Nah he's a footballer and it's big business so he can what the feck he wants.
Alex Telles - SIGNED for United
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Nah he's a footballer and it's big business so he can what the feck he wants.
Had a good chuckle at this. Can understand the frustration at leaving everything to the last minute but clubs are trying to rob us blind, if we succumb to everyone's self made deadlines and absurd valuations the robbery just gets worse and worse.
If the board went with the overwhelming views on here we'd maybe have Bellingham, Sancho and Haaland but we'd also have made sure that every transfer we make in the future is double the going price with a 50% agent fee whacked on for good measure.
I suppose I shouldn't be so negative... Telles may turn out to be a fine left back. Maybe he'll be selected for the PL team of the season, which would be fantastic.
The 30,000 foot view is that this transfer period, in my opinion, has been pretty poor. We had real momentum at the close of last season. I know this is a pandemic, etc, etc, but better leadership of the club would take that as an opportunity to bring in truly world class players. Other clubs saw this as an opportunity (Chelsea, City, Everton, Spurs).
In a vacuum, I support this transfer. But the failure to, as most of you have mentioned, sell our deadwood to reduce our wage bill, fill our needs (RW, CB, DM are top priorities in my opinion), and construct a squad with a chance to challenge for the league and trophies is worrisome.
It's hard to get excited for a LB signing that probably won't move the needle. Does Telles' contribution bring us into top 4 contention? I doubt it. It's more of a treading water type of move, and given Shaw's injury history, probably needed. If I had to guess, maybe a Gabriel Heinze type of addition? Solid, but isn't going to win you trophies, especially when you have so many other holes throughout the pitch.
Surely he can play better than Luke Shaw did yesterday, so that is an improvement in itself.
This, I don't see what Matic and Pogba have done right now to earn their places ahead of DVB and Fred.
United are looking to play a higher line which puts immense pressure on our defense since they are not necessarily quick or good on the ball or are great at positioning themselves. Maguire does not fit our team philosophy. Bailly is prone to errors, Luke Shaw is not good going forward and has been horrendous defensively and AWB is not good going forward.
Here are the issues
1. Maguire played with a team whereby he had Johnny Evans playing beside him and more importantly, he had the best DM in the PL with Ndidi playing ahead of him. He does not have that luxury at United and he's been found out.
2. Bailly was bought because of being a good prospect and he wasn't really uprooting trees at Villareal. He had a good first season but his decision making is suspect and he's injury-prone.
3. Luke Shaw was also a great prospect at Southampton but after this injury, he hasn't really gotten to his best.
4. AWB was good at Palace because he had Zaha playing ahead of him. He didn't need to offer anything in attack but just had to protect Zaha but at United our RW offers nothing and is expected to be RWB which hasn't worked at all.
To be fair, when I used to play FM and FIFA, j used to love signing him. So am actually glad
Are you still banging on about this. People were saying a left back should have been signed 2 months ago, not 24 hours ago. No one has an issue with us negotiating a good price, but you’re acting like the only way to negotiate is by leaving it till the last day of the window.
Solid signing
I like this signing.
He is officially our player. Please open a thread in player performance section
1 down about 6 to go
Goodbye Mr Shaw.
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