The Technical Area – Liverpool’s Attacking Trio

What % of mins did he play in the PL last year?

They are looking backwards, is all

Baseless assumption.

The only two nailed united attackers are Pogba and Lukaku that's it.

Until Mourinho proves otherwise.

Jose had no tricks driollimg Mkhitarian for the entire season last time around

Mata, Rashford, Herrera, Lingard, Martial all threats as Pogba and Matic are the only nailed midfielders.

He's the best, hopefully meaning nailed.

lots of united can play in his position.
micky, martial, mata, lingard, rashford.
he'll be rotated. the question is when and how much.
I would still be inclined to say he's a great fpl pick though because the answer to that question is: probably only later in some (but certainly not all) big games perhaps lingard may come in, or hererra coming in and mata replacing micky's position; and then also when CL comes round he might see some rests.

Pogba is definitely the 2nd most nailed attacker after Lukaku.

Problem with Mhki is United have Lingard, Martial, Rashford, Mata and Mkhi all competing for 2 (max 3) positions, and Mkhi has not typically been the obvious first choice. Feels like one bad game away from being dropped.

Gerrard nailed, to the ground

I am actually not superconvinced: Unless Mourinho drastically changes his approach from last season there will quite a lot of rotation amongst United attackers. Probably one or maybe both of Herrera and Lingard will soon start some games, and some games will definitely see a midfield 3 with Pogba-Matic-Herrera, in which case there are only two attacking positions, both wide where Mkhi do not play as well as he does centrally. Seems quite likely that some games will be 2/3 of Rashford/lingard/Mata/martial for these places.

I am United-fan, so no one will be happier than me if Mkhi does really well, but still slightly uncertain, last season the attacking mids who played were notoriously hard to predict. However for that price he could still get benched occasionally and be a good pick.

I also think people are overvaluing his performance againt West Ham, I would say Rashford, Lukaku, Matic and possibly Pogba played better than him.

He's very likely to play but he isn't nailed. Certainly not compared to the likes of Lukaku and Pogba.

Lol, the dumbest posts get hot topics sometimes. 2nd most nailed is easily Pogba. Mkhitaryan isn't nailed after just one game.

Is he a better option than pogba

Mkhi is going to be one of our best players this season. His real quality is already showing albeit only 1 game gone.

I reckon Mourinho will switch between 4-2-3-1 and 4-3-3 systems depending on fixture difficulty.

When he opts for 4-3-3 (e.g. when he wants to play on the break against top 6 sides), Mhiki will be competing for one of the wide forward slots, which will often go to Rashford and Lindgard due to their pace and work rate, respectively.

Mourinho is an arch pragmatist and won't think twice about dropping Mhiki in order to accommodate a tighter counter attacking approach as and when deemed necessary, regardless of his form.

Yes he is Nailed!

Mourinho prior to the Super Cup - “Everyone is in our plan which is having a good team with multiple options. We have important players who will be out until the end of the year and so our squad is not too big. We need different players. Lukaku, Martial, Rashford are all different and we need everyone. It will be fun to pick a team for each game, based on the match and opponents. This team is good with many options.”
I don't think anyone is nailed, especially come Champions League time.

He's nailed imo, if he doesn't start as a #10 he will be our right winger

If people are questioning his nailed-ness, then by definition he is not nailed!

Nobody questions Lukaku's place in the team, therefore he is nailed.

In some sense I could agree that Mkhi is the 2nd most nailed attacking players of MU now, but it's better to talk about the percentage of matches that he will start.

In some teams, 2nd/3rd most-nail means 100% sure starters like Sanchez & Ozil or Kane & Ali & Eriksen, but the same does not apply to MU.

I predict Mkhi starts 75% of matches this season. In 4-3-3, Morinho may opt for Rashford and Lingard on wings. When playing against tougher opponents, perhaps Matic + Fellaini/Herrera/Carrick in double pivot with Pogba occupies his position.

Fantasy-wise, he is a still a great buy if you believe he can put up 8 goals 12 assist this season. He plays full match at GW1, which is a good signal of his likeliness to last for the whole match in more occasions, which only further increase his fantasy value