De Zerbi is building something interesting over there
Adrien Rabiot | signed for Marseille
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De Zerbi is building something interesting over there
WOW fair play to them, INEOS clearly outlined they have no intention of buying anyone older than 26 and are determined to stick to this no matter what
Or (wishful thinking) they could be thinking let’s see what wages he’s actually going to be offered at a lower club before making the swoop in
And because of the tops off thing.
Dreaded Communication Officiale, time to lock up the threads then mods. Shame as think he could have been useful but alas not to be
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Well, lets hope Ugarte can manage 90 minutes every game this season then.
Maybe Kone could be an option in new year
So OM can afford his wages. We have an 18 year old and a new signing as our only dependable midfielders this season. Hoping Casemiro can do the job.
He's very young but I thought he was more at an attacking mid anyway.
EDIT : oh I'm thinking of the other lad.
Yeah feels like a risky strategy, really hope that we don't live to regret not signing him
Pretty sure he’s accepted lower wages to play in southern France in a sunnier city for Marseille than what he’d have wanted from us (or from Juventus to extend for them…)
That just totally takes the piss
He may like money but he is already a multi-millionaire.. He rejected high salaries from Turkish clubs because he wanted to play for a top club in the top 5… Marseille can’t pay higher wages but they have other things to offer. They might be able to challenge for the league and that would definitely be a very big achievement. Also choosing clubs based on which lifestyle the city can offer isn’t unheard of.
But the Paris’ fans will destroy him on social media. He has quotes saying he loves PSG and he would never play for Marseille…
Marseille have a interesting team + coach.
The weather is great.
And he will get a little bit of money too.
Good move for him.
The weather is great.
And he will get a little bit of money too.
Good move for him.
Whilst we lack depth in midfield, yeah nice one
Hey i wanted him.
Never knew he said that whilst at PSG, will just be a case of deleting the old tweets like Grealish did when he moved to the financial fraudsters. So much for wanting a team playing in Europe Adrien that was obviously a complete lie
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I think we will regret this. Our CM is very unbalanced with too many attacking minded players (Bruno, Mount, Eriksen) and too few players capable of doing the running (Ugarte, a bit Mainoo and a couple of kids)
Absolutely. It was a great opportunity to add depth. We are one injury away from playing Casemiro for extended periods.
Whoever built that CM needs to be sacked. I mean at one point we had 4 no 10s (Bruno, Mount, Eriksen and VDB) and one, washed up, DM. Seriously even a 13 year old on FM would probably recognize that such a thing is stupid
No-one built it really. Woodward randomly got people he thought or was told they might be good. "Thrown together" is the best description for it.
that's a rather simplistic take of it. Sure Woodward was an idiot and Murtough was a proxy meant to allow Woodward to keep playing real life FM but we also know that the manager had a huge say on signings. Eriksen and Mount were brought by ETH.
Buying Mount or signing Eriksen isn’t the issue. Not bringing in other CM/DM options is the problem. We were short last year and should have bought someone like Ugarte either way. And then we let 2 of ours go away McTom and Amrabat (they are not good enough) without replacing them.
It is an issue because having 2 no 10s with an ageing Casemiro behind them is stupid. SAF won with absolute legends in cm and he won with an ancient scholes and a donkey (cleverly) in it. However even SAF had to obey a simple law of football physics ie a winning team must have balance. If Ronaldo plays then we must have the likes of teveth, Rooney and park covering for him. If an old scholes/carrick play then Pogba stay on the bench and cleverly plays etc. united 's problem is lack of balance.
Yeah I feel exactly the same but too late now to do anything about it, I presumed Marseille were in Europe but after checking they finished 8th. That makes the fact he is choose to sign for them even more baffling
Gone to Marseille, thankfully.
I think he's probably not worth the outlay to the club if we like collyer and think kone may feature at some point. Eriksen still looks useful, but I think an injury to Ugarte throws the balance off as it stands. Hopefully we can get collyer some more experience and provides good cover.
And probably get champions league football again next year and some good bonuses.
I think that we are obsessed with balancing the books 1 out, 1 in. McT left, ugarte came in. If eriksen left then rabiot would probably be a contender. Since both Casemiro and him are still here...
Which is fair enough really, considering Rabiot would be on a big wage and would demote another big wage to the bench, there's not a lot of saving to be had. Maybe we'll revisit in January too.
Finally the discussion is soon over.
Marseille have done good business this year, and de zerbi as manager could do well.
I'm glad he hasn't come to us, there were lots of red flags about this signing for me.
This would have been totally a pre Ratcliffe signing.
Wait, his mum is his agent?
Does he know. ?
Does that mean his agent is his mum?
Yeah will definitely prove to be a problem because now have no choice but to go with what we have
So he has to settle for Marseille who have no European football this season. Also only signing a 2 year deal. Not exactly a great move if United and Arsenal were interested.
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