2022/2023: PL MD38 - Man Utd v Fulham

[Gary 213]

5 hours ago, CB78 said:

Not one of my better bets;   

still time though- 90mins remain for Big Weghorst to make history

I reckon his only chance of making history is by scoring a hat-trick of OGs at Wembly

[John Locke 1,215]

10 minutes ago, O said:

He scored zero PL goals. 2 goals from 30 appearances.

Pretty much every United fan recognises that Weghorst didn't work out. Even ten Hag's most devoted supporters.

He had a bit of cult following initially.

Chelsea did have a ST in Aubameyang. They simply discarded him after Tuchel was sacked.

How was it supposed to have worked out? Strikers don't just score goals they play a role for the team. When martial was injured we only had one recognised striker and rashford couldn't be expected to play in every minute. It's better to have a bad striker a lot of the time than to play someone out of position. It seems that ten hag saw weghorst as being useful for his pressing, attitude and physical presence. I agree, it's not the kind of player we want in the summer and he wasn't that good to warrant keeping at the club. He was a dirt cheap option to plug a hole.

[CB78 395]

25 minutes ago, Gary said:

I reckon his only chance of making history is by scoring a hat-trick of OGs at Wembly

He’s misunderstood, when the history books are written in yr’s to come Weghorst will be recognised as a UTD great 

[O 20,759]

29 minutes ago, John Locke said:

How was it supposed to have worked out? Strikers don't just score goals they play a role for the team. When martial was injured we only had one recognised striker and rashford couldn't be expected to play in every minute. It's better to have a bad striker a lot of the time than to play someone out of position. It seems that ten hag saw weghorst as being useful for his pressing, attitude and physical presence. I agree, it's not the kind of player we want in the summer and he wasn't that good to warrant keeping at the club. He was a dirt cheap option to plug a hole.

He didn't plug the hole though. 2 goals.

United got by thanks to goals from the likes of Rashford, Martial, Casemiro and, more recently, Bruno. Weghorst is not a Welbeck ST. His stints at Burnley and United are the only barren spells of his career. He simply failed to score enough goals. He should have scored at least 5 PL goals playing with better players than at Burnley. He couldn't deal with the pressure, despite his best efforts.

It's really that simple. United qualified for The CL with zero goals from him.

[hdcantona 9,140]

He did have at least 2 wrongly ruled out to be fair... but yeah, he's shite - the chance late in this game summed him up perfectly

[Gary 213]

6 minutes ago, hdcantona said:

He did have at least 2 wrongly ruled out to be fair... but yeah, he's shite - the chance late in this game summed him up perfectly

Think you're opinion on the guy vastly overestimates his ability