Alexis is going to be amazing next season

Originally Posted by General Woundwort

Just looked at the honours section on his wikipedia profile and it's not in there

It should be, a hell of an accolade as he traipsed around the turf in the sunshine surrounded by shit kids ((c) Jose Mourinho).

£#%&! him

We have no luck with South Americans tbh

Originally Posted by Sparky***

Or what is more likely is that he'll come in, run the ball into defender's legs for 45 mins, look sulky and get subbed.

Originally Posted by Sparky***

Or what is more likely is that he'll come in, run the ball into defender's legs for 45 mins, look sulky and get subbed.

Cheeky bet for charity?

Little knock apparently, nothing major. BDR back in the starting 11 tho’.

Originally Posted by MartialLaw

Cheeky bet for charity?

Am I going to have a bet with a stranger who registered on this forum 2 days ago?

Nah, you're alright thanks.

Originally Posted by dragflick

Little knock apparently, nothing major. BDR back in the starting 11 tho’.

Originally Posted by TheFatGoth

Big Rom’

Originally Posted by Sparky***

Am I going to have a bet with a stranger who registered on this forum 2 days ago?

Nah, you're alright thanks.

We could both PayPal a respected member the wager pre match.

Originally Posted by MartialLaw

We could both PayPal a respected member the wager pre match.

You're right, we could.

But we won't.

Originally Posted by ScholesGingerSheen

Last season Mkhitaryan had more assists for Arsenal and Manchester United than Alexis Sanchez, he hasn't suddenly become crap, it's happened over a season. His 24 league goals in 2016-17 was a career peak by some margin and looks more like an outlier (even more so in assist terms) than his current ceiling. We lost 3 games out of 24 before we signed him and lost 4 in 14 after, we scored a goal every 44 minutes without him and a goal every 66 minutes with him, and we wonder why Martial has seen his arse.

Maybe Mkhitaryan wasn't mentally strong enough, but statistically our goal output would be better with him and Martial than it is with Alexis and whoever plays square peg in the right side hole.

If you are using stats it’s reasonable to point out Mourinho teams always score more goals in the 1st half of the season. Alexis was poor for us but it is ridiculous to blame him for the drop in goals scored. Unlike Martial Alexis does have fantastic numbers that show he does have the ability & consistency to score & create in this league. He scored a goal every 2nd game at Arsenal, that’s outstanding given he played wide more often than not, he has a goal every 3 games for Chile which is also excellent. Martial on the other hand 😳
Maybe it’s the Jose affect, but he is a far better player than we have seen so far & to write him off so quickly is mind boggling

Doesn’t Martial have the best goals to minutes ratio of all the forwards at OT atm?

Originally Posted by dunk

Doesn’t Martial have the best goals to minutes ratio of all the forwards at OT atm?

Yes.

However he's a moody @#%&!, so lets burn the @#%&! on a cross

Originally Posted by Sparky***

Am I going to have a bet with a stranger who registered on this forum 2 days ago?

Nah, you're alright thanks.

He’s not a stranger.....

Originally Posted by Ethers

He’s not a stranger.....

Originally Posted by MartialLaw

Yes.

However he's a moody @#%&!, so lets burn the @#%&! on a cross

It was Cold and clinical in his first season

Originally Posted by Kangared

If you are using stats it’s reasonable to point out Mourinho teams always score more goals in the 1st half of the season. Alexis was poor for us but it is ridiculous to blame him for the drop in goals scored. Unlike Martial Alexis does have fantastic numbers that show he does have the ability & consistency to score & create in this league. He scored a goal every 2nd game at Arsenal, that’s outstanding given he played wide more often than not, he has a goal every 3 games for Chile which is also excellent. Martial on the other hand 😳
Maybe it’s the Jose affect, but he is a far better player than we have seen so far & to write him off so quickly is mind boggling

and now over to Jim with the weather.

The most worrying part about Sanchez is not, for me, that he gives the ball away so much or his inconsistency. Those are traits of many of the great attacking wide players, see Giggs for an example, to create means taking risks. Mata keeps a high passing % but has rarely been a creative force for Utd. What is an issue is that it appears Sanchez has lost some of his 1 v 1 ability, dropped in pace and rarely threatens to take a man on. That makes him predictable and directly contributes to him giving the ball away.

Hazard came on for Chelsea yesterday and immediately was driving at defenders and forcing them to scramble. Helped to pin Arsenal back and kill their threat because they were terrified of Hazard getting isolated against a defender. Utd need that type of threat from someone, it opens the game up, Sanchez has not provided it.

Originally Posted by Tiberian

The most worrying part about Sanchez is not, for me, that he gives the ball away so much or his inconsistency. Those are traits of many of the great attacking wide players, see Giggs for an example, to create means taking risks. Mata keeps a high passing % but has rarely been a creative force for Utd. What is an issue is that it appears Sanchez has lost some of his 1 v 1 ability, dropped in pace and rarely threatens to take a man on. That makes him predictable and directly contributes to him giving the ball away.

Hazard came on for Chelsea yesterday and immediately was driving at defenders and forcing them to scramble. Helped to pin Arsenal back and kill their threat because they were terrified of Hazard getting isolated against a defender. Utd need that type of threat from someone, it opens the game up, Sanchez has not provided it.

Martial does that.

Originally Posted by Ethers

He’s not a stranger.....

Have I met him then?

Is it my mate Chris?