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"This is the job Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has in front of him. This is the core of the side I would keep with Scott McTominay, Diogo Dalot and Paul Pogba."

 

Quote from Robbie savage on BBC. No lukaku, no rashford, no lingard, but also no call to sign John McGinn, if he gets a game ahead of Mctominey he must be a player

 

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11 minutes ago, jamboman said:

if he gets a game ahead of Mctominey he must be a player

:lol: 

What is he talking about?! In the first 10 minutes Pogba did 5 step-overs before squaring it to the opposition, he also tried to lob the keeper from 40 yards. He shot when he should've passed and he only cares about his own glory. He's a liability.

If I was OGS I'd sell him. If United could get close to £80m I'd take it.

It's a hell of a rebuilding job in front of OGS: Right back, center back (at least one), a dynamic midfielder, winger and a striker. At least five players.

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15 minutes ago, jamboman said:

"This is the job Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has in front of him. This is the core of the side I would keep with Scott McTominay, Diogo Dalot and Paul Pogba."

 

Quote from Robbie savage on BBC. 

Couple more quotes from the BBC live feed:

Robbie Savage "Scott McTominay has kept going again tonight. Lionel Messi is teasing Paul Pogba and he has been overrun again."

Man Utd fan "McTominay is 10 times the player Pogba is. Imagine if Pogba worked half as hard as him?"

Fraser, Robertson, Tierney, Forrest and now McTominay. A half decent manager could make the basis of a good team out of that.

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3 minutes ago, SkyBlueScot said:

Man Utd fan "McTominay is 10 times the player Pogba is. Imagine if Pogba worked half as hard as him?"

That's exactly what I was thinking watching that match! I was also thinking that I'm glad we have McTominay and not Pogba.

Pogba was a disgrace tonight. It was obviously that he was treating it like a try-out and he was trying to show-boat and demonstrate to Barcelona that he should be their top target.... he didn't do this by running and being a team-player, nope, he did this by trying to do everything by himself.

 

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Pogba is one of the most overrated players in the world. He's absolutely bang average at best, and Mctominay is probably one of the most underrated players at Man Utd. Now I know that Man Utd aren't a great side anymore and a huge rebuilding of the team is probably overdue, but it is pleasing to see Mctominay involved in games against PSG and Barcelona and not come away disgraced 

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Pogba is a strange one, brilliant at times in the World Cup and looked disciplined as well, unlike at United with his cavalier approach and swagger. 

Good to see McTominay put in another credible performance. I do think he’s a limited player, I don’t mean that as a criticism but he’ll only be as good as the players around him but shown enough to be in our starting 11. 

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2 hours ago, ParisInAKilt said:

Good to see McTominay put in another credible performance. I do think he’s a limited player, I don’t mean that as a criticism but he’ll only be as good as the players around him but shown enough to be in our starting 11.

I know it's not supposed to be a criticism, but I disagree. Once he adds goals to his game then he's pretty much got the lot. He can pass, tackle, run with the ball, he is literally never flustered, he's calm and composed. None of our other midfielders can do any of those thing to a high standard. Pretty much why I'd move Robertson and Fraser to midfield, as I don't trust Christie, Fleck, Armstrong, McGregor, etc.

In fairness, if you put Messi or Rakitic in the Scotland team they'd look pretty hopeless. Messi would never get the ball as our midfielders are unable to pass forward and Rakitic would simply be on another page than the rest of the players.

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4 minutes ago, Lion Rampant said:

He trained today and was spotted having a one on one chat with Solskjaer. My assumption is that he wants to keep him for Sunday.

If that's the case then it's madness.

Every since time the lad doesn't play the general assumption is that he's being kept for the next match. Does Solskjaer realize this McTominay is 22, not 32?

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9 minutes ago, Lion Rampant said:

He trained today and was spotted having a one on one chat with Solskjaer. My assumption is that he wants to keep him for Sunday.

Is that a serious post or are you taking the piss? Serious question. 

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44 minutes ago, Marky said:

Is that a serious post or are you taking the piss? Serious question. 

