Casemiro | United Player

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royalewithcheese2006 said:
Anyone know what kind of attitude Casemiro has? Someone who can kick our prima donnas up their asses and drag them along or someone likely to get influenced by the whining folks (mainly in attack) and lose all motivation?
Really excited about the signing but I've been this way before only to be let down in a few months:nervous:
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Studies the game in his free time
Great write up in the Athlethic about him
 
Mr Pigeon said:
Amazing. Great player. Two footed. Rapid. Excellent technique. Two eyes for vision. Can play as a double pivot on his own. Shoots lasers out of his arsehole. Transforms into a car at will. Bargain.
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Someone played with Transformers as a kid.
 
he's arguably still the best holding mid in the world and his experience is going to be massive for this club
 
I hope he makes the difference we need. We can't have McT in there as a starter, no way. Matic was decent every 3rd game so hopefully Cas will be more consistent. We shall see.
 
Fox outside the box said:
When you're discussing a new job with a potential new employer, it's common practice that you don't turn up at your old place whilst it's ongoing, just in case


We do try in fairness. If people paid more attention to the academy, they would see that we do bring in a lot of these types of players and are trying to get them before they really kick on.

Hannibal, McNeill, Fernandes, Garnacho were all very highly thought of and we competed against or got them from teams like Barca etc

We were in the conversation about Camavinga and Tchouameni but you can't just get players because you want them. It's not Fifa. We are 'in' for a LOT of young, highly talented players but some will obviously decide against joining us.

Haaland did exactly this and you'd have to say he made the right decision. Is it difficult to see why a player like Tchouameni would opt for Madrid over us?

Before people whinge about us not scouting players etc, they should go and look at the players we have brought in over the last 5/6 years. We are doing it, just most of our fans only follow the club at a very superficial level. They don't know much about the academy, the setup behind the scenes etc. They just react to whatever is on Twitter and Tiktok.

Below is a list of some of the players we've signed since 2017. It isn't all of them and obviously some will have already moved on etc but that's not the point. The point is we are very active in this section of the market. I bet that outside a handful of the obvious names, the ones who have hit mainstream media, more than 75% of our fans don't know these even exist.

Willy Kambwala
Charlie McNeill
Joe Hugill
Marc Jurado - A prospect in Barcelona’s La Masia academy since the age of seven
Alvaro Fernandez
Radek Vitek
Logan Pye
Isak Hansen-Aaroen
Alejandro Garnacho - Described as “the jewel of the Atletico academy”
Mateo Mejia
Bjorn Hardley

Dillon Hoogewerf - Poached from Ajax’s academy in 2019

Johan Guadagno

Noam Emeran - “Manchester [United] has been more convincing than PSG and Barcelona,” he told Le Parisien. The choice was made with my family, and accompanied by my lawyer.”

Hannibal Mejbri - United signed Mejbri from Monaco in the summer of 2019 in a deal reportedly worth up to £8.5m. Liverpool, Manchester City and Arsenal all failed in bids to secure the highly-rated teenager’s signature before he decided on a move to Old Trafford.

Reece Devine
Ondrej Mastny
Connor Stanley
Matej Kovar

Not the club's fault our fan base is ignorant and follows the club at a very mainstream level.

We are a shit show but at least complain about the right things. This toxic free for all doesn't help anything.

You're literally viewing this like it's Football Manager. "12 months ahead", the club are and have been trying to be further ahead of the curve than that. Our current academy has multiple pretty outstanding prospects and some have been signed for decent money. The idea is we pay £8 mill for Hannibal instead of £50 mill in a couple of years time. The biggest prospects in our academy haven't been there from 7 years old. Pretty much every single one of them has been signed or poached.
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Thank you for this, fantastic post.
 
Don’t worry fellow muppets. We will be signing FDJ on free when Barca declare his contract void in order to register kounde
 
Thought this was all BS when the links came out, this is potentially the one we've wanted for a long long time! Right who's next?
 
Surely a decent buy. Only thing is the salary, price tag and his motivation. Has to be better than McTominay starting every game.
 
I think that the price is OK. Age wise, he should have 2-3 years of really top performances in him. He's also reportedly one of the big voices in the Madrid dressing room - a proper leader - I'm sure we could do with some of that. He has a trophy cabinet that would put most clubs (never mind players) to shame.

Overall, you have to be pretty happy when your team signs one of the very best players in the world in a position we are desperately short of quality in. Fingers crossed it all gets sorted asap.
 
If this comes off then it's very impressive and exciting! However I do look at the way he plays and wonder how he's going to cope when he makes that tackle, turns to make a clever pass and sees that all of our other players are stationary with an opposition player running rings around them...or actively hiding from the ball. Surely will make his job far more difficult unless we can get another couple of active players around him.
 
We're probably overpaying a little and no other club would pay that much for a 30-year-old who doesn't decide games. That said, it's not exactly outrageous money for a player of his quality and he should improve us a lot.

I'm not unhappy but would have probably preferred some more forward-thinking signings even if it was at the expense of short-term improvement. These attempts to cling desperately to top-4 aren't really taking us anywhere, or haven't yet, anyway.
 
Brenford can consider themselves lucky we didnt sign him before our game vs them. We'll batter them at Old Trafford though.
 
Given the kind of players we were linked with a week ago, this is great news.

I guess the real issue is whether we see this as a great interim measure or "job done" and take our foot off the gas. Even having signed Casemiro, we should be looking for up and coming replacements over the next 12 months. The key difference is that we can look for alternatives who are 18 to 23 years old and will take a season or two to reach first team standard, rather than looking for players in the 26 - 30 range who will cost a bomb but be ready to go on day one. This is what Real did with Camavinga and Tchouameni , and its why they're in a position to let such a key player go in Casemiro.

I never expected the club to be set this summer for those kind of transfers, the tumult of the new manager coming in along with a somewhat new set up behind the scenes meant we were unlikely to have done the groundwork in time. Which means that short term transfers were always on the cards, beyond a certain amount of low hanging fruit like Malacia. As far as short term transfers go, this is as good as it gets. I just hope that ETH drives some real work behind the scenes so that next summer we're working on the long term transfers that signal a clear plan of action, rather than the panic stations we've seen this summer.
 
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