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Injury.Why wasn't he in the Portugal national squad for the recent games?
Injury.Why wasn't he in the Portugal national squad for the recent games?
Assumed that may have been the case. ThanksInjury.
Unlikely... Pogba is that furthest forward midfielder. What our midfield needs is the holding midfielder to replace Matic basically (Rice?) and then an all rounder who can control games, has good passing range, can also create and score on occasion, etc. A Gundogan type for example. Everything I've ever read or heard about Bruno Fernandes would only make sense to me as a Pogba replacement, not balanced if they're together.This coupled with Ole saying he wants to build the "hardest working, most fit" Man Utd side suggests the link may be true.
If we kept Herrera, can he work in a 3 with Ander and Pogba? Lots of energy right there
I dont get the balanced midfield thing. Look at City playing both Silvas all the time. Great players but not the best players when it comes to defending. My point being that if the offensive midfielders have the work ethic you can easily play two of them.
Why could not we have a midfield of Pogba and Fernandes? We need more goals overall. This guy could help us with that.
According to whoscored.com he has played the majority of this season as a central midfielder, not a number 10. He has the passing range, the shot and he is willing to get into the box. If he has the work ethic and a good head on his shoulders he might just be your guy to get.
I dont get the balanced midfield thing. Look at City playing both Silvas all the time. Great players but not the best players when it comes to defending. My point being that if the offensive midfielders have the work ethic you can easily play two of them.
Why could not we have a midfield of Pogba and Fernandes? We need more goals overall. This guy could help us with that.
According to whoscored.com he has played the majority of this season as a central midfielder, not a number 10. He has the passing range, the shot and he is willing to get into the box. If he has the work ethic and a good head on his shoulders he might just be your guy to get.
It works for City because as attack minded as the two Silvas are, they don't lose the ball easily. That's an incredibly rare attribute for attacking midfielders.
That is an insightful comment. I agree. It’s compounded in that Matic is not quick like Fernandinho and Kante, Wijnaldum, etc. and the ability to quickly cover ground in the middle and final third is critical when playing a high press.
If we keep Pogba and our formation is a 4-3-3, I feel very strongly that we need the other two midfielders to be elite, quick defenders with high work rates and able to maintain possession. A tall ask.
It works for City because as attack minded as the two Silvas are, they don't lose the ball easily. That's an incredibly rare attribute for attacking midfielders.
Yes, plus they are the best drilled possession and attacking team in Europe IMO and they have one of the best and most mobile DM's in the game sitting behind the two #8's, we don't tick any of these boxes and Pogba is far more likely to lose possession carelessly than the Silva's or De Bruyne, it's horses for courses. Not sure why anyone would bring Liverpool into the discussion, they often field 3 grafters in midfield and no creativity at all.
Saying that though Bruno Fernandes is more a midfielder than David Silva whilst Pogba is more of a midfielder than De bryune.
Pogba & Fernandes are more attacking minded CM than pure CAM (can be argued) - however thats not the same with De bryune and Silva - both AM playing deeper due to the cover provided behind them by one man in fernandinho + possesion.
Whilst Ole doesnt seem to be drilling possesion all game and every game - he may be getting a CDM like Rice to allow the freedom of 2 CM's with attacking minded intent much in the same way that would balance out at City.
Not every player we buy has to start every single game and neither does Pogba. Would be a good addition to the squad and I remember him as being much more of a box to box player at Sampdoria than the attacking/creative CM he currently is at Sporting so no reason that with a few tactical tweaks he can't play alongside Pogba with Paul still having freedom to attack.
I think regardless of the designation you place on the players role, I think both Silva's keep and protect the ball better, and it works as part of such a well drilled unit, we'd need to put a lot of work in to get where they are in terms of how they play and dominate games, and as you say we'd definitely need to upgrade the DM to someone a lot more mobile than what we have currently.
That's fair but if Silva and De bryune work so well within a team that aims to keep possesion - whats stopping the likes of Bruno Fernandes, Pogba, Rice, Herrera etc being in a very good team that aims to counter press instead? After all we seem to play a counter football more than possession football.
If we get the defence right and the CDM right - we will have the ability to play 2 attacking minded CM that aim to attack on the other side surely? Especially when earlier on in Ole's season the players seemed to counter press doing defensive work as hard as the defenders themselves.
He wasn't doing anything noteworthy at Sampdoria though, the entire reason he's become a player linked to United is for his impressive attacking output at Sporting where he has a €100M buyout clause, he'll cost a decent chunk of that so to buy him and then try to make him more defensive would defeat the purpose, all the Sporting fans have said that since we started being linked to him.
Absolute class. Best I have seen personally wear the green and white.He's done it again. Always him
25 goals and 13 assists this season. He is a midfielder...
One thing about our league is it is very defensive. The dutch league for example has inflated stats because they don't believe or know how to defend in the Netherlands. All Portuguese teams do is defend which makes his stats this season remarkable especially when you take into account hoe HORRIBLE Sporting is.That is pretty impressive even if it's the portuguese league.
Depay never hit as sweet a strike as Fernandes does nor could he do it as consistent.Depay and Pogba were able to score long range shots like him...then they joined United and suddenly couldn’t hit a barn door from outside the box.
Absolute class. Best I have seen personally wear the green and white.
I am saying me personally. I am 23 years old. And he is the best I can ever remember playing for Sporting. Also easily in the past 10 years.He's not that good. It's the biggest difference I've seen between a player and the rest of the team at Sporting though.
He can start. Absolutely.Would you regular watchers say he might be Manchester United first 11 quality? I'm wondering if there's something to these rumours; especially if Fred and/or Rojo are included in the deal.
He is not as good not at all. They are different players though.Not a question that most people want to ask but could Bruno Fernandes replace Pogba ?
Look at City playing both Silvas all the time. Great players but not the best players when it comes to defending. My point being that if the offensive midfielders have the work ethic you can easily play two of them.