I think he's just managing his squad, I don't see what's so strange about suggesting that. When it was one game a week he played Matic, Pogba and Herrera every game. Now there are more games he changes it more often. 

They have two massive games 4 days apart. Every player in his midfield is available for selection barring Herrera who is injured. So based on what he has been doing the past few weeks where he's been rotating the midfield where possible, I think we're likely to see McTominay against Chelsea on Sunday. 

That's what I assume to be the reason for him not being selected tonight, whether it was the correct decision is not really the point I was making. 

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1 hour ago, Chripper said:

Looks like no EPL medal for Robertson this season.

It's pretty crazy to think Liverpool could finish with 97 points and not win the league. Robbo should still get recognised in the EPL team of the season. 

McTominay just needs to keep his head down and work hard like he's doing. If he keeps shining when he is given the chance he'll make himself undropable like Robbo did. Remember 18 months or so ago when he was one game on one game off? Now look at him. 

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1 hour ago, mrniaboc said:

It's pretty crazy to think Liverpool could finish with 97 points and not win the league. Robbo should still get recognised in the EPL team of the season. 

McTominay just needs to keep his head down and work hard like he's doing. If he keeps shining when he is given the chance he'll make himself undropable like Robbo did. Remember 18 months or so ago when he was one game on one game off? Now look at him. 

I know. Just shows how good Manchester City are and how possession based football is king. Oh, Robertson will be the left back in the EPL team of the year.

I don't know. Klopp bought Robertson and moulded him into what we see now. OGS doesn't seem to rate McTominay all that highly. When he does play the lad it's usually as a last resort. 

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Can only hope that it’s the case that they want to protect his good form by deliberately resting him every third game or something - every time he’s played recently he’s been MotM or had pretty high rankings in the various newspapers and fan sites. The team was generally slaughtered after the Everton game but he appears to be the only one spared, which reflects his currently high standing with their fans.

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On 4/24/2019 at 10:00 PM, Lion Rampant said:

I think he's just managing his squad, I don't see what's so strange about suggesting that. When it was one game a week he played Matic, Pogba and Herrera every game. Now there are more games he changes it more often. 

They have two massive games 4 days apart. Every player in his midfield is available for selection barring Herrera who is injured. So based on what he has been doing the past few weeks where he's been rotating the midfield where possible, I think we're likely to see McTominay against Chelsea on Sunday. 

That's what I assume to be the reason for him not being selected tonight, whether it was the correct decision is not really the point I was making. 

Apologies. I think I misunderstood you.

I thought you were suggesting that he was somehow more highly valued by OGS that he was being saved above all the other regular first teamers for an arguably more important game on Sunday.

I’m now thinking that’s probably not what you meant. 

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On 4/24/2019 at 11:04 PM, mrniaboc said:

It's pretty crazy to think Liverpool could finish with 97 points and not win the league. Robbo should still get recognised in the EPL team of the season. 

McTominay just needs to keep his head down and work hard like he's doing. If he keeps shining when he is given the chance he'll make himself undropable like Robbo did. Remember 18 months or so ago when he was one game on one game off? Now look at him. 

It used to stress me out watching Moreno look absolutely useless and Robbo not making the squad as Klopp said that full back was a specialist position so he didn't need one on the bench.
Personally I don't think Klopp rated Robbo at first, he was just brought in by scouting team much like Salah was, which makes me more impressed by how he took his chance when Moreno got injured and made himself undroppable.

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11 hours ago, Marky said:

Apologies. I think I misunderstood you.

I thought you were suggesting that he was somehow more highly valued by OGS that he was being saved above all the other regular first teamers for an arguably more important game on Sunday.

I’m now thinking that’s probably not what you meant. 

Probably the way I worded it. 

I read something about solskjaer saying that Fergie regularly pulled players aside and told them they wouldn't be involved in the next game but that they would be playing in the one after. 

My assumption is thats probably what he was doing in training before the city game. I may be completely wrong and McTominay still won't be involved on Sunday. 

Talk of Herrera being available again so he may miss out again 

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