Still not worked out positives or redeeming features of this signing. No ones been able to convince me. This shouldn't be the best we can do.
Adrien Rabiot | signs 1 year deal at Juventus. See you all next year
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Hope he proves everyone wrong.
Who would you prefer as our number 2 midfielder signing?
If this guy is our Frenkie alternative I'll start sobbing. It would be like the club's on a huge trolling mission
Not my job to scout, babes.
Personally if we dont get De Jong I would go for Florian Neuhaus and Xaver Schlager.
Cop out. Our scouts are saying Rabiot.
Has to be in addition to Frenkie, surely. It's not like we have tons of quality in the middle of the park. 2-3 midfielders wouldn't go amiss tbh.
What’s with this weird ‘I’m not a scout’ nonsense, you don’t have to be to say ‘I’d like us to go for X’.
It literally isn’t your job to scout but so how is it your place to say. . .
Yeah, our scouts never get it wrong!
It's not a case of scouting to come up with names like Rabiot though, is it? For me scouting implies actual research and beyond the surface discoveries.
I can quite happily give my opinion on players we shouldn't sign and should sign, without reeling off a list of names for either category
I can quite happily give my opinion on players we shouldn't sign and should sign, without reeling off a list of names for either category
Who did they get wrong?
It's not a case of scouting to come up with names like Rabiot though, is it? For me scouting implies actual research and beyond the surface discoveries.
I can quite happily give my opinion on players we shouldn't sign and should sign, without reeling off a list of names for either category
We are Manchester United. We rarely sign players who football haven’t heard off…. We aren’t Nottingham Forest.
The striker market right now is dead. I guarantee you whoever we buy we all already know them.
Schlager just moved to Leipzig this summer, so that's not an option.
Football isn’t really played on ‘metrics’
I don’t want him either but he is vastly superior to McTominay.
He's one of two they are planning to buy this summer. My presumption is that if we get frenkie then rabiot will play higher up in midfield than him. If we get SMS then rabiot will play deeper than SMS.
Exaxtly how it would work. With Rabiot you also have a guy who’s positionally sound. So if Frenkie goes of on a run Rabiot won’t leave the midfield and defence exposed.
It’s a perfect combination with players that can manage a game on the pitch. We don’t have that now Matic has gone.
Yeah they sound great
Who they play for Auxerre?
Mönchengladbach and Leipzig. Xaver just moved to Leipzig earlier this year so it would be almost impossible. Doesnt change the fact that I would love him here :P
Yeah I know. Would love him here anyway :P
hope he doesnt join on any high wage. Wil be impossible to move on should he turn shite quickly.
Made up names
I’d go for Manuel Hung and Max Efforte
Manuel will offer us incredible penetration from deep and Max is a player who will run all day pressing
don’t think we will get frenkie, if we had wanted him before the latest vibes, then we would have got him. Literally no reason for united not to have got him earlier if he was an actual target.
rabiot doesn’t really fit as a partner with de jong, I think we are holding off on rabiot agreement to see what happens at barca. If de jong doesn’t move we will get rabiot, we will the probably chuck some money at tielemans, for the most underwhelming pairing. I’m guessing the hope that EtH can improve two players back to glory after a year of being poorer than our current players. No doubt they have more talent than mcFred but it’s not a high bar
The All or Nothing series writes itself!
(https://breakingthelines.com/player-analysis/player-analysis-florian-neuhaus)
He is wanting 16m per year gross it would seem, hence why there is no agreement (equivalent to 165k per week net)
The problem is that Rabiot is not a very good player. Juventus fans are literally laughing at us for wanting him. It would be like Bayern bidding for McTominay sort of thing
I hope this is true.
I just can’t understand why on earth is everyone comparing Rabiot and Mctominay.
Rabiot will take Fred’s place in the starting lineup. And yes he is superior to both Fred and Mctominay in his defensive contribution. He will give us the physicality that Fred lacks.
Mctominay will be replaced by Eriksen in the starting 11.
We will have a starting No 9 most games you know. Ronaldo / Martial / someone we bring in.
ETH will only play with 3 midfielders.
Still hoping we land FDJ obviously. Fingers crossed.
Rabiot will take Fred’s place in the starting lineup. And yes he is superior to both Fred and Mctominay in his defensive contribution. He will give us the physicality that Fred lacks.
Mctominay will be replaced by Eriksen in the starting 11.
We will have a starting No 9 most games you know. Ronaldo / Martial / someone we bring in.
ETH will only play with 3 midfielders.
Still hoping we land FDJ obviously. Fingers crossed.
165 net is what - 370k gross in UK?
You think Ruiz isn't coming to 2022 vintage United but Bellingham will next summer?
gave me a good chuckle.Bellingham is heading to Liverpool next summer, they started the tapping up 18 months ago.
Can’t see us spending the money needed for SMS, and no actual links or even suggestion of links
He actually coming or what?
I think we'll move for SMS if we miss out on Frenkie. But I fear he'll be a 'club' signing rather than an EtH one
I calculated it to be around that 16m per year
Apparently wants too much money.
Not sure this makes sense when we're willing to pay more for Frenkie. We'll obviously not sign both, but the funds for Frenkie will land us SMS if need be
Genuinely think we will drop a 20m bid for tielemans, cheaper and easier to get, unlikely to turn us down
I wouldn't mind it, but I can't see it to be honest. He's been available all summer, if we wanted him, we'd have surely moved early.... In fact, now I think about it I can see it happening actually
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