I doubt it. Think we’ll be similar to City in the way they regularly play any two of Stones, Laporte and Dias at centre half. They don’t really have a fixed pairing and it works fine for them.
Lisandro Martinez | Signs for United
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik and Imran are here to talk about a frustrating 2 points dropped at Crystal Palace. They then discuss the regeneration of Old Trafford. Finally, Nik is joined by special guest Michael Statham from the Football Oranje podcast - who gives us a more in depth look at our EL opposition FC Twente, and then runs through the (many) Dutch connections currently at United.
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Varane with a proper pre season behind him could prove to be beneficial to him having a real run of games. The quality isn't in doubt.
Shaw needs to be put out of his misery and I think Malacia will quickly establish himself as the number one LB.
Within a couple of months I could see Varane, Martinez and Malacia starting and I'd love it...
Malacia will be doing well to get in over Shaw.
Yeah reports are indeed confirm he has made Ajax accept a 40m offer, which you were suggesting he should do. Muppet.
You're paying jackpot and VDS hasn't prevented you from doing that. You can come back for Antony if you bring jackpot again and otherwise there's nothing VDS will do .
What? He is 4ft 9?
He is loved and rated. Would love to hear where you get your info. The guy is pure quality. If he is right for the premier league is another thing. As an Ajax fan, we dont care about money on the bank, we would love to keep our good players. And Martinez never played a bad game for us. So this journalist you speak of is shite.
It’s interesting that you put Dalot both in the 1st and 2nd team, but isn’t it a little harsh on Bissaka?
Just saw his skills on youtube. I don;t think ETH will use him as CB. He will be perfect DM. Good tackler, excellent passer and looks like reading game well.
I'm assuming AWB is sold or loaned out this summer. I actually think he's the best defensive RB since Gary Neville but he's so poor going forward he doesn't have much of a chance under Ten Hag.
I think we'll get a RB to compete with Dalot for first choice RB.
fair enough then
Nice post. Hopefully it’ll work out better than the DVB transfer has so far.
That’s a really classy jersey. Looks like it’s made of top quality material!
We'd probably play Martinez and Varane at CB with de Jong dropping in alongside them when we play out from the back to create an overload. Its what we were doing in yesterdays friendly (different personnel, obviously).
Him and Varane will be the most handsome CB pairing of all time 
I'd just like to high-light the below twitter account that recognised the potential of the player whilst he was playing in Argentina. A very knowledgeable person as well regarding the game.
We overpaid again but not by a ridiculous amount. I feel his versatility is the true asset to us and an important add on to the squad to implement ETH’s plan quickly. It seems the money is most likely to be proved well spent.
First I've seen him looks good on the ball and quite aggressive. I wouldn't be surprised that if Maguire starts the season in 3rd gear that Martinez gets the nod over him. ETH doesn't seem like the character of Ole to put so much faith in a player despite them being woefully out of form.
Nope. Didn't work out so well at Ajax.
Great signing, looks a proper mascherano or pique like signing. Happy that he personally pushed this deal , sure he’s gonna be a fan favourite too
You just contradicted yourself within 2 sentences. If we over-paid yet you think it might be money well spent? Welcome abroad!
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I always thought he'd be good in the centre, as a centre half or defensive midfielder.
Our new CF?
If it was that easy we wouldn't have clips of Lindelof being hopeless in the air while his partner marked no one. The opposition player can choose which CB to face up against.
Feels like we are overpaying for him. Hope we are not in the market for another fecking CB anytime soon.
For anyone who hasn't joined the dots...
We beat Liverpool 4-0...they have already been handled.
Martinez cancels Haaland.
Between the above that's 12 points against our title rivals. We'll win the rest of the games... Job done first perfect points total... You heard it hear first!
Maguire is the best header of the ball in the team. Varane can also dominate arielly. I wouldn't worry too much about Martinez's height. The great Barca team coped pretty well with an Argentinian shortie. Anyway, there are dark arts to defending beyond height which hopefully he has mastered.
Is removing Maguire from captaincy somehow inhuman? Is “rather popular” a good enough reason for a player to be a captain? If a player isn’t good enough you sell him and move on.
The fact that we spend boatloads and waste money on rubbish players and on top of that we can’t move them along cause we pay everyone such high wages is why we are where we are as a club. But yeah let’s coddle players and treat them like 13 year olds so as to not hurt their feelings.
Genuinely think he's going into midfield along with de Jong.
You still don't get it. The point I tagged you is that VDS is a CEO, CEO has the authority to make the final decision of any decision of their company if he wants to as I told you while you think he doesn't.Yeah reports are indeed confirm he has made Ajax accept a 40m offer, which you were suggesting he should do. Muppet.
You're paying jackpot and VDS hasn't prevented you from doing that. You can come back for Antony if you bring jackpot again and otherwise there's nothing VDS will do .
Just go read your own post that I quoted.Martinez is much better on the ball than Álvarez but ETH prefers to play Martinez as CB while Álvarez stays in midfield. If that's what ETH would do based on ball skills, he could easily bench Álvarez, plays Martinez as DM, switches Blind back to CB and play Tagliafico as LB, but he didn't.
Just compare it to Chelsea spending 40m on a 31 year old CB along with 300k a week wages. Or Ben white for 50m a year ago.
United fans are underrating this guy. His quality will be seen in the first match.
Haland is surprisingly subpar in the air considering his height.
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