Christ. At least he doesn’t speak in 3rd person eh. Some home truths needed I think:
Berge - Okay Sander Berge is a 22 year old footballer, at the very minimum performing to Europa League standards as a CDM before he came here.
He’s come into united playing a completely alien system which doesn’t accentuate any of his good attributes and highlights his deficiencies. He’s still shown willing and put a lot of effort into all the behind the scenes work that a lot of players don’t. Getting on with the dressing room, doing 1 on 1 training, watching endless videos from the last 18 months to learn what’s expected of him. Remember too he’s made a huge step to move over to a new country, alone, and found himself in the midst of a global pandemic. He’s living and sleeping and eating alone in a hotel room in Sheffield. Got to play a factor mentally.
His lifespan as a footballer playing at least this level is around 12-14 years. What is the lifespan of our overlapping 352 system? 12-14 months at best probably. Give him time. Yes, he rejected us last summer because we were a newly promoted, cannon fodder team. He changed his mind and after watching all our games, joined us, despite having the pick of anyone in Europe by all accounts. He’s a proper football nut and realised something special was happening at United that he wanted a part of. He has invested in us due to the amazing connection with the club and fans. Those fans are now coming on message boards to slag him off.
He is a millennial. He will read all this shit you’re writing about him. He will be across all social media and probably these message boards. How do you think that would make him feel to read that his loyal fans that made that song about him are now calling him a fraud because of about 250 minutes out of position where he played poorly. We’re no better than pigs. Rimming him when it suits and using him as a scapegoat a week later. Pathetic. Look at yourselves.
In balance, I would prefer he was a little tougher, and would recommend to excel in this league you could be more tough and resilient and at his size he could become a brick wall shielding the defence. He already has the ball control and passing range which would make him a truly world class talent. In order to become that though, you need faith and patience and support from the fan base. Without that, he’s going to become a self fulfilling prophecy and flop, because that’s what you’re all telling him he is.
Mcburnie - I like Mcburnie. He does go missing in games but I think that’s down to the complete lack of service. I think he looks brilliant when we are playing a team where we are looking to dominate possession. If we’re playing on the break his shirt could be used on something else.
One thing I am surprised about though is that whenever we played against him, he was more a Mcgoldrick, dripping into the half spaces and creating stuff for others. He doesnt seem to have that about him at the moment.
Wilder - it’s unreal. The thread titles on the front page of this forum after 20mins ater final whistle were depressing. I’m starting to think we don’t deserve him as a boss. He’s done an unbelievable job.
The interesting thing is that wilder has never managed at this level. We’re all so proud to say he’s one of our own. We’re all so proud to tell everyone that will listen where he’s come from, how little experience he has at this level and how he’s never had 2 quid to rub together, yet the minute that he makes a mistake, before he’s even had a chance to learn from it, everyone is flogging him and almost suggesting he hasn’t done well enough this year and has made errors you wouldn’t have made yourself.
He’s inexperienced. He’s a quick learner but the only way to learn is from making mistakes. He’s one of our own and we should be proud to give him time to experiet to learn lessons for the future. Don’t ducking scare him off like you are with Berge. If you sing ‘he’s one of our own’ at games, don’t fucking come onto this forum and slag him off behind the keyboard you fickle bastards.
My two penneth anyway.
