, just bounces off him and then we lose it. It's a long term process, they have to get it right this time they just have to. If we don't gave a relegation battle this season, it will be next season. We are turning into Everton, can't even manage to be spursy. No money in January, players will only go out on loan with utd paying the bulk of wages. Average players, not arsed players. Even when we were sh*t in the 80s, we had warriors who gave there all. Crazy ten hag was allowed to spend 600m on dutch/Dutch based players.

Pretty sure there'll be a couple of big ones at the end of the month to go along with payday.

northernangel acting like an authority on if and when someone should tour. Thankfully it doesn't actually work like that.

There was a period in the middle of last season where he looked quite decent, but it did seem curious to spend a superstar budget on potential. Particularly given Atalanta seem to have reinvested the proceeds very well, having won the Europa League last season and now being Serie A leaders. Saying that, for all that I'm not sure about if it was worth it, a striker can only be as good as the supporting infrastructure in any case and if the chance creators just aren't doing the business, they're going to feel a bit of a passenger. It's like how Haaland has looked in some games of Man City's recent malaise - barely any chances created means its not a surprise he's been struggling to score. Even if Haaland did miss a penalty against Everton. Mason Mount being permanently injured probably doesn't help, given he would arguably be one of the players suited to the AMs in a 3-4-3 as he played in that system with Tuchel at Chelsea. But hey. We're debating the incoherence of Man Utd both on the macro level of the post-Fergie era and the micro level that is just since Ineos brought a stake. We could probably carry on until the 2025/26 thread is needed at this rate.