Our back up keeper is better than all their keepers
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Our back up keeper is better than all their keepers
You lot are far too emotionally invested in this 
Taking this like you've been rejected by your crush.
Taking this like you've been rejected by your crush.
Griezmann isn't just a finisher, he's far more than that and there is a reason why he and Pogba struggled to gel together for France, because it was two main men trying to fight it out for whose the boss of the French team and whenever Griezmann dropped deep to link up play, Pogba went into his shell and couldn't play his natural game. Obviously in club football and training together regularly, that dynamic would change and they can grow together and get the best out of each other but in the international football environment, either you click or you don't and you don't get much time to develop chemistry with team mates.
Silva and Griezmann wouldn't work at all in a Jose Mourinho managed side, he'd be utterly clueless at making those two work together.. I can just imagine it being so one paced, with us once again heavily reliant on Valencia making that right flank work whilst Silva, Griezmann are both in central areas just outside the box. It wouldn't be awful, but it wouldn't be successful and very easy to defend against. Mourinho doesn't have that super attacking brain where he can make gold out of players with bad chemistry, whereas give Pep possession players and he can make them all click and create a cohesive brand of attacking football. Further more, he fully commits to possession football which gives these players confidence to play their natural game no matter what whereas Mourinho lacks that patience to make it work.
Mbappe is not a pure 9 yet, he's a wing forward, support striker, 9 rolled into one at the moment and from what I saw from the Juventus game, he'd be a great wing forward with licence to roam and if he could cut inside and switch up with Griezmann as a false 9, or even the two of them up front in a diamond it would be devastating and much more penetrative than a team with Silva out wide.
We need a mix of posession based and direct players . We lack both
Nothing is ruining my cup win.
City can't sign a proper defender. Don't have a keeper and their first choice midfield includes Yaya.
I have fallen into the trap of having a meltdown in the past whenever City signed a player or went on an early season run.
I think just like last season, Jose will focus on fixing our problem areas first rather than stockpiling players.
Roll on the Summer window.
Well done.As predicted!
I think at that price, maybe he was financially not doable considering we are getting Griezmann. Surely 160 million on two players was undoable.
Melodramatic people up early.
Unfortunate that City have got him but we'll move on to other targets, e.g. Greizmann etc. Not the end of the world we're not signing him, just a pity City fecking are!
Good signing. I think he will now dump De Bruyne.
As I expected, someone chatting more shit in this thread.
Can't we just lock this? It's embarrassing.
What is this supposed to mean? We have plenty of players who can hold onto the ball, what we need is a goal threat if anything.
We cant break world records every summer yet wouldn't signing Silva have been our second highest fee ever?
We can't spend big money on players so why didn't we spend big on Silva?
That makes no sense.
Glazers must have really given sir alex the money instead of doing a patch up job now after him.
A winger like Mane would be perfect. Fast, physical and direct.
What about Griezmann?As predicted!
Excellent. I hope that this is true. Don't think that he is top class especially for that money on position where we are covered with similiar players
Thank you, Silva is obviously an amazing player but he's yet another flavor of the season who gets hugely overrated on here. James is a better player for me as well, far more productive in final third.
Personally I'm blaming the weather - it's like the Sahara here right now. I've got two fans and they're just blowing hot air in my face. I'd strip but then my colleagues would probably call HR.
This is unexpected. I'll have to add myself to the list of those disappointed. I think he's a great player and they'll enjoy watching him over the next few seasons.
Bit of a sickener.
Bit of a sickener.
Well we won't be fielding those players next season. Is it too much to wait until the end of the window and throw a proper meltdown.
Doesn't matter who City sign, I'm still enjoying the fact that we won a cup and we are back in the Champions league.
Plenty of players who can hold the ball under pressure? No sir apart from mata no one can. Even Mkh has been poor against big teams in high press.
Gentlemen may I present to you... someone trying to have a laugh
Phew...
TBF (to me) you never know for sure in this kind of thread.
Spurs did.
Good player but not what we need right now so can everyone calm down
Well, in portugal is seen like the future top player of our national team in par with gelson martins and renato sanchez. And technichally he is better than anyone of the others. (but not has fast has them and not so powerfull has sanchez)
Like i stated earlier, he's not equal to Ronaldo but i see a figo in there.
(sorry, i cant answer anymore. still a newbie
Rather have Sanches
The funniest thing about muppet season is all the caf experts bigging up a player who would be 'perfect' for us as if they actually know anything about football.
Mourinho is hands down the best in the world at identifying a team's weakness and addressing them in the transfer window. He is better than Ferguson at squad building (as evidenced by Ferguson overusing several players instead of finding replacements ie Ferdinand, Scholes, Giggs etc.)
For the first time in several years I am confident in our transfer dealings.
Mourinho is hands down the best in the world at identifying a team's weakness and addressing them in the transfer window. He is better than Ferguson at squad building (as evidenced by Ferguson overusing several players instead of finding replacements ie Ferdinand, Scholes, Giggs etc.)
For the first time in several years I am confident in our transfer dealings.
Griez is still not a playmaker though, mind you, he's a second striker and I wonder if he can work as a lone #9, which I doubt, hence I guess we'll go for another striker. There's no guarantee he'll gel with Pogba either, Griezmann will need a 4231 to get the best out of him, Pogba does it best in a 433 apparently, although I do see him being able to adapt to the 4231, as season went by he got better and better. I don't really understand the point that they both (Silva and Griezmann) would end up around central ideas and it would pose a problem while lines later you say that it would be cool if Mbappe roamed and cut inside, which would result in the same situation you described as a problem with Silva.
One thing Jose would probably love with Silva is that he's had some amazing stat as far as recovering possession in opposition's half is concerned. Even if a good number of it comes out of Monaco's system, it still means that he can do it.
Come to Norway, no Sahara in sight and might explain why I'm cool and collected.
You lot are far too emotionally invested in this
Taking this like you've been rejected by your crush.
even worse, rejected by the crush thats dating now your best mate.
James is not a winger.
Sorry lads for the earlier post. I was really keen on seeing him in a red top and seeing him at those blue nosed feckwits just puts me off.
YEah, and we have a whole summer transfer window to get the players we need. 1 player is potentially going to City, there are still plenty of other players to go for
Only Mata can yet he would replace Mata...
Pogba and Griezmann play very well in tight spaces, Mkhi can as well when he's on form
I can already see it. He will score a brace and assist for 2 more goals at OT in autumn and we will all remember this black day in United history..
Phew! I thought he was the only player out there
I say we should jump in fo alexis sanchez
Switch to the blue of Manchester then
Relax, summer hasn't even started.
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