Still have a headache (and heartache) as staying up late last night. Not happy with the result.

But. I feel happy for Bruno Fernandes though. He got his revenge against Martinez. Twice!

clearly need new defensive midfield...i wonder is board will give money to rr to spend?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/...Villa-draw.html

So siapa tipu?

Rr said yesterday matched is a step forward. Omg. Satisfied with the performance?

We have two more important games coming up, what we have shown today is a step forwards, this draw doesn't feel like a point.'

I think there both sides are technically correct. Without insider info, this is what I think happened.

Due to current negotiations of an impending loan deal, Martial may have informed Rangnick he preferred to be left out. So in this Rangnick is right.
Martial denies he refused to play for United. He is also correct because he was not asked to play and then refused it.

Personally I think Martial wants out already.

How to sell with his performance? Even his salary is too high for new suitors (only newcastle/psg can match it)

unlike Rashford, Martial dont get the luxury of "is he okay? we worried about him"..

Sevilla wanted to loan him for the remaining of the season with option to buy..
the nego failed because United insist on Sevilla paying 100% of his salary during the loan period..

2 season back, United gladly paying more than 50% of Alexis Sanchez salary for him to be at Inter for a loan spell.. the club loves to flip flop on terms 

speaking about his form as a striker, with the exception of CR7, Cavani didnt do better either.. as a left wing/forward, Elanga did better in terms of tracking back only..

How to sell with his performance? Even his salary is too high for new suitors (only newcastle/psg can match it)

unlike Rashford, Martial dont get the luxury of "is he okay? we worried about him"..

Sevilla wanted to loan him for the remaining of the season with option to buy..
the nego failed because United insist on Sevilla paying 100% of his salary during the loan period..

2 season back, United gladly paying more than 50% of Alexis Sanchez salary for him to be at Inter for a loan spell.. the club loves to flip flop on terms 

speaking about his form as a striker, with the exception of CR7, Cavani didnt do better either.. as a left wing/forward, Elanga did better in terms of tracking back only..

I blame glazer/woodward..they offered 250k bcoz martial is one of glazer favourite players. Now very to sell him due to his high wages.

Cavani felt what CR felt...both elenga/greenwood don't bother to pass. Even Cavani worked much harder pressing/defending.

To start with a way past best matic is a red flag.

I think it was in the 60th minute something.
Greenwood brought the ball to the front right.  Instead of passing to cavani Wii was unmarked, and in a good position to score.  Greenwood tried himself.  Didn't pass.

Denis Zakaria rumoured to be in discussions right now.
Will be around 6M as he is out of contract in the summer but he has a fair amount of clubs going in for him. United really need a DM now.
On a separate note, I am not too worried about team performance yet. I remain hopeful.
We can't be going in on Rangnick every time we don't get a win. So let me break down what I saw in the Villa game and where the club is at :

- Manchester United are a club in dire need of tactics, of new culture and of new direction when RR came in. That hasn't changed.
- Ronaldo's interview basically confirmed what the fans knew, there are dressing room groupies at United that has been allowed to apply a sub-standard ethic and mentality for the past 3 years and they control the dressing room.
- Has RR made any changes to tactics or culture in the past 2 months? Yes for tactics.
- To quote posters here, it is apparent that Rangnick was the team playing his way of football but they don't seem to have the fitness to do it across a football game. United keep reverting back to type late in the first half and the second half. The lack of fitness plays into some players treating United as a holiday home all these while and still getting selected.
- Is Rangnick changing the culture? Yes but slowly because he has to deal with dressing room rebels and doesn't get the respect he should as boss because he is interim. That makes it difficult for him and where players like Ronaldo wants the change.
- Suddenly, we have the entire English core "out injured" coincidentally. Whatever the reason : Maguire, AWB, Shaw, Rashford, etc isn't starting. So maybe the manager is making the difficult decisions to bench players who are not ready to play the way he wants.
- You remove the core of the players starting for United the past 3 seasons, it will impact team performance. It looks like short term pain for hopefully long term gain. What you are seeing is some players no longer getting automatically selected every week and the team learning to play without them.
- Varane & Lindelof look decent as a partnership. We are very obviously lacking that midfield steel but that has been a problem for the past 2 years.
- So with all to do, I think RR is doing the things he can but United are such a big pile of shit that it will take time. Ronaldo has said it will take time. Of course, everything must be time bound and I will stick to my guns and say March earliest or end of the season to judge.

To solve that problem, the board must offer at least Rangnick a consultancy job contract on the table, once that news spread out, those player will only take it seriously

Cause rr doesn't have trophies background. If put conte Zidane or high profile ppl, interim also ppl will listen

Elanga as a youngster who never start a premier league, already play better than Sancho.

I can't never understand why some fans said Sancho played okay, at least he trace back, bla bla.
He is a semi regular, but has almost zero threats as a winger.
Rashford and Greenwood is selfish, but at least they create threats, while Sancho totally make no threats at all.

Stop talking about he is team player, no one make combination play with him, bla bla.
Adjust yourself to help the team man when the team need u man, use more pace and crossing.

Sancho is more likely to look like Sanchez, or even worse.
Another failed Ole's purchase